Nomination for Main Street Buildings

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 2 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REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 6 - 14 E. Main Street NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF C. J. Brown PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE MUSEUM _WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE LIN PROCESS X_YES: RESTRICTED _ YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Same - REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 45502 023 Springfield 1979 11/29/1976 LOCATION CODE TITLE ACCESSIBLE COUNTY GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC Columbus, TRANSPORTATION SITE HISTORIC DISTRICT CATEGORY INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP STATE 7th PARK PUBLIC MILITARY Clark Clark County Recorder's Office PUBLIC ACQUISITION _EDUCATIONAL Ohio NAME Main Street Buildings, OTHER: STATUS None, None and Wren's Dept. Store inc. X_PRIVATE _ENTERTAINMENT _BEING CONSIDERED COURTHOUSE, _RELIGIOUS _UNOCCUPIED -STRUCTURE X_COMMERCIAL _BOTH FOR NPS USE ONLY X_BUILDING(S) - OBJECT 3l N. Limestone St. 32082. 10 E. _FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY LOCAL Starett & Fried Block, none and The Bushnell Bldg.

LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION 14 E.Main =Denton's.Inc.,at X ORIGINAL SITE are seperated by bold, high Italiante brackets, flowing upwards from in late Italian Renaissance design and stylized.Eastlake ornamenta- The next building, at # 12 E. Main St., is a narrow, brick three building in the downtown which has gone into history under his name 1893 CONDITION DETERIORATED FAIR DESCRIPTION X_GOOD Above the entablature is a richly ornamented cornice done is several be the last of the iron-fronted buildings in Springfield. The City remodeled the first, since the assessed tax valuation on the building dividing pilasters that rise the full heighth of the building.These very flat brackets.As stated above,the three units of the building _EXCELLENT an untouched, old appearance. CHECK ONE added an additional story. and it would thus be misleading to name this one after him.

window cap, the underside of these arches being in a sawtooth design. The Main Street Buildings is a complex of four structures with adjoining The entire surface of these three units is a complete symphony party walls. The complex in reality consists of three buildings, of with classical pilasters in an Eastlake mode supporting a shallow arched lost these or is not using them at present. which one is legally divided into two parts with seperate owners. bold brackets are also repeated at the Second floor level:The units _UNALTERED The two unit section has the first floor occupied by a jewelry The thrid floor caps lack the keystone and the tops of the caps are The second floor level has slightly bolder caps with central keystone.

at #'s 6 & 8 E.Main still retain original, paneled shutters, closing along with # 10,form a uniform facade with large brackets at the years; # 10 needs painting badly. 1.#'s 6 and 8 E.Main Street are two of the original three-part went from $ 3,110 in 1870 to $ 5,720 in 1871.He may have simply -RUINS DATE ca. 1871 - -UNEXPOSED several transient renters in recent years and is also "modernized" DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

MOVED duplicate. XALTERED now being empty and used for storage. the upper floors remain in original condition Each floor of each unit has a pair of windows framed levels of overlays culminating in a projecting level supported by owned for many years by Robert Q. King of Springfield, financier and tion, including rectilinear flowers, impressed rosettes and sawtooth cut-off by a moulding seperating the windows from the entablature. overlays.The Section from 6-8 E.Main was repainted within recent of a large, neon sign real estate speculator.

However, King owned a massive commercial but not so dramatically as the other two units.v Starrett & Fried Block.Constructed about 1878,these two parts, The design of both floors is The first floor has been drastically "modernized" into a dis- in 1870 and built the present structure the next year, or else radically had relatively few in its heyday and this is the sole survivor. the second and third floor windows. The unit at lo E. Main has either Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JAN 8 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Main Street Buildings, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio delphia" brick, which was the popular Springfield building medium in the The Bushnel1 Building at 14 E. Main St. is a five story structure of stone & brick, with basement.

The foundations and first floor are of arched doorway. The doorway has been remodeled, a marble facing applied The second, third & fourth are almost exactly duplicate. They at either end and three sets of triple, side by side arched windows of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors. GPO 892 455 RECEIVED and third floors. is repeated. CONTINUATION SHEET ashlar brownstone.The first floor exterior is decorated with terra framework with iron supporting columns sheathed in concrete.

corresponds with the present extrenal appearance, which is completely with darker terra cotta decorations.The cornice & roofline acroteria are Originally the first floor had four large windows with a central of embossed metal in a neoclassical design.The interior features an iron 1890's.The Second floor has three, side-by-side windows, the cap of which The exterior of this building is constructed of dark red Phila- type of cap. Rather, a simple stone belting course runs across the tops The projecting cornice is formed of two layers of brick corbelling The taxable value on this building remained stable, except for brick panels, each with an elongated cross in brickwork.The third floor level.The remaining 4 storys of the facade are unaltered.

a smaller window, and above that the semi-cap design of the Second floor and a marquee now extends across the entire front at the first story each have a double casement window at each end with three triple light window.A moulding, belt course divides the fourth from the 5th story. light windows and a garland on either side of the 4th floor central Small increments in 1880 and 1890 due to reevaluation.In 1893,however, the value was increased by $ 1,200.00,suggesting a remodeling.This in 1890's style. MAR 2 arched, giving the effect of a three story, three part arcade. A terra The fifth floor facade has side by side, double, arched windows windows centrally placed.The fourth floor triple light windows are of the windows.Directly above the belting course and each window is cotta ornaments.

