Nomination for Lafayette Lodge No. 79

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PA 0664715 Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY1 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 15 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEP 10 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS LAFAYETTE LODGE NUMBER 79, LODGE HALL AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 119 ~ X BUILDING(S) X PRIVATE X COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE OBJECT X YES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT -YES: UNRESTRICTED INDUSTRIAL MILITARY OWNER OF PROPERTY STAT4 3701 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 1976 43211 Muskingum COUNTY BOTH EDUCATIONAL DATE CODE TITLE SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION LOCATION ACCESSIBLE SITE Columbus, Zanesville RECEIVED TRANSPORTATION HISTORIC PARK OWNERSHIP PUBLIC AGRICULTURE DISTRICT STATE CATEGORY Ohio Historical Center Ohio _ENTERTAINMENT PUBLIC ACQUISITION Ohio Historic Inventory OTHER: DATE ENTERED 1465 Lectric Lane Muskingum County Court House _RELIGIOUS 10-Clarence Miller Grant Gibson DANKER BUILDING STATUS SURVEY RECORDS - UNOCCUPIED NAME _BEING CONSIDERED PRESENT USE 333 Market Street _MUSEUM Fourth and Main Streets LIN PROCESS (Rev. 10-74) DETERIORATED X GOOD LRUINS X ALTERED FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

comparatively unaltered on the exterior.. There are nine windows, on each to the overall character of the hall, do testify to the build- CONDITION MOVED three sides. and north walis; all bracketry except that at the northeast and southeast the passing of coal heat, these have been removed. third floor facade on the south is a date stone, complete with a badly-worn brick building stands just north of the lodge along North Fourth Street. 7DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE ing's former use as a furniture retail facility. Offices are now being XORIGINAL SITE _EXCELLENT - UNEXPOSED - UNALTERED DATE. floor on the south side, and five on the east. _ All windows are double-hung At Least. five chimneys. at one time rose from the roof of the lodge.

With and the resulting space is paved and used for parking.A 1920s vintage between the middle windows of the second and third floor.Fram a drawing There are three stories and a and the third floor, once the meeting place of the various fraternal At the center of the second and ded along the Fourth Street side also.The second and third floors are ing its long life. The alterations are capped with slightly pitched stone lintels.Some windows on the west sectionalong Market Street on the south side; this feature has been exten- and north sides have been bricked shut.A above, a building once built against the hall's west side has been razed, a narrow one-story brick addition on the north side and an elevator shaft LaFayette Lodge stands one block north of Main Street (once the appended at the west end of the same side. n to the street level, although relatively AREAS OF

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one particular style, the hall does exhibit some detailing of the early and Isaac VanHorne, Revolutionary soldier-friend of Lafayette and Washington this as their lodge until 1903, when the present Masonic Temple ART PERIOD PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE THEATER MILITARY LITERATURE SIGNIFICANCE _ENGINEERING _TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT a third story onto a new two-story schoolhouse, with the intent of using XARCHITECTURE _SCIENCE fraternal bodies,it has been in continuous use since its.erection,with 1700-1799 _PREHISTORIC _COMMERCE the addition of the Fourth Street storewindows) took place in 1923,for _CONSERVATION _INVENTION was erected one-half block of the old hall, on the east side of North _1600-1699 _1400-1499 the street level store rooms being used variously asa grocery, confection- -1500-1599 _EDUCATION _ECONOMICS -1900- - MUSIC -LAW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING Landscape oi downtown Lanesville, and played a central role in the frater- This building was used until 1858, when all Due' to some'tinrest preceeding the Civil War, X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN SPECIFIC DATES 1857-1861 BUILDER/ARCHITECT David Hatton take on its early impressive appearance in downtown Zanesville.

story log house, making the Lodge the oldest organization of its kind in ary, and furniture store. the third story as their hall. local Masonic bodies agreed to build a temple at the northwest corner of nal 1ife of the city for almost fifty years.While characteristic of no The first Masonic meetings in Zanesville were held in 1805,in a two- to France and a contender for the 1848 Democratic presidential nomination, The remodeling of the first floor probably and clean the facade of the lodge, to allow the building to once again

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Pearson, Orrin. A Concise History of LaFayette Lodge, Number 79 (Zanesville, Schneider, Norris F. "Danker Building," Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), December 19, 1965. "Lodge of Amity," Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), June 19, 1955.

O GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre A 1,7 4|13.88 0 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Street, on the south by Market Street, on theowest byda parking lot, and on LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE 24 August, 1977 STREET & NUMBER 1425 Newark Road CITY OR TOWN Zanesville, Ohio STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION - THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 892-453 43701 614-453-0762 DATE ORGANIZATION CODE NORTHING TELEPHONE ZONE COUNTY LOCAL UnOhio University-Zanesville UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING the north by the Danker Printing Co.

Part of Lot 16 in the City of on the east by North 4th David L. Taylor, Regional Historic Preservation Officer I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER TND HISTORIC PRESERVATION As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I ATTEST KEBPER OE THE NATIONAL RECISTER 4,4:2.116,0.01 87978 Lafayette Lodge Nunber 79, Lodge Hall Photos - Inventory - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 KEEPER Maps Send-back Re-submit CONTROL HAER TECHNICAL Review Property HISTORIAN Working Number Federal Register Entry State Ohio ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Muskingum 3.15.78.2673 BRANCH CHIEF 4.21.78 Entered SEP 13 1978 ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER 11.7.78 13/78 MARKET ST FOURTH ST FRORERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lafayethe Lodge Hall Zanesville, Ohio Photo by David L. Taylor, copied from Negative # MUS-21-6-3, filed at Ohio SEP 13 1978 MAR 15 1978 Ohio store fronts. University-Zanesviile, Zanesville, Historical Center Principal facade, showing original st promotional booklet at the Ohio LAFAYETTE LODGE HALL muskingem County Zanesville, Ohio Photo by David Taylor, 11/77 Negative No.

MUS-27-7-5, filed at View from NW, showing W & N sides, MAR 15 1978 SEP 13 1978 Ohio University-Zanesville, including elevator shaft appen- LAFAYETTE LODGE HALL ded to N wall PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ZANESVILLE WEST ZANESVILLE WEST QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO N3952.5 - W8200/7.5 PHONE: DIVISION: REPORT: OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION TELEPHONE REPORT STAFF MEMBER: DATE: B6-27.>8 SEP 13 1978 Columbus, Ohio 43211 Ironton Location Sandusky Director Cleveland Lawrence County Muskingum County Zanesville Name Cuyahoga County Depot STATE Cincinnati Holy Cross Monastery and Chapel Honorable Mary Rose Oakar Towers Also Notified State Historic Preservation Officer Hamilton County Erie County Gallipolis The Ohio Historical Society Ohio Hospital for Epileptics Stone Water Gallia County Honorable Willis D.

Gradison Lindler Building ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Clarence E. Miller Byers/bjr 9/15/78 Norfolk and Western Railroad Depot Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Lafayette Lodge Number 79 Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum OHIO Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Donald J. Pease Date Entered Dr. Thomas H. Smith 3) date of entry: - county code: Lodge Hall; Danker Building SEP 13 1978 city / town * STATE ®ADMINISTRATOR : U)CONGRESS. DISTRICT 10th 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL D deteriorated 17) features: -SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 2 Dexeellent Omoved D NOT INTACT-O -unexposed Creconstructed - Unknown -unexcavated O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono 2I) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - RECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING -11 "first'O CARCHEOLOGY- prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE-6 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 C LAW -16 C RELIGION-22 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION -10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 funetions major alterations : ®architectural style(s): () interior decorator: Gartisan: -builder/contractor: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 119 county PH0664715 CONDITION Muskingum ASSOCIATION SETTLEMENT-29 EVENTS: PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: artist: Zanesville CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: landscape architect/garden designer: Lafayette Lodge Number 79 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION master builder: 333 Market St.

ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 historic events: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET SAVED?YES vicinity of as it appears on federal register: Daltered Ooriginal site Oruins date. CNPS REGION: 2 OTHER NAMES: 50 UNKNOWN-6 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.* 21 'oldest'O -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) 'only' D 18)ACCESS -YES-Restricted [YES -Unrestricted ETHNIC engineer: GROUP LOCAL dates of initial construction: LOCATION street & number Dfair arohitect: