MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Williams' Hamilton Directory 1898-1899, Williams and Co. Publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio. Miami University Trustees' Minutes, 1884-1902, King Library, Oxford, Ohio. Miami University Sports Information, 216 Millett Hall, Oxford, Ohio. Robert Howard, Office of Public Information, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
LO GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_ Less than one Oxford, Ohio QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45056 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL - 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 NORTHING DATE COUNTY ORGANIZATION STATE TELEPHONE CODE 1:24000 Miami Purchase Association 5/5/79 Lucy S.
Curry 7120 Contreras Road UTM REFERENCES hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the ZONE EASTING KEEPER DF THE NATIONAL REGISTER parallels High Street and is15'from the northern foundation of the building.
VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The nominated property is bounded on the east by a driveway; ATTEST: SHPO ELL on the south by a parking lot; on the west by a sidewalk; and on the north by a line that ZONE UTM NOT VERIFIED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 25 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Herron Gymnasium (Van Voorhis Hall), Oxford, Butler County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET Five of the eight charter members of the Miami University Athletic Hall of Fame Rider, specializing in track, field and cross country, coached at Miami 1917- 1919, and 1924 till his retirement, assumed short coaching assignments in Germany, India, and Canada in the 1950s, has been president of the NCAA Cross Country Coaches Association, president of the NCAA Track and Field Coaches Association, a record of 45 wins,15 defeats and four ties, head football coach at West Point Football Hall of Fame in 1964, and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978; E.
Jay Colville, Miami 1926, worked as a trainer at Miami since 1922, trainer for the U.S. Olympics boxing team Melbourne, Australia 1956, president of the Great Helms Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame in 1966; Wilber C. (Weeb) Eubank, Miami 1928, the NFL in 1968, coached at Brown University and Washington University, on coaching staff of the Cleveland Browns, elected to Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1978; Paul E. Brown, Miami 1930 coached football at Ohio State University for elected to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1967. professional (14), collegiate (56), and scholastic (119).
Thirty-one of the 70 FHR-8-300A during which time the Browns dominated the All American Conference all four years, (11/78) The center for Miami athletics until 1930,Herron Gymnasium was used for training three years guiding the Buckeyes to the National collegiate championship in captured seven divisional crowns and three NFL championships, record with Browns DATE ENTERED basketball coach, and George Rider. beginning in 1924.Three men who taught these first coaching classes in this out the sports world Miami University has the unique reputation as the "Cradle 1942, spent two years coaching Great Lakes Naval Training Center football team, who were students in training and coaching classes are as follows:George E. men in the professional and collegiate ranks are head coaches.
156-42-8,became head coach and general manager of the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968, assembled Cleveland Browns in 1945 and served as head coach for seventeen years who used Herron Gymnasium and served in the capacity of coaches or trainers or 1918 graduate of Miami,1920 graduate of West Point,earned All-American in and first president of the Ohio Track Coaches Association;Col.Earl H.Blaik, Miami'sathletes and served as the core area for Miami's first coaching classes 1941-1958 establishing a record of 121-30-10, selected coach of the year by the Leagues:the Baltimore Colts in the AFLin1958 and1959,the New York Jets in FOR HCRS USE ONLY historic year were Chester Pittser, head football coach, Roy Tillotson, head the only man ever to coach championship teams in both the American and National The tradition of high level collegiate athletics and coaching originating in Herron Gymnasium has continued to generate and expand with the passage of time.A football in 1919,head football coach at Dartmouth for seven years compiling Lakes Region National Athletic Trainers Association 195l-1953, elected to the REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up OTHER HAER Inventory KEEPER Maps ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL Send-back Photos Re-submit HISTORIAN Review Property TECHNICAL State United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF 11.27.79 Working Number/0.25.19.259 7 NOV 29 1979 Herron Gymnasium (Van Voorhis Hall) MiamiUniversity, oxford, ohio, Butler Co.
Cameha Pointed Se NOV 29 1979 Froht Facade Oxford,ohio Butler County May 1979 ,camera poihtedeast NOV 29 1979 Michael Hulsey Photoghpher Match 1979 Miami univensity, Oxford, ohio, Butter Co. OCT 2 5 1979 main doorway, front facade. OCT 2 5 1979 NOV 29 1979 Camera pointed west Manch 1979 NOV 29 1979 March 1979 - OCT 2 5 1979 hote Phessed tin Ceiling NOV 29 1979 NOV 29. 1979 Pressed tin Ceilihg NOV 29.1979 Manch 1979 OCT 251979 OCT 2 5 1979 Match 1979 March 1979 0CT 251979 wood deck roof skyliguts NOV 2 9 Herton Gymhasium (Van Voorhis Hall) NOV 29 1979 OCT 25 1979 Michael Hulsey photoguphet NOV 29 1979 NOV 29 1979 OCT 25 1979 OCT 2 5 1979 NOV 29 1979 March 1979 Official basketball coaching This photo documents the OCT 2 5 1979 5. Weeb Eubank'28 chartermember 1924 Frank R. Snyder, photodrapher 4. RobartH.
Whittaker '30 Miami 2.E.Jay Colville 26 Chahter mamber OCT 2 5 1979 Frank M.Snyder, photographet Cibca 19z4 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC OXFORD QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OXFORD, OHIO N - 4375-610 JIAMI UNIVERSITY June 27, 1978 that the Ohio Department of Public Works has been using as a rule of thumb for a number of years a principle that, if the cost of its replacement, then we ought to demolish and build anew. War II, the theme across the state has been improvement and From INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM Crossan Hays Curry primarily for demolition and new construction.
money to rehabilitate and provide major repairs for these buildings, Historic Places, are of such architectural and aesthetic signifi- lesson that emerges from the years of frustration that we have all buildings, particularly those now on the National Register of long last see advantage in putting State funding into historic say to an old university in a small village with many older Ohio for State funds to be used for historic preservation as Phillip R. Shriver However, we are at the point where we believe that many of our will be interested in the letter I sent to Chancellor James A. But it is to say that there are many I do believe that it ought to be public policy in the State of This is not to Your letter of June 3 was shared with Chairman Albers and other that ought to be saved." ably there are a number.
building plans should provide for continuing, formal consideration true since 1965. And, that funding should Norton on May 31, a letter in which I projected our building needs cost of renovating a building is more than sixty percent of the expansion through new construction. This has been particularly dollars in large measure for renovation and improvement, not well as for new construction. It is not enough for the State to for we do not intend to help you if their interiors are of wooden preservation on our college campuses. Board members at the last meeting.I quite agree that future construction or if rehabilitation will cost more than sixty percent Now the time has come to use construction builaings on its campus,"you will have to go out to raise the to the year 1990.In that letter I noted that "we appreciate June 27, 1973 Page 2 felt respecting Fisher Hall, it is precisely that.
Tha time to demned by the State Architect, when the needed repairs and My hope, then, is that the State will accept historic preserva- tion on our college campuses as justifiable public policy, and saved. But, within reason, much ought to be saved. renovations were still comparatively modest. standably, not everything can be saved nor should.everything be Crossan Huys Curry that it will agree to the use of State monies for preservation save Fisher Hall was twenty years ago, when it was first con- purposes uhile buildings are still being used to assure that the MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD - OHIO 45056 June 12, 1979 Mr.
Fred Mitchell Miami Purchase Association 812 Dayton Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45214 such inclusion, I write to inform you that it is one of the buildings It should also be noted that a report of the University's Committee on Campus Historic Preservation, chaired by Professor Walter Havighurst, indicated that a majority of the Committee deemed VanVoorhis Hall "expendable with little loss." Consequently, I would urge that the building not be included in the National Register of Historic Places. THE PRESIDENT Thomas H. Smith, Ohio Historical Society Sincere Lloyd Goggin Preservation Officer gymnasium currently serving as an art building. Of wooden construc- who suggested the inclusion of VanVoorhis Hall on the National Register Walter Havighurst tion, it is not eligible for state rehabilitation funding. Dear Fred: Phillip R.
