Nomination for Central Hotel, Hackedorn and Zimmerman Building

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 1 3 1976 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Central Hotel,Hackedorn Building/Zimmerman Buildings AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 17 - John M. Ashbrook - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE -MUSEUM X_BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS *YES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC -BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Mrs. Robert Ritchey, Dr. Robert Quay 440 Portland Way S., Public Square LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 033 TITLE LOCATION UNOCCUPIED CODE DATE COUNTY ACCESSIBLE Crawford Bucyrus HISTORIC CATEGORY XXPRIVATE SITE CLASSIFICATION TRANSPORTATION OWNERSHIP STATE PUBLIC Ohio MILITARY RECEIVED Courthouse Square INDUSTRIAL Galion _ENTERTAINMENT STATUS PH0368741 NAME COURTHOUSE. Crawford County Courthouse DATE ENTERED DATA SHEET -AGRICULTURE -STRUCTURE - EDUCATIONAL X_COMMERCIAL FOR NPS USE ONLY _OBJECT -RELIGIOUS _DISTRICT -BOTH -OTHER: -PARK JUL 30 1976 Ritchey House Hotel-Quay Building-Ritchey Building 7 DESCRIPTION *EXCELLENT XORIGINAL SITE X ALTERED _MOVED DATE.

FAIR 1852 the brick structure was originally 2-1/2 stories in height, six bays wide enlarged to three stories and a three story brick addition was added to the west The hotel portion features 1/1 light windows which are 1972 replacements for the bricked-in window, and a rectangular multi-paned window. Originally this face shares the same band of brick corbeling, frieze, cornice, and parapet as the structure was sandblasted in 1972. CONDITION DETERIORATED side UNALTERED they represent the finest and earliest remaining commercial structures in Galion.

CHECK ONE had a door at the northeast corner and three windows (matching the windows above) are framed by plain brick bands.Within the center and left recess each floor has windows.Both portions of the building had been painted for many years but the Hackedorn building.Built ca.1865,the north face of the building is altered by is six bays wide.Windows are tall, round-arched with hoodmolds. The building The three nominated buildings cover one city block and adjoin one another. Together in the 4o's is a curved copper overhang which extends across the east and north was evident on the first floor also where there were three distinct storefronts.

original which were 2/2.All windows have segmental arches with brick headers and Originally the entrance on this side was in the third bay from the northeast plain stone sills.A band of corbeled brick arches decorates the area beneath the The 1869 portion of the hotel building now houses two shops.The north face To the left of and contiguous with the southeast corner of the hotel is another sides and is placed between the first and second floors. - UNEXPOSED -GOOD LRUINS The north face has two doors between which is a multi-paned bay window, one DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The earliest of the buildings is the Central Hotel (Ritchey House Hotel). Built in the rear additions. The west portion of the facade (1869) houses two stores. earlier portion of the hotel. The storefronts on the first floor have To the right of the building the storefront has a wide metal store sign above the The second and third stories are divided into three recessed rectangles which have plain stone lintels and sills. Originally this separation into three portions DATE multi-paned window. modern glass tile and plate-glass windows. the three-story brick hotel utilizes the original portion of the structure and The various first floor windows and doorways are 1940's alterations.Also added dentiled wood frieze.Plain wood brackets support the molded wood cornice.A The upper stories are little altered. Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUL 30 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 1 3 197F INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM and west sides of the building each had two tall interior chimneys. These have A center door on the street level leads to a stairway to the second and third doorway, each opening into a different store. Cast iron columns with Corinthian GPO 892 455 PAGE RECEIVED added to this side necessitating the third story window in the northeast corner CONTINUATION SHEET porch and staircase addition arestsion the brick addition and stretches across the second and third floors. Central Hotel-Hackedorn Building-Zimmerman Building flat-roofed brick addition.

ITEM NUMBER the fire escape.The original entrance in the northeast corner of the first floor and the center window of the second floor being changed into doorways opening onto capitals divide the storefronts and doorways. There is a metal frieze between the DATE ENTERED has been covered over by the modern storefront.The flattened hip roof features been shortened and are barely visible.To the rear of the building is a two-story story apartments (two per floor).To either side of this center entry is a recessed The east side has five windows in the second and third floors.A fire escape was three-light windows on all sides is placed at the crest of the roof.The east a bracketed, overhanging box cornice.

A square lantern with small rectangular To the right of and adfoming the west side of the 1869 portion of the hotel building It was constructed in 1874 and is also built of brick is quite plain. It has a small rectangular window and a single door toward the is the Zimmerman building. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Located in Galion at the southwest corner of the public square, these three brick commercial buildings and hotels were built. In 1851 Joel and David Riblet opened a dry goods store at the southwest corner of that date are listed as Cherry and Pomphrey. The hotel was said to have 66 that the 1869 addition of the hotel was on a portion of Zimmerman's property, so Fellows Lodge in 1928. The Odd Fellows sold the building in 1940. at Milan, Ohio (birthplace of Thomas Edison) states that Thomas Edison was once a 1600-1699 RELIGION ART LAW X1800-1899 EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PERIOD AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC THEATER PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE MILITARY INDUSTRY until recently.