The remaining storys are constructed of light buff brick centrally placed.This repeats the arcading effect of the larger windows with a stylized, rectilinear brick corbel-bracket at either end. A seper- cotta panel with neoclassical swags is inserted under each of the triple ate entrance and staircase at the first floor give access to the second windows duplicate those of the second, but there is no attempt at any Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JAN 8 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINA TION FORM DATE ENTERED Main Street Buildings, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 3 the other by a dry goods firm. The second, third & fourth floors were GPO 892 455 RECEIVED herein nominated. CONTINUATION SHEET accomodate a modern department store.

commercial offices & the fifth floor was a Masonic Temple.All of the wide central hall; one side being used by the First National Bank and The Bushnell Building extends loo ft. across Main St. and has a original interior partitions, woodwork & stairways have been removed to FOR NPS USE ONLY Originally the first floor of the building was divided bya 2o ft. original building, creating an depth of 175 feet.In l903 an addition was made to the building. The AREAS OF

Statement of significance

The Bushnell Building, built by Asa S. Bushnell (Gov. of Ohio, 5th floors- & Glessner were well pleased with their homes and, Warder, however, gave the Library commission to Richardson's touches, but is largely in the newer styles of Beaux Arts and the later 1870's in terms of ornamentation, it is no different 1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE PERIOD LAW Coolidge. TRANSPORTATION PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT EDUCATION THEATER SCIENCE MILITARY SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE _COMMUNICATIONS LITERATURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT Second Renaissance Revival. ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT sonian fashion in Springfield. -CONSERVATION same time,Bushnell finally decided to build.He chose R.H.Robert- iron-front building.

Although this particular specimen dates to sance Revival detailing in the terra cotta decorations, cornice & has the Beaux Arts 5 part composition, combined with Second Renais- It is an ecletic structure with a slight Richardsonian touch son, a prominent Richardsonian imitator to do his new house on East in the ashlar foundation & the originally arched doorway.The facade especially in the arcading effect and the distinction between 4th& -1400-1499 lies principally in its architecture. ENGINEERING It is of some interest to note the route by which this firm _PHILOSOPHY acroteria.The total effect of the facade gives the impression of Fried Block is of special importance by virtue of its being an Whether created out of rivalry with his partners or no, Bushnell technically from the earlier specimens done elsewhere in the l850's. & Glessner in Chicago.

In '85,both of these men commissioned houses -1500-1599 _COMMUNITY PLANNING & Coolidge, the successors of H.H. Richardson. Its significanee _COMMERCE 1888o_Warder decided to give a Public Library to Springfield.At the -ECONOMICS - RELIGION - INDUSTRY -_1600-1699 INVENTION 1896-1900) was designed by the distinguished firm of Shepley, Rutan Glessner. By 1885, both Warder and by H. H. Richardson. Bushnell remained in Springfield in his old process, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge brought to a close the Richard- successors, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. Apparently the success of the building in 1893. The building they produced has some Richardsonian in the Main Street Buildings in terms of refined architecture came to design this structure.Asa S.Bushnell was in partnership created by a reknowned firm.On the other hand, the Starrett & with Benjamin Warder & John J, The Bushnell Bldg.

is, of course, the most important of the several High St.; he was too late to hire Richardson who had died in l886. Warder & Glessner homes & the Warder Library in Springfield prompted unknown + Shepley. Rutan & some derivation from Burnham & Root's 1886 Rookery" in Chicago,

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES June 25, The Brickbuilder, Vol. 4, no. 7, plate 45. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY Less than 10 acres VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION With East Main Street and then due east 161' to the intersection with 1 FORM PREPARED BY STREET & NUMBER 300 W. Main St. CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL _ LOCAL _X 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 DATE NORTHING CODE ORGANIZATION Springfield COUNTY TELEPHONE STATE NAME/TITLE the starting point at Primrose Alley. From a point on East Main St.at the intersection with Primrose Alley ZONE EASTING ATTEST: 573-324-0657 C.Wade May31: The Springfield Daily Republic, July 3, 1893; The Springfield Weekly LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES George H. Berkhofer, Executive Director THE EVALUATED SIGNIFIÇANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE original Bushnell Bldg. west wall to intersection with the rear-wall of 12 E..Main, then following the lines of the rear walls west and south to Clark County Historical Soc.3oo W, Main St Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED JAN 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM the City of a unique, if ill-fated engineering principle and The MAIN STREET BUILDINGS are, of course, especially significant GPO 892 455 century commercial design. middle-class real estate developer who derived his income and Main Street Buildings, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio mercantilism -- especially when contrasted with the massive CONTINUATION SHEET In view of the high mortality rate of these buildings all across its history and site make it a throwback to an earlier era in 150 years of mercantile-commercial construction has been completely Ave. and which was more indicative of the era.

