Nomination for Harwood Block

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Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 2 1 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 246, 250, 256 Main Street _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 11th- J. William Stanton - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT *BUILDING(S) *COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY Elarka T. Hakanson Lucille T. Sperry 10322 Lake Shore Blvd. Box 36 Ohio, Virginia, Ohio LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 007 039 LOCATION DATE UNOCCUPIED CODE TITLE COUNTY Jefferson BOTH (Rev.

10-74) Ashtabula CATEGORY ENTERTAINMENT ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORTATION CLASSIFICATION Conneaut EDUCATIONAL HISTORIC SCIENTIFIC GOVERNMENT STATE RECEIVED PARK Ohio RELIGIOUS Cleveland, Schuyler AGRICULTURE NAME OWNERSHIP Bernyce Funk INDUSTRIAL OBJECT PUBLIC STATUS Harwood Block MILITARY Courthouse Square Ashtabula County Courthouse COURTHOUSE. DATA SHEET X-YES:RESTRICTED 30438 Euclid Ave _MUSEUM X.PRIVATE OR NPS USE ON S:ATE Wicliffe FEDERAL STATE COUNTYLOCAL DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED XORIGINAL SITE X ALTERED _MOVED DATE. FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The 3-story, High Victorian Italianate painted brick building has a cast iron are 1/1 light, closely spaced. The bays are separated by single or paired in the cornice are the letters HARWOOD BLOCK. story has three doorways, two of which have stairways to the third floor. The CONDITION EXCELLENT UNALTERED main hall is said to have excellent acoustics.

CHECK ONE and corregated metal siding.The upper floors are identical in detail though XGOOD has always occupied the major center portion with smaller stores on the first story was always divided into three storefronts.A department store raised circular medallions, and the cornice is supported by paired and single with a large decorated corbel.Above the third floor the full entablature _UNEXPOSED by Co.L of the Ohio National Guard.Its last use was as a dance hall.The repeats the guilloche band in the architrave, a molded frieze has a row of decorated frieze and wide molded cornice. Each end of the entablature terminates The east side adjoins other commercial buildings of a later date.

The west DATE RUINS colonettes on molded bases.The colonnetes have Corinthian-style capitals side has plain, segmental arched windows of narrow proportion.There is a floor.The third floor was first used as an Opera House, later it was used storefront.The structure is in the shape ofa trapezium with no two sides AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE RELIGION SCIENCE ECONOMICS SCULPTURE ENGINEERING MUSIC X THEATER COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

concurring, the Main Street was roped off and the pieces laboriously hall. The stage is still intact. 1500-1599 1889 1800-1899 1600-1699 INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC XARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE ART EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY INDUSTRY assembled in the street, thenattached to the building. LITERATURE _CONSERVATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT was a major stop for touring companies. _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT space was 1eased to Co.L of the Ohio National Guard for drill space.It Conneaut. With the exception of the first floor the building remains much TRANSPORTATION SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN display window but is still intact. scheduled for refurbishing to open as a community center.

for touring companies between Buffalo and Cleveland.The great names are east portion was used by various tenants including a jewelry store and drug served this use through W.w.I.After the war it was converted to a dance was a stairway leading to the third floor.It is now covered by a A.W.Pelton store recently went out of business but it hoped that a new -1700-1799 The third floor was an opera house from 1889-1903.It was the major stop - 1400-1499 -1900- -LAW -COMMUNITY PLANNING Around 1873 Amherst Harwood assembled four parcels of land and built his commercial block around 1889. The cast iron front was made for Harwood for about 50 years by E. J. Curphy, a tobacco shop. This space is now a said to have played there - the Drews, Barrymores and Fiskes. In 1903 the store.

ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC in Chicago and shipped to Conneaut on the Nickel Plate Railway.There The principal tenant for many years was the A.W.Pelton Co.,a department were no instructions for installing the iron front.With the village The opera house is commercial use will be made of the space soon.

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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 less than 1 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY STREET & NUMBER 10322 Lake Shore Blvd.

