Major Bibliographical References Narrative Statement of Significance for National Register listing.) (Enter categories from instructions) distinguishable entity whose components lack Applicable National Register Criteria Name of repository: Primary location of additional data: Previous documentation on file (NPS): a significant contribution to the broad patterns of G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Springfield, Clark Co., OH The Thomas Manufacturing Company Warehouse is qualified for listing in the National Register under Criterion A.
It is one of a dwindling number of historic manufacturing structures linked to Springfield's industrial past, and it is particularly significant because it is directly linked to the manufacture of farm implements, the industry that put Springfield "on the map." At one time Springfield was the nation's largest producer of mechanized farm equipment, and the Thomas Manufacturing Company building is a significant and well-preserved link to that major part of Springfield's history. In fact, very few industrial structures from the late 19th century and the early 20th century survive. It is interesting to note that to date, despite its rich industrial history, none of Springfield's historic industrial structures has been listed in the National Register.
Springfield: Background History and Industrial Development Springfield was platted in 1801 along Lagonda (today Buck) Creek, a westward-flowing stream that empties into the Mad River west of town. By 1804 the new village had several homes, a post office, a distillery, and a grist mill that drew power from the creek. The mill, built by village founder James Demint, was soon followed by others, including a mill built in 1807 by Simon Kenton, the famous Ohio Country frontiersman. The start of Springfield's stunning industrial growth in the 19th century can be traced to 1841, would have been like most others but for its power source. In 1840, James Leffel had opened a foundry on Buck Creek near where it emptied into the Mad River, about two miles west of the center of Springfield.
Finding the water power at this point inadequate, Leffel joined with the Barnetts in construction of a millrace almost 8,000 feet long that drew water from Buck Creek and provided a head of 24 feet. In 1845 Leffel and a partner constructed a foundry just east of Barnett's mill and began production of the water turbine for which Leffel would become internationally famous. The Barnett mill was powered by one of the first Leffel turbines. The power offered by the millrace attracted other manufacturers, and along Buck Creek in the period prior to the Civil War there developed the first of Springfield's four major industrial districts. The Barnett mill, first of the enterprises along the race, expanded throughout the rest of elevator and feed mill at least into the 1950s.
Other manufacturers that located along the millrace Warehouse Introduction Thomas Manufacturing Company Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior when Samuel Barnett and his brother James built another grist mill along Buck Creek.This mill OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Page (8-86) the century and into the 2oth century as a grain storage and milling plant;it operated as an Section number 8 NPS Form10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Thomas Manufacturing Company Springfield, Clark Co., OH included an oil mill, a woolen mill, and a flooring mill, all in the late 1840s. In 1848 John A.
Pitts, inventor of grain separators, saws, and other farm implements, constructed a machine shop on the millrace; Pitts would later build threshing machines, and the firm eventually evolved into O.S. Kelly Co., at one time the world's largest manufacturer of piano frames (the Kelly firm remains in operation in an older but much-altered brick factory building on North Street). In 1861 John Foos purchased an oil mill from James Barnett, who had built the mill, and operated it along the millrace until moving it to a site somewhat farther west in 1871. Mast, Foos & Co. would eventually occupy a site on the city's west side on Isabella Street; the firm was known for producing wind turbines (windmills), pumps, and cast iron fences and gates. Nothing from this plant today remains at the site. In late 1856, P.P. Mast and John H.
Thomas organized what would become the dominant firm along the Buck Creek millrace. Thomas & Mast Co. made agricultural implements, their chief the firm's plant included cider mills and amounted to some 100 grain drills and 600 to 800 cider mills in the first year. Rapid expansion followed, however, once rail transportation came to Springfield in the mid-1850s, and between 1856 and 1869 Thomas & Mast produced over 25,000 grain drills. The manufacturing facility expanded with the increase in production, and the firm absorbed adjacent earlier mill buildings as well as building new ones of its own. Thomas left the Agricultural Works. The firm thrived and continued its physical expansion, dominating the north side of Buck Creek east of Limestone Street. The 1880s were the peak years for P.P. Mast & Co. and for other Springfield firms manufacturing agricultural implements.
