MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Columbus Dispatch, December 14, 1978 Columbus Citizen Journal, July 22, 1977 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE 14,412,515,4,0l VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Nancy Recchie / Preservation Officer 3/ 78 STREET & NUMBER (614) 221-0227 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.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 CODE ORGANIZATION TELEPHONE NORTHING DATE COUNTY Columbus 1:24000 Southeast Columbus UTM REFERENCES Columbus Landmarks Foundation Ohio 22 N. Front St. class at Ohio State University, 1978.
ZONE EASTING FOR NPS USE ONLY A[2,7] 1313,-14,2,01 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE 4-18.29 ZONE of the Hanna Paint fora graduate - House Send-back _ Re-submit - KEEPER Maps CONTROL Review TECHNICAL Photos ARCHEOLOGIST United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF HISTORIAN 6-5-79 4.18.29 BRANCH CHIEE Entered APR 1 g 1079 State Working Number2 . 22. 27. 35% 4.9.79. FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO 1021 E. Broad St. April, 1978 FEB 2 2 1979 Carriage house, north elevation Nancy Recchie Hanna Home APR 1 g 1979 1021 E. Broad St. April, 1978 FEB 2 2 1979 Nancy Recchie Hanna Home FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO APR 1 9 1979 South (rear)elevation FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO 1021 E.
Broad St. April, 1978 FEB 2 2 1979 Hanna Home Facade and east elevation APR 1 9 1979 Nancy Recchie 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO-FRANKLIN CO UNITED STATES SUNDAY, DEC. 14, 1975 HOUSE KEEPS ITS 1900 ELEGANCE cooms to its expanded operations Dispatch Photos SOLID COMFORT-Bed- Miss Hanna's parlor was a warmly elegant room with its ITALSO HOESED THE GIRLS" pory cart and their it was lived in and enjoyed by a family at the turnot the THE COLUMBUS COUNTRY CLUB, to which their MISS JOSEPHINE HANNA The Home She Restored Is Secure ostume or ballgown and the hat that went with it fro that Paris shopping spree. THE HANNA GIRLS GREW UP and went off to "She had Rocky Fork do the food, and there were their present quarters The house the guests saw was a look backward in Beautifully maintained.
the house in which time A Member of the North American Group P.O. Box 625 / Columbus, Ohio 43216 / Telephone (614) 253-7453 March 13, 1979 Mr. William J. Murtagh RE: H32-NR OFFICE: 1015 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio Enclosures North President Cordially, GRM/sn American Equitable The Hanna House played a key role in much of the early history would be delighted to have the home included in the National George R. Manser nomination will be accepted for listing. Register of Historic Places. will provide more information. nomination of the Hanna House for listing in the National We appreciate the opportunity to comment and trust that the We were pleased to receive your letter advising us of the LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY Dear Mr.
Murtagh: are happy to maintain the charm and dignity of the home, as it have enclosed a few articles relative to the property which is now being utilized as executive offices of the company.I Registry. As the current residents of this property, we MAR 1 9 1979 INITIALS DATE ACTION TAKEN THE NATICNAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE (ATTACHED) INF RUA TIVE MATERIAL SENT TELEH.NE CALL (ATTACHED) Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Location Hanna House Name Franklin County Date Entered 4/24/79 Columbus Director Honorable Samuel L. Devine STATE OHIO State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.
APR 1 g 1979 Columbus Citizen-Journal SHELTER July 22, 1977 Fri., July 22, 1977 By PAULINE WESSA laughter at tea dances and the clip-clop and rattling pattern that resembles hand-tooled leather. Across from his were stippied c'it covers a lot of biemishes" Scherer desk there's a built-in mirrored hardwood buffet. (C-J photos confided.y bons Collection" of classic wall scuiptures. Inspired The Palace of Windsor, Hampton Court and St. Paul's ways and windows. He also carved the frame for the portrait of Mary Queen of Scots Gibbons' work. The new grouping boasts of realistic legged tub and matching sitz tub which contains large ferns. Josephine Hanna. Wall sculptures try to capture elegance The woodwork, stone and marble carvings that nature with total harmony in a solid substance.
