Nomination for Brand, R., and Company

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 2 7 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC MAR 1 4 1975 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: (Check One) XX Private - In Process - Preservation work - Comments [X. Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: 120 St.

Clair Street LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Local 039 Toledo STATE Religious Entertainment NAME Site CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP CATEGORY Government Lucas Transportation Educational Structure Federal District Restricted CODE Museum Both Agricultural Military STATUS Scientific Private Residence Ohio Yes: Park COMMON: Unoccupied Building Being Considered Public Public Acquisition: LOCATION Industrial Lucas County Courthouse OWNER OF PROPERTY The Western Shoe Company DATA SHEET NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES TO THE PUBLIC DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: STREET AND NUMBER: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 120-124 St.C1air Street Adams G Erie Streets FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: Object - R. Brand Company PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) SAY 2 ?

1975 9 - Thomas Ludlow Ashley ACCESSIBLE ENTRY NUMBER 095 DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered The late nineteenth century, four story, stone and brick commercial building was once part of a block of similar structures, but now Sanfleet, Builder". MAR 1 4 1975 CONDITION The REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED Ruins Fair display windows and cast iron columns on the first floor. second floor has three sets of three rectangular windows with segmental arched windows on the third floor and round arched windows The north and south sides are solid brick and once abuted other The third and fourth floor facades are divided similarly with pilasters between each window and stone bands between each set. (Check One) Good - Excellent - Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

stands alone, parking lots on either side. The front facade (west), composed of stone and glass, features a center entrance, large structures. The roof is flat. Moved with keystones on the third floor.There are wide stone bands between the floors.Above a wide frieze there is an elaborately PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - 20th Century - Urban Planning - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

commercial architecture stands at 120-124 St. Clair Street. and Company, Wine and Liquor importers occupied the building In 1910 another old Toledo firm purchased the building. The with local historical associations, the building has considerable MAR 14 1975 1874 Communications Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Engineering losophy Aboriginal REGISTER Literature Theater Political Science NATIONAL Conservation Music RECEIVED Prehistoric Architecture Agriculture Education itarian local significance. Military Social/Human- Invention Religion/Phi Landscape Sculpture out the years. As an excellent example of Victorian American architecture Although the county courthouse records carry an 1877 date, Western Shoe Company has been at the address since that time.

field and has maintained an excellent profit picture through- 1867 and it was incorporated as the Western Shoe Company in General John Fuller and True M. Childs founded the firm in it appears that the building was completed in 1874.R. Brand An excellent example of late nineteenth century Toledo and Adolph Brand founded the firm in 1849. Industry The company is one of the few wholesalers left in the Other 'SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) for thirty-six years. Guido Marx, one time mayor of Toledo, Art Madison: Western Historical Association, 1910. Paper Company, 1874. Toledo Blade, July 23, 1967.

Johannese, Eric & Dickes Allen L., Look Again, Landmark Architecture in LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES MAR 14 1975 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 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa 1 Register. Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: GPO 931-894 Degrees STATE CORNER LONGITUDE Seconds COUNTY LATITUDE Name DATE ORGANIZATION RECEIVED Minutes NATIONAL CODE Aug Title 039 Degrees Minutes Seconds ATTEST: Western Reserve Historical Society Eric Johannesen STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 9.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set 10825 East Boulevard Cleveland STREET AND NUMBER: in the National Register and certify that it has been FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: 522.25 17 288800 Survey coordinator - forth by the National Park Service. The recommended 4613730 Local Scott's Toledo City Directory, Scribner,Harvey.Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo.vol.II. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF HAY 2 7 1975 Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.7 KEEPER HAER OTHER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back Maps TECHNICAL BRANCH CHIEF Review HISTORIAN Re-submit National Register Write-up Lucas 7-1-75 3-25-75 4-14-75 3.17.25 Photos _ Cole INT:2106- 74 Accept 75001469 Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAY 2 7 1975 NAME R.

Brand & Company LOCA TION 120-124 St. Clair Street MAR 1 + 1975,2, DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1974 039 Toledo Lucas DATE COUNTY Ohio Historical Society PHOTO REFERENCE Gretchen Klimoski STATE Ohio COMMON: CODE Western Shoe Company FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER Front (west) facade. IDENTIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) CITY OR TOWN: PRORZRTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 876 - 167 PHOTO CREDIT: 095 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER AND/OR HISTORIC: R.

Brand & Company LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: MAR I 4 1975 July, 1970 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Landmarks Committee Maumee Valley Historical Society DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. St. Clair Street front, from the Southwest. Toledo COUNTY NAME Ohio Lucas DATE STATE Tom Deupree CODE PHOTO REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION COMMON: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE OF PHOTO: 120-124 St.C1air Street 0.39 _MAY 2 7 1975 095 Western Shoe Company Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY R. Brand & Company STREET AND NUM BER: 120-124 St. Clair Street U.S.G.S. 7.5' Toledo Quadrangle MAR 14 1975 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. NATIONAL 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

095 1965 1975 Toledo COUNTY REQUIREMENTS DATE REGISTER STATE Lucas 1:24000 LOCATION Ohio 039 SCALE: CODE ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: NAME NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC: Western Shoe Company NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITY OR TOWN: RECEIVED TOLEDO, OHIO - MICH. TOLEDO QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC NATIONAL "Longitude: 83° 32' 09* ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RECEIVED 17 288800 4613730 UNITED STATES Wood County Milan vicinity Location 5/28/75 STATE Name Canton Date Entered Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Grand Rapids Cuyahoga County Lcas County Stark Coanty Langdon Mounde I and Ix Bxie County Bon.Ronald M.Hotel St.

John'a Catholla Church Abbott-Paga Houno OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: ) county code: -STATE GNPS REGION: 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - deteriorated Dexcellent Omoved EC NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown -unexcavated - No Access * AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'D ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 XLGOMMERCE-6 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 -ARCHEOLOGY - historic- - COMMUNICATIONS -7 EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE-3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 C MILITARY- 18 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D C EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 TRANSPORTATION - 25 2) dates of initial construction: major alterations : CURRENTLY: Commercial B1dg.

NEC @B architectural style(s): @arohiteot: a master builder: a interior decorator: artist Gartisan: EVENTS: -- by Adolph Brand and Guido Marx, a mayor of Toledo, in 1849. ASSOCIATION CONDITION GROUP 4/10/78 ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 SETTLEMENT-29 INSTITUTIONAL: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 historic events: Xgood SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 c.1874 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Xaltered XARCHITECTURE-4 ADMINISTRATOR: Xoriginal site NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ART-5 vicinity of Commercial Bldg NEC URBAN PLANNING-31 SAVED?YES Sanfleet 095 Bfunctions Dfeatures: city / town Oreconstrueted 5O UNKNOWN-6 ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 WC NOT APPLICABLE-8 (B ACCESS XXYES -Restricted [YES -Unrestricted IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

DyesXno C SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) a engineer: landscape architect / garden designer: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP it appears on federal register: Dunaltered 5-27-75 XLOCAL give role & date Ofair