That industry represented 78% of the city's industrial production in 1880, having grown from only 12% of production in 1860. Until it was surpassed by Chicago in 1890, Springfield was the national leader in the production of farm machinery. After 1890 that Buckeye Division, and in the late 1920s the firm became the Buckeye Manufacturing Company. It was entirely out of the farm machinery business and instead made furniture and radio cabinets. All the buildings south of Warder Street were demolished around this time, and by the mid-1950s the plant was used for storage and warehousing by various firms and by the Clark County Creek was once one of the most important manufacturing centers in the nation.
Page Warehouse Continuation Sheet Highway Department.Today there are no extant structures to show that this stretch of Buck National Register of Historic Places product being the popular Buckeye Grain Drill and Grass Seed Sower.Initial production at business began a gradual decline.P.P.Mast & Co.became the American Seeding Machine Co., firm in 1872,after which it was reorganized asP.P.Mast& Co.and was known as the Buckeye Section number . (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Springfield, Clark Co., OH The arrival of the railroad in Springfield in the 1850s gave the access to distant markets that enabled enterprises such as Thomas & Mast and P.P. Mast & Co. to grow.
The Mad River & Lake Erie, which connected Sandusky and Springfield and connected with the Little Miami Railroad to Cincinnati, was in operation by 1850, and the Columbus & Springfield connected the city to the state capital by1854; there was also a connection to Cleveland over the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Pittsburgh by about the same time. (In later years, the Little Miami would become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad and all the others part of the New York Central System.) The city's rail network was completed in the 1870s, when the Ohio Southern, later the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, was built through Springfield. The Ohio Southern entered the city's northwest side and followed the south bank of Buck Creek on an east-west alignment just north of downtown Springfield.
The other lines, however, converged upon and diverged from a railroad "corridor" immediately south of the downtown area along Washington Street. This made the land immediately adjacent to the railroad ideal for industrial enterprises, since there was easy rail access to nearly all points of the compass. Messrs. Thomas and Mast were not the only farm machinery manufacturers in Springfield in the pre-Civil War period; several other individuals and firms.played a major role. In 1850 Benjamin Warder, Bushnell & Glessner. Warder's plant was located in Lagonda, a village just northeast of Springfield located along the rail route to Cleveland. William N. Whiteley developed a workable mower in 1855 and joined with Jerome Fassler and Oliver Kelly to manufacture the new machine.
In the period just after the Civil War, Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly were having difficulty keeping up with orders and decided to build a new plant in downtown Springfield, along the main rail route. Organized as the Champion Machine Company, the firm's plant was built in the mid-1870s north of Monroe Street and on both sides of Linden Avenue just southeast of Springfield's downtown core. The company was advertised as "Manufacturers for Champion Reapers and Mowers. B.H. Warder, President, A. Whiteley, Secretary, Jerome Fassler Vice President and Superintendent." By the late 1870s the site had and subsidiaries such as the Champion Bar and Knife Company and the Champion Malleable Iron instead of its own line. One 19th century industrial structure from this complex survives today, having been used for many years by the Champion Chemical Company.
Though somewhat Warehouse Continuation Sheet Thomas Manufacturing Company Company.The firm also contracted with Warder's company to produce Champion machines National Register of Historic Places Warder began producing farm machinery, operating as Warder, Mitchell & Co. and later as United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a Section number . been fully built up, with brick production buildings occupied by the Champion Machine Company Page (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Springfield, Clark Co., OH altered from its original design, it is of equal importance to the nominated building in At this time, John H. Thomas again entered the farm machinery business. He had retired from his business with P.P. Mast in 1872 to pursue other interests, but in 1874 he joined with his two sons to form the Thomas Manufacturing Company.
The company built its plant west of the Champion Works, on the east side of South Limestone Street and north of Monroe. By the mid-1880s, the plant filled two entire blocks between Monroe and Spring, with an office building at the southeast corner of Monroe and Limestone. To the north side of the plant were rail spurs that served it and the Champion plant just to the east, and north of these spurs was the Pennsylvania Railroad's About 1890 the company built the western portion of the building that is the subject of this nomination. This was a three-story structure, oriented north-south, located just east of the office building. It was used as a warehouse, and the entire Thomas plant was noted as being a factory for producing sulkies, hay rakes, and iron pumps.
By about 1905, the main plant still occupied the full two blocks north of Monroe, and the nominated building had been expanded to its current form and increased to four stories in height. By 1910, additional wings had been added to its southwest corner, and the entire structure was The Champion Works and the Thomas Manufacturing Company, then, formed the core of the second major industrial district in Springfield, which was located along and primarily south of the foundries, a brewery, and a casket company, and there were several large warehouses and Springfield's third major industrial district was on its east side and developed because William Whiteley was convinced he could retain Springfield's lead over Chicago as the nation's center of Street Shops, located at the southeast corner of East Street and the New York Central Railroad tracks.
