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United States Department of the Interior RECEIVED : 2280 National Park Service National Register of Historic Places - 2000 STORIC PLACES by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property historic name other names/site number 2. Location street & number *not for publication city or town code 163 State county - 3.
State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this &X nomination J request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of X meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other. (explain:) _ Date Vinton Ohio Zaleski Register. Registration Form Fischer Building (VIN-215-8) Masonic Lodge #472 National Register zip code 18 Commercial St.
Date of Action architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Onationally statewide locally. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) I hereby certify that the property is: V entered in the National Register. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or # vicinity comments.) Masonic Lodge #472 Vinton, Ohio 5.
Ciassification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) * private - building(s) - public-local L district - public-State O site - public-Federal - structure - object _ Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions commerce/general store, restaurant vacant/not in use recreation & culture/auditorium, theater, 7.
Description Late Victorian/Italianate Narrative Description music foundation sandstone iron roof none metal other walls Materials religion/religious facility brick Architectural Classification Noncontributing social/meeting hall (Check as many boxes as apply) (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Masonic Lodge No. 472 Zaleski, Vinton County, Ohio NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION The Masonic Lodge No. 472, sometimes referred to as the Fischer Building, is located at 18 Commercial Street in the center of Zaleski, Ohio, Vinton County. It was the tallest building in Vinton County in 1884 and still holds that distinction today.
On Commercial Street, besides the Masonic Lodge building, can be seen an abandoned building which once housed a machine shop; two bars; a small grocery store and several residences. At the end of the street, called Commercial Square, the Town Hall is situated. It is here that the City Council meets and the Fire Station is located. (#1) EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION: The structure is a three story, Italianate style, commercial building with stone and brick bearing walls. It has a simple rectangular plan 34' x 70' with a low hip roof. The foundation and first floor are dressed sandstone, the walls are brick while the hip roof is metal. The sandstone features hammered facing with tooled and smooth margins. Decorative cast iron molded pilasters, remnants of the earlier storefront, grace the two front entranceways. (#2 through 5) Each of the three floors was used for a distinct purpose.
The first floor housed a store and most recently a restaurant. The second floor with its stage was the social hall. It was the venue for many plays, high school dances, commencement exercises and religious services. The Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star Chapter of the community held their meetings on the third floor. The property has since seen its share of vandalism bond brick. These floors are not accessible from the first floor but an entranceway to the dressed sandstone has been covered with wood siding and a protective awning supported by slender wood posts runs the width of the building. Three horizontal sliding windows completed the 1993 alterations. The two double doors and four iron pilasters remain intact. (#8) A stone beltcourse circles the building between the first and second floors. SETTING: floor fire escape appears on the east side of the building.
(#7) The first floor storefront of Continuation Sheet and has had some alterations since its construction in 1884. It is presently unoccupied. National Register of Historic Places The front facade (south) is five bays wide. The two upper floors are of common second floor is shown on the west side of the building by way of a staircase. (#6) A third Section number7Page NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) Page 1 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Masonic Lodge No. 472 Zaleski, Vinton County, Ohio The second floor's rectangular windows are double hung 4/4 with wide stone façade only. The third floor front façade has semicircular relieving arched windows with keystones and flat plain stone sills on recessed bays. The keystones display Masonic stationary. The east and west sides of the building are six bays wide.
(#9 and 10) The Vandals have broken many of the second and third floor windows that have either been bricked or boarded up. The building, however, has been secured so no destructive damage has been done to the interior. INTERIOR DESCRIPTION: One can pass through the arched doorway from one room to the other. When a restaurant occupied the first floor from January to September of 1991, the western room held the customers and the front section of the eastern room contained the overflow. The first floor was carpeted and the walls were drywall. The ceiling is board and batten used as an office, the others, a bathroom and storage. On the eastern side of the first floor in the rear are four smaller rooms. These rooms were used for a kitchen, two bathrooms and a storage area for the restaurant. (#13) Each room on the first floor had its own outside entrance.
(#14) The second floor is accessible by an outside staircase on the western side of the floor stairway. The stairway is ornate with its original newel post and balustrades. (#16) large room with pine floors, drywall, board and batten ceiling with five original hanging Hanging globe lights illuminate the hallway. The auditorium, named Lyceum Hall, is a Continuation Sheet with its tongue and grooved walls, leads to the doorway of the auditorium and to the third second and third floors are common bond brick. Corbelled brickwork distinguishes the lintels and sills. A stone beltcourse can be seen topping the second floor but on the front globe lighting fixtures. (#17) The large double entrance doors are nine paneled with a actors and actresses who once graced its stage. Beyond the ticket window the hallway, staircase that leads to three rooms at mezzanine level.
(#12) One room might have been construction with modern ceiling fans.In the rear of the western room is an eleven-step building at the roofline. The metal hip roof is newer but at one time was standing seam. stoves that were placed at the sides of the rooms.Four chimneys once graced the roof. building.A small hallway leads to the ticket window used for thespian endeavors.(#15) National Register of Historic Places symbols. These windows are double hung 1/1 while the arched section remains The first floor is divided into two large rooms with a 16" sandstone bearing wall. triangular pediment above it.(#18 and 19) The rooms were heated by oil and pot belly The walls of the small room used by the ticket seller are covered with autographs of the Section number 7 Page - 2 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Masonic Lodge No. 472 Zaleski, Vinton County, Ohio Only one chimney remains today. Later electric heating units were put in but were not at the south end of the building. The second floor has had the least alterations of the three floors. Many of the windows have been replaced and the pot belly stoves are gone but the rest of the auditorium is intact. The third floor, home of the Masonic Lodge for 107 years, has seen the most walls are drywall. At the northern end of the floor an open modern kitchen has been put in. On the eastern side of the floor, a door leads to two smaller rooms. Their original use is unknown but one of these rooms was made into a bathroom. At the front of the main room, facing south, two partitions were built but the walls do not extend to the ceiling.
It is believed the owner of the restaurant attempted to make the third floor into an apartment creating a kitchen, a bath, and two bedrooms. (#23 and 24) The last alteration involved the vandalized third floor windows. They now contain glass which is not curved to follow the shape of the arch but have been installed as regular plate glass windows. Most of these alterations have been done within the last ten years. There is no other building in Zaleski on the National Register and only one other (Trinity Episcopal Church in McArthur, Ohio) in all of Vinton County. National Register of Historic Places lighting. However, the original ceiling remains intact. The floor is carpeted and the Continuation Sheet physical changes.The ceiling has been dropped using acoustical tile and fluorescent Section number - 7 large enough to heat the building adequately.
Lyceum Hall houses a large stage located Page - 3 8. Statement of Significance