Nomination for Bellville Village Hall

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM MAR 1 7 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Bellville Village Hall ,Town Hall, The Lyceum or the Opera House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION - IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 139 DATE TITLE CODE COUNTY UNOCCUPIED LOCATION CATEGORY STATE Richland ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC TRANSPORTATION XGOVERNMENT Mansfield ENTERTAINMENT CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE RELIGIOUS Bellville MILITARY STRUCTURE MUSEUM COMMERCIAL PARK Ohio PRIVATE Richland County Courthouse 17th-John M. Ashbrook RECEIVED STATUS NAME Courthouse Square DATA SHEET DATE ENTERED XPUBLIC _EDUCATIONAL SURVEY RECORDS Centenial Hall, Bellville Village Hall _BOTH X_BUILDING(S) - INDUSTRIAL -OBJECT -SITE S. W. Corner of Park Place and Church St-NOT FOR PUBLICATION -FEDERAL STATECOUNTY LOCAL X_ORIGINAL SITE X ALTERED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

heads, the window sash and casements and the cave brackets were in a"battle-ship" of wrought iron fence where tihe balcony had been. CONDITION EXCELLENT MOVED DATE DETERIORATED UNALTERED DESCRIPTION XGOOD FAIR story lean-to on the south-west corner. The window heads are galvanized metal with cast iron applique and are pediments the building with dark trim and a long-vanished balcony.The balcony which was wood turnings are below the white painted eaves.The north elevation includes second floor.The east elevation has the entrances to the mayor's and treasurer's made locally and the foundation and cornerstones are of a buff colored local sandstone.

CHECK ONE always decorative was reachieved recently (l973) by the mounting of an old section entrances to the town policeman's office, and the stairs to the Lyceum on the anything but storage since the 1920's.The Lyceum has hardwood floors and board _UNEXPOSED -RUINS 4 bay by 6 bay, has been cleaned and repainted several times. restoration, the jail however is still intact. The second floor, the Lyceum, two feet on all sides. Brackets made of composites of jig sawn planed lumber and superimposed The brick was hand The exterior of the building is in good condition. The brick bearing-wall structure, and bead paneling; the windows have interior shutters still primarily intact.

The low hipped roof is covered with standing seam metal roof and projects about The interior of the first floor has been much remodeled with no attempt at isa large space with a raised stage at the east end.It has not been used for AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - 1600-1699 X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X THEATER POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) INVENTION SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

between the village leaders, township officials, local constabulary, the amateur theatrical groups, ladies' self-improvers, and so on are seen a gamut of entertainments - from lectures on the evils of Mormonism Township and its only village, Bellville, were beginning to return to 1876 ART X1800-1899 PERIOD LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY ARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE MILITARY 1900- second floor facilities. _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION ECONOMICS offices and also to provide a meeting place for the villages various _PREHISTORIC major part of the Bellville citizenry. The first village hall had burnt before the Civil War and Jefferson It is significant that one building could successfully, for so long, The building is on the town square and is still central to the to the cinematic Perils of Pauline.

_COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS serve as the major meeting place of the community.The cooperation -1700-1799 dedicated in 1876); Lyceum and Opera House come from the use of the -EDUCATION was erected by Lewis L.Garber (b.1832),John L.Garber (b.1826), -1500-1599 -LITERATURE - SCIENCE -MUSIC -_1400-1499 their earlier prosperity. The village council proposed building and others from the village.The Garber descendents constitute a activities of the village of less than 2,000 citizens.The building embodied in this structure.The small stage on the second floor has

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Minutes of the Bellville Village Council, 1875-1876. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE ( 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE The Ohio State University, School of Architecture 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 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE 3-15-76 GPO 888-445 NORTHING DATE TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION 11/74 COUNTY CODE ZONE Columbus Ohio LOCAL ATTEST 190 West 17th Avenue UTM REFERENCES Thomas R.

