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Architect/Builder W.H.Smith previously listed in the National Register The Carmichael Construction Company recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Federal agency Main-Exchange Historic District previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property (See Continuation Sheets) Firestone & Cassidy Cultural Affiliation N/A Bahl & Derhammer on one or more continuation sheets.) Significant Person if Criterion B is marked above) (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on _X_ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Summit County, Ohio Page 6 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property _5 Acres_ 456125 4547175_ 11. Form Prepared By Yolita E.
Rausche, Architectural Historian Michael Sanbury, Intern Architect (Maps) date_January 29, 2009 organization Chambers, Murphy & Burge, Restoration Architects state_ohio zip code 44308 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Maps name/title Photographs Main-Exchange Historic District See continuation sheet. Representative black and white photographs of the property. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage Continuation Sheets Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property ona city or town_Akron UTM References additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. or numerous resources.
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properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list name Paperwork Reduction Act Statement:This information is being collected for requirements.Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of is being nominated as part of a Multiple Property Documentation Form.In most (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPo.) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 1 Summit County, Ohio The proposed Main-Exchange District includes approximately three full original city blocks and a small portion of an additional original block plotted in 1825.
The original building fabric of this district made of residential and commercial structures of the Canal era and pre-Civil War has been replaced by post-Civil War, Gilded Age era 19" century buildings, as well as the commercial buildings built during the Magic Years of the early 20** to the post-WW-II years of the mid-century. The 19" century commercial scale remains, except remaining architectural structures are from the Gothic Revival Style and Main Street utilitarian commercial blocks, built after the incorporation of Akron as a city in 1865. Type) (ATA Advertising). (Photo 29 & 28) Gustav Burkhardt as an investment built this three-story masonry property in 1911. of South Main and West Cedar Street facing to the south a building of the former Goodrich Rubber Company Plant complex. It is also located one block east of former Ohio & Erie Canal Lower Basin embankment.
The Burkhardt Block, situated on a narrow city block, faces in the rear Orleans Avenue, originally plotted as William Street (Photo 30). The two-part commercial block is a traditional also called shop-house, because originally the first floor was used as a public space for business and the upper floors for residence. This commercial prototype evolved through time to include also office space and hotel rooms among the new uses. The façade displays the function of a utilitarian building through its simplicity in design. The symmetric building with paired wood doubled-hung windows in the upper floors has continuous terra-cotta sills and a sandstone foundation. The original storefront façade with the single door side entrance leading to the upper levels has been altered.
The double parapet is separated by a projecting terra-cotta cornice supported by adaptively reused as office space for ATA advertising. (The Diamond Deli). (Photo 28 & 29) The three-story symmetrical masonry building is a two-part commercial block devoid of ornamentation and architectural style, but it has bays with double-hung rectangular windows one over one sash. The second floor has two bays with paired windows of the same type. A soldier course and the sill define the lintels by a continuous band of sandstone. The first floor reflects the changes of the later use. The recessed store entrance is vaulted and centered with display windows of both sides with a marble base. The name Fred A. Grimm is inlaid on the entrance floor (he owned the store in c.1929). The irregular red brick elevation in the rear opening to Orleans Street has an even if some windows have been replaced.
The Akron Clothing-Eckler Bros. Store is a contributing building type to the Main- Exchange Historic District. An OHI Form was submitted in 1999. Main-Exchange Historic District entrance and a fire escape system leading from the upper floors.The architectural integrity of this building has been overall maintained cities. stylized terra-cotta consoles (tall brackets), similar to the projecting cornice separating the above floors from the store, which is 2.378 South Main Street.The Akron Clothing -Eckler Bros. Bicycle/Hardware Store. (1912) (Two-Part Commercial block) National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) faces in the rear Orleans Avenue Photo 30).The parapet of the facade has a plain sandstone coping.
The third floor is divided in 4 classical architectural elements define a Neo-classical building with an Arts and Crafts influence.Today the building has been United States Department of the Interior The predominant architecture of this district is represented by Academic Styles of the turn of the 19t and 20# centuries. They are "The lower floors of the building will be used as store rooms and the upper floors for living rooms". The building is on the NW corner commercial form built throughout the nation in the 19 century and the first half of the 20 century. This commercial building form is a sense of order and utilitarianism typical of the beginning of the 20t century.
This building is one of the plainest in the district and it for the two tall office buildings built during the second and third decades of the 20th century, a characteristic feature of small American examples of Neo-Classic Revival, Beaux Arts, Chicago Commercial, Arts and Crafts and International (Modern Minimalist) styles. The 1.380 South Main Street. The Burkhardt Block (1911) (Neo-Classic Revival/Craftsman Style) (Two-Part Commercial Block Gustav Burkhardt was the proprietor of the Burkhardt Realty Co. The Akron Beacon Journal reported in their issue of July 1, 1911; NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 2 Summit County, Ohio 3. 376 South Main Street. Carl Hafner Block.
1910 (Two-Part Commercial Block)(Vacant) (Photo 29, 28 & 27) This three story masonry building with a buff brick façade was built in 1910 by Carl Hafner, The Hafner Block is on the west side of S. Main Street, part of a narrow city block, where the rear of the building faces Orleans Ave. formerly known as William Street (Photo 30). It was in decades of the 20* century. Therefore, part of this commercial masonry block ensemble on South Main Street in the Historic District century and the first half of the 20# century. This commercial building form is also called the shop-house, because the first floor was used as a public space for business and the upper floors for residence. The Hafner building is a good example of this prototype.
The symmetric façade displays the utilitarian building function with minimum architectural ornamentation based on classical forms, stylized fret band defining the third story windows and keystones at the segmental arches of the second floor. The single double-hung and base of the rehabilitated storefront. There is an entrance to the upper floors from Orleans Avenue. The large brick parapet has a was a two story frame building occupied and used as a cooper shop on this site. By 1886, it housed a carpet weaving business. By 1892 it was a dwelling, which was demolished in 1910 in order to build this 3 story commercial block. Until recently the building continued the early saloon tradition, with Bandito's Pub, a bar, operating on the first floor. The upper floors were last used as apartments. Overall, the building has maintained its architectural integrity.
gabled wood shingled two-story frame commercial building already in existence since 1885, as a boarding house and saloon. A composite roof system. The Neo-Classic Revival façade has a richly corbelled entablature, which is crowned with a shaped parapet finished with a sandstone coping with the 1912 date as part of a stone arched composition, which is centered on the curved gabled parapet. The corbelling is framing the building façade with two story high brick pilasters. The band of a sandstone course defines the height and the sill of the second floor fenestration. The paired double-hung one over one windows are crowned with prominent sandstone lintels. This two part commercial block has a modernized post WWII aluminum frame storefront defining one store, which updated and incorporated the original two storefronts.
A modern sign crowns the storefront and separates it from the second floor. The rear elevation is defined by two pairs of double-hung windows on the second floor above two storefronts with a side door, transom, display windows and base. An original rear door opening framed with a double rowlock segmental arch is centered between the storefronts. The Burger-Halas block is part of the ensemble of new commercial buildings lining up this west side of Main Street. It was built in 1912, during the Magic Years of Akron, when it became the rubber industry capital of the world. The architectural integrity of Department- Birth & Death Records Office) (Photo 25). This contributing structure has a long history. In reality it is a composite of three buildings (370-368-366 S. Main Street). The 368 S. Main site was originally the location of 2 buildings (370 and 368). The 370 S.
Main address was the site of a one-story frame with a gabled roof and wood shingles commercial building outbuilding, which became a Confectionary/Fruit store between 1887 and 1891. Approximately in1922, it was replaced by a two-story masonry, two-part commercial block with offices on the second floor. Main-Exchange Historic District this 19 century commercial district that the largest economic growth, created by the rubber industry, was experienced during the first was re-built or rehabilitated. The two part commercial block is a traditional commercial form built throughout the nation from mid-19th 4.374 South Main Street.Jacob Burger Saloon-Eugene Halas Restaurant.(1912) (Neo-Classic Revival) (Da Vinci's Pizza). (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) 5. 368-366 South Main Street.
The First National Bank of Akron-H.J.Cramer Block (1892-1922-1952-1977) (Akron Health terracotta coping that defines the stylized fractable gable. This feature is repeated in the Burkhardt Block to the South. In 1859, there (Photo 27 & 29). The two story symmetrical two bay, brick, structural tile and sandstone building was built in 1912. It replaced a symmetrical rear elevation also faces Orleans Avenue of the same beige/yellow brick veneer (Photo 30). The flat roof is part of a this building has been overall maintained and is a contributing building type to the Main-Exchange Historic District. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 1-31-2009) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 7 Page 3 Summit County, Ohio which incorporated also the replaced 1922 building at 370 S. Main.
This combined structure is where the First National Bank of Akron established its branch office. The FNB initials are laid in the tiled entrance floor. In 1977, the bank incorporated the 366 Cramer Block to the North using the same materials and architectural features. The Cramer Block was built in 1892 as a two-story masonry, two-part commercial block where a Hay and Feed store was located on the first floor and residential quarters on the second floor. The Modern Minimalist new commercial façade with a garage entrance represents the post WWII modern architecture in Akron. The three metal painted frame windows, on the second floor, of different sizes emphasize the horizontality of the new architectural composition and at architectural composition. The massing, the scale and proportions are compatible with the existing commercial district.
The rear view facing Orleans Avenue expresses the origin of the two buildings (Photo 31 & 32). The 1952 building was designed by Firestone and firm designed the addition to the Evans Savings Building facing West Exchange Street in 1956. The First National Bank Building is considered therefore an architecturally significant and a contributing infill structure to the Main-Exchange district. this two-story masonry building in 1914 (HP 15). The Durkin Building, a symmetric Neo-Classic Revival structure, faces Orleans Avenue with a red brick elevation (Photo 32). The front elevation is veneered with buff color brick. The two-part commercial block has storefronts is a fairly new architectural element affecting partially the architectural integrity of the Durkin Building. In spite of this 7.358-360 South Main Street. Sanford Block-Central Hotel.
(1914) (Neo-Classic Revival) (Club Amsterdam-Global Leasing time used as a saloon/billiard/poolroom, harness shop, real estate office, shoemaker, and gospel mission, among others. The new building was an investment property by a prominent Akron Lawyer, Henry C. Sanford. The primary function was the Central Hotel, interrupted by a centered extended corbelled parapet where the name of the building carved in sandstone is framed. Sandstone brackets support the extended parapet. The Neo-classic Revival fenestration is defined by rectangular double-hung one over one windows, which seem to be original, but have aluminum storm windows. The former hotel windows have pedimented sandstone lintels and sandstone sills creating the rhythm of the architectural composition. The first floor is separated from the upper floors by a sandstone belt course.
The three bays of the first floor define the entrance to the hotel and the storefronts on each side. The original storefronts have been altered through the years. The six bay symmetrical two part commercial block has also a rear elevation facing Orleans Ave punctuated by irregular fenestration (Photo 32). The Central Hotel was still in existence in 1955. Today the upper floors provide daily and weekly rentals by Global Leasing Apartment, continuing to provide a residential function.
The architectural integrity has been maintained and is CONTINUATION SHEET Main-Exchange Historic District four paired windows on the second floor with a soldier course defining the lintels.The large center opening filled with a panel of four which occupied the two upper stories.Part of the first floor became offices for the Sanford Law firm.The corbelled cornice is United States Department of the Interior (8-86) The 368 S. Main address was originally the site of a three-story masonry commercial building built c.1880 by Henry F. Runyeon who second floor tries to convey a sense of symmetry to the asymmetrical architecture and together with the buff brick, unify the intrusion, the structure is a contributing building to the historic district because its scale, materials, color, massing, proportions and type contributing to the streetscape façade of the Main-Exchange Historic District.
operated a dry goods store. The Runeyon Block was replaced in 1952 by a new two story concrete block/brick/marble faced building 6. 362 South Main Street. The Durkin Block. (1914) (Neo-Classic Revival) (Law Offices) (Photo 24 & 23). John Durkin Jr. built windows defines the center of the second floors. The glass transoms on the first floor, part of the former storefronts, together with the identify it with the rest of the buildings in the district that were built during Akron's Magic Years in the early 20# century. Hotel, Byrider Bros. Co. c.1878-1891-1908-1921(Neo-Classic Revival/Craftsman) (Art Lounge/Trend Design) (Photo 22 & 20). 8.356South Main Street.The Upington Block-People's Savings Bank,Sanford Block(Commercial Savings Bank),Sapp NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 4 Summit County, Ohio 1921 (HP 15). Before it obtained its Neo-classic sense of order with Craftsman architectural features, like the tapestry brick and the segmental arches and sandstone sills. It was crowned at the parapet level by a bracketed cornice and the transomed storefront was centered with two recessed entrances on the side. The rear of the building facing Orleans Avenue is four stories high and reflects the 1878 architecture; with the brick double rowlock segmental arch fenestration and the original brick still in place (Photo 32). The 1921 façade of the two-part commercial block building type has maintained the same fenestration size but with contemporary windows and changes, a typical occurrence to most structures in the district.
The location of the original doors and storefront on the first floor of this masonry building replaced in 1916 a two story Italianate structure, called the Kramer Block, built in c.1876 of the same footprint, rooms and the first floor commercial storefronts, which were occupied in 1919 by a lunchroom, a billiard parlor, a confectionary and a barber (HP 15). In 1955 the Glenn Hotel was still in existence. The architecture of the previous Italianate Kramer Block had a very elaborate cornice and arched windows with arched stone hood the first floor stores and second floor entrance (HP 1). The new Glenn Hotel represents the utilitarian architecture of the early 20th century with a sense of classical order and unity. It is rhythmically punctuated by fenestration of rectangular windows. The fenestration pattern facing W. Exchange Street is the same as the Italianate predecessor.
The separation of storefronts by pilasters was also continued. The building has retained its architectural integrity despite the recent 21 century renovations. The cornice and the very deteriorated lintels and commercial first floor were reinforced with stucco material. The original 1916 brick exterior was not changed of Akron building department records), the storefronts were changed affecting the architectural integrity of the building. Like any old the typical changing process of renovation done by all the different storeowners. The restoration at the end of the 20 century, involved the removal of the incompatible changes done through the years and the installation of the stucco material, which is compatible in color therefore a great degree of integrity remains conveying at the same time its historic context and identity. This building represents the eras.
Today, the Glenn Hotel is vacant with a large for lease sign posted on the exterior envelope after being used as a restaurant and office building. (Neo-Classic Revival) (Bricco Restaurant) (Photo 18 & 19). The two story dark brick building situated between the NW corner of Main and Exchange and NE corner of Exchange and the former Garden Street was built in 1913 (HP 4). The Brodbeck building was designed as a multipurpose building with a shopping arcade, a market, a dancing hall and a movie theatre. It was built as a reinforced concrete structure with steel trusses, pilastered walls supporting a wood frame roof and metal lath plaster. The Market was in the basement and the dance hall on the second floor. By 1930, three small skylights were installed on the north section of the Brodbeck language.
Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) 9.354-348 South Main Street.Glenn Hotel.1916(Two-part Commercial Block) (Vacant) (Photo 21&20).The three story (8-86) narrow building is still the same but the material type changed, especially the storefront, which was filled with glass block. The Italianate period during Akron's emergence as a railroad-canal city to its rubber industry prosperity era with Neo-Classic Revival except for repointing where needed. The original sandstone sills remain. Through the years, from 1941 to 2005 (according to the city and texture with the original. The 1916 location, scale, proportions, massing, scale, fenestration and materials remain the same, and The three story symmetrical beige brick, glass and sandstone building obtained a new stylistic façade when the Byrider Bros.
moved in band of windows, it was a well-defined four-bay Italianate structure (HP 6). It had 2/2 double-hung tall rectangular windows with Upington Block has overall maintained its integrity with its scale, massing, color and proportion expressing its transition from the commercial building, the first floors changed with the changing business. The first floor stores of the Glenn Hotel building represented commercial tradition of Akron's first significant commercial center, Main and Exchange, from the canal, railroad and rubber industry 10. 1 West Exchange Street. The Brodbeck Building - Main Market- Main (State) Theatre- Stanley Dancing Pavilion. (1913) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 5 Summit County, Ohio the Thomas Phillips Paper Factory and the railroad tracks (Photo 34). The Neo-Classic Revival structure has a sense of order and in defining the bays for every two double-hung one over one windows. The corbelling across the corner facades emphasizes the bays in a staccato form. Two bands of sandstone define the cornice area. The storefront openings are still in existence, but the original storefront glass and frame has been updated as well as the windows. The low pediment on West Exchange Street defines the principal entrance. The overall design emphasizes unity and continuity to the diversity of functions inside the building structure. The architectural integrity has been overall maintained.
The two part commercial block is a contributing commercial building to the Main and Exchange Historic 11.328 South Main Street. Depositors Savingand Trust Bldg.(1916) (Neo-ClassicRevival/Beaux Art) (Vacant) (Photo 17& 15). In 1916, a masonry structure built in 1901 as a two and a half story bank building, built by the Security Savings Bank Co. was rehabilitated with a new façade for the Depositors Bank. One can still observe from the side and rear elevations the old fenestration (Photo 34). The prominent architectural firm from Columbus, Ohio, Richards, McCarty and Bulford designed the 1916 structure (HP 11). The new symmetrical Neo-Classical building with Beaux Art features represented the stability and prestige of the Depositors metal lath. The new façade was of limestone and had a granite base. The roof obtained three wire glass hipped roof skylights, with the largest in the middle.
The three bay façade is defined by an elaborate entablature supported by two story monumental fluted Corinthian walls. The almost one story high entablature has a parapet wall above the very elaborate cornice defined by projecting modillions and rosettes, egg and dart, and dentil mouldings. The wide frieze contains three large panels with shield/cartouche ornamentation relief defining the fenestration below and rhythmically accented by four narrow decorative sunk cast panels with urn relief ornamentation band. The architrave is a smooth band defined at the end by a relief in line with the pilasters. It served as a background for the bank's name. The second floor is defined by the large metal frame fenestrations with multi-paned glazing. The replaced entrance door and signs announce the use of the last tenant, the Whisky Ranch Saloon Concerts.
Overall the former bank building has maintained its architectural integrity and is one of the most significant stylistic contributors to the Main-Exchange Historic District. An OHI form was submitted in 1978. 12. 326 South Main Street. First Federal Savings Building. 1949-1954 (Modern Minimalist) (Vacant) (Photo 16 & 15). The Modern Minimalist structure has a smooth limestone and polished pink/black marble facing with four stories of yellow/beige brick clad elevation in the rear with balconies facing former Garden Street (Photo 34). This post WWII fireproof structure of steel joist and concrete construction is part of a two-story masonry structure built in 1902.
