Nomination for Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building

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OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) RECEIVED United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Registration Form 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 Location street & number C not for publication n/a C vicinity city or town 071 zip code 45133 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ,request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places andmeets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Xmeets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant L nationally - statewide X locally. (L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification Jentered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other.

(expiain:) Date Hillsboro comments.) Highland Register. state National Register Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hercules Trouser Company Building Signature of certifying official/Title National Register of Historic Places In my opinion,the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.(See continuation sheet for additional NPS Form 10-900 135 North West Street This form is for use in nominating orrequesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional 1 hereby certify that the property is: Date/ot Action Ohiocode OH county - Highland Co., OH 5.

Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property - building(s) - public-local - public-State -site- - public-Federal - structure - object Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions 7.

Description poured concrete other/built up poured concrete structure Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) See continuation sheets Foundation roof Total Agriculture/Processing brick walls Vacant other Materials Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Other/Vernacular (Check as many boxes as apply) À private Noncontributing United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH This is a single-building nomination of the Highland Egg and Poultry Company building, located at 135 North West Street, just west of the central business district of Hilllsboro, the seat of Highland County, Ohio.

The building is also known as the Roads building, named for its builder and original owner, and as The Pants Factory, because the Hercules Trouser Company operated here between the 1930s and the 1980s. The building sits on a site that slopes sharply to the west toward the natural valley where at one time most of Hillsboro's industries, and the two railroads serving them, were located (photos 19 through 21). The built-up earthen ramp and concrete driveway area along West Street gives the The building is six by twelve bays and is an unadorned industrial structure with a concrete frame and brick exterior walls laid in common bond. It has a monitor roofline and parapet walls with tile copings.

In the monitor portion of the east elevation is a large datestone (photos 2 and 23) monitor, an elevator penthouse rises above the roof in the western portion of the building; there is stair runs from the third floor to ground level at the second floor adjacent to the building's southeast corner (photo 24). The third floor windows are original steel industrial sash on all elevations, set into segmental- arched openings. On the second floor, all but one of the windows on the north, west and south elevations have been replaced by paired single-sash side-by-side windows. To accommodate the arched openings remain intact. The two door and two window openings on the second floor east elevation, at the driveway, have a mix of older and newer materials, the windows having been replaced (photo 1).

An original transom survives above the newer doors of the main entrance, while much of the original material survives in the second doorway at the south end of this elevation. At the first floor level of the north, west, and south elevations, windows and doors likewise are a mix of original and altered materials. The north elevation (photos 3 and 4) is dominated by a modern garage door, flanked by a variety of altered doors and windows. The west elevation's first and appears that way on all its other elevations (photos 1 through 5, 22, and 26 through 30).

building's principal east elevation a two-story appearance, but in fact it is a three-story structure Continuation Sheet windows' small size, the original openings have been infilled with plywood, though the original an original tall square chimney at the northwest corner (photo 4); and a double-width metal fire marked"1916Jas.E.Roads"(the building's completion date was 1917). In addition to the National Register of Historic Places Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building NPS Form 10-900-a Page Section number - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OF floor is less altered, with two original windows and two bricked-in window openings. A glazed wood truck door survives at the south end of this elevation (photo 6).

It is older but may not be Roughly half of the south elevation is concealed by the sloping ground of the site (photo 5). Toward the west end of this elevation are some small windows and two original arched wood freight doors (photos 7, 18 and 25) that served the rail spur that once extended along this The interior of the building is simple and utilitarian in design (photos 8 through 17). Except for a floors at both the first and second floor levels, while the third floor has slender, straight concrete columns supporting a grid of concrete joists and coffers. The interior walls are exposed brick, and the floors are poured concrete. characteristic of early 20th century industrial buildings, with little ornamentation beyond its brick- arched openings and large datestone.

Though there have been alterations to windows and doors, these remain minor, and the building has a high level of integrity of design and materials. Page openings. elevation. Continuation Sheet original, since it is framed by a steel lintel and not the brick arches typical of all the original National Register of Historic Places Section number small infill office area in the southeast corner of the first floor, it has large open spaces, with a The Highland Egg and Poultry Company building exhibits the simple but substantial construction large freight elevator toward the rear (west). Concrete "mushroom" columns support the upper CMB Agorova/ No 10240018 PS Form 10-900- Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building 8. Statement of Significance

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Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates Criteria Considerations -A owned by a religious institution or used for religious Significant Person (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) - B removed from its original location.

- C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Information not found Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

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Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) - Other State agency - Federal agency - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) - Local government has been requested J University - previously listed in the National Register - Other - previously determined eligible by the National Register - designated a National Historic Landmark - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record Primary location of additional data Q State Historic Preservation Office 1917 Architecture Bibliography purposes.

Architect/Builder National Register listing) Property is: Name of repository: Highland Co., OH Cultural Affiliation (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than one acre UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Zone Easting Northing 274280 4342420 - See continuation sheet. Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification 11. Form Prepared By Jeffrey T. Darbee/Historic Preservation Consultant organization Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. _ date April, 2001 street & number_593 S.

Fifth Street _ state_OH _ zip code _43206 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) L.W. Associates street & number 184 W. Main St. telephone740-983-4566 city or town Ashville aperwork Reduction Act Statement: This informationis beingcollected forapplications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503 (Rev.

10-90) Photographs telephone_614-221-0358 Continuation Sheets Additional Documentation name/title NPS Form 10-900 Highland Co., OH Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Maps city or town Columbus Representative black and white photographs of the property. gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief OMB No. 1024-0018 OMB Approvai No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH The Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building is qualified for listing in the National Register industrial building, that has all but disappeared from Hillsboro, a rural county seat in a primarily important industrial base that once existed in Hillsboro.

type: simple, unadorned masonry bearing-wall construction; a concrete "mushroom" column and floor system; industrial-type steel windows; a monitor roof for light and ventilation; and a Although no documentation of the original processes in the building have come to light, they may be inferred from its architecture. The street-level vehicle doors on the east elevation, for example, set back from the street behind a large paved apron, facilitated the arrival of raw products by wagon and truck. These materials would have been taken to the upper floor by the freight elevator for processing; the double-wide exterior stairs at the southeast corner indicate that the natural light from the large windows and monitor roof. Finally, the freight elevator carried finished products to the lower level for storage and shipment through the railroad freight car loading doors.

The partial underground location and fewer windows would have helped keep products As is noted in the discussion below, other older industrial buildings survive in Hillsboro, but the integrity, and has undergone the least amount of alteration. Downtown Hillsboro is on a hilltop, its most visible buildings being the Highland County Courthouse and Bell's Opera House (both NR-listed). Just west of the downtown business Main Street, the land remained too high to accommodate any railroad tracks, but north of that street there was sufficient flat land for the N&W and B&O to establish terminal facilities for their Setting circulation plan/interior layout reflecting product and process flow.

second floor had large numbers of people processing the incoming products, their work aided by In addition, the building has a high level of integrity and retains important characteristics of its Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building is the best-preserved, has the highest level of Page 3 under Criterion C. The building represents a property type, the early 2Oth century all-masonry National Register of Historic Places district, the land slopes steeply downward into a valley about a quarter-mile wide. South of West branch lines. cool prior to shipping. Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building NPS Form 10-900-a agricultural area.

The building is significant as a physical remnant of the small-scale but (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Because of area topography, both lines approached Hillsboro from the west and ran parallel to each other on the city's west side. The B&O ran north of the N&W, then crossed it and turned southward toward its terminus on the north side of West Main Street and west of Railroad Street. The N&W continued in an east-west direction, establishing its terminal facilities in the area west of West Street and north of McDowell. Thus by the late 1870s Hillsboro had two independent connections to the national rail system, a fact which spurred local commercial and industrial development.

