Nomination for Fort Piqua Hotel

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR X State (Rev.

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) FEB 15 AND/ OR HISTORIC: X Building - Unoccupied - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Transportation Commercial - Other (Specify) NOV 1 3 1973 OWNER'S NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: October, 1970 DATE OF SURVEY: - Local 109 Troy 039 Religious Miami REGISTER ACCESSIBLE Columbus County NATIONAL DATE CATEGORY Military Private Restricted Site Government OWNERSHIP Miami County Courthouse STATUS Museum Educational Both District Being Considered Entertainment CLASSIFICATION Private Residence Piqua Ohio 219 Spring Street COMMON: Ohio Historical Society Yes: Favorite City Realty Company Public CODE Tennyson Guyer Survey of Historical Features--Southwestern Ohio 1982 Velma Avenue Public Acquisition: LOCATION 114 West Main Street Industrial Scientific Agricultural West Main and North Short Street Mr.

Carl Zimmerman STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Structure Object (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: TO THE PUBLIC Park CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 4th FEB NAME Federal DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated L Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved [* Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Built 1890 to 1891 the Old Favorite Hotel is one of Piqua's Landmarks. The four and one-half story Richardsonian Roman- on the southeast corner of the building, and it rises about its style, it is in good condition, and is in constant use. NOV 1 3 1973 CONDITION NATIONAL Ruins REGISTER between them. The building is general has that sense of massiveness so characteristic are both rectangular and round-headed. Generally the windows has four gablets flanked by turrets.Pyramidal roofs are various tenants. with outside entrances. Without exception these store fronts thirty feet above the roof line.Its pyramidal slate roof of Richardsonian Romanesque buildings. Contrasting types and are capped with smooth stone coping.A large tower is formed are not original, having been modified over the years to suit also found on the southwest and northeast corners of the hotel.

finishes of masonry are not extensively employed, so the hotel are set in groups of three with engaged columns of smooth stone The entrance to the hotel is located Fair Above the windows on the third floor a series of arches around The main slate roof is hipped. The first floor of the building is divided into store fronts (Check One) in the center of the south side, and is set apart with the use of a three story arch, oriel window, and arched X Good Excellent esque building is built of rock-faced stone laid in random ashlar bonds.The hotel is built on a stone foundation and the building gives the illusion of a balustrade.The walls PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

by several, small deteriorating frame buildings. Piquans started sometime in 1890, Work progressed rapidly, and the owned the complex, but did not operate the hotel. first level, but had faded from the picture later in the Overshadowed by modern hotels and motels, and removed from NOV 1 3 1973 losophy Engineering Conservation Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Commerce REGISTER Communications Military Aboriginal twentieth century. NATIONAL Education Theater Music Science itarian Agriculture of its once-prosperous times.

Literature Prehistoric The land was acquired by Orr and Statler and construction Political built by the partnership of Orr and Statler.Before the Landscape Statler continued to rent the spaces for stores on the Sculpture hotel was built, the corner of Piqua Square was occupied the mainstream of traffic by the Interstate Highway System, could not find a suitable tenants or the hotel business Social/Human- Transportation not there.But its fine architecture remains as a reminder the Old Favorite Hotel is open, but the business is simply bought out Grapes and operated the hotel until circa 1920. The first hotel operator was N. C.Johnston who opened The Plaza Hotel, as it was known when first opened, was Urban Planning Invention the Plaza Hotel in 1892. Apparently Orr and Statler either The hotel again changed hands during the 1920s, and sometime Religion/Phi.

18th Century Industry RECEIVED SPECIFIC DATE(S) :(If Applicable and Known) built 1890-1891 were happy that at last these shacks would be removed. was poor in Piqua.Johnston sold his concession in October, the name was changed to the Old Favorite Hotel.Orr and hotel was finished by the summer of 1891.Orr and Statler was W.H.Grapes who lasted until 1898.But W.P. Rice Art

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Brothers Publishing Company, 1916. 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES NOV 1 3 1973 FORM PREPARED BY April 28, 1973 tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GPO 931-894 039 Seconds Degrees LONGITUDE LATITUDE Columbus Local DATE COUNTY Minutes STATE ATTEST: NATIONAL ORGANIZATION CODE REGISTER CORNER Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds 1932 Forest Village Lane Larry Alan Beers As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES I hereby certify that this property is included in the level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: in the National Register and certify that it has been STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: National Register.

APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: acre Name Title Harbaugh, Thomas C. forth by the National Park Service.The recommended NAME OF PROPERTY Old 2. Location. . 3. Classification. _ 4. Owner of Property. . 5., Location of Legal Description. - 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. 7. Description. . te be off by about 11. Form Prepared By. Photographic Coverage. . criteria in. full. Other. Bibliography. Name. Geographical Data. SIGNED: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your Please check. .Acreage. Map Coverage. Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register of our professional review..Correction of these technical errors does not Statement of Significance. office for clarification of the information indicated below.

Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation DATE: -1-21-74 12. Certification. _ Longitude and Latitude Coordinates.Longitude (or Latitude) appears # 74001576 11.13.13. 3945 CONTROL REVIEW &/ A HISTOR IAN FEB 151974 Entered PROPERTY ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back STATE Federal Register entry MAPS WORKING NUMBER BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN TECH REVIEW 1-21-74 Re-submit2,12.74 Miami INT: 1538-73 KEEPER PHOTOS 11.13 4-2-74 Cole GCa UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 1 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT April, 1973 Columbus, Ohio 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

NOV 1 3 1973 REGIS T PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Miami DATE COMMON TOWN Ohio Larry Alan Beers Piqua COUNTY STATE Old Favorite Hotel PHOTO CREDIT RECEIVED The Ohio Historical Society 114 West Main Street NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) (6/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM GPO 932-009 South side (front). NATIONAI AND/OR HISTORIC STREET AND NUMBER FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 1 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE April, 1973 Columbus, Ohio 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

NOV 1 3 1973 GPO 932-009 Miami DATE Plaza Hotel STATE REGIST COMMON COUNTY Ohio Larry Alan Beers 114 West Main Street PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Old Favorite Hotel PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM The Ohio Historical Society AND/OR HISTORIC PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (6/72) East and south (front) sides. (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAI STREET AND NUMBER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 1 5 1974 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 114 West Main Street 3.

MAP REFERENCE USGS Series, Piqua 1: 24,000 REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: NOV 1 3 1973 1961 East Quadrangle TOWN Miami COUNTY DATE REGISTER COMMON STATE NATIONAL Ohio SOURCE Plaza Hotel SCALE Piqua Old Favorite Hotel GP0932-010 PROPERTY MAP FORM Form 10-301 AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES all entries-attach to or enclose with map) RECEIVED PIQUA EAST. OHIO UNITED STATES PIQUA EAST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR E7350% Lat N 40 STATE OF OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY N4007.5 - W8407.5/7.5 FEB 1 5 1974 Germantown vicinity Davis, Samuel, House Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historic Preservation Officer Ir. Daniel R. Porter Hon. Walter E. Powel1 Hon.

Tennyson Guyer Mott Location Name STATE 2/19/74 Date Entered Carlisle Fort Franklin County Flora Stone Mather College ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Piqua Cleveland Also Notified Director Director, Mid West Region Hon. Louis Stokes Cuyahoga County Montgoaery County Bon.James V.Stanton District Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Union Club OHIO Hon. Chalners P. Mylie Columbus Washington, D.C. 20510 As of this date, the omer of the Plaza Hotel, KRB Development, a sudsidiary of the Elingbell Management Corporation, has not requested If ve can be of further assistance to you, please let us know. We cc:Dr. Thomas H. Smith, Director, The Ohio Historical Society, Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211 Chief, OAHP / FHR-Lumpkin / FHR-CL / CL / BOR - 56060 FHR:E Saxe:1w:343-6401:8-31-79 BASIC FILE, RETAINED IN NR Sincerely, prepared.

SECRETARY Services Divisions to discuss the changes in his rehabilitation United States Senate Preservation Services Division agrees with the fact that this appreciate your interest in historic preservation. pending certification of proposed rehabilitation. building is beyond rehabilitation and that its demolition could be approved.A letter to Mr.Vogel to this effect is currently being Dear Senator Ashley: bcc:Secretary's File a decertification of the building damaged by the fire. It is our understanding from Mr.Vogel that the other buildings Thank you for your inquiry of August 23,1979,concerning the status require demolition.They are currently the subject of Mr.

Vogel's plans necessitated by the severly danaged condition of the burned staff meabers of the National Register and Technical Preservation Honorable Thomas Ludlow Ashley building, the remains of which will be demolished.The Technical of one of the buildings in the Plaza Hotel Complex, certified March 21, On August 28,1979,Mr. Jerry Vogel of KRB Development Bet with 1978, as contributing to the significance of the Old Nest End National Register District for purposes of the Tax Reform Act of 1976, as in the complex were not damaged by the fire and therefore do not amended. Secretary's Reading File(2)/ FW /OPA/ES/TPS-Nelson