Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested previously determined eligible by the National Primary location of additional data - State Historic Preservation Office J designated a National Historic Landmark - Other State agency recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - Federal agency 1921-1955 Register Architecture Bibliography Kubicki Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Applicable National Register Criteria Property is: Period of Significance for National Register listing) Significant Dates previously listed in the National Register THE OHIO THEATRE (Enter categories from instructions) Narrative Statement of Significance religious purposes.
G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance C a birthplace ora grave. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 4 The Ohio Theatre Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance The Ohio Theatre, built in 1921, is significant under Criterion A for its long and close historic southern and eastern European immigrants to its burgeoning heavy industries. Its population rose immigrant working classes. It was in Toledo's Polish Village neighborhood known as "Lagrinka" that a group of residents of Polish descent established an amusement company that built the Ohio Theatre. the theater building storefronts were also operated by residents of Polish descent serving he needs of the Lagrinka neighborhood.
Believed to be one of Ohio's four oldest surviving large urban movie picture theaters, the Ohio is also Although not as ornate as the picture palaces of the late 1920s, the Ohio, bridging the era of vaudeville and motion pictures, exhibits the nascent hallmarks of this distinctive building type. The architects of the Ohio, Stophlet and Stophlet, also designed the Lion House at the Toledo Zoo. At one downtown, and neighborhood theaters Ohio, Colony, State, Savoy and World [see historic photo]. Today the Ohio Theatreis the only extant pre-1940 neighborhood motion picture theater in Toledo built as a movie theatre and still operating as a movie theatre.
Still standing in its original location with much architectural integrity, and still operating in its intended function as a film and performing arts facility, The Ohio Theatre offers a unique glimpse into not only ' The Liberty Theater in Youngstown opened in 1918, followed by the Ohio and State Theaters in Cleveland in February 1921; Naylor, Great American Movie Theaters, p. 19. the ethnic community in which it resides.From its inception the building served as a neighborhood entertainment history of Toledo's "North End" from 1921-1955.During the first two decades of the 20th from 131,000 in 1900to 243,000 in 1920. Fraternal clubs, vaudeville halls, and theaters occupied integral roles in fulfilling the social, recreational and entertainment needs of the city's teeming lounges, and massive organ had replaced the smaller, more boxy nickelodeons and vaudeville halls.
time Toledo's theater list included the Paramount, Valentine, Rivoli, Strand, Pantheon and Palace American cinematic, social, and cultural history as well. The Theatre stands strong as the keystone of century Toledo ranked among the Midwest's fastest growing industrial cities, attracting thousands of significant under Criterion C as it represents an important place within the development of what the specific culture and history of its surrounding Polish Village and greater Toledo area but of NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 5 Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) its concentration of poles has maintained its ethnic heritage through annual productions by various Polish entertainers, including the Echoes of Poland, and the Polish American Concert Band. Formerly known as "Lagrinka Neighborhood", today heralded as the Lagrange Polish Village, the ethnic community that has allowed the Ohio Theatre to prosper and survive in Toledo, as the only still functioning neighborhood theatre house. The Ohio Theatre, portrayed in the enclosed 1920s block fifteen of those original theatre buildings still stand. Due in part to the development of multiplexes, the only the Valentine and Westwood Theatres still are functioning today.
The Valentine (1895; NR 1987), built before the motion picture era, today showcases a variety of large productions, concerts, House.Therefore, itis only the Ohio Theatre that is functioning as a neighborhood theatre. BACKGROUND HISTORY Incorporated in 1837, the City of Toledo was started with the joining of two villages: Vistula and Port of Ohio after the Battle of Fallen Timbers and/or the War of 1812, at which time American settlers its progress and decided to create his own town, naming it Vistula. As Toledo developed, so too did the burgeoning American film industry, The first known movie house in Toledo opened in 1903 in the 400block of Summit Street near the present day site of Levis Square. Known as the Theatorium, and owned by Roy Haddock, it was a nickelodeon-style theatre came to the area, and villages and towns started springing up along the Maumee River.
