Nomination for Lake Shore And Michigan Southern Passenger Depot

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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 FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) MAR 2 7 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 342 Depot Street CITY OR TOWN: 11 - J. William Stanton 3.

CLASSIFICATION (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC X Building ] In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Agricultural - Comments OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 007 039 Ashtabula Pennsylvania Jefferson Religious Ohio LOCATION Site Military STATE Conneaut Restricted ACCESSIBLE STATUS DATE Government NATIONAL OWNERSHIP Commercial Transportation Private COUNTY NAME Both CATEGORY Entertainment District Educational REGISTER Unoccupied Structure Philadelphia Museum Park CODE Scientific Public Yes: Being Considered Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Depot Private Residence DATA SHEET Public Acquisition: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Industrial COMMON: OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: Object Other (Specify) Penn Center Plaza, 16 North 17th Street Ashtabula County Courthouse - Federal DEC31 197 Local Penn Central Transporation Company Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum 7.

DESCRIPTION * Excellent Good - Fair - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered - Original Site feet, then brick above. The corners are quoined. Each facade is and wiring installed, and flooring repaired. CONDITION contains a souvenir shop, paintings and murals. The baggage room and the visitors.The surrounding area has been landscaped, The site includes an exterior display with a train consisting is now the main display room of the museum. The men's room lighted and paved. laid track for the train. This area is fenced to protect the display Oriental temple roof.The eaves are supported by wide angle This is a railroad depot building of stone and brick construc- Since 1964, all window glass has been replaced, new furnaces projecting bay.

On the roof directly above is a dormer with a dominated by the great hipped roof which is taller than the height The interior is divided into three main areas, the women's symmetrical.The doors and windows are framed with cut stone. Palladian type of window. ofa steam locomotive #755, hopper car and caboose, and specially waiting rooms.The baggage room entrance is on the west end. On the track (north) facade the telegraph office window is a of the walls. Its wide flaring overhang recalls the line of an and the baggage room,17x27 feet, plus toilet rooms and the PREGISTER brackets.The walls are of rusticated stone toa height of 3-1/2 waiting room,4l x27 feet,the men's waiting room,24 x27 feet, (Check One) INATIONALI - Moved DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The two doors on each facade lead to the men's and women's ticket office. The interior is largely intact. The women's room contains a model railroad display (HO gauge),library and storage. tion,30 x 100 feet outside dimensions.The low-slung building is RBCEIVED DECC3 11974

Statement of significance

made up of three shorter roads connecting Buffalo, Erie, Toledo New York Central, and in 1873 Commodore Vanderbilt was presid- Southern, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, and several other lines formed the New York Central Company. ral, the "Nickel Plate Road," and the Bessemer & Lake Erie Rail- Road. Originally the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Southern. Completed in record time, the Nickel Plate gained a and just to the south of the New York Central through Conneaut. to Cleveland. 1900 Commerce Conservation Transportation Engineering Science Literature losophy Communications Aboriginal ger depot. It is also significant for its present adaptive use as a Military Music a dedication was held in May, 1966.

Social/Human- Invention Political Agriculture Theater Landscape itarian The depot is still owned by the Penn Central Company, and Sculpture Pre-Columbian Education in 1880 to compete with Vanderbilt's Lake Shore and Michigan Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.Plans to make Today the museum displays equipment of the New York Cent- connects it with Pittsburgh.The heavy-duty line carries iron ore, at the mouth of Conneaut Creek, where Moses Cleaveland made Industry and Chicago.They served as a logical western extension of the Religion/Phi. This building is an important representative of a rapidly coal and coke between the steel center and Conneaut, making Architecture and economy of Conneaut.

of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad.This line was The building was constructed in 19oo as the passenger depot a museum began in 1960,negotiations were completed in 1963, and A hopper car and caboose were donated by the Bessemer & Art (now the Norfolk and Western),the Nickel Plate was conceived ent of the consolidated railroad.In 19l4 the Lake Shore & Michigan road. A steam locomotive #755 was donated by the Nickel Plate wide reputation for efficiency and punctuality. Its line runs parallel vanishing genre on the American scene, the small railroad passen- is leased by the City of Conneaut and operated by the Conneaut museum of the three railroads so closely connected with the history Lake Erie Railroad.Conneaut is the terminal of this road which his first landing in the Western Reserve on July 4,1796,en route