A major remodeling occurred in 1949 and 1954 when a three story addition was added with only the infrastructure of the bank remaining with its vaults on the main floor and in the basement pattern of limestone and glass and at the same time creates a vertical thrust to the architectural composition. The First Federal Savings Building is a good example of a period when Ohio architects expressed themselves in the functional Modern Minimalist style, leaving behind the revival styles of the pre-WWII. The designers expressed the modern language of architecture without upsetting, out staging or intruding in to the predominant classic architecture of the surrounding earlier buildings. The irregular marble clad commercial first replaced the windows and created new balconies in the rear. The architectural integrity has been partially affected, but it has not District.
Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) National Park Service (8-86) building. The principal entrance into the building was on West Exchange Street (Photo 33). The Garden Street elevation used to face Savings and Trust Company. It was a construction of steel joists and concrete floors, and a composite roof with plaster ceilings using floor with a side entrance and large glass plate windows part of an aluminum frame system is sheltered by a large aluminum marquise engaged columns, almost as in-antis, between antae, which are two fluted rectangular pilaster framing the façade at the parallel side marking the location of the columns and pilasters. The frieze is separated from the cornice and architrave by courses of leaf and dart supported by four rods anchored into the limestone façade above. This marquise has an Art Deco interpretation.
The 1999 rehabilitation NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 6 Summit County, Ohio significantly altered the building's physical appearance, allowing the retention of its historic context. The First Federal Savings Building is a contributing commercial structure to the Main-Exchange district in scale, proportions and massing as a commercial two- part vertical block type. 13.323 South Main Street. Kaiser Block. (1877) (Gothic Revival) (Vacant) (Photo 13 & 14). The three story commercial masonry building 75' x 65'is an example of the Gothic Revival style and the only one in the Main-Exchange Historic District. There is a sister building built at the same time, by the same architect in the Main-Market Historic District called Castle Hall.
Joseph Kaiser in 1877 Society, a German Singing Society (HP 3). The elaborated pressed brick façade trimmed with sandstone represents the architecture of the Gothic Revival commercial interpretation rich in architectural details. Two roof types enclose the building, one flat (smaller) to the is supported and defined by a row of brackets defining the areas of the two different roofs and separated by a fractable parapet where the date and the name of the building are carved in stone. The elevation is divided by an irregular fenestration expressing the interior function. The third floor has three tall rectangular windows to the north of the entrance bay and two bays of triple double-hung windows divided by stone lonic Columns to the south and each bay separated by a shorter window/door which originally opened into a 7'wide each side. All the composition is centered on the windows above.
The south side of the second floor has two sets of double windows separated by the above-mentioned columns centered on the above fenestration. All the windows have sandstone hood moldings pedimented or arched. The original windows have been replaced with improper non-fitting windows. The old elaborate storefronts with recessed doors and stone facing piers and lintels have been removed (HP 13 & 14). The architectural integrity has been partially compromised. But the Kaiser Block is still a contributing building to the commercial Main-Exchange Historic District in scale, massing. proportions, material, color and type. There is an OHI form for this building prepared in 1978. Revival/Modern Minimalist (Evans Building) (Photo 14, 3, 7, 9, 10 & 12). This is a property defined by three buildings built at different times, but connected to each other at the time of construction.
This corner building faces South Main Street, East Exchange Street and South Maiden Lane Alley. Part of the 19th century buildings in this site were demolished in 1904 when the People's Savings order for the Trust to build its seven story tower. The new People's Savings & Trust building was built together with the two stories Foreign Exchange Bank at 331 S. Main Street. In 1956 a two story Modern Minimalist building was added on East Exchange Street with a drive-thru banking feature approached from the parking lot on Maiden Lane Alley. Building) (Photo 10). This seven story commercial masonry tall building was the first "high rise" building built in the Main-Exchange brick and granite (HP 10).
The most prominent corner of historic old Akron Main and Exchange streets saw the construction of this Neo-Classic Revival/Chicago Style Commercial building with its tripartite Classical expression, base, shaft and capital. This corner building has a rectangular footprint of approximately 60'x 69'. The South Main side has five structural bays and the East Exchange side Plain pilasters divide each bay of the "base". An interior entablature, with its row of dentil moldings at the cornice, separates the base from the upper four stories, which is the shaft of the building.
These upper stories, from the 3rd to the 6" floors, are buff brick veneered Main-Exchange Historic District wrought iron balcony.The second floor to the north has double windows divided by an Ionic column flanked by two single windows on (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) second floor and on the third floor, an open hall of 48'x 63' with a stage to be used as a dancing hall and concert hall of the Harmonie & Trust built a two story masonry building (HP 8). This structure was later demolished in 1916 together with the Parisette Block in 337 South Main Street. The People's Savings & Trust.
1916 (Neo-Classic Revival/Chicago Style Commercial building) (Evans replaced his tin shop with this new two-part commercial block, which provided space for three stores on the first floor, tin shop on the north and a larger hipped to the south where large free spans were needed to accommodate the public for large gatherings. The cornice OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 7 Summit County, Ohio simple moldings except for wreath ornamentation at the frieze defining the bays below, creating a rhythmical composition (Photo 11). paired window openings have a metal frame and sash. These windows seem to replace the original ones. The second floor fixed windows and the store windows of the first floor have also been changed through the years.
These share a single masonry opening and the bank offices has the 337S.Main address and has an elaborate cast stone labeled entablature. The secondary entrance, to the office floors at 333 S. Main shares the spandrel with the window above. The People's Building is approximately 80' in height. It was the tallest building in 1916 in the Main-Exchange district and one of the first high rise buildings. This structure was built on the site of the first three story People's Savings masonry Building built in 1903, which was demolished for this high-rise replacement. The People's Building was built as a thoroughly fireproof building of steel and reinforced concrete with tile and concrete floors and roof. This structure is one of the most significant buildings of the Main-Exchange District defining the emerging skyline of a 20# century historic commercial district of Akron.
There was an OHI form prepared in 1978. story limestone clad Neo-Classic Revival building's façade was created in 1916 when the People's Savings and Trust was built. It was the home of another bank, the Foreign Exchange Bank. The very narrow building is on the site of the north half of the Parisette Block, built in 1878, which was demolished in 1916 together with the south half and the two story People's Bank built in 1904 to make room keystones to the trabeated lintel. The deep recessed side door has the 331 number above, (former address). A large multi-paned window, contributing to the integrity and history of the Main-Exchange District. It acts as a link between the seven-story Neo-Classical Revival high rise to the south and the three stories Gothic Revival building to the north. It gave the opportunity for a windowed-sided north elevation of the high-rise building.
rear addressing a parking area. Also at the rear of the building there is an auto-teller window (Photo 8). The Modern Minimalist concrete construction represents the recent past of the Main-Exchange district. It replaced a row of two stories commercial buildings built in 1902 on the site of the dwelling of prominent Akron citizen, Charles Parisette. The asymmetrical façade's floors are defined by a horizontal band of windows framed and separated by mullions of the same material. The third floor has a system of aluminum awnings and fixed windows. The second floor has newly replaced double-hung windows and the first floor has sliding windows at sidewalk level following the downward slope of the street. The street has the typical double door, transom and sidelight aluminum framed entrance.
A vertical panel reaching the lintel of the third floor fenestration defines the location of the entrance. It is a modular and functional composition characterized by the emerging modern architecture. The building curved in the rear capped by an aluminum streamlined coping, has an Art Moderne interpretation. The curve leads the drive-thru customers smoothly to the exit alley. The architectural firm of Firestone and Cassidy designed it (HP 19 & 20). This building has maintained its architectural integrity and is contributing to the architecture and historic context of the Main-Exchange historic district. Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) and the windows have limestone sills.
A simple molded limestone belt caps the "shaft" and separates from the more elaborate upper continuation of a dentiled cornice of the interior entablature of the People's Bank. The pediment is crowned by an antefix. The very masonry building was built in 1956 with a pedestrian entrance on East Exchange Street, as well as one for car driving individuals in the structure of International Style influence has a buff brick, limestone and marble façade. This post WWII fireproof structure of steel and panels define the bays of the upper story with floral ornamentation matching the window height. The tall entablature of cast stone has The cornice also defines the bays by simple panels capped by defined moldings as part of the parapet coping. The rhythmically placed are separated by a metal spandrel. There are two recessed entrances to the Peoples' building, both on S. Main Street.
The main entry to narrow building has tripartite windows on the second floor separated by Tuscan Pilasters with centered large volutes above acting like taller than the door, defines the first floor fenestration. The Foreign Exchange Bank is an architecturally significant building On East Exchange Street. The Evans Savings Building Addition. (1956) (Modern Minimalist) (Photo 7& 3) The three-story 333(331) South Main Street.Foreign Exchange Bank,(1916) (Neo-Classic Revival) (Evans building) (Photo 12& 14).This two- OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 8 Summit County, Ohio 15.12 East Exchange Street. The Herberich Building-A.C.&Y Building. (1919-1920) (Neo-Classic Revival) (12East Exchange Building) (Photo 1 & 2).
Charles Herberich, an Akron businessman, investor in the rubber industry, construction, real estate and land development, built the eight-story commercial masonry tall building in 1919. The Herberich buff brick faced building with elaborate Neo-Classical Revival architectural details of terracotta was situated on the corner of East Exchange Street and Maiden Lane. The base, shaft and capital, a tripartite Classical expression seen in the Chicago Style Commercial buildings define the massing. The very elaborate ornamentation of the upper floor has a Sullivanesque influence with its intricate decorative detail of wood, brick and brightly corresponding classical moldings and dentils. The frieze has a rhythmical band of terracotta bellflowers ornament and stylized trygliphs.
It is followed by a wide architrave, which also surrounds the windows of the 8t floor in a basket weave brick pattern with blue terracotta medallions at intersections. The capital is separated from the shaft by a band of terracotta Vitruvian scroll ornamental molding with a centered cartouche with six Fleurs-de-lis on the East Exchange elevation. The shaft, which includes the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th floors, has a smooth surface of buff brick construction. The 3d floor is separated by belt molding courses and the windows are separated by four colored terracotta cartouches each displaying one number of the date of construction and three fleurs-de-lis (Photo 6). A fret, cyma recta and a bead and reel band colored terracotta band and a rosette defining the corners form the ornamental molding separating the shaft from the base.
The second and first floors on the street elevation are clad in terracotta with raised framed spandrels of leaf and dart moldings and bead and reel moldings and bellflowers at each end. The main entrance has an elaborate door surround with a keystone entablature, egg and dart and dentil moldings. It is followed by a frame surround with leaf and dart molding in the exterior and rope molding on the interior, all in colored terracotta (Photo 4). The windows on the top floor are of the Chicago Style, the windows on the shaft are paired in three bays, the second floor repeats the top floor type and the first floor has the commercial glass plate storefront windows with a base and transom.
The recessed entrance type of change has affected all the Main-Exchange District as well as other historic districts of Akron like the Main-Market historic district to the north and the South Main district bordering Canal Park to the north. The architectural firm of Boenish, Kraus and Helmkamp designed the Herberich Building. It is a building of fireproof construction with steel frame and concrete and tile floors and roof. It is one of the most significant buildings of the Main-Exchange District, which has maintained its architectural integrity and defined, in conjunction with the earlier People's Savings & Trust-Evans Building, for the first time the skyline of the booming city of Akron.
Main-Exchange Historic District NPS Form 10-900-a (Expires 1-31-2009) have remained in the same shape and size affecting only slightly the architectural integrity of the building.As mentioned previously this (8-86) colored terracotta of predominantly bright blue and red colors (Photo 5). The projecting pressed metal cornice is expressed with the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 1 Summit County, Ohio entertainment/recreation. It is also nominated under Criterion C for its significance in architecture and engineering. The Main-Exchange Historic District is significant under Criterion A, in the area of commerce, because it makes a significant contribution to the broad patterns of the commercial history in Akron.
The district played an important role in the development of the commercial area of South Akron through the canal era, through the railroad era and automobile era, which lead to the development of the city of Akron as the rubber city of the world. The buildings today in the district represent the rise and the sunset of the rubber The Main-Exchange district planned as the commercial center in the original town plat by the founder of the city of Akron in the summer of 1825. It was Akron's first important business district, until the establishment of the Cascade Village in 1833, called North Akron, with its Main-Market business section. From then on, the Main-Exchange became known as the commercial center of South Akron competing with the more important Main-Market of North Akron.
The commercial role of the district continued with the arrival of the railroad in 1852, Akron's incorporation as a city in 1865 after it reached a population of 5,066 inhabitants and the establishment of the most important post-Civil War industries. Some of these industries established themselves along the canal in the 1870's and two of the most significant ones, located immediately to the south of the Main-Exchange commercial district. These industries were the Goodrich, Tew and Company, the first rubber industry in Akron, and the Barber Match Company founded by O.C. Barber (the founder of Barberton). At the turn of the century, the Main-Exchange district evolved into the new commercial center of South Akron serving the demands of the successful rubber industry and its workers.
Those were the Magic Years of Akron and the commercial buildings still transition of Akron from an industrial town through the years of exponential growth into a city of world presence in manufacturing. The commercial Main-Exchange District is significant in the area of commerce. It is the place of the establishment of the early banks, financial institutions and real estate development serving the growing economy and population fostered by the rubber and related National Bank of Akron, Bank of Akron and First Federal Savings were the monetary institutions represented in this district during city of Akron is the 28* story skyscraper built in 1931, which resulted from the merger of the Depositor's Savings and Trust in the Main-Exchange District with the Central Savings and Trust Co. established in 1897 and with offices near the Main- Market District.
The Main-Exchange District was affected by the evolutions of different transportation modes from the canal, railroad, bicycle, streetcar and interurban era in the 19'"' century to the automobile, trolley bus and bus era of the 20 century. The Ohio & Erie Canal locks before framing the east and west boundaries of the district served the abutting industries. These industries contributed to the development of the automobile through the production of tires, like by the Goodrich Rubber Company situated to the south, across Cedar Street. Another significant contribution to transportation of the Main-Exchange District was the establishment in the mid-1920's, of the Akron, Youngstown and Canton Railroad administration offices in the Herberich Building reinforcing their commitment to transportation in the offices for his real estate empire.
Herberich was one of the most prominent real estate developers, banker, investor and financiers in industry. Main-Exchange Historic District United States Department of the Interior (Expires 1-31-2009) district situated a block away towards the East.The nearby railroad freight lines and stations in the late 19 and early 2o" century (8-86) extant represent the legacy of that period. The Main-Exchange district therefore is significant, because it represents the advances and industries, like Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone and General Tire, together with 20 others of smaller scale, producing approximately 40,000 tires per day in 1916 and employing 38,000 employees. The People's Savings & Trust, the Security Savings Bank, the therefore relocating to larger buildings built north on Main Street.
One of the most visible buildings today defining the skyline of the The Main-Exchange District is being nominated under Criterion A for significance in the areas of commerce and its period of significance in the 20* century. Some of these early banks became the largest banks in Akron through mergers and area and its importance. This is the tallest building in the Main-Exchange commercial district, built by Charles Herberich in 1919 as NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 2 Summit County, Ohio Akron and Ohio. Also, the Main Exchange District was one of the most important intersections of public transportation, the streetcar and later the trolley bus, which served the city of Akron and the region.
The Main-Exchange District is significant in the area of entertainment/ recreation with the establishment in 1913 of the Main Theatre, a movie house at the NW corner of Main and Exchange as part of a shopping complex in the new Brodbeck building, built on the site of the former Clarendon Hotel, which burned in 1912. In 1915, it added a Dance Hall on the second floor, called the Stanley Dancing Pavilion, and it was considered the "Finest Dancing Floor in the State" accommodating 350 couples at one time. It was the needs of the growing working classes who found release from the grueling routine work at the factories. Today, the Lux Night Club some form of cultural unity was provided among a growing plurality from race to gender.
The Main-Exchange Historic District is also significant in architecture under Criterion C, because it includes many significant buildings designed by prominent architects, who were important on the local, regional, and state level. The architecture of the Main- construction of fireproof buildings using the emerging reinforced concrete technology, structural tile and terra cotta. era and early railroad frame and brick buildings. Its significance is expressed in the evolution of its architecture expressing the physical and economic growth created by the establishment of the rubber industry during the Reconstruction Era and its growth at the end of the 19"h century with the arrival of the bicycle and the horseless carriage, the automobile. This new transportation mode established itself commercial services like banking, office space and entertainment.
Therefore, new fireproof buildings were built of concrete and steel. in Akron, replacing the original commercial structures of the original city. A variety of significant architectural styles from the end of the 19t* century, beginning and mid-20" century are represented in the Main- Exchange District, with most of them of Classical influence. The building styles include the Gothic Revival Kaiser Building, the Beaux Cassidy. As the more important Main-Market district of North Akron, the South Main District at Bowery and S. Main, and the Main- were the tall buildings, like the People's Savings and Trust Company and the Herberich Building, providing much needed office space needs of the developing banking and financing industry.
New recreation and entertainment modes serving the expanding working force of the rubber and other related industries in Akron, created new building types housing the Movie Theatre and the Dancing Hall in the Brodbeck building. These were large public assembly places, which replaced the smaller private ones, like the 19t century dancing hall of the Harmonie Society on the 3'd floor of during the first decades of the 2o" century. The population growth paralleling the rubber industry increased the demand for housing, Main-Exchange Historic District Exchange district is also significant in engineering, because it represents the advances in 2o" century engineering technology in the Ultra Lounge occupies the former dancing place performing "modern versions of the turkey trot, bunny hug and hesitation waltz".
The United States Department of the Interior (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) The Main-Exchange Commercial district buildings represent mostly the architecture of the early 20* century, which replaced the canal The first tall office buildings, "skyscrapers", appeared in growing American cities, in their commercial districts, like the Main-Exchange Art Depositors' Savings and Trust, and the prominent high-rise Neo-Classic Revival examples of the People's Savings and Trust and the Herberich buildings, complemented by Modern Minimalist bank architecture designed by the local prominent architects Firestone & Exchange district of South Akron have a large concentration of Classic Revival buildings. first dance hall in the city of Akron. This was the time of consumerism and the Progressive Era.
