Nomination for Mount Orab Station

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

6-72) - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) Mount Orab Station, Norfolk and Western Railway AND/ OR HISTORIC: L015 (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Brown County Courthouse, Recorder's Office TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: AUG 1 9 1975 039 LOCATION Georgetown Commercial REGISTER STATE NAME Religious Government CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY Portsmouth OWNERSHIP Structure Restricted NATIONAL District Site Entertainment Brown RECEIVED Private Agricultural Both STATUS Park Unoccupied Ohio CODE Museum Yes: Private Residence Building Educational Being Considered Public Scientific Industrial OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Norfolk and Western Railway Company REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Public Acquisition: STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATA SHEET Other (Specify) DATE OF SURVEY: Mount Orab Object CITY OR TOWN: 14-446-8727 1 4 1975 6th -- William H.

Harsha X No OCT 14 1975 DATE Military ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Mount Oreb Station vacant DESCRIPTION X Fair - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

station, handling passenger, freight, mail, baggage and express south side of the track, with the main facade facing north. railroad depots. At the west end, occupying about a quarter of the floor. 12"x12" wooden columns support the building, and wooden to the main door, which is placed above the water table. A single 6/6 double hung sash window is to the west of the door. to facilitate loading and unloading of consignments. spelling, in black paint. The rest of the building is a faded and the waiting room and agent's office, and a sliding door opposite the The gable roof is steeply pitched and covered with metal, probably mast of the train order signal, long since removed. door. CONDITION walls. Excellent Ruins The exterior of the one-story structure has vertical board-and-batten This building once served as a classic combination railroad double-hung sash windows are in the bay.

peeling white. The depot is of frame construction and it rests on an unusual not original.The broad eaves are supported by curved brackets at half is taken up by the baggage/mail/express room. A rectangular bay window serving the agent's office extends about one at the front.A wooden platform is still in place at the freight At the bay window is a notch in the roof which once accommodated the The east and west ends have single 6/6 double-hung sash windows. The rear has three openings:single 6/6 double-hung sash windows in there probably was a wooden platform along this part of the station The floor plan is of the three-part type so common to small-town planks nailed to the columns around the perimeter form the basement (Check One) Centered in the gables at each end is the name Mt.Oreb, an old Good siding. On the main (north) facade, a flight of four steps rises traffic.

It is oriented east and west along the main line of the wooden foundation.The basement is full-height and has a dirt A single sliding wooden door serves the freight room.At one time building, is the passenger waiting room.To the east of it the front and rear.The roof extends only about 18" beyond the gables. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) c. 1885 - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) and Western Railway between Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio. was the first rail line Brown County, as well as in adjacent Adams County. Presently it is the only rail line serving these Land on which the station is located was acquired by the C&E R.R. construction met no delays, the depot probably was built about It is said to be the oldest building in Mount Orab.

This station is of local importance as a reminder of earlier times when the railroad was a town's lifeline, the center of same rail line have nearly identical stations, built, as was are important to the towns in which they stand, and their industry, the railroad. to the town, and that from this a sensitive reuse proposal will Conservation counties. Commerce Aboriginal losophy Communications Engineering

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SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Science Transportation Literature itarian Military Prehistoric Music Agriculture Theater easily-adapted interior spaces make them excellent candidates Social/Human- Education architectural merits are of secondary importance. Sculpture railroad-related historic structures were mourned by few people. Political However, railroad stations are receiving increasing attention Landscape Invention Depots and other parts of the American rail network have until recently lived in quiet obscurity.The frequent losses of be forthcoming. Religion/Phi It is hoped that listing of the Mt.Orab station on the National STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Register will result in increased local awareness of its value The Mount Orab depot is along the main line of the Norfolk stations as part of the historic fabric of the greatest American Industry AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) This route began as the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad and American industrial history has caused a re-evaluation of Art as a special type of building worthy of preservation.Their on September 12,1884,from F.W.and Mary E. Smith.Assuming