This occurred on the city's immediate west side, in close proximity to the rail facilities and fed by a network of spurs and sidings that permitted the parking of freight cars literally at the doors of various enterprises. Hillsboro and Its Railroads Hillsboro was laid out in 1807 as the seat of Highland County and soon became the county's largest community. It benefited fairly early from the railroad boom in Ohio, having the good fortune to be designated the terminus of a branch line of one of the major cross-state routes. The Hillsborough & Cincinnati Railroad (using the old spelling of the community's name) was organized in 1852 and consolidated with the Marietta & Cincinnati in 1854; the latter line by 1857 and Cincinnati; it passed several miles north of Hillsboro.

The branch to Hillsboro was completed about the same time, a fairly rare circumstance in a period when railroads strove to complete trunk lines between major cities rather than branches to isolated endpoints. This was perhaps a measure of the future prospects the railroad's promoters anticipated for Hillsboro. The line would eventually become part of the Baltimore and Ohio South-Western, a component of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) system. What was also unusual was that Hillsboro would be served by another railroad, another branch line of a major trunk line railroad. The Columbus & Maysville Railroad, later to be reorganized as the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia and eventually consolidated with the Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W), crossed southern Ohio between Portsmouth and Cincinnati, passing south of Hillsboro.

It opened in 1879, the same year the line's branch to Hillsboro was completed, thus National Register of Historic Places (8-86) NPS Form 10.900-a Section number giving the community two competing railroads by which to ship goods. had completed a route across southern Ohio between Parkersburg, Virginia (later West Virginia) Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approvai No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Section number Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH NEW ANTIOCH - HUGHS OMILL GROVE .- -WEST 4ESTER: TNEW VIENNA MIDLAND CIIY ST.MARTINS S TON BELFAST O ~ VERA GRUZ - LITTLE TON EAST DANVILLE - FAIRFA O NEW HARMONY -O BUCK * NEW RICHMOND SALT AIR WALKERS MILLS OCHERRY FO O FAIRVIEW S SHEEPRUNS HIETTO L.

This 1909 railroad map, published by the State of Ohio, shows Hillsboro at the upper right center and depicts how its two branch lines connected to their respective main lines - at Blanchester on the Baltimore & Ohio, and Sardinia on the Norfolk & Western.

MOWRYSTOWN TAYLORSVILLE WILMINGTON CEDRON CUBA YNCHBURG FARMERS CHILO SHACKLETOWN HOLLOWTOWN BETHEL SAMANTHA RIPLEY BENTONVILLEO SARDINIA SMITHS MORROW GEORGETOWN MONTEREY BER HICKS Continuation Sheet BUTTERWORTH National Register of Historic Places OMORRISVILLE RIDGE MOSCOW FOSTERS FIVE MILE 1-8-.10 °MAUD:, 4 MASON KINGS MILLS MILTOMSON : .-O DODSONVILLE - BUFORD O ECKMANSVILI IN FEESBURG ANCIENT BROWNTOWN Page HIGHLAND LINDALE BLAIRVILLE OGDEN KENTUOKY (8-86) STOKES HAMERSVILLE JEOWENSVILLE CENTEROINT WIGGONSVILLE PISGAN HAGEMANS NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH This map shows how Hillsboro's rail lines entered the city.

The more northern of the two, which entered from the left side of the map, was the Baltimore and Ohio branch from Blanchester, while the line from the south was the Norfolk & Western branch from Sardinia. They ran parallel, with the B&O on the north, until the N&W crossed the B&O in the vicinity of Willetsville Road on the west side of the city. Continuing parallel to each other, the lines turned east until separating near Holmes Street. The B&O turned south to its terminal, while the N&W turned slightly north to reach its terminal.

Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building OMB Approval No 1024-0018 CMB Approval No 1021-0019 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Section number Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Historic atlas and Sanborn insurance maps illustrate the evolution of Hillsboro's rail network and the industries dependent on it. The 1871 atlas, for example, shows the B&O line curving in from the north and west (the N&W line had not yet been built), with a passenger depot and freight facilities east of the tracks at the corner of Railroad and West Main streets.

