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) X preliminary determination of individual listing (36 Primary location of additional data CFR 67) has been requested State Historic Preservation Office previously listed in the National Register Other State agency previously determined eligible by the National designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: Sandusky Public Library recorded by Historic American Engineering Record patterns of our history. University Commerce Register Architecture Bibliography religious purposes. Other Architect/Builder Feick Building Federal agency a cemetery.
Cultural Affiliation Local government Property is: See continuation sheets (Enter categories from instructions) 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 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Sandusky. It is also nominated under Criterion C for its architectural significance as a locally significant Historical background Cleveland and Toledo.The18-mile-long bay, enclosed within the Cedar Point and Marblehead peninsulas, produce to Canada and the east, and in time the town becamea large and active grain market.
German and Irish immigrants were stone cutters and they came to Sandusky to build homes, schools, major industry around 1850, and for decades the city was known as the largest fresh-water fish market in the catfish, and others. With easy access to Lake Erie, industry was attracted by the location and the town became a vital trade and successor to that line. Made the seat of Erie County in 1838, Sandusky had about 1,500 residents in 1840, and over 5,000 by the end of the decade. At that time, the town consisted of numerous stores, two printing offices, died during a cholera epidemic in 1849 - the limestone beneath the city prevented contaminants from filtering vacationers. Cedar Point opened as a resort in 1882 and inaugurated Sandusky's long career as a tourist the nation, and is today the second oldest amusement park in North America.
Between 1870 and 1890 the rounder of one of the oldest tamily-owned construction businesses in the country, and was expanded in 1923 example of steel-framed construction designed in the Commercial Style. makes one of the finest natural harbors on the lake. The French and British operated trading posts in the area to its location on the lake, Sandusky also assumed a significant role in the fishing industry. Fishing became a economic center. Railroad access allowed for the transport of people and goods, and in 1832 the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad - one of the earliest railroads west of the Appalachians - began operating between The Feick Building is the tallest office building in Sandusky. It was designed in 1909 for George Feick, Sr., a Sandusky is located at the eastern end of Sandusky Bay on the south shore of Lake Erie, midway between and Jacob Fisher, arrived in 1817.
The town was surveyed and platted in 1818 by Hector Kilbourne, using the prominence as a port of entry and a shipping center, and was an important transportation terminus on Lake Erie. Passenger boats from Buffalo landed thousands of immigrants. Steamships from Sandusky also carried Located on a bedrock layer of solid limestone, quarrying became an early industry in the Sandusky area. Many Sandusky and Dayton. In the 1860s, the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad began operation as a two machine shops, two banks, six churches, one high school and several iron furnaces. Nearly 400 people out of the groundwater - but by 1855 the city's population again began to swell. Beginning in 1870,the white sandy beaches of the Cedar Point peninsula made it a popular recreation spot for population of Sandusky grew from around 13,000 to nearly 18,500. 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 2 Feick Building, Erie County, OH As the nineteenth century ended, other industries were born. Sandusky Bay was a location where thick ice formed, ice harvesting became a minor industry from the 1880s to 1918. Tons of ice were cut from the bay and export, and after 1906 the shipping of coal across the upper Great Lakes rose steadily in volume. By the 1930s manufacturing, and wine-making were the principal industries at that time. In 1899 the Sandusky Business Men's Association (which later became the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce) The Association offered incentives to entice industries to the area. Several new manufacturing plants were Farrell-Cheek Foundry, Hancock Manufacturing Company, A.J.
Asher Cooperage Company, Universal Clay Products Company, and the Enterprise Glass Company. The Business Men's Association also paid out over for retail promotion. within two years they brought several factories to Sandusky, including the Sandusky Glass Company, Matthews Engineering Company, G. & C. Foundry Company, Sandusky Nut Company, and Cuthbert Boat Company. With this success, several of these investment groups liquidated their interests and turned them over to the Chamber of Commerce, which was reorganized in 1918 with over 1,000 members. This aggressiveness of the local Chamber" many new factories were added to the tax rolls. With their financial assistance, the Diamond Fertilizer plant was built at this time, the Maibohm Motors Company plant was were expanded The decade of the 1920s was one of the most progressive and colorful periods in Sandusky history.
