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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service -MAY 2 7 2010 National Register of Historic Places NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property historic name Wintzer, Charles Building other names/site number 2. Location street & number 202 Auglaize Street West N/AL not for publication - vicinity state Ohio _ county Auglaize 3.
State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _ meets does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: X local Dept. Head, Inventory & Registration Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government _ does not meet the National Register criteria Signature of commenting official 4.
NationalPark Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: entered in the National Register _determined not eligible for the National Register - removed from the National Register Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 011 code national Date Registration Form 455 Signature of certifying official RECEIVED 2280 zip code 45895 Title I hereby certify that thisX nomination _ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional Ohio other(explain:) (Expiree-5/31/2012) Wintzer, Charles Building Auglaize Co. Ohio Name of Property 5.
Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) public - Local public - State public - Federal Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing) listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Domestic: multiple dwelling Commerce/Trade: Specialty store Commerce/Trade: storage Commerce/Trade: professional 7.
Description Late Victorian: Italianate Other: Two story German Canal Warehouse site private building(s) Total structure object other: roof: Materials Architectural Classification Current Functions district County and State (Enter categories from instructions) Number of contributing resources previously (Check as many boxes as apply) asphalt walls: brick Wintzer, Charles Building Auglaize Co. Ohio Name of Property County and State its location, setting, size, and significant features.) Summary Paragraph The Wintzer Building (1872) is a two-and-a-half story common-bond brick building on a limestone foundation located at the northwest corner of Auglaize and Blackhoof Streets in Wapakoneta, Auglaize County. The building is on the opposite side of Blackhoof Street from the Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District and is adjacent to the Auglaize River.
This property also contains two additional historic buildings that have been rendered non-contributing due to extensive alterations that have diminished their architectural integrity. Wapakoneta, the county seat of Auglaize County, is located on the banks of the Auglaize River in and ninety miles northwest of Columbus. The Wintzer Building sits at the northwest corner of Auglaize and Blackhoof Streets, the town's major east-west and north-south thoroughfares, respectively. The building is located on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988). Blackhoof Street separates downtown Wapakoneta the northern boundary of the Wintzer property. Constructed in 1872, this rectangular, two-and-a-half story common-bond brick building sits on a foundation of coursed limestone; a smooth-faced limestone water table extends across the south (street) side.
(Photo 1) A wide-eaved cornice with pendant-enriched brackets and paneled frieze distinguishes the roofline. The (nearly) symmetrical, six-bay façade also features two central entrances with fan and sidelights, (Photo 2) flanked by pairs of round-arched, four-over-four, double- hung-sash windows with tracery, trimmed by a double row of header bricks and stone lug sills (some of the sills on the first floor have been replaced with poured concrete). Slightly shorter but otherwise identical windows appear on the second story of the façade, and segmentally-arched, four-over-four, double-hung sash windows on the remaining sides of the building. (Photo4) Tiny oculus windows are found in the attic story of the east and west sides. A c.1910, one- the building; the east half of this porch is enclosed, apparently, from its original construction. (Photo the east and west sides.
Walnut and oak woodwork and staircases with elaborately carved newel posts distinguish the interior. (Photo 12, 13, 16) The building is divided into two units. Each side features a living room with c.1910 Arts and Crafts-influenced mantel, dining room, kitchen and bath on the first floor, and three rooms and hall on the second floor. (Photos 11, 14, 15) central, double entrance(as wide as the present doorways) with tracery-enriched, round-arched Building was constructed to serve both commercial and residential needs. Its east side was a showroom for the products of the tanning operation (harness leather), while the west side was the home of the Wintzer family. Sanborn-Perris Fire Insurance Maps indicate that, by 1885, the tannery Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property.
Explain contributing and noncontributing resources 3) The building is topped with a stepped sloped flat-roof punctuated by two chimneys projecting from According to nineteenth century photographs, the east half of the facade formerly featured a transom flanked by matching, similarly detailed display windows (again, as wide as the present The Charles Wintzer Building is located in Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio. The City of west-central Ohio. It is approximately fifteen miles southwest of Lima,fifty-five miles north of Dayton, showroom had been replaced by a dentist's office; in 1892 this section of the building is identified Wintzer, Charles Building Auglaize Co.
Ohio Name of Property County and State use, with the changes to the façade made at this time.The Wintzer Family maintained the building as a primary residence until the construction of a large Dutch Colonial Revival house a block away (1910s; also on Auglaize Street), although various members of the family lived in the building until 1969, and the wife of the current owner operated a gift shop here from 1994 until 2003. The west side of the Wintzer Building now houses a beauty parlor on the first floor; the remainder of the building is used for storage at this time. Two outbuildings also distinguish the property, although both have been significantly altered, rendering them non-contributing. A pre-1865 frame building sits north of the brick building, on the additions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Its rough clapboard siding has been covered in vinyl and its original 6/6 double-hung sash replaced with new windows the same size as the original. Members of the Wintzer Family refer to this as the hide house; Sanborn-Perris maps indicate three functions for the building: hide house, beam house, and bark house. The second floor story, rusticated concrete block building fronts Blackhoof Street; it was re-sided and its windows serves to the present. (Photo 5, 6) rows of hooks(for hanging cattle hides) attached to the ceiling.(Photo 7,8,10) The first floor now (also by Sanborn-Perris) as a "voting booth." By 1899 the east side was converted for residential houses the company's conference room, while the second serves as storage. A rectangular, one- of the building's interior retains much of its original appearance, with tongue-and-groove siding and replaced in the 1990s.
This building was constructed in 1937to house company offices, a function it Wintzer, Charles Building Auglaize Co. Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance