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Nomination for Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 4,550 words across 29 pages, filed in 1979. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 79001839, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 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REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 420 E. Fifth Avenue NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE _DISTRICT X COMMERCIAL _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS X_YES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY City Hall 90 W. Broad Street LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 7/75 LOCATION Columbus DATE NAME CLASSIFICATION HISTORIC AGRICULTURE ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORTATION COUNTY STATE MUSEUM CATEGORY PRIVATE OWNERSHIP _ENTERTAINMENT STATUS _EDUCATIONAL Franklin County Courthouse COURTHOUSE. XBUILDING(S) Ohio Ohio Historic Inventory _BEING CONSIDERED _INDUSTRIAL _OBJECT 12th 4l0 S. High Street City of Columbus X_PUBLIC _UNOCCUPIED Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower - MILITARY - RELIGIOUS -STRUCTURE TITLE _OTHER: _PARK -BOTH 049 Franklin CODE 7 DESCRIPTION X - ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED EXCELLENT the road.The runways are still in use by small aircraft. surround, rectangular window openings and restrained decorative brickwork GOOD architectural feature is the observation tower which is located in the modifications partially obscure the base of the observation tower. Columbus, Founded by the People of Columbus and dedicated to the Located in the southeastern corner of the present Port Columbus is the old and has a flat, built-up roof. _DETERIORATED CHECK ONE rectangular in plan, constructed of brick on a concrete block foundation with a hipped roof. most portion of the present building, was completed in l929.It is The lo bay facade is quite plain consisting of an entrance with a stone RUINS Port Columbus Air Terminal. The original terminal, which is the eastern- along the cornice line.

A plaque next to the entrance reads: Port three stories in height. The third level is glass enclosed and is topped Over the years, a number of wings were added to the building. A large The building is strictly functional in design. It is located close to northeastern corner of the original building.It is octagonal in plan and feature the same window openings and decorative brickwork.The most notable two story brick wing extended the facility to the west.It is also constructed in brick and has a flat built-up roof.Smaller additions and navigation of the air July east and north elevations DATE. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Transcontinental Air Transport, (later became TWA) and the Santa Fe July 8, 1929 with the departure of the first planes City of Columbus and the City of Wichita from Port Columbus. Charles Lindbergh attended the 1700-1799 1600-1699 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE PERIOD EDUCATION of the first airport facilities in the country.It achieved early SCULPTURE MILITARY RELIGION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT 1900- to American air transportation. _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS significance in the history of American air transportation. now for office and by small aircraft operations. passenger service which was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, XTRANSPORTATION _THEATER schedule was made possible.

Port Columbus was the first transfer point in the westbound transcontinental The terminal was replaced by the new Port Columbus in 1958.It is used another train to Clovis New Mexico and completed the journey with a TAT Old Port Columbus remains as a reminder of Columbus' major contribution L1400-1499 XARCHITECTURE _COMMERCE -SCIENCE -PHILOSOPHY _1500-1599 - LITERATURE - INDUSTRY - ECONOMICS When constructed in 1929,the Old Port Columbus Air Terminal Tower was one -MUSIC : LAW -COMMUNITY PLANNING 1800-1899 BUILDER/ARCHITECT Allied Architects Association ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Railway.Passengers travelled by rail from New York to Columbus where they dedication.This arrangement lasted for two years when an all air _INVENTION 9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Foundation of the Columbus Chapter of the American Institute of Architecs Architects, 1976. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UTM REFERENCES 14, 42,7780 J VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION go north 200'; go east 400'; then go south 200' to the point of beginning 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE STREET & NUMBER (614) 228-2663 CITY OR TOWN ISTATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL X LOCAL - 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 KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OF REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 CODE COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE NORTHING 4/78 STATE Columbus ATTEST: ZONE EASTING Nancy Recchie Mid-ohio Regional Planning Commission 514 South High Street QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 Kitchen, Judith and Samuelsom Robert. Architecture: Columbus. As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).

I LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE Beginning at.a point on the north side of Fifth Avenue approximately Ohio Working Number 9.19.78.4118 Photos - Send-back 1.12.79 Inventory KEEPER TECHNICAL OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered HAER HISTORIAN Maps Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF CONTROL ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Re-submit 4.11.79 INT:2106- 74 11.30.7 Bibliography: _ UTM Reference(s): - Date: Certification: IS RESUBMITTED.

Other: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for Photographic Coverage: Verbal Boundary Description: Chief, Branch of Registration clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION Geographical Data -- Acreage: 1, 12.

79 on the National Register staff, telephone202-343-6401 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Inventory - Send-back 4.27.79 TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER KEEPER Entered CONTROL HAER National Register Write-up Maps HISTORIAN Federal Register Entry Review Photos United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF 417.79 Re-submit o.1l.77 Geographical Data -- Acreage: on the National Register staff, telephone 202-343-6 407 Thank you for your attention to the above items. Chief, Branch of Registration Other: Certification: Bibliography: Date: Map Coverage: Photographic Coverage: Verbal Boundary Description: IS RESUBMITTED.

Statement of Significance: UTM Reference(s): The attached ttaticnal Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for United States Department of the Interior -Heritane Conservation and Recreation Service historic period at 1929. Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEP 19 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 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 420 E.

Fifth Avenue _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE MUSEUM X BUILDING(S) BOTH -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS X YES: RESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS OBJECT LOCATION DATE CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT CATEGORY SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE STATE MILITARY RECEIVED OWNERSHIP RELIGIOUS TRANSPORTATION HISTORIC INDUSTRIAL Columbus NAME DISTRICT COUNTY PARK Ohio Historic Inventory 7/75 SITE PRIVATE STATUS STRUCTURE Franklin County Courthouse COURTHOUSE. TITLE _ENTERTAINMENT Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower _EDUCATIONAL City of Columbus PH0684635 X_PUBLIC UNOCCUPIED City Hall 90 W. Broad Street 12th 410 S.

High Street Ohio X.COMMERCIAL _OTHER: Franklin - FEDERAL X_STATE _COUNTY -LOCAL 7 DESCRIPTION X _ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE and has a flat, built-up roof. Columbus, Founded by the People of Columbus and dedicated to the CONDITION DETERIORATED EXCELLENT modifications partially obscure the base of the observation tower. surround, rectangular window openings and restrained decorative brickwork two story brick wing extended the facility to the west.It is also architectural feature is the observation tower which is located in the Over the years, a number of wings were added to the building.A large with a hipped roof. rectangular in plan, constructed of brick on a concrete block foundation the road.The runways are still in use by small aircraft.

CHECK ONE The lo bay facade is quite plain consisting of an entrance with a stone XFAIR most portion of the present completed in 1929.It is _GOOD -RUINS Port Columbus Air Terminal. The original terminal, which is the eastern- DATE UNALTERED constructed in brick and has a flat built-up roof.Smaller additions and northeastern corner of the original building.It is octagonal in plan and Located in the southeastern corner of the present Port Columbus is the Old feature the same window openings and decorative brickwork.

The most notable along the cornice line.A plaque next to the entrance reads:Port three stories in height.The third level is glass enclosed and is topped The building is strictly functional in design.It is located close to navigation of the air July 8,1929.The east and north elevations AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE SCULPTURE _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1929 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE the earliest airport facilities in the country. It achieved early Old Port Columbus remains as a reminder of Columbus' major contribution 1700-1799 1500-1599 COMMERCE ART INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW PERIOD ARCHITECTURE THEATER AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MILITARY _COMMUNICATIONS RELIGION INDUSTRY MUSIC XTRANSPORTATION significance in the history of American air transportation.

_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LITERATURE to American air transportation. _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Port Columbus was the first transfer point in the westbound transcontinental schedule was made possible. _EDUCATION _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _PHILOSOPHY _CONSERVATION The terminal was replaced by the new Port Columbus in 1958.It is used _ECONOMICS July 8,1929 with the departure of the first planes City of Columbus and _1600-1699 now for office and by small aircraft operations.

