MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1 NORTHING ! VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Alvin Beasley, Planning Director 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 11/76 466-8727 acre ORGANIZATION DATE CODE Mentor ZONE TELEPHONE COUNTY Columbus LOCAL Gretchen Klimoski Lake County Historical Society Files.
City of Mentor Ohio UTM REFERENCES ATTEST: Ohio Preservation Office ZONE EASTING 8500 Civic Center Drive hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the "Here is Lake by Lake County Historical Society. 1982 Velma Ave GPO 892-453 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPEDY IE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEPER OFTHE NATIONAL REGISPER 14,611.31980 1.25.78 TYLER BLVD . JACKSON PAR Station 615 HARTSTOWNE WESTERN BLVD SCHOOL APTS. SHARONLEE FARKER HOP FIRE KELLY STREET SPRING PARKER SYLYIA AVENUE FRACCI REC.
GARAGE BRESLEY GARAGF ST MARY CAROLE CARL FQD NDSAY DR 3 CADLE Passenger MAPLE SHAKER GEORGIE MENTOR ROSE MENIOR CENTER SL BLOSSOM ESTHER BAKES BERNA DEC 2 0 1977 JAN 3 1 1978 REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED LE BOVICH REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back - MAR 221975 OTHER KEEPER Entered HAER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL TECHNICAL Re-submit Maps HISTORIAN Photos National Register Write-up Property State Federal Register Entry Lake BRANCH CHIEF 1-13-75 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Cole Working Number12.31. 74. 2
50 1/22 INT:2106- 74 5-6-75 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 1-15--75 Photos ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF OTHER KEEPER Entered CONTROL Maps ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit HAER Send-back Property TECHNICAL Review National Register Write-up HISTORIAN State BRANCH CHIEF Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Depot Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 6/30-75 6.18.75 DoT WUL 1 4 1975 INT:2106- 74 ole Lake Photos _ , HISTORIAN JAN 3 1 1978 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.
7 OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered TECHNICAL Maps Send-back Re-submit National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RR Depot & Freight House Property BRANCH CHIEF nominatton prepared by City of Mentor INT:2106- 74 HAER ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory Working Number12. 20. 77.
2/28 4.4.78 1.25-78 DEC 2 0 1977 Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 Negative: City of Mentor Depot, looking southwest JAN 3 1 197E PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 Depot G Freight House Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad 6316 CENTER STREET Lake County, Ohio Basil Juri Photography ; Depot & Freight House DEC 2 0 1977 Lake County, Ohio Negative: City of Mentor Depot, looking northwest JAN 3 1 1978 MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad 6316 CENTER STREET FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY Basil Juri Photography ORDER No.
9453-4 Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 DEC 2 0 1977 Negative: City of Mentor JAN 3 1 1978 FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 Freight House looking northwest Depot and Freight House Lake County, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad 6316 CENTER STREET Basil Juri Photography Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 DEC 2 0 1977 Negative: City of Mentor JAN 3 1 1978 FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY Basil Juri Photography MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 Depot, looking southeast. Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad Depot and Freight House 6316 CENTER STREET Lake County, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ORDER No. 9453-3 THERMOS. STOVE& FROM :379.
WELDING TRAILERS SERVICE LANTERN CAMPING APPLEBY SHOP CENTER OFFICE JAN 3 1 1978 Negative: City of Mentor DEC 2 0 1977 FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY Basil Juri Photography MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 Depot and Freight House Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad Freight House, looking southwest Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 6316 CENTER STREET Lake County, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 597 CAMPING WELDING TRAILERS SHOP SERVICE CENTER LANTERN JAN 3 1 1978 Negative: City of Mentor DEC 2 n 1977 MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 Freight House looking southeast.
Lake County, Ohio Depot G Freight House Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 6316 CENTER STREET MOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS,PLEASE SPECIFY Basil Juri Photography Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 WELDING TRAILER HITCHES SHOP JAN 3 1 1978 DEC 2 0 1977 FOR ADDITIONAL PRINTS, PLEASE SPECIFY ORDER No.9453-1 MENTOR, OHIO 255 - 7277 left, depot on right. Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad Looking northeast, freight house on 6316 CENTER STREET Depot and Freight House PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lake County, Ohio Basil Juri Photography Negative: City of Mentor Photo: City of Mentor, 1977 DEC 2 0 1977 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 17471/830-4613/980 Mentor, Lake,Ohio DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR JAN 3 1 1978 Hon, John i. Glenn, Je.