The entrepreneurs were providing new forms of public entertainment to the growing population of Akron due to the new economic prosperity. Dancing Halls were meeting the movie theatre and the dance hall represented the emerging commercial mass entertainment for all segments of the population where for the expanding insurance companies, real estate enterprises and professional health services for the growing population, as well as the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 8 Page 3 Summit County, Ohio the Kaiser Block. At the end of the period of significance, in 1956, one of the first auto teller banking facilities in the Modern Minimalist style was built Akron architects Firestone & Cassidy. SIGNIFICANCE AND INTEGRITY OF THE MAIN-EXCHANGE DISTRICT. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING HISTORY.
The Main-Exchange Historic District is significant because represents the evolution and changes of the first commercial and trading center, from its establishment during the Ohio & Erie Canal, one of the most important commercial centers serving the rubber industry from its beginnings in the 19* century until its decline in the 20* century. The Canal Era Main Exchange District continued to evolve with the arrival of the railroad in 1852, which brought gradually a change of use of the canal, from a transportation source in the development of a market economy to a water source for industrial development. Main-Exchange served the needs of the citizens at different periods of economic growth: first the needs of the farmers who brought their goods to be delivered, and later to the industrial workers of the surrounding mills and factories during the railroad and rubber industry eras.
In the Main Exchange district, the first established businesses served the basic needs of a pioneering canal town community, providing as saddle and harness makers. After Akron incorporated as a city in 1865 at the end of the civil war, followed by the expansion of the saloons, restaurants, billiard rooms, drugstores, hardware stores and doctor offfices. During the first decades of the 20* century, Akron experienced its most important economic, industrial and population growth in its history called the "Magic Years". Main-Exchange responded to the growth accordingly with new high-rise buildings, providing office space, banking and hotels, as well as a movie theater and the first dancing hall in Akron, the emerging entertainment mode for the well as offices. place after WWII. This contributed to the gradual decline of this commercial district and the rest of Akron's CBD.
The construction of the interstate highway system and the urban renewal policies accelerated this decline. The period of significance commences with the construction of the Kaiser building on South Main Street in 1877, which was the decade that the first rubber industry established itself in Akron. The period of significance of the Main-Exchange district ends in 1956, with the building built in the district at the time when the symptoms and causes of the decline of the rubber industry's presence in Akron began to take place. Rubber was king in Akron for almost a century before the causes of the decline surfaced. The causes were the radial declining employment. These causes made it easier and desirable for the rubber industry to start shutting down the plants and establish new factories in regions of the country without unions, like the south.
Also new advances in technology in the 1950's accelerated the CONTINUATION SHEET Main-Exchange Historic District growing working class population. The second floors of the two-part commercial buildings were also providing space for housing as buildings, foreign imports and competition, restrictive union work rules and labor unrest with triennial strikes, six-hour shifts and National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) food, clothing, household and transportation goods through grocery stores, bakeries, butchers and dry good stores, shoe makers, as well railroad and the establishment of major industries like the Goodrich Rubber Manufacturing Co., the commercial center, expanded with construction of the Modern Minimalist bank addition on East Exchange Street to the Evans Savings Building complex. This was the last as an addition to the Neo- Classic Revival Evans Savings Bldg.
(formerly the People's Trust) on East Exchange Street designed by local The most significant architectural styles occurred before the beginning of the decline of the rubber tire industry in Akron, which took expansion into more modern and efficient plants outside Akron. Jerry O'Neil, the son of the founder of General Tire, after assuming the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 8 Page 4 Summit County, Ohio presidency in 1960 said during his speech that the key factors they consider in choosing a plant site are proximity to markets, freight lines, labor costs, and labor climate: "If there has been a history of Labor unrest. You don't want to go there" By 1970, almost all tire manufacturing had moved elsewhere, like Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and overseas.
The 1950's rubber industry events in Akron reflected the impending slide from its position as Rubber Capital of the World. Akron had its share of labor unrest in the 1950's and the south offered a less militant labor climate. Goodrich was the first rubber company to establish itself in Akron and the first rubber company to leave Akron, as well as the rubber business. This affected the Main-Exchange district and its neighbors. Today, most of the rubber companies that lead Akron's economy for almost a century are under foreign ownership and based outside Akron. Many buildings have been demolished, some are abandoned, but others, like the former site of the Goodrich rubber empire with 60 buildings in 75 acres, abutting the Main-Exchange Historic, have been successfully adaptively re-used and are part of the well known Canal Place complex (some buildings have been demolished).
The 70 years old brick Goodrich Building 41 at the corner of S. Main and Cedar St.is the headquarters of Advance Elastomer Systems. The generation of offices and a new industrial technology, polymers. Introduction. Founding of the Village of Akron (South Akron) 1825 The Main-Exchange Historic District represents the commercial center of the original town plan that the founder of the City of Akron created in the summer of 1825. General Simon Perkins with Paul Williams purchased over 1,000 acres to establish a canal town from where the Ohio & Erie Canal was established and developed. For almost 8 years, the Main-Exchange Commercial District was the most important business district in the newly founded Village of Akron.
When another town plat was developed to the north in 1833, originally called the Cascade Village or North Akron, the Main-Exchange District became known as the town center of South Akron and had to compete with a new commercial center. Joshua Henshaw platted the town of South Akron. It contained 172.2 acres, approximately half-mile square. This original town is defined by a grid of square blocks, subdivided by streets, alleys and 300rectangular lots with a typical New England Town Square at the western side of the canal, later named Perkins Square. Main Street was 100' wide, and Exchange St., 99' wide. These streets needed to be wide because they led to the canal to facilitate the arrival and delivery of merchandise and materials. High Street was a secondary or collector street of 66' wide as it was Williams St. (Orleans Ave.) The alleys, Spring Alley and Maiden lane, were 20' wide.
The canal were rectangular in shape, ranging from 54' by 330°. Lot sizes varied from 54' to 70' deep by 66' wide. Today the same street layout remains. South Akron was plotted perpendicular to the future canal. Summit Lake, the highest point of the canal, at 395' above Lake Erie was part of the south end of this new town. The canal engineers needed 41 locks between the Summit and Lake Erie, and 17 locks would be built along 2-miles. South Akron had two locks, with lock no. 1 being one block away from the Main-Exchange intersection and part of 12 acres dedicated to the Lower and Upper Basins ofthe Canal.Lock 1 on Exchange Street would be the place where boat captains, suppliers and passengers would meet to obtain supplies and attend the local taverns at the Main-Exchange commercial center.
The Town of South Akron also provided residences and accommodations for the engineers, supervisors, contractors and the workforce The Main-Exchange District was also the site of the ending of the second canal, the Pennsylvania & Ohio established in 1840. It was the decade of the creation of Summit County and the visit of President Quincy Adams to the dedication ceremony of its first courthouse. Main-Exchange Historic District CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) blocks framed by these streets, not facing the canal, were almost square, ranging in size from 140' by 170'and the ones towards the new use of the building represents the historic legacy of the rubber industry. The Main and Exchange Historic District, is serving a new involved in the construction of the canal. This was the vision of Simon Perkins and it became a reality at that time.
NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 5 Summit County, Ohio South Main Street was the north-south axis of this district, running parallel to the canal, within the district from State Street in the north the original settlement of Middlebury to the east. Main Street also connected South Akron with North Akron after the two towns, decided to join forces and create the town of Akron in 1836 with a total population of 1,343 inhabitants. South Akron was the site where the imports, sales and shipment of merchandise occurred and North Akron with its 12 locks became the manufacturing center and a new competing important mercantile center. The intersection of Main and Exchange Streets became the heart of the original Village.
This business section was built along the banks tavern, a general store, two grocery stores and freight warehouses facing the canal. A few years later, a hotel was added where the Half a block away from the intersection, on E. Exchange Street, Richard Howe, the Ohio & Erie Canal engineer built in 1830 the first brick house in the Federal Style. The new Village of Akron did not develop any industrial base at the beginning, because it lacked the concentration of locks, which provided the necessary waterpower, like the future Village of Cascade in North Akron established in 1832. The 1825 South Akron conveniently located in relationship to their farms, like the town of Clinton to the South. Therefore, the commercial district of Main and Cascade with an initially strong industrial base and later a larger commercial center.
Only the arrival of the railroad and the new industries initiated the renewal of the Main-Exchange Commercial District. Renewal of Main-Exchange. (1871) transportation provided faster and therefore more economical services, it slowly began to replace the canal. However, the attraction of water as an industrial resource brought new industries and kept Akron alive prompting the renewal of the Main and Exchange district, which began to provide co. The Ohio & Erie Canal continued to be used for the transportation of coal mined from Summit County, which provided energy to the locomotives and industries (The Pennsylvania & Ohio canal was abandoned in 1884 and the flood of 1913 destroyed the Ohio & Erie Canal). Akron survived the Civil War years by providing special food for the troops, oatmeal, created by a new industries: a stoneware factory, rolling mills and grain mills.
The new industries replaced the canal warehouses and early mills, institutions and some housing around the canal and its basins. This economic stability, growth and opportunities due to the railroad and civil war brought a significant increase in population. Therefore, in 1865, Akron incorporated as a city with 5,066 inhabitants. By 1870, Akron's population had increased to 10,000 inhabitants and new industries were being built near the basins, canal and rail lines, and South Akron began to change after the Civil War. Among the most significant industries built near the Main-Exchange district were the Rubber Factory, the Chain Factory and the Barber Match Company. These new industries replaced the boat building industry of the canal era and joined the strong industry of agricultural implements, the mowers and reapers established in the 1860's.
Among them was the Buckeye Reaper and Mower Company founded by J.F. Seiberling, the future founder of a rubber industry giant, Goodyear at the end of the 19th century. Railroad arrival in 1852. City of Akron.Reconstruction.Decline and re-use of the canal.Arrival of the Rubber Industry. proprietor was also Akron's postmaster. During those early years the buildings were all one to two story and a half frame buildings. Main-Exchange Historic District Village did not progress economically beyond the regular canal traffic activity.Most farmers would deliver their grain to towns more National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) Akron was booming with the establishment of the two canals, but not for long. In 1852, the railroad arrived, and as a new mode of to Chestnut Street in the south.
Main Street intersected Exchange Street which was the east-west axis leading to Medina to the west and of a valley, while the residential neighborhoods developed over the hills on either side. The first commercial buildings erected were a German immigrant, Ferdinand Schumacher, later known as the founder of Quaker Oats. The railroad also brought the establishment of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 6 Summit County, Ohio Another significant event that reflected economic prosperity, cultural and physical growth in Akron was the establishment of Buchtel College (today University of Akron) in 1871 and in 1872, the original town of Middlebury, predecessor to Akron was annexed into the city as the Sixth Ward. The Rubber factory established by Dr.
Benjamin Franklin Goodrich in 1871, marked the beginning of what the future of Akron in the 20*h century would be and what role of that future would the Main-Exchange district play. Goodrich was looking for a place that would have low land, labor and coal costs, availability of a site with water, and a rail line that would bring the raw material, rubber from Brazil. The transportation advantages and the backing of Akron industrialists also attracted Goodrich. This was the first rubber company Akron industrialists decided to increase Akron's manufacturing base and were eager to help new business enterprises get established. During the 1880's Goodrich embarked into land acquisition and building construction setting the foundations for the rubber industry in When the B.F.
Goodrich Rubber Company established itself in South Akron on the east side of the Canal, the Main-Exchange commercial district was able to provide services to the local population. There were hardware and grocery stores, meat markets, wine and liquors store, a milliner and barbershop, a broom and chain maker, a saddle and harness store, flour and feed store, restaurants, a physician office, a druggist, saloons and a hotel. The district was surrounded and encroached by different manufacturing enterprises, like beef and pork packers, furniture manufacturer, coal dealers, flouring mills, sawmill, and lime and rubber manufacturing. A billiard hall on W. Exchange Street provided entertainment in addition to the saloons.
the saddle and harness owner who built himself a two-story masonry building on Main Street, renovating it in 1891 for the People's Savings & Trust, and later the Commercial Bank in 1908. This building obtained a new façade with the Byrider Bros., a clothing store in the 1920's. The original Mammoth store, next door, became the site of an Italianate masonry building (demolished in 1916) selling oldest building in the district and CBD. The Kaiser Block (1877) property in 1855. He replaced his building, where he was conducting his tinware business with this three story elaborate Gothic Revival masonry structure. Kaiser was a very well established citizen at that time, having started as a locksmith and expanding his business to Orpheus Society. The third floor was called Harmonie Hall.
These societies were part of the social/cultural development of German musical societies across the country, where German immigrants were able to fulfill their needs of cultural expression. These local singing societies had their beginning in Akron in 1859 and Joseph Kaiser was one of its members. A local prominent Canadian architect William H. Smith, born in New Brunswick, designed the building. He was also designing at the same time Castle Hall on East Market Street for Martin Crumrine, a stonemason who owned a Granite and Marble Works on North High Street. The Kaiser Block and Castle Hall were designed in the same style and built with the same materials (Castle Hall today is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Main-Market Historic District).
Joseph Kaiser's hardware store occupied the first floor, together with a hats and caps/boots and shoes store, as well as a drugstore. The second floor had the tin shop and a loan and real Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) include hardware, stoves, tin, copper and sheet ironwares.He was also active within the large German community of Akron and (8-86) established west of the Allegheny. After a shaky start in 1871, the company was incorporated in 1880 with the help of local investors. A new construction era began on Main and Exchange Street where enterprising citizens became involved. Among them, P. Uppington, provided space on the third floor for a stage and hall for the singing performances and entertainment activities of the Harmonie and dry goods on W. Exchange Street.
However, Joseph Kaiser built the most significant building at that time in 1877, being today the Joseph Kaiser was an enterprising artisan, a tinner, who arrived to Akron as a young man from Baden, Germany and purchased this National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 8 Page 7 Summit County, Ohio estate agent office. The brick and stone work was done by Schroeder, Lutz & Co. and the remainder of the work by Bahl and Derhammer. The Kaiser Block was inaugurated in November 7, 1877 with an orchestra and a dancing event. The Summit County and always characterized our city". The Kaiser Block provided commercial and cultural services to the surrounding enterprises. It is the only remaining building of the who also lived in the surrounding area. Today, the Kaiser Block is empty and boarded up.
The upper floors have maintained a high degree of integrity but the first floor went through storefront changes as many other historic storefronts in Akron's Historic Commercial Growth of the Rubber Industry at the turn of the century. Interurban. Bicycles. Arrival of the Horseless Carriage. First Banks 1891-1913. Building Code and Building Boom. After a shaky start, B. F. Goodrich Co. incorporated in 1880 with a capital of $100,000 with the help of industrialist George W. Crouse, friend of Colonel Perkins who had invested in the rubber factory. Perkins was the son of the founder of the city of Akron, General territories located in the Northwest and Southwest of Akron. These annexations were related to the introduction and expansion of the electric streetcar system.
During the economic depression of 1893, when bankruptcy occurred, factories closed and unemployment rose dramatically, the only industry that survived those hard economic times was the rubber industry. In 1891 Goodrich became one of the first companies in the automobile in 1896, with Goodrichalso providingpneumatictires for the first American automobile manufactured by Alexander Winton in Cleveland. The era of competition in the rubber industry began in 1892 with the establishment of the Miller Rubber Co. and the Diamond Rubber Co. in1895, followed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 founded F.A. and Charles Seiberling and the Firestone Rubber Co. founded in 1900 by Harvey Firestone. Akron's rubber industries during the opening years of the century were building new factories as fast as they could.
The Diamond Match Company moved to the newly founded city of Barberton and Goodrich expanded their operations on their site. The arrival of the automobile resulted in great and unexpected prosperity for Akron. It was the only city in with the help of the streetcar and interurban system. At the same time, the turn of the century brought new growth to the Main-Exchange bicycle and the automobile. Akron found itself with a population of 42,000 and the city limits continued to be extended. The rubber industry finally replaced the industry of the mowers and reapers. growing banking organizations were the result of employers encouraging their workers to save and assistance given to them for home purchase.
The People's Savings Bank established themselves in 1891 at 356 South Main Street, in the Upington Block starting a banking tradition in the first commercial-mercantile center of the city of Akron. It was the first bank built on Main Street in the CBD Districts. CONTINUATION SHEET Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) United States Department of the Interior (8-86) Beacon newspaper reported: This block...is a tangible and substantial evidence of the prosperity and business energy which have Main-Exchange district representing the era of the beginning of the growth of the rubber industry in the 19# century. The Goodrich rubber factory was only two blocks away and the Kaiser block was providing commercial services for their management and workers rubber industry due to the demand for tires for the popular bicycle, which gave the rubber industry the greatest push.
Then came the District, spearheaded by the growth of the rubber industry, due to the development and emergence of new transportation modes, the Simon Perkins. At that time, the city grew to 16,600 inhabitants and new lands were incorporated into the city, such us Old Forge and NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 8 Summit County, Ohio Howard Street, two on East Market Street and one on Mill Street. This bank remained in the district, building new buildings as it expanded, with the first tall building at the intersection of Main and Exchange defining it, as a new financial center of the rubber city at The Main-Exchange commercial district, with its selection of bars and grills and restaurants, provided eating facilities for the workers of the Goodrich rubber company.
It also fulfilled the needs of an acute housing shortage since the industrial expansion of the rubber industry started, by building new masonry buildings where the 2°and 3d floors were used as apartments, boarding rooms or hotels. Some of these workers were William Baumgartner of 376 S. Main Street who worked for Goodrich; Walter J. Breth of 380 S. Main Street who was inspector at Goodrich; Arnold Phillip and George Kosier of 378 S. Main who worked for Goodrich; Gust Rafales of 378 S. Main Street who worked for Goodyear; George Philios of 376 S. Main Street who worked for Goodyear; Charles Burris of 378 S. Main Street who worked for Miller Rubber Co.; Ralph Fleck of 374 S. Main who worked for Goodrich; Charles Leading of 362 S. Main who worked for Goodrich and William E. Meyers of 362 S. Main Street who worked for Buckeye Rubber Co..
being built in the Main-Exchange District and the rest of the CBD. The Carl Hafner Block (1910) which was built in the 19th century, and at sometime, it had a carpet weaving business. When Hafner purchased the property, Morris and Sam Presser used it as a residence and barbershop. Hafner built this three-story masonry building with the financial help of the State Savings Bank of Canal Dover, the Dauntless Plumbing Co. and the D. Herberich Company. The contractors for the building were Shepard and Tidrick, local builders. The first stores on the first floor were Hafner's barbershop and Jacob Burger's Saloon. Both families had their residences on the upper floors. Hafner had two barbershops in Akron, one on Howard Street and the other in this new building. A couple of years later Burger moved next door to a new masonry building.
