Nomination for Vermilion Town Hall

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NOV 2 O 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: - In Process XX Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 043 Sandusky LOCATION Vermilion NAME Erie Religious STATE Site OWNERSHIP Commercial ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY Yes: STATUS Agricultural Unoccupied Ohio Government Scientific Private District Educational Museum CLASSIFICATION Structure Private Residence Both Entertainment Public Being Considered Federal Building REGISTER.

Erie County COMMON: Industrial Vermilion Town Hall CODE 323 Columbus Avenue CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Park NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Public Acquisition: OWNER OF PROPERTY CITY OR TOWN: Form 10-300 STREET AND NUMBER: TO THE PUBLIC Object (Check One) DATE OF SURVEY: 13 - Charles E. Mosher - Transportatien - Military Erie County Courthouse 197 DATE Vermilion Township Trustees 736 Main Street ENTRY NUMBER Other DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Moved X Original Site ular windows have stone lintels. Three elevations, north, east and raked to provide sight lines. A gallery across the east OCT 8 1974 CONDITION REGISTER Excellent Ruins NATIONAL Good Unaltered windows in the dormers, placed above three rectangular windows, a church of the same period.

The unsymmetrical east facade has Fair This is a three-story brick and stone public building with has banded voussoirs and is corbelled from the wall. The rectang- The first floor of the interior houses offices.The spaces have been partially modified by partitioning of a temporary nature. The stairway to the second floor, with a typical wooden balustrade, ulated by two heavy beams with ornamental brackets.The floor is a square tower at the southeast corner.Its pointed roof has been features of the High Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Eastlake make an ornamental note in the interior.The hipped ceiling is artic- ina rectilinear pattern of the Eastlake style.The large circular south, feature a gable with a large circular window of colored end is supported by posts. glass.These gables project from a tall hipped roof. (Check One) auditorium.

The rectangular stage proscenium is framed by woodwork is original. The second floor is occupied by a two-story public removed.The entrance is a Gothic doorway whose pointed arch PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! SPECIFIC DATE(S) (Il Applicable and Known) - Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

boasted fishing docks, ship builders, lumber docks and a trading style, it is probably most significant for the nearly unaltered 1883 Conservation Commerce Military Communications Engineering Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Transportation losophy Science Aboriginal REGISTER Theater Prehistoric NATIONAL OCT81974 Education Music Landscape Agriculture Social/Human- Religion/Phi. With the coming of the railroads both the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Nickel Plate Railroads passed through Vermilion, Political Firelands for its citizens who had suffered losses by fire under Literature itarian The Vermilion Town Hall is primarily significant as a lake port village.It contains one of the few surviving public halls Sculpture had occupations connected with the lake, fishermen or sailors. provided many ship owners and captains on the Great Lakes.

Throughout the nineteenth century the majority of the inhabitants Urban Planning eral government. It soon became a busy port, and the village handsome architectural expression of the civic pride ofa thriving The Town Hall was built in 1883.Apart from its architectural Cleveland and Toledo. The name of Vermilion is supposed to come from the color the British during the Revolution.Soon the mouth of the river 16th Century anent residents came after 1808,when Connecticut set aside the was around 2,ooo), few have survived relatively intact. Industry of the clay found along the banks of the Vermilion River.It was as well as the Lake Shore Electric, an interurban connecting in good condition.

public hall or "Opera House"on the second floor.Although nearly Invention consistently spelled with two "1s until about 1915.The first perm- every town of any size had such a hall (the population of Vermilion Art post.In l84l the harbor was dredged and piers built by the Fed-

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGIT-IDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: OCT 8 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 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 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 Degrees May LONGITUDE Seconds LATITUDE Minutes Local COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE Name 4586090 Cleveland CORNER ATTEST: Ohio STATE CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL 10825 East Boulevard Western Reserve Historical Society MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES STREET AND NUMBER: FORM PREPARED BY Less than one As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- NAME AND TITLE: National Register. CITY OR TOWN: Ohio: City of a Million Opportunities(Vermilion, 1962), Vermilion, REGISTER UTm STATE Chi ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Send-back - NOV 2 0 1974 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit MAPS National Register Write-up Federal Register entry HISTORIAN WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW LEBOVICH CONTROL REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 10.8.74.1677 Erie 10-30-74 PROPERTY PHOTOS 10.12. 2/75 Arcept Form No.

10-301a OCT 8 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. South elevation and east facade, looking northwest. * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III - I 039 DATE COUNTY Erie CODE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Eric Johannesen AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NEGATIVE FILED AT: Ohio (7/72) NAME cOMMON: Vermilion Town Hall LOCA TION NOV201974 May ENTRY NUMBER DATE OF PHOTO: Form No. 10-301a May 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III - I 039 NATIONAL COUNTY Erie DATE NAME REGISTER Vermilion CODE 043 STATE Ohio COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER 736 Main Street FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: North and west elevations, looking southeast. STREET AND NUMBER: Eric Johannesen PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) IDENTIFICATION NEGATIVE FILED AT: LOCA TION Vermilion Town Hall Western Reserve Historical Society NOV PHOTO REFERENCE RECEIVED Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Vermilion East Quadrangle OCT 8 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 3-1 039 043 1969 1974 Vermilion NAME Erie Ohio COUNTY DATE REGISTER STATE REQUIREMENTS MAP REFERENCE CODE COMMON: 736 Main Street SCALE: 1:24,000 SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: ENTRY NUMBER Vermilion Town Hall (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) FOR NPS USE ONLY LOCATION Rev. 7-72 NOV 2 0 NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VERMILION EAST, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR VERMILION EAST QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OHIO NOV 2 O 1974 Walters, Dr. Jefferson A., House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Charles C.. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. Charles E. Mosher Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Charles J. Carney Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. William E. Minshall Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr.

Regional Director, Midwest Burton Dayton Region Youngstown Location Vermilion Sandusky MMott/cha 11/22/74 Name Lakewood Montgomery County Wick Avenue Historic District Burton Village Historic District Date Entered Erie County Cuyahoga County Geauga County The Ohio Historical Society Clifton Park Lakefront District ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer Vermilion Town Hall Mahoning County Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Also Notified Erie County Office Building Interstate #7l at 17th Avenue OHIO