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1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Columbus, Franklin Co., OH The Tosheffs building is a two-story brick bearing wall structure located on the west side of Parsons Avenue, south of Barthman Avenue, in the Steelton industrial district of Columbus, Ohio. The east elevation along Parsons Avenue is eight bays wide and is asymmetrical in design. The building has the appearance of two buildings side by side, and in fact there is a distinct joint between the northern third and the southern two-thirds of the building (photos 1 and 2). However, the entire structure was built at the same time and was completed in 1920. Wood as part of a recently-completed certified historic rehabilitation.
They replaced storefront windows that were not original; those windows appeared to date from around the 1970s or later and were made up of salvaged multiple-paned windows from another building. (Photos 1 and 2 show the storefronts prior to the start of the rehabilitation, and photos 14 and 15 show the recently completed new storefronts.) Some original paneled wood bulkheads were visible and provided the design for the newly-built bulkheads. About 90% of the original prism glass transoms survived and were retained in the certified rehabilitation of the building. A tiled stoop in the north storefront entry (photo 3) once contained the building owner's name but unfortunately was Above the first floor storefronts, the wall has ornamental brickwork both above and below the second story windows (photo 4).
Below the windows in the northern third of the building, the treatment is fairly plain, with two projecting rows of brick forming a shallow cornice that lines up with the stone window sills. In the southern two-thirds of the wall, the treatment is more ornate, with the bricks laid in a pattern to simulate a shallow arcaded corbel table. Above the windows, another projecting brick band, this time consistent in design across the entire facade, forms another shallow cornice. The second floor windows consist of seven paired sets of one-over-one double-hung sash, all of approximately the same size, and a pair of small windows set in the middle of the facade of the northern third of the building; the small windows have a projecting stone sill. All of these windows were installed as part of the certified rehabilitation and replaced non-historic windows of recent date.
Above the windows, the facade terminates in an ornamental third is distinct from the rest of the building, but in both portions the brick has been laid to create the effect of corbel tables, recessed panels, and pilasters. The top of the parapet wall is symmetrical in both portions of the building but the parapet of each portion is different from the other. Continuation Sheet storefronts with recessed doorways occupy the entire first floor. These were newly constructed parapet wall formed of patterned brickwork with stone copings.The brick pattern in the northern destroyed in an accident during the rehabilitation. National Register of Historic Places Section number . Page (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH At the rear of the building, behind the northern third, was a two-story frame house with a Mansard roof (photo 6).
It appeared to date from the 1880s, and maps show that the house apparently was moved back on its lot to accommodate the construction of the commercial wing.In recent years the house had been roofed in asphalt shingles and sided with replacement siding. Its windows had been removed, and all interior plaster had been removed. As a result, the house had a low level of integrity and was not considered a significant contributor to the character of the Tosheff's building; it was demolished during 1999. Behind the middle third of the building, there is a one-story flat-roofed addition which contains hotel rooms (photos 5 and 6). This addition has two parts, the western one built later than the eastern, probably in 1947, when a city building card shows a $15,000 alteration. The eastern portion of this wing probably dates from the original construction or shortly thereafter.
Behind the southern third of the building was a small concrete block addition, removed during the certified rehabilitation, with a flat poured concrete roof. A fire stair rose above it. On the interior, first floor commercial spaces and second floor hotel spaces have been altered ceilings, and new mechanical systems (photos 7 and 8). Some portions of the pressed metal In the first floor wing and on the second floor, the original pattern of corridors and hotel rooms trim, especially in the rear wing, most corridors and rooms have original trim at doors and The Tosheffs building is located in a working-class area, on a commercial street where extensive remodelings of commercial structures over time has resulted in considerable loss of architectural fabric and historic character (photos 10-13).
Despite this fact, however, and despite long neglect and its own alterations over the years, the Tosheff's building retains a level of integrity unusual for windows. the area. Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Continuation Sheet (8-86) National Register of Historic Places ceilings in the southern portion of the first floor have survived but are in poor condition. remains largely intact (photo 9).Although there has been some replacement of original doors and building in 1920.The house was attached to the building and appears to have been used as a rear United States Department of the Interior several times over the years.
This work has included new wall and floor coverings, lowered OMB ApprovalNo 1024-0018 National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH The Tosheffs Restaurant and Hotel building is qualified for listing in the National Register under Criterion A as a tangible and well-preserved reminder of the lively and vital commercial life of the Steelton industrial district, which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries along the southern end of Parsons Avenue in southeastern Columbus, Ohio. The building is additionally significant for its association with Columbus's Hungarian and eastern European immigrant neighborhood, which was located adjacent to the Tosheff's building and for which the building served as a commercial and social focal point.
The Tosheffs building represents the evolution of Parsons Avenue from a rural road in the late north-south street went through the middle of Steelton, one of four historic industrial districts in Avenue north of the railroad tracks, and in this district Buckeye Steel employees, employees of social necessities without having to venture farther out into the larger city. associated with state government, insurance, and The Ohio State University. Certainly the city cannot claim an industrial heritage comparable to that of Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Youngstown. However, Columbus did have an industrial base, and industrial firms were major employers, particularly for immigrants. By the first two decades of the 20th century, the city had four distinct neighborhoods, and commercial districts serving the daily needs of the working population.
Farthest north was the area dominated by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, which made north-south rail route, this district was centered on North Fourth Street. The industrial facilities generally were located on or east of Fourth, while the residential area, today known as Italian both sides of Fourth Street were the stores and businesses serving the local population.
Continuation Sheet industrial districts, densely developed areas comprised of large industrial employers, residential mining machinery.Located north of the downtown railroad complex and adjacent to a principal National Register of Historic Places Columbus is generally not considered to be an industrial city.Its economic life usually is Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel United States Department of the Interior Village(a locally-designated historic design review district) was generally west of Fourth.On a nearly autonomous neighborhood.Its commercial heart was the short stretch of Parsons Columbus. Located just north of the large Buckeye Steel Castings Company plant, Steelton was NPS Form 10-900-a 19th century into a major commercial thoroughfare early in the 20th century.
This busy the nearby railroads, and the nearby Hungarian neighborhood could find all their shopping and (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Columbus, Franklin Co., OH The second district extended from the north edge of downtown Columbus northward to First Avenue, fronting along the east bank of the Scioto River. Employers here in the early 20th century included furnace, stove, and furniture companies; later on, the Capital City Products Company, located a little farther north, became a major facility.
The residential district associated with these industries is today known as Victorian Village or the Near North Side the North Market area, and some in scattered neighborhood-scale commercial structures in the provided the transportation and distribution service essential to the operations of the various The third historic industrial district was located on the city's northeast side, south of Fifth Avenue and east of Cassidy Avenue. Here, located along the north side of the Baltimore & Ohio and Panhandle railroad tracks, was the Ralston Steel Car Company, a major builder of End. As with the other districts, industrial development of this area had to await completion of railroad lines.
This occurred when the Hocking Valley Railway, later the Chesapeake & Ohio, was completed through the South End in the 1870s, and when the Toledo & Ohio Central, later the New York Central, was built just before the end of the 19th century. The downtown core. The northwestern residential portion, east of High Street, is today known as particularly breweries, located close to the northwestern portion of this district as early as the 1840s, encouraged by the transportation facilities offered by the Columbus Feeder Canal, which ran parallel to the Scioto River and west of the South End district. The site of Steelton, however, at the South End's southern extreme, well east of the canal, could not have developed without rail transportation. Parsons Avenue, located east of the heart of the South End, was the first street east of High Street that ran from north to south industries.
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet west of Neil Avenue. The businesses serving the working population here were more diffused, (listed in the National Register and locally-designated),particularly the working-class areas residential area. Railroad spurs extending from the downtown rail network into this district German Village (listed in the National Register and locally-designated). Early industry, The fourth historic industrial district was in what was universally called Columbus's South while enterprises on Cassidy and Fifth avenues served the area's commercial needs. South End was located north of these two rail lines, east of High Street, and south of the Section number - with some located at the north edge of the downtown, some along North High Street, some in (8-86) Page railroad cars.
The residential areas serving this district were generally to the south and west, OM8Aporova/No10240015 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH without interruption, from East Broad Street southward out into open country. In time it the entire southeastern portion of Columbus, but in the latter part of the 19th century, Parsons Avenue was sparsely developed, mostly with residential structures. The street's primary and east of Columbus. By the 1890s, however, the two major rail lines through the area had been completed, passing through the west side of downtown Columbus and then crossing Parsons Avenue in the South End. The availability of rail transportation and large tracts of land spurred the growth of major industries such as foundries and steel plants, as well as a large glass plant.
Among the steel-related industries was the American Rolling Mill Company, the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, and the Chase Foundry and Manufacturing Company. The Federal Glass Company was another major industry in the area, as was the Seagraves fire double-family homes and small apartment buildings. Extension of city streetcar lines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries facilitated this growth. as another, farther west, that was called the Steelton Line and ran through the middle of the district's residential area. It joined the Parsons Avenue line at Barthman and Parsons, just north of the nominated building and right in the middle of the Steelton commercial district.
industries, opened Parsons Avenue businesses to a broader base of customers, and spurred the area's transition from residential and almost rural in character to primarily commercial in the period between about 1895 and 1920. The southern portion of Parsons Avenue, from about Woodrow Avenue southward, was known as Steelton. It was not a separate municipality, but this area had its own identity because of its close association with and location adjacent to steel-related industries - particularly the Buckeye Steel Castings Company (still in operation) and the railroads. Buckeye Steel had begun in 1881 in downtown Columbus as a foundry and iron-working firm. In the 1890s the company developed a cast iron railroad coupler, known as the Buckeye, a (8-86) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel truck manufacturing plant.