In 1817, the The Ohio Theatre photograph, illustrates the significance, by mere size, of the theatre on Lagrange Street. neighborhood theatres began to close or be converted for other uses. In Toledo, what once was a largest concentration of people of Polish ancestry. The Native Americans gave up their claim to most Port Lawrence Company was formed to buy land and turn it into the town of Port Lawrence, with the venture starting, going bankrupt, and later starting again. Major Benjamin Stickney was unhappy with with only 120 seats and limited to the showing of 20-minute shorts. Within five years, ten more small Lawrence.The Polish immigrants made Lagrange Street and "Lagrinka"the center of Toledo's NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page 6 Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) Lyric, Gem, Luna, Hippodrome, Royal, Princess and Priscilla. Most of these would last only a few converted back to retail stores, shops etc. During the 1910s and early 1920s, the movie houses grew steadily larger. When the Princess Theatre at 314-318 St. Clair Street opened in an old Vaudeville theatre in 1912, it hailed as Toledo's contrast to the 20-minute nickelodeons. It had a seating capacity of 900.
But until1920, freestanding theatres were still relatively rare in Toledo and those that were built Theatre, at 1520 Broadway was allegedly Toledo's first theatre that was actually built as a movie theatre when it opened in 1910, but was still not much larger than the Nickelodeons that were Rivoli in 1920, was a converted old café and billiard hall built six years earlier. movies. The Ohio would be among these theatres. By the time the Ohio Theatre opened its doors, Toledo-with a population of 240,000-boasted no National Park Service popping up all over the city. The Ohio Theatre years, and virtually all had closed by the early 1920s with the commercial space they occupied Even with larger theatres, screen size and seating capacity were still constrained by the limits of the building they were housed in, which in some cases could be decades older than the theatre itself.
exclusively for use as a movie house -were under construction and once opened, they would less than twenty movie theaters, most being neighborhood theaters. In 1924, thirty-seven "moving picture theaters" were listed in the Toledo City Directory [Polk, Toledo City Directory, 1924]. The Paramount Theater, designed by Rapp and Rapp and considered among Toledo's most ornate These decades-old commercial row buildings often could not easily be retrofitted for use as a movie house. Even the Pantheon Theatre, briefly the largest theatre in Toledo before the opening of the NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 7 theaters with a capacity of 3,400, opened in 1929 (now demolished).
These neighborhood theaters In 1920, five Polish Village community members banded together to form the Lagrange Street Nicholas J. Walinski, Walter L. Gurdzinski, and Walter J. Nowak-to build and operate The Ohio and $110,000 was put in collectively by the members to buy the outstanding 1000 shares of common The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks most recent picture at the time, was the first film shown, with a five-piece orchestral accompaniment under the direction of George Rehms, as the Vottler two manual was heavily promoted in at least two of Toledo's largest-circulating newspapers at the time: Both the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee ran full-size ads on the theatre, with the advertisements in The Blade taking up two and a half pages. The theatre had opened less than two weeks after Toledo's second largest theatre, The World, had celebrated their grand opening.
With the Rivoli opening up just a year before that, the size and level of Toledo's arts and entertainment venues had transformed virtually overnight. Whereas, before 1920, the City had only a handful of smaller movies houses, the early 1920s would usher in the first of Indeed, if these claims are correct, Toledo's first, second, and third largest theatres at the time all opened up within about a year of each other from 1920 to early 1921. 2 Toledo Blade, March 1, 1921. palaces. Lucas County, OH The Ohio Theatre Statement of Significance (continued) The grand opening of the then-third-largest movie theater in Toledo took place on February 28, 1921.
theater pipe organ would not be ready for a few days.It was planned for a three-day run, followed by When the Ohio Theater opened its doors to the public on Monday afternoon, February 28, 1921 it reported that the Ohio was one of "the most beautiful theatres in Toledo" whose chief feature was "its the big time movie houses that would only promise to get more lavish as the decade wore on. a two-day run for The Love Light starting the following Tuesday. Thousands flocked to see Fairbanks film, which ran several times from 3:30 P. M. to Midnight. Lines excellent seating arrangement, inverted lights and subdued decorative effects"2 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page 8 Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) What made the Ohio even more unique was that it was granted first run pictures from the major been shown in the downtown houses. Many construction firms, manufacturers, supply companies and others were involved in the the landmark Edgewater Elementary School in 1928. The general contactor for the Ohio Theatre was listed as the plastering contractors. The firm specialized in plain and ornamental plasterwork as well rolling steel, shutters, fire doors and wire mesh. Bissell Co while the furniture, draperies, and rugs were supplied by The LaSalle & Koch Co. Brass plumbing, heating and ventilation for the theatre.
