Nomination for Bucyrus Mausoleum

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SEP 2T 1930 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common 2. Location city, town - vicinity of - county - - public - unoccupied - agriculture x building(s) X private - park work in progress - private residence .site . religious in process -yes: unrestricted . government x other: mausoleum 4. Owner of Property The Bucyrus Mausoleum Association of Bucyrus, Ohio street & number Ohio 44820 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has this property been determined elegible?

- yes - local depository for survey records 039 both entertainment transportation Category Accessible Tiffin Crawford educational Bucyrus museum code date Status Ownership commercial structure industrial historic district Bucyrus Mausoleum being considered object Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form date entered scientific Ohio Ohio Historic Inventory Crawford County Courthouse congressional district 4th-Tennyson Guyer title National Register of Historic Places Heidelberg College Historic Preservation Office Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service February 1980 Present Use FHR8300 (1178) Type all entries-complete applicable sections For HCRS use only 3. Classification United States Department of the Interior street & number South side of Southern Ave. between Lavina & Martha Aves.

not for publication 112 East Mansfield Street military -x-state - federal x state _ excellent X unaltered X original site _moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

to be windows but were never designed to have glass, as there are coffins behind on both sides of the aisles, forming a center section that can be reached from either has been damaged by some roof leakage in a few spots. 7. Description Condition ruins unexposed fair building are recessed panels with pilasters separating them to continue the effect It was originally in the midst of a farming area, but this has been developed with painted with a garland design, and there are murals above the coffins at the north three-part leaded glass transom with a stained glass window that does swing open in the destroyed or stolen have been replaced.The windows on the south, east, and west Very few changes have been made in the building; some marble slabs that were "MCMxv" carved in the center as the date stone.

Built in 1915,the Bucyrus Mausoleum is a large Neo-Classical Revival style structure with a barrel vaulted concrete roof over the center of the building (center Check one used to lift coffins up to the top rows of crypts. The mausoleum is on the south side of Southern Avenue across from Oakwood Cemetery. The portico on the north side consists of four pairsof fluted Roman Doric of the columns on the north side. The walls of the building are also of concrete and are faced with limestone The small rectangular glass brick windows building is facedwith marble, with marble slabs on the crypts, marble pillars & columns with slabs on the exterior. The large slabs on the east, west, and south sides of the aisle. Coffins can also be placed in three rows at the south end of each, aisle and Roman Doric capitäls at the north end, and a marble floor.

The plaster ceiling is end of the east and west aisles. The murals show five women in classical costumes. entrance to prevent vandalism to the leaded glass windows. The ceiling plaster date deteriorated The only equipment in the building includes the original hoist which is still The north side is faced with the large slabs on the east and west wings, but on the east, west, and south sides are above the coffin rows.The interior of the This is a monolithic poured concrete 2bays with rounded arched openings covered with limestone slabs.The bays appear center of the middle transom light.There are small windows on the east, west & south sides. them.The door itself is recessed as the center bay.It is a large double door building built by the Latchaw Brothers. in four rows at the north ends behind the arched fake windows.The south sections are recessed behind a small rounded arch.

Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ agriculture X architecture - military _ art - music . commerce - philosophy X 1900- _communications slabs and pilasters on the east, west, and south sides carry out the pattern of the north facade, with its ashlar limestone slabs and four pairs of fluted Roman Doric columns supporting a three-part entablature (with "MCMXV"), flat portico roof, and are covered with marble slabs, while the marble floor and classical motifs in the Association parallels that of the Fostoria Mausoleum Association until 1950. The preliminary meeting for the Bucyrus Mausoleum Association was held March 25, and the organization was incorporated August 31, 1916; the first annual meeting company was operating in at least three counties (Hancock, Sandusky, and Crawford).

and mausoleum, arousing increased pride in the building and increased efforts to keep the "right families" as part of the association, since many individuals prominent in 1600-1699 1800-1899 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 humanitarian education The transportation invention Period politics/government industry engineering Builder/Architect literature Specific dates science conservation social/ sculpture structure of the mausoleum builders and crypt-holders associations is an interesting garland designs on the plaster ceiling and murals add to the Neo-Classical Revival The Bucyrus Mausoleum is significant as an example of the Neo-Classical Revival law Brothers Modern Mausoleum Promotion and Construction Company, this building is larger exploration/settlement 1950,when Paul Auck and Ernest Pfleiderer decided to re-organize the association, in scale than the Fostoria Mausoleum which is already on the National Register of 8.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) the association from original owners' families and then re-sold by the association board, _economics raise more money from descendants of those interred, and take care of long-needed example of business promotion in the 19l0s, especially when one realizes that this since there are probably 300-400 crypts in the building. - other(specify) supposedly left an endowment of $l000 for the building left $2040 in Fostoria), _ archeology-prehistoric - community planning pediment over the entrance and does not have a gable tile roof with monitor, as that. i- and finished building the mausoleum in 1915. corporation on September 13, 1919.

