Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century hotel with a deep verandah across its front. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Hotel Central

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,043 words across 9 pages, filed in 1980. 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 80003012, 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.

Ohio Historical Center SEP 3 0 1991 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2411 September 26, 1991 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 associated with the Worthington Multiple Resource Area, Franklin County, Ohio. 1816, 1830/ 1811, 1819 1817/ 1816 1811-12/ 1814 1827/ 1837 80-3020J.R. Topping House/ 1868, 1880/ 1855, 1860 Richard W. Evans House 8-30/3 Jonathan Park House 1855/ 1860 S0- 3.7i Ladd Mattoon House/ 1820/ 1837-40 Mattoon, Woodrow House 1838/ 1818 1818 SOCIETY 614/297-2470 REGISTER Orange Johnson House/ HISTORICAL 3-1443 NATIONAL no change Ohio Historic Preservation Office Aurora Buttles House Worthington Manufacturing Co. criteria application and areas of significance.
National Park Service This request is being made in light of new information that has recently St-3o Travis Scott House/ Gilbert House been submitted.This information does not effect the listed boundaries, Listed Name/ New Name Dear Carol: Old Construction Date/ New Date Buttles,-Johnson House Department of the Interior E0-30u7Sidney Brown House/ I am writing to request name and date changes for seventeen (17) nominations Boarding House, Ms. Carol Shull Page 2 September 26, 1991 Worthington Public Green/ 1829/ 1808 listed date "eclectic"/1854, 1867, 1889 c. 1860/ 1869 80-35 L/Hiram, Wilcox House/ 1850/ 1867 Gilbert, Wilcox House 80-30L Potter Wright House c. 1835/ 1818 c. 1850, 1885/ 1857-9, 1883 W.
Ray Luce 80-3010 Lewis Noble House nrohp/trans.rev no change Worthington Public Square Principal's Cottage Sign of the Sun/ Sincerely, Kilbourn Commercial Building State Historic Preservation Officer WRL/ jw:bms 80-3ou Cyrus Fay House/ Lucy Hart House C.1845/1820,1871 Hotel Central 80-30/c Bishop Noble House/ If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact me. President's House/ NP8 Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number _ 1. Bishop-Noble House mame - 80003008 - 8000 3012 9. President's House, Worthington 15. Worthington Manufacturing Company =73,0 01446 17.
Wright, Potter, House Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Page National Park Service Worthington MRA 80003007 United States Department of the Interlor 80003024 Principal's Cozrase BUTTLUSAJUHNSON, HOUSe : 80003018 Kilbourne House-name Boardinghouse OHIO MATToONWODROW.HOUSG NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 80003012 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: N PERIOD: COMMENT WAIVER: N 9/30/91 DATE 11/14/91 RETURN DISCIPLINE REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE RECEIVED: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: APPEAL: N N SLR DRAFT: N DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N ACCEPT NATIONAL: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _architectural classification _summary paragraph _applicable criteria relationship of integrity to significance ] _justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _verbal boundary description ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps current FUNCTION OTHER DESCRIPTION materials context acreage clarity historic completeness Builder/Architect Date BIBLIOGRAPHY CLASSIFICATION SIGNIFICANCE Period Phone descriptive text Specific dates boundary justification USGS maps Signed relating significance to the resource Areas of Significance--Check and justify below _count justification of areas checked Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

one paragraph) UTMS OTHER COMMENTS _photographs _presentation FEB 2 7 1980 OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 2. County 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 3 29. Basement? Yes x 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, if apparent Side 7 Hotel & Inn 34. Wall Treatment (painted) 22. Present Use 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition $ Private X Altered 8 9. Coordinates in #42) 24. Owner's Name & Address, Moved O 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference Daryl Wolf, Trust Office Preservation Site D Structure U Building X1 Object O 26. Loca!
Contact Person or Organization 39. Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included Part of Estab. Yes District Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and 15' x 100' 42. Further Description of Important Features vith classical columns and three story central balcony topped by hipped nansard roof the main feature of the facade. 43. History and Significance it represents the eclectism of the turn-of-the century with the classically detailed porch ind unusual hipped mansard. It is also important for its historical associations as an inn 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings 15. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 'ersonal Knowledge & Observation J. & C Ellingwood 47. Organization 48. Date 10-79 7-75 Today Franklin Register? Front Good Exterior Underway? Northing Easting Long. Zone Worth. Brick Fair Lat.
Mansard-slate Eclectic Frontage on Road FRA-2146-3 Common Bond (Explain if known Corbin Trust Hotel Central Interior Ohio Historical Center Ohio Historic Preservation Office Restaurant & Shops Architecture-lgth Century significant as an example of the changing architectural tastes during the l9th Gentury. .rchitecture: Columbus 35. Plan Shape L-shaped Low Stone Public Road? New England & High Streets serving the commerce and traffic engendered by the Columbus-Sandusky Turnpike (High Street) cap,.and porches added ca.1900 after a major fire destroyed original rear in 1860s.:Current third story mansard roof with hipped and gable Old Worthington Inn Eligible? Ind as a place of considerable social activities and entertainment from the 1830s to the preset Old Worth. Assoc. Inn Worth, His, Society Ohio National Bank,155 E. Broad Worth. Historical Society No O 15.
Name of Established District Front portion erected in 1830s as 5-bay, 2 story inn. Enlarged to the 49. Revision Date(s) 25. Open to sable roof.Top floor designed to serve asa ballroom.Front porch Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Re-submit - CONTROL OTHER KEEPER Entered HAER Working Number ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Maps TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Review BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 4.16.80 2.3.81 2-27-80 612 accept Photographer: David Simmons, 1978 FEB 2 7 1980 northwest Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Worthington Multiple Resource Area, 16. view of Hotel Central, looking Franklin County, Ohio Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000658 Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Please refer to the map in the

What happened here

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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