Shumate-Chanopal Signs based in Lima, Ohio designed the original marquee for the theater. An Franck by Joseph Franck. The Delco-Light Company was listed as the company that "furnishes current for operating the motion for the theatre by the Fisk-Purcell Piano Company at a cost of $15,000. Hollywood studios of Universal and Vitagraph at time of opening, planning for"a variety of films of the The Ohio Theatre Anthony Kotcheroski who also built houses in Toledo during the 1910s.The Albert J.Nutt Co.was many theatres during the 1910s and 1920s, designed the Ohio Theatre and would go on to design as stucco. The building brick came from the Collingwood Brick Company while the facing brick, known as McArthur Mingled Shade Brick, was delivered by Toledo Builders Supply Co. Arnsman & stone trimming.
The Building Products Company provided all reinforcing steel, steel tile, metal lath, advertisement states that the "Ohio" sign was designed in the studios of Gaston A. Shumate by scenery, velvet curtains, lobby frames, theatre seats and the booth equipment. Rehm's Orchestra construction of the Ohio Theatre. The architectural firm of Stophlet and Stophlet, who had designed Charles G. Meyer and the sign's "manufacture was superintended in the plant of Shumate, Meyer & picture machines and light for emergency" in the Ohio Theatre. Ohio Confectionary appeared to run finish in the theater was supplied by the J. G.Kuehnkle Co.The Eagan Brothers provided the original The City Electric Co installed electrical equipment and house wiring.Lighting was furnished by the F. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 9 The Ohio Theatre Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) As more money was needed to operate the theatre, members of the Company acquired more against the Company(including one by Lawrence Kubicki, contractor for the Theatre), the four principle stockholders appeared in court on June 7,1923, to ask for dissolution of the Lagrange further court orders, and discontinue operation of the business. On October 17, 1923, the court ordered that the theater and all its contents be sold as a whole at a public auction for no less than two thirds of the assessed value: $76,800.
Rosa Borkowski Bialorucki was the only bidder, and the court approved the sale of the theater to American and Polish silent movies, after "talkies" were introduced in 1931 both English and Polish era crowds, including prizes such as a box of doughnuts, a six-pack of Coca-Cola, and, at times, china plates, which were also offered for sale. Highlights were the $1000 dollar jackpots on Lucky 1960s. Rogers Club on Saturday afternoons. Ticket Nights(Mondays) and midweek Dinnerware Night followed by Friday Cartoon Night and Roy receiver, with orders to take immediate possession of all property and assets, hold them awaiting Rosa for its minimum selling price, with the deed made out to her on December 12, 1923. Vaudeville shows as well as first-run films graced the theater's stage during this period.
Initially the Ohio showed August 30, 1930, Rosa, widowed and then re-married to Jacob Czaja, leased the theater to Jack O'Connell for the next 17 years. Jack established several additional incentives to draw Depression- number had dropped to 208. Suburbanization, competition from drive-ins and television, lack of Street Amusement Company. The court appointed Walinski, now the President of the Company, as After O'Connell's lease expired in 1947, Rosa's son Eddie took over management of The Ohio Theatre, while his wife Bernadette leased and ran the refreshment concession. Many of the physical brought in, the ticket booth moved inside the lobby. Cinemascope and air-conditioning came in 1953. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 10 The Ohio Theatre Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) Even during their heyday, life was not always easy for many owners and operators of small downtown movie houses that offered larger screens and better seating. Even as early as the 1920s, many struggled with competition from outside influences, such as radio. It is important to remember that only silent films were available during this era, and until the talkies were ushered in during the late 1920s, radio posed a serious threat to the livelihood of the neighborhood theatre. After all, silent films had been around for over 30 years at this point and the format, as an entertainment venue, was becoming passé in some circles.
The era of radio was upon America with all the attending entertainment it could provide to listeners without them ever having to leave their own homes was certainly a serious factor to contend with. Great Depression. Gasoline rationing and showing of news reels from the battlefront during the war years helped keep many neighborhood theaters alive if not thriving during the early 1940s. However, closing of most of them. The Ohio appeared to show films intermittently during this era, or at least not advertise them in the newspaper. A perusal through old movie theatre advertisements in the Toledo OHIO THEATER AFTER 1955: Changes in the movie industry in Hollywood, during the 1950s had an adverse effect on "second-run" weekly showings, which usually brought in a full house.