Over the enjoyed new birth of development and accelerated growth. Construction of the Feick Building addition in 1923, creating a new headquarters for the Citizens Banking Company, was a clear indicator of the degree and scope of the city's expansion in commercial and business life over the years. Development of the Feick Building The Feick Building was designed for George Feick, Sr. in 1909 by the Minneapolis architecture firm of Purcell ten-year period, the population in Sandusky jumped from 22,097 in 1920 to 24,662 in 1930,and the city secured through their efforts, including the Sandusky Auto Parts Company, Erie Tire and Rubber Company, transported via train from Sandusky to towns and cities throughout Ohio. At its peak, more than 50 icehouses lined the shores of Sandusky Bay.
For many years, building sand dredged from the lake was an important Sandusky had become the second-largest shipping port for coal on the Great Lakes, and was ranked 1912 the Sandusky Commercial Federation was organized to promote the industrial and civic welfare of the In 1917the Industrial Development Company was organized to provide a fund for industrial expansion, and & Feick. The building was originally constructed as a three-story steel frame building, with foundations was organized to draw new business to the city, and incentives were offered to entice industries to the area $11,000 to assist existing companies with loans, secured by notes and merchandise that were never paid. In lobby on the west wall containing stairs and an elevator (Floor Plans, p. 1). Upstairs, the building contained eighteenth among the shipping ports of the U.S. in terms of volume and capacity.
Tourism, fishing, 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 3 Feick Building, Erie County, OH interior corridor running east-west from the elevator lobby. and Leopold Mondat, it was the oldest clothier in continuous operation in Sandusky. In March of 1910 Mr. complete building erected by Mr. George Feick... in the heart of the city's business district and in the center of "All electric light wires are conveyed throughout the store in steel conduits, an arrangement insuring protection against defective wiring and the elimination of danger of conflagration.
Prism lights throw the brightness of day about the store from the front, and from the rear the glowing opportunity for elaborate display in the well dressed windows, the exhibitions of apparel being in room. A commodious and well equipped stock room is maintained on the second floor for replenishing of the store room as occasion demands. The basement is fitted out as a salesroom and will be as complete as a modern clothing house. In this department will be carried on from time to time bargain sales, an innovation in the commercial business of the city and which will be introduced by Mayer Lebensburger with the completion of the improvements now under way. occupied the shoe store space. courses necessary for business and was accredited by the National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools. The school accepted both men and women, many of whom were local.
Their curriculum focused on and trading. Asimulated office was maintained where students could work. The school also offered students training at the simulated "Feick National Bank" where they learned positions such as cashiers, tellers, and collections. A number of Sandusky's business leaders were trained here, including William O. Loudenslagel, Prompted by the steady growth of the local economy, and as evidence of his family's own standing in the Citizens Banking Company. The bank was started in 1884 as the Citizens National Bank. Founders were The modern way of merchandizing is the motto of Meyer Lebensburger." 1 Lebensburger in New Home: A Modern Clothing House in a Modern Steel Building," Sandusky Register, 4 March 1910.
nine small offices - most with anterooms - and a larger corner room at the back of the building, with a single The tenant on the floor was the Lebensburger Men's Clothing Store. Founded in 1854 by Moses Lebensburger Lebensburger announced his move to new quarters, saying that his store would open "in the substantial and rays of sunlight add to the brightness of the room. The 56 feet of frontage ... will give accordance with the unit system of arrangements throughout the store. The display windows are business community, a five-story addition was constructed on top of the original three-story Feick Building and the storefront was reconfigured in 1923. Loudenslagel moved the business college to the Schmidt Block on progressive and modern aspects of the clothing store, their merchandising, and their new location. In 1917 the first floor became Jacob Kronthal Clothing and Leo A.
Sacksteder Shoes. Uhlman Clothier later subjects such as arithmetic, bookkeeping, grammar, business correspondence, calculations, shorthand, sales, who later purchased the college and was its last owner. Photographs taken of the classrooms at that time show wood floors and very plain finishes (Historic Images, pp. 2-3). East Market Street at that time, and the ground floor became the home of Sandusky's hometown bank, 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 4 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Henry Graefe, Sr., Wm. Schade, George A. March, Homer Goodwin, George Feick, Phillip Graefe, Truman B.