- ENGINEERING Transcontinental Air Transport,(later became TWA) and the Santa Fe -1400-1499 _1800-1899 X1900- passenger service which was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, another train to Clovis New Mexico and completed the journey with a TAT dedication.This arrangement lasted for two years when an all air When constructed in 1929, the Old Port Columbus Air Terminal Tower was among MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Kitchen, Judith and Samuelsom Robert. Architecture: Columbus. Architects, 1976.

LO GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1 acre QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 14,42,7780J VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER (614) 228-2663 CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 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 O0 KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 CODE DATE COUNTY ORGANIZATION NORTHING LOCAL Columbus 4/78 Mid-ohio Regional Planning Commission Nancy Recchie Foundation of the Columbus Chapter of the American Institute of Architecs UTM REFERENCES Reynoldsburg ZONE EASTING NATIONAL X 5l4 South High Street go north 200';go east 400';then go south 200' to the point ofbeginning CHIEF-OF-REGISTRATION TELEPHONE ZONE ATTEST: hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the Beginning at a point on the north side of Fifth Avenue approximately UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED APR 11 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER Amendment to Section # 7 Although a number of additions have been made to the control tower, they are easily identifiable, and if removed the original building would remain intact.

Most im- portantly however, the tower structure itself, which is the most significant portion of the complex, is virtually unchanged from its original construction. Because of this the tower still conveys the feeling of an airport faciclity with its highly distinctive tower, and remains a highly significant segment of the country's early Following the lead of the Ford-Stout Airlines in 1926, a large number of comercial transcontinental transportation route using the airways become a reality. See: Welman A. Shrader, Fifty Years of Flight: A Chronicle of the Aviation Industry in America, 1903-1953 (Cleveland, O.: Eaton Corporation, 1953). PAGE FHR-8-300A commercial aviation history. (11/78) DATE ENTERED airlines began to carry mail services.Not until late 1927did regular passenger trips.

Not until 1929 and the construction of the Columbus terminal did the concept UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE JUN 1 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLA CES DATE ENTERED INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER said that they pre-date 1958 when the traffic control operations were removed from is still clearly visible from three of the four elevations. The buff coloring and size of the original exterior building materials contrast sharply with the concrete block additions (which on the east and north sides is only a single story), and helps on the National Register.

PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) FOR HCRS USE ONLY Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower, Columbus, Franklin Cunty, Ohio Consultation with the airport commissioner and spot checks in the newspapers revealed the original block itself, and its most distinctive feature, the octagonal control tower with sawtooth crenelations, is still completely intact and highly visible. that no records are available to date the additions on the Tower. It can only be "Integrity" this building.

The original rectangular two-story buff brick structure, however, APR 11 1979 Franklin County, Ohio ORIGINAL BUILDING 2 STORY 1929 ADDITION REGISTER Not to scale RECEIVED NATIONAL OLD PORT COLUMBUS AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER NR 3/79 1 STORY JUL 2 6 1979 Inventory _ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF JUL 2 6 1979 Send-back - KEEPER OTHER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN Photos Review 7.24.79 Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service CONTROL 3ad Contral 9-4-79 TECHNICAL FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIOEP. 19 1978 Old Port Columbus, Airport Control 420 E. Fifth Ave. April, 1978 JUL 2 6 1979 Tower Nancy Recchie DOE Facade (south elevation) 420 E. Fifth Ave.

April, 1978 L 2 6 1979 runway Tower Nancy Recchie Old Port Columbus Airport Control View of control tower from the DOE Columbus, Ohio FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIOSEP 19 1978 514 S. High St. SEP 19 1978 FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO 420 E. Fifth Ave. April, 1978 JUL 2 6 1979 Tower facing east Nancy Recchie Old Port Columbus Airport Control DOE View of control tower from the roof, Photo# 30f3 Airport Control Tower REYNOLDSBURG QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REYNOLDSBURG, OHIO ROAD CLASSIFICATION UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 8.2° 45 CONTROL TOWER OLD PORT COLUMBUS AIRPORT June 4, 1979 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper National Register of Historic Places Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Department of the Interior 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20243 Dear Dr.