Here, between 1882 and 1887, rose an industrial plant of a scale not seen anywhere else in Warehouse freight house. Continuation Sheet wholesale companies. National Register of Historic Places and the only ones engaged in farm machinery production. Other firms included machine shops, Section number Thomas Manufacturing Company communicating a sense Springfield's importance in agricultural implement manufacturing in the late 19th century. rail lines that passed just south of the city's heart. They were the largest enterprises in this district United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a used for a machine shop, storage and warehousing, grinding, assembly, and painting. farm equipment production by a huge expansion program.
To do this, he built the massive East (8-86) Page NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Springfield, Clark Co., OH the world, with just over a million square feet under a single roof. With a six-story main block along East Street and five long wings extending eastward from the main block, the plant formed a giant multi-legged "E" shape, and here the production of the Champion line was consolidated (production also continued at the older downtown location). Whiteley would not, however, achieve his goal of keeping Springfield ahead of Chicago. In 1887, as a result of co-signing a loan to an associate who was attempting to corner the Chicago wheat market, Whiteley was forced into bankruptcy. He managed to have himself appointed as receiver and incorporated the William N. Whiteley Company, which in 1888 bought the East Street Shops at a bargain price.
Whiteley attempted to revive the farm machinery business, but he went out of business in 1891. Warder, Bushnell & Glessner, which had been producing Champion machines for Whiteley at their Lagonda plant, bought rights to the Champion line and continued to produce those products until the firm was absorbed by International Harvester Company in 1902. The East Street shops, in the meantime, were again sold and were converted to leased space housing several different manufacturing firms. In 1902 most of the building was destroyed by fire. Portions of some of the wings survived and were later incorporated into various industrial enterprises, and the James Leffel Company appears to have re-used part of the building's foundation in 1924 to build a plant for production of turbines, steam engines, and boilers.
The fourth of Springfield's major industrial districts was located well to the northeast of the others and of the city's downtown core. This was the location of the Lagonda Works, the agricultural machinery plant developed by Benjamin Warder in 1850, and it continued in operation there Whiteley's firm during the last quarter of the 19th century and, after Whiteley's failure, on its own until 1902. In that year the International Harvester Company purchased the Warder firm and the Lagonda site. Over the years, IH continued to use Warder's buildings and built more of its own, outside Springfield on Route 68 North in the 1960s, and in the early 1980s most of the oldest and largest buildings at the Lagonda site were demolished by IH.
(The works' office building and a three-story brick factory building survive in somewhat altered form.) Having sold its line of farm equipment and its name to another manufacturer, IH became known as Navistar International and concentrated solely on heavy truck production. (8-86) Page Warehouse Continuation Sheet Thomas Manufacturing Company through the balance of the century; as noted, the plant produced Champion products for National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior The importance of the Lagonda plant was greatly reduced due to construction of a new plant Section number 8 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Springfield, Clark Co., OH Springfield: Historic Industrial Buildings Today There are few physical industrial remnants to tell the story of Springfield's once-proud role as the center of farm machinery manufacture in the United States. As the discussion above has shown, all four of the city's major industrial districts were the locations of major farm equipment factories from the mid-19th century well into the 20th century. At three of them -- along Buck Creek, at the East Street Shops site, and at the Lagonda site -- little or nothing remains from the 19th century to tell the story. Along Buck Creek, the P.P. Mast site has been entirely cleared; the Mast, Foos & Co. site on the city's west side has been cleared; and the O.S. Kelly Co. plant has been altered.
Elements such as the re-used wings of the East Street facility or structures at the Lagonda site are fragmentary and have a low level of integrity due to alterations. The downtown industrial district has survived in a more intact state, though it, too, has suffered significant losses. East of the Spring Street viaduct, a portion of the Champion works survives. is currently occupied by the Champion Company, formerly the Champion Chemical Company, a long-time manufacturer of embalming fluids and undertakers' supplies. This firm appears to have occupied the building just after the failure of the Whiteley firm and removal of Champion farm equipment production to Warder's Lagonda plant. Other Champion farm implement facilities, including the Champion Malleable Iron Company and Champion Bar and Knife plants, were located nearby to the north but were demolished in the mid-1980s.