Meanwhile, schools began building their own significant factor in the decline of ticket sales at many neighborhood and downtown theaters. Like radio a generation before, the advent of this medium lured potential customers away from the theaters and into their own family rooms and dens. However, unlike radio, whose threat to the movie industry was eventually thwarted with the introduction of talkies, the damage done by television was lasting and permanent. Some of the larger theatres were able to compete by offering innovating new film projection techniques available from the major studios such as Cinemascope. But for many Blade did not turn up any ads for the Ohio Theatre in July 1935 and July 1940 nor was the theatre appeared to be advertising again, showing the film Fashion Model on July 6.
auditoriums, taking business away from the older, smaller neighborhood theaters that were by the end of World War II, changes were in the air that would lead to the slow decline and inevitable listed in The Blade's "Guide to Shows" for the date July 12, 1940. However, by 1945, the Theatre accustomed to getting a fair amount of ticket sales from families with children. Television was also a NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 11 Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) neighborhood and downtown theaters, whose small screens could not effectively project widescreen formats; television put a serious crimp in their chances of survival. of the traditional neighborhood theater.
As many Toledo residents began to migrate from the city center and older neighborhoods, and into the outer fringes and suburbs, so followed many entertainment venues. First came the drive-ins in the mid-1940s, which were all located on the and more successful neighborhood theatres could never even dream of competing with. large cities and in surrounding suburbs across the nation. Toledo's first modern cinema, Cinema1 & 2,which later expanded to three theatres and became Showcase Cinemas, opened in 1963. Nearby, Cinema 4 & 5, which soon became Franklin Park Cinemas, opened a year later. Less than a decade after that, AMC theatres-owned Southwyck 7 Theaters opened to much fanfare in Southwyck Mall. It was the largest theatre in Toledo in terms of number of screens eventually expanding to eleven screens.
Adding to the toll on older theatres, these modern cinemas were able to outbid periods after release to acquire feature films. In the end, most neighborhood theatres could not compete with the combined onslaught of television, and the frustrating inability to get first-run releases. Many went dark during the late 1960s. Urban housed in) were demolished for parking lots. In 1929 there were 41 indoor movies houses in Toledo. By September 1970the number had dropped to nine.Most were demolished, boarded up, or converted into other commercial venues. Meanwhile, operators of several remaining neighborhood theaters that continued to struggle to survive could not resist being part of a lucrative new phenomenon that was sweeping the country at the end of the 1960s: The X-Rated or Adult Film venue.
Some theatres had already converted to Burlesque, a controversial venue that was becoming steadily more popular during the 1950s and The Ohio Theatre conditioning, more flexible show times, and acres of parking. This was an allure that even the larger By the mid-1960s, major theatre chains were building large modern cinemas on the fringes of many neighborhood theatres on new releases, resulting in theatres like the Ohio increasingly waiting longer urban sprawl (and the attending construction of modern cinemas) lack of parking, increased crime, renewal and suspicious fires claimed a number of them while others (or the buildings they were NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 12 Lucas County, OH Statement of Significance (continued) Hollywood films intended for Mature Audiences in order to compete with the more family-oriented Toledo, had started showing sexually themed "Adults Only" movies since the late 1950s and was perhaps Toledo's first movie house to convert to that format. The popularity of Burlesque and other forms of soft core sexually oriented adult entertainment would occasionally showing X-Rated films, while the Esquire and Avalon had abandoned their family and mainstream venues entirely and embraced the showing of explicit adult sex films.
"You have to keep up with the times" the operator of the Esquire commented when interviewed about showing Elsewhere, new cinemas, mostly small venues located in second-class or aging strip shopping relatively new drive-ins, not immune from seeing fallout from the decline in attendance due to the onslaught of multi-screen cinemas, were jumping on the adult film bandwagon by showing "Hardcore R" rated nudie films, softcore X-Rated flicks, and gory slasher films during this tumultuous era. For a brief time the Ohio Theatre itself advertised X-Rated films, showing titles such as Lickerish Quartet, Carmen Baby and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls in the summer of 1971. In September 1970s. After all, unlike most of the above-mentioned theatres, the Ohio still continued to show have raised some eyebrows. 3 Toledo Blade, April 12, 1970 followed suit). 3 The Ohio Theatre adult films.