880 Location Mott/js 2/14/78 STATE Name Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Depot and Freight House Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Regional Director, Midwest Region Also Notified Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historie Preservation Officer Director, The Ohio Historical Society Lake County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue OHIO Hon. John W. Stanton Dr.Thomas H. Smith OLD-MENTOR TO MEMBERS 1976-1977 REPORT FOUNDATION WINTER JAN 3 1 1978 DEC 2 0 1977 TRACK SIDE THE MENTOR Michael W. Fazio, professor of Archi- tecture, Kent State University. The asked for additional comment and data. A shore, now Routes 20 and 84, was slow and seasonal. Water traffic, too, was vided by E. Thomas Marcel, architect. grew, so did the frequency of ship sideration at the Ohio State level. The nomination. NATIONAL American railroad.
RECEIVED disasters with increasing numbers of REGISTER for improved transport. The possibility that the Mentor Pas- The Mentor Passenger House is an nomination was prepared by the Mentor Planning Department from research pro- Register of Historic Places came first style that was repeated many times based on the narrative part of the The nomination is now under active con- located on the ridges paralleling the following material on the station is imperative that the fast growing towns passenger carrying capability of the FRONT ELEVATION gible for recognition in the National PASSENGER HOUSE senger Station might be considered eli- throughout the United States and Canada.
example of railroad architecture of a from the 1972 landmark survey sponsored structure was brought to the attention of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation along the Lake Erie southern shore be lost off the shore, and as the traffic connected with a dependable all weather It was built in the year (1900-1901) west at the time was the need greater During the 1840's the need became by Old Mentor Foundation conducted by about the apex of the century of the SCALE-/4IN=IFT. route. Land travel over the trunk roads Board in 1974. The City of Mentor was seasonal and hazardous.Vessels were casualties. Nowhere in the developing The building is a rectangle 26' x 66' 4' x 13'. The ticket office and tele- graph room (10' x 13') are in the center. A baggage room (10'6" x 24') is land, Painesville and Ashtabula RR to flanked by a Men's Waiting Room (15' x Room (26' x 24') on the east.
section was opened November 20, 1851. . The exterior is constructed of a Subsequently, the Cleveland, Painesville 1imestone base approximately 4' high. and Ashtabula was consolidated with the having a top and bottom course, a ing Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and cranalled band (hammered, pebble fin- Chicago. Later it became, in turn, part ish). Hard fired brick runs from the imately 11'). A cranalled stone belt 8" sold on January 17, 1851, to the CP&A RR windows. Wooden knee braces (8" x 8") of the transfer is recorded in Vol. K, page 100, of the Lake County deed They support an 8" x 10" beam which strip of land along the south side of the railroad right of way from Center main roof structure is a standard 2" x Street, east 904.86 feet, and of a width 8" on 16" centers, trussed hip type for the 60' width of Station Street.
with copper flashing, ridge cap and 10/12 pitch of the roof and the 5/12 style, plan, even drawings were used in sweeping hip roof, i.e. characteristic of the work of H. H. Richardson. A government from the Old City Hall on Mentor Avenue to a new building, a uncovered. Noteworthy here is that a three sides is paved with 4" x 9" brick Conneaut, O." duplicate of the design with the plan reversed. It is believed the building was built in 1900 or 1901, certainly before 1905. Photographs of a train approximately 5 miles apart, and many of Systems. The stone faces are generally pitched, 1905 show the present structure. panelling and plaster.
derailment in front of the station in Ohio.The Mentor station is an exact supports rafter cut riggers that provide 24') on the west and a Women's Waiting The opportunity for growth was enor- The interior finish is narrow vertical sitting on projecting stone brackets. wide circumscribes the building at door The present station is the second to example of railroad architecture.Its stonework to underside the roof (approx- Passenger House' were discovered.They The area outside the building on The Connecticut Western Reserve 1848 saw the chartering of the Cleve- Shore & Michigan Southern system.
plan of 5-mile townships placed towns partial set of working drawings marked pitch of the overhang creates the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern connect- and window height and above transom steep brick gabled dormer is over the street side opposite the ticket office, with a projecting bay on the track side Cincinnati and Columbus to terminate at above the finish floor, slate covered During the relocation of Mentor City bay on the track side of the building. that would allow for a station site and numerous small towns along the Lake The land for a station in Mentor was are set approximately on 7' centers number of old records and documents were connect with a line being built from these towns were booming. were dated 1900 and marked for Bellvue, of the New York Central and Penn Central on the west end. Lavatories are on the by Robert Murray and his wife. Record records.
The transaction consisted of a occupy the site. It is not an unique The pavers, each embossed "Harper-Norton, Its "Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad The building is a rectangle 26' x 66' 4' x 13'. The ticket office and tele- graph room (10' x 13') are in the center. A baggage room (10'6" x 24') is land, Painesville and Ashtabula RR to flanked by a Men's Waiting Room (15' x Room (26' x 24') on the east. section was opened November 20, 1851. . The exterior is constructed of a Subsequently, the Cleveland, Painesville 1imestone base approximately 4' high. and Ashtabula was consolidated with the having a top and bottom course, a ing Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and cranalled band (hammered, pebble fin- Chicago. Later it became, in turn, part ish). Hard fired brick runs from the imately 11'). A cranalled stone belt 8" sold on January 17, 1851, to the CP&A RR windows.