CITY OR TOWN Ohio 44108 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE NAME/ TITLE DATE 10/13/77 FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE 3-10-78 GPO 892-453 466-8727 ORGANIZATION CODE DATE 12/76 Conneaut TELEPHONE NORTHING LOCAL COUNTY STATE ZONE Columbus Early newspaper clipping in possesion of Conneaut Historical Society. Gretchen Klimoski State Historic Preservation Officer Local tax records. Ohio Historic Preservation Office ATTEST: Records of the Conneaut Historical Society. ZONE EASTING 1982 Velma Ave.

Located at the NE corner of State Street and Broad Street in Conneaut. 1880 census records. THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE | HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INGLUOED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORÍAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up MAR 2 1 1978 Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 OTHER HAER TECHNICAL KEEPER Re-submit Entered CONTROL Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN Maps BRANCH CHIEF Review State Ashtabula 1.16.78 INT:21 5.2.7 1-3178 HARWOOD BLOCK R. C. HAKANSON Conneaut, Ohio. July 1976. MAR 2 1 1978 Forensic PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Front of Harwood Block, Main Street at Broad, OCT 2 0 1977 10322 LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD TRADE MARK-R.C. HAKANSON CLEVELAND, OHIO 44108 Ashtabula Cornty Photographer ELECTRIC MAID BAKE SHOP R. C.

HAKANSON 10322 LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD CLEVELAND, OHIO 44108 Conneaut, Ohio, across Broad Street. MAR 2 1 1978 Photographer Forensic OCT 2 0 1977 Ashtabula County, TRADE MARK-R. C. HAKANSON Looking about to the southeast at Harwood Block, ON RED TURN in Conneaut, Ohio. Normal viewing distance about Ashtabula County, oft MAR 2 1 1978 Forensic twelve inches. OCT 2 0 1977 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER R. C. HAKANSON Looking about to the northeast at Harwood Block 10322 LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD CLEVELAND, OHIO 44108 TRADE MARK-R C. HAKANSON Photographer 1976 PACIFIC pf PACIFIC P FINANCE LOANS FINANCE REAL ESTATE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER R. C. HAKANSON Front of Harwood Block, Conneaut, Ohio, also MAR 2 1 1978 tenency period immediately following closing showing part of west wall. Taken during of the A.W.Pelton Co. OCT 2 0 1977 10322 LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD TRADE MARK-R. C.

HAKANSON CLEVELAND, OHIO 44108 Forensic CONNEAUT, OHIO- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OCT 20 1977 OHIO-PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CONNEAUT QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO MAR 2 1 1978 Also Not1fled Dr. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Thomas H. Kindness Regional Director, Midwest Region 880 Mott/js Location 3/24/78 STATE Name Conneaut Butler County Ashtabula County Date Entered Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation officer Hon. John W. Stanton South Main Street Distriet Middletown Director,The Ohio Historical Society Barwood Block Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 43211 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: city / town 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION if state who prepared form?

B CONDITION - deteriorated Oaltered 17) features: 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 Oruins OO NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown -unexcavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono EI AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 CLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 'first'O DARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW-16 O RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANMING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH - 27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - EDUCATION-10 O INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 @dates of initial construction: major alterations : @ architectural style(s): @master builder: () interior decorator: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP _date IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE Ashtabula Conneaut artist: FEDERAL PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 STATE EVENTS: Harwood Block PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ENGINEERING-11 CURRENTLY: COMMERCE-6 INSTITUTIONAL: vicinity of LOCAL ACREAGE ADMINISTRATOR: historic events: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ART-5 Dexcellent 246-256 Main St.

SAVED?YES Coriginal site NAME as it appears on federal register: MAR 2 1 1978 GNPS REGION: 6 LOCATION street & number Oreconstructed PO UNKNOWN-5 S0 UNKNOWN-6 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) *functions © landscape architeot / garden designer: @artisan: @builder/contractor: reviewers initials Omoved ASSOCIATION ETHNIC NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET