Nomination for Station Road Bridge

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED JAN 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 7 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN 22 & 23 - VICINITY OF Cuvahoga (035) and Summit (153) PRESENT USE _UNOCCUPIED _COMMERCIAL BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION RELIGIOUS IN PROCESS - YES: RESTRICTED XYES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 1219 Ontario 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Cuyahoga County Administration / / Summit County REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 039 DATE LOCATION COUNTY CODE STATE Courthouse Akron MUSEUM OBJECT AGRICULTURE HISTORIC ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY SITE SCIENTIFIC Cleveland Building 3/76 ENTERTAINMENT CLASSIFICATION Columbus MILITARY OWNERSHIP PARK _EDUCATIONAL XTRANSPORTATION STATUS Ohio Historic Inventory NAME 217 South High Street _GOVERNMENT FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED Station Road Bridge Station Road over the Cuyahoga River TITLE _PRIVATE _BEING CONSIDERED Ohio X.STRUCTURE -DISTRICT - INDUSTRIAL Akron STATE -OTHER: FEDERAL SSTATECOUNTY LOCAL XPUBLIC Breckourele 7 DESCRIPTION X ORIGINAL SITE DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

truss of the double-intersection Pratt (Whipple) type. The Builders, Massillon, Ohio" 1 It consists Northfield High Level Bridge, a concrete arch span completed in 1931. The Ohio and Erie Canal is nearby. Cleveland, Ohio, 17 March 1976. CONDITION UNEXPOSED posted. EXCELLENT XGOOD FAIR The Station Road Bridge spans the Cuyahoga River between approximately five hundred feet upstream from the Brecksville- XUNALTERED "Massillon Bridge Company CHECK ONE at each approach which reads: The Station Road Bridge is located in a semi-rural river valley abutments.It is painted grey.There is a ten-ton load limit diagonal members that extend across two panels.

_DETERIORATED The bridge features an ornamental plate at the top chord ofa single span of nine panels equalling 124 feet.The Bridges--2o' span & greater--within the limits of the proposed The bridge is 128.6 feet long and 18.7 feet wide. -MOVED RUINS P.E., Bridge Engineer, Office of the Cuyahoga County Engineer, sidewalks. Cuyahoga and Summit Counties.The bridge is a metal through The bridge is supported on rock-faced stone Cuyahoga Valley National Park," prepared by Eugene A.Halupnik, bridge carries a roadway i4.95 feet wide.There are no AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ECONOMICS SCULPTURE X1 800- 1899 -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

the Cuyahoga River, linking Brecksville (Cuyahoga County) with Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio. bids were referred to Alex E. Brown, a civil engineer, for Company. On September 3, 1881, Colson was paid $3488.00. Pre- sumably the bridge was completed by this date, although the bridge (1881-1883), Cuyahoga County Archives, Cleveland, Ohio, pp. 9, 10.

1882 History 1700-1799 COMMERCE 1400-1499 INVENTION ART COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE EDUCATION PERIOD MILITARY CONSERVATION XENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION THEATER AGRICULTURE RELIGION 1900- LITERATURE _PHILOSOPHY companies which sought to adapt the pioneering work of the railroads INDUSTRY bids and the Commissioners unanimously awarded the contract to _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT At a joint session of the Commissioners of Summit and Cuyahoga Commissioners was convened.Alex Brown made his report on the Station."Six bridge companies submitted bids for the job.The The Station Road Bridge is significant as the oldest remaining furnished for Brecksville Bridge" by the Massillon Bridge The period from 1855 to 1875 saw the rise of specialized bridge A notation in the Commissioners' Journal Record for August 13,1881, Counties held on March 31,1881,bids were received and opened _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -1500-1599 shows that on that date N.J.Colson was paid $153.51 for "material _1600-1699 itself bears the date "1882."There is no subsequent reference -MUSIC -LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING Ibid., pp.

32, 33. for the construction of the superstructure of an iron bridge metal truss bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley.The bridge spans ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC to the fabrication of highway bridges.The Massillon Bridge to the bridge in the county records.Records show that Cuyahoga County and Summit County each paid half the cost of the bridge.2 examination.An April 5,1881,another joint session of County BUILDER/ARCHITECT Massillon Bridge Company 10

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE ( 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE 26 April 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL X 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST GPO 921-803 ORGANIZATION CODE DATE NORTHING Northfield COUNTY UTM REFERENCES Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant The nominated property consists of the the Station Road Bridge and its abutments.