Soon after the Gayety, which had been showing sexually themed films for many years, 1970, Ohio Theatre operator Eddie Bialorucki stated that he rigorously enforced age restrictions on mainstream, primarily R-Rated films, with occasional weeklong showings of Disneyesque family fare. 1960s. Otherssurvivedby showingincreasingly sexually oriented (but not explicit) mainstream early 1970s in Toledo, operators of legitimate and family theatres like the Eastwood, Westwood, were core" adult films, distributed when the X-Rating was a legitimate MPAA rating and not the bastardized centers-"sin strips"-were being built solely for the purpose of showing X-Rated films.Even the NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 13 Statement of Significance (continued) in the end did little to stave off the hemorrhaging of the movie going dollar to the hinterlands. In May 1975, The Ohio Theatre closed its doors. occasionally shown X-rated films before, butto exclusively show hardcore pornography was another that year. family venue, the Pantheon, had shut its doors as a movie theatre (although it did reopen for a brief period at the end of the decade). By the end of 1981, there were no downtown or old neighborhood theatres, showing legitimate film, anywhere within the city limits of Toledo. This black hole in entertainment would remain in Toledo until the Eastwood Theatre would switch back from adult films to a family theatre in the summer of 1985. closed Rivoli Theatre, to be finished in 1985.
The Church refurbished the theater in 1985 with fresh paint, upgraded the lighting, and installed new carpet. In April 1990 the Church restored the theater's of parts donated through time. By 1991, after being dark for well over a decade, the projectors were once again running at the Ohio. Showings of popular Hollywood films continued to be advertised occasionally at the Ohio during the theatre in Toledo that was showing mainstream Hollywood films, a significance that remains to this day.
Indeed, despite being dark for period in the 1970s and 1980s, the Ohio Theatre remains the Lucas County, OH The Ohio Theatre United States Department of the Interior exclusively showing adult films since 1970,closed in 1978.A year earlier, Toledo's last downtown Renovations to the Ohio Theatre building in 1970 also helped keep the Ohio afloat during this era, but Weathering the changes as long as he could, Eddie Bialorucki, finally relented to dwindling business. The Toledo Area Theatre Organ Society (TATOS) began installation of the organ from Toledo's 1990s and early 2000s. And after the Eastwood closed in 1995, the Ohio became the only movie longest-operating mainstream movie theater within Toledo.
Meanwhile, Toledo's last operating downtown movie theatre, The Esquire, which had been matter entirely.Individuals and groups raised money, demonstrating great community interest in Detroit wanted to open a pornographic theater at The Ohio's location.As mentioned, The Ohio had NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 14 The Ohio Theatre Statement of Significance (continued) In addition to the theater operations, the building housed two small commercial stores that served the photograph of the theater taken in 1958 shows T. A. Rutkowski operating a photo and electronic shop in the storefront immediately south of the theater entrance. It is clear the Ohio Theater played a Toledo City Directories, 1924-1958].
The Ohio Theatre takes up the entire boundaries of Lots #37-39 of Cushings St. Hedwig's Addition in Toledo. Previously, on Lot #37, a one-story wood framed building labeled "feed store" in 1905 (and existing at least since 1902) was located with the address of 3110 or 3112 Lagrange. Spanning the entire length of the lot, it lasted until at least 1915, and was most likely torn down some time before 1920. Previous to the feed store, a small one story shed, labeled "Poll Place" in and 1895 Sanborn Map, was located at the from of Lot #37. Building permits also show that in 1918, a small ice station page 207, the theatre and its adjacent buildings have changed little, providing stability and consistency to the neighborhood. Today, the Theatre is owned and operated by The Ohio Theatre, Inc., a non-profit organization, which is represented by the seventeen-member Board of Directors. During St.
Hedwig's tenure, the Board was established to run the daily operations of the Theater. Then in November of 2004, the Board of of a new era for the Theatre. The seventeen member Board has brought back a steady stream of The Ohio Theatre stands as Toledo's only still-operating neighborhood movie theater and one of only quickly, or were transformed into other uses or even demolished, The Ohio Theatre remains as a entertainment - a historical, social, and cultural landmark. And yet it is still alive within the previous splendor. Lucas County, OH Lagrinka community.In 1924 Gustavus Tambakis operated a small shoeshine store in the space north of the theater entrance and later Kathyrn Sujkowski had a florist shop at this location. A central role in the entertainment and commercial history of the Polish Village neighborhood [Polk, was built somewhere on the property.
