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Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Logan City Hall

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,955 words across 13 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 80003101, 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.

United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms and/or common Bowen House street & number 101 E. Main Street - not for publication - vicinity of - county X state * public _ unoccupied -district _ agriculture -building(s) _ commercial -park _ work in progress - private residence .religious _ in process - yes: restricted *government . scientific X yes: unrestricted - military Recorder's office, Hocking County Courthouse courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. street & number has this property been determined elegible? - yes _ local 1976 073 Logan 039 Columbus both Hocking Category date museum Accessible code Ownership entertainment site educational structure industrial Status historic object 10th private Ohio 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 2.

Location congressional district title received Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form being considered 1. Name Ohio Historic Inventory 3. Classification 5. Location of Legal Description National Register of Historic Places 4. Owner of Property FHR8300 (1178) Logan City Hall Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use City of Logan city, town date entered EB | | 1980 . transportation X no depository for survey records Ohio Historic Preservation Office other: _excellent - deteriorated _ unaltered X original site * good X altered - fair Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

There are 5 side bays and 3 front bays with 2/2 windows. Slate gabled roof with a triangular pediment at gable end and 3 part entablature (box cornice, soffitt, and what may have originally been a recessed porch and balcony in the center of the east elevation. moved date Condition ruins unexposed 7. Description Check one House is rectangular in shape, common bond brick painted white, with black shutters. architrave). Windows have plain lug sills and stone lintel heads. Mulberry Street entrance in west elevation has a triangular pediment, recessed panel trim with 6 but one may have been originally a window. There is wide horizontal siding over 8.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric . science .agriculture . literature _ sculpture - music exploration/settlement - - philosophy - politics/government _transportation .other (specify) Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) The Logan City Hall is significant as the embodiment of a distinctive Ohio archi- relatively early in the 19th century, but it had no real stimulus for growth until most rapid and sizeable expansion of the community however followed the arrival of are predominately of the Italianate and Queen Anne styles of the late 19th century. Relatively few buildings from the earlier canal era remain, particularly in the pediment and three-part entablature, is therefore an important manifestation of an earlier segment of the town's heritage. The building was constructed in 1853 as a residence and office for Dr. Edgar T. Brown, the son-in-law of the town's first physician, Dr. Joseph Whipple. Dr. Brown died Logan's earliest banking institutions, and the city treasurer for over 20 years.

The building was purchased by the Logan Village Council in 1881 to house the municipal service director, water and sewer department, auditor, and council chambers. communications 1853 commerce 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 1600-1699 theater Builder/Architect education conservation engineering archeology-historic industry humanitarian Period social/ 1900- law Specific dates _invention tectural type and for what it represents in the community.Logan was platted _economics X_1800-1899 military -art - archeology-prehistoric community planning _ landscape architecture - religion .architecture railroad lines in 1868. As a result, the historic buildings remaining in Logan the Hocking Canal connected it with the main Ohio and Erie Canal in 1840.

The in 1855,and the property remained in the hands of his widow until 1873 when it was Recorder's Office, Probate Court Office and Auditor's Office, Hocking Co. Courthouse, Logan,O. Council minutes, Mayor's Office, Municipal Building, Logan, Ohio. History of Hocking Valley. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1883. Quadrangle name Quadrangle scale UMT References Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries _ State Mrs. Helen Mowrey and David Simmons date June 2, 1979 street & numberI-71 & 17th Avenue city or town 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 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 Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature -Chiet ol Regletratton county code date Zone Easting Northing Columbus national telephone Attest: 1:24000 10.

The rest of the file

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

Geographical Data UTM NOT VERIFIED 11. Form Prepared By Keeper of the National Register 9. Major Bibliographical References name/title For HCRS use only Hocking Sentinel, January 25, 1883; March 13, 1884. As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 Wee.

10,19>9 I herely certify that this property is iacluded in the National Register GPO 938 835 Logan Ohio Historic Preservation Office organization X_ local Working Number /2-28,29, 30 15 Photos - Inventory - Send-back _ KEEPER OTHER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Review Re-submit HISTORIAN Maps Property BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up State Federal Register Entry 2-3-8 2.4.80 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN MUNICIPAL BUILD NG 1) Logan City Hall 2) Logan, Ohio 4) 4/79 5) SORHAPO, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 7) Photo # 1 DEC 2 8 1979 3) Lois Rock MUNICIPAL BUILDING OUR NEED-O 2) Logan, Ohio 4) 4/79 5) SORHAPO, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio DEC 2 8 1979 6) East side and North facade, camera facing SW 3) Lois Rock 1) Logan City Halll - Bowen Home LOGAN QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LOGAN, OHIO 4377400 UTM References (Logan City Hall) Zone-1Y Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES STATE OF OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Easting- 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OHIO Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Honorable Clarence E. Miller Mr. David Brook Columbus, Ohio 43211 2/13/80 Logan Byers/bjr Location Name Logan City Hall The Ohio Historical Society Hocking County Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Also Notified Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER FEB I1 1980 1522 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 December 12, 1980 Mr. Michael Budarz Midwestern Regional Office 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite A-1630 Chicago, Illinois 60604 Dear Mr.