Feick Family, Builders and Contractors The Feick family has constructed some of the largest and most historically significant private and public the mid-nineteenth century. The first to arrive was the eldest brother, Johann Philip Feick in 1849. He was followed by his brother Johann Adam in 1852, sister Elizabetha Catharina in 1854, and (at the age of 17) workmanship, and the firm was a success from the start.?Their specialty was stone construction, especially Ward School, German Lutheran School, Osborn School, Campbell School, St. Mary's Church, Erie County Jail, part of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, the Cooke Block (on Market Street) and the Lake Shore & Both brothers built large, comfortable homes on Miami Avenue (now Central Avenue).
Adam's home was torn down after his death, and his children built a nine-unit apartment building on the site, which they named the Adam Feick Flat in his honor. George's home is still standing, along with the garage that he built as their first office. The company subsequently operated from the upper floor of a two-story commercial building he erected at the corner of Central Avenue and Decatur Street, before finding a permanent home in 1923 at the Feick Building on Market Street (after the building was expanded). The Feick Building is the most visible expression of the family's financial achievement and business stature in the community. John Adam Feick, who studied architecture and drafting at the University of Dayton (then St. Mary's Institute), Documentation, pp. 1-2 *The capitol building was designed by Toledo architect, David W. Gibbs & Company.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. prestigious commissions was the State Capitol Building in Cheyenne, Wyoming, completed in 1888.4 2 Buildings constructed by the Feick family and listed in the NRHP and Ohio Historic Inventory (OHI) are presented in Additional storefront on West Market Street, before moving to the Feick Building in 1924. The Citizens National Bank renovation, the storefront and bank lobby were clad in marble that suited the more conservative banking buildings in the Sandusky area and beyond? The Feick family came to Sandusky from Steinau, Germany in and in 1872 they established the firm of Adam Feick & Brother, contractors and builders. As a journeyman the blue limestone that was quarried locally and was ideally suited to large public buildings. Michigan Southern Railroad station.
They also built train stations in Painesville and Castalia, and completed History of the Western Reserve, Upton, Vol. III, p. 1371. functions. The plans for these alterations were prepared by George Feick, Jr. (Floor Plans, pp. 4-7). youngest brother Johann George in 1866. Adam and George worked together for several years as carpenters, carpenter and joiner in Sandusky, Adam had acquired an excellent reputation for skillful, durable, and honest buildings on the campuses of Oberlin College and Lake Erie College for Women. Among their largest and most joined his uncle in the firm at that time. Supervisor of the Wyoming State Capitol project, John Adam Feick 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 Feick Building, Erie County, OH businesses in Sandusky and vicinity. later joined in the business by his sons, Thomas and Edward. Edward established the current emphasis on design/build in 1945. The sons assumed ownership of the business when Charles died in 1960. the fifth generation of Feick builders in Sandusky and one of the oldest family-owned construction buildings that were built by family members many years before, including two large additions on St. Mary's After the 1901 split with his nephew, George Feick continued in the contracting and building business as Ohio State University at Columbus, the Edward Gymnasium at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and originally designed estate business.
Emil Feick died in 1929 and his father died in 1932. The father had amassed considerable in 1945, the building firm of George Feick & Sons went out of existence. Carnegie College Library, Phinney Memorial Chapel, the Men's Building, Rice Hall, Keep Cottage, and the Minneapolis before returning to Sandusky in 1913 to join the family business.Commissions that followed Edward was joined in 1973 by his son, John A. Feick II, who is currently president of Feick Contractors, Inc., Sandusky area.As evidence of their longevity, they have also been involved in the renovation of several George Feick & Company. Assisted by his older son, Emil Augustus Feick, he built the Law Building of the president; Emil A. Feick, vice president; and George Feick, Jr., secretary-treasurer.
The oldest son, Emil, who spent summers in his father's trade, studied architecture at Cornell University and worked for six years in included the Savings Bank and Mohican Block in Mansfield, Ohio, the Hotel and Administration Building at Aside from some remodeling, George Feick & Sons did little building after the 1929 stock market crash John Adam Feick left the family firm in 1901 and continued in business as John A. Feick Builder from his Colonial Dance Hall, and the retaining wall at the Perry Memorial. After his father's death in 1930, Charles Church, and renovation of the County Infirmary (originally built by George Philipp Feick) on S. Columbus Administration Building).
In 1909 they constructed the three-story Feick Building on Market Street - designed In 1916 the contracting firm of George Feick & Sons Company was incorporated with George Feick, Sr., real estate holdings in his lifetime and George, Jr. assumed the job as manager of those affairs. When he died 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 6 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Purcell & Feick, Architects of the Early Progressive Movement The Feick Building on Market Street was designed by the architectural firm of Purcell & Feick. This partnership the firm enjoyed a large and diversified practice, it was eventually dissolved in 1922. George Feick, Jr. was one of five children, and the younger of two sons born to Johann George Feick, Sr.
in William Gray Purcell was born in 1880 and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. He was raised influential voice for social reform and environmental conservation in the late nineteenth century. Purcell studied architecture at Cornell University and in 1903 returned to Chicago, where he worked for five months as a draftsman in the office of Louis Sullivan. Although Purcell's time at Sullivan's firm was short, it proved to be draftsman, George Grant Elmslie. Purcell left Chicago to work for a short time in California and Washington before joining Feick on a tour of the continent in 1906.
During their six-month sojourn, the two companions studied the classical sites of Greece and Greece and Italy, romantic description of their arrival: "Now arrived in Minneapolis, George Feick and his partner in architecture soon rented a room in a great old-fashioned home filled with a company of agreeable boarders. They found an office on the tenth floor of the New York Life Building ...Then these architects spread their drawing www.organica.org/peparabio1910 1.htm. Minnesota, October 1976, n.p. buildings."6 architectural education available in the U.S. Upon graduation, George returned to his family's business in extra effort to meet progressive European architects along the way and, inspired by these contacts, were eager 1907, which Purcell later acknowledged as a rather brash undertaking.
In later writings, he offered this they were going to secure some business in a strange city where the partners each new but one man and the telephone book listed two dozen well established architects busy planning Alan K.Lathrop, "Purcell and Elmslie, Architects" Exhibition catalog from the Northwest Architectural Archives of the University of the firm, and in 1910 and the name was changed to Purcell, Feick & Elmslie. Feick left the practice in 1913 and the title of the partnership became simply Purcell & Elmslie. Over the course of the partnership, they were one paper, tapped busily on an old typewriter, radiated enthusiasm, and wondered a little just how 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 Z Feick Building, Erie County, OH Albert Lea College for Women in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Another early commission in 1908 was the Anglican Christ Church of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a fairly conventional Gothic design that nevertheless opened the door the First National Bank project of 1907 in Winona, Minnesota (which was never constructed), the firm's work at were actively involved in the design process, in keeping with progressive ideals.
Clients were likewise process of self-discovery worked best with residences, the design of homes became a mainstay in the In addition to family contacts, a growing network of small town businessmen eventually broadened the opportunities for commissions for Purcell & Feick throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa, and the Dakotas. to the U.S. with his family in 1884. After a brief periodin business school, he went to work for Joseph L. Silsbee, a prominent Chicago architect whose staff also included Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1889 Elmslie left with Wright for employment in the office of Adler & Sullivan, and in the mid-1890s he became Louis Sullivan's chief projects were ultimately awarded to other bidders. Purcell Papers. Parabiographies manuscripts from the Northwest Architectural Archives of the University of Minnesota. partnerships. http://www.organica.org/peMN19001.htm.
this time "was characterized by a sense of straightforward accommodation to basic functional needs... with] expression of their personalities, living routines, special requirements, and aesthetic inclinations. Because this business of the firm, and it was not uncommon for satisfied clients to return to them for additional work. The unknown) and an office building for his father." Located at 158 E. Market Street and known as the Feick Building, his father's office building was a three-story, steel-framed structure. According to company records, 10 In 1912, plans were produced by Purcell, Feick & Elmslie for a new high school and Third National Bank in Sandusky, but these designed specifically in 1908 to service automobiles.
The largest commission of Purcell & Feick was the encouraged to participate in the architectural process, ensuring that the final design would be a clearer George Feick also brought business to the office from Ohio, including a series of speculative houses (locations the building was designed in 1908 by Purcell, with foundations engineered for a later expansion. Notes by but the original roofline features; at the same time, a new marble entrance was applied over the original recessed storefront for a new banking tenant. The addition was not designed or detailed by any of the Purcell where he was made a full partner in Purcell, Feick & Elmslie in 1910. Born in Scotland in 1871, Elmslie came www.organica.org/peparabio1910_1.htm (accessed June 22, 2009) (volume for 1909).