Wooden knee braces (8" x 8") of the transfer is recorded in Vol. K, page 100, of the Lake County deed They support an 8" x 10" beam which strip of land along the south side of the railroad right of way from Center main roof structure is a standard 2" x Street, east 904.86 feet, and of a width 8" on 16" centers, trussed hip type for the 60' width of Station Street. with copper flashing, ridge cap and 10/12 pitch of the roof and the 5/12 style, plan, even drawings were used in sweeping hip roof, i.e. characteristic of the work of H. H. Richardson. A government from the Old City Hall on Mentor Avenue to a new building, a uncovered. Noteworthy here is that a three sides is paved with 4" x 9" brick Conneaut, O." duplicate of the design with the plan reversed. It is believed the building was built in 1900 or 1901, certainly before 1905.
Photographs of a train approximately 5 miles apart, and many of Systems. The stone faces are generally pitched, 1905 show the present structure. panelling and plaster. derailment in front of the station in Ohio.The Mentor station is an exact supports rafter cut riggers that provide 24') on the west and a Women's Waiting The opportunity for growth was enor- The interior finish is narrow vertical sitting on projecting stone brackets. wide circumscribes the building at door The present station is the second to example of railroad architecture.Its stonework to underside the roof (approx- Passenger House' were discovered.They The area outside the building on The Connecticut Western Reserve 1848 saw the chartering of the Cleve- Shore & Michigan Southern system.
plan of 5-mile townships placed towns partial set of working drawings marked pitch of the overhang creates the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern connect- and window height and above transom steep brick gabled dormer is over the street side opposite the ticket office, with a projecting bay on the track side Cincinnati and Columbus to terminate at above the finish floor, slate covered During the relocation of Mentor City bay on the track side of the building. that would allow for a station site and numerous small towns along the Lake The land for a station in Mentor was are set approximately on 7' centers number of old records and documents were connect with a line being built from these towns were booming. were dated 1900 and marked for Bellvue, of the New York Central and Penn Central on the west end. Lavatories are on the by Robert Murray and his wife. Record records.
The transaction consisted of a occupy the site. It is not an unique The pavers, each embossed "Harper-Norton, Its "Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad The Council Hall, was used by num- functions were: 7 wedding receptions, club meetings, 1 art show, 3 lectures in the Lucretia Garfield series, 2 cil meeting, 1 political rally, 1 Bi- centennial party, and Sunday and vation. The number of old buildings, subtract from this inventory. This is Historic Preservation, held June 4 and 5 at the Bond Court Hotel, Cleveland. vation, then attempt a practical solu- tion to the preservation problem. These of many throughout Lake County. It is efforts are worthwhile, for they lend texture to a street or town. Recycled could put an historic building, the Old Council Hall, to an adaptive reuse.
Architecture of Mentor, Ohio - A Guide to Historic Buildings" identified 102 buildings, most built in the 19th third printing. This is the cultural Now located at 7300 Center St., built between 1800 and 1900. Of these about 250 are tentatively selected for Station Street, Mentor Old Mentor Foundation sponsored the 231 N. State St., Painesville nomination of a number of buildings in Places, and an active liaison with the Ohio Historic Preservation Office is Route 84, Perry gation. County. Mentor publication. President meeting: NR NOMINATIONS Garfield Library merit that support. It is necessary that concerned During the six years of its exis- its surrounding. UP-DATE These have received preliminary approval: Robert M.
Hawkins 3 suppers, 4 anniversary parties, 27 These efforts were an inspiration to at Tuesday services of a church congre- the Leroy group restoring the Brakeman Jackson St., Mentor our cultural heritage. screening body for nomination of build- increased. Ordinary growth can only heritage of Mentor.
maintained to encourage nomination of Historic Preservation Office is the Lake County that have been included in Christmas parties, l Mentor City Coun- demonstrated that a volunteer group final approval at their last quarterly A continuing survey has identified buildings in the end inhibit deterio- the active, financial and moral support in the National Register of Historic other historic structures in the In April the Old Mentor Foundation Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Depot Lewis Morley House Ladd's Tavern ings and sites in Ohio for recognition Old Mentor Foundation was repre- ularly is this true in historic preser- people identify that part of the built some 700 buildings in Lake County, historic or otherwise, pertaining to a Old Council Hall reality, grow and flourish, it must be erous groups during the year, among the ration both of the building itself and environment that is worthy of preser- our hope that we shall continue to particular span of history cannot be sented at the 3rd Ohio Conference on tence Old Mentor Foundation has enjoyed The Ohio Advisory Board of the Ohio least one other group in the For even a good idea to become a TO OUR MEMBERS nurtured by interested people.