Nearly every room has its own fireplace with THE 23 STAINED glass windows are original or Policy talk replaces Hanna homestead gaiety frescoed frets and ceilings have been repaired and of six wall accessory designs. disability clauses and other aspects of life insurance. Striving to capture the regal elegance of 17th- school.He brought into palaces ofkings a harmony of IT REMAINED in the family until December Assurance Co.
The walls are covered with a papier mache Gibbons, the design team of Minicucci and Hanauer Josephine Hanna by North American Equitable Life by Hank Reichard.) early 19o0s now eehoes with ringing telephones and president in charge of sales.To the right is a bathroom with FORMER DINING ROOM -What was once used as the The house at 1021 E Broad-st was built in 1900 by Continued on Page 11 Citizen-Journal 7 A house that once heard the sounds of music and Clarence, established the Hanna Paint Manufacturing We were simply delighted when we, as a family And I was very pleased It's marvelous what they have done. After all,1 grew up in that house and lived Father died, Mother and Josephine lived in a hotel for going to re-do it. Well, she was a half-way invalid. I on it. I didn't see how in the world she could de it, but magnificent party and all her friends came, They Father had it.
The dining room was done three times The house contains the original lighting fixtures and wired, some replated. according to Ray Scherer the firm's sales vice president Century England, Syroco has introduced the "Gib- by master English wood-carver and sculptor Grinling created this new collection which consists of a series are offsprings of Gibbons' long career have graced the depth of the carving designs OLD SETTING, NEW LOOK - An upstairs bedroom of Mrs. Joseph Allard now, and other Minicucci and Hanauer sought to dramatize wheelsof horse-drawn carriages in the era of the flowers and fruits in intricate clusters and lavish dining room in the Hanna home is now the office of George It took her seven years and she spent a fortune before it was right. the house is being preserved in its turn-of-the- friezes over mantel pieces. around portraits, door- "MY SISTER did the whole house over.
After she found the people who were willing to help her 1975 when it was purchased from the estate of told her.But she went ahead and did it. date today's smaller homes and apartments looked at her in utter horror.You can't do fun for the family gives protection, too. In onstrated countless times. would not be able to cope times, it is recommended polished, carved hardwood mantel. The downstairs, president, is the former dining room. It's walls are carved leather. It also contains a mammoth, mirrored window seats and many heavy, velvet and brocaded first gas bills were extremely high, so Jim Favret designed a system to use hot water with coils and air systems." A large central closet accomodates the air tandlers - one for heat and one for cooling There'S early-American structure next to it, using some of the old brick from the bouse created. can fill draperies.
Pools in which the insurance firm carries on its business Handling the restoration were Lindo and Joe chatter of tea dance should take immediate hardwood mantels with mirrors. MANY OF THE original wall coverings were The insurance firm bought most of the artifacts Throughout the house there are velvet-padded estate and many of the furnishings.Desks suitable for gas-fueled fireplaces have been brought up to current merely cleaned while others were replaced. The covered with a papier mache that resembles hand- carpets were purchased to retain the early-1900s mer months just ahead, the setting were ferreted out and numerous Oriental your private water system Policy talk replaces dual role From Page7 cil advises this is a good the system was reduced to peanuts by the radiators In back stands the old carriage house of matching need and to provide assur- all seasons.