Because platted residential areas were located just to the north of There was a car line in Parsons Avenue that came directly from downtown Columbus, as well wise move that enabled the firm to ride the railroad technology wave.Not only were railroads became the principal artery of a large working-class residential and commercial district serving of the time expanding rapidly, they also were moving quickly from the dangerous and The car lines enabled workers from beyond walking distance to find jobs at South End the steel plants and west of the glass plant, these areas quickly filled in with single-and purpose at that time was to carry traffic to and from the rural areas and small villages south NPS Form 10-900-a Page Section number NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Section number - The Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company, as it was known then, soon ran out of space assembled land in the South End, between High Street and Parsons Avenue, south of the Toledo & Ohio Central and east of the Hocking Valley railroad tracks.
With much fanfare and news coverage, Buckeye's first "pour" in the new facility was on October 14, 1902. The news was important not just because the new plant had opened; it also was the point at which Buckeye switched from iron to steel as its primary product, a technological change that would ensure its future prosperity. Soon re-named the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, the firm grew quickly; behalf of the welfare of its employees, practicing its own brand of"welfare capitalism," and it became a permanent South End fixture. Buckeye's employment peaked in the World War II years production efficiencies have held employment at the plant below 1,000 in recent times, but Worthington Industries, the plant still produces railroad couplers as it did nearly a century ago, as well as other railroad industry products such as bolsters and sideframes for rail car wheelsets.
Tosheff's: Background History Using city directories and Sanborn fire insurance maps, one can trace the physical evolution of the nearby Steelton commercial district as Buckeye Steel evolved and grew. As the early 20th century progressed, the street changed from residential to commercial as clusters of frame houses district's rapid increase in its residential population and that population's need for commercial The Tosheffs building represents the street's transition from a rural to an urban character. It occupies lots 114, 115, and 116 of the 20th Century Addition, one of many South End plats, located on the west side of Parsons Avenue just north of the bridge over the Toledo & Ohio largely residential. The 11 lots of the 20th Century Addition contained a brick commercial (8-86) enterprises to satisfy the needs of daily living.
Continuation Sheet and dropped after that, but it was still over 1,000 in the early 1950s. Changing markets and gave way to one-and two-story brick commercial blocks. This was a direct response to the National Register of Historic Places among the city's ten largest employers in 1918. The company became known for its efforts on Buckeye Steel Castings has survived as the only major steel plant in Columbus.Now a part of Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel knuckle" coupler still in use today. employment went from just over 400 on opening day to over 2,000 by 1916. Buckeye was at its downtown site and sought a new plant location.Between1899 and 1902 the firm Central (later Conrail) tracks.
As late as 1910 this southern part of Parsons Avenue was still outmoded "link-and-pin" method of coupling cars to the safer and more efficient "automatic Page United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Section number building on lot 111 (at the north end, on the corner of Barthman Avenue). The next two lots, frame house on it, probably the recently-demolished one attached to the rear of #1943 Parsons; lots 115 and 116 were empty. Lots 117 through 121 contained four frame houses and one By 1920 the lots had been considerably built up. Lots 111, 112, and 113 each contained a and lots 117 through 121 each contained a frame house. It was about this time that George Tosheff came to Parsons Avenue.
By 1918, as indicated by city directories, he had opened a restaurant at 1935 Parsons, on lot 112, with his residence built, but what would become the Tosheff's building just to the south would not be built for another two years. By 1923 the future Tosheff's building had been completed for three years and housed several businesses, including a jeweler, a barber, a men's clothing store, and a City directories and Sanborn maps from the 1920s to the 1940s paint a vivid picture of the commercial life along Parsons Avenue. The street extended from East Broad Street on the north to beyond the rail lines on the south; the commercial area was confined to the area north of the tracks and included street numbers from 1 to 2200. In the period between about 1920 these, 23 were located north of Woodrow Avenue, in the range of street numbers from 1 to - about 1750.
From Woodrow south, however, there were 24 restaurants in the range of street such as mills and railroads, that would have provided a significant customer base. both were related, as is explained below, and were nearly adjacent to each other in the block on the west side of Parsons south of Barthman Avenue. As with the restaurants, the hotels' location was explained by their proximity to the railroads and mills, a principal source of their Page clientele. Continuation Sheet billiards hall. 112 and 113, were empty except for a frame building at the rear of #112. Lot 114 had a National Register of Historic Places Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel empty lot. numbers between 1750 and 2200.
This much greater density of restaurants was easily hotel on the second floor.There were only two hotels in the entire length of Parsons Avenue; brick commercial building;lots 114,115,and 116 contained the existing Tosheff's building; explained: the south end of the street--Steelton --was closest to the places of employment, The Tosheff's building contained a restaurant (and other businesses) on the first floor and a and 1949,there were 47 restaurants along Parsons from Broad Street to the railroad tracks.Of above the restaurant. At this time, the three buildings on lots 111,112,and 113had been (8-86) National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH The Tosheff's building was built in 1920, the heyday of Parsons Avenue's commercial life.
For nearly five decades, from 1920 to 1965, the building was intimately identified with operated his restaurant in it from the late 1920s until about World War II; at that time he sold the restaurant but retained ownership of the building. Tosheff also operated the second floor hotel from the late 1920s until he sold the building in 1965. possibly his port of entry was Philadelphia. At the time of the census, his wife, Sophia, was 25 years old, she also was from Macedonia, and her native tongue was Bulgarian. According arrived); it is unknown when they married. Tosheff did not live in Columbus at the time of the 1910 census, and he appears in the city directories for the first time in 1913.