link between the Starrett & Fried Block and the Bushnell Bldg., Springfield's downtown and also a perfect mirror of most l9th DATE ENTERED experiment, still standing. The smaller King commercial building not only forms the physical but also Serves as an aesthetic link.It is highly representa- building deserves Special attention as being the only example in are a mirror of the Small, independent shopkeeper as well as the wealth through the renting of a shop and offices in a smaller half-block long building that King erected about 1890 on Fountain American business districts from the early l8oo's onwards. They the Nation since the 1940's and in Springfield more recently, this JAN 8 tional of the narrow, three story commercial structures that lined three buildings are the last trace of the earler development of to Springfield.

Here, within the past five years, approximately building of this type.Although the building has an 1890's facade, state@His Photos - Send-back - Re-submit _ OTHER KEEPER HAER Maps TECHNICAL Inventory ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Review HISTORIAN Federal Register Entry 1979 BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up 4-3-79 United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 311.79 June, 1977 JAN 8 1979 Photo # 1 Main Street Buildings Photo: Gary Thompson King's commercial structure View is due north, looking Springfield, Ohio 2119 Harshman Blvd. at the Bushnell Bldg., with Clark Co., Ohio MAR Springtield, Ohio June, 1977 MAR 2 1979 JAN 8 1979 Photo # 2 Main Street Buildings to northwest; includes Photo: Gary Thompson View is from the southeast & Fried Buildings. 2119 Harshman Blvd.

Clark County, Ohio Bushnell, King and Starrett E BEAUTY AIDSZ) JEWELERS ISCOUNT RED CROSS June, 1977 Starrett & Fried, King & JAN 8 Main Street Buildings Ohio. View from southwest to north east; includes all three buildings: from l.to r. Springfield, Clark County 2119 Harshman Blvd. Springfield, Ohio Photo: Gary Thompson GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UNITED STATES SPRINGFIELD QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .Less than 1u acres GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPRINGFIELD, CLARK CO. BUILDINGS PR1-23-79 Findlay, Ohio 45840 January 29, 1979 U. S. Department of the Intertior Washington, D. C. 20243 In reference to: H32-NR Attention: William J. Murtagh hoping to sell the building this year but would like to know Sincerely, 45840. Dear Sir: Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service listed in the National Register of Historic Places since he is I am writing in response to your letter to my father, Edwin A.

Please change his address to 8ll Wedgewood Dr.,Findlay, Oh. Mrs.Eli W.Sampson POA King, owner of the building at 12 E.Main St.,Springfield, Oh. 8ll Wedgewood Dr. He is not interested in taking advantage of having the building ADORES DATE ACTION TAKEN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE REC'D TELEPHONE CALL (ATTACHED) INFORMATIVE M/ 02ML SENT ITIALS INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE (ATTACHED) MAR 2 1979 Brown, Jim, House Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. DI. Thomas E. Sith Byers/bjr Location Director Station Springfield Name Clark County Date Entered Also Notified Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Main Street Buildings Honorable Clarence J. Brown State Historic Preservation Officer Oberlin Lake Shore and Michigan Southern For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

Oberlin ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Peninsula vicinity Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Houorable John F. Seiberling Honorable Donald J. Pease The Ohio Historical Society STATE OHIO Lorain County Summit County MAR 2 The Bushnell B1dg.; Wren's Dept. Store 6--14 E. Main St.

- FEDERAL ( CONDITION O deteriorated Oaltered CC NOT INTACT-O Ogood -unexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated =- NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access - AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 "first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANMING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions _date.

2architectural style(s): Sartisan: Abullder/contractor: EVENTS : county Springfield ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: STATE PERSONAL: vicinity of CURRENTLY: major alterations: HEALTH-27 Clark PRIVATE ORGANIZATION historic events: Lake Central COMMERCE-6 LOCAL ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP landscape architect/ garden designer: ENGINEERING-11 ADMINISTRATOR: Main Street Buildings Starett and Fried Block, SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Bdate of entry: Dexcellent Coriginal site SOURCE Of NOMINATION SAVED? YES 2OTHER NAMES:S Omoved city / town (I1) CONGRESS. DISTRICT if state who prepared form?

Ounknown - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -24 D OTHER (SPECIFY) ") interior decorator: IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE EGION: Dreconstructed ETHNIC GROUP engineer: 1979 artist: of initial construction: master builder: reviewers initials. Dfeatures: IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno 4county code: Dfair Qruins