Nomination for Lowellville Railroad Station

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED MAR 1 7 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JUL 3 0 1976 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 19 - Charles J. Carney - VICINITY OF CLASSIFICATION - PRESENT USE X PUBLIC -COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED -BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 Lowellville Youngstown Mahoning HISTORIC DATE SITE BOTH CODE EDUCATIONAL OBJECT ACCESSIBLE TITLE DISTRICT CATEGORY GOVERNMENT Ohio STATE OWNERSHIP ENTERTAINMENT MUSEUM PARK TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE RELIGIOUS PRIVATE MILITARY NAME INDUSTRIAL STATUS Lowellville Railroad Station Mahoning County Courthouse 120 Market Street BUILDING(S) DATE ENTERED Penn Central Railroad City of Lowellville DATA SHEET SCIENTIFIC XNO _UNOCCUPIED FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL 099 xoTtorage EXCELLENT DETERIORATED XORIGINAL SITE X GOOD LRUINS X ALTERED _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

a stone foundation which has been repaired and reinforced in places CONDITION DESCRIPTION UNEXPOSED FAIR UNALTERED Stick Style. tongue-and-groove boards, is all original, though deteriorated. together with the horizontal board at the level of the brackets, projection for the telegraph office on the south side.Ithstands on rebuilt with modern concrete.The site slopes away slightly from This is a small railroad passenger depot structure of frame The framing of all of the exterior door and window openings, The east end houses the passenger waiting room.There is one door on the south side.Between these two areas is the ticket and telegraph office. The interior room finish, with vertical wall are faced with awainscoting of vertical boards. Above that the wall treatment is horizontal clapboard.The wide overhanging It is reached by wide doors on the west end and the south side.

roof eaves are supported on long diagonal brackets.The roof is construction.It is a plain long rectangle in shape, with a slight CHECK ONE the roadbed of the tracks.The lower three feet of the outside is handled in such a way as to indicate an affinity with the alow hip.The west end of the building is the baggage room. with cement.The platform and steps at the west end have been AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X1800-1899 *TRANSPORTATION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1880 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

MAR 1 7 1976 NATIONAL 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ART THEATER PHILOSOPHY SCULPTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY LITERATURE LAW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC RECEIVED Youngstown and Pittsburg Railroad connecting the Great Lakes with 1900- functional and attractive but without pretension. The railroad was the Lawrence Division of the Ashtabula, _ENGINEERING INVENTION Lowellville is at the southeasternmost end of an industrial city of Lowellville and is currently used for storage.A local type of small town railroad station, built to serve an important Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal in 1840.Its industrial growth began community effort has been directed to studying its adaptive use.

Because coal,iron and limestone were all readily available in This is ap modest example in good condition of the vanishing _CONSERVATION it did not achieve any size or importance until the opening of the the Pittsburg industrial area.This line later became a part of the The foothills of the Alleghenies rise on either side of the town, which out the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. of the Pennsylvania System.The station has been acquired by the with the construction of the Lowellville blast furnace in 1845.

industrial town of the Mahoning Valley.Its architectural design is -COMMUNICATIONS SRR - ECONOMICS _1700-1799 _EDUCATION lies in.the Mahoning Valley.Although the site was settled in 1800, - RELIGION _COMMERCE -MUSIC Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and still later a part the nearby mountains, the iron industry thrived in the valley through- district twenty-five miles long which includes Youngstown and Warren. Joseph G. Butler, Jr., History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley (Chicago, 1921), I, 511-513, 762.