Murtagh: Enclosed are two nominations returned by your staff for additional Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower, Franklin County Gayer, Jacob, House, Medina County Please expedite the Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower nomination, them with the National Register listing. Thomas H. Smith State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society THS :cw Sincerely, enclosures RECEIVED information: NATIONAL REGISTER Ohio Historic Preservation Office for 50 celebrations are being planned and they would like to coordinate JUL26 1979 Barker, Judge Joseph, Jr., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable Charles A. Vanik Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Samuel L. Divine Mr. Richard Leverty, Colurbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

STATE Ironton Location Cuyahoga County Washington County Director Marquart-Mercer Farm Name Corps of Engineers Lawrence County Springfield vicinity Date Entered Honorable John Glenn The Ohio Historical Society Clark County Columbus Franklin County Rankin Historic District Honorable Clarence Miller Also Notified Newport vicinity Honorable Clarence J. Brown Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer Cleveland Heighits Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower East Cleveland District 9 School Byers/bjr now, to make way for revival of activity in the autumn." Recession? It wouldn't last if it came. Wichita and Waynoka, wherever that June 2, 1979 My brochure tells me about it: "You In the Clouds n days nearer each other." The plane will would probably last a century. hurtle along at 100 miles an hour. A At 6:05 p.m.

on Sunday, June 23, 1929, the newly christened "Airway Limited" terminus at 7:55 a.m. next day (at the tunneled out of Pennsylvania Station, end of a canopied walkway from the New York City, on track 15, and I Pullman) stood our aircraft, a Ford Tri- So now it is next morning. We have motor - the famous Tin Goose. I stood bounced down and up, made a Pony in awe. It wasn't the size (78 feet, wing- Express jump to a Pullman hitched to the half as exciting. I had ticket number one tip to wing-tip) but the corrugated metal Santa Fe express at Waynoka, rolled all sides; they looked like the top off a barn. night to Clovis, and now here we are in the air again, the second day. There was fog briefly after Indianapolis and the seats, all 10 of them. There were five pilot brought us down to tree-top level; half, to 48 hours.

Price: $351.94 one wicker seats on a side, with a narrow the cattle broke and ran on one farm, way. And there would be a lavatory on center aisle. Shoulders and heads of two the plane, the brochure said pilots appeared above the half-partition the pasture after us. The brochure says: In the parlor car as we rumbled across New Jersey I opened the New York Times. induces sleep." I slide open the window inevitable first quip, "Where are the but shut it quick. More cotton, please. parachutes?" With an appreciative grin covering Commander Richard E. Byrd at at the witticism, he explained that the degree heat at Winslow, this second day, Little America; Walter Duranty from motors, and that even with only one it of St. James's at his first reception by not could make a "safe gradual downward miles. The courier confides that the wearing silk knee breeches.

The Anti- glide." It was conditionally reassuring. pilot's salary is $12,000. Wow. Mine is "Clear!" shouted the uniformed cap- S4680, but 1 made S943.50 last year in outside stuff, and now look at those stocks! We are all in the market, it turns out. We yell quotations across the aisle. But Senate majority leader Jim Watson I turned to the stocks. I had 30 shares Winds, Niagara - 100; Ford Trimotor - ment buying has been discovered. Enjoy of GM after the split. It was about all I 110. The courier brought a tray of now; pay later. Outstanding consumer debt is rather startling: $150 billion, selling at 187 when John J. Raskob sailed My seat is number two. The ceiling is for Europe in March. He told reporters it just within reach. Outside of my sliding would reach 225. It reached that in a window is an egg-shaped engine with all General Electric had just risen from 295 to 324.

