MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ohio Historic Inventory , 7/76 ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME -: QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 4A12,5198,01 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION the north by Naughton Street, on the east by Fourth, and on the south and west by alleys. STATE - FORM PREPARED BY NAME /TITLE Nancy Recchie / Regional Preservation Officer STREET & NUMBER 22 N. Front St. (614) 221-0227 CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - 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 GPO 921-803 ORGANIZATION CODE DATE NORTHING COUNTY TELEPHONE Columbus 3/79 Southeast Columbus ATTEST: Columbus Landmarks Foundation The nominated property consists of a triangular area of concrete curb which is bounded on ZONE EASTING FOR NPS USE ONLY UTM REFERENCES3 6O LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the ZONE LOCAL CHIEE OF REGISTRATION Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - OTHER KEEPER CONTROL HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit Maps TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF 8.23.79 AUG 27 1979 Entered Property CATS JUL 17 1979 AUG 27 1979 Flatiron Building, Columbus, Franklin County Ohio Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Photo: Larry Beers, 1972 View of facade and southern elevation DOE FINNIGANS .PUB- MICHE!
JUL 1 7 1979 AUG 27 1979 22 N. Front St. Columbus, Ohio 43215 Columbus Columbus Landmarks Foundation Franklin County, Ohio 3/79 Facade and south elevation 129 E. Naghten St. FLATIRON BUILDING COCKTAIL LOUNGE -CAT Meow AUG 27 1979 Photo: Larry Beers, 1972 JUL 1 7 1979 elevation Ohio Flatiron Building, Columbus, Franklin County Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of northern elevation and western 373 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS, OHIO UNITED STATES SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION CREEK STATE OHIO AUG 27 1979 Tanneh111, Capt. James Boggs, House Higgins, H. A., Building (Flatiron Building) Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Chalmers P.
Wylie Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Director Location Zanesville Columbus Name Franklin County The Ohio Historical Society 8/31/79 Muskingum County Date Entered Frazeysburg vicinity Baughman Memorial Park Honorable Clarence E. Miller Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation officer Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Also Notified Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. JUL 17 1979 Lazelle streets. Its smallest side - but its principal facade, apartments above, young Myrt was, indeed, an entrepeneur. four stories high. The structure was built by one of Co- railroad men thronged his place. His beautiful solid-cherry lumbus' best-loved Irishmen. The builder's name and the date, "H. A. HIGGINS liked the proprietor, whose kindness, wit and generosity one he was "Myrt." Here's why: miliated him that he ran home vowing never to return.
was observed before the parade moved on. REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED Flatiron Building marchers came opposite the wedge-shape building they youth, was largely his own conception.With a saloon in Business boomed the first year as the new Fourth pie-shaped plot facing North Fourth Street at Naghten show folk.Needy neighbors could always count on a bit Street.Its other two sides are hugged by Locust and parade after his death.It formed, as usual, at the Irish vorite spot for Irishmen and others. His mother's pride was his long, golden curls which he Street viaduct was being built. Construction men and changed the saloon to a restaurant, but still it was a fa- Next day short-haired Herbert got a shortened nickname. ture.
His given name was Herbert Aloysius, but to every- yards Myrt stayed open all hours to accommodate the His big sister, Mary, soon got at the truth and, risking The little flatiron building, built while he was still a were legends. When circuses loaded in the B. and O. all who knew him.They tell of the first St.Patrick's Day architecturally-is barely eight feet wide but an impressive wore, all unsuspecting, to school. The "young ruffians" the narrow end, a grocery in the wide end (25 feet) and maternal hysterics,whisked him toa barber to be shorn. At six he started to school at venerable St.Patrick's. of credit to tide them over a tight spot. Prohibition They dubbed him "Myrt" and it stuck all his life.
bar was seldom empty.People liked the place, and they 1914,"are carved ina stone which still crowns the struc- NE of Columbus'oddest structures stands on a tiny When Myrt Higgins died in 1943 he was mourned by paused.Hats came off,anda moment of silence for Myrt From:Arter, Bill. Columbus Vignettes. Columbus, O.: Nida-Eckstein Printing, 1967-71. 4 vols., II: BIu ARTER saint's own church and marched down Naghten.As the at St.Pat's delightedly dubbed him "Myrtle"and so hu-
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