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Deed record book, Brown County Recorder's Office, Georgetown, Ohio. Personal interview with Ardill Kratzer, Mt. Orab, former railroad GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY UTM 17 247320 4323870 Jeffrey Darbee, Historic Preservation Office Village of Mt. Orab Dec. 5, 1974 Feb. 10, 1975 1982 Velma Avenue Mt. Orab 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 level of significance of this nomination is: State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society August 15, 1975 * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l Seconds Degrees COUNTY LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION DATE LATITUDE Local National CORNER ATTEST: Minutes STATE CODE Ohio 039 Title Degrees Minutes Seconds Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Ohio Historical Society 201 North High Street STREET AND NUMBER: FORM PREPARED BY National Register. employee at Mt.0rab. OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CITY OR TOWN: less than one. DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Gary L. Wilhelm, Village Councilman forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended Name NAME AND TITLE: REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back _ IN T:2106 - 74 OTHER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Maps Review HISTORIAN TECHNICAL Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Working Number8. 19. 75. 157% State Photos _ 8.21.75 9-8-75 Entered CONTROL ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 12-2-25 Brown PHOTO by DETRICK MOREB PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Numper 1 Title: MOUNT ORAB STATION, NORFOLK AND MTOREB WEST FACADE OF STATION, VIEW PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Numoer WESTERN RAILWAY G 31A NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NAT:ORAL REGISTER Loc. TRACK SI0E Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev.

7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY OCT 14 AND/OR HISTORIC: Mount Oreb Station CITY OR TOWN: USGS 7-1/2' Series, Mount Orab, Ohio, Quadrangle AUG 1 9 1975 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. INT: 155-72 039 015 1960 RECEIVED Brown REGISTER COUNTY DATE NATIONAL NAME 1:24000 Mount Orab STATE Ohio SCALE: CODE ENTRY NUMBER REOUIREMENTS MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) LOCATION STREET AND NUM BER: COMMON: Southeast corner of North High and Front Streets 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MOUNT ORAB QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO UTe 17 247520 4323870 AUG 1 9 1975 NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REGISTER DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS OHIO-BROWN CO. OCT 1 4 1975 Northrop, Julia Carter, Olmsted Falls Hon.

John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. John M. Ashbrook Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 73211 Hon. Ronald M. Mottl Hon. William H. Harsha INT: 2950-75 Location House STATE Dayton Name MMott Montgomery County Knox County Raleigh Mound OHIO Cuyahoga County Brown County Fredericktown vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer Also Notified Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Mount Orab Mount Orab Station The Conover Building Director, The Ohio Historical Society Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Hon. Regional Director, Midwest Region 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: S LOCATION street & number city/ town 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? 23 WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

1 CONDITION - deteriorated 17 features: Dexcellent Druins Omoved OCO NOT INTACT-O -good Dunexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : C LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain C) ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW-16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY -historic- 1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 C ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY-13 - MUSIC - 19 -O SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 E TRANSPORTATION-25 3 functions 3architectural style(s): @master bullder: © landscape architect / garden designer: 3 intertor decorator: @ artist: M IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 015 ASSOCIATION Brown ENGINEERING-11 INSTITUTIONAL: 10-14-75 Daltered historic events: PERSONAL: STATE HEALTH-27 MIdwest EVENTS: CURRENTLY: major alterations: Mount Orab NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Mount Orab Station ART-5 reviewers initials SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of PRIVATE ORGANIZATION date SAVED?YES ADMINISTRATOR: YES NAME EXPLORATION-12 DNAME as it appears on federal register: N.

High and Front Sts. Ooriginal site EOUNKNOWN-4 LOCAL GNPS REGION: 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT 5 ACREAGE Oreconstructed 19 ADAPTIVE USE COYES RINO CARCHEOLOGY -prehistoric -2 2g engineer: @artisan: @builder/contractor: COMMERCE-6 No Access 'first'