Clarence Crow opened a Cigar Store and Barbaris and Krutky became the new barbers. William Baumgartner, who worked for Goodrich established residence on the upper floors with his family, as well as Mrs. Mary English. This building reflects the investment by the new immigrants into property and businesses in the Main-Exchange district serving the workforce of the booming rubber industry. It also provided much needed housing to the arriving workforce. The Hafner building is also another property in the district that the Herberich Company provided financing resources. Until The Burkhardt Block (1911) 1891, which was used as a saloon operated by James Edwards. Gustav Burkhardt owner of the realty company was also president of the famous Burkhardt brewery. The company built and opened taverns throughout Akron and began to sell the Akron beer across the state.
James Edwards continued to operate his saloon in the building built by Burkhardt while promoting their beer to the citizens who worked Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) the turn of the 20century.By 1910,four more banks established themselves on S.Main Street in the CBD; three of them were in the (8-86) district (the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal run through Main Street until it was buried in 1884). In 1891, there were two banks on By 1910, Akron's population increased to 70,000. The year of 1913 saw the largest building boom in Akron, new factories, additions Carl Hafner, a barber, born in Austria, built this three-story masonry building. The Hafiner building replaced a two-story frame dwelling, recently, the first floor was occupied by Bandito's bar and apartments occupied the upper floors.
At the same time, the building boom, the earthquake in San Francisco and the Collinwood High School fire created a building code movement in the city of Akron and new construction technologies and materials were adopted, especially the new fireproof buildings and new housing. Building Inspector Goodwin predicted in 1913 that by 1914, Akron would have 100,000 inhabitants. In 1911, building inspector H. A. Brooker issued a building permit to Burkhardt Realty to build a three story brick building at the NW corner of S. Main and Cedar streets. The lower floors were planned as store rooms and the upper floors as residences. The total estimated cost was $10,000. It replaced an existing two-story commercial frame structure with wood shingles built between 1887 and NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 9 Summit County, Ohio at the surrounding rubber factories and other industries. Edwards and his family lived in the upper floors, as well as his brother Frank who worked as a bartender in the saloon. In 1915, it advertised a buffet, sales of choice wines, liquors and cigars. In 1919, Walter Breth, an inspector for the Goodrich Rubber Co. had his residence on the upper floor after Edwards moved to Coventry Twp and became owner of an hotel. Today, ATA Advertising occupies the building, which is owned by ATA Realty Company. The Akron Clothing Co.-Eckler Bros. Block (1912) frame dwelling with a wood shingle roof built in the 19* century. Arnold Philip who worked for the Goodrich Co. occupied this frame dwelling before its demolition. The Akron Clothing Co.
occupied the first floor and the upper floors become residences for Harry Bleyer who had a grocery story three doors down and James Martin, a cement worker. By 1915, the Eckler brothers established a bicycle shop and Albert Eckler became the manager of the store. New residents established themselves at that time, like the large family of George Kosier who worked for the Goodrich Co. and the family of Arthur McElroy, a machinist. The entrance to the store was rehabilitated c.1929 and a new mosaic ceramic tile floor was installed with the name of the new occupant, Fred A. Grimm (extant), who was a jeweler. Today, a food establishment, Diamond Deli, occupies the store. The Jacob Burger Saloon - Eugene Halas Restaurant. (1912). This two-story masonry building was built in 1912.
It replaced a two-story frame building with a wood shingle roof used as a boarding house and a saloon in 1886 and as restaurant and cigar store in 1892. Among the first business to occupy the new masonry building was again a restaurant managed by Eugene Halas and also a saloon managed by Jacob Burger, who came from Hungary, and moved his business from the Hafner building, next door. Halas had his residence on the second floor with his wife Mary. Max Desure and his wife Sarah occupied the second apartment on the same floor. By 1919, there were new tenants in the building: Hyman Aronson who opened a tailor shop, and the residential second floor was occupied by Ralph Fleck, who worked for the Goodrich Rubber Co., Burt Hull, a driver and Ernest Blondheim, a cook. The store and apartments provided services and much needed housing.
Today, a food establishment, DaVinci's Pizza, occupies the store and it continues to provide food services to the new work force surrounding the Magic Years. Construction boom. WWI transportation economy. Tall Office buildings in emerging American cities. 1913 - WWI brought economic prosperity and the greatest boom in the city of Akron. Smoke rose through the new and old smokestacks day and night, new land was annexed where new neighborhoods were built as fast as labor and capital could facilitate it. By 1916 Akron had a population of 126,000 and was considered the "Rubber Capital of the World". It had by that time 24-rubber companies producing rubber tires. Besides the three major companies, there were other enterprising rubber companies, among them the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., the Mohawk Rubber Co., the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., the Star Rubber Co.
They all were involved in producing other rubber products, like clothing, boots and shoes, hose, belting, surgical and pharmacist goods and many other soft and hard rubber articles. In 1916, the General Tire and Rubber Co. was founded. Being a latecomer during the economic boom of Akron did not stop them in was one of the most important realtors, bankers and developer in the Main-Exchange District. He was Charles Herberich who also was appointed secretary of the emerging rubber company. Herberich built the tallest office building at the Main - Exchange District at 12 East Exchange Street. The eight story high Herberich Building was considered by author Karl H. Grismer a "semi-skyscraper" in his book Akron & Summit County.
Charles Herberich was a German immigrant leader who contributed to the economic success of Akron with his initiative, efficiency and aggressiveness in developing Akron resources in cooperation with other industrial and civic leaders. 1920. Main-Exchange district. Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) becoming one of the four giants after WWII. General Tire was founded by a group of enterprising Akron businessmen. One of them NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES J. Weinberger, proprietor of the Akron Clothing Co. built this commercial building. The new masonry building replaced a two-story NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 10 Summit County, Ohio During the Magic Years, the decade between 1910 and 1920, Akron begun to change its skyline, especially in the CBD. The eleven story Howe Hotel (demolished) built in the Main Market district in 1915 was the tallest built during that period. Other tall buildings eight story Ohio Building in1916 and the 7story First-Second National Bank (adding 3 stories in 1919) in 1912 at Bower and South Main (in the South Main District) and the seven story People's Savings and Trust Co. in 1916 (announced in the local newspaper as "Bank to Build Skyscraper at Main-Exchange"), followed by another "skyscraper", the 8** story Herberich Building, both in he Main- Exchange District. The skyline of the CBD changed, as well as Akron's.
By 1920, Akron had expanded into a city of 200,000 inhabitants. The manufacturing industry also included cereal and clay products, machinery, tools, stoves and furnaces and many others, but they were all subordinated to the predominant rubber industry. The demand inhabitants arriving daily to the city with almost 2,500 per month. Akron by 1915 ranked no. 7 in population in Ohio after Youngstown. Cleveland and Cincinnati ranked no.1 and 2 in all categories in the 1914 Census. Akron ranked no. 6 in number of industrial establishment, ranked no. 3 in number of employees, value of products and wages and salaries and no.4 in capital investment. At the National level in 1920, Akron was considered a mid-Size city with 208,435 inhabitants according to a 2000 data study by Overman and Ioannides in their paper of Cross Sectional Evolution of the US City Size Distribution.
In the 1910 Listing of the U.S Census Bureau of population of the 100 largest Urban Places, Akron was listed number 81, the smallest in Ohio industrial towns, but in the 1920 listing Akron jumped ahead to number 32, ahead of ahead of Dayton, Youngstown and Canton. The Main-Exchange District continued to provide financial, commercial, entertainment and residential services, especially increasing affordable hotel room space to workers when the housing facilities in the city were inadequate and the rentals had become sky high. style in 1880 by Schumacher. The hotel was destroyed by fire in November 1912.
(HP2) The first tenants to move in the Brodbeck building were the Exchange Market (later called the Main Market) located in the basement; the Main Theatre (later called State Theatre), a movie theatre on the first floor, performing "the latest photo plays and motion pictures" tobacco and a shoe shine shop. The movie theatre represented a new temple of culture for the emerging middle class. A year later, a Dance Hall was added on the second floor when Edward Stanley purchased the Movie Theatre. It was the first one of its kind in Akron. still a time of Victorian moral standards where a "private detective" would control admittance and patrons were ejected if they danced the turkey trot, bunny hug or hesitation waltz and the tango was not even mentioned. The Dance Hall could have 350 couples dancing at one time.
It became so popular that in a year a similar dance hall opened on East Market Street. Dancing was not considered anymore a also a social event providing a setting for a new venue, for an opportunity of social interaction among the large influx of new population from Europe and other States. (HP 9) Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) population of Akron.Brodbeck was a real estate investor living in Cuyahoga Falls. He also was involved in business ventures with a The Brodbeck Building (Main Market-Main (State) Theatre-Stanley Dancing Pavilion) (1913) (8-86) were built along Main street in the CBD during that period: the six stories high Metropolitan in 1918 in the Main-Market District, the "dangerous activity", during this progressive era, it was considered more by the middle class as part of a healthy and active life.
It was Akron replaced the famous 19# century four-story masonry, Clarendon Hotel. It was one of the Temperance Hotels owned by oatmeal king, Ferdinand Schumacher. Originally built in 1836, and known as May Block, it was remodeled into a Queen Anne/Eastlake building a drugstore in the corner, a candy store or confectionary serving the audience attending the theatre, also a shop selling fruits, cigars and Francis Brodbeck Jr.built the 2-story masonry building as a multipurpose commercial and entertainment center for the growing OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 11 Summit County, Ohio Today, it continues the tradition as the Lux Night Club Ultra Lounge. The first floor has become a space for two restaurants, Bricco and Whiskey Dicks Night Restaurant.
The Durkin Block (1914) In 1914, John Durkin Jr., born in England and police chief of the city of Akron built this commercial masonry building as an investment one time. Charles Leading working for Goodrich and William Myers working for the Buckeye Rubber Co. lived there before its 1914, the Pure Food Bakery, owned by baker Gottfried Hausch, was the first store to move in. The second floors were occupied by Jacob Green a pant maker, the offices of the Akron Hungarian Journal, the Akron Construction Co. owned by architect J.E. Palmer and The Sanford Block-Central Hotel (1914) Building Inspector Goodwin from the city of Akron issued a permit "for a $12,000 brick business block... to be erected at 358 South Main St., by Col. H. C. Sanford." as reported by the Akron Beacon Journal on June 12, 1914.
This was originally an office building, which would provide space also for the law offices of Hon. Henry Sanford, an Attorney at Law, and his son William H. Sanford, who was also an attorney, as well as a real estate dealer. Col. Sanford was born in Portland, Maine. He came to Ohio and worked in the railroad becoming an engineer. At later date, he became an attorney and continued working for the railroad until he came to Akron in 1870. Sanford became a prosecuting attorney, a city solicitor and an Ohio State Representative. buildings (360 & 358 S. Main St.) built at the end of the 19" century and used as a harness shop and real estate office, respectively. In 1913, Gum Louie operated a laundry store at 360 S. Main, and moved later to the Durkin Building next door. The Pure Food Bakery owned by Gottfried Hausch occupied 358 S. Main St. before demolition.
The Sanfords were also investors and saw the urgent need for housing in the growing city; therefore, the two upper floors were leased with weekly and monthly rentals. The Central Hotel was still in existence in 1955. Today the Sanford building has the Amsterdam residential use offering daily and weekly affordable rentals. The Glenn Hotel (1916) Italianate structure built during c.1876,the former Kramer Block. The Kramer block in turn had replaced two, two story frame commercial structures built during the Canal years of Akron. Those frame buildings were known as the "Mammoth Store" and were of century, before the site became the Glenn Hotel. The corner storefront uses of the Kramer Block ranged from grocery stores and cigar manufacturing to dry goods, drugstore and restaurant. The second storefront next to it, to the west, was in 1886, a billiard, pool and sample room.
Later on, a saloon and restaurant were added. In 1905, it provided room for the Democratic Headquarters. The second Main-Exchange Historic District the two-part commercial block type. The c.1876 Italianate corner store had many commercial uses in the 19" century and early 20th Law offices. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NPS Form 10-900-a (Expires 1-31-2009) property.Durkin was Akron's chief of police for 3 decades and lived in the historic Richard Howe House, the resident engineer of the (8-86) Ohio Erie Canal, formerly situated on 30 E. Exchange Street, a block away. The Durkin Bldg. was built as a fire resistant building, replacing a 19" century two story frame building with a wood shingle roof, which was used as a residence and a carpet weaver shop at The Sanfords had office space in the masonry building next door at 356 S. Main St.
This new building replaced two one-story frame Club/Bar and the Tear E-Z Club/Bar on the first floor and Global Leasing Apartments on the upper floors continuing its original In 1916, a new three-story masonry commercial building was built. This building replaced a very significant two-story masonry builder J.C. Beeman (they might have designed and built this Neo-Classic Revival building). There was also a Laundry shop owned by Gum Louie. Today, the Durkin Building is owned by the Durkin Building Corporation and still used for office space, but this time as NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 12 Summit County, Ohio story of the c.1876 structure was used for physicians and dentist offfices. Both storefronts faced W. Exchange Street, which led to the Ohio & Erie Canal Lock. The 1916 building faced S.
Main Street, which became more significant with the arrival of the streetcar and the expansion of the Goodrich rubber plant. In 1917, the Glenn Hotel was established on the 2"d and 3"d floors, providing much needed additional housing for the fast growing population of Akron. As the previous hotel types established in the neighboring structures, daily owners of the Summit Real Estate and Business Exchange Co. Lathrop had his residence in the hotel. The first floor had Plymouth Lunch, Benie Strapp's Billiard Parlor, a barbershop, a confectionary, a jeweler and music store. The second floor had hotel rooms and two physicians' offices. The Main-Exchange district attracted small businesses with their affordable rents, as an ad published by the Edfred Music Co. "out of the high rent district" which must have meant the business district of North Akron, like on Howard Street.
confectionaries and billiard rooms replaced the saloons. The Glenn Hotel was still in existence in 1955. Today, it stands vacant after the last tenant, the Fuel Restaurant on the first floor, closed. The Depositors Saving and Trust Building (1916) parallel with the city of Akron, which was brought by the development of the rubber industry. The new building replaced a former masonry Richardsonian Romanesque structure built in 1901 for the Security Savings Bank Co., which was founded that year. In 1907, the Depositors Savings Bank was established and moved into the former space of the Security Savings Bank Co. By 1915, a fireproof concrete garage structure was added in the rear extending all the way to Garden Street, to serve customers arriving with their new transportation mode, the automobile.
Charles Herberich, a business leader involved in the development of the Main-Exchange business district, banking, real estate and insurance business, and as vice president of the bank was the leading figure in this venture. Charles Herberich, born in Essen, Germany, was also one of the founders in 1916 of the General Tire & Rubber Company, which became one of the fourth largest tire companies in the nation. The prominent architectural firm of Richards, McCarty and Bulford from Columbus, Ohio designed this Neo-Classic Revival/ Beaux Art building. The cost of construction was $107,000. The other tenants of the three-story building were, the D. Herberich Co., the Herberich Realty Co., the Summer Realty Co., the Main and Exchange Co.(Herberich was the Vice-President) and the Herberich B & S.
This building became the headquarters of the Herberich business empire in Akron during the Magic Years of Akron. merged with the Central Depositors Bank & Trust Company, which built the only skyscraper in the city of Akron of 28 stories in 1931 when it became the First Central Trust Co. In 1955, the Bank of Akron occupied this structure. Today, the former bank building is vacant. The last tenant was the Whisky Ranch Saloon Concerts, which was part of the most renowned entertainment district of Akron. The People's Savings and Trust Co. (1916) The seven-story corner building was built on the site of the first tavern-inn in Akron, known as the Henry Clark Tavern, built in c.1825, masonry People's Bank built on the same site in 1904.
Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Expires 1-31-2009) United States Department of the Interior (8-86) In 1916, the founders of the bank, Dietz (formerly secretary and cashier of the Security and Savings Bank), Mallison and Charles Herberich, built a new bank building representing the new prosperity and growth since its founding in 1907. This prosperity grew and weekly shelter was provided to the workers. The Glenn Hotel was owned and managed by John R. Baker and John E. Lathrop, during the construction of the Ohio & Erie. It was later known as the Clark Hotel. It was also the site of the first post office in Akron, the Parisette Block and the Charles Parisette House. The new People's Savings and Trust building replaced the original two-story NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 13 Summit County, Ohio The seven-story masonry building is the first tall office building built in the Main-Exchange District during the most important decade of growth in the history of Akron, providing financial services to the rubber industry in Akron's birthplace. At that time, the tall buildings in mid-size municipalities, like Akron, were called "skyscrapers" and were the first high rise office buildings. The local newspaper announced the construction of the People's Trust with the title "BANK TO BUILD SKYSCRAPER AT MAIN-EXCHANGE". Central Depositors Bank and Trust Co. (this band had merged with the Depositor's Savings). In 1932, the offices of the First Central moved to the newest high rise building in Akron on Mill and Main Street. The 28-story building was erected in 1931.
Evans Savings Building Addition-(1956) new location promoted a new growth for the bank, and in 1956 a two story Modern Minimalist addition facing E. Exchange Street was built, with an auto-teller in the rear parking a lot, a new feature in the banking business serving the citizens who did not live anymore Today, the Evans Building continues to be used as a place for offices for professionals, doctors, lawyers and others. The first floor bank students who cannot attend traditional classrooms settings. The People's Savings and Trust Co. Foreign Exchange Bank. (1916) industries. Joseph Ivory, the founder of the Foreign Exchange Bank, was also a steamship agency providing "tickets of all classes to manager of that new division.
The building today is connected to the rest of the former bank building through the entrance hallway and is occupied by a franchise of Boxes Plus offering printing, package and shipping services to the surrounding business community. The Herberich Building-A.C. & Y Building. (1919-1920) The Akron Beacon Journal announced in its June 30, 1919 issue, "Ground has been broken for an eight story office building on E and the balance of the building is to be devoted to offices. The site upon which the new office building is being built is 50 by 60 feet and the structure will cost approximately $125,000." The tallest building in South Akron in 1919 was built on the former site of the wood frame two-story former carriage manufacturing and blacksmith shop complex owned by T.J. Santom's who established it around 1880. nearby.
Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Expires 1-31-2009) United States Department of the Interior (8-86) The Carmichael Construction Company of Akron, which built most of the important buildings in the city in the 20th century, built it. with the People's Bank and changed its name to the First Trust and Savings Bank. In 1929, before the crash, it adopted the name of First City Trust & Savings Bank and after the crash, it became known as the First Central Trust Company when it merged with the In 1936, the Evans Building and Loan Association, founded in 1891, moved into the People's Bldg., which maintained its name until 1942, when it became known as the Evans Building. In 1947, the bank changed to a new name, the Evans Savings Association. This and from Europe and all parts of the World". In 1920, the People's Savings and Trust Co.
took over Ivory's Bank and made him the Realty companies, doctor's offices, telephone companies, construction companies, title companies, railroad companies, advertising agencies and others occupied the People's Bank Building. The bank used the main floor. In 1923, the First-Second National merged space has been adaptively reused for educational purposes by the Akron Public School system. It houses the Akron Digital Academy for story tall building because they needed what was left of the Parisette Block property. This small scale high style Neo-Classic Revival population arriving daily from overseas to work in the ever growing rubber industry of Akron, as well as many other secondary NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 14 Summit County, Ohio This was the second tall building being built in the Main-Exchange District, culminating the end of the decade of the Magic Years in Akron, before the early 1920's economic woes that forced many rubber industry enterprises to fold, sell and reorganize. The tall office building in a mid-size city was a new phenomenon in America. Usually, competing financial institutions built them and used them investors were usually the skyscrapers builders. In April of 1920, the Herberich-Hall-Harter Co. announced that they moved from their offices on 328 S. Main Street, home of the Depositor's Savings and Trust Bank Building due to their growth and desire to provide improved services to their customers.
The Herberich, became under the leadership of Charles, one of the largest real estate institutions in the State of Ohio. The company had a Vice- president, Charles Herberich, Vice-president and Walter Herberich the Secretary, with additional non-family board members. Akron architects Boenish, Kraus and Helmkamp designed this building. floors. In addition, one of the rubber industries had its offices there, the General Tire Co. of which Charles Herberich was one of its founders. In 1923, the general offices of the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad (AC&Y) moved to this building. In 1926, the Herberich building became the AC&Y Building. F.B Seiberling, the founder of Goodyear, and H.B.Stewart, founded the Akron Canton & Youngstown Railroad in 1912. In 1920, they absorbed and consolidated the west section of the existing railroad lines.
fourth and fifth floor, and the following year they leased the whole building from Herberich and it became known in 1926 as the AC&Y Building where the company established its headquarters. The AC&Y Railway Co. and the Northern Ohio Railway Co. occupied seven floors and the gth floor was still occupied by the law firm of Albert Herberich, Herberich Burroughs & Bailey and the Metropolitan Securities Co. providing automobile financing. In 1941, AC&Y purchased the Herberich Building. The railroads in Akron were providing freight and passengers services and were crucial to the economic development of the rubber industry. The AC&Y offices were located in the heart of the city. The AC&Y occupied the building until 1982 when the company dissolved. The Herberich real estate and insurance offfices moved to the Brodbeck building on the NW corner of S. Main and W.
Exchange after The 1920's National Economic downturn. 1930's Depression years. WWII and the Decline of the Rubber Industry in Akron. Labor unrest. Exodus to the South. Urban Blight. City Planning Department. Akron's post WWI period started slowly due to economic woes produced at the national level by labor strikes and the price collapse of which was at that time the number two rubber company, and Frank Seiberling had to sell out to New York bankers in order to save the industry from bankruptcy. On the other hand, Firestone was able to survive by adopting price, advertisement and personnel cuts. Goodrich was able to survive through its good New York financial connections and creative financing measures. However, some of the smaller rubber companies failed, diminishing the competitive field. 1924, they rented the whole 6" floor and some space in the seventh floor of the Herberich Building.
In 1925, they occupied also the Main-Exchange Historic District (Expires 1-31-2009) Years of the rubber industry. (8-86) staff of over 100 people. This company was the Herberich family, where David Herberich, father was the President, Alfred Herberich, Offices of doctors, construction companies, insurance companies, as well as non-profits like the American Legion occupied the upper They had a total of 171 miles between Mogadore and Delphos, Ohio. This growth created the need for space for headquarters and in agricultural products. Akron's rubber industry was deeply affected with the loss of 50,000 jobs. The biggest casualty was Goodyear, they leased the building to AC&Y.
They remained in the district in which they had invested and helped develop during the Magic Insurance and Real Estate Departments were transferred to this building.The Herberich Co.,founded by the father of Charles NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 15 Summit County, Ohio The last of the tallest office building, the Herberich building on 12 East Exchange Street, was built during 1919-1920 in the Main- Exchange district, before the economic downturn was felt. The Herberich building symbolizes the end of the fastest growing era in the city of Akron generated by one of their most important industries, which gave Akron its identity in the 20*h century.
By mid-1920's Akron slowly recovered and by 1930 was able to reach a population of over 250,000 inhabitants, which was a more modest growth than during the Magic Years. By that time, it was the second most important city in Ohio in manufacturing. It had 195 factories, was the center of lighter-than-air craft production (infant air-space industry), four trunk railroads, a brand new airport and expanding neighborhoods. The rubber industry used 50% of the crude rubber imported into the United States, approximately 30% of the world's production. The only growth occurring at that time in the Main Exchange district were the establishment of new banks through mergers and also of upscale specialty stores for men.
(HP12) In the 1930's, also we see the rubber industry starting to diversify, when Goodyear purchased the Zeppelin rights and became the center WWII, the demand for tires moved Akron's economic engines again. The economic conditions in the 1950's, after the end of the Korean War in 1953, created the beginning of the exodus of the rubber industry from Akron to the sunnier and friendlier south. As mentioned before among the factors that prompted the rubber industry to move from Akron was the complacency towards the advancement of tire technology, ignoring the existence of the radial tire (developed produce the new tires, because it involved the total revamp of their production lines and the encouragement of Detroit. When the decision to enter the manufacturing of the radial tire arrived, due to the public demand, the downward spiral of rubber production in Akron had already started.
The American rubber industry was not equipped to reinvent the wheel. (HIP 16) It was the decade when the Main-Exchange district saw the construction of it's last bank buildings taking place, the 1956 two story addition to the seven story Neo-Classic 1916 People's Savings Bank Bldg/Evan's Savings Assoc. on E. Exchange St., the new branch of the First National Bank of Akron and the First Federal Savings Building on South Main St. They all represented the Modern Minimalist architectural expressions of the 1950's. B.F. Goodrich ceased manufacturing operations in Akron in 1987 and their buildings were scheduled for demolition on 1988. The city of Akron intervened and Canal Place was born at the edge of the historic town center of Main and Exchange. Hotel, Byrider Bros. Co. (1878-1891-1908-1921) his saddle and harness manufacturing business on S. Main Street.
In 1878, he replaced the frame buildings with a three story Italianate to enter the rubber industry, and Goodrich production of rubber products increased dramatically, a group of citizens saw the need of the growth of the banking services paralleling the growth of Akron's industry. Therefore in 1891, the People's Savings Bank, established themselves in the vacated Upington Block at 356 S. Main Street with a capital of $100.000. Jacob Kohler (a lawyer, real estate investor Laffer (Druggist)was Treasurer and Claude Clark(a bank teller) was Cashier. By 1904, this bank had grown with the rubber industry and Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service 356 S.Main St.Byrider Building:Upington Block.People's Savings Bank. Sanford Block-Commercial Savings Bank, Sapp 1-31-2009) (8-86) of dirigible airship construction.
During the 1930's, the Main-Exchange commercial district provided space for WPA projects. During by the French, Pierre Bourdin in 1946) and its future as the more efficient tire. The automakers did not jump at the opportunity to structure and established his residence on the second floor. The 3"d floor became a Meeting Hall. In 1891, when other companies started and former State Legislator) was President, Charles Parisette (grocer, manufacturer)born in Prussia, Germany, was vice-president, J.M This three-story masonry building has a long evolutional history. Its history dates back to the beginning years of the Goodrich Rubber Co. in the 1870's. It has its origins in the transportation business, when Phillip Upington, a harness maker, born in Ireland, established NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 16 Summit County, Ohio built a two-story masonry building across the street on the NE corner of S. Main and E. Exchange Streets, replacing a two-story frame building occupied by a grocery store. The Sanfords, prominent lawyers purchased the building and established the Commercial Savings Bank in 1908, with a capital of and the 2nd floor Law offices. By 1917, it changed its name to the Commercial Savings and Trust Co. and the upper floors became the Sapp Hotel, providing daily and weekly rentals to its boarders. That same year the Commercial Bank moved to its new quarters, a block to the north, on 316-318 S. Main Street. They had expanded to three additional branches.
The city was growing rapidly and so was the headquarters for upscale men's furnishing goods, trunks, bags, robes and furs. The second floor obtained an interior/mezzanine balcony overlooking the first floor. Akron's middle class was growing and the demands for goods increased accordingly. The Depression years produced the closure of many businesses, and the upscale stores were some of them besides the banks. Edfred's Music Store, which sold musical instruments and provided repairs, and Harry Maddox, a violinmaker, occupied the Byrider Building in 1932.
The WPA funded many artistic projects and one of them was the WPA Symphony Orchestra with offices in this building until Today, Hookah and Art Lounge on the first floor and Trendesign, an advertising agency, on the second floor occupy the Byrider building where two significant banks in the financing history of Akron got their start during the growth of the rubber industry. The First National Bank of Akron - H.J. Cramer Block (1892-1922-1952-1977) architectural firm in Akron which was very active in the 1950's designing buildings in the Main-Exchange District. They were the firm the NE corner of Main and Exchange. In reality, the First National occupies the site of three buildings, two of them demolished to make included into the overall 1952 bank building renovation in 1977 by the same architectural firm of Firestone and Cassidy.
The architecture of this historic building has maintained its integrity, scale and compatibility with the surrounding historic structures. This was a branch building of the First National Bank of Akron, which was the largest bank of Akron. It had its origins in 1855 as the Second National, merged with the First National (established) in 1863, and formed the First-Second National (at that time they built a 7 story building on 153 S. Main St. at the corner ofBowery Street (designed by New York architect George B. Post) now in the South Main Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1913, the bank acquired the stock of the People's Bank and NE corner of Main and Exchange). In1923, the First-Second absorbed completely the Peoples Bank and changed again its name to First Trust and Savings Bank.
In 1929, before the crash, it changed its name again to The First City Trust & Savings Bank and a couple 1947, it adopted the name of the First National Bank of Akron. 1942. banking industry. Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service Bates & Co., a private bank that became in 1863, the Second National Bank.In 1890, the People's Savings Bank Company was room for the 1952Modern Minimalist bank building (368S.Main St) and the third is the Cramer Block built in1892,which was (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) incorporated and its first headquarters were in this same street block at 356 S. Main Street, a three-story masonry building. In 1911, the of years later, in 1931, it became known as the First Central Trust Company (they built the Art Deco 28 story skyscraper in 1931). In Between 1917 and 1929, the Sanford Building, was renovated at the time when the Byrider Bros. Co. moved in.
They were the This two story masonry building from the recent past is a significant representative of the architecture of a very prominent and prolific OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 8 Page 17 Summit County, Ohio Today, the Akron Health Department uses this former bank building as the Birth & Death Records Office. The Main-Exchange district was still the site of expanding banking business serving the post WWII rubber industry evolving economy. In a way, this bank came full circle back to its original site. The banks of Akron were still optimistic of a great future for the rubber industry after its success and expansion during the Korean War years. The First Federal Savings Building (1902-1949-1954) This Modern Minimalist three-story masonry building was built for the First Federal Savings and Loan Association.
It was the first Savings and Loans Association in Akron to be granted a federal charter in 1936. After the crash of 1929, the federal government issued supervision "providing new safeguards for depositors". The First Federal was founded as the Society Savings and Loan in 1921 and its headquarters were first located on the second floor of the Exchange Realty in the People Savings and Trust Bldg at Main and Exchange. The 1902 building was called the Moore Block, which provided first floor space for a Central Market at 324 S. Main St. and John the 19t century, a meat processing plant, the Brodt & Schott's Pork Packaging Co., occupied the site. The former Moore store was occupied by the City Loan and Savings Co. in 1930 which the First Federal "completely remodeled" when they moved in 1936. In 1949, First Federal obtained the building next door, 324 S.
Main, and completed a "major remodeling" adding a third floor and creating a Modern Minimalist building facade, followed in 1954 by a three story addition for office space in the rear with a basement. The GI restaurant closed the following year. This building is part of the Main Exchange district northern boundary and abuts the Canal Park baseball Stadium. The Evans Savings Association Building Addition (1956) customers better with an auto-teller system. Firestone and Cassidy were the prominent local architects who designed the building. A few years before, in 1952, they also designed a branch for the First National Bank of Akron at 368 S.Main Street using the same style and SIGNIFICANT ARCHITECTS The Main-Exchange District reflects the work of architects from Akron and Columbus, Ohio. W.H.Smith. William H.
Smith designed the most significant Eastlake/Queen Anne buildings in the newly designated city of Akron during the time of the Second Industrial Revolution, brought by the establishment of the rubber industry, the manufacturing of agricultural implements and the expansion of the railroad system. Smith arrived in 1870, from New Brunswick, Canada. In 1877, Joseph Kaiser gave him the commission to design the multipurpose building, the Kaiser Block in South Akron. At the same time, Smith was designing a sister building on E. Market Street, Castle Hall for Martin H. Crumrine a stonemason, the owner of the Akron Granite Richards, McCarty and Bulford. They were one of the most prominent firms in Ohio with offfices in Columbus.
They designed the Main-Exchange Historic District CONTINUATION SHEET The newly chartered First Federal located itself across the street in a 2-story masonry building built in 1902, at 326 South Main Street. National Park Service &Marble Works on N. High Street, in North Akron.Smith left Akron in 1880. Further examples of his work are not known. (Expires 1-31-2009) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) very few charters, but this was the first charter authorized by Congress to federal savings and loan associations with federal help and Moore's men furnishing goods at 326 S. Main St. This last store included the sale of fine cigars and high-grade tobaccos.
Previously, in In 1994, the city of Akron purchased the building from Charter One Bank as part of the Canal Park project, and entered into a The three-story masonry Modern Minimalist building was built as an addition to the expanding bank in order to serve the car driving materials. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 18 Summit County, Ohio high style Neo-Classic Revival/Beaux Art bank building for the Depositors, Savings & Trust Co., founded by the Herberich family, who were instrumental in the renaissance of the Main & Exchange Commercial district of Akron. Richards, McCarty and Bulford were architects practicing at the end of the 19t century and beginning 20* century. Most of their work architectural styles.
Their work is not only represented in Ohio, but also in Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa, Texas and Tennessee. Clarence E. Richards was born in 1865 in Jackson, Michigan. He moved to Kansas and was educated in El Dorado, Kansas. He taught railroad stations. Four years later, he went to Cincinnati where he worked for the architectural office of Edward Anderson. Later he moved to Newark Ohio, where he established his own office, the Richards Brothers. In 1893, he moved to Columbus, Ohio and became Superintendent for Construction in the architectural firm of Yost & Packard. A few years later, in 1899, he formed a partnership with George E. Bullard, who also worked for Packard, and J.E.McCarty with whom he worked until he died in 1921. George H. Bulford, an Englishman, was born in Worcester, England in 1870 and came to Columbus, Ohio in 1886.
Bulford joined the firm of Yost & Packard as an architectural intern. In 1899, he entered into partnership with Richards and McCarty, with whom he and renderer (watercolor) of his firm. He also was involved with the building of Columbus City Hall and Municipal Building as founder and president of the former Allied Architects Association. His son, a graduate from Ohio State University followed his footsteps into his Some of the most important works of the firm were: Burton Hall, Denison University, Granville, Ohio (1888) Queen Anne Style King Hall, Women Dormitory, Shepardson College (1891) Georgian Revival Doane Administration Building, Denison University, Granville, Ohio (1895) Romanesque Revival Hardin County Courthouse, Kenton, Ohio (1900) Neo-Classic Revival Kenton Public Library Kenton, Ohio. Eaton Courthouse, Eaton, Ohio.
Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, Marion, Indiana (1900) Tudor Revival Marting Hotel, Ironton, Ohio (1900) Portsmouth Carnegie Main Library. Portsmouth, Ohio. (1902)Renaissance Revival Hardin County District Library (1902) Kenton, Ohio Park Avenue Apartments, Columbus, Ohio. (1903) US Post Office and Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio Methodist Church, Bexley, Ohio Anderson Carnegie Public Library, Anderson, Indiana (1905) Neo-Classic Revival Lexington City National Bank Bldg. (1903) Commercial Neo-Classic Revival/Chicago Style Phoenix Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky. Union Building, Columbus, Ohio (1907) Lawrence County Courthouse, Ironton, Ohio (1907) Neoclassic Revival. Burwell Building, Knoxville, Tennessee (1907) Second Renaissance Revival Ohio National Bank, Columbus, Ohio (1910) Citizens Trust & Savings Bank, Columbus, Ohio firm.
Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service was institutional, civic,educational, and commercial expressed in the Neo-Classic Revival,Renaissance Revival and Beaux Art (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) in Butler County, Kansas and was appointed Assistant Engineer for the Missouri Railroad supervising the construction of bridges and worked until his death in 1942. In 1904, he took an European study tour to expand his architectural knowledge as the chief designer NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 19 Summit County, Ohio Burwell Building, Columbus, Ohio (1911) One Main Place, Columbus, Ohio (1911) Hartman Theatre and Office Building, Columbus, Ohio (1913) American Education Press, Columbus, Ohio Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio Ohio State School for the Deaf.
Columbus, Ohio Motorist Mutual Insurance Company Building, Columbus, Ohio Broad Street Presbyterian Church. Columbus, Ohio. Rehabilitation. White Hanes Building (1916) Athletic Club, Columbus, Ohio (1917) Market Centre Building (1921) State Penitentiary, London, Ohio. The largest facility of its kind in the country. South High School, Columbus, Ohio (1924) F&R Lazarus Company South Building (1925) Court Square Building (1927) Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (1931) Second Renaissance Revival Beaton Hall, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio American Education Press Building (1932) Marconi Avenue Post Office, Columbus, Ohio (c.1934) Lassen Hotel, Wichita, Kansas (Neo-Classic Revival) Wichita Hotel, Whichita, Kansas. Beacon Building, Wichita, Kansas Wesley Hospital, Wichita, Kansas First National Bank.
Wichita, Kansas Kemp Hotel, Wichita Falls, Texas Boenish Kraus & Helmkamp. This architectural firm built the tallest building in the Main-Exchange Commercial District of Akron, the Herberich Building, for the most prominent developers and investors in Akron, the Herberichs. They formed a partnership in 1916, at the height of the Magic Years of Akron, when the economy, construction and population were booming. The partnership dissolved in 1921 at the time of the first economic crisis in Akron when many rubber industries closed and New York investors purchased Goodyear. his practice alone until his death in 1972. They were involved also in the design of hospitals, churches and educational institutions in Akron, as well as in the state of Ohio, like in the city of Logan in Hocking County and Granville in Licking County.
Julius Boenish came to the United States from the region of Bohemia in Germany in 1905. He was a German architect who opened his partnership dissolved in 1921, and Boenish went to work for the prominent Akron firm of Good & Wagoner in the Mohawk Building. Robert J. Kraus was born in Akron in 1887. He interned as an architectural draftsman with the prominent firm of Fichter and Brooker, before he opened his own firm in 1914. In 1916, he entered in partnership with Boenish and Helmkamp and designed in 1919, the Herberich building. From 1923 until 1953, he was in partnership with Helmkamp, designing together buildings in Akron, and across Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service 51 North High Street Columbus (1919) (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) In 1923, Kraus & Helmkamp entered into another partnership, which lasted until Helmkamps death in 1953. Robert J.
Kraus continued firm in the Ohio Building in 1914. In 1916, he entered into partnership with Akron architects Robert J. Kraus and William B. Helmkamp. The team designed the decorative Herberich building and the Eagle's Temple on East Market Street in Akron. The NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 1-31-2009) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 20 Summit County, Ohio Ohio from their office in the Metropolitan Building.Kraus was a charter member of the American Institute of Architects and his son, Robert M., who became also an architect, joined his firm. University of Notre Dame in Indiana where he graduated in architecture in 1911. Upon graduation, he moved to Akron and joined the prominent architectural firm of Harpster and Bliss.
After working in other architectural firms, in 1916 he created a partnership with architects Boenish and Kraus. The firm was dissolved in 1921, and in 1923, it became known as Kraus and Helmkamp until his death in The architectural idiom used by Boenish, Kraus & Helmkamp ranged from the prominent Classic Revival Styles, High Gothic Revival, and Chicago Commercial to Arts and Crafts and Modern Minimalist considered as part of the Recent Past Heritage. Their body of work represents a whole range of institutional buildings in Akron and in the State of Ohio, from schools, public and commercial buildings. Among known examples of their work during their first partnership, include the Eagles Temple (demolished) on East Market Street and revival of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (1924) in Logan, Ohio; St.
Augustine School in Barberton, Ohio, Catholic School in Elyria, Ohio and a School in Granville, Ohio. St. Sebastian Church, St. Hilary Church, St. Peters Church, St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church, Memorial, Ayer Hall,Knight Hall, St.Thomas Hospital, the Old Library and the Physical Education Building for the University of Akron, St. Sebastian Educational Center, and South High School., all in the Akron and surrounding region. Firestone and Cassidy was a prominent architectural firm that introduced the architecture of the Modern Movement in the Main- Exchange Commercial district. Their Modern Minimalist architecture and use of materials for financial institutions was distinctively reflected in their post-WWII commercial architecture. They were known for having designed the Akron Memorial Hall, as a cultural center in 1945 to commemorate Akron's WWII heroes.
This cultural center of multipurpose use comprised of an auditorium, an art institute and a theatre was never built. Roy G. Firestone, one of the most prominent residential designers during the 1920's was born in 1898 in Stark County, Ohio. He firm. During the 1920's he designed Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses in the new Akron neighborhoods. Some of his examples are on 901 Merriman Road and 137 East Fairlawn Boulevard. In 1945, after WWII, he entered into partnership with Cassidy where he embraced Contemporary architecture. Firestone died in 1970. Michigan in the 1930's. At the invitation of Dean Lorch, Eliel Saarinen taught at the School a few years before Cassidy attended.
Cassidy studied architecture at the time when the International style was beginning to be accepted in the United States, with the construction of the PSFS building in 1932 in Philadelphia and the exhibit on the International Style prepared by Phillip Johnson and Henry Russell Hitchcock at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1932. Cassidy died in 1990. language. They are the First National Bank of Akron in 1952 and its sensitive subsequent later addition done by Cassidy alone in 1977, as well as the two-story addition to the Evans Association on E. Exchange Street in 1956. Firestone & Cassidy's work represents the importance of the architecture of the Recent Past in the Main-Exchange District and Akron. 1953. Main-Exchange Historic District William B. Helmkamp was born at Fort Jennings, Ohio in 1886.
After finishing High School in Jennings, he was accepted to the the Herberich Building. The second partnership of Kraus & Helmkamp produced the following work in Akron, Ohio, the late gothic started his architectural practice in 1919 with the Krumroy Construction Co. in Akron. In 1935, he established his own architectural Harold S. Cassidy was born in Canton, Stark County, Ohio in 1914. He attended the College of Architecture at the University of The firm of Firestone & Cassidy designed three buildings in the Main-Exchange districts where they applied the modern architecture (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 21 Summit County, Ohio Through the period of significance, the architecture of the Canal era and scale of the proposed Main-Exchange Historic District has been totally replaced, by masonry buildings serving the needs of the emerging rubber industry at the end of the 19 century and its entertainment and housing needs of the industry and the arriving workforce in Akron. new transportation modes, first the bicycle and then the automobile, which were instrumental to the success of the rubber industry. These new transportation modes were the result of technological advances of the Second Industrial Revolution. The development of different transportation systems in Akron supported successive wave of economic development.
Akron evolved from grain mills to agricultural implements and ceramics, and into rubber industry production. These economic developments created different periods of building booms, and the ones developed during the rubber industry era are reflected in the historic styles of the proposed Historic District. The majority of the styles represent the decade of the most intensive economic and demographic growth, which was Akron's Magic Era during the Progressive period. Today, the Main-Exchange district maintains its early 20* century historic integrity by reflecting its continuity as a mercantile center since its origins in 1825. It also maintains its architectural integrity, which evolved during its period of significance, the rubber industry era.
The Main Exchange district served also as a place for a new type of entertainment center in the 20" century, with the establishment of a Movie Theatre, and an upcoming mode of entertainment, the Dance hall, meeting the needs of the working class who sought release from the daily grinding factory routine and as a new socializing venue. The Stanley Dancing Pavilion, the first one of its kind in the city of Akron, located in the Broadbeck Building, fulfilled that need. Today this building is part of the new entertainment provided by nightclubs and restaurants in the 21 Century serving the student population of the University of Akron, as well as the young population among many other dance forms.
The scale of the proposed district has evolved from a successful canal town of one to three story frame buildings in the first half of the 19the century, to two and three story masonry buildings after the arrival of the railroad during the Reconstruction period. New methods of construction, materials and the elevator allowed the gradual change of the skyline of the Main-Exchange District and the rest of Akron. During the first decades of the 20" century, fireproof concrete and steel high-rise buildings became the "skyscrapers", like the Exchange district since the 1920s. Akron. It is the Gothic Revival Kaiser Building, which still reflects the scale and massing of the commercial buildings that existed along South Main Street during the Reconstruction and Railroad expansion eras.
There are also two masonry buildings from the 19" century that were renovated into Neo-Classic Revival/Arts and Crafts and Modern Minimalist buildings, the First National Bank of maintain the scale and proportions of the rest of the Main Street block. The new Main-Exchange District identifies South Akron as the birthplace of the city of Akron and will complete and complement the significant historic districts in Akron's CBD, the Main-Market Historic District in the North and the South Main District at the junction (the gore) of North and South Akron. The new commercial district represents in its urban pattern and architecture the evolution of CONCLUSION Main-Exchange Historic District growth during its Magic Years, the first decades of the 2o" century.
The new buildings, provided space to commercial, financial, The19" century birthplace of Akron continued to evolve in the 2o" century as a commercial district transformed by the introduction of (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) of the city of Akron. In the Stanley Dancing Pavilion, they danced to the turkey trot, bunny hug or hesitation waltz among others and Only one commercial building remains with significant integrity from the 19* century built during the infancy of the rubber industry in seven-story People's Savings and Trust Company and the eight-story Herberich Building. This scale has not changed in the Main- Akron/Cramer Block and the Upington/People's Savings Bank/Commercial Savings Bank/Sanford/Byrider Block. Both buildings NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 22 Summit County, Ohio Akron's first commercial mercantile past from a canal town to a rubber city downtown. Its original urban grid defined by streets, alleys and blocks is still in place, as well as the concentration of commercial architecture of two-part commercial blocks surrounding two high style "skyscrapers" office buildings. They were built in South Akron during a period of explosive growth at the turn of the 20" century, when it became the rubber-manufacturing center of the world.
These examples of predominantly Neo-Classic Revival architecture, mixed with Gothic Revival, Beaux Art, Arts and Crafts and Modern Minimalist styles, express the transformation of a small mixed-use neighborhood of the 19th century into being part of new 20* century CBD with a new skyline of an emerging city. of the rubber industry, which was represented by 24 factories during the Magic Years. & Market in North Akron slowly became the most important mercantile center of the new town. However, all the stores were facing Market Street, as they were on Exchange Street in the south, because Main Streets was used as the bed for the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal established in 1840. Only after its closure in 1884, Main Street started to switch from an industrial use to a mercantile use. By 1900 Main and Market was the most important commercial center of Akron.
But with the rapid growth of the rubber industry, South Main Street CBD started developing towards the south reaching its peak during the Magic Years. The CBD boundaries in the Sanborn Map of1916 were defined from Federal Street on the North to Center Street in the south as the Principal Mercantile District. By 1919, the City Plan of Akron prepared by John Nolen, nationally known city planner from Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, defined the "Business Section" from Furnace Street on the north to Cedar Street in the south along Main Street. The Main-Exchange District became part of the CBD of Akron. Nolen points out in his 1919 report "justifying the proposal of the new Downtown site, towards the Main and Exchange District in point 1: " The growth of business in Akron is toward the South along Mains Street.
Illustration of this can be had in such new buildings as the First-Second national Bank (South Main District), the Ohio Building (South Main District) and the People's Savings and Trust Company (Main-Exchange District), and other new buildings"/ thoroughfares of the City, namely Main Street and Exchange Street. It is but two short blocks from Main Street, the great business and traffic thoroughfare of the city running north and south, and has direct frontage on Exchange Street, the central east and west artery" The pendulum swung back to Main - Exchange and as important commercial center and node in the CBD of Akron. ARCHITECTURAL COHESIVENESS The Main-Exchange Historic District conveys a great sense of historic architectural cohesiveness through its design in the predominant Neo-Classic Revival Style.
The unifying construction materials are masonry, represented by brick veneer, limestone, sandstone and marble veneer and terra-cotta, which was widely used during the first decades of the 20** century as a decorative element with fireproof qualities. In general, the method of construction is reinforced concrete and structural clay tiles, used as fireproof construction materials. The earthquake of San Francisco in 1906 and the Collinwood School fire of 1908, changed methods of construction and materials and accelerated the development of building codes. DISTRICT QUALITIES AND SURROUNDINGS The Main-Exchange Historic District is represented by a tight row of two-part commercial block of the early 20" century, with no voids. The two "skyscrapers" create a vertical thrust of office space, the cathedrals of the 20" century, contrasting with the horizontal commercial structures.
The People's Savings and Trust, and the Herberich buildings are the nodes of the district, as well as the landmarks. They give the district physical identity and reference to the birthplace of Akron and its first commercial center. The Neo- Classic Revival Style unifies architecturally the whole district.
The still existing residential floors on the 2d and 3d floors together with similar mercantile uses on the first floor as during the Magic Years, convey the feeling of that era while walking down the street on its Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) The Main-Exchange District Achieved the present context during the early 20" century, when Akron grew exponentially to the growth In point 6 Nolen states: " One of the principal merits of the proposal is unquestionably the accessibility of the site to two of the main Main Street obtained its name in 1836 when North and South Akron were incorporated, becoming the town of Akron. Gradually, Main OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 23 Summit County, Ohio wide sidewalks or driving by.
What is missing is the streetcar. The streetcar ran up and down East Exchange Street and South Main with the establishment in 1890 of the famous "Loop Line" by the (Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company) had expanded in all directions. The line extended south to Kenmore along South Main Street and West on West Exchange Street to Rhodes on Copley Road.The Main-Exchange Historic District became an important and busy streetcar intersection. It was second to the Mill Street and South Main Station (See Maps 12 and 13). In 1920, there were 9 streetcar lines crossing the Main-Exchange Historic District. The West Exchange St Line had line 24, the East Exchange Line had Line 4- Blue Pond wye and Line 5-Brittain wye and the South Main Street Line had line 8-Lakeside, line 9-Miller Car barn, line 10-Kenmore Car barn, line 11-Kenmore Loop (Stop 97), line 12-Barberton Loop and line 13-Wadsworth wye.
(Map 14 and 15) The automobile and the bus brought the end to the streetcar era. In 1931,the West and East Exchange lines had their last run. Trolley buses replaced gradually the streetcars and they run until 1960.(HP 16). By 1948, the South Main Lines were discontinued. The ending of the the end of its period of significance. Today's Akron CBD artery, Main Street is defined by two historic commercial districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places west side has new architecture, voids and parking lots. The South Main District has a vacuum (hole) on the west side where the new Lock 3 Park is. The proposed Main-Exchange District boundaries include both sides of Main Street, but only to the north of the intersection with Exchange. The Main-Exchange boundaries towards the south of Main only include the west side of the curb.
These three surviving historic districts in the CBD of Akron still have significant historic and architectural integrity to convey the history context of the city of Akron developed during the rubber industry era in the 20# century. DISTRICT RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION rehabilitation of the Herberich/ACY office building using federal and state rehabilitation tax credits, as well as the Kaiser building Many buildings went through some rehabilitation process in the 1990's and early 2000's, but they have maintained their scale, proportions and materials. As typical, some received new energy efficient windows, installed within the same framework. These rehabilitations continue to maintain the significance of the Main-Exchange Historic District as the commercial center of South Akron serving the Canal Place offfices, formerly the Goodrich Rubber Co. site.
It continues to be the entertainment center of the CBD of businesses and professionals. The former Central Hotel continues to offer rental residence on daily and weekly basis. have moved in, such as the Akron Health Department and the Akron Digital Academy from the Akron Public School System. between E. Exchange and E. Cedar Streets (outside of the district boundaries). The retail-residential masonry infill is being built within building built during the Magic Years of Akron and a corner parking lot on E. Exchange and S. Main Streets. The project is under Main-Exchange Historic District and one being proposed. (Map 4). The three historic districts have suffered some issues of integrity due to the urban renewal plans NPS Form 10-900-a (Expires 1-31-2009) (8-86) Akron Street Railway Co.
This line started at Mill and South Main, to College Street east, then south to Buchtel, then east to Spicer, in transition. However, the most significant feature affecting the district is the new construction on the east side of S. Main Street, south to East Exchange, west to South Main and north back to Mill. By 1920, the trolley line, now part of the NOT& L system since the 1950's. The Main-Market District boundaries on Main Street only include only one side, the east side of the curb, because the At present, limited significant rehabilitation, activities are taking place in the Main-Exchange district. The most important ones are the Akron, which fulfills the plans of the City Planning Department. The tall buildings continue their use as office space for small Out of the fifteen structures that make the Main-Exchange Historic district, five of them remain vacant.
The Main-Exchange District is scale, proportion and the spirit of the existing neighboring historic district. The site was formerly occupied by a two-part commercial OMB No. 1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Summit County, Ohio construction, but it seems to be compatible infill with the surrounding historic district across the street. Today, the Main-Exchange Historic District is also part of the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor. This designation approved by Congress in June 2000, has been instrumental in starting to generate rehabilitation projects in the district.
during the Canal Era; second as a new mercantile commercial center after the Civil War (when Akron became a city during the era of railroad expansion) and last, and now most visibly, as the new banking, financing center serving the rubber industry and its labor force during the most incredible growth in the city of Akron, the first decades of the 20# century. Page Main-Exchange Historic District NPS Form 10-900-a (Expires 1-31-2009) United States Department of the Interior (8-86) This district played an important role in the development of the commercial area of South Akron; first as a planned commercial center Main -Exchange Historic District Summit County - Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section 9 Major Biographical References Page 1 ACY Building, Archive Collection, University of Akron Adams, Mike. Depositors Bank. Ohio Historic Inventory, 1978 Adams, Mike. Herberich Building.
Ohio Historic Inventory, 1978 Akron Beacon Journal, Akron Has Building Boom At Present, August 25, 1906 Year in 1907, December 17, 1906; Building Code Comes Up Again, February 18, 1908; Many Costly Helps in Akron's Growth.January 1, 1913; Four Millions for Buildings, January 1, 1913; Tributes to the Skill of Akron's Architects are Seen on all Sides, January 1, 1913; Building Construction Provides Employment for Many Artisans, January 1, 1913; Automobiles are Numerous Here, January 1, 1913; 1913 Starts of Well, February 6, 1913; Value of Cement Construction Recognized by Akron Builders, June1, 1913; Akron Gained 28 Per Cent, in Year, August 16, 1913; Total of 2594 Permits Issued, January 6, 1914; Set New Record in Construction Work this Week, April 18, 1914; Akron Building Nears Eighteen Million Mark, May 14, 1915; Issue Permit for New $107,000 Bank, August 5, 1916; Depositors Bank Has a Good Year.
January 9, 1918; Herberichs Plan 8-story Building At Main-Exchange, June 6, 1919; High Cost Fails to Halt Building, April 6, 1920; IlIness Fatal to Herberich, September 16, 1940; Drop in Rubber Industry jobs linked to Imports. January 20, 1960; Robert J. Kraus, Veteran Architect, Obituary, October 2, 1972; Akron's Building Blocks City Heeds Rubber's Ghosts in Setting New Course, December 28, 1997; Labor Relations, Costs Key Factors in selecting Site for New Plant. General's O'Neil. Also Cites Access to July 27, 1997; The Rubber City's Last Stand., January 5,1997; Rubber Icon Bounces Back. February 25, 1996; URW Local Fades into History. July 9, 1996; Queen of the hops, May 31, 1998; A Nickle a Dance, February 12, 2007 Akron the City of Opportunity. 1917', Akron Public Library. Special Collection. Allen, M. Craig.