(These early railroad buildings have been demolished, but an early 20th century B&O depot survives, relocated from its original site to south of West Main Street.) In the downtown area, the atlas showed no spurs to local industries at this time; there was one unidentified rail customer about a half-mile west of the neither had freight spurs. At the time, rail service was primarily confined to passengers and small By 1905, however, things had changed considerably, and Hillsboro's industrial base was well established. The Sanborn maps for that year showed several industrial enterprises, most of them with railroad freight spurs that supplied fuel, brought in raw materials, shipped out finished products, or some combination of the three.

From West Main Street north, Hillsboro's west side industrial complex included the following: 1) the B&O passenger depot (east of the tracks) and freight house (west of the tracks) on the north side of Main at Railroad Street; 2) the Hillsboro Light & Fuel Company's ice factory and electric light plant (photos 31 through 34), south of Beech Street, east of Railroad Street and just north of the B&O passenger depot (this was served well); 3) the Richards & Co. flour mill, located just south and east of Hillsboro Light & Fuel, a small grain mill with no direct rail service; 4) the Hillsboro Gas Company and the Globe Chair Company, located side-by-side at the southwest corner of Railroad and West North streets. A B&O spur served a "coal house" that probably provided fuel for the gas company; the chair company probably loaded freight cars on the same spur, out in the open air; 5) C.S.

Bell & (photos 35 through 37). This was the largest of any of the industries in Hillsboro in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and had a national market. It was served by a spur on the south side of the east-west N&W line and was located at the northwest corner of Railroad and McDowell streets; 6) the Charles Whisler Lumber Company, located west of North West Street and south of rather than producing it on site; the N& W's freight house (which probably also housed its modest passenger facilities) was immediately north of the lumber yard; 7) the C.B. Gross Foundry and freight shipments. (8-86) the N& W tracks, served by a spur track.

This firm likely shipped in and sold finished lumber Industrial Context Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Company, dating to 1855,a machine shop and foundry which made, appropriately enough, bells downtown area.There was a grain mill and a machine shop just east of the railroad depot, but NPS Form 10-900-a Page - by a B&O spur that was later extended to serve the Highland Egg & Poultry Company building as United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Section number . Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH : POULTRY HO The 1923 Sanborn fire insurance map showed the Highland Egg & Poultry Company grain bins, and the shared railroad spur. On the north, two houses and their outbuildings occupied what is today vacant land. Page Continuation Sheet N. WEST CMB Approval No.

102+-0018 building, including, on the south (left), the adjacent Whisler Grain Co. buildings, its HILLSBORO (8.86) CMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Machine Shop, located east of North West Street on the north side of the N&W tracks (photo 38 shows the grain elevator later built on this site). By 1923, the Sanborn maps showed that these various enterprises remained in operation, some of them having expanded or added new business lines, and that several new industrial operations had developed around the railroad network. Again working from West Main Street north, the changes grain elevator was built in 1918 along the east side of the B&O tracks and was served by an the Whisler Grain Company.

A second building had been built north of the first, and adjacent to it were three steel grain bins served by the extended Hillsboro Light & Fuel spur (photos 31 through 34); 3) on the north side of this extended spur, the J.E. Roads Poultry House, the nominated building, had been constructed in 1917; Whisler Grain and J.E. Roads shared the spur; 4) the Whisler Lumber Company had built a veneer mill on the south side of McDowell Street, opposite the lumber yard; 5) the N&W had moved its terminal facilities east of North West Street, having tracks and east of North West Street, the C.B. Gross foundry had become the Cline & Rooselot opened on the city's west side; see below). In addition to the concentration of industrial enterprises on the near west side of downtown Hillsboro, the city had another major rail-served industry outside the downtown. Chauncey B.

Gross had operated his foundry on North West Street for some time; in 1908 he joined with George Cooper and Walter Gross to form the Gross-Cooper Company, and the firm built a new plant at Fair and Elm Streets, about a half-mile northwest of the original foundry (photos 39 through 44). Gross-Cooper manufactured safes, bank vaults, and safe deposit boxes. In 1912 the plant was served by the B&O, just where it curved southward to enter downtown Hillsboro. By 1923 Gross-Feibel had an office building, a warehouse, a foundry, and two factory buildings at its west side site. West and West Beech streets was established in 1884 as Henry W. Wolfe & Co. Wolfe had been What would become the Highland Egg and Poultry Company at the southwest corner of North firm took in Jacob Feibel as a partner and changed its name to the Gross-Feibel Company.

