Nomination for Mad River Block

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev. 6-72) FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: 13 - Charles E. Mosher 3.

CLASSIFICATION - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments - Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal JUL 2 043 039 Sandusky NAME LOCATION Erie Site Educational Both Military ACCESSIBLE Religious Government District NATIONAL Ohio Unoccupied Entertainment CATEGORY Being Considered Private OWNERSHIP Agricultural DATE REGISTER Restricted Structure CODE Private Residence Park Museum Public Yes: Building STATUS Industrial CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public Acquisition: Object 323 Columbus Avenue Mad River Block Scientific STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Multiple private ownership (nine units) OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS ENTRY DATE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Erie County NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITY OR TOWN: TO THE PUBLIC (Check One) West Adams DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER 1002-1018Wet - Deteriorated X Original Site tal stone lintels.

The terminal walls have parapet gables. The interiors are finished in the simplest manner, consistent with the north facade is unaltered. JUL 2 CONDITION DESCRIPTION NATIONAL Moved Excellent REGISTER Fair stone stoop. All door and window openings have simple horizon- Unaltered vernacular manner of the Greek Revival period.The block are laid out with alternating floor plans so that the entrances RECEIVED the economical purpose of the row house.There have been are paired.Each pair of entrances shares the same two-step This is a row of nine attached two-story houses in the Good (Check One) kitchens and backyard porches, but the original aspect of additions to the rear(south)side of the block for modern Unexposed Ruins is constructed of brick on cut stone foundations.The first PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

- 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) - Literature - Military - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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block, as well as the history of the railroad. The form that Dayton & Cincinnati Railroad, and by 1882 it was absorbed JUL 2 1849 stantially. region. Conservation Commerce losophy Communications Architecture Engineering Aboriginal NATIONAL Science REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Theater itarian Prehistoric Education Landscape Sculpture Music The Mad River Railroad was the first railroad in Ohio, Industry Political to connect Sandusky and Dayton, there to meet the Miami Canal a connecting line between Dayton and Cincinnati was completed. Religion/Phi.

RECEIVED Social/Human- the houses took was obviously due to economic considerations, from the Greek Revival period in northern Ohio, and it is This block has a double significance, both architectural 1849,which is consistent with the design and structure of the River & Lake Erie Railroad.The best ascertainable date is The block was built to house the employees of the Mad Ohio Canal terminus on Lake Erie.The railroad was proposed and social.It is an unusual example of attached row houses completed to Bellevue and by 1850 to Dayton.The next year Cincinnati. It was actually begun in 1835.By 1837 it was chartered in 1832 after Sandusky's dismay at the loss of.the In l858 the Mad River & Lake Erie was renamed the Sandusky, Invention into the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad.

also an unusually early example of "company housing" in the Art as the party walls reduce the number of exterior walls sub- 10.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES JUL 2 National O FORM PREPARED BY Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 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 c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-i 039 Local Degrees LATITUDE Name COUNTY STATE LONGITUDE Minutes DATE CORNER Ohio ATTEST: REGISTER CODE 263-265.

RECEIVED less than one 10825 East Boulevard LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Degrees Minutes Seconds NAME AND TITLE: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION National Register. Seconds 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES April 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Keeper ofVhe National Register APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended 1974 ORGANIZATION Title Western Reserve Historical Society CONTROL REVIEW Send-back - Re-submit _ OCT 1 6 1974 INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST WORKING NUMBER MAPS National Register Write-up Federal Register entry 7. 2.74.1080 TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF STATE Oh 3/74 Acc PHOTOS Erie addltions ColE STATE: Ohio Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

View of entire block, looking west from corner of Adams and Mc Donough Streets * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 JUL21974 Sandusky COUNTY Erie IDENTIFICATION DATE 039 Eric Johannesen Western Reserve Historical Society CODE PHOTO REFERENCE Ohio ENTRY NUMBER REGISTE COMMON: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PHOTO CREDIT: FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: Mad River Block NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NEGATIVE FILED AT: DATE OF PHOTO: 1002-l0i8 West Adams CORE (7/72) April 197l NAME Uiew of entire block, looki 043 NATIONAL PROPERTY OE THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. JUL 2 View of entire block, looking east along West Adams Street * US.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - I 039 Sandusky NAME REGISTE COUNTY DATE Erie NATIONAL CODE Western Reserve Historical Society STATE PHOTO REFERENCE 043 COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER IDENTIFICATION PHOTO CREDIT: Mad River Block NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER: AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Eric Johannesen CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio DATE OF PHOTO: 1002-l0l8 West Adams April 197l OCT 16 1974 1974 (7/72) Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OCT 1 6 1974 STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G. S. Sandusky Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-l 043 039 1969 NAME Sandusky COUNTY STATE DATE Erie Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER CODE COMMON: 1:24,000 SCALE: ENTRY NUMBER Mad River Block MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: REQUIREMENTS NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCATION (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: Rev. 7-72 1002-1018 West Adams 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SANDUSKY QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR E356460 UNITED STATES SANDUSKY, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO STATE ORIO OCT 1 6 1974 Me. Charles C. Pratt Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Hon, Charles A. Vantk Hon. Clarence J. Brown, Jz.

PR MMOTT: p1 10.24.74 Location Dayton Acting Director Sandusky Date Entered Name Springfield Cuyahoga County Hamilton County South Euclid Trumbull County East Claridon Geauga County Logan County Montgomery County Regional Director, Midwest Region Clark County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Lake Ridge Island Mounds Pickaway County Circleville vieinity Luthor List Mound Arcade Hotel State Historic Preservation Officer Newton Falls Covered Bridge Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Ohmer, Nicholas, House Hon. Thomas A. Luken The Ohio Historical Society Russelle Point vieinity Telling, William E., Residence Newton Falls Mad River Block Erie County Interstate #7l at 17th Avenue Mariemont Embankment and Village Site Hathaway, Lot, House Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mariemont Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. William H. Harsha