Nomination for Home Building Association Bank

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/OR HISTORIC: (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: W. J.

Gambin Company COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal JUN 1 5 1973 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 1973 089 039 Religious CLASSIFICATION Government ACCESSIBLE LOCATION Licking Restricted CATEGORY Transportation Entertainment REGISTER NATIONAL Educational Unoccupied Structure Ohio Yes: Being Considered Both STATUS CODE OWNERSHIP Museum Site Private Scientific Public Square Building COUNTY Park Private Residence Military Licking County Courthouse Public District Newark Agricultural Home Building Association Bank John M.

Ashbrook 6 West Main Street Industrial NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 68 Waldo Street Public Acquisition: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: ENTRY DATE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF SURVEY: Object JUL 2 NAME OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION DATE COMMON: - Deteriorated L Unexposed - Unaltered X] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

was dropped, and the doorway on the southeast corner was reset at an angle, greatly detracting from the appearance of the building. the center of the south side, a lion holding a shield is seen.

and on the east side, "The Old Hone." Presumably, these panels the wall are brick red, dull green, dull blue, and CONDITION DESCRIPTION Association Bank: Ruins and the exterior possesses those elements that characterized the in decoration.The counters and wall dado are faced Designed by Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, the Home Building cartouches are the principal ornaments on the first floor.In Morrison also provides an excellent desription of the interior for business use.The exterior is faced by greenish Above the windows on the first floor are covered mosaics that is...like the gleaming precision of fine machinery." The stained glass on the south side is original.Foliated of the company desired accommodations for quite a a three story building since the basement was designed treatment of the plate glass shield partitioning the The first floor exterior is marked by rectangular windows and Association Bank is one of the important extant structures done which has been vastly altered: has this to add about the appearance of the Home Building gray terra cotta slabs with ornamented borders....

erect a two-story structure, and it was in reality one has the feeling that the whole enterprise was cheap." chromatic frieze;and even the ceiling beams are richly windows are rectangular, and the panes are leaded glass. by intricately veined black marble; the wall is a poly- gold-buff.The best feature of the interior is the story stone facade, and measures approximately sixty-five by Hugh Morrison in his Louis Sullivan, Prophet of Modern Architecture, work of Louis Sullivan. The general effect of the exterior is not good, and read on the south side,"The Home Building Association Company" The sill height of the windows on the south side of the building The interior of the Newark bank is extremely rich by the noted architect.The three story building has a two "The lot was of very small dimensions but the officers (Check One) - Moved ornamented.

The colors of the frieze at the top of tellers' cage from the public space. The arrangement large business. Consequently it was neeessary to Excellent are still intact under the present signs. Fair Good The second floor - Pre-Columbian| - 16th Century STATEMENT OF

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parents. At age sixteen, Sullivan became determined to the office of Frank Furness, designer of the Pennsylvania Left for Durope to further his education. 1881. Adler and Sullivan designed several important buildings. The Borden block (1879-1880), Auditorium Building (1886- as his younger period, but he still designed some important Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota (1907-1908), The Merchants' and Loan Association Bank in Sidney, Ohio (1917-1918), as impressive as some of Sullivan's other banks, it is Commerce Communications Transportation Conservation Aboriginal REGISTER Engineering Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Literature Agriculture losophy Science still an important structure. Music itarian NATIONAL Theater Education Prehistoric Landscape Industry Political their partnership, and Sullivan started working alone.

Sculpture Dankmar Adler with whom he entered into a partmership in that the American Institute of Architects awarded him posthumously Louis Sullivan's later years were not nearly as productive Social/Human- Religion/Phi- and the Home Building Association Bank were all part of this Sullivan died in Chicago in 1924.It was not until 1946 firm designed.But in 1895 Sullivan and Adler dissolved Louis Sullivan was born in Boston in 1856,the son of immigrant Institute of Technology.Sullivan studied at MIT for one Invention and worked until depression in 1873 forced Furness to its Gold Medal.

Building were among the buildings the talented Military become an architect, and in 1872 he entered the Massachusetts 1890),Wainwright Tomb the Transportation AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE:(Check One or More as Appropriate) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa (1914), Peoples' Saving - Urban Plan: Art reduce his staff.Louis went to Chicago to be with his Sullivan studied in Europe about two years.In 1879 he met period.While the Home Building Association Bank was not structures, including several banks. The National Farmers' 9.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: * acre JUN 1 5 1973 March 31, 1973 L039 STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GP0 931-894 LATITUDE Seconds Degrees LONGITUDE DATE Name Title ORGANIZATION COUNTY REGISTER ATTEST: Columbus STATE NATIONAL CODE Local CORNER Degrees Minutes Seconds Minutes 1932 Forest Village Lane Larry Alan Beers NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION original exterior of the bank.) FORM PREPARED BY LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES National Register.

I hereby certify that this property is included in the level of significance of this nomination is: STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: 1960.(Plates 98 and 99 in this work are excellent views of the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law OFLESS THAN TEN ACRES and 82) CITY OR TOWN: Bush-Brown, Albert. forth by the National Park Service. Ohio The recommended Accept = Ame SUL 2 1973 Maps Entered Re-submit Send-back KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN 73001495 TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONTROL REVIEW National Register write-up WORKING NUMBER Licking Federal Register entry Photos 3 6-18- 8-7-73 Symons BEST JEWELRY CO. WALK CROSS Craf'Ts Lotv NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: Home Loc. Symons BEST JEWELRY CO. DISCOUNT TOY C ARCADE Loft BEST JEWELRY COMPANY PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISER Loc.

NPS Number ARCHITECTS Sauth side PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. NPS Mumber Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR' 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE 1961; Photorevised 1970 REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: JUN 1 5 1973 GPO 932.010 Licking Quadrangle Newark Home Building Association TOWN DATE Bank COMMON SOURCE STATE Ohio SCALE COUNTY REGISTER 24,000 NATIONAL STREET AND NUMBER AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) 6 West Main Street L21973 RECEIVED (July 1968) USGS 7' Series, Newark GP O NEWARK QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO NEWARK, OHIO RRn DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JUL 2 1973 Ne. Daniel R.

Porter Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Fayette County STATE Name Licking County Date Entered Portsmouth Washington Court House Also Notified Cuyahoga County Director and Jail Director, Northeast Region Fayette County Courthouse The Ohio Historical Society Brecksville Wyandot County Courthouse Wyandot County Home Building Association Bank ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hon. Tennyson Guyer Seioto County Upper Sandusky Eon. Robert Taft State Historic Preservation Officer Kinney,Aaron, House Hon. John M, Ashbrook Hon. William H. Harsha Hon. William B. Saxbe MMOTT: pc1 7/6/73 Brecksville Tom Hall