Nomination for University, Hayes and Orton Halls

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) University AND/ OR HISTORIC: Co Lumbus - Structure - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments - Scientific OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local 049 1970 None Franklin Religious STATE OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE LOCATION DATE CODE CLASSIFICATION Site Government NAME CATEGORY Both Yes: Restricted STATUS Transportation REGISTER Commercial Entertainment South High and East Mound Streets Museum Private Educational Private Residence COMMON: Being Considered NATIONAL Industrial Agricultural Unoccupied Ohio Park Registrar of Deeds, County Court House Public Public Acquisition: OWNER OF PROPERTY DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Form 10-300 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER STREET AND NUMBER: TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: (Check One) The Oval Object 707:34:6008 - Building District The Ohio State University Military Hayes, Orton Halls, The Ohio State University 1670 DESCRIPTION O Fair - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed * Unaltered LJ Moved [2 Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (If known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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altered twice. Its walls are plumb, there is little evidence of settlement rear auditorium addition erected early in the 20th century, which addition 2. Hayes Hall, built 1893, for manual training, drawing and domestic building, of French Romanesque Revival style, was designed by architects 3. Orton Hall, built 1893, is one of the fine Richardsonian Romanesque campus, originally the east wing housed the library and state museum until During World War I, the east wing was used for an aviation target CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL largest institution of higher learning in the state: range.Orton Hall was also designed by Yost and Packard, architects. noteworthy architectural and historical symbols of what has become the demolition at a time when it is serving as a symbol of the University's Yost and Packard.It is in excellent condition and in no jeopardy.

of the High Victorian building is its 5-story bell tower which has been is exempted from this application. MAY 61970 and classrooms.The building provides 48,000 sq.ft.of floor space. Revival buildings in Ohio. Named for the first University president, The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as the land grant college of (Check One) K Good University Hall, built/1873, is the first structure used for college Designed by J. Snyder of Akron, Ohio, the Mansard- centennial. The only unsafe, deteriorated portion of the structure is a Named in honor of the 19th President, a University trustee, the and of rot of structural timber. Edward Orton, Sr., the structure was the first fire-resistant building on Excellent science.

Ohio under the provisions of the Morrill Land Grant Act passed by Congress RECEIVED Between 1873 and 1879 the structure accommodated all administrative and Corridors are wide leading to offices purposes at Ohio State.I OF

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! L& 19th Century - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Religion/Phi- - Other (Specity) - Science - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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to 1870 directly influenced all Ohio college and university building Gaede, A.I.A., Cleveland. 1873-1893 Communications Conservation Architecture Commerce losophy NATIONAL Education Agriculture REGISTER college building not designed and constructed for higher education primarily for museum and laboratory teaching and is a distinguished, nical training at the collegiate level over the entrenchment classics Invention Political purposes consistent with the Yale Report of 1828,which philosophy had century as a result of ancient Greek educational and trade philosophy. The building is the first permanent structure of The Ohio State University unaltered example of Richardsonian Romanesque Revival architecture.

Hayes Hall is the first Ohio college structure designed and used exclusively for manual, domestic, and technical instruction consistent oriented tradition dominant in American education throughout the 19th with the spirit of the Morrill Act, and represents a victory for tech- Literature Engineering Orton Hall is the first building in Ohio designed and built Aboriginal University Hall is the first structure used for the purposes of It housed briefly in 1885 the first state museum.It was the first Ohio collegiate architecture of the era of its construction."-Robert C. higher learning constructed in Ohio under the Morrill Land Grant Act. Landscape SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) Art - Music 1970 design along classic lines to that date.

itarian Industry History of the Ohio State University, Columbus, 1920 The Ringing Grooves of Change, Columbus, 1970 "Report on University Hall," Jones and Stuckey, Ltd., Engineers, DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES State X

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FORM PREPARED BY Daniel R. Porter CITY OR TOWN: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preseryation level of significance of this nomination is: JUL 1 6 1970% Keeper of The National Registef ORGANIZATION DATE LONGITUDE Name COUNTY LATITUDE NAT Columbus ATTEST: CODE National CORNER Local MAY Degrees Minutes Seconds Ohio Ohio Historical Society MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Degrees Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, Columbus,1875 1813 North High Street GEOGRAPHICAL DATA STREET AND NUMBER: National Register. NAME AND TITLE: 28 April 1970 2 3 1970 JUN 2 3 1970 Title Director, Ohio Historical Society Date 28 April 1970 Seconds Minutes MAY 6 1970 NATIONAL REGISTER 7-16-70 5/27/70 5/5/70 Franklin 1/30/70 10.7.340028 DEPT. OF PHOTOGRAPHY Title: NPS Number 70-7-34-0008 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PLEASE GIVE CREDIT PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. DEPT.