Shriver John Hauck House Your letter of June 7is before me.While Iam sure that the individual slated for replacement in the course of the.next decade.It is an 1896 of Historic Places did so in the conviction that it was truly worthy of June 20, 1979 Thomas H. Smith, Director I-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Smith: obstacles mentioned in Dr. Shriver's letter, for which the only Yet, three facts cause one to question this familiar con- (interior wall deterioration, primitive temperature "control" Such maximum use includes art studio, classroom and university cated elsewhere on campus (we have learned, however, to mistrust office activity. solution is demolition, thinly disguises an anti older building sensus for destruction.
does not fit in stylistically and presents construction problems building is scheduled to replace Van Voorhis, presumably funds Friday with more limited hours on Saturday and weekday evenings.
tively on the National Register Nomination for Van Voorhis I have long had a gut feeling that reference to the familiar This label which has been given evaluation credibility here- 7120 Contreras Road Ohio Historical Center The building supposedly cannot be razed until its replacement (on a different site) is completed because the be erased from the campus scene dominated in that area by the and another site are available; is demolition of Van Voorhis 1.In spite of inadequacies due to minimal maintenance abouts has also been applied to doomed Talawanda Hall (i908 Italianate apartment used as dormitory) and Alumnae Hall missed--the building is 100%in use from 8-5 Monday thru "new Miami"pseudo-style of Laws Hall (School of Business) and Roudebush Hall (Administration). Van Voorhis has been de- Hall, Miami University Campus. Thus Van Voorhis is decrepit, concensus by the administration.
itus professor and a university trustee, respectively. scribed as an eyesore"by a senior administrative officer. required to justify such a "replacement"? space now provided by Van Voorhis cannot presently be dupli- Oxford,0hio45056 Western Campus (1891,demolished 1977) by a distinguished emer- The following statement isa response to Dr.Phillip R. and lighting) because of which classes must sometimes be dis- a condemned, vandalized, difficult-to-use, oversized derelict. of Fame in New England is a reconstruction of an early gymna- a dramatic introduction_to form, proportions and the integrity of tolerated, outdated utilities which interfere with daily community. Van Voorhis seems to flagrantly disregard its present-future permits and encourages ongoing deterioration of building while of building by Art Department and university offices in spite gym, suspended balcony and all!
promising monumentality and total lack of superficial, pseudo and individuals who have contributed much to education in the on coaching represents Miami's recognition of the educational which were trained so many prominent teachers of those teams reference to the building inside and out the art student gains Let me briefly review the criteria by.which any sensible majority approved of a proposal to refurbish the building for use potential with no published feasibility study to justify (A) Architectural and aesthetic significance.See the wisdom of destroying a useful facility on a campus where under-roof space is used to capacity. willingness of administration to permit a large number of can show the visitor (or resident) a still useful facility in person must look at Van Voorhisin its entirety. art students and faculty which I initiated in 1978,the 3.
Even though the building is a viable, tunctioning tacility, removal is scheduled without a careful, complete facility. Item: U.S.? Item: . Several persons surveyed questioned (B) Present role. Summary of comments above. Full use (C) Future potential. The scheduled destruction of such action. The recent development of an Historic Preservation See scheduled teaching and learning. How many other institutions nomination describes the historical precedent for Van Voorhis Inadequate maintenance feasibility study for repairs to and possible adaptation of 2.I have taught art classes in Van Voorhis for l9 years. of expressive design. Georgian facade treatment set an example to the entire campus sium (Basketball's "cradle") which duplicates the Van Voorhis In response to an informal survey of V.V.H. It is a dynamic environment and an actual "teaching aid."By role of athletics at all levels.
art or other academic use. I believe that the building's uncom- proud, tirelessly promoted sports-image tradition. Finally, I was a member of the "Building Priority Committee" found. ** James Rodabaugh type beneficiary of your continuing concern. consultants who might advise on the buildings and related unit which will examine the plight of older academic buildings Judith Kitchen National Register Nomination be most carefully weighed by Fred Mitchell tion to the dumping of Van Voorhis and Talawanda Hall in MPA has invited me to participate in the production ofa I urgently request that the status of Van Voorhis Hall and and misconceptions suggested in Dr.Shriver's letter must be David Sirmons David Brook sistently cooto my repeated offer to arrange for professional largely a matter of personal opinion unmodified by "outside" proposals under review.
