Nomination for East High Street District

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR [X State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) OCT 9 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 5. Sycamore, and 7- Clarence J.

Brown L039 (Check One - In Process - Preservation work - Comments Commercial OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Ohio Historic Landmarks, Phase I (Bushnell House) - Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 1967 Springfield LOCATION 023 Religious ACCESSIBLE Military Site NAME Government Private REGISTER NATIONAL Structure DATE Unoccupied CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION Transportation CODE District Educational STATUS Agricultural Museum Entertainment Both Scientific Columbus Park OWNERSHIP Private Residence Restricted Ohio Historical Society Building Being Considered Ohio Public Yes: COMMON: Industrial Clark County Building Object CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: East High Street District Public Acquisition: Clark (see continuation sheet) REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TO THE PUBLIC Limestone and Columbia Streets OWNER OF PROPERTY 1982 Velma Ave STREET AND NUMBER: TITLE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF SURVEY: E.

High PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) OCT ENTRY NUMBER streets Other DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unaltered - Moved DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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where, but has often been lost. the distinction of possibly being the oldest in the district, since a Italianate brick house with low hip roof, extensive veranda with elaborate of the century, the front portion of the house was radically altered by raising the roof to a steep, pitched design and inserting a palladian limestone, perhaps locally quarried. The three-bay facade has a slightly the entablature which carries an elaborate, cast iron railing, terminating at either end in large stone baskets with 'flowers. Flanking the entrance metal (copper or lead) with a dentil molding at the roof line and an Renaissance moldings and has a moderate pitched roof. Of particular note CONDITION Unexposed Ruins are two windows with segmental arches framed by elaborate stone architraves.

The second story has three windows arranged symmetrically over the first asymmetrical and mixes roof brackets of the Italianate with simple two engaged stone pilasters of modified Corinthian design, which support Original Site the windows of which are similar to those used elsewhere on the first floor. window in the shingled attic pediment facing High Street (north facade). general configuration as the front portion of the present structure.The At some time the front veranda was also removed and a new doorway created through one of the front windows.A rear section of the house still has the three major architectural styles of the late l9th century- the 2.The Rinehart-Bowman House,8l5 E. High St.,is a two-story, square Fair constructed of brick, but the main facade is faced with dressed The Charles M. Clark House Town Club), 805 E.

High St.,has of a fashionable residence of the l85o's.At some point around the turn (Check One) street map of shows a house on the site of the same earliest known view of the shows it as an asymmetrical [X Excellent Italianate, the Renaissance revival, and the Richardsonian Romanesque. ing the house appears to be original. The house, altogether, was typical much of the original design, including eaves brackets. stone newels at either side. The body of the house is flanked with bays, The present iron fence surround- The East High Street District presents an interesting panoramic view of provides for a most dramatic contrast; a contrast that has existed else- in the Springfield atlases under Mrs. Bushnell's name.

projecting center bay.The central entryway has double doors, surmounted The house is approached by a trapezoidal flight of seven stone steps with The two-story scroll work and the usual eaves brackets. The attic story is treated as part of the entablature. bya semicircular window.The doorway with its architrave is flanked by 3.The Ellen Ludlow Bushnell House,825 E.High Street, seems to have been It is sheathed in structure is built of brick and is somewhat eclectic in design.It is Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century - Urban Planning Other (Specify) - Invention - Science - Sculpture - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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the City of Springfield of 42 lots, numbered by the city as lots 604-646. west, High Street on the north, York Street on the east and on the south in part by Mound Street, in part by Mill Run Creek. By 1856 a street Charles Clark was born in Coshocton, Ohio in 1808 and was brought to county. Although born to a poor family, he showed the industriousness of many early settlers. He built up a large wool-buying business, had acquired $25,000.00 by the time of his marriage in 1846 and held over 400 acres of land in Moorfield Township and was the largest stockholder that of the 1865-70 period when the Italianate profile of the 50's was Asa S.