Purcell refer to this as"a good clean organic steel building design, no columns, no cornice, just a simple 8 Mark Hammons. "Purcell& EImslie, Architects: The Design of Destiny"(copyright 2003). Accessed electronically on 22 June 2009 at 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 8 Feick Building, Erie County, OH With this change, Purcell and Elmslie became the dominant design partners, while George Feick remained primarily the engineer and specifications writer. In their early efforts, Purcell and Feick's architecture was rarely complexity of composition and ornamental design, which tied their work more directly to Louis Sullivan's the office more than doubled.
But there were some indications of trouble in the partnership, as Feick was brought to the office himself. This became a continuing source of friction within the partnership, and by 1913 1912, Elmslie also left Minneapolisin 1913 and returned to Chicago, where he opened a second office. over 70 buildings along with numerous other unrealized designs in 22 states, with the majority in the Midwest. completed in 1916, was their most successful commission, and the largest structure built along Prairie School lines in the country. In 1919 Purcell established an office in Portland, Oregon and worked on a few projects, but citing poor economic circumstances he formally requested that the Purcell & Elmslie firm be dissolved in Purcell and Elmslie continued their partnership for nearly ten more years, producing banks, churches, decorative tradition.
Elmslie also brought important business contacts, and after 1910 the amount of work in years after Elmslie joined the firm, Feickparticipated less and less in the flow of projects outside of those he Feick left the firm to rejoin his father's contracting business in Sandusky. Devastated by the death of his wife in residences, courthouses, garages, and other types of buildings. During their partnership, the firm executed decorated, except as it was expressed in the building materials. Elmslie's partnership brought an added The Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City, lowa, designed in partnership with William L. Steele and JPS Form 10-90 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 g Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Aldrich, Lewis Cass. History of Erie County.
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"Feick Building: Start Steel Work on Eight Story Building." History of the Feick Family. 1989. 2006. 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 Page 2 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Peeke, Hewson L. A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development.. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916. Purcell Papers. Parabiographies manuscripts from the Northwest Architectural Archives of the University of Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/39/3970380.html (accessed June 25, 2009).
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Erie County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property _0.2 Acres (less than one) (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Verbal Boundary Description PLEASE SEE ATTACHED Boundary Justification 11. Form Prepared By name/title organization_Page Development, Inc./The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc. _ date 6/25/2009 street & number_158 E. Market Street #216 _ telephone 419-626-4858 city or town Sandusky _ state OH _ zip code 44870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property.
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.) Name_Lance C. Warner, Page Development Inc. street & number 158 E. Market St., #216. benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of Northing 4590610 357140 Easting Zone Photographs Zone Easting Northing Continuation Sheets Feick Building UTM References See continuation sheet.
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10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 10 Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Verbal Boundary Description Street eighty-six (86) feet from the west line of Wayne Street; thence westerly on said south line of Market of beginning Also the following thence westerly and parallel to said north line thirty-six and 58/100 (36.58) feet; thence northerly and parallel to said east line eighteen (18) feet to the north line of said lot; thence easterly along on said north line thirty-six and 58/100 (36.58) feet to the point of beginning.
The west part of Lot Number Nine (9) Wayne Street described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin set in the southwest corner of said lot; thence north 25 degrees 0' west in the west line of said lot, 66.78 feet; thence line of a brick wall and the same produced, 18.0 feet to an iron pin; thence north 64 degrees 50' east 36.58 feet Wayne Street, aforesaid; thence westerly, in said Lot line, thirty-two (32) feet to the easterly line of land in said point of eighty-six (86) feet westerly of the westerly line of Wayne Street, aforesaid; thence northerly parallel with the aforesaid easterly line of said beginning; the same being a rectangular parcel of land eighteen (18) Association, Inc. by deed dated May 22, 1930 and recorded in Volume 142 of deeds, Page 449.
Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the entire parcel historically associated with the Feick Building (Erie County parcel No. 56-00354.000). OMB No.
1024-0018 A part of Lot Number Nine (9) Wayne Street described as follows:Beginning at a point in the north line of said Situated in the City of Sandusky, County of Erie and State of Ohio: Commencing on the south line of Market Street sixty-six (66) feet; thence southerly parallel with the west line of Wayne Street, sixty-six (66) feet to the south line ot Lot Number Seven (7) Wayne Street; thence easterly along said south line of Lot Number Seven (7) Wayne Street, sixty-six (66); thence northerly and parallel with Wayne Street, sixty-six (66) feet to the place south 64 degrees 50' west 84.12 feet to the place of beginning And being all that part of Lot Number Nine (9) Wayne Street describe as follows: Beginning for the same at a Lot Number Nine (9) owned by George FeickSr.; thence southerly, in said easterly line of said George Feick, Sr.'s land eighteen (18) feet; thence easterly, parallel with the northerly line of said Lot Number Nine (9), to 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 Historic Images Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH The following is the same for all photographs: 158-160 E.
Market Street Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio Photos by Jason Whirling, April 2009 PHOTO LIST : 1 - Side view of building facing West 3- North facade showing structural grid and window voids 4 - Market Street storefront (added 1974) 5 - Front view showing window arcade and FEICK nameplate 6- South side of building showing steel frame windows 7 - East side of building showing steel frame windows 9-Inside of old Citizen Bank area facing southeast 10 -Inside of old Citizen Bank area facing northwest 11 - Lobby display cases 12 - Office directory and interior lobby doors 13 - Inside lobby from top of stairs 14 - Lobby stairway 15 - Lobby entrance to annex, 1st floor 16 - Meeting room in annex, 1st floor 17 - 2nd & 3rd floor back L-shaped hallway 18 - 2°d & 3rd floor back hallway L-shaped hallway 19 - Typical front hallway showing terrazo floors, plaster walls and stained wood chair rail 20- Typical hallway in side tower extension - 4th through 8th floor 21- Left modernized elevator -right manually operated original cab elevator 22 - Rope-operated freight elevator in annex 23 - Lobby mail chute and collection box 24 - Typical mail chute 25 - Mail chute on 8th floor 26 - Stair entrance to roof Supplemental Photo 27 - Composite column hidden by dropped ceiling in bank lobby Supplemental Photo 28 - Ceiling beam and acanthus trim hidden by dropped ceiling in bank lobby Feick Building 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 Historic Images Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Feick Building and Sandusky Business College, 1909-1923 COLLEGE S.B.C 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 Section number Historic Images Page 2 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Sandusky Business College classroom, ca. 1918. Sandusky Business College office, ca. 1918. CONTINUATION SHEET 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 Historic Images Page 3 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Sandusky Business College classroom, ca. 1918.
Sandusky Business College, ca. 1918. 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 Historic Images Page 4 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Feick Building addition under construction, southeast elevation, 1924 Looking east on Market Street to Feick Building, ca. 1925 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 Historic Images Page 5 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Feick Building, north facade ca. 1925 Feick Building, 1924 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 Floor Plans Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH First floor plan by Purcell & Feick, 1909 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 Floor Plans Page 2 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Upper floor plan by Purcell & Feick, 1909 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 Floor Plans Page 3 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Basement and first floor plan by George Feick, Jr., 1922 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 Floor Plans Page 4 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Front (north) elevation by George Feick, Jr., 1922 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 Floor Plans Page 5 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Rear (south) elevation by George Feick, Jr., 1922 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number Floor Plans Page 6 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Bank interior by George Feick, Jr., 1923 CONTINUATION SHEET NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 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 Floor Plans Page Z Feick Building, Erie County, OH Bank finishes, 1923 S Form 10-9 OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number Additional Documentation Page 1 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Projects attributed to Feick Builders, listed in the NRHP Independent Order of Odd Fellows Temple 231 W Washington Row George Feick Erie County Infirmary S of Sandusky on Columbus Rd George Phillip Feick Lake Shore And Michigan Southern Railroad N Depot at Carr St Shepley Rutan & Coolidge St Mary's Rectory 429 Central Ave 1215 Campbell St J C Johnson Erie County Jail 204 W Adams St Adam Philip & First Congregational Church 431 Columbus Ave Stang, John, House 629 Columbus Ave Taylor-Frohman House 501-503 Columbus Ave Edwards Gymnasium/Pfieffer Natatorium OWU Main Campus, S Sandusky St JW Yost Mertz, John, House 610 W Washington St Sandusky Depot Erie COUNTY ADDRESS Delaware ARCHITECT CITY NAME Campbell School Zion Lutheran Church (Rev.