The "house furniture" factory (Gross had probably moved out in 1908 when the firm's new plant National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet (8-86) in business since 1875in nearby Greenfield. The firm was purchased in 1895 by James E.Roads, included the following: 1) south of Globe Chair and Hillsboro Gas, the R.H.

Tolle & Company extension of the spur serving the chair and gas firms; 2) the Richards& Co.flour mill had become The Highland Egg& Poultry Company and Hercules Trouser Company NPS Form 10-900-a constructed a combined freight house and passenger depot south of the tracks; 6) north of the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH who continued the operation as a "produce house" handling poultry, butter, and eggs, as well as by-products such as feathers, furs, hides, and scrap metal; he established a branch in Hillsboro on West Walnut Street. Roads first called his firm the J.E. Roads Poultry Company and eventually Roads's business grew to the point that he needed a new facility, and in 1917 he completed the nominated building. It was located at the southwest corner of North West and West Beech produce items) in southern Ohio.

Roads's firm went bankrupt in 1932. At some point in the 1930s, the Hercules Trouser Company took over the building, and during World War II this firm had an extensive business supplying the military with clothing items. This operation survived until 1985, giving the building the local name of "The Pants Factory." Since then, the building has served as commercial space but is currently unused Current Context surviving historic industrial buildings. The tracks of both rail lines were removed some time ago; the only evidence of their having served the city includes overgrown rights-of-way, a few nearly buried rails along former spurs, and the B&O passenger depot, which was moved at some point from the north side of West Main Street to the south side and is currently in commercial use.

Some rail-served industrial structures survive: the main building of the Hillsboro Light & Fuel plant still stands, considerably altered, as do two grain bins and one building of the Whisler Grain Company. Some buildings formerly occupied by C.S. Bell & Company, which moved its operation to a new facility outside the city in 1959 but is no longer in operation, still stand at the northwest corner of Railroad and McDowell streets. These, too, have been extensively altered and are in use by the local school system as a bus facility. To the east, only the faint right-of-way of the N&W branch can be seen, with no evidence of the former terminal facilities.

The Whisler Continuation Sheet lumber yard and planing mill are gone, and the Gross foundry is currently the site of a feed and re-named it the Highland Egg and Poultry Company.The original building housing the firm has Today the Highland Egg and Poultry Company building is the best-preserved of Hillsboro's grain mill. National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Page been demolished. (8-86) streets and was known locally as the largest "storage building" (that is, the gathering point for the Section number - OMB Approval No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH The Gross-Feibel plant and Fair and Elm is less altered than the properties already described. It is currently occupied by a recycling firm and by a commercial tenant.

It has had some alterations, and what appears to be the oldest portion is in poor condition; the rest is in fair condition. historic downtown railroad-served industrial structures. It is substantially intact, despite window good representative of the time period when Hillsboro, which had a population of only 4,600 even in the prosperous 1920s, had a significant industrial base and was the locus of several types of economic activity -- raw material production and processing of farm-based and natural resource- based products, and metal-working and other high-value-added activities -- as well as regional contribution to the community's history, and because the building is a rare survivor of its type, the Hillsboro city directories, 1958-1980. Klise, J.W. State Centennial History of Highland County, Ohio. Owensboro, Kentucky: Cook & Sanborn Map Company. Insurance Maps of Hillsboro, Ohio.