As in Fostoria, crypt-holders were responsible Charles Forney Latchaw, bought the land where the mausoleum now sits from a farm and then turned it over to the crypt-holders' association to run as a non-profit The association continued to maintain the building and sell crypts until about 1915 religion They organized the mausoleum association landscape architecture for maintenance on the building and for selling unused crypts.The Latchaw Brothers limestone balustrade around the roof.The two interior aisles and the entry way one and is also significant for its construction because it is of monolithic concrete in Crawford County for further maintenance work.Crypts are still being sold back to one does.The Bucyrus one is probably two to three times larger than the Fostoria with a concrete barrel vault ceiling over most of the building.The limestone recessed endowment since 1950 and has received a $3500 grant from the John Q.

Shunk Foundation 9.

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Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By organization Bucyrus Mausoleum Association street & number P.O. Box 786 city or town Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 state Tiffin, Ohio 44883 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification X local - national GPO 938 835 code county Zone Northing Easting state date Bucyrus name/title Quadrangle name Heidelberg College Attest: UMT References For HCRS use only Regional Preservation Office Acreage of nominated property and Barb Howe/Regional Preservation Officer The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature Minutes and Records of Bucyrus Mausoleum Association.1914 to present. Ohio).Entered in Register 8-25-1978.

22 February 1980 Chief of Registration I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries less than l acre 419-448-2804 A parcel 200 feet by 147.5 feet, being in-lot 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 forthby the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. date 9/26/80 Keeper of the National Register ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED Verbal boundary description and justification National Register of Historic Places nomination for Fostoria Mausoleum (Hancock County, 5322 of Bucyrus;see attached annexation plat and boundaries.

angle scale 1:24000 telephone: Inventory - KEEPER OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps Send-back CONTROL HAER Re-submit TECHNICAL Review Photos Property HISTORIAN State United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF .3.81 SEP 27 4980 Entered Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 West Southern Ave., Bucyrus, Ohio SEP 27 1980 JUL Z 4 1980 southeast Photo number 1 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, February 1980 North and west sides of bldg.; camera facing Bucyrus Mausoleum (Crawford County) Barb Howe Ohio Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 JUL 2 4 1980 SEP 27 1980 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Photo number south February 1980 Barb Howe Bucyrus Mausoleum West Southern Aye., Bucyrus, OH (Crawford County) North (main) facade of mauseolum; camera facing Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 SEP 2T 1980 JUL 2 4 1980 Ohio Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, February 1980 Photo number 3 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Bucyrus Mausoleum Barb Howe West Southern Ave., Bucyrus, OH (Crawford County) Entry of mausoleum; camera pointing east Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 Photo number 4/6 JUL 2 4 1980 February 1980 West Southern Aye., Bucyrus, OH (Crawford County) Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Historic Preservation Office SEP271980 Bucyrus Mausoleum Barb Howe Entry area of mausoleum; camera facing south Ohio Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 West Southern Ave., Bucyrus, OH (Crawford County) SEP 2T 1980 JUL 2 4 1980 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Barb Howe Bucyrus Mausoleum Photo number 5 // February 1980 West aisle of mausoleum, showing crypts & mural at far end; camera facing north Regional Office: Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 JUL 2 4 1980 SEP 27 1980 southwest Ohio Historic Preservation Office Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Bucyrus Mausoleum February 1980 East and north sides of bldg., camera facing Photo number 6/e Barb Howe West Southern Ave., Bucyrus, OH (Crawford Co.) Ohio F DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUCYRUS, OHIO ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER SEP 27 1980 Sidney Bossler, Mareus, House Dayton Fire Station No.

14 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Dayton Zanesville STATE Name Location Schuter Carpenter Shop and House Montgomery County Adena Court Apartments Date Entered Church and Rectory Muskingum County Sidney Courthouse Square Historic District West Carrollton Shelby County Brownella Cottage and Grace Episcopal Bucyrus Mansoleum Also Notified Galion Crawford County McClelland, Harry S., House Bucyrus OHIO STATE OHIO SEP 27 1980 Summit County Honorable John H. Glenn, JI. Mr. David Brook Honorable Tony P. Hall Columbus, Ohio 43211 10-15-80 - For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Byers Location Name Akron Date Entered Honorable Douglas Applegate State Historic Preservation Officer Also Notified Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Honorable Tennyson Guyer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lisbon vicinity Honorable John M. Ashbrook Honorable John F. Seiberling Akron Rural Cemetery Buildings Honorable Clarence E. Miller The Ohio Historical Society Hostetter Inn Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Columbiana County