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE August, 1975 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).T hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATORE FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 888-445 NORTHING COUNTY 216-721-5722 CODE ORGANIZATION DATE TELEPHONE ZONE NATIONAL STATE EASTING Cleveland Ohio ATTEST: Western Reserve Historical Society MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Less than one 14.514215,7,0 DOEKEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER LOCAL Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 10825 East Boulevard SHPO 3/3/76 Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF JUL 3 0 1976 OTHER CONTROL KEEPER HAER TECHNICAL Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit Mahoning Property HISTORIAN Review State Federal Register Entry Lowellville Railroad Station Working Number 3.17.76.2782 National Register Write-up Cole Ohio BRANCH CHIEF IN T:2106- 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Maps NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7+) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED MAR 1 7 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JUL 3 0 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF STATE Ohio PHOTO CREDIT E. Johannesen DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET 1975 Lowellville IDENTIFICATION LOCATION Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO REFERENCE NAME West and South elevations, looking northeast DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO. FOR NPS USE ONLY TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH HISTORIC Lowellville Railroad Station NPS Number Title: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7 +) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED MAR1 7 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JUL 3 0 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION VICINITY OF COUNTY Mahoning CITY. TOWN Lowellville STATE Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO E. Johannes en NEGATIVE FILED AT PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET 1975 IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC PHOTO CREDIT Lowellville Railroad Station Western Reserve Historical Society East and north elevations, looking west. NAME DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY Form No. 10-301 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED MAR 1 7 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM JUL 3 0 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON CITY, TOWN VICINITY OF COUNTY Mahoning STATE Ohio U. S. G.S. Campbell Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES INT: 3464 - 75 1970 Lowellville LOCATION HISTORIC DATE REQUIREMENTS SCALE SOURCE Lowellville Railroad Station NAME MAP REFERENCE DATE ENTERED L:24,000 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES CAMPBELL QUADRANGLE Railroad Station DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CAMPBELL, OHIO-PA. Lowellville 4542/570 North 17 538/910 East U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TIME OF CALI FROM (Name) ADDRESS (Tel. No.

if needed) NAME OF PERSON PLACING/RECEIVING CALL GPO 897-848 TELEPHONE REPORT WASO-166 (August 1971) 2:45 3. SUBJECT, PROJECT NO., ETC. 4. DETAILS OF DISCUSSION Nat, Reg. OFFICE DATE CALL TITLE 216-721-5722 JUL 3 0 1976 Hon. Charles A. Nosher Hon. Chalners P. Wylle The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Charles J. Carney Regional Director, Midwest Columbua, Ohio INT: 2950-75 43211 STATE Name MMott/row Date Entered Location Director ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Franklin County Columbus Lowellville Also Notified Interstate 7i at 17th Avenue State Historic Preservation Officer Bngels & Krudvig Wine Conpany Building Hahoning County Region Bast Town Street Historic District Erie County Dr.Thomas R.Smith Hon.

Robert Taft, Sandusky Lowellville Railroad Station INITIALS: SRR OTHER - NANES: LOCATION CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) ADMINISTRATOR (underline) FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST - not applicable - 7 CONDITION - - ORIGINAL SITE IF YES, NAME: ADAPTIVE USE: Saved ? FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _urban & commun - OTHER (SPECIFY) "first" YES "eoldest2 YES INTERIOR OTHER code Yes-unrestricted 039 COUNTY FEATURES: UNEXPOSED planning ENVIRONS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING Reconstructed MOVED ARCHITECTURE UNALTERED AGRICULTURE Claims historic district? POLITICS/GOVERNMENT YES DATE: MIDWEST DETERIORATED EDUCATION SOUTHEAST WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT?

FAIR TRANSPORTATION Reviewer -recreation ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC -socio/cultural -settlement _COMMUNICATIONS EXCELLENT RELIGION WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? SIGNIFICANCE: No access Substantially intact-3 -entertainment -Unexcavated - LITERATURE _EXPLORATION -ECONOMICS -COMMERCE -health Cnknown _MUSIC V JUL 3 0 1976 NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: STATE Ohio NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) INVENTION "only" DOE MID ATLANTIC PHILOSOPHY ATLANTIC NR Data Sheet -RUINS LOCAL GOV'T _Interior,exterior,environs not intact-0 _Unkncwn -ART per sonal (Label role DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : Frame, clapboarding; 1 story, rectangular, hipped roof with wide overhang supportéd by braces, # interior chimneyy. Stick Style.

Well-preserved 1880 builder/contractor: COUNTY OTHER engineer: DATES: MUNICIPAL NAMES: STATE architect/m.builder: PRIVATE institutional ETHNIC GROUP: appropriate date) artist/artisan: events landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: important industrial kw towns.Municipal; not accessible to the public. FEDERAL AGENCY: LOCAL GOVT Tapidly.disappearing example of thevanishing small/town railroad stations built to serve