At that time, he was shown as operating a restaurant at 167 North Third Street in the downtown area of Columbus; he lived at 175-1/2 North Fifth building just north of the nominated building, and the street numbers appear to have shifted slightly when the nominated building was built in 1920, when 1943-1/2 must have been Parsons, above his restaurant; interestingly, Sophia is shown as living at 1943-1/2, perhaps 1926 the upper floor of the nominated building had become the South End Hotel Annex, owned by Tosheff, and between 1928 and 1930, Tosheff moved his restaurant to #1943-45 men's furnishings store and a grocery. Shortly after this, by 1935, the entire upper floor of Macedonia, his native language was Bulgarian, and he came to the United States in 1902.
(8-86) Continuation Sheet Though the information is not clear, Tosheff appears to have been naturalized in Pennsylvania; of the census (January 1, 1920), placing his birth year at about 1886. He was born in National Register of Historic Places By 1924,Tosheff had opened the South End Hotel above his restaurant at 1935 Parsons. By Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel re-numbered 1939). The 1920 census showed Tosheff living in rented space at 1935-1/2 step.His restaurant occupied only the northern third of the building.Other tenants included a George Tosheff, an immigrant restaurant owner and hotel operator. He built the building and Street.By 1918, Tosheff was running a restaurant and offering furnished rooms in Steelton at be on-site.The census showed 37 boarders at that location.
because she managed the rooming house(which was located over a retail store) and needed to United States Department of the Interior 1935 and 1943-1/2Parsons Avenue (the 1943-1/2 address appears to have referred to the to the census, George Tosheff could read and write but his wife could not. She did not come The 1920 federal census tells at least some of George Tosheff's story.He was 34 at the time to the U.S.until 1911,when she would have been about 16 (the same age as Tosheff when he NPS Form 10-900-a Section number - Parsons, in the nominated building where the "Tosheff's" sign still survives in the tiled front Page NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service the building became known as Tosheff's Hotel, and the former South End Hotel just to the north, above where Tosheff had previously operated his restaurant, had disappeared from the listings.
By 1950, Tosheff had left the restaurant business, but the hotel continued to operate name was associated with the still-operating hotel until at least 1974. By 1975 it was called the Oasis Hotel, and by 1980 the second floor hotel space was vacant. In recent years it has operated as a rooming house but has been vacant for at least five years. Tosheff's obituary has not been found, and nothing is known of his life after he sold the hotel Bensenville, Illinois (suburban Chicago) in 1976, but that person's birthdate is given as 1893, which disagrees with the 1886 birthdate suggested in the 1920 census for the Columbus indicated that that person knew of no connection to Columbus, Ohio. There are no Tosheffs in overnight and even longer-term stays, serving something of a rooming house function; the tenants no doubt patronized the restaurant downstairs.
Joe Gartin, who has been in business on Parsons Avenue since 1929, recalls George Tosheff and the hotel. Gartin did not know the railroad crew members by name, but he confirms that "there was a lot of them." The crews were primarily from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), which had a division point at around a hundred miles apart. Crews bringing coal trains from Russell, Kentucky, the next duty at Parsons while other crews took the coal trains on to Toledo and would then return to Russell on empty trains. Once off duty, according to Gartin, they stayed at Tosheff's, the only nearby hotel. With the arrival of diesel locomotives in the 1950s, Gartin recalls, the Steel also stayed at the hotel, but in much smaller numbers.
The Tosheff's building also is significant for its association with the community of immigrant (8-86) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places division point south, were very numerous on the C&O; the Russell-based crews would go off nearby Parsons Yard. Division points were where train crews changed and usually were the Columbus area today. railroad ceased housing its crews there. In addition, Gartin indicated that workers at Buckeye United States Department of the Interior Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Tosheff.A telephone interview with a surviving Tosheff family member in the Chicago area under his name.Even though Tosheff sold the building and left the hotel business in 1965,his crews diminished in size and number but still stayed at the hotel.
It is now known when the in 1965.Social Security Administration records cite a George Tosheff as having died in During its operation, the hotel was popular among railroaders and industrial workers for Hungarians that lived just to the building's north and west.Just as it is not thought of as an Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Section number - Page - 9 industrial city, Columbus also is not generally considered a city with a significant foreign-born OMB Approval No 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH century, the city had a diverse population that included both African American migrants from about these immigrant groups, the city's eastern European population, which was primarily Hungarian, is much less well known.
As in other cities, immigrants to Columbus who shared nationalities or ethnic backgrounds tended to cluster together in enclaves. By the peak of immigration about the time of World War I, the Germans, the largest of all the immigrant groups, lived in the northern portion of the South End, north of Thurman Avenue all the way to the south edge of the downtown core, North High and North Fourth streets, below about Fifth Avenue, and southward to the north edge of the downtown core; some also lived on St. Clair Avenue near the Pennsylvania in the northeastern portion of downtown. The city's black population clustered northeast of downtown, on East Long Street and Mount Vernon Avenue, as well as on the east side above Eastern Europeans, primarily of Hungarian heritage, gathered in the far south end.
They were triangle was Parsons Avenue, and the south was just north of Hosack (about a block south of the area around the Tosheff's building, closest to places of employment such as the railroads, Buckeye Steel, and Federal Glass. Nearly the entire neighborhood from Parsons to High Street in the far South End was Hungarian, with a few Romanians and Italians interspersed. In addition, there was an isolated cluster of black residents along the south edge of the Hungarian section, squeezed in between Hosack Street and the T&OC Railroad (no standing structures through 1910, the same time period in which the steel and glass industries of the South End were established and began to grow. Some of the earliest Hungarians were recruited from predominating.
(8-86) National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel the south and European immigrants of several nationalities.While historic districts such as Hungarian immigrants began arriving in Columbus about 1900. Immigration levels increased Railroad shops. The Irish population clustered around St. Patrick's Church on Grant Avenue Livingston Avenue; and there was another cluster on the far west side in the Hilltop area. remain in this area). One study noted some 19 nationalities in this area, with Hungarians and eastward from the Scioto River to Parsons Avenue.The Italian population lived between the Tosheff s building),extending nearly to High Street to the west.
Thus the triangular German Village and Italian Village have raised the general level of awareness in Columbus located in a triangular area west of Parsons Avenue and south of Frebis.The east edge of the immigrant population..In fact, during much of the 19th century and into the early 20th OM8 ApprovalNo1024-0018 Section number - Hungarian neighborhood grew larger from north to south, with the greatest concentration in Page National Park Service existing immigrant populations in the Hocking Valley Coalfield in southeastern Ohio; others later came directly from Europe. Columbus was 1,574, according to the U.S. Census of that year. 966 of these were foreign-born, a number that had declined by almost 200 in a decade due to out-migration from the area and to the decision of some to return to Europe during World War I.
Columbus's Hungarian population always was small in absolute numbers, and it followed the typical immigrants between about 1900 and World War I; a sudden drop-off in immigration during and after the war, as public attitudes and national policies shifted against immigrants; and a This pattern can be seen in some of the employment figures at one South End industry. In Native-born Americans also were immigrants to Columbus at this time, primarily from the Appalachian regions of states such as West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as from Ohio's noted, for example, that in 1940 between 20% and 22% of its employees were from West Virginia and Kentucky. The company actively recruited workers there, among both blacks and whites.
In the half-century since then, migration to Columbus from Appalachia has continued, even in the face of reduced industrial employment opportunities in the South End and the shift of such employment from the South End to other areas of the city outside the downtown area. The South End's residential areas remain densely populated, with a high proportion of its The Tosheff's building was built at what would have been the peak of Hungarian population it housed, at various times, the restaurants, bars, clothing stores, barber shops, billiard halls, Continuation Sheet 1925, 80 of 1,000 (8%) employees at Buckeye Steel Castings were Hungarian. In 1910, English language classes. Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel United States Department of the Interior residents having either a first-or second-generation Appalachian background. population as they became assimilated.
Appalachian counties.As the proportion of foreign-bom workers at places such as Buckeye gradual diffusion of immigrants in the U.S.out of their enclaves and into the general National Register of Historic Places numbers in Columbus.It served the Steelton area's Hungarian population due to the fact that Steel declined after 1920,that of migrants to Columbus from Appalachia increased.Buckeye noticesin several languages, and among its welfare efforts for employees were citizenship and the ratio had been 300 out of 1,500,or 20%.
The company posted safety signs and other Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Page - At the time the Tosheff's building was constructed in 1920, the Hungarian population of pattern of early 20th century southern and eastern European immigration: a rapid increase in (8-86) Section number 8 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH and groceries necessary to the daily life of any population. The building had an even more direct link to the Hungarian community due to the fact that, according to city directories, the Hungarian Weeklies were published in the building during the 1930s. Joe Gartin, the long-time Parsons Avenue businessman, recalls Hungarian workers from Buckeye Steel Castings boarding at two rooming houses along Parsons Avenue between Hosack and the railroad.
He also referred to the area just north of Tosheffs as "Hungarian Village," and to a grocery on Parsons south of Innis as Saturday it was just like going to a mall today." The prosperity of Steelton lasted into the years after World War II, after which it entered a long period of decline -- a decline felt in many parts of the city as jobs moved out into new suburbs, often followed by residents and by the local businesses. The industrial jobs that fueled the economic health of Steelton have not disappeared entirely, but there definitely are fewer industrial jobs than in the past, and the widespread ownership of automobiles after World War II meant that people could drive from all over the city to South End jobs, people without any real link to the Steelton neighborhood. Similarly, South End residents can drive to almost any job anywhere in the city.
The paradoxical result has been that Steelton's residential areas remain full, active, and vital, but the commercial district at the south end of Parsons Avenue has undergone significant decline. The once solid rows of early 20th century commercial buildings along the avenue, as well as many of the single-family homes interspersed among the commercial structures, often have given way to vacant lots or to new free-standing commercial structures surrounded by parking and unrelated to the neighborhood's historic fabric. Surviving historic commercial structures in most cases have undergone both disinvestment and various renovations that have removed historic materials and replaced them with incompatible new treatments; the level of integrity among the surviving historic buildings of Steelton generally is low.
The Tosheffs building, however, survives today with a high level of integrity and is an excellent representative of the early 20th century transition of southern Parsons Avenue into a commercial district serving the Steelton area. Its significance lies in the fact that it housed both a restaurant, a business type that historically was clustered at the south end of Parsons Avenue, and a hotel, of which it is one of only two examples that existed along Parsons Avenue. In addition, there was a direct connection between South End industry and the Tosheffs building: both Buckeye Steel workers and off-duty railroaders patronized the restaurant and either lived in or (in the case of the railroaders) stayed over at the hotel.
The Tosheffs building likewise had a direct link to the Hungarian immigrant neighborhood of Steelton, not only because the people there would have National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet "The Melting Pot." Gartin said that "Parsons Avenue was the shopping center. On Friday and Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Section number _ 8 OMB Approval No 1024-0018 Page (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH publication of the Hungarian Weeklies. There is little likelihood that a historic district in the Steelton area could be nominated to the National Register, because of the loss of older buildings and the extent of alterations made to many of the surviving buildings.
The Steelton area, however, could lend itself to a Multiple documentation and recognition of the ethnic/immigration and development history of the South End, which to date has not been well covered. In the meantime, the Tosheff building stands out among its neighbors because of its association with two important categories of Steelton-area economic activity; with a long-time Parsons Avenue businessman of immigrant European of economic activity at a time when the Steelton district was a unique Columbus neighborhood (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Property Documentation.
This would present the opportunity to provide much-needed Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel patronized the businesses housed in the building, but also because it was the headquarters for well-preserved early 2Oth century architecture.The Tosheffs building represents the peak years Section number Page - OMB ApprovalNo 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a Page heritage;with Steelton's Hungarian immigrant population; and also because of its relatively National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Blackford, Mansel G. "Scientific Management and Welfare Work in Early Twentieth Century Columbus City Directories, various dates. Hunker, Henry L. Columbus, Ohio: The Industrial Evolution of a Commercial Center. Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1953. McKenzie, R.D. "The Neighborhood: A Study of Local Life in the City of Columbus, Ohio." The American Journal of Sociology, September, 1921.
Personal interview, with Joe Gartin, January 21, 2000. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. New York City: The Sanborn Map Company, various dates. Taylor, William Alexander. Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, Bibliography (8-86) Ohio: Columbus Neighborhood Design Assistance Center, 1987. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Columbus Neighborhood Design Assistance Center.The South Side:A History. Columbus, vol 1. Chicago and Columbus:The S.J.Clarke Publishing Co.,1909. United States Census manuscript records, State Library of Ohio Snorf, Sue. A Sociological Study of the Hungarian Settlement in Columbus. Master's Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1925.
United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No 1024-0018 Section number 9 Page - American Business: The Buckeye Steel Castings Company." Ohio History, n.d. City of Columbus Building Regulations Department, building cards, various dates. NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 593 S. Fifth Street Winter, 1999 (1-9); Summer, 2000 (10-13); Fall, 2000 (14-15) Looking southwest at east elevation. Photo Log Photographer Looking east along north wall of one-story wing toward non-contributing residential Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. structure (now demolished) behind north end of building. The following information applies to all photos: Property Name Looking east at west elevation, with one-story hotel wing in foreground.
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number (8-86) Date of Photos Jeffrey Darbee Photo Numbers and Views City, County, State Detail of east elevation ornamentation on upper floor. Detail of building name in north storefront entry. United States Department of the Interior Tosheffs Restaurant and Hotel Looking east from rear of first floor commercial space. Looking west toward rear of first floor commercial space. Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Columbus, OH 43206 Location of Negatives OME Approval No 1024-0018 Page - NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Section number - Looking south along east elevation, showing detail of completed storefronts and prism glass transoms. Looking east in second floor hotel corridor toward east wall of building.
Photo Looking south along east side of Parsons Avenue, opposite Tosheff's building. Photo Log, cont. Continuation Sheet Looking northwest at east elevation, showing completed storefronts. National Register of Historic Places Looking north along Parsons Avenue, showing east side of street at right. in center of photo. Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel (8-86) Looking south along west side of Parsons Avenue; Tosheffs building is at left center. Looking north along west side of Parsons Avenue;Tosheff's building is OMBApprova1No1024-0018 Log Page - Page National Park Service Columbus, Franklin Co., OH The property consists of Lots #114, 115, and 116 of the 20th Century Addition to the Plat of Verbal Boundary Justification Page Section number Continuation Sheet Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel period of significance.