New York City: Sanborn Map Company, 1905 and 1923. Bibliography Highland Egg and Poultry Company building deserves National Register listing. Highland County property records. Lake, D.J. Atlas of Highland County, Ohio. Philadelphia: C.O. Titus, 1871. and national distribution of finished products.The building's all-masonry construction -- brick Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places McDowell Publishers, 1980 (reprint of 1902 edition). and door alterations, and it has a high level of integrity of design and materials. The building is a The Highland Egg and Poultry Company building is by far the best preserved of Hillsboro's Ayers, Elsie Johnson.Hills of Highland. Springfield, Ohio: H.K. Skinner & Co.,1971.

walls and a poured concrete interior structure --represents state-of-the-art factory building NPS Form 10-900-a technology of the early 20th century, as locally interpreted in the Hillsboro setting.

For this Page (8-86) Section number _8, 9 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Verbal Boundary Description Situate in the County of Highland, State of Ohio, and City of Hillsboro, and bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Twenty-Eight (#128) of the original plat of the said Village of Hillsboro commencing at a point on the west line of West Street, forty-eight (48) feet south of the south line of Beech Street; thence westwardly parallel with Beech Street, and with the north lines of In-Lots 127 and 128, One Hundred and Ninety-Eight (198) feet to an alley; thence southwardly along the east line of said alley, seventy-one (71) feet to a point; thence eastwardly parallel with Beech Street ninety-nine (99) feet to the west line of In-Lot 127; thence southwardly along the west line of ninety-nine (99) feet to the west line of West Street; thence northwardly along the west line of This tract being the same premises described in a deed from G.S.

Miller, Sheriff of Highland County, Ohio to A.C. Prouty, dated March 28, 1932, and appearing of record in Deed Book 143, Tract 2: Being the south half of the north quarters of In-Lots No. 127 and 128 of said Village as described in a deed dated October 27, 1915, from Alice North, et al. to James E. Roads, recorded in Vol. 119, Page 942 of the Deed Records of said County, and in a deed from the Sheriff of said County to said James E. Roads dated September 2, 1916, recorded in Vol. 118, Page 644 of said Frank Wilson, Trustee, bearing date of March 31, 1934, and recorded in Vol.

146, Page 299 of Twenty-Seven and One Hundred and Twenty-Eight (127 and 128) in said Village fronting about twenty-five (25) feet on West Street so as to include the brick wall which separates said house from the one story brick building adjoining on South, being the line and running back westwardly This tract being the same premises described in a deed from J. Frank Wilson, Trustee, to A.C. Prouty dated March 15, 1935, and appearing of record in Deed Book 147, Page 579. records ,the first deed conveying 6/8 interest thereof, and the second deed 2/8 interest. Being the National Register of Historic Places the Deed Records of said County. Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Tract 3: Being the North half of the North Quarter of In-Lots Number One Hundred and West Street, eighty-one (81) feet to the place of beginning.

Tract 1:Being parts of In-Lots One Hundred Twenty-Seven(#127)and One Hundred same real estate described in a deed from H.U.Miller as Sheriff of Highland County, Ohio, to J. NPS Form 10-900- OMB ApprovaiNo :02-0018 In-Lot 127, parallel with West Street ten (10) feet; thence eastwardly parallel with Beech Street, page 338. OMB Approval No 1021-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 10, Photo Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH with Beech Street, full width of the front, One Hundred Ninety-Eight Feet (198) to an alley, being recorded in the Deed Records of Highland County, Ohio, Book 111, Page 130. Boundary Justification Egg & Poultry Company during the period of significance, including land occupied by the railroad spur south of the building and the currently vacant land north of the building.

For photos 1-18, the following information is the same for all photos: Photographer: Nancy Recchie 593 South Fifth Street Columbus, OH 43206 May, 2000 February, 2001 View of primary (east) elevation. Detail of datestone on east elevation. Looking southwest at east and north elevations. Looking southeast at north and west elevations. Address: Date: Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. NPS Form 10-900-a The boundaries described above incorporate all the land associated with operation of the Highland Photo Log Photographer: Jeffrey Darbee the same premises conveyed to Ellis Devitt by George Devitt by deed dated Feb. 1, 1911 and Section number Page (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Looking west along south elevation.

Detail view of freight door on rear (west) elevation. Detail of railroad spur freight doors on south elevation. Second floor interior, looking northeast from southeast corner. Second floor interior, view of concrete "mushroom" column. Second floor interior, freight elevator enclosure. Third floor interior, looking east under monitor roof. Third floor interior, looking northwest from southeast corner. Third floor interior, looking east from west end; elevator enclosure at right. First floor, view of freight elevator enclosure. Interior view of first floor freight door. Looking north along North West Street, with nominated building at left center. Looking west at east elevation, showing former "industrial valley" west of building. Looking west, with building at left. Valley once occupied by railroad is in right center, Looking northwest at east and south elevations.

with modern-day stockyards beyond and high school on far hill. Photo Third floor interior, looking west from northeast corner. Third floor interior, looking south from northwest corner. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet First floor interior, looking east from middle of building. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) Section number Log_ Page 14 OMB Approvai No 10240018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number . Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Detail of east elevation datestone. Detail of fire stair at southeast corner of building. Looking west along south elevation, from upper level near east elevation. Former Whisler Grain Company bins are in center. Rail spur served two arched freight doors at Looking southwest at north elevation. Looking southeast at north elevation; part of west elevation is on right.

Looking east along south elevation. Two original freight doors on south elevation were served by rail spur; former Whisler Grain Company bins are at right. Looking north from West Main Street. At right is alley between North West and Railroad streets. Former Whisler Grain Company building and bins are at right center, with Looking north, closer view of Hillsboro Light & Fuel plant on left, Whisler Grain building in center, nominated building's south elevation beyond Looking northwest along south elevation of former Hillsboro Light & Fuel Company View from alley behind nominated building, looking west along north side of Hillsboro Light & Fuel plant. Note abandoned rail spur, which once extended across alley (behind camera) to serve nominated building. Looking northwest from Railroad Street toward former C.S. Bell & Company buildings. plant.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places (8-86) Photo right center. Looking north along west elevation. Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Hillsboro Light & Fuel Company plant. Log Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building Section number Log Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH Looking northwest at westernmost C.S. Bell & Company building, probably enlarged former painting/pattern/storage building. Looking northeast at grain elevator on site of Gross foundry. North West Street is Looking north along west elevation of likely 1908 portion of Gross-Feibel plant. Looking south at north end of likely 1908 portion of Gross-Feibel plant, with newer additions on left. B&O spur ran along this side. former foundry building. distance. in foreground.

Continuation Sheet Photo National Register of Historic Places Looking northwest at Gross-Feibel complex's eastern end. Looking north at easternmost C.S. Bell & Company building, probably much-altered Looking west along south side of Gross-Feibel complex. Office building is at left in Looking north along Fair Street; what is likely the original 1908portion of plant is at left center behind trees. NPS Form 10-900-a Looking northeast along south elevation of Gross-Feibel office building. Original portion is at left, addition to right.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: OTHER : PERIOD PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE : N SLR DRAFT: N N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE TELEPHONE REJECT RETURN MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE PROPERTY 1/27/02 REVIEWER 12/14/01 1/29/02 RECOM./CRITERIA VACCEPT PDIL: Entered in the APPEAL: DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: NAME : National Register JNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOI STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Highland DATE OF PENDING LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: DATA PROBLEM: N 01001524 1/11/02 LESS THAN 5O YEARS: Antiques & Collectibles Old Pants Factory Mall MALL PASTS EMCTORY dillsboro, Aighland Co., OH Photo #1 JAS.E.ROADS Photo # Photo # 3 Hillsboro, Photo # 4 Photo # 5 Photo #b Photo # 7 Photo # 8 Photo #9 SATISFY Chesterfields Photo 0811 Photo # 12 Photo # 13 903 0841 N 5 Highland Egg Photo# 030841 Aighland c Photo# Photo # 17 Photo # 18 9030841 N 5 Photo # 20 8650841 Photo # 21 MALL OLD PANTS FACTORY Old Pants Factory Mall Photo Hzr JASEROADS 9110811 N5 Photo #24 Photo # 25 0811 Photo #27 Photo # 28 Photo # 29 Photo #30 Highland Enterprise Lumber Co.

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