Budarz: We have received your letter of November 6, 1980, in which you determined that the proposed weatherization project would have have no adverse effect on the Hocking County Courthouse and the Logan City Hall, Logan, Ohio, and the Pomeroy Municipal Building, Pomeroy, Ohio, properties Director objects to your determination because final plans and speci- fications have not been submitted for review. Historic Preservation Officer for review and approval. If you agree to this condition, please sign on the concurrence line to your determination of no adverse effect.

In accordance with Section 800.9 of the Council's regulations, a copy of your determination of no adverse effect, along with supporting documen- tation and this concurrence, should be included in any assessment or Environmental Policy Act and should be included in your records as evidence of your compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Historic Advisory Preservation Council On Economic Development Administration Acting Regional Environmental Officer following condition is met. Preservation Act and the Council's regulations. EDA will submit final plans and specifications to the Ohio State Part 8oo),the Executive Director will withdraw this objection if the Pursuant to Section 800.6(a)(2)of the CFR your determination and the Executive Director will withdraw his objection Jordan E. Tannenbaum I concur: Sincerely, (Date) Thank you for your cooperation.

of Project Review Chief,Eastern Division By RUTH STUMP replacing the front porch on seriously considering reverting trance to this Logan landmark. arrived at last week by coun- Municipal Building, in- Renovation of the structure years. Plans for such a project received state approval several Hand was advised recently that those plans could still be used. proposed a number of minor computer now located in the Water Department office to a more central location, and - Messenger Photo by Ruth S doors exits only. Presently these are the main entrances to the auditor's office, the Water Office and the office of the be submitted to the state decide if the changes can be photo above, as the main plans with entrance. The 1923 postcard The council chambers would be moved from the first floor residence by Dr.

Joseph council chambers, would also Whipple, one of the town's first physicians, the struc- floor. This would leave much ture was later sold to the needed space available for ex- city. The Logan Library once occupied the second floor. Mrs. Virginia Gano, auditor, reported at the last council meeting that records are now being stored on the floor for If possible, specifications The project has the app of Council President i phases, one for work on the used as a place to store old city Frey, who described i It was pointed out that the could also be relocated in the work required for the third remodeled Municipal Building. -on the main floor. He said the third floor will Mayor Hand, who said tr floor could be done later by a Space now is rented a block building is "not being us local contractor and need. not away at a cost of $60 per advantage.

It is long ove If the alterations can be easi- Gerald Emerick of Columbus, vice and Council Panel Proposes Changes at City Building modifications members. Logan Eyes Renovation tion. director. month. Logan Correspondent Committee members have These minor alterations will cil's building committee and again using the door off proposed for Logan's cluding moving of council Unless something unf specifications for the renova- alterations have been made without altering the whichever is less expensive. Mulberry. Built as a building's structure enough to below shows the original making both the Main Street members are not advocating changes including moving the building's front porch on This and other changes were be relocated to the second panding the auditor's office. office to the second floor, chambers and the mayor's has been discussed for many renovation lack of adequate space.

Mulberry Street, right in Street door as the main en- The Messenger, Athens, Ohio Sun.,Feb. 4, 1979 -Page LOGAN - While council REMODELING - Several - building inspector, who will require reapproval of the to the second. The mayor's the third floor of the building will be presented in two Thecity incometax office upstairs, and another for work records and related items. The committee decided to accept the architect's offer to be a part of the overall project. provide specifications and have chimney removed and the roof the option of paying a lump repaired. He argued that a something for our p ly made, then the architect, sum of $250 for specifications number of these repairs are recommendations and findings " facilities." or paying the architect $22 per necessary just for good insula- will be submitted at the next tion for the rest of the building. City Council meeting Feb. 13.

arises, the next step w He feels the money spent in Funds were set aside last year legislation authorizing th Tom Grey, service and safety for the project and added funds director, suggested council would be less expensive than were included in the 1979 ap- members consider remodeling propriations. records. BUILDING specitically for housing years ago,and Mayor Evans establishing this storage area hour to draw them up, The Building Commitee's office, which now leads off "close to my heart, will be requested to make advertise for bids fc Bubiie Library