Hauck ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the less than one KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT Bellville Village Hall, -Town Hall, The Lyceum or the Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF MAR 17 1978 OTHER KEEPER HAER Entered Re-submit CONTROL Maps Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL Property Review Ohio BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry Richland National Register Write-up State ACCEPT HISTORIAN Opera House Working Number 11.11.75.2023 IN T:2106 - 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 1/30/76 11.17.75 15/76 Form No. 10-301a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAR 17 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON VICINITY OF STATE Ohio DATE OF PHOTO November, 1973 DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO. North & East elevation - oblique GPO 892-454 LOCATION IDENTIFICATION Thomas Hauck NAME Centenial Hall, PHOTO CREDIT PHOTO REFERENCE DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY. TOWN NEGATIVE FILED AT Thomas Hauck, Ohio State University RECIEVEONOV 1 1 1975 COUNTY Richland Ohio Bellville NPS Number - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER RICHLAND COUNTY PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Numoer JAIL WING Form No. 10-301a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECIEVEDNOV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAR 1 7 1976 TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN - VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO No. 2 M3 GP0 892-454 LOCATION Ohio IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC STATE Bellville June 1975 NAME The west and south elevation showing jail wing and fire escape DATE ENTERED Centenial Hall FOR NPS USE ONLY SEE INSTRUCTIONSIN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Bellville Village Hall,Town Hall, The Lyceum or the Opera House NEGATIVE FILED AT Thomas R. Hauck, 124 W. Norwich, Columbus, Ohio Thomas Hauck PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Form No.

10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED|OV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM DATE ENTERED MAR 1 7 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON _VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES INT: 3464 -75 1961 Quadrangle LOCATION DATE REQUIREMENTS SOURCE SCALE Bellville STATE U.S.G.S. Ohio Centenial Hall 1:24,000 NAME MAP REFERENCE FOR NPS USE ONLY Bellville Village Hall ,Town Hall, The Lyceum or the Opera House COUNTY Richland HISTORIC DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BELLVILLE QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO 73 MINUTE, SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) - State Route ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS UTM 17 372 100 4497 430 MAR 1 7 1976 Old Log Post Office Columbia Center Union Terminal.

Group Cleveland State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Charles A. losher Regional Director, Midwest Region INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Name Also Notified Warren County Jefferson Schoolhouse Lorain County Cuyahoga County Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Portage County Franklin Riddle Block Rchland County Hamilton County Bellville Bellville Village Hall Dr. Thomas R. Smith Director, The Ohio Historical Society Columbus, Ohlo 43211 Ravenna Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue Hon.John M. Aehbrook March 18, 1976 Mr. William Lebovich National Register of Historic Places 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 National Park Service Ohio Historic Preservation Office Enclosed is a current photograph of the Bellville Village Hall with Department of the Interior can act on the nomination.

Dear Bill: Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT (12 SOURCE Of NOMINATION - FEDERAL DO YES. NAME § CONDITION - deteriorated 17 features: Dexcellent Oruins OD NOT INTACT-O Ounexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 IS ACCESS - No Access SAVED? -YES IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

O yes Gno RYAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - COMMERCE-6 - LAW-16 CARCHEOLOGY-historic -1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION - 12 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE - 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O C AGRICULTURE -3 C HEALTH-27 CJ MILITARY - 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions 2 dates of initial construction: major alterations : g architectural' style(s) @master builder: Sengineer: 1 interior decorator: Bartisan: & date TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE ASSOCIATION INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: STATE historic events: SETTLEMENT-29 ENTERTAINMENT-26 Unknown CURRENTLY: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ENGINEERING-11 Dfair ADMINISTRATOR: RELIGION-22 WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

vieinity of NAME as it appears on federal register: Doriginal site Dunexposed Daltered of entry: LOCATION street & number "first' GNPS REGION: Oreconstructed D landscape architect / garden designer: @artist: @builder/contractor: -UNKNOWN-5 -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 @architeet: ETHNIC EVENTS: ACREAGE GROUP YES-Restricted YES-Unrestricted LOCAL if state who prepared form? 10FUNDED?YES midwest CONSERVATION-8 Omoved 1876