Ranking of buildings, therefore, was in Ohio. ordinance for Oxford is an upward step not yet taken by the Sincerely historical research or objective analysis. Crossan Hays durry category 4 Little or no value."I.found the committee con- August 29, 1979 THE PROVOST To: Members of the Art Education Faculty these hazards exist, and if they are not patchable, we will simply have to in enrollment, is it possible to squeeze at least a portion of the art education have the aesthetic appeal that is characteristic of this campus, the space is concern is acknowledged. Charles Spohn, Robert Butler, Earl Folker I have just returned from Van Voorhis Hall and now emphathize with you.
peeling of plaster and first floor ceiling and excessive humidity are conditions entirety of Hiestand Hall plus a portion of Presser Hall without an increase graduate students in Peabody Hall and expand into some other uncommitted space Education portion of the Art Faculty to the studios now occupied by art special legislative appropriation yet this Fall. Frankly none of these options are good but some version thereof may be necessary the building.I am particularly concerned about the falling of pieces from The immediate decision is whether to remain in the building this Fall. on a make-shift basis. that will not need to be tolerated too much longer and that a full complement abandon the building (as we did Fisher Hall) and find alternate facilities commodious and it meets especially well the need for flexible drawing space.
There is much advantage to the current facility.Although it does not Already I have asked our Physical Plant people to examine the safety of the We shall come back to you relative to the safety problem.Your arrange for a sharing of the facilities in Rowan Hall?Can we move the Art The question is what to do in the meantime. the roof and about a concern expressed relative to the electrical system.If President Phillip R.Shriver, Lloyd Goggin,Will Keebler, John Dome, building.If it is unsafe, we shall simply have to move all activity out of of dollars maybe committed to anew art-art education building enabledbya if the building is unsafe and cannot be made to be safe. Ido hope that the building is determined 2s safe,that the less-than-ideal Perhaps it is too early to think of alternate facilities but these activity_into Hiestand.until the new art.
building-is-available?.How.might.we and the necessity to raze the current facility. thoughts are on my mind.Since the art department has expanded into the DEAR SiR; RELAXEO ATMESPHERE. Sept. 15. 1979 Sincerely, September 24, 1979 Dear Mr. Simmons; I am a student at Miami University and I am writing in already submitted. It is for other reasons, however, that I down Van Voorhis Hall. The administration, however, does not take their opinion into account; instead, it goes by its own campus. university administration intends to demolish.
The site of the destroyed building would remain empty.The that could not be reproduced in a new building.One can feel As the first Miami gymnasium, the building has a long first floor, and drawing classes are held on the second floor, Art education classes are held in the classrooms on the Romanesque design.I am an art student, and I have found the prejudices.The policy of the university is to systematically more years, as well as return once in a while later in life to general opinion of the art faculty is that a new building would Georgian architecture.Aconcern for concern consistency is be welcome, but it would be unnecessary and undesirable to tear The admministration's plans are to demolish Van Voorhis in the old gymnasium. It is the oldest academic building on old gymnasium a wonderful place to work.It has an atmosphere visit it.
It is a place that is very conducive to artwork.I have worked Van Voorhis is an attractive and legitimate older building of history, which is described in detail in its nomination form, Van Voorhis was built in 1897 and was originally the regard to Van Voorhis Hall,a Miami acadenic building that the Register.It is my hope that this will prevent its destruction. have a personal desire to have the building on the National there for two years already and would like to do s o for two Oxíord, Ohio 45056 Herron Gymnasium.It is presently being used by the art depart- raze our legitimate older buildings and replace them with fake and build a new art building in another part of the campus. the age of the building and things that have happened there. admirable, but with the administration here it is an obsession.
Sincerely, Historic Preservationists Van Voorhis is historically and architecturally signif- Georgian design prevalent on campus or it is considered unsightly. the National Register. of Miami University Soon, Miami will be a new university masquerading as an old one. icant, an attractive building, an excellent place to do artwork, and one of the few old buildings left on the Miami campus. William d. Harber III Every building must conform exactly to the modified imitation OXFORD, OHIO Gymnasium Before Moving. HOSPITAL - To be finished September, 1923. Cost, $85,000. Beds, 60. | HERRON GYMNASIUM - To be moved 522 feet east and form one unit of a larger gymnasium brochure published 1923 Building Progress of the University plan.Next unit to be140x 150 and to be built as soon as funds can be secured.This front facade is the greatest need at present.
WELLs HALL - To be finished in the fall of1923.Cost,s230,471.Rooms for 145girls. Oxford On The Talawahda Copies made frowr 1896-97, gross square footage 21, 150 was NOV 29 1979 Moving the Miami Gymnasium. Excavation Work for the New Site Done by the H. S. Coulter Co., of Oxford Excavating on the Site Selected for the Miami Gymnasium. Work Being Done by The H. S. Coulter Company. Oxford, Ohio. page forty-three Facade NOV 29.1979 io Historical Center 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 October 18, 1979 Mr. Charles Herrington, Acting Keeper 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20243 approved by the state review board and the owners have been informed of Boesel, Adolph, House Maltby, Henry, House Otterbein Mausoleum Thomson, Peter G., Residence Adams, George W. House Rider, Adam, House Anderson, William M., House St.
Peters Church Muskingum County REGISTER Pickaway Licking County Athens County Cuyahoga County Jackson County Hock-Hocking Wine Cellar Crawfis Institute Seneca County Knox County Courthouse Center RECEIVED National Register of Historic Plcees Warner Theater Mahoning County hio Historic Preservation Office Parmelee House Franklin County Medina County Auglaize County Richland County Michaels Farm Lincoln School Athens Governmental Buildings Hruby Conservatory of Music Keystone Furnace Butler County Metropolitan Block Ross County Herron Gymnasium Hamilton County Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Fairfield County Department of the Interior Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Pennsylvania Railway Station Shepard Street School Mill Road Bowstring Bridge Dear Mr.
Herrington: NATIONAL Higby House Allen County Enclosed are 3l regular nominations and 2 resubmissions.All have been our intent to nominate. Madam Fredin's Eden Park School Mr. Charles Herrington Page 2 Loew-Define Grocery Store & Home Lee, Samuel, House David L. Brook DLB: cw Sincerely, enclosures Resubmissions Coshocton County Montgomery County Mason House Union County Stark County Washington County was relocated) Elmwood Place Let me know if we can provide any additional information. State Historic Preservation Officer Wayne County Home Waernicke-Hille House & Store Deed's Barn (listed property that MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD - OHIO 45056 October 22, 1979 Mr. David A. Simmons Historian and Manager, National Register Program Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr.
Simmons: better, that the building is "historic," and that it is Sincerely, THE PRESIDENT Lloyd Goggin Walter Havighurst Fred Mitchell Caroline Hollis Miami University's Committee on Campus Historic Preservation, Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Board has approved inclusion of Herron Gymnasium (presently Ohio Historical Center gourd structures that are not historic with those that are, the list no longer has any meaning.It is significant that Phillip R. Shriver you advise that the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory remote from the University have concluded that they know Ohio Historic Preservation Office VanVoorhis Hall) in:the National Register of Historic Places.
It is with a profound sense of frustration that I write to I-7l and Seventeenth Avenue acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 17, in which lumping onto a list that now seems to have grown like Jonah's worthy of salvation. Where will it all end? Evidently there is no regard for the distinction between that chaired by Professor Walter Havighurst, has found VanVoorhis MIAMI UNIVERSITY October 22, 1979 Mr. David A.
Simmons Historian and Manager, National Register Program Columbus, Ohio 43211 acknowledge receipt of your letter ot October 17, in which Walter Havighurst Caroline Hollis Miami University's Committee on Campus Historic Preservation, Fred Mitchell you advise that the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory gourd structures that are not historic with those that are, THE PRESIDENT Board has approved inclusion of Herron Gymnasium (presently chaired by Professor Walter Havighurst, has found VanVoorhis Ohio Historic Preservation Office Evidently there is no regard for the distinction between that Ohio Historical Center Lloyd Goggin Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board remote from the University have concluded that they know I-7l and Seventeenth Avenue It is with a profound sense of frustration that I write to lumping onto a list that now seems to have grown like Jonah's worthy of salvation.