126o Granger Avenue STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE Preservation Office, ohio Historical Society ZONE EASTING under contract with the Ohio Historic MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Cleveland,Ohio. O.: The Stark County Historical Society, 1949. Commissioners' Journal Record, Vol. 5 (1881-1883). QUADRANGLE SCALE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cleveland, Ohio. Cuyahoga County Archives. ZONE 1:24000 (Cuyahoga Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 7 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Station Road Bridge, Cuyahoga and Summit Counties, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 important figure in Massillon's industrial history, although by Bridge Co., H. A. Williams, E. W. Eckert, Massillon, O.; J. C. Darst, A. J.

Sprague, Toledo, O.; manufacturers of all kinds of wrought Pittsburgh, but the plant was sold in 1943, "since which time truss bridges were manufactured and sent, in pieces, to the site, (Canton, O.: The Stark County Historical Society, 1949), 1:632-633. PAGE vertical members acting in compression and diagonals acting in continued in business until the Depression caused its liquidation lengthened the diagonals to extend across two panels, thus allowing FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED company incorporated in 1909 as The Bridge and Structural Co.and The Station Road Bridge is an iron pin-connected truss of the in the Massillon City Directory of 1884-86 reads:"Massillon Pittsburgh, Ft.Wayne & Chicago/ R. R.,east of depot."4 (Hev. 10-74) In 1847, the famous bridge engineer Squire Whipple patented a truss which utilized the basic form of the Pratt, but the Whipple-Murphy, or the Linville.

Massillon City Directory, 1884-'85-'86 (Akron, O., N. H. Burch & Co., Publishers, 1884), P. 109. SHeald, Stark County Story, 1:633-634. RECEIVEPAN 8 tension. double-intersection Pratt type. constructed from i847 into the twentieth century.Usually such there has been no bridge building in Massiilon."5 is the only metal truss bridge of its type in the Cuyahoga Valley. where they were erected by local laborers under the supervision of The basic Pratt truss was patented intersection Pratt, though it also has been called the in 1933.It then became a plant of the Fort Pitt Bridge Works of Inventory - MAR 7 Send-back _ OTHER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Maps KEEPER Re-submit HAER TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Photos National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 3.5.79 CONTROL Working Number . 8.

29.57 RALPH VAN BRIMMER BRIDGE LOAD LIMIT COUNTY ENGINEER 10 TONS and Sagamore Hills, Ohio MAR 7 Preservation Office, Ohio View looking northeast Station Road Bridge, over the Historical Society JAN 8 1979 Station Road Bridge photo #1 of 2 Photo by Carol Poh Miller,February Negative property of Ohio Historic and Sagamore Hills, Ohio Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Cuyahoga River between Brecksville Detail of top chord Station Road Bridge photo #2 of 2 Station Road Bridge, over the JAN 8 1979 Historical Society UNITED STATES NORTHFIELD QUADRANGLE ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NORTHFIELD, OHTO STATE OHIO MAR 7 Burrel1-King House Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Chio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

Location Byers/bjr Dayton Director Station Road Bridge Montgomery County 3/8/79 Honorable Charles A. Vanik Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Name Honorable Ronald M. Mottl The Chio Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer Brecksville vicinity Also Notified Honorable Donald J. Pease East Second Street District Lorain County Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Tony P.

Hall Cuyahoga and Summit Counties Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue 1979 Oberlin 3) date of entry: MAR 7 E of Brecksville at Cuyahoga River Cuyahoga (also in - FEDERAL - deteriorated Daltered Doriginal site -SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -2 Druins Omoved QO NOT INTACT - O -good Dunexposed Oreconstrueted > C UNKNOWN-6 -unexcavated -O NOT APPLICABLE - 8 - No Access 21 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE-6 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANMING -31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH- 27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3functions major alterations : @ architectural style(s): S interior decorator: EVENTS : _date.

TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE county ASSOCIATION Brecksville STATE ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: artist: CURRENTLY: historic events: builder/contractor: Lake Central WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: artisan: landscape architect/garden designer: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION dates of initial construction: master builder: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Dfeatures: ENGINEERING-11 Dexcellent reviewers initials. SAVED? YES Summit CountyrRATOR: 2 OTHER NAMES: IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Ono -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) 'only' O (II) CONGRESS. DISTRICT 22 & 23 SOURCE OF NOMINATION - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.: 21 @arohiteot: 1979 ETHNIC CONDITION GROUP engineer: LOCAL vicinity of NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET if state who prepared form? Station Road Bridge Dfair as it appears on federal register: 4county code: LOCATION street & number