Bushnell, later Governor of Ohio, was born in New York in 1834 and firms, he married Ellen Ludlow in 1857 and entered her prominent father's losophy Conservation Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Engineering Landscape Military Aboriginal Communications Music Education Pre-Columbian itarian Religion/Phi Literature Agriculture Prehistoric Social/Human- came to Springfield in l85l.After six years of clerking with several In the five years following the Civil War, the industrialization of which would win out and become the fashionable street until well past appears to be Charles M. Clark. 1900.

Starting about 1869,one major businessman after another located, of his fortune swept away.He had to sell most of his stock to remain In 1848,the brothers William and Gustavus S.Foos platted an addition to Political This is an area bounded by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad on the drug business.In 1867he became a partner in the agricultural Springfield moved into "high gear",so did the financial growth of the Art Industry SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) business. In this move away from the core of Springfield, many built tried to promote West High Street. It was, however, East High Street That year the house, which Asa S. Bushnell was to occupy for to break the old pattern of living upon or close to the place of their along South Market and Limestone Streets. In the 1880's P. P. Mast built or bought houses in this area.

One of the earliest of these Clark County in 1811, thereby becoming one of the early pioneers of the house and land of city lot #614 and moved there in 1870. (The house 1856-1888 occured. solvent.Clark did manage to retain his home on East High Street. giving away to the Renaissance revival and Second Empire Mansard styles. map of Springfield shows that l5 of the lots had structures on them. in the Foos Gustavus).In 1869 Clark purchased the had been built by 1856).In the financial panic of 1873,Clark saw most AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES History of Clark County, W. H. Beers Co., Chicago, 1881. History of Springfield & Clark County, Ben H. Prince, 1922. Atlas of the City of Springtiela, 1882, B. Robinson, New York. Committee, 1970. "Sketches of Springfield in 1856", facsimile reprint, Clark County Historical Society, 1973. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: George H. Berkhofer, Executive Director ORGANI ZA TGON Jan. 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa1 Register.

in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation National [ GP 0 931-894 039 Degrees Name LATITUDE COUNTY Springfield Local DATE LONGITUDE STATE ATTEST: CODE CORNER Clark County Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Degrees Minutes Seconds GEOGRAPHICAL DATA APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 300 W. Main Street The Architectural Record,1896,"The Works of Robert H.Robertson". about 5 acres CITY OR TOWN: 20th Century History of Springfield, W. H. Rockel, 1908.

ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Keeper of The National Regi Title Seconds Ohio Minutes Form 10-300g / UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM JUL 3 0 1574 ENTRY NUMBER 9 1974 Street, west on that alley to the southwest corner of the C. M. Clark House Owner of Property Rinehart-Bowman House: Mr. Paul Zimmer, 815 E. High Street 825 E. High Street (Mr. Austin Richards, 409 S. Broadmoor Blvd., Springfield). is the wide, paneled wood frieze at the roofline and the bracketed cornice.

In overall conception, especially its verticality, it is extremely close to GPO 921.724 Location COUNTY STATE Clark NATIONAL (Continuation Sheet) EAST HIGH STREET DISTRICT with restrained carving and pilaster decoration in the Italian Renaissance remained a private home until recent times and received good care and upkeep. Ohio elevation of this block has a centrally placed three-sided bay and side E.High St.),east across the rear property lines of the Foos House and style.The central block has three bays with a central door and entrance looking Springfield presenting a dramatic tableau of19th century elegance. Description some of Samuel Sloan's designs in Homestead Architecture,1865,and is property to the point of beginning.

Walnut Street to E.High St.,west on E.High St.,to the northeast corner of the E.L.Bushnell E.High St.),south along the alley which E.High St.),north on the alley which borders the west side of the the Asa Bushnell House E.High St.) to Walnut Street, south on 4.The John Foos House,810 E.High St.,begun in 1870,has a central FOR NPS USE ONLY north on S. Sycamore to the rear property line of the John Foos quite typical of an upper middle class home of the late1860's. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES sheet 1 John Foos House: Ker-Deen Inn, 810 E. High Street (Mr. Kermit Knick) The wing, located west of the block, has a door, also on the this one being covered with a bracketed hood. The structure Its only major alteration is an expansion of the kitchen facilities, but this Beginning at the intersection of East High Street and S.

Sycamore, proceed carved pediments and side mouldings. The roofline has a centrally placed DATE entrance. broken pediment and bracketed cornice with panelled frieze.The east is within the structure. Ellen Ludlow Bushnell House:Greater Springfield Day Care Center, south elevation; Charles M.Clark House:Women's Town Club,805 E.High Street The home is now a private catering establishment, the Ker-Deen Inn. borders the east side of the property to the first alley south of E.High The house is situated on the top of a ridge over- Form TO-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER sheet 2 7. Description (continued) house, basically a horizontal structure, is of rock-faced granite block implement firm of Warder, Mitchell & Co., later Warder, Bushnell & Glessner.

later, he and his wife moved into a fashionable new home at 383 East High Street, city lot #616. In later years Asa Bushnell would become president to build the first electric railway in the city. Finally, various political John Workman Rinehart was born at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania December 16, 1827. Of his family little is known, other than that he was of German extraction. In 1852 he came to Springfield, where he set up a hardware business merchant, Charles Clark, and fellow manufacturer, Asa Bushnell. GPO 921.724 Significance STATE COUNTY NATIONAL REGISTER DATE Ohio EAST HIGH STREET DISTRICT (Continuation Sheet) Clark The east elevation features an interesting gable-roofed port-cochere house over the years. a first story entrance porch with three arches supported by carved stone move to East High Street:John Foos and John W.Rinehart.

it is little altered, now serving as the Austin Richards Funeral Home. third story gable-roofed dormer with a central arched window.To either alternating with decorative courses of darker stone and areas of carved and arcade.A semi-eliptical bay is found on the west elevation. H.Robertson in the Richardsonian Romanesque style for Asa Bushnell, and highly respected attorney in Springfield and his name has clung to the to form the firm of Rinehart, Ballard & Co.The firm was emminently side of this dormer is a small eliptical dormer.The gabled dormer is The Asa Bushnell House,838 E.High St.,was built in 1887-8 by Robert when it was purchased by the S.A.Bowman family.Bowman was a prominent however;he died in 1876.His widow continued to live there until 1883, JUL 3 0 1974 D (Number all entries) contiguous, it has a splendid lawn sweeping down to High Street.

Structurally successful and by 1870 he was able to have a grand house on East High Street From this point began his great period of financial growth.Three years The year l870 saw two other prominent Springfield manufacturers prepare to that were spent in the house at 383 East High Street 825 E.High). BCT91974 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER sheet 3 In 1870, John Foos also decided to build on East High Street. Foos was settlers, he acquired a large fortune through hard work and shrewd in- had cost $75,000.00 to build.

By 1871, then, three of the most important Governor Bushnell Home, was not constructed until 1887-88, just shortly significance not only for its architect and style, but also as the home Taken as a whole, the East High Street District presents a solid, visual wife not only chose a neighborhood that was becoming fashionable, but also house, fashionable, modern and befitting his income, suited him well, in 1870.

GPO 921.724 COUNTY STATE DATE Ohio RECEIVED Clark he constructed his elegant mansion on East High Street.Like the Rinehart the dry goods business.He established his own firm producing seed and picture of the successive styles of architecture favored in Springfield described above.This imposing stone structure was long attributed to St.John Sewing Machine Co.and made a thriving business of it.Later he impressions: the massive sturdiness of the style creates an aura of manufacturer of agricultural implements.In l876 he acquired the tottering precisely Bushnell's goals.