Kaiser Building Ohio Historic Inventory Form, 1978 Alumni Notes, The Ohio State Engineer. c. 1922 Anderson Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio. Webpage Atlas Summit Co. 1930 1910 Name of Property (8-86) County and State Akron Beacon Journal, Suppose a Destructive Earthquake Should Visit Akron. December 8, 1906; Promise Good Atlas and Industrial Geography of Summit County Ohio, Akron, Ohio: The Rectigraph Abstract& Title Company, Buildings to be Built this Year, March 15, 1909; Building Code Movement Takes on Shape. June 8, 1909; To Build Store Room, July 1, 1911; Savings Bank Has Been Absorbed. December 30, 1912; Trolley Markets, Quality of Life, September 14, 1997; Plant Closings, August 17, 1997; Radials Invade America. Main -Exchange Historic District Summit County - Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section 9 Major Biographical References Ayers, Chuck and Musarra Russ, Editors. Celebrating Akron's History in Picture Postcards. Akron, Ohio: Summit County Historical Society, 2000. Bailey's, Akron Directory, 1871-72, Ohio Publishing Co., 1871 Botzum, John, John Botzum recalls old memories. Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, 1930. Building Department. City of Akron Burch & Co., N.H., Akron City and Summit Co.Directory. 1873-1874, 1875-1876, 1885-1886,1891-1892, 1893-94, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926-1927, 1930, 1931, 1951,1954-55, 1958-1959, 1968-1969. Akron, Ohio : N.H. Burch & Co. Census 1910, 1920, 1930 City Directory. Akron. 1859-1860. Court Square. (Lexington City National Bank, 1905) Richards, McCarty & Bulford Architects.
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http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com 1976 http://www.ohiobreweriana.com/library/holdings/burkhardt.shtml (8-86) Public Library. Page 3 Jones, Yolanda, Peoples Savings & Trust Co. Ohio Historic Inventory Form, 1978 Lane, Samuel E. Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County, Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department, 1892 Local History Collection , William Helmkamp Biography. 1958 Akron Public Library Local History Collection. Charles Herberich Biography. 1928 Akron Public Library Official Souvenir of the Opening of the Mayflower Hotel._Arkon, Ohio. May 18,1931. Special Collections.Akron Main -Exchange Historic District Summit County - Ohio OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section 9 Major Biographical References Richards, McCarty & Bulford Collection. The Ohio State University. KSA -Digital Library.
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Ingalls, Inc. Los Angeles, 1970 Republished by Omnigraphics, Penobscot Building, Detroit, 1996 state.edu (8-86) County and State National Register of Historic Places Name of Property Page 4 NPS Form 10-900-a Business History Review, Vol. 73,No.3 (Autumn, 1999). The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Summit County GIS. (Aerial Maps, Tax Record, Old Tax Maps, Deeds, Parcel Numbers and Information) Withey, Henry F. FAIA, Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, Hennessey & OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section 10 Geographical Data Page 1 Summit County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description The general site of this district is the intersection of South Main and Exchange Streets in the City of Akron, Ohio.
The Main-Exchange Historic District Boundary starts at the intersection of the north curb line of W. Cedar Street and the extension of the west curb line of Orleans Ave. (Point A). From there on, the boundary continues along such west curb line towards the north until it intersects with the south curb of W. Exchange Street (Point B). From there west along the before mentioned curb until it intersects the until it intersects the northerly extension of the north property line of PPN 6760929 (Point D). Then continue east along such property line until it reaches the SE corner of Spring Alley and Maiden Lane Alley (Point E).
At that point, continue south along the easterly right of way of Maiden Lane Alley, crossing East Exchange Street and now along the east property line of the Herberich Building, (PPN 6841013), until it intersects with the south property line of the same property (Point F). Continue west along the south property line, 56 feet until in intersects the west property line of the Herberich Building (Point G). Continue north along said west property line until it intersects the south curb line of East Exchange Street (Point H). Then, continue west along the same curb line until in intersects with curb line of South Main Street, until it reaches the NE corner of the intersecting curb lines of E. Cedar Street and South Main Street. (Point J).
Continue west across South Main Street and along the north curb of West Cedar Street until intersects the point of origin The boundaries of the Main-Exchange Historic District of the city of Akron were determined on the basis of being the most cohesive commercial area still existing on the original site of the first commercial center of the original town plat of 1825, created by Akron's founder Simon Perkins. It continued to evolve after Akron became a city in 1865 and became a very important commercial center serving the needs of the rubber industry in the 20# century as evidenced by the current historic district. The North boundary to the west is former Spring Alley separating the district from Canal Park, the new baseball field of Akron Aeros built in a compatible scale, proportions and building materials with the surrounding buildings.
Spring Alley to the east separates the district from a parking lot. The Modern Minimalist First Federal Savings Building and the Gothic Revival Kaiser building anchor the district, the Herberich/AC&Y building, a landmark and anchor. Both buildings are situated along Maiden Lane Alley, which divides new compatible block infill under construction across South Main Street. The boundary to the South, towards Canal Place, the former Goodrich Industry site, is defined by the three story Burkhardt Block that is separated from the adaptively re-used Goodrich Building#41, now occupied by Advanced Elastomer systems, by West Cedar Street. Also the landmark Herberich building is part of the south boundary separated by a parking lot from the new compatible block infill under construction.
The boundary to the West faces the lower elevation of the Canal Towpath Trail and Lock 1, the site of the lower pond where canals ended and begun (Ohio Erie Canal and the Ohio& Pennsylvania Canal). Orleans Avenue and the former Garden Avenue are the boundaries facing all the rear elevations of the commercial blocks on South Main Street. The former canal towpath trail, later used by the railroad, is below street level. On the approach to the underpass at West Exchange Street, the trail is defined by a tunnel of CONTINUATION SHEET North boundary. Main-Exchange Historic District Boundary Justification NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) (Expires 1-31-2009) the South Main Street east curb line at the SE corner of South Main and East Exchange Streets (Point I). Continue south on the east (Point A). them from the surrounding parking lots.
The commercial blocks facing South Main Street are part of the east boundary and are facing a The boundary to the East is defined by the 1956 Modern Minimalist bank addition of the Evans Savings and the tallest building in the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Page 2 sandstone blocks. Today this pedestrian trail connects the remaining Ohio-Erie Canal locks throughout the downtown of the city of Akron as part of their park system which includes the newly listed South Main Historic District at Lock No. 3. The Main-Exchange District is very compact and is the smallest of the existing National Register Districts in the CBD of Akron, but it id the oldest and the only one abutting on of the first rubber industry sites in Akron, the Goodrich Rubber Co.
The surroundings of the Main-Exchange Historic District have evolved significantly since the Canal era, with the most significant changes reflected on the west and north boundaries. Both canals have disappeared. The remains of the Ohio & Erie Canal are reflected in the remaining lock 1 and the towpath which today is part of Canal Park in downtown Akron together with the former Rail line spurs that served the former local industries, Goodrich and the Thomas Phillips Paper Co. abutting the west side of the historic district. The P&O canal is buried under Canal Park. A couple of blocks to the north is the newly established Lock 3 Park in the South Main Historic District (NR), between the 2 story Whitelaw building (NR)(1902) to the south and the 1920 four story building at 184-186 S. Main and Lowe's Theatre (NR) (1929) to the north.
Another recent significant change to the district surroundings is the new infill block construction on the east side of South Main Street, south of E. Exchange. At the moment new commercial masonry construction is rising, after demolition of buildings built in the early 20* century, which had the first floors significantly altered in the recent decade. These new buildings are being built within the same existing scale and proportions of the abutting historic district. Part of the architectural integrity of the district has been affected by this development, but the most significant architecture and the historic context remains with the proposed historic Main-Exchange district.
Canal Park is the most significant change to the north of the district and serves as a link, buffer between the Main-Exchange District and South Main District to the north of Canal Park which had its greatest period of growth and landmark architecture during the 1920's and 1930's. South Main Historic District is located at the site called historically the Gore, the topographical site that divided North and South Akron. This was considered neutral ground for the rival towns and it was also the site where the first churches were built. This neutral ground, the South Main District became the center of Akron in the early 20* century with a collection of significant architecture, unifying north and south Akron. The parking lots to the east of the historic district are the result of the urban renewal actions of the 1950's and 1960's. Canal Place, the former site of the Goodrich Rubber Co.
is a center providing office space for new industries. Today, the Main- Exchange district provides food service facilities for Canal Place as it did over 50 years ago for the workers of the rubber industry. center of the historic district is the intersection of Main and Exchange. The boundaries include an area of extant structures that are the most significant to this prime area of commerce in Akron during the stated period of significance. Surroundings Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service (Expires 1-31-2009) Section 1o Geographical Data Summit County, Ohio (8-86) The proposed Main-Exchange Historic District is part of the original town plat of 1825, when Simon Perkins founded Akron. The E. BUCHTEL AVE. United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS NO. CURRENT NAME HISTORIC NAME CONST.
DATE 1 |ATA ADVERTISING 2 DIAMOND DELI 4 DA VINCIN'S PIZZA AKRON HEALTH DEPT. 368-366 S. MAIN ST. LAW OFFICES 8 ART LOUNGE-TREND DESIGN BYRIDER BUILDING 1878, 1891, 1908, 1921 354-348 S. MAIN ST. 10 BRICCO RESTAURANT BRODBECK BUILDING P DEC FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS BUILDING 1949, 1954 KAISER BLOCK 14 EVANS BUILDING FOREGN EX. PEOPLE'S SAVINGS & TRUST-EVANS 336-337 S. MAIN ST. EVANS SAVING BUILDING ADDITION W. CEDAR AT HERBERICH BUILIDNG-A C & Y Proposed District Boundries & Contributing Buildings MAIN EXCHANGE HISTORIC DISTRICT - AKRON, OHIO 1914 1916 1956 1911 1913 1877 1912 1919-1920 (8-86) 1910 ALLEY ADDRESS VACANT MAPS NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Continuation Sheet Page 1 GLENN HOTEL Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 ONE.EXCHANGE ST. SCALE: NOT TO SCALE Summit County, Ohio 374 S. MAIN ST.
1892, 1922, 1952, 1977 BURKHARDT BLOCK AKRON CLOTHING-ECKLER BROS. CARL HAFNER BLOCK FIRST NAT, BANK-H.J. CRAMER 15 12 E. EXCHANGE ST. SPRING DURKIN BLOCK BURGER SALOON-HALAS REST. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places CURRENT PHOTO KEY Page 1 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio MAIN S W. EXCHANGE ST. - NEW INFILL E. CEDAR ST. W. CEDAR ST Not to Scale Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio. (8-86) 2008 MOVED NPS Form 10-900-a Continuation Sheet TDEMOLISHED HIGH ST NPS ORLEANS AVE NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet PHOTO LIST Page 2 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 0001. Herberich & Peoples Looking West from E.
Exchange. Photo taken by Yolita Rausche on February 1, 2009. Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 0002. Looking Northwest on E. Exchange St. from High St. Corner. 0004. Herberich-ACY Building Entrance Door - Looking from E. Exchange St. 0005. Herberich-ACY Building Top Floor Detail -Looking to East Elevation. 0006. Herberich-ACY Building Terracotta Detail- Looking to North Elevation. 0007.Evans Building 1956 Addition E. Exchange - Looking to South Elevation. 0008. Evans Building 1956 Addition Auto-Teller View - Looking to North Elevation. 0009. People's-Evans Building S. Elevation on E. Exchange - Looking N.W. (8-86) 0010. People's-Evans Building NE Corner S. Main & E. Exchange - Looking N.E. 0003. South Elevations of W & E Exchange Streetscape - Looking N.W. on E. Exchange St. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet PHOTO LIST Page 3 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 0011. People Building Neo-Classic Revival Details Upper Floors - Looking From NE. Corner Photo taken by Yolita Rausche on February 1, 2009 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 0012. People's Evans Foreign Bank 331 S. Main - Looking at W. Elevation from across S. Main St. 0013. Kaiser Bldg. 323 S. Main - Looking at Facade from across S. Main St. 0015. S. Main St. Streetscape From Canal Place to Main & Exchange Looking SW. 0016. First Federal Savings Building 326 S. Main Looking West. 0017. Depositors Bank Building 328 S. Main Looking West. 0018. Brodbeck Bldg. 1 W.Exchange NW Corner - Looking NW. 0019. From Brodbeck Bldg. to Canal Place Streetscape Looking NW. 0020. S.
Main Streetscape from 348 to 380 S. Main St. Looking SW. (8-86) 0014. Kaiser Building People's Building on S. Main St. Streetscape Looking S.E. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet PHOTO LIST Page 4 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 0021. Glenn Hotel 348 S. Main - SW. Corner of Main & Exchange St. Photo taken by Yolita Rausche on February 1, 2009. Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 0022. Upington Block- Byrider Bldg 356 S. Main - Looking at East Elevation. 0023. Sanford Block- Central Hotel 358 S. Main - Looking at East Elevation. 0024. Durkin Bldg. 362 S. Main - Looking at East Elevation. 0025. First National Bank 368 S. Main -Looking at East Elevation. 0026. 358-356-348 S. Main - Looking NW. at S. Main Streetscape.
0027. S. Main St. Streetscape 376-374 S. Main Looking West. 0028. S. Main St. Streetscape 380,378,376 S. Main Looking West. 0029. S. Main St. Streetscape 380 to 368 S. Main Looking West. 0030. Orleans Ave. Rearview Streetscape 370-368 S. Main St - Looking SE. (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places PHOTO LIST Page 2 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 0031. Rear Elevation of 368 S. Main St on Orleans Ave. Photo taken by Yolita Rausche on February I, 2009. Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 0032. Streetscape Orleans Ave. Rearview of 348-368 S. Main Looking NE. 0033. W. Exchange & Orleans - Brodbeck Bldg 1 W. Exchange - Looking North From Orleans. 0034. Rearview of 1 W. Exchange 328,326 S. Main from Canal Park to Former Garden Street. 0035.
View of Main-Exchange District From Canal Park Lock 1 Looking East. 0036. Rear Elevation of 366 S. Main St. on Orleans. (8-86) Continuation Sheet NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places HISTORIC PHOTO KEY Main-Exchange Historic District Page 1 Summit County, Ohio S. MAIN ST EXCHANGE ST. I MOVED S. HIGH ST. ) ORLEANS AVE. DEMOLIS ED W. CEDAR STA KNEW INFILL E. CEDAR ST. Not to Scale Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio. (8-86) Continuation Sheet 2008 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet HISTORIC PHOTO LIST Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 1. Kramer Block 102-104 W. Exchange St. (now 348 S. Main St. at the corner of S. Main St. C.
1876 Image from Yesterday's Akron by Kenneth Nichols Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 2. Clarendon Hotel. 334 S. Main St. at the corner of W. Exchange St. Image from Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel Lane 1892. 3. Kaiser Block at 323 S. Main St. C. 1904 4. Brodbeck Building 1 West Exchange St. C. 1916 Summit County Historical Socioty - Akron-Summit County Public Library Special Collections 5. Herberich Building 12 West Exchange St. Akron Beacon Journal Photograph C. 1970 Atlas 1910 7. Exchange St. looking North West at the Clarendon Hotel & the Peoples' Savings Bank on the corners. 1915 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Postcard Collection, Akron Public Library Photo C. 1915 Photograph C. 1916 (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a 9.Main St.looking North from Exchange-Brodbeck Building &People's Savings Bank on Corners C.1915 Page 2 8.
People's Savings and Trust at 337 S. Main St. and Parisette Block at 331 S. Main St. C. 1915 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet HISTORIC PHOTO LIST Page 3 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 11. Depositor's Savings & Trust Company 1917 Image from Akron: The City of Opportunity Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 12. Postcard of S. Main St. looking North from Exchange St. C. 1926 Image from Greetings from Akron - Celebrating Akron's History in Postcards by the Summit County Historical Society. 1930 Image from Enlarging Arts, Akron, Ohio. 14. Kaiser Building 323 South Main St. - People's Savings & Trust Building 331-337 South Main St. Photograph C. 1935 354-348 South Main St. 16. E. Exchange St. Looking Northwest from S. High St.
C.1952 Image from Akron: City at the Summit. by George W. Knepper 17.368 Main St. East Elevation First National Bank 1952 18.368 Main St. West Elevation - Orleans Ave. 19. South Elevation - East Exchange St. People's Savings & Trust / Evans Building 1956 Addition 20. North & East Elevations (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a 13. S. Main St. looking Northeast from W. Exchange St. to the Kaiser Building and People's Savings and Trust Company. C. 15. Durkin Block 362 South Main St. Stanford Block 360-358 South Main St. Upington Block 356 South Main St. Glenn Hotel OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio Image from Yesterday's Akron by Kenneth Nichols Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs Continuation Sheet 1.Kramer Block102-104W.Exchange St.(now348S.Main St.at the corner of S.Main St.C.1876 NPS Form 10-900-a National Register of Historic Places DRY GOODS OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 2. Clarendon Hotel. 334 S. Main St. at the corner of W. Exchange St. Image from Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel Lane 1892.
Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs NPS Form 10-900-a 0000000 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District 3. Kaiser Block at 323 S. Main St. C. 1904 Image from Yesterday's Akron by Kenneth Nichols Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places Summit County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 4. Brodbeck Building 1 West Exchange St.
C.1316 Summit County Historical Socioty - Akron-Summit county Public Library Specal Collections Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Summit County, Ohio 5. Herberich Building 12 West Exchange St. Akron Beacon Journal Photograph C. 1970 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio Continuation Sheet (8-86) Main-Exchange Historic District Historic Photographs OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 6. Upington Block, People's Savings Bank, Commercial Savings Bank, Sanford Building. 356 South Main St.
Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a Atlas 1910 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 7. Exchange St. looking North West at the Clarendon Hotel & the Peoples' Savings Bank on the corners. 1915 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Postcard Collection, Akron Public Library Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places DRUGS NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Historic Photographs Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio Image from Yesterday's Akron by Kenneth Nichols.
Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places 8.People's Savings and Trust at 337S.Main St.and Parisette Block at 331 S.Main St.C.1915 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio Main Street, looking North from Exchange, Akron. Ohio. 9. Main St. looking North from Exchange- Brodbeck Building & People's Savings Bank on Corners Photograph C. 1915 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 10.
People's Savings and Trust Company Building, Foreign Exchange Bank 331 South Main St. Photograph C. 1916 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Summit County, Ohio 11. Depositor's Savings &Trust Company. 1917 Image from Akron: The City of Opportunity: Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH FROM EXCHANGE STREET, AKRON. OHIO 12. Posteard of S. Main St. looking North from Exchange St.
C. 1926 Image from Greetings From Akron - Celebrating Akron's History in Postcards by the Summit County Historical Society. Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet Historic Photographs National Register of Historic Places OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Summit County, Ohio Image from Enlarging Arts, Akron, Ohio. Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1930 (8-86) Historic Photographs Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places 13.S. Main St.looking Northeast from W.Exchange St. to the Kaiser Building and People's Savings and Trust Company. C. NPS Form 10-900-a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 14.