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF APROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES DEC31 1974 FORM PREPARED BY March 1974 10825 East Boulevard STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 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 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-1 039 Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees LATITUDE COUNTY Name Local ORGANIZATION Minutes DATE National STATE Cleveland CORNER Ohio ATTEST: CODE REGISTER RECEIVED Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES STREET AND NUMBER: less than one NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Title Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CONNEAUT H DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III- 1 became Cor 039 1974 007 Ashtabula COUNTY Ohio DATE CODE STATE Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum REGISTER NATIONAL Depot building, street facade, looking northeast.

Paul Prescott COMMON: Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Depot PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Depot Street PHOTO CREDIT: FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER: AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER DENTIFICATION (7/72) CITY OR TOWN: PRORERTY OF THE NATORAL REGISTER MAR 2 7 1975 DEC31 1974 former New NAME LOCA TION Cor PHOTO REFERENCE Oct STATE Ohio Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Depot building, track facade, looking southwest * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729;152/ 1446 1 1974 039 007 Conneaut Ohio DATE NATIONAL CODE IDENTIFICATION COMMON: Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: 342 Depot Street COUNTY CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) shtabula NAME Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Depot Paul Prescott NAR 271975 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) MAR 2 7 1975 STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Conneaut Quadrangle 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS DEC31 1974 1.

Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-l 039 007 1970 REQUIREMENTS Ashtabula Conneaut LOCATION NAME COUNTY REGISTER DATE NATIONAL Ohio STATE CODE COMMON: SCALE: RECEIVED MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: Depot Street Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum ANd/or Historic:Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Depot CONNEAUT, OHIO-PA. CONNEAUT QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEC31 1974 Railroad Museum UNITED STATES [1 220 000 FEET (PA.) N41525-WR030/7.5 THAR 2 7 1975 St, Martins Vieinity Brown County Ozegon Historic Distriet - Fort Site Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Me. Charles C. Pratt Acting Director The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Delbert I.

Latta Location STATE 3/28/75 Name Also Notified Date Entered Butler County Aahtabula County Cuyahoga County Glendale Police Station Montgomery County Washington County Brie County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Johnson's Island, Danbury Towmshiy Decaturville Vieinity Roberta Mound Cleveland Kelley's Island Boot Covered Bridge Ottava County MMott/bsh Regional Conneaut Depot Crecco State Historie Preservation Officer Leke Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Hemiiton County Johnson's Ialand Civil War Prison end Deyton Glendele Hon. Charles W.Whalen, Jr. Hon.J.William Stanton NATIONAL REGISTER DAIA SHEET 3 date of entry: 4 county code: Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Passenger Depot 6 LOCATION street & number @)ADMINISTRATOR :. (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION THIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? 23) WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

6 CONDITION Ddeteriorated Bortginal site Druins Omoved OD NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown -unexcavated L- NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

D yes Rn E AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 C LAW -16 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 CEXPLORATION -12 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION -8 C HEALTH - 27 C MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY- 13 C MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 S TRANSPORTATION- 25 3 functions dates of initial construction: 1900 major alterations : S architectural style(s): 2master bullder: Sartisan: @builder /contractor: SNATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ZIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE engineer: ASSOCIATION Midwest Ashtabula ENTERTAINMENT-26 FEDERAL ENGINEERING-11 PERSONAL: ACREAGE EVENTS: 3-27-75 CURRENTLY: YES-Unrestricted Dfair historic events: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION vicinity of URBAN PLANNING-31 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 BSTATE reviewers initials SAVED?YES 007 LOCAL Ounaltered Dfeatures: 342 Depot St.

Dexcellent DNAME as it appears on federal register: MES-Restricted GNPS REGION: ARCHITECTURE-T "first' O YES. NAME. Dreconstructed UNKNOWN-5 O INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 © landscape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: L POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 garchitect: ETHNIC artist: GROUP Conneaut Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum 2OTHER NAMES: Dgood LANDSCAPE ARCH.-15 if state who prepared form? CUMMERCE-6 NAMES give role & date