As shown on the Sanborn Insurance Map of 1951, Vol. 2A- Directors purchased the historic theatre from the Catholic Diocese of Toledo, marking the beginning Concert Band, Echoes of Poland dance group and many others to be enjoyed by the residents of the Polish Village, and the greater Toledo area. The Theater now eagerly anticipates a restoration to its a precious few left in Ohio and in the nation. Toledo's Valentine Theater [1895; NR 1978], built prior corner stone in the community. It is a significant example of a piece of bygone American NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 15 Lucas County, OH opening night in 1921 - bringing the performing arts to the Polish Village and bringing the Polish Village to the performing arts.
National Park Service Statement of Significance (continued) The Ohio Theatre United States Department of the Interior THE OHIO THEATRE LUCAS COUNTY, OH 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property.Less than one acre 1 17 288530 4617065 (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By Name/title organization Truan and Lisa Marie Fulton, Michael Yavorski, The Ohio Theatre, Inc., and William Frisk, Toledo Organ Society; Andrew Sager, City of Toledo date March 21, 2005 street & number 3114 Lagrange Street telephone 419-241-6785 city or town Toledo _state OH _zip code 43608 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.
(Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Ohio Theatre, Inc., an Ohio Not-For-Profit Corporation Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503 Photographs Continuation Sheets Additional items Additional Documentation Zone Easting Northing Property Owner UTM References Verbal Boundary Description See continuation sheet.
Boundary Justification (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property. benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of street & number3114 Lagrange Street telephone419-241-6785 Maps NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 9 and 10 Page 1 Lucas County, OH Bowser, Eileen. The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915. 1990.
New York: Charles Scribner's City of Toledo, Division of Building Inspection, Building Permits Koszarski, Richard.An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. 1990. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Naylor, David. Great American Movie Theaters. Washington: National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Press, 1987. Ohio Historic Preservation Office. Twentieth Century Theaters Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 2005. Polk's Toledo City Directories, 1905-1960. Toledo Telephone Directories, 1962-74 The Toledo Blade. March 1,1921. Thousands See Opening of Ohio Theatre. Annabel Lee. The Toledo Blade. February26,1921. Opening of Ohio Theatre is Scheduled for Monday. Toledo News Bee, February 26, 1921.Front-page announcement of Opening Toledo Blade, March 1, 1921. Thousands See Opening of Ohio Theatre. The Toledo Blade.
October 14, 1951. Mitch Woodbury Reports: "Movietime, U. S. A."Evokes Plenty of Memories. The Toledo Blade. December 10, 1961. Toledo's Nickelodeon Era of 50 Years Ago Recalled By a Veteran Film Projectionist. The Toledo Blade. April 12, 1970. Burlesque & X-Rated Flicks. The Toledo Blade. September 20,1970. Neighborhood Theatre is a Short Subject. The Toledo Blade. May 19, 1977. Pantheon's Screen Goes Dark For Final Time As Last Picture Show Downtown Is Closed The Toledo Blade. November 6, 1978. Esquire Theatre Closes its Doors. The Toledo Blade, Peach Section - Movie Page, ca 1955 to 1985. Sons. Bibliography St.Hedwig Church publication.1991. St.Hedwig Historical Highlights.Paul M.Kwiatkowski. The Ohio Theatre The Toledo Blade. February 26, 1921. The Ohio Theatre 3-page advertisement. Pp. 12-14. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 9 and 10 Page 2 Lucas County, OH Ohio, Lucas County, Parcel Number 0329827. with The Ohio Theatre on Lots 37 through 39. Boundary Justification United States Department of the Interior The Ohio Theatre is located on Lot numbers37 through39(Accessor ID numbers02131019 through Verbal Boundary Description The Ohio Theatre The nominated property of 3114 Lagrange Street includes the entire parcel historically associated 02131021) with building dimensions of 90'x 120' in Cushings St. Hedwig's Subdivision of Toledo, NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Lucas County, OH World Theater, Toledo, Ohio Opened 1921, demolished ca 1973. CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service The Ohio Theatre United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Lucas County, OH ruga, draperies and THE EAGAN BROS. CO. Desigoed by Baildery' Supply & Electrical Co "THE MARK OP ZORRO" Your Admission Tickets to The Ohio Source: Toledo Daily Blade. February 26, 1921 THEATRE AND STOPHLET 1800 MARY PICKFORD The Ohio Theatre Auburndale CONTINUATION SHEET The furniture National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Capacity Scating were furnished by Heating Bya National Cash Register Ticket for the Ventilation Section number Additional Documentation Page 2 One of the Many DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Theatre Are All Issued linoleum RDLARGEST Ohio Thcatre Supply Coacrete NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Lucas County, OH The Collingwood - The Toledo Brass & ments to Wal.