Kaiser Building 323 South Main St. - People's Savings & Trust Building 331-337 South Main St. Photograph C. 1935 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 15. Durkin Block 362 South Main St. Stanford Block 360-358 South Main St. Upington Block 356 South Main St. Glenn Hotel 354-348 South Main St. Photograph C. 1947 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio Continuation Sheet (8-86) Historic Photographs NPS Form 10-900-a DUO NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Summit County, Ohio Image from Akron: City at the Summit.
by George W. Knepper Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Historic Photographs Continuation Sheet 16.E.Exchange St.Looking Northwest from S.High St.C.1952 Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service HISTORIC PLANS & ELEVATIONS Summit County, Ohio MAIN: STREET- ELEVATION 17. East Elevation - Main St. First National Bank 1952 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) BANK Continuation Sheet FIRST Main-Exchange Historic District AUTO TELLER National Register of Historic Places PERSONAL"LOANS DEPOBIT BOXES OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service HISTORIC PLANS & ELEVATIONS Summit County, Ohio - BRANCH: BANK- BUILDING- - FIRESTONE & CASSIDY 18. 368 Main St.
West Elevation - Orleans Ave First National Bank 1952 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) NATIONAL ARCHITECTS BANK FIRST Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a 175. W..BOWERY ST AKRON, OHIO TO AUTO TELLER NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service HISTORIC PLANS & ELEVATIONS Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 19. South Elevation - East Exchange St. People's Savings & Trust / Evans Building 1956 Addition Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places 916 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places HISTORIC PLANS & ELEVATIONS Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio 20. North & East Elevations People's Savings & Trust / Evans Building 1956 Addition Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio 1956 (8-86) AUTO TELLER Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Page 2 Summit County, Ohio - Main - Market Historic District - NORTH AKRON - South Main Historic District THE GORE - Proposed Main - Exchange Drawn by L. B. Hiebel Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS Continuation Sheet Historic District (8-86) Main-Exchange Historic District Original North Akron and South Akron Villages c.1835 National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Page 3 Summit County, Ohio Historic Districts on Main St. - Downtown Akron. Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Main-Exchange Proposed District Continuation Sheet Main-Market Historic Historic District (8-86) Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places National Park Service South Main Historic NPS Form 10-900-a Not to Scale NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Main-Exchange Historic District Page 4 Summit County, Ohio South Main Historic Historic Districts in Akron CBD. Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio.
Main-Exchange District MAPS Continuation Sheet Cascade Locks (8-86) Quaker Square Main-Market Historic Historic District National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Not to Scale NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service HISTORIC DISTRICTS Page 5 Street Names Right-of-Way Centeriine 2006 Aerial Photos 2006 Aerial Photo - Downtown Akron. Main - Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Legend Parcels Continuation Sheet Right-of-Way Construction Line (8-86) Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places EXCHANGE ST Summit County, Ohio GIS Summit County Subdivision Line Combine Line Parcel Line MAIN ST NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Page 6 Summit County, Ohio Historic Map 1870 Main-Exchange Historic Distriet Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District (8-86) Main-Exchange Birds-eye-view looking South National Register of Historic Places OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Page 7 Summit County, Ohio Main-Exchange Birds-eye-view looking Southwest Historic Map 1882 Main-Exchange Historic Distriet Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places (8-86) United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Page 8 Summit County, Ohio - South Main District Main-Exchange District Main-Exchange Birds-eye-view looking North Aerial Photograph 2000 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS Continuation Sheet AKRON (8-86) Canal Place Main-Exchange Historic District National Park Service National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Page 9 Summit County, Ohio Blacks, or portions thereof contained within the limits of the "Principal Mercantile District" shown on key map Akron 1916 Sanborn Map Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio THUS Main-Exchange MAPS PENNSYLYANIA Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District Principal Mercantile District (8-86) National Park Service Historic District stand pipe Giendale Parky FORGE fnr the use BERG PERKIN CARROLL eased rns throughout Park NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Page 10 Summit County, Ohio - Historic District 1919 Business Section of the City of Akron City Plan of Akron by John Nolen - City Planner, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District (8-86) Main - Exchange . OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Summit County, Ohio Main - Exchange Historic District Akron City 1940 Sanborn Map - Central Business District Main-Exchange Historic Distriet Akron, Summit County, Ohio District MAPS Central Business Continuation Sheet (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District NPS Form 10-900-a Page 11 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Page 12 Main - Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio Based Upon Routes In Operation In 1920 VG W Akron Street Car Lines - Map 1920 The N.O.T.&L.
Story by Blower & Korach 1966 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio Symbols MAPS AKRON Continuation Sheet City Routes National Register of Historic Places (8-86) Stale in Miles OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio L. Doable tracked between Perkins Switcher added in 1922. E. FEDERAL ST. ST. (PERKINS ST.) W. MARKET ST. Site of A. B. & C. - Added in 1920 Exchange Ave. and the Main - Exchange Historic Akron Street Car Lines - Map 1920 (Detail) The N.O.T.&L. Story by Blower & Korach 1966 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS District Continuation Sheet DOWNTOWN AKRON (8-86) interurban station East Shed Double tracked between NPS Form 10-900-a Boiler House and Furnace St.
in 1923 Page 13 1918 until 1932 station until 1918 Tunnel below tracks & statrs up - Dispatcher's booth (above track) E. MARKET ST. MAIN ST . Site of interurban canal bridge in 1924. OWER Y MILL ST. Substation Bldg. (on top of hill) Ohio Canal NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Page 14 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio °. EXCHANGE ST. LINE Line 24 December 2, 1915 - Same route as of June 1, 1918. 1926 - One man operation begins this day. May 30, 1931 - Last day of street car operation. EXCHANGE LINE 4- Blue Pond Wye 1926 - One man operation started. Akron Street Car Schedule - W. Exchange St. Line & E. Exchange St. Line The N.O.T.&L.
Story by Blower & Korach 1966 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS (8-86) Continuation Sheet 1926-Regular route restored.(Temporary single track street car bridge.) EXCHANGE line both ways. August 16, March 28, November 27,1927-Ist day over new E.Exchange St.bridge. 1919-Temporarily cut back to a wye at E.Market St.-E.Exchange St. 1913.Through with GRANT line via West and East Exchange at this time. April 1, 1915-New line via route of June 1,1918. S-Brittain Wye S. Main St., N. Main St. both ways. Rhodes. 1927 -Through routed with ARLINGTON line instead of E.EXCHANGE line via W.Exchange St.,S. 1899-(Akron Traction and Electric Bowery-W.Exchange St.via W.Exchange,Maple to June 1, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Page 15 Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio SOUTH MAIN ST. LINE 9 - Miller Car barn 10 - Kenmore Car barn October 2, 1888 - First day of Electrical operation. S. Main St....Both ways. July 1, 1927 - One man operation started. (KENMORE LOOP-E.MARKET ST.) 1927 - One man operation started. (KENMORE CAR BARN-ARLINGTON) 1927 - Last day of through operation KENMORE CAR BARN-ARLINGTON. 1931 - Last day of freight operation to Wadsworth. May 19, 1947 - Last day for regular street car service. 1948 - Electric switching discontinued at Kenmore Car Barn. Akron Street Car Schedule - South Main St. Line The N.O.T.&L. Story by Blower & Korach 1966 Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio MAPS (8-86) February, separate line.
January 27, March 27, September 20,1926-Inbound via...S.Main St.,E.Market St.... December31,1934-Street car service discontinued from Barberton Loop to Wadsworth. 1919-All cars from Kenmore Car barn instead of Alternate cars from LAKESIDE line which became June 30, March 26, Broad to High(Wye). Return same route. 1926-Inbound route of September20,1926 discontinued.Original route restored, 1887-Extended on S.Main from South St.to Ira St.also on Long St.from S.Main to Lakeside. 1946- Street car service discontinued from Kenmore Loop (Stop 97)to Barberton Loop. June 8, November 9,1942-Looped downtown via...S.Main St.,S.Howard St.,W.Mill St.,S.Main St.. 8 - Lakes ide 11 - Kenmore Loop (Stop 97) 12 - Barberton Loop August 18, 1947 - Last day for special street car service. Track retained at Kenmore Car Barn for switching. 13-Wadsworth wye 1883-(Akron St.Ry).
From Federal-Howard St.via Howard, S.Main to South St. January 1, April 1, OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Page 16 Summit County, Ohio Main - Exchange Historic District CEDAR 4 Akron City Atlas 1922 - Street Car Lines Main-Exchange Historic District Akron, Summit County, Ohio CHESTNUT BUCHTEL AVE BROADWAY MAPS Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District National Register of Historic Places (8-86) National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a 256 254 253 SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC Page 23 DISTRICT Main-Exchange Historic District Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places MAP NPS Form 10-900a S-MAIN National Park Service Business Development E.CEDAR Main-Exchange Historic District, Akron, Summit County, Ohio United States Department of the Interior Summit County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Summit County, Ohio SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC Sanborn Map 1892 NPS Form 10-900-a MAPS Page 24 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 ORLEANS DISTRICT MAIN Main-Exchange Historic District United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Business Development Main-Exchange Historic District, Akron, Summit County, Ohio W. BUCHTEL AVi (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Summit County, Ohio Sanborn Map 1904 Main-Exchange Historic District, Akron, Summit County, Ohio (8-86) MAPS Page 25 National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a Business Development Main-Exchange Historic District United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Summit County, Ohio S. MAIN Sanborn Map 1916 Main-Exchange Historic District, Akron, Summit County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) ORLEANS MAPS OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Page 26 Business Development Continuation Sheet Main-Exchange Historic District United States Department of the Interior National Park Service GARDEN Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a Sanborm Map 1930 Main-Exchange Historic District, Akron, Summit County, Ohi Page 27 Business Development OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Summit County, Ohio Main-Exchange Historic District NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Main-Exchange Historic District Summit County, Ohio CURVE OF POPULATION CITY OF AKRON 100,000 - 75,000 - 150,000 - 125,000 - 1910-1919 Akron Chamber of Commerce City of Akron 1919 Population Graph City Plan of Akron by John Nolen - City Planner, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
Main-Exchange Historic Distriet Akron, Summit County, Ohio 3266 INFORMATION MAPS Continuation Sheet (8-86) Page 28 SOURCES 1850-1910 U.S.Census Estimates 200.000 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY : N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N 11-12:09 DATE 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 RETURN REVIEWER MULTIPLE 11/15/09 REJECT ACCEPT DISCIPLINE 10/31/09 PDIL: 10/02/09 The National Register Entered in SAMPLE: OTHER: TELEPHONE Historic Places DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Summit HERBERICH+PEOPLE'S BIDGS STREFTSCAFE EXCHANGE ST SUMMIT CO. OHIO YOLITA B.
RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO MAIN-EXCHANGE HISTORICD. YOLITA E. RAUSCHLE AKRON. OHIO MAIN-EXCAANGE HSTORICDST SUMMIT CO.OHID FEBRUARY 2OO9 .SOUTH ELEVATION OF W+E, SUMMIT CO. OHO YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHANBERS MURFHY IBURGE AKRON, OHO STREETSCAPE EXCHANGE ST. LOOKING FROM E: ESCHANGE ST PHOTO SUMMITCO. OHIO CHAM BEZS MURPHY PURGE YOLTA E. RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO TOPFLOOR.DETAIL HERBERICH-ACY BLDG. YOLITA E. RAUSCHE AK.RON,OHLO SUMMIT CO. OHLO YOUTA E:. RAUSCHE EVANS YOLITA E. RAUSCHE AKRON OHIO LOOKING TO NORTH ELEUATION CHAMBERS MWRPWIIBURGE FEBRUARY 2OO9 MAIN -EXCHANGE DISTRICT PEOFLES-EVANS BLDG. SOUTUE ELENATONON E. Exchange st MAIN-EXCHANGE DISTRIT SUMMITCO. OV. YOLITA EL. RAUSCHE. 0009 AKRON.OHLO PEOPLÉS-EVANS BLDG. NECORNER S.MAN AND CHAMBERS MURPHY+ BURGE LOOKING NE YOLITA E.RAUSCHE SUMMTCO. OH E.EXCHANGE ST. PEOPLE'S BLDG. NEO-CLASSIC YOLITA E.
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MAIN -EXCHANGE DISTRICT YOLLTA E RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY (BURGE AK.RON,OHIO SUMMITCO. OH BRODBECK BIDG N.W. COR IW. EXCHANGE ST. MAIN-EXCHANGE DISTRICT SUMMIT CO. OH. YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPIY IBURGE AK.RON.OHO LOOKING N.W. 0018 CANAL PLACE. STRTETSCAPE MAIN- EXCHANGE DISTRIT AK.RON.OHIO LOOKING N.W YOLITA E. RAUSCHE TEBRUARY ZOO9 FROM 348 to 380 S.MAIN ST MAIN -EXCHANGE DISTRICT SUMMIT CO. OH YOLITA E. RAUSCHE Looking S.W S.MAIN STREETSCAPE AK.RON.OHIO Photo CHAMBERS, MURPHY+BURGE 348 S. MAIN ST. SUMMITCO. OH YOLITA E RAUSCHE LOOKING S.W. MAIN EXCHANGE DISTRICT GLENN HOTEL CHAMBEES MURPHY+BURGE UPINGTON BLOCK-BYRIDERBUDG 356 S. MAIN ST YOLITA E. RAUSCHE SUMMITCO. OH CHAMBERS.MURPHY BURGE AK.RON.OHLO Arsterdam SUMMITCO. OH CHAMBERS, YOLLTA E.
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OH YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY/BURGE AKDON, OLHO ORLEANS STREETSCAPE LOOKING S.EAST PHOTO 0030 REAR ELEVATION OF SUMMTCO. OH CHAMBERS, MURPHY |BURGE LOOKING EAST AK.RON,OH 368 S.MAINST ON ORLEANS FEBRUARY 2009 YOLITA E. RAUSCHE PHOTO REAR VIEW OF 368 t 348 YOLITA E. RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO SUMMITCO.OH MAIN EXCHANGE DISTRICT -HOTO 0032. LOOKING W.EAST PHOTO ISKEY DICK'S W.EXCHANGE AND ORLEANS YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS,MURPHY+BURGE LOOKLNG NORTH FROM ORLEANS REARVIEWOF IW EXCHANGE, 328,32.6 S. MAINST- SUMMIT CO. OH YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURFHEI BURGE AKRON, OHLD LOOKING EAST FROM CANAL. PARK TO FORMER GARDEN ST MAIN EXCHANGE DISTRICY PHOTO YOLITA. E.
RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO LOOKING EAST MAIN EXCHANGE DISTRICT 0035 ST ON ORLEANS- MAIN - EXCHANGE HISTOEK SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO YOLITA E RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO LOOKING EAST DISTRICT CHAMBER>MURPHY BURGE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE 771-395 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-SUMMIT CO. VAN'S CAMERA INC. 4920 WHIPPLE AVE., N.W. CANTON, OH 44718 FAX 330-492-4812 E-mail: vanscamera@neo.rr.com February 16, 2009 330-493-3534 Thanks, The process used for these photos was a silver based ra process using Fuji premium photo paper.The process is designed to last over 100 years. 08/26/2009 11:57 FAX (330) 434-8634 PAGE 12 EAST EXCHANGE STREET TELEPHONE (330) 643-0757 AKRON, OH 44308 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2497 FAX TRANSMITTED MAIN EXCHANGE HISTORIC DISTRICT district for almost twenty years.
This district has some very significant historic features, including our office Akron. history of Akron. President Dear Mr. Ruffini: building, which, at the time of its construction was the tallest office building in I give this application my strongest support. Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer CRUCIBLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION This Historic District designation will encourage the continued August 26, 2009 DAVIS EOFF ELLIOTT FRANCO RUFFINI Please consider this as my letter of support for the creation of the Main at 12 East Exchange Street, Akron, Ohio and I have been a property owner in this Exchange Historic District.
My company owns the 8 story office building located 08/26/2009 11:57 FAX (330) 434-8634 PAGE 01/02 12 EAST EXCHANGE STREET TELEPHONE (330) 643-0757 AKRON, OH 44308 FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL COVER SHEET NUMBER OF PAGES, INCLUDING THIS PAGE, TRANSMITTED: 2 CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVILEGE NOTICE INTENDED FOR THE SOLE USE OF THE RECIPIENT INDICATED ABOVE. IF THE READER IS NOT THE RECIPIENT COPYING OR DISSEMINATION OF THIS TRANSMITTAL, IN VIOLATION OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED COOPERATION. 08/26/09 614-298-2037 DATE: Kevin G. Davis FROM: CRUCIBLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FAXNO.: TIME: 11:55 FRANCO RUFFINI THIS COMMUNICATION IS SUBJECT TO A LEGAL PRIVILEGE.THE DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THIS DAVIS EOFF ELLIOTT OR AGENT OFTHE RECIPIENTYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION REC'D BY OHPO AUG 26 2009 MESSAGE: PLEASE SEE ATTACHED.
IN ERROR.IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER REC'D BY OHPO AUG 26 2009 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2497 As a developer of historic landmarks, I am writing to encourage the board to mission was to work the restoration architectural firm Chambers Murphy and Burge to outline 16 building buildings that would establish the Main Market Historic District. We have renovated 8 of these buildings many using historic tax credits without which the filled with hundreds of well paid knowledge workers. We wish to replicate the success we have undertaken at Main/Market -now at the Sincerely, Aug. 26, 2009 Historic District possible by officially designating this historic district. We have received excellent Re: Main Exchange the community. important tool for economic stimulus and development. Thank you.
consultation from CMB Architects to assure the long term sustainability with appropriate project would not have been undertaken. One of these buildings previously slated for These buildings have served to provide a sense of stability and prosperity as they are Historic District Management detailing that is accurate historically that will continue to allow the building to continue Dear Franco Ruffini, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer support the official designation of the Main Exchange Historic District in Downtown district. This designation is crucial for our continued success in this rewarding work for demolition -the Gothic Building--was the recipient of the new State Tax Credit program Akron.
This is a most important move for the continued development of this commercial Main Exchange Historic District and we need your continued support to make this telling the story of our built legacy. Please help us by voting in favor of this most We have been developing historic buildings in Akron since 1996.Our first OCT 0 2 2009 September 24, 2009 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: NEW NOMINATION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000.
Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Montgomery HISTORY www.ohiohistory.org Enclosures Sincerely, Summit National Register Main-Exchange Historic District Franco Ruffini OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Graphic Arts Building RECEIVED 2280 Enclosed please find two(2)new National Register nominations for Ohio.All appropriate OHIO
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