Additional historical notes are associated with the hotel.Documentation _COMMUNICATIONS when numerous railroads crossed through Galion and the town prospered from their -CONSERVATION sound transmissions.They hoped to prove with the softer voices of children that _PHILOSOPHY right to use the west wall of the Central Hotel.Investigation eventually showed The Hackedorn Building was completed in 1865 by N.E. Hackedorn and remained in the -1500-1599 The Zimmerman Building was built in 1874.Daniel Zimmerman had to acquire the - TRANSPORTATION guest.Alexander Graham Bell isreported to have tested telephone equipment by LITERATURE sound did indeed travel through the lines and wasn't simply carried by its volume.

office was located here for many years and a union hall occupied the third floor same family until 1952.A drug store has been operated in the corner store since permission was granted to Zimmerman to use the west wall of the hotel.The -1700-1799 -1400-1499 Riblet House.When the building was enlarged in 1869,at the height of the are all that remain of Galion's past commercial boom which came during the 1860's - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _ECONOMICS -COMMERCE running a line from room 20l to the old Maccabee building the site of the in 194l as the Hotel Talbott.It was purchased by the Ritchey family in1963. - 1900- -MUSIC INVENTION SPECIFIC DATES 1852, 1865, 1874 the public square. In 1852 Brown and McMillan leased the building and opened a sleeping rooms, three large sample rooms, and a 60 seat dining room. In 1940 it was building was owned by the Zimmerman family until 1922.

It was sold to the Odd First National Bank) and hired high school students at a nickel apiece to test hotel called the Western House.In subsequent years the inn was known as the

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 2 acres VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Ohio Historic Preservation Office STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 892-453 850 466-8727 CODE DATE ORGANIZATION COUNTY NORTHING Columbus LOCAL TELEPHONE ZONE STATE Gretchen Klimoski Ohio UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER June 1976 1982 Velma Avenue 14,511015.0,0 Chicago, I1l., 1912. 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLYDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ALLZ/ 1314,818,9,01 * State Photos Inventory - NOV 1 3 1976 Re-submit - OTHER HAER KEEPER TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back CONTROL Maps HISTORIAN Review Federal Register Entry Ohio National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 11.1.76 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN INT:2106 - 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 ACCEPT L. M.

Reck, Photo., Galion, 18&?. CENTRAL VIEW IN GALION. MANUFACTURER Daniel Ritchey, negatives JUL 30 1976 NOV 13 1976 Building on the right. 1887 photograph showing the Hackedorn Ohio Zimmerman Bldg., Galion, Crawford Co. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Central-Hotel-Hackedorn Building- EALION DI Zimmerman Bldg., Galion Crawford Co.,Ohio negative at Photorama, Galion NOV 1 3 1976 Hotel on right photographer unknown 1876 photograph Central Hotel-Hackedorn Building- PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hackedorn Building on left; Central JUL 30 1976 LEFT TURN LOWE PAINTS SEASONS MI INS CAN JUL 30 1976 NOV 13 1976 Zimmerman Bldg, Galion, Crawford Co,Ohio Zimmerman Building (right) and 1869 Negatives: Daniel Ritchey Daniel Ritchey, Photographer Central Hotel-Hackedorn Building- PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER portion of Central Hotel looking SE.

LOUNGE HOTEL LOWE PEDESTRIAN DINING ROOM LOW PAINTS RITCHEY HOUSE 30S Daniel Ritchey, photographer; negatives 1852 portion at corner; 1869 portion to Central Hotel-Hackedorn Building- the right; 1898 portion to the rear North and east elevations of Central of the Zimmerman Building. Hotel (Ritchey House) and north elevatio: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL RESISTER 44833 Ohio K PRESCRIPTIONS # DRUGS QUAY'S COSMETICS Zimmerman Bldg, Galion, Crawford Co.,Ohio NOV 1 3 1976 elevations. Daniel Ritchey, photographer Central Hotel-Hackedorn Building- Hackedorn Building, north and east PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GALION QUADRANGLE NOV 1 3 1976 Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr.

880 Location STATE Name Galion Hon.Samuel L.Devine Date Entered Trinity Episcopal Church Franklin County Crawford County INT:2950-75 Also Notified Central Hotel, Hackedorn and Zimmerman ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Buildings Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Columbus State Hietoric Preservation Officer Dr.Thomas H.Smdth Hon.John M.

Ashbrook OHIO Central Hotel, HackedornO OH Crawford SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated Iteatures: 2O NOT INTACT-O - Unknown SOUNKNOWN -S -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O CARCHEOLOGY- prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 ] ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O -AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 D HEALTH -27 - MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 major alterations : 3) architectural style(s): Italianate 10 landscape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: 3 artist: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 ASSOCIATION GROUP Midwest ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION PERSONAL: CONDITION EVENTS: FEDERAL CURRENTLY: builder/contractor: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Xaltered WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ARCHITECTURE-4 NPS REGION Dexcellent county code COMMERCE-6 ADMINISTRATOR: URBAN PLANNING-31 Xoriginal site master builder: STATE LOCAL 033 if state who prepared form?

Cunexposed 411-13-76 ditto 3functions Cmoved Oruins Oreconstrueted Ounknown SAVED? DYES - AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : Hotel; @arohiteot: - YES -Unrestricted * NAMES give role & date engineer: artisan: historic events: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Ofair