Where will it all end? Dear Mr. simmons: the building that it is Sincerel OXFORD - OHIO 45056 Phillip R. Shriver VanVoorhis Hall) in:the National Register of Historic Places. the list no longer has any meaning.It is significant that NOV 2 3 1979 INITIALS DATE ACTION TAKEN TELEPHONE CALL (ATTACHED) DATE RECD INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE (ATTACHE INFRMTIVE MATERIAL SENT Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 October 31, 1979 To: Control Room , National Register of Historic Places Re: Herron Gymnasium, Butler County, Ohio MEMO Ohio Historic Preservation Office Enclosed are copies of several letters regarding the nomination of the include them in the file for review. Thank you for your assistance.
Herron Gymnasium to the Nationa Register of Historic Places.Please Ohio Historical Center 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) October 31, 1979 Dr. Phillip R.
Shriver Office of the President Oxford, Ohio 45056 When the nomination was forwarded to Washington, we included copies of included representatives of both the faculty and student body, both of think, that those individuals who took the time to write in favor of the During my long association with Miami, I have personally noted with pleasure xc: Fred Mitchell Historian and Manager National Register Program structure within which this tradition was initiated, and provides a nomination were people currently utilizing the facility.This is in which demonstrated a firm recognition of the historic and architectural Ohio Historic Preservation Office Dear President Shriver: Miami University individuals within the Miami University community.Among these were Thank you for your recent letter regarding Herron Gymnasium. review staff in Washington. have determined the building to be historic.
a series of correspondence sent to our office from a wide range of your letters of June 12,1979 to Fred Mitchell and memorandum of June 27, the immense pride displayed by the University in regards to its tradition as Sincerely: inclusion of the property in the National Register. It is important, I contrast to your suggestion that individuals "remote from the University" opinion, a logical extension of this sense of pride. It recognized the We are forwarding a copy of your October 22 letter to the National Register physical manifestation and reminder of that important heritage. Page One Hundred and Eighty-seren The Bpmnasium NOV. 29 1979 MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD - OHIO 45056 November 19, 1979 Mr. Charles A. Herrington Washington, D. C.
20240 I have your letter of October 29, 1979, advising me that Board, under date of October 22, 1979, advising him that the as well, I am greatly troubled that many non-historians are I write all of this for the record, though with little THE PRESIDENT Enclosure Committee. Reference: Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Sincere Register Program of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory and as the teacher of Miami University history on this campus optimism that anyone out there in the vast wasteland of Dear Mr. Herrington: As a professional historian with thirty-two years' teaching sity's Committee on Campus Historic Preservation and has United States Department of the Interior tion virtually anything that is old rather than that which Phillip R.
Shriver to Mr.David A.Simmons, Historian and Manager of the National I enclose for your information a copy of a letter I addressed particularly compatible bedfellows, and I fear that once experience in the areas of American history and ohio history, governmental bureaucracy will be able to hear me or even again this is proving to be the case. care about what I am saying. pushing to have included on the list for historic preserva- LHerron Gymnasium (presently VanVoorhis Hall) on the/Miami Acting Keeper of the National Register old Herron Gymnasium was reviewed recently by Miami Univer- is historic. Antiquarianism and history have never been for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
on this campus which have been recommended by various people University campus is about to join the long list of structures STATE OHIO NOV 29 1979 Maltby, Henry, House Rider, Adam, House Adams, George W., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. David Brook Columbus, Ohio 43211 Lancaster Crawfis Institute Location Byers/bjr Trinway vicinity Muskingum County Athens Date Entered Roseville vicinity 12/3/79 Name Fairfield County Mason House Athens Governmental Buildings Herron Gymmasium Coal Run Oxford The Ohio Historical Society Hock-Hocking Wine Cellar Also Notified Butler County Sugar Grove vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Washington County Honorable Clarence E. Miller Waernicke-Hille House and Store Athens County For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-640l. Honorable Thomas N.
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