West of Linden, extending to the Spring Street viaduct, three more buildings survive, all dating from about 1905. They were part of the American Seeding Machine Company, which made grain drills, planters, rakes, and used for warehousing and other purposes. A Champion Historic District National Register nomination has been proposed for this area but has not gone forward. West of the Spring Street viaduct, the Thomas Manufacturing Company building stands as the sole reminder of that firm's contribution to Springfield's industrial history. The firm was active in farm machinery production into the 1920s, making it and the American Seeding Machine plants among the last in Springfield in that line of business. By the 1940s, the building was shown as a "loft building," obviously no longer in use as a factory.
To the north, on the main plant site, two portions of the plant appear to have been standing in 1946, one directly north of the nominated building, and one at the site's east end, up against the Spring Street viaduct. The demolition date for the first building is unknown, but the one adjacent to the viaduct came down in the spring of Warehouse Page Continuation Sheet Thomas Manufacturing Company National Register of Historic Places As was noted earlier,one five-story 19th century structure, on the east side of Linden at Monroe, United States Department of the Interior other farm equipment.The firm was active here until at least 1930,but the site has long been Section number (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Thomas Manufacturing Company Springfield, Clark Co., OH Section number 1983.
At the time of its demolition this building still had a painted sign on its east elevation that stood in 1946 just west of the nominated building. It was in use as an American Legion hall at that time; its demolition date is unknown. Elsewhere in the former downtown industrial district, two additional industrial buildings survive. One, at the southeast corner of Wittenberg and Jefferson, is a former wholesale grocery warehouse dating from the early 20th century. The other, at the southeast corner of Center and Jefferson, is a multi-story factory building built in 1915.
It was known as the Shuey Factories Building, but its product(s) are currently not known; neither of these structures was involved in The sole remaining building of the Thomas Manufacturing Company is one of only two structures in the downtown industrial district -- the other is the Champion building east of Linden Avenue -- with a link to the peak 19th century years of Springfield's farm machinery industry. The Thomas building is from the period when the industry had begun its decline but still was important in the Springfield economy. The Thomas firm never achieved the size or scale of the Warder, Mast, or Whiteley firms, but in its own niche -- it was best known for its hay rakes and tedders (which side. The building is very plain and utilitarian, with only the barest hint at architectural ornamentation, but it is an excellent example of late 19th century industrial building design.
Its well-preserved brick bearing walls and wood post-and-beam interior structure are excellent representatives of a type of building once common in Springfield but now almost extinct. In connection with a proposed HUD housing project, the Thomas Manufacturing Company building was determined eligible for the National Register by the Keeper of the Register on February 12, 1980. The Keeper noted that "The Thomas Manufacturing Company was a significant Springfield industry and one of the major producers of agricultural implements in the United States following the Civil War. It is also a good example of 19th century industrial architecture." Page Warehouse the farm machinery industry.
spread out grass or hay for drying) -- it was well known and thrived for many years; in addition, National Register of Historic Places its founder had a direct link with P.P.Mast and his massive agricultural works on the city's north read, in part, "Thomas Mfg. Co., Drills, Rakes, Tedders..."The company's office building still (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Austin, W.F. History of the Manufactories of Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, Ohio: W.F. Austin, 1884. Gray & Pape. Springfield Historic Archaeological Survey. 1986. An Illustrated Souvenir Edition of Springfield, Ohio. n.p., 1903. Industries of Springfield, O. and Environs. n.p., 1894. California: Northridge Publications, Inc., 1985. McCall-Widener Architects. City of Springfield, Review and Update of1986 Preservation Plan/ Minority History Architecture Survey. 1993. Prince, Benjamin F., ed.
Centennial Celebration of Springfield, Ohio, August 4-10, 1901. Springfield, Ohio: Springfield Publishing Co., 1901. Rathbone, Pembroke Thom. The History of Old Time Farm Implement Companies and the Wrenches They Issued. n.p., n.d. E. Robinson, 1882. Representative Citizens. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1908. Bibliography Page Warehouse Places files. Thomas Manufacturing Company The Complete City Maps of Ohio. Traverse City, Michigan: C.M. Publications, 1991. Continuation Sheet Section number Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. City of Springfield Historic Preservation Plan.1983, updated 1986. National Register of Historic Places Springfield, Clark Co., OH Robinson, E., and R.H. Pidgeon. Atlas of the City of Springfield, Ohio.
New York City: United States Department of the Interior Ohio Historic Preservation Office.Ohio Historic Inventory and National Register of Historic Kinnison, William A. Springfield and Clark County, an Illustrated History. Northridge, NPS Form 10-900-a Rockel, William, ed. 20th Century History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio, and (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Springfield, Clark Co., OH Section number - Sanborn Map Company. Insurance Maps of Springfield, Ohio. New York City: Sanborn Map Company, 1886, 1891, 1910, 1928, 1946. Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, Ohio: The Ralph Printing U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1890 Census. Works Progress Administration, Writers' Guide Series. Springfield and Clark County, Ohio. Page Company, n.d.
Continuation Sheet (8-86) Warehouse National Register of Historic Places Thomas Manufacturing Company United States Department of the Interior Springfield, Ohio: Springfield Tribune Printing Company, 1941. National Park Service Clark, OH Thomas Mfg. Co. Warehouse Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property - See continuation sheet (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title - Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. street & number 593 S. Fifth Street . telephone city or town - _ state . zip code A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) .
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Beginning at a point in the north line of Mulberry Street at the southeast corner of a four-story intersection of the north line of Mulberry Street with the east line of Limestone Street; thence with the west wall of said brick building, north 0 degrees 36 minutes east, 31.0 feet; thence parallel to Mulberry Street, north 88 degrees 50 minutes west, 37.3 feet to a steel bar; thence parallel to Limestone Street, north 0 degrees 36 minutes east, 43.25 feet to a steel bar; thence south 88 degrees 50 minutes east 17.0 feet to a bolt; thence north 0 degrees 36 minutes east 74.25 feet to a cross cut in a stone marginal curb on the south line of Monroe Street, said cross being 37.0 feet east of the intersection of the south lineof Monroe Street with the east line of Limestone Street; thence with the south line of Monroe Street, south 88 degrees 50 minutes east, 112.0 feet to the northeast corner of the stone foundation of said four-story brick building; thence with the east wall of said building and the west line of a 16.5-foot alley, south 0 degrees 36 minutes west, 148.5 feet to a steel bar at the intersection of the westline of said 16.5-foot alley with the north line of Mulberry Street; thence with the north line of Mulberry Street, north 88 degrees 50 Warehouse Page Boundary Justification brick building, said beginning being 107.3 feet east of a cross in the concrete walk at the Continuation Sheet Boundary Description Thomas Manufacturing Company minutes west, 91.7 feet to the place of beginning.
The nominated property contains only land associated with the Thomas Manufacturing Company National Register of Historic Places building during the period of significance. (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Springfield, Clark Co., OH Section number - The following information is the same for all photos: Photographer: Nancy Recchie Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. 593 South Fifth Street Columbus, OH 43206 May, 2000 2. Looking east at west elevation. 6. Looking south at north side. 7. Basement view showing typical condition. 8. First floor interior, view of retail space. 9. First floor interior, view of office space. 10. First floor interior, looking north in warehouse area in east half of building. 12. Typical upper floor interior view: third floor in eastern half of building, looking north along east wall.
Address: Date: Page Warehouse Photo Log Continuation Sheet (8-86) 1. Looking southeast at north side (on left) and main west elevation (on right). National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Thomas Manufacturing Company 4.Looking west at east elevation; north side is on right. 11.View of second floor stair landing in western portion of building. 3.Looking northwest at south end(on left) and east elevation(on right). 5.Looking north at south side;main west elevation is on left. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Springfield, Clark Co., OH Section number_Log 13. Contextual view, looking east along Monroe Street, with Thomas building's north wall at right. Other Thomas buildings, now entirely demolished, lined the edge of this street on 14. Contextual view, looking west, with Thomas building on left.
Other Thomas buildings once stood on right side of street but have all been removed. 15. Contextual view, looking east along Mulberry Street. Southwest corner and south end of Thomas building are at left. 16. Contextual view, looking north from Thomas building parking lot toward downtown Manufacturing Company once stood at left center, in front of low shrubs. Warehouse Page Continuation Sheet Photo Thomas Manufacturing Company National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Photo Log, cont. the left.At upper right is opening to former second floor bridge over Monroe Street.
United States Department of the Interior Springfield.West elevation of Thomas building is at right;office building of Thomas (8-86) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : RECOM. /CRITERIA REJECT DATE TELEPHONE RETURN 1/04/01 MULTIPLE 2/02/01 DISCIPLINE 2/19/01 REVIEWER OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF 45TH DAY: National Regiater Entered in the DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PROPERTY Thomas Manufacturing Company Warehouse LACCEPT Springfiela, Spring Co. Building Photo Photo Photo # 5 Photo Photo #> Thomas Mfg Co. Building ,Clark Co, Ohio Photo Photo # 9 Thomas Photo Co.
Building Photo Building SPRINGFIELD QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO-CLARK CO C.S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PRINGFI /259970/4422460 43416NE 221 Senate Building Columbus, Ohio 43215 Finance & Financial Institutions Health, Human Services & Aging - Vice Chair 614/644-5466 FAX Human Services & Aging, Sub Committee - Chair Rules & LSC JCARR - Chair Ohio Children's Trust Fund - Chair November 14, 2000 10th District Mr. Amos Loveday State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street I write in strong support of the nomination of the Ice House Building in Springfield, Ohio to the National Register of Historic Places. This building is a long standing landmark in Springfield and has historic and architectural significance.
Being rich in history, the building is linked to Springfield's industrial past and particularly significant because it is directly linked to the manufacturing of farm The Ice House Building involves the rehabilitation of an historic building into 45 units of housing for elderly residents in Clark County. It is my understanding that this historic building will be converted into 2 and 3 bedroom apartments with air conditioning and including endorsement from the City of Springfield. Again, I strongly advocate the nomination of the Ice House Building to the National Register of Historic Places. 1-800-282-0253 614/466-3780 Madison Committees: Greene Counties: Sincerely, Clark Ohio Senate Education Dear Mr.
Loveday: Majority Whip Merle Grace Kearns the nation's largest producer of mechanized farm equipment; the Ice House Building is a appliances, as well as on-site laundry facilities and an elevator.This will be a much- implements, the industry that put Springfield "on the map." At one time Springfield was needed asset to the whole community. In addition, this project has numerous supporters REC'D BY OHPO NOV 1 6 2000 significant and well-preserved link to that major part of Springfield's history. THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD INCORPORATED SINCE 1850 Office of the City Commission 76 EAST HIGH STREET SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 45502 FAX 937-328-3478 VOICE/TTY 937-324-7343 November 16, 2000 Mr. Amos Loveday State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Dear Mr.
Loveday: I urge you to give favorable consideration to the Ice House Building in Springfield when the National Register Nomination for this property comes before the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board. This building has long been historic and architectural significance. Warren R. Copeland pc Mr. Mark Leatherwood Mr. William Craig ASSISTANT MAYOR MARTIN K. MAHONEY DANIEL J. MARTIN JOYCE A. BEVERLY CASEY CLERK OF COMMISSION CONNIE J. CHAPPELL Sincerely, Mayor 937-324-7340 COMMISSIONERS KEVIN ONEILL a landmark in Springfield and deserves National Register recognition for its REC'D BY OHPO NOV 1 7 2000 DAVID L. HOBSON COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 7TH DISTRICT, OHIO WASHINGTON OFFICE 1514 Longworth HOB DEFENSE ( Washington, DC 20515 VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ASSISTANT MAJORITY WHIP (202) 225-4324 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 20, 2000 Mr.
Amos Loveday Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 E Hudson St Columbus, OH 43211-1030 As the Representative of Ohio's 7th Congressional District, I am writing in support of the The Ice House Building represents a critical, industrial period in Springfield, Ohio and and is a significant piece of Springfield's industrial past. At one time, Springfield led the nation in the production of farm implements. Again, I want to offer my support to the application to admit the Ice House Building to the National Historic Register, thus preserving a unique part of Springfield's heritage. If I may be of further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me. 5 W. North St., Ste. 200 212 S. Broad St. P.O. Box 269 Room 55 Springfield, OH 45501-0269 Lancaster, OH 43130-4389 (937) 325-0474 THIS STATIONERY PRINTED ON PAPER MADE OF RECYCLED FIBERS (740) 654-5149 Register.
Sincerely, DLH/mah CHAIRMAN SUBCOMMITTEES: SPRINGFIELD OFFICE LANCASTER OFFICE Member of Congress MILITARY CONSTRUCTION Ice House Building in Springfield, Ohio application to be nominated to the National Historic should be preserved for future generations.The building has long been a landmark in Springfield Dear Mr. Loveday: RECD BY OPON
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