Nomination for Pennsylvania Depot

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Congressional District: 17 John M. Ashbrook Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM NOV 3 1972 AND/ OR HISTORIC: C. A. and C. Depot (Columbus, X In Process - Preservation work - Comments X Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: E.

High Street REPRESENTATION IN SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Local 083 026 039 LOCATION Detroit Religious Michigan Site CLASSIFICATION STATE Commercial ACCESSIBLE NAME Both Private DATE Educational Government OWNERSHIP Entertainment Transportation Public Private Residence Unoccupied NOV Restricted CATEGORY Yes: Agricultural Building Museum STATUS Structure CODE Park Ohio Industrial Knox Pennsylvania Depot COMMON: Military District Scientific Penn Central Transportation Company Public Acquisition: Mount Vernon South Main Street Being Considered Knox County Courthouse ENTRY NUMBER TO THE PUBLIC 2405 West Vernor Highway Idle for Akron and Cleveland) DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PEACES STREET AND NUMBER: about 5 years FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: (Check One) PRESENTUSE (Check One or More as Appropriate) (July 1969) Federal Object - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered [X Original Site structure, with a hard-burned, smooth-surfaced gray brick wall above covered with glazed tile, interlocking and curved in appearance.

| The The depot, with its Oriental-looking three-layered arched north entrance and red tile roof, is relatively undamaged by vandalism. The restoration is not extensive, but it is varied. No major rebuilding OCT 24 1972 CONDITION DESCRIPTION Moved REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL building, with access from two outdoor concrete and stone stairways. This building is a rugged masonry structure with an Oriental influence of the existing structure is required. The exterior and two main interior walls are of masonry construction. There are several areaways adjacent to the basement windows. in the roof lines and eave overhang and the heavy red tile roof.

There isa rough-cut stone base course entirely surrounding the The outside face of the exterior walls consists of a rough-cut sand- stone base course.The balance of the wall above the stone is a smooth- are plastered.The ceilings are plaster on wood lath.The floor slabs the stone to form the exterior walls. of the two steel roll-up doors on the east end.The interior walls (Check One) L Fair X Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

cleaning). The windowsashes and doors are of wood, with the exception faced hard brick, warm gray in color. The roof structure is of wood, Excellent (The color could be restored with proper are of concrete.There is a basement under the greater part of the building is under lock and key.The extent and type of repair or RECEIVED

Statement of significance

The Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, located on South Main Street in Mount Vernon, Ohio, occupies a most strategic site, not only in view of present and future urban planning, but also with regard to the via this river, which was then known as Owl Creek.

Fittingly, rail- roads laid track parallel to the river, and at the turn of the 20th century the Columbus, Akron, & Cleveland and the Pennsylvania this, it has been impossible to determine in what year this building was erected, but older residents in the area seem to agree that the it served as a center for information, commerce, and military de- humanitarian role, it is felt that the building should be included on OCT 24 1972 Transportation Commerce Conservation Communications Architecture losophy Theater Aboriginal Engineering Literature Education Music Agriculture REGISTER Art NATIONAL Social/Human- itarian Military Sculpture Landscape Urban Planning Political Invention Industry that particular event. 1936.Three thousand of Mount Vernon's townspeople were witness to stations owing their designs to the earlier shingle style.

Religion/Phi It is the expressed wish of Mount Vernon's senior citizens that military and commercial significance as well as its future social/ twenty car non-stop journey to Columbus.The local paper records they be permitted to use the building should the community settler to the area nine years before the name of Ohio had been given Pre-Columbian a fine example of that group of early 20th century small-town railroad station house went up in or around 1905.In the building's prime such events as Alf Landon speaking from the platform on October 12, Other AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) the National Register of Historic Places. Architecturally, it is Railroad Companies were operating here in joint venture. Because of partures.

During the height of the whistle-stop campaigning, to the territory.Mount Vernon's earliest commercial endeavors were residents remember Franklin Delano Roosevelt coming through ona borders on the the waterway which brought the first Columbus, Ohio: The. Ohio Historical Society, 1953.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 2 acres LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Harold C.

Johnson, Mayor City of Mount Vernon, Ohio City Building, Public Square CITY OR TOWN: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICAIION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: GP 0 901 .08 7 039 Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees LATITUDE ORGANIZATION DATE COUNTY STATE Minutes CODE Local CORNER ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Roseboom, Eugene H. and Francis P. Weisenburger. A History of Ohio. National Register. Co., Inc.,1912.

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Mount Vernon FORM PREPARED BY As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- STREET AND NUMBER: July 10, 1972 NAME AND TITLE: Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of Th Title Name Ohio National EDITORIAL REVIEW NOV 3 Maps ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER Re-submit PROPERTY Send-back Register no. National Register write-up TECH REVIEW Federal Register entry HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF Photos 10.24.72.1630 Working number 1972 Acknowledge 10-2 MTE VERNON, OHIO BYÍ DALE A WHITE LOOKING - S.S.E. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Loc. PICTURE TAKENOF THE MORTA SIDE Title: 'Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 3 1972 STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: UCT 24 1972 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3.

Latitude and longitude reference. 083 039 1961 NAME DATE COUNTY REQUIREMENTS 1:24000 NATIONAL STATE REGISTER CODE COMMON: Ohio Knox Mount Vernon MAP REFERENCE SCALE: ENTRY NUMBER SOURCE: Pennsylvania Depot NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM South Main Street U.S.G.S.7-1/2'Mount Vernon Quadrangle (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: C. A. and C. Depot (Columbus, Akron and Cleveland) LOCATION NOV MT. VERNON QUADRANGLE MT. VERNON, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES STATE OF OHIO OHIO-KNOX CO Long. 82° Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Lat.40°2319 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OHTO NOV 3 Hon. William B. Saxbe Hon. Robert Taft, Jz. Eon, John M.

Ashbrook Director, Northeast Region NRowland: mm Location 11/6/72 PHR Name Date Entered Also Notified Pennsylvania Depot ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Liaison Officer Knox County Colunius, Ohio 43211 1972 OHIO Mount Vernon Hr.Daniel R. Porter The Ohio Ristorical Society