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10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number Additional Documentation Page 2 Feick Building, Erie County, OH Edwards Gym & Pfeiffer Natat 61 S Sandusky St George Feick 429 Central Ave FEICK, GEORGE FEICK & BROS, ADAM Milan Public Library 19 E Church St Milan (Township of) FEICK, JOHN 204 W Adams St PHILIP, ADAM & GEORGE FEICK 210 E Adams St 1215 Campbell St St Mary's Rectory Louis M Janell Jr House 501 Central Ave 1st Congregational Church 431 Columbus Ave 501-503 Columbus Ave William F Burger House 629 Columbus Ave John F Weeks House Dr Gary Romp House 321 Decatur St N Depot St near Carr St Helen & Elza Ohlemacher House 526 Hancock St 158-160 E Market St FEICK & SONS, GEORGE 328 E Monroe St 922 W Osborne St Reynolds Bldg 225-237 W Washington St 511 Wayne St 1225 Wayne St FEICK, CHARLES 65 S Oval Dr 46 W Main St Warner Center for the Performing Arts 30 N Professor St George Feick - Sandusky Severence Laboratory 52 W Lorain St Carnegie Library 236 Walnut Feick & Sons or Alfred Sc 802 Barclay Geo Feick & Sons S Bass Island State Park Off Catawba Rd City Catawba Address Hospital Contractor Sandusky Name Delaware Oberlin Norwalk Lakeside Marblehead Paul Eishen House Campbell School Osborne School Monroe School Thomas Coughlan House Public School Zion Lutheran Church Lakeside Administration Bldg Page Hall Citizens Banking Co Norwalk Public Library Spencer Cook House Assembly Hall Projects attributed to Feick Builders, listed in the Ohio Historic Inventory Perkins (Township of) Put-in-Bay (Township of) Klueg Drugs Railroad Depot John Feick House Thomas Murray Jr House St Joseph Catholic Church St Mary's Cath Church S Columbus Ave Put-in-Bay NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.
01/2009) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Name of Property Feick Building County and State Erie County, OH Name of multiple property listing (if applicable) Section number Page 1 Supplemental Photographs Supplemental Photo 27 (Expires 5/31/2012) NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 01/2009) OMB No.
1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet County and State Erie County, OH Name of multiple property listing (if applicable) Page 2 Supplemental Photographs Section number Supplemental Photo 28 Name of Property Feick Building OLD CITIZEN'S BANK AREA Feick Building, Erie Co, OH VAULT ANNEX KITCHEN FIRST FLOOR 158 Feick Building, Erie co., OHt SECOND FLOOR THIRD FLOOR Feick building, Erie Co, CH Feick building, Erie Co., Olt - 13'-10" - FOURTH FLOOR Feick Building, Enie lo, OH FIFTH FLOOR Feick Building, Erie co, Olt SIXTH FLOOR 18'-3' - 10'-0* - SEVENTH FLOOR Feicle Building - 13'-0" - 10'-3" - - 20'-10" - 10'-2" Erie Co., Olt 29'-3" 15'-2" EIGHTH FLOOR Feick building , Erie Co, OH+ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 45TH DAY: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N REJECT TELEPHONE 9/10/09 RETURN MULTIPLE 10/24/09 DATE 10/10/09 DISCIPLINE PROPERTY REVIEWER Historic Places ACCEPT Feick Building RECOM./CRITERIA Entered in The National Register If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF PENDING LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: OTHER : SLR DRAFT: N 9/25/09 NOMINATION SAMPLE: PERIOD: NATIONAL: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.
Waterfront Historic Feick Building Erie Co. OH Feiclke Building Feick Building Feick Building Erie Co. OH Feick Building Erie Co. Olt Feick Building Erie Co. OH Feick Building Feick Building Erie Co. OH Feick Building Erie lo, Olt Feick Building 158 Feick Building FEICK OFFICE BUILDING Feick Building Erie Co., OH Feiclk Building Erie Co., OHt Feick Building Feick Building Erie Lo, OH TAIRS Feick Building Feick Building Erie Co, OH Feick Building Feick Building Feick Building Erie Co., OH ELEVATOR.SILAPT Feick Building Feick Building Feick Building Erie co., Olt Feick Building Feick Building Erie Co, OH Feick Building STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SANDUSKY QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHICI SANDUSKY, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 Ms.
Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations for Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. NEW NOMINATION ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 Enclosures Geauga COUNTY Erie Sincerely, HISTORY www.ohiohistory.org September 4, 2009 If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register REC Feick Building National Register SEP 10 2000 OHIO Franco Ruffni
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