OCT91974 acquired the Cottage Color Paint Co.At the culmination of his career EAST HIGH STREET DISTRICT the Richardsonian Romanesque style with churches and civic buildings no investigation has conclusively that it is not the work of any of the above, Form 10-300a (Continuation Sheet) men in Springfield lived within one city block. necessity for it to be new and stylish;a large, square house of the 1850's from 1850-l890,and the social values they implied.When Charles Clark, Significance William and Gustavus Foos.He came to Springfield in 1848and went into May 1876,states that this house had been completed in January 1875 and West and inl870 united with P.P.Mast to form Mast,Foos& Co., (July 1969)1 before Asa Bushnell reached the peak of his career, which has bean Richardson's successor, the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

The last of the great houses in the East High Street District, The doubt heightened the public's impression of confidence. These were who may be said to belong to an older generation, moved to East High Street, Modern OCT H.H.Richardson on stylistic grounds.Later, the house was reassigned to but rather of Richardson's H.Robertson.The house has he was satisfied with a large, comfortable house.There apparently was no linseed oil for paint.It became one of the leading oil mills in the House, the Foos mansion was not completed in 1870.The Champion vestment.He was born in Madison in 1826,brother to both Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM sheet 4 8.

Significance (continued) At the same time, both Rinehart and John Foos were at the peaks of their As to the significance of Bushnell's last home, we have already spoken at GPO 921.724 COUNTY REGISTER STATE NATIONAL Ohio choice of the Renaissance revival style presents an interesting commentary Clark OCT careers and could afford something befitting their station in life.Their mansions are monuments to the values of the rising,middle class manufacturer$ and merchandising backgrounds.The rich opulent interiors of these houses (Continuation Sheet) believed in modernity--even if it was a rough approximation of a style ENTRY NUMBER of those of earlier merchant-princes of Europe.

a modern man of wealth who was also a public figure EAST HIGH STREET DISTRICT (Number all entries) clear that Asa Bushnell spent a great deal of money to create an image of FOR NPS USE ONLY perhaps from Springfield and its people, perhaps from their manufacturing 800 years old. He was also willing to pay well for his image and it is and cold exterior formality.Elements which embody a feeling of seperation- length above.It only remains to observe that Bushnell did not depart who expressed their monied aspirations in stone and brick palaces reminiscent RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER EAST HIGH STREET DISTRICT Mrs. E.L.

GP0 921-724 COUNTY north STATE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE Rinehart Clark Ohio (Continuation Sheet) EAST HIGH STREET Asa Bushnell John Foos Form 10-300a no scale WALNUT STREET 7, 30,74,1234 PHO TOS Send-back _ Entered KEEPER Re-submit OCT91974 National Register Write-up Federal Register entry MAPS WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF CONTROL REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF HISTOR IAN 12/3/74 7.31 East High Street District Clark Co. Ohio East High Street District UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en olose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) : 1974 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT May 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Rinehart-Bowman House, 815 E. High Street.

JUL 3 0 1974 GPO 932-009 Springfield TOWN DATE COMMON COUNTY NATIONAL Ohio REGISTER Clark STATE NAME East High Street District Gary Thompson RECEIVED PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Clark County Historical Soc. (see continuation (6/72) 825 High Sheet UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1875 Springfield TOWN COUNTY REGISTER 91974 DATE NATIONAL STATE COMMON Clark Ohio PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT (6/72) AND/OR HISTORIC RECEIVED East High Street District NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES continuation sheet) (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) GPO 932-009 OCT Drawing of Charles M.

Clark House from 1875 Clark County Atlas. ATLAS OF CLARK COUNTY, OHIO 1875 RES. OF M. CLARK CHARLES REGISTER NATIONAL JUL 3 0 1994 RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S. Springfield Quad.

1: 24000 GPO 932.010 1966 REGISTER Springfield DATE TOWN COUNTY STATE NATIONAL Ohio COMMON Clark SCALE SOURCE East High Street District RECEIVED STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES continuation sheet) Form 10-301 MERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: SPRINGFIELD QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPRINGFIELD, OHIO UNITED STATES 9 1974 PR MMOTT: p1 10.11.74 Location Region STATE Name OCT Date Entered Springfield Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Aeting Director Clark County Regional Director,Mid Atlantic State Hietoric Preservation Officer East High Street Distriet Hon. Clarence J. Brown Interstate #7l at 17th Avenue Nr. Charles W.Pratt OHIO Celumbus, Ohio 43211 The Ohio Hlstorical Soelety