I was getting rich. Hoover Boom followed Coolidge Boom. Nothing could stop it. On the financial page, though, takeoff. I watch the big black tire. The permanent peace by isolating ourselves; TRB Amendment." Coolidge's. and I saw an angry dog streaking across desert-the tracks coiling ahead for Saloon League picked next Sunday to Richard Ouhlahan from Washington on Today we shall touch down at In- the Guaranty Trust Survey said that We come down into simmering 106- pressurized cabin, to Los Angeles at It is true the farmers are in bad shape. then climb up again for the mountains. in the first party of invited passengers wondered if any young reporter 50 blocks, symbol of railway dominance, cut the time across the United States in Dawes getting ready to stun the Court plane could sustain flight with only two years hence would have an assignment could do anything.

Our party filled the the new naval pact; Russel Owen At the Port Columbus, Ohio airport The drone of the motors frequently week. Now it was split and I loved it. We see a train crawling over the sleep on the train at night) that would sion" was due. "Better it should arrive It was an electric time: a sense of is-Oklahoma, I think. The new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc eer's hand on the throttle, events like Planes can't fly at night, of course, and time; the thrust of free enterprise. Back the fastest coast-to-coast rail service is in Manhattan the Woolworth building about 80 hours, with a change at (792 feet) was challenged by the ascend- Chicago. So the TAT shrinks the nation ing Chrysler Building (1046) and the "dirigible masts"). And the Pennsylvania have crossed the continent in 48 hours.

Station itself, covering four square It brings Atlantic and Pacific cities two on the TAT air-train service (fly by day, and a uniformed Moscow; and Ambassador Charles of its gigantic Pratt and Whitney back Hoover on law enforcement. The turned, then the second, then all three; Wanamaker's had crepe frocks for $18 we bounced over to the warm-up area/ and Brill Brothers Palm Beach suits for and he gave them the gun. Noise? An $16.50. An editorial praised the presi- dent, now in office four months, for prepared later these comparative decibel says the new Smoot-Hawley tariff will counts: business office-60; Lexington fix that "within 30 days." People back Avenue Express-100; Cave of the home are borrowing to get rich. Install- had except for 12 GE. The GM had been 5:52 p.m. Pacific time. Another vast propeller a haze. The pitch rises.

Now somebody shoots a Very pistol, its green television - and now this. What a year; no nation dares attack us, we have won a second or two. Then it takes another nearly, if not quite, the highest levels in boom of all time! They will remember us their history" and that a "trade reces- in 1929, I guess, 50 years hence. "courier," who was ready for the NATIONAL fireball arc signaling the all-clear for wheel jumps a tuft and stays suspended chewing gum and cotton wads. have the dad-blamedest stock market requested to observe the Prohibition hop and this time doesn't come down. Over the mountains without limitless possibilities, the Great Engin- its valves tapping like mad and the If they could make that stuff fly they has airports every 250 miles or so. this pioneer TAT air-train service all the We are as high as the Eiffel Tower.

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12)SOURCE of NOMINATION O deteriorated Daltered Doriginal site Oruinsi 9O NOT INTACT-O - Unknown SO UNKNOWN-6 -unexcavated ACCESS - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 'first'O ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 CART-5 - EDUCATION-10 O INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 TRANSPORTATION - 25 3functions Nlandscape architect/ garden designer: date 049 Franklin Columbus Midwest ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 FEDERAL artisan: ADMINISTRATOR STATE major alterations: INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: builder/contractor: EVENTS: ENTERTAINMENT-26 vicinity of CURRENTLY: interior decorator: artist: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: COMMERCE-6 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION URBAN PLANWING-31 historic events: Dunexposed reviewers initials Dfeatures: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP architectural style(s): SAVED?

YES Dexcellent GNPS REGION: Omoved @engineer: ZCO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : 'only' D IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED. NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE YES-Unrestricted Dfair NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET NAMES give role & date architeot: master builder: Dgood

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An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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