Elm and Oneida Sta. Albert J. Nutt & Co. Source: Toledo Daily Blade. February 26, 1921 Contractor and House Wiring Building JOHN JANICKI Brick Company for Rough Lumber Electric Orchestra Electrical Equipment The Ohio Theatre The City CONTINUATION SHEET SEMON COMEDY Plastering Contractors DOUG.FAIRBANKS NOW PLAYING MARK OF ZORRO Arnsman & Bremer Rehm's Which Built the Ohia CRANOPAL BIGNS Canopy af Ohlo Theatre Furnished bg Stickney and M.C.ROw: : 2938 Lagrangs St. Assoriates for has- Section number Additional Documentation Page 3 Gen,Bales Agent, Ire. OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Lucas County, OH THE NEW MAGNIFICENT THEA TER scenery, by Argoe & Co., OPENING PROGRAM DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS PRICES : "THE MARK OF ZORRO" - ADDRESS ADDED ATTRACTION: Source: Toledo News-Bee.
February 26, 1921 NEWEST POLICY Adults CONTINUATION SHEET TOLEDO'S Children The Ohio Theatre A MACK SENNETT COMEDY NPS Form 10-900 The Lagranga PATRONAGE Amusement Co THE NEW OHIO TOLEDO'S THIRD LARGEST CINEMA THEATER Section number Additional Documentation Page 4 upon, and an orgsn 25c 15c -.THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : RECOM.
/CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE REJECT 3/17/06 3/31/06 REVIEWER 2/15/06 NAME: PDIL: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Entered in tho DATE OF PENDING LIST: 3/02/06 RETURN PROPERTY VACCEPT Ohio Theatre nomination is no longer under consideration by the Nps. OHIO THEATRE LUGAS COUNTY, OHIO NEG LOCASON ! PHOTOGNAPItEN OHO THEATRE C 1922 LU AS COUNTY,OHO SEMBODIED ART VENETIAN BLIND & AWNING CO.
ROOFING-SIDING HELL IT CAME PHONOGRAPHS - HIFI - TAPE RECORDERS JACKPOT SIOO FLEXALUN AWN IONE OHIO THEATER GIT SNOP LVCAS COUNTY, OHIO PHOTOCNAPHEN!UNKNOWN OHIO THEATRE 4 OF 20 OHIO THEATRE LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO FACADE DETAIL FAGNG EAST ONO THEATRE LVUAS COUNTY,OO OHIO THEATRE LUCAS COUNTY, OHO PHOTO CNAPHOR : WILLIAM C FRISK LUCAS COUNTY, OA/O LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO MENS'LOUNGE FAGING EAST EAST LUCAS COVNTY, OHID LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO OMIU THEATRE OHIO THEATRE LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO OHIO THEATRE OALO THEATNE LUCAS COUNTY,OHIO PHOTOGRAPHER ! WILLIAM C FRISK STAGE ANO PROSUNUM ANH FAUNG EAST OHI6 THEATRE LUCAS COUNTY, OH- EASTING NORTHING TOLEDO, OHIO - MICH. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES 17/288530/ 4617065 15 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) ROAD CLASSIFICATION TOLEDO QUADRANGLE OHIO - MICHIGAN RECEIVED FEB I 5 2006 National Park Service 2280 February 10, 2006 Ms.
Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 I (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: NEW SUBMISSION Bigelow, Charles H., House Tremont House The Ohio Theatre Upper Downtown Canton Historic District If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Kegister staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office Huron COUNTY www.ohiohistory.org Cuyahoga Hancock Enclosures Lucas Sincerely, Stark OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY National Register procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Clinton Apartments Rachel Tooker IAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE. Enclosed please find five (5) new National Register nominations.
All appropriate notification 567 East Hudson Street, Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 HISTORY OHIO
Block