Nomination for Black-Elliott Block

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED MAR 2 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 8 1979 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Zanesville, Ohio - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X.BUILDING(S) BOTH -WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED X YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY OH 43701 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 1977 LOCATION CODE 119 HISTORIC COURTHOUSE OBJECT DATE NAME STATE COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION INDUSTRIAL GOVERNMENT ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION SCIENTIFIC RELIGIOUS DISTRICT MILITARY PARK STATUS PUBLIC STRUCTURE EDUCATIONAL Muskingum County Court House X_COMMERCIAL OTHER: Jupiter Building XPRIVATE BLACK-ELLIOTT BLOCK Ohio Historic Inventory Muskinqum Ohio Historical Center Wallace E. Trout 525 Main Street fo-Clarence Miller Fourth and Main Streets - UNOCCUPIED Columbus, Ohio 795 Orchard Hill Road -SITE _FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY LOCAL MUSEUM AGRICULTURE Ohio TITLE 7 DESCRIPTION _MOVED DATE. FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

ed for use as one large storeroom, although the original cast iron columns and place to the facade in the building's long life. break the plane of the middle portion of each story with three windows located over-one configuration. The most distinctive feature of the Black-Elliott Block serves to provide a sense of visual continuity to the building, as well as as well as at the cornice level. The lintels are enhanced by incised stylized the facade is capped with an elaborate, bracketed entablature which projects con- crowning each pilaster. Currently the facade, from the top of the storefront to the cornice, is the elements, also tends to homogenize the polychrome of the red brick and lighter CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED applied trim.

XALTERED storerooms on its first story with various offices on the second and third.During X_ORIGINAL SITE CHECK ONE capitols were left intact and remain today.This alteration (probably also in- The entire entablature is capped with amolded corona broken by more floral motifs The Black-Elliott Block is a three-story commercial building built of brick in the outer bays.Two forms of arch are employed in the fenestration scheme of -DETERIORATED volving the removal of a cast iron storefront) is the only change to have taken floral patterns, more lavish in the center of the facade than at the outer reaches. X GOOD decorated with stylized fleurs-de-lis patterns between the second and third story the building: round arches, located only on the thrid story; and flat-topped arches, divide the facade into the above-mentioned three sections.

These pilasters are However, the center windows on the outer sections do feature the floral motif which DATE The upper stories are organized into three vertical sections.Four windows panels with concave rounded corners.The center panel on the outer bays and is its decorative ornamentation. This ornamentation, applied to the facade, springs from the extrados of the crown of the round arches.All lintels are set bearing-walls laid ona sandstone foundation.It originally contained two _RUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

manis a prime example of the style, so prevalent in nineteenth-century commercial It was built under the ownership of Peter Black and Henry Elliott, prominent sible for the founding of the First National Bank and the construction, among others, a 36' frontage in the building, while Elliott held a 15' section, according to an a subsidiary of Kresge, opened here in 1916. In 1977 the Jupiter Store, another chrome which sets this style apart from other Italianate variations. 1400-1499 1500-1599 areas.

X1800-1899 SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD LAW THEATER AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT COMMUNICATIONS unknown 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE LITERATURE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT MILITARY _CONSERVATION _TRANSPORTATION _PREHISTORIC architecture in the city.In addition to its being the last of its kind, it re- probably the foremost entrepreneur of the city during his lifetime and was respon- _RELIGION _PHILOSOPHY years later.An early account of the business ventures of Peter Black makes reference _EDUCATION of High Victorian Italianate architecture, embodying the sense of detail and poly- _SCIENCE _COMMERCE _1600-1699 -SCULPTURE Zanesvillebusinessmen of the latter half of the century.Black (l8l9-l878) was present owner purchased the entire western portion remained in the he founded in 1885and was.operating at the time of his death fourteen the early days of its life.

_1900- - MUSIC Kresge affiliate, closed its doors after a long tenancy in the building. Until the of the Clarendon Hotel. and the nominated property. Black operated a business in 1890 plat of the downtown area. Elliott (1822-1899) was a Baltimore native who Zanesville as the only remaining example of High Victorian Italianate commercial The Black-Elliott Block is nominated for its significance to the city of the building for a time until a short-lived parternership was dissolved.Heowned to the"Black-Elliott it can be determined that it was thus known during _INVENTION

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA - QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION of 66' on the north side of Main Street, between Sewer Alley and Sixth Street. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David L. Taylor, Regional Historic Preservation Officer 13 September, 1978 STREET & NUMBER 1425 Newark Road 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 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 ~KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OP-REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 614-453-0762 TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION DATE COUNTY NORTHING CODE NATIONAL Ohio University-Zanesville UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING Parts of Lots14,15,and 16 of Square 15 of the City of a frontage LOCAL _X Peter Black obituary, Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), July 7, 1978. Henry Elliott obituary, Daily Courier (Zanesville, Ohio), February 15, 1899.

QUADRANGLE NAME Zanesville, Ohio, West Zanesville, OH 43701 ZONE ATTEST:C 014.0.0 Inventory _ Send-back - 8 1979 Re-submit - OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered KEEPER HAER Maps CONTROL TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Review MAY Photos United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF 79001914 Working Number 3.21. 79.63.6 4.27.79 Photo by David L. Taylor, University, Zanesville, Ohio MAR 2 1 1979 BLACK-ELLIOTT BLOCK View of cornice (detail) Negative MUS-39-l-l, filed at Ohio MAY Kitchen Country MAR 21 Photo by David I. Taylor, 7/78 Negative MUS-38-7-3, filed at Ohio University, Zanesville, Ohio altered storefront.

272 BLACK-ELLIOTT BLOCK Zanesville, Ohio, maskingum"MAY original second and third stories & UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ZANESVILLE WEST QUADRANGLE OHIO-MUSKINGUM CO ROAD CLASSIFICATION RECEIVED STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE OHIO Day, Erastus, House Tappan, Judge Abraham, House Williams, Di. Issac Elmer, House and Office St. Marys Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

5/11/79 Location Byers/bjr Cuyahoga County Lakewood Name Director Unionville Sidney Auglaize County Lake County Honorable Tennyson Guyer Date Entered Zanesville The Ohio Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer Muskingum County Black-Elliott Block Also Notified Shelby County Honorable J. William Stanton Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Clarence E. Miller Fulton Farm Bend Farm)