Nomination for Franklin Park Conservatory

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE JAN 1 8 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 1547 East Broad Street, Franklin Park CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 12 Samuel L.

Devine OWNERSHIP 3U - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: Division of Parks and Forestry, City of Columbus LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: OCT 1 6 1973 049 039 Columbus Franklin Military Religious CLASSIFICATION Government LOCATION Private Educational Both DATE STATE Site Restricted ACCESSIBLE NATIONAL REGISTER CATEGORY Entertainment Museum Commercial Being Considered Yes: Federal District Agricultural Park Unoccupied CODE Scientific COUNTY: STATUS Ohio Building COMMON: Public Franklin County Courthouse Private Residence Franklin Park Conservatory 1826 Franklin Park South OWNER OF PROPERTY Industrial 380 South High Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Public Acquisition: TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: Structure (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY Object (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) E Local NAME ENTRY NUMBER in progresr X Excellent - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered X Moved - Original Site from 1886 to 1894.

The building of glass, stone, and steel is rectangular in shape and has Inside the conservatory grow a collection of 250 flowers, trees and CONDITION DESCRIPTION REGISTER NATIONAL house where flowers for the Columbus parks are grown. shrubs native to tropical and desert countries.Beside a rippling pool glass towers on either end.A small projecting rectangular entryway superintendent's home and now houses the headquarters for the city's Fair stone bears the date 1895,the date the conservatory was re-erected in Columbus. The Franklin Park Conservatory is situated in a park which covers an and waterfall are tropical trees, some of which are the largest of their kind under glass. area of about 1o0 acres once used as the Franklin County fairgrounds On the east side a red brick,tile roofed building was added asa a glass dome topped by a finial in the center of the mansard-like roof.

(Check One) Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if know/n) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

OCT 1 6 1973 has been added to the west side.The cornerstone of weathered brown Division of Parks and Forestry.There is also an attached growing On the west facade there is a projecting portion which has diminutive PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) D 17th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF

Statement of significance

it was bought, or how it was transported to Columbus, It coffee, and rubber trees, hibiscus, bird of paradise and other OCT 1 6 1973 1895 Commerce Conservation cornerstone. losophy Architecture Communications Transportation Engineering Science Landscape Theater NATIONAL Military REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE Literature Aboriginal Religion/Phi Music itarian Invention Pre-Columbian Prehistoric tropical wonders. Agriculture Sculpture Political Social/Human- took place in front of the conservatory. animals until room was made at the zoo. Dayton's Huffman Meadow to Columbus.Delivery of the silk circus and housed them in the conservatory for the winter.

Urban Planning The tropical gardens were enhanced by monkeys and other known that it once graced the Columbian Exposition of 1893 air freight terminal when the Wright Exhibition Co.flew a bolt of rose-colored silk on a Wright Model B airplane from Industry The full history of the 78 year old glass conservatory will In l926 a local publisher purchased animals from a defunct On November 7,l9l0,Franklin Park became the Nation's first was erected in Franklin Park in 1895,the date on the Other (Specify) never be known. Today, the conservatory is the scene of "jungle tours" for school and youth groups where they learn of bamboo, banana, Art Records pertaining to its purchase were destroyed when the old Columbus City Hall burned.It is Society, Oxford University Press, N.Y., 1940.

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: REGISTER FORM PREPARED BY ¡ June 1973 Ohio Historical Society " CITY OR TOWN: [T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law Nationa 1 Register. 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register GP0 931-894 039 Seconds Degrees ATTEST Columbus ORGANIZATION STATE LATITUDE DATE Minutes COUNTY Title CORNER NATIONAL LONGITUDE CODE Local Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- level of significance of this nomination is: Name kaww Arter, Bill. Columbus Vignettes, Vol. 1, Nida Eckstein Printing, Columbus, Ohio, 1966. Dept. of Recreation & Parks, City of Columbus, Archives. .

Ohio Guide, Ohio State Archaeological & Historical ca, 2 acres The Gretchen Klimoski 1982 Velma Avenue ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE Chi CONTROL REVIEW HISTOR IAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN PHOTOS 3 JAN 1 8 1974 INT: 1538-73 National Entered KEEPER Re-submit ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back MAPS WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW 10.16.73.3775 BRANCH CHIEF 3-5-74 3-6-74 10. 17. Tranklin Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LOCA TION 1547 East Broad Street, Franklin Park DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

049 039 IDENTIFICATION COUNTY Columbus NAME INT:154-72 REGISTE CODE PHOTO REFERENCE NATIONAL Franklin STATE ENTRY NUMBER Ohio PHOTO CREDIT: Franklin Park Conservatory COMMON: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: Ohio Historical Center Larry Beers June 1973 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Interior, looking south along west wall. STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) RECEIVEN Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1547 East Broad Street, Franklin Park DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Detail of tower and dome, view from southwest?

INT: 154-72 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 049 039 COUNTY DATE Columbus REGISTE STATE NATIONAL Franklin NAME CODE Franklin Park Conservatory Ohio Historical Center LOCATION IDENTIFICATION Ohio COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES June 1973 AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) JAN 18 1 61973 PHOTO REFERENCE Larry Beers PHOTO CREDIT: Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION 1547 East Broad Street, Franklin Park CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. INT: 154-72 049 039 COUNTY Franklin NATIONAL STATE West facade.

Columbus IDENTIFICATION REGISTE CODE Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE COMMON: Ohio Historical Center Franklin Park Conservatory June 1973 ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE Larry Beers 0.1973 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1. NAME JAN 1 8 1974 2. LOCATION - Franklin 1547 East Broad Street, Franklin Park 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S.

7.5' OCT 1 6 1973 GPO 932.010 1964 Columbus STATE COMMON NATIONAL DATE TOWN REGISTER SOURCE COUNTY SCALE 1:24000 Southeast Columbus Ohio Form 10-301 STREET AND NUMBER AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY MAP FORM Franklin Park Conservatory NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW UNITED STATES Franklin Park SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO - FRANKLIN CO 2.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS, OHIO Conservatory GEOLOGICAL SURVEY -JAN 1 8 1574 The Rumple Anderson-Shaffer House Mr. Daniel B. Porter Columbus, Ohio 43211 | PR MMOTT: p1 1.25.74 © Hon. Thomas L.

Ashlay Location STATE Butler County Name Cincinnati Cuyahoga County Hoyt Block Cleveland Lucas County Franklin County Division Avenue Pumping Station Director Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge Also Notified Hon. Samuel L. Devine Date Entered Franklin Park Conservatory St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Maumee Historic District ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Saint Paul Church Historic District Columbus Hon. James V. Stanton Hon. Robert Taft,Jr. Hon. Louis Stokes State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society &Hon. Walter B. Powel1 Hamilton Maumee Hamilton County OHIO Cozad! Justus L., House.