OF PHOTOGRAPH: 70-7-34-0008 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PLEASE GIVE CREDIT Orter Ydael Orlon 70-7-34. 0008 DEPT. OF PHOTOGRAPHY Title: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NPS Number PLEASE GIVE CREDIE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. Columbus, Ohio 43211 The Ohio Historical Society Ohio Historical Center Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER STREET AND NUM BER: 1: 24,000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 049 1965 Columbus NAME Franklin DATE STATE REQUIREMENTS COUNTY COMMON: Ohio CODE SCALE: SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES the Oval, The Ohio State University. AND/OR HISTORIC: U.S.G.S., Southwest and Northwest Columbus Quads.

University, Hayes and Orton Halls, Ohio State University campus CITY OR TOWN: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) MAT 6 1970 LOCATION MAP REFERENCE RECEIVED OHIO -FRANKLIN CO.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC 4429 29° ROAD CLASSIFICATION HAMILTON N3952.5 - W8300/7.5 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NORTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NORTHWEST COLUMBUS, OHIO E3280 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC JUL 1 6 1970 RGamble :nm 7/23/70 Sincerely yours, /s/ Ernest ien Connally Ernest Allen Connally Bacloaure BASIC FILE RETAINED IN HR Brtered in the National Register and Historic Presezvstion Dear Medina, Ohio University, Hayes, Orton Halla OHIO Medina County Courthouse Properties added to the National Register of Historic Places Columbus,Ohio (ohio State) JUL 2 3 (Sgd) Thomas F. Flynn Ohio 43210 Hon. William B. Saxbe Washington, D. C. Duplicate letter sent to: Mr. Daniel R.

Porter, Director, The Ohio Historical Society, Colunbus, United States Senate DEPUTY Director 712.3 Sincerely yours, Entered in the National Register Dear Senator Ycungi Dedu 7.21 Enclosures Vaabington, D. C. 7- 16 Medina, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Medina County Courthouse Properties added to the National Register of Historic Places (ohio State) University, Hayes, Orton Halls OHIO AUG 1 4 1970 4508 St. Anthony Lane 89-665, which is underlined in the enclosed brochure. Essentially, this SAChambers: mm Signed) S. Allen Chambers, Jr. Mr. Daniel R. Porter, Dir., The Ohio Hist. Soc., Columbus, Ohio 43210-w/cy inc. Director, Northeast Region-w/cy inc. preservation issues. Enclosure Sincerely yours, in your effort with this significant property. information.

Thank you for your recent inquiry concerning University Hall at Ghio We have also found that listing in the National Register gives a property Architectural Historian it has proved itself to be a strong and able determinant in sany historic a degree of prestige and recognition which often helps determine its fate. clause states that if any Federal funds or licensing are involved in a We appreciate your interest in historic proservation and wish you well Mr. Richard Millard Dear Mr. Millard: BASIC FILE RETAINED IN HR property, the Advisory Council on liistoric Preservation must be given an tation of the National Register in Ohio is Mr. Daniel R. Porter, Director, T-w/cy inc. HR-w/cy inc. 8-13-7 project which may have an adverse effect upon a National Register situation there.

We would suggest your contacting hin for further The State Liaison Cffieer,appointed by the Governor, for the implemen- nominated University Hall to the National Register,is well aware of the proteets a property to the extent outlined in Section l06 of Public Law July 26,1970 Teel that University Hall should be destroyed. monument to education. We can build for the century. If ve do not act soon, however, University 0.S.U.,senetors, and many other people. The replies have not been too encouraging,however. I am 0.S.U. Student JUL 3 0 1970 Sincerely, Dear Sirs; University Hall should be preserved. This future and still preserve parts of the past.There greatly appreciated. is still room for nostalgia even in the twentieth down a university landmark,University Hall. This to help.

If you could possibly help,it would be of great importance.In the looth year of the Ohio State University there are plans to tear I have written to the board of trustees at ot the entire nation. University Hall is a building is 99 years old.Some people do not writing to you in the hope that you will be able I would like to talk to you about a matter Hall will become only a memory. H30 HHS building is not only a landmark to Ohio state, but