To meet this another pair in the basement.And the laundry chute tion is only effective if a brick which eventually will be linked with the house A home swimming pool fire fighter has been dem- With the hot, dry sum- LADY'S PARLOR -In the office that once was the lady's TO LINK THE old house with the company's Fri., July 22, 1977 Citizen-Journol 11 the Water Sistems Coun pacity, Il it is apparent the former, polished hardwoods are used. In the latter, pine. "It had a fairly new gas-fired hot water boiler, but that were covered with metal," Scherer said. "Our MUSIC ROOM - Maroon, gold and silver fret is seen in the former wryly tion. standards. flavor. Another interesting feature of the house is the obvious Spinosi of Spinosi Enterprises. In charge of interior provides more than just The door separating them is laminated accordingly. design was Janice Elswick of Lombards.
contains all the pipes and conduits. home's fire fighting ca- parlor is seen a fine example of frescoed wall and ceiling. ance there will be enough steps to correct the situa- division between the family's quarters and the servants'.In built-in buffet of polished mahogany. with an emergency, you added up what Phase I cost yet.he said, grinning But it's obvious that he's proud of the new setting ly available and usable in Water for fire prote TUES., MAY 31, 1977 was open again last week for visitors to Assurance Co., adapting the home to wish expressed in Miss Hanna's will - offices next door at 1015 E. Broad St Decorator Janice Elswiek, showing the two buildings looks out on a newly Joseph Allard, 2195 Clifton Ave., grew pied it, restored it, and lived there a number of executive offices into the and guests, to show off the completed Company s two buildings.
(Dispatch ELEGANT OFFICE - Office furniture replaces table Offices Occupy House After Refurbishing realized. The insurance company has moved American Equitable Life Assurance A CLOSED corridor bridge linking century decor was retained in making early American decor of North until her death in early 1975. NORTH AMERICAN Equitable Life Hanna's own. refurbished and adapted to new use, TRANSITION ROOM- Most By Mary MeGarey Her home at 1021 E. Broad SL Josephine Hanna's wish has been the results of her year's work, indicat- stairs rooms, in window treatment The former kitchen is the "transi- tion" room, a careful "mix" of furnish- the Hanna home with the early Ameri- Jandscaping. James Burns Hanna, in 1900.
Later, after it stood vacant for a number of years, Miss Hanna reoceu- open bouses last week, for employees changed is the former kitchen, now chandelier, tooled papier mache wall covering elegant and chairs in the Hanna home dining room, but the H anna Home Open restored it several decades later. mantel and built-in mahogany buffet are unchanged. old light fixtures and adding new ones. Photos By Ken Chamberlain) a reception area with transitional up in the house built by their father, ings linking the Victorian character of Miss Hann in wallpaper selected for some up that it be kept as it was when her F Cnlumbug Bispatrh B-5 of a preservation Columbus history beautiful part of HANNA HOUSE reflects the history of Columbus in this century. From provincial village to the site of many corporate headquarters, the evolution of Colum- bus and Hanna House have involved both pride and caring.
We at North American Equitable Life that story. Manufacturing Company. He, his wife and two ballroom, recitals in the music room and a resi- woods. lavish furnishings echoed to the sounds of an elegant Columbus. Dances in the third floor days when neighboring Bexley was still a dense In many ways, the story of Hanna House In that era, the gracious rooms with their daughters moved into the Greek-Revival Style Burns Hanna, co-founder of the Hanna Paint others of their social standing. dent liveryman in the back carriage house were brick structure at 1021 E.Broad Street in the Hanna House was built in 1900 by James Assurance Company are happy to be a part of all a part of everyday life for the Hannas and After James Hanna died, it became increas- unmarried daughter, Josephine, to staff and maintain the grand house. So the two women convenient hotel quarters. family's home.
A widely-traveled woman, she death in 1975. Today, among the electrified gas chandeliers, there are executive offices and conference rooms. A reproduction of a covered bridge links Hanna House with the main North American Equitable building, creating an appealing blend of old and new. The house remained vacant until after the furnished many rooms with favorite furniture House that same year, and is maintaining the Redecorating took seven years and Josephine took an extensive remodeling project on her ingly difficult for Mrs. Hanna and her one North American Equitable purchased Hanna padlocked the structure and moved into more and paintings collected on her trips abroad. maintained the house as her residence until her marble fireplaces and velvet window dressings death of Mrs. Hanna. Then Josephine under- home with much of its original 1900 grandeur.
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