Partic- Church. The OMF publication "The Places. The following have received century. The booklet is now in its The Council Hall, was used by num- functions were: 7 wedding receptions, club meetings, 1 art show, 3 lectures in the Lucretia Garfield series, 2 cil meeting, 1 political rally, 1 Bi- centennial party, and Sunday and vation. The number of old buildings, subtract from this inventory. This is Historic Preservation, held June 4 and 5 at the Bond Court Hotel, Cleveland. vation, then attempt a practical solu- tion to the preservation problem. These of many throughout Lake County. It is efforts are worthwhile, for they lend texture to a street or town. Recycled could put an historic building, the Old Council Hall, to an adaptive reuse. Architecture of Mentor, Ohio - A Guide to Historic Buildings" identified 102 buildings, most built in the 19th third printing.
This is the cultural Now located at 7300 Center St., built between 1800 and 1900. Of these about 250 are tentatively selected for Station Street, Mentor Old Mentor Foundation sponsored the 231 N. State St., Painesville nomination of a number of buildings in Places, and an active liaison with the Ohio Historic Preservation Office is Route 84, Perry gation. County. Mentor publication. President meeting: NR NOMINATIONS Garfield Library merit that support. It is necessary that concerned During the six years of its exis- its surrounding. UP-DATE These have received preliminary approval: Robert M. Hawkins 3 suppers, 4 anniversary parties, 27 These efforts were an inspiration to at Tuesday services of a church congre- the Leroy group restoring the Brakeman Jackson St., Mentor our cultural heritage. screening body for nomination of build- increased. Ordinary growth can only heritage of Mentor.
maintained to encourage nomination of Historic Preservation Office is the Lake County that have been included in Christmas parties, l Mentor City Coun- demonstrated that a volunteer group final approval at their last quarterly A continuing survey has identified buildings in the end inhibit deterio- the active, financial and moral support in the National Register of Historic other historic structures in the In April the Old Mentor Foundation Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Depot Lewis Morley House Ladd's Tavern ings and sites in Ohio for recognition Old Mentor Foundation was repre- ularly is this true in historic preser- people identify that part of the built some 700 buildings in Lake County, historic or otherwise, pertaining to a Old Council Hall reality, grow and flourish, it must be erous groups during the year, among the ration both of the building itself and environment that is worthy of preser- our hope that we shall continue to particular span of history cannot be sented at the 3rd Ohio Conference on tence Old Mentor Foundation has enjoyed The Ohio Advisory Board of the Ohio least one other group in the For even a good idea to become a TO OUR MEMBERS nurtured by interested people.
Partic- Church. The OMF publication "The Places. The following have received century. The booklet is now in its It's membership renewal time. The Thomas F. Young house, Northwest Thomas Fitch Young, a first settler of Hiram Township. It has remained in the tivity with the forces of change. It is John W. Lawrence, Dean BOX 464 - MENTOR, OHIO - 44060 OMF Have you mailed your 1977 dues? Tulane University to understand the present as a product School of Architecture Hiram, was recently added to the Nation- corner of Wakefield and Garfield Sts., The basic purpose of preservation is on National Register Portage County House not to arrest time but to mediate sensi- use as an inn and residence. frame structure built in the 1820's by of the past and a modifier of the future. Young family for 150 years and has seen al Register of Historic Places.
It is a JAN 3 1 1978 city / town (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - deteriorated Oexcellent 2D NOT INTACT-O Omoved Dunexposed - Unknown > C UNKNOWN-6 Ounexcavated &O NOT APPLICABLE-8 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? D yes Ono AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING -11 - POLITICS/ GOVT." 21 DARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 C LAW -16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 C EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE-3 .
- CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH- 27 C MILITARY- 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' O - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION- 25 @dates of initial construction: major alterations : landscape arohiteet / garden designer: () interior decorator: @artisan: date IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE county Mentor ASSOCIATION PERSONAL: historic events: CURRENTLY: Lake INSTITUTIONAL: artist: vicinity of COMMERCE-6 STATE EVENTS: builder/contractor: 8445 Station St.
WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: CONDITION Mentor Railroad Station PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Bfunctions SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 LOCAL NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Ofair Barchitectural style(s): if state who prepared form URBAN PLANWING-31 Coriginal site as it appears on federal register: SAVED? YES Pfeatures: Daltered GNPS REGION: Dgood 4 county code: OWNER SPRIVATE OSTATE MUNICIPAL COUNTY MULTIPLE FEDERAL(agency name) 1CONGRESS. DISTRICT 11th GROUP ETHNIC engineer: reviewers initials Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Depot and Freight House; master builder: SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) give role & date 2OTHER NAMES: of entry: Oruins
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