National Register of Historic Places The nominated property includes the three land parcels on which the Tosheff's Restaurant and Verbal Boundary Description the City of Columbus, Ohio. Hotel building is located and constitutes all of the land associated with the property during its United States Department of the Interior OMBApprova1No1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 102-0018 Section number - MAP OF COLUMBUS, OHIO RACIAL, NATIONAL, AND INDUSTRIAL LOCALITIES Scale of Miles Industrial Areas -....Settlement Hause --- Ward Boundaries 3.Ward Numbers Columbus, Ohio Industrial Districts, 1918 A Steelton District B Scioto River District D Jeffrey Manufacturing Co.
District Continuation Sheet LEGEND Page Tosheff's Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel Columbus, Franklin Co., OH National Register of Historic Places (8-86) Steelton National Park Service C Ralston Steel Car Co. District Columbus, Ohio," The American Journal of Sociology, September, 1921.
Source:R.D.McKenzie,"The Neighborhood:A Study of Local Life in the City of United States Department of the Interior Jewish Sections *+ Jtalian 1918 NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service and Hotel Page Tosheff's Tosheff's Restaurant Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior Sanborn Map Co., 1922 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH Section number _Map Ohio Aura (8-86) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: N PERIOD: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./ CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE REJECT DATE RETURN DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 2/02/01 REVIEWER 3/20/01 3/02/01 PDIL: OTHER: NAME: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: Bntered in the DATE OF 45TH DAY: Natonal Register APPEAL: N N SLR DRAFT: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Franklin PROPERTY NATIONAL: Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel VACCEPT COLUMBUS, FRANKLIN CO., ON PNOTO 3 6 PHOTO 7 COLUMBUS, FMANKLN CO., OH COLUMBUS, EMMKUN CO., OH THRIFT STORE OUTLET MATTRESS For Sale 28-2471 669 0811 M 5 SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS, OH UNITED STATES 330400 SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) OHIO-FRANKLIN CO.
( State Route DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MATTHEW D. HABASH, PRESIDENT City Hall 90 West Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-9015 RICHARD W. SENSENBRENNER, PRESIDENT PRO TEM 614/645-7380 Fax 614/645-6164 JENNETTE B. BRADLEY CHIEF OF STAFF - Melinda T. Swan MICHAEL C. MENTEL CITY CLERK - Timothy McSweeney MARYELLEN O'SHAUGHNESSY DEPUTY CITY CLERK - Andrea Blevins, CMC FREDERICK L. RANSIER III CHARLETA B. TAVARES August 2, 2000 Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43221 the Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel at 1943-1953 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Tosheff's building represents the significant evolution along Parsons Avenue from a rural road in the late 19th century into a major residential and commercial thoroughfare I respectfully request the Board's favorable consideration of the Tosheff's Restaurant and Columbus. Sincerely, Columbus City Council MDH/cs Dale Benington, Chairman early in the 20t century. Listing this building on the National Register will be the start of As President of the Columbus City Council I would like to offer my support for listing Dear Chairman Benington: Hotel nomination to the National Register at its meeting on September 8,2000.
a new appreciation for the rich ethnic and industrial history of the South Side of REC'D BY OHPO AUG 0 72000 REC'D BY OHPO AUG 0 9 2000 August 7, 2000 Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Re: 1943-1953 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio I strongly favor the listing of the property located at 1943- 1953 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio in the National Register. reminder that our city's history, and the places that represent it, are I urge the Board to vote in favor of nomination of Tosheff's September 8, 2000. Frederick L. Ransier Susan Weaver, Exec. Director Community Housing Network Council Member appreciation for the rich ethnic and industrial history of the South Register listing of the Tosheff's building will be the start of new Side of Columbus.
Dear Chairman Bennington: Sineerely, Dale Bennington, Chariman Restaurant and Hotel to the National Register at its meeting on COLUMBUS CITY COUNCIL scarce resources that face many threats.I hope the National Recognition by the National Register will be an important Columbus, Ohio 65 PARSONS AVENUE COLUMBUS, OHIO 43215-3978 FAX 614-221-5614 August 7, 2000 Dale Benington, Chairman MATILDA WOODS-ALLEN United Way of Franklin County Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson St. Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 STUART SPALT Re: Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel 1943-1953 Parsons Avenue H. MACY FAVOR, JR., CPA, MBA, J.D., LL.M. DAVID J. BAKER The Columbus Neighborhood Design Assistance Center is PETER N. CASS Columbus City Council an important reminder that our city's history is not just IRIS A.
COOPER Key Bank, Columbus downtown and that the places in it are scarce resources that face TERRY D. FOEGLER, AICP many threats. We hope that National Register listing of the Tosheff's building will be the start of a new appreciation for the JAMES E. HISS, ASLA rich ethnic and industrial history of the south side of Columbus. The Ohio State University ROBERT LIVESEY, AIA I urge the Board to vote in favor of this nomination to the National Register at its meeting on September 8. Carriage Trade Realty BETSY MELESKI City of Columbus, Dept. of Trade & Dev DONALD PLANK Shuler, Plank, Morgan & Brahm HAMILTON J. TEAFORD cc: Susan Weaver Community Housing Network Supported by the Columbus Department of Trade and Development and the Ohio Urban University Program CENTER DESIGN ASSISTANCE NEIGHBORHOOD Secretary National Register.
Recognition by the National Register will be Executive Director Very truly yours, Vice President Dear Chairman Benington, NINA MASSERIA strongly in favor of listing Tosheffs Restaurant and Hotel in the Board of Trustees 614-221.5001 Colambus Urban Growth Corporation Campus Pariners Favor Legal Services MICHAEL O. GORDON Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce Broadview Mortgage Company Immediate Past President JOSEPH W. SULLIVAN, AIA Sullivan Bruck Architects, Inc. RECD BY OHPO AUG 0 8 2000 Treasurer MATTHEW D. HABASH, PRESIDENT City Hall 90 West Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-9015 RICHARD W. SENSENBRENNER, PRESIDENT PRO TEM 614/645-7380 Fax 614/645-6164 JENNETTE B. BRADLEY CHIEF OF STAFF - Melinda T. Swan MICHAEL C. MENTEL CITY CLERK - Timothy McSweeney MARYELLEN O'SHAUGHNESSY DEPUTY CITY CLERK - Andrea Blevins, CMC FREDERICK L. RANSIER III CHARLETA B.
TAVARES August 8, 2000 Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 I am writing to show my support of listing Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel, 1943-1953 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio in the National Register of Historic Places. history, and the places that represent it, are scare resources that face many threats. I hope I urge the board to vote in favor of the nomination of Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel to the National Register at its meeting on September 8th If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at 645- Charleta B. Tavares, Chair Health, Housing and Human Services Committee 8580. Sincerely, Columbus City Council appreciation for the rich ethnic and industrial history of Columbus' south side. Dale Benington, Chairman Dear Mr.
Benington: Recognition by the National Register will be an important reminder that our city's a National Register listing of the Tosheffs building will be the start of a new COLUMBUS CITY COUNCIL MATTHEW D. HABASH, PRESIDENT City Hall 90 West Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-9015 RICHARD W. SENSENBRENNER, PRESIDENT PRO TEM 614/645-7380 Fax 614/645-6164 JENNETTE B. BRADLEY CHIEF OF STAFF - Melinda T. Swan MICHAEL C. MENTEL CITY CLERK - Timothy McSweeney MARYELLEN O'SHAUGHNESSY DEPUTY CITY CLERK - Andrea Blevins, CMC FREDERICK L. RANSIER III CHARLETA B. TAVARES August 10, 2000 Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 I am strongly in favor of listing the Tosheff Restaurant and Hotel located at 1943-1953 are scarce resources that face many threats.
I hope that the National Register listing of the Tosheff's building will be the start of a new appreciation for the rich ethnic and industrial history of the South Side of Columbus. I urge the Board to vote in favor of listing the Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel to the National Register at its meeting on September 8. Richard W. Sensenbrenner Sincerely, Dale Benington, Chairman Dear Chairman Benington: Parsons Avenue Columbus, Ohio on the National Register.Recognition of this property Columbus City Council Member by the National Register will be an important reminder of our city's history. Such places REC'D BY OHPO AUG 1 4 2000 - DOROTHY S. TEATER DEWEY R. STOKES August 15, 2000 Mr. Dale Benington, Chairman Ohio Historical Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43221-1030 Dear Mr.
Benington, and designation to preserve and protect the historical and cultural value of this facility As the nomination materials will identify, the Tosheffs Restaurant and Hotel dominated as a significant feature in the commercial and residential character of the Steelton area. Its prominence was well known and was central in the development of the surrounding commercial/industrial economy. The remaining structure(s) deserve to be preserved and reused in the interpretation of past eras. We are confident that the documentation for the petition of nomination will include extensive and elaborate information demonstrating the need for this facility is be on approves this nomination. Should you need any assistance from this Board, please do not hesitate to call on us.
WEB ADDRESS: www.co.FRANKLIN.OH.US/COMMISSIONERS/INDEX.HTM Commissioner Sincerely, President ARLENE SHOEMAKER Restaurant and Hotel on Parsons Avenue for the National Register of Historical Places.The Franklin County Board of Commissioners heartily support this nomination Community Housing Network and advocates that the Advisory Board accepts and the National Register of Historical Places.The board applauds the efforts of the AUG 1 8 2000 WITH GOD 373 SOUTH HIGH STREET FAX (614) 462-5999 REC'D BY OHPO Department of Trade and Development City of Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman Mark Barbash, Director August 23, 2000 Honorable Mayor Michael B. Coleman 90 West Broad Street Columbus, OH 43215 Tosheff's Hotel and Restaurant Dear Mayor Coleman: nomination of Tosheffs Hotel and Restaurant, located at 1943-53 Parsons Avenue, to C.
Gordon, Survey and National Register Manager, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, The HRC and the Columbus Historic Preservation Office staff gladly recommend the approval of the nomination of 1943-53 Parsons Avenue, known as Tosheffs Hotel and Restaurant, to the National Register of Historic Places. Assistant Historic Preservation Officer Stephen R. McClary, Planning Administrator Stephen C. Gordon, National Register Coordinator Jeffrey Darbee, nomination preparer Director's Office 50 W. Gay St 109 N. Front St 757 Carolyn Ave.
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