MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Fraunfelter, E.E. and W.E. Shuemaker, The First Directory of the Village of Ashville. Ashville, Ohio, 1896. Sherman, J. and I.W. Drew, Atlas of Pickaway County, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pa., C.O. Titus, 1871. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Steiner, Rowlee, A Review of Columbus Railroads, unpublished, 19 ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_ less than one UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Streets move east 120'; go south 76'; go west 85'; go"north 10"; go west '35'; go north 66' to, the point of beginning. 11 FORM PREPARED BY Robert L.
Hines/Nancy Recchie, Regional Preservation Officer STREET & NUMBER 514 South High Street CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - 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 DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 DATE NORTHING COUNTY TELEPHONE CODE STATE Columbus EASTING 11/77 NAME/TITLE ATTEST: Ohio Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission ORGANIZATION (614)228-2663 Van Cleaf, Aaron, History of Pitkaway County, Ohio, Chicago, III., Biographical LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES ZONE 14:319.7176101 Photos - Inventory - OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered KEEPER HAER HISTORIAN CONTROL Review TECHNICAL National Register Write-up Maps BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Re-submit 212.80 12178 IN T:2106- 74 State Working Number9.
19. 78. 412 / Send-back 12,8, 28 STATE Ohia UTM Reference(s) : Thank you for your attention to the above items. Description: Certification: Date: Bibliography: IS RESUBMITTED. Photographic Coverage: Verbal Boundary Description: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office fc Map Coverage: Chief, Branch of Registration clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATI on the National Register staff, telephone 202 B43-l40 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.8 Geographical Data -- Acreage: Form No.
10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEP 19 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON Ashville Norfolk & Western Station STREET & NUMBER Corner of Madison and Cromley Street, N & W Railroad NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6 -- William H. Harsha - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE PRIVATE X WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION - IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED XOTHER: future OWNER OF PROPERTY (Max Marion, President, Rd. 1, Ashville, Ohio 43103) 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 129 2/19/76 DATE CODE UNOCCUPIED OBJECT Ashville STATE HISTORIC COUNTY LOCATION ACCESSIBLE DISTRICT TITLE TRANSPORTATION SCIENTIFIC Circleville OWNERSHIP ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY RECEIVED EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM CLASSIFICATION COMMERCIAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT Ohio PARK INDUSTRIAL PH0684694 STRUCTURE Pickaway STATUS Ohio Historical Inventory NAME XPUBLIC COURTHOUSE. Court Street Pickaway County Courthouse DATE ENTERED XBUILDING(S) Ashville Community Club Columbus, Ohio Ashville Depot, Scioto Valley Railroad herifage cenfer _RELIGIOUS FOR NPS USE ONLY -BOTH -SITE CITY, TOWN (Rev. 10-74) EB 25 1980 _FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY _LOCAL SURVEY RECORDS Ohio Historical Preservation Office 7 DESCRIPTION _ORIGINAL SITE X FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE long, narrow silhouette.
The building was threatened with destruction and was moved approximately 700 feet and placed on a CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED XALTERED UNALTERED decorative brackets. (originally wood piers on concrete pads). The board and batten wall surface is broken by double hung originally covered with tin, is now surfaced with composition shingles. The eaves are supported with the tower was probably removed at that time, although the projecting bay remains. The result is a new foundation.It is in the process of restoration by a local community group. 6over 6 windows, 6 light sash windows, single and double doors and a projecting bay.
The gable roof, The Ashville depot is a relatively simple small building which measures approximately 15 by 70 feet CHECK ONE The original building was rectangular in plan and measured approximately 15 by 50 feet with a projecting and is one story in height.Constructed of wood frame, the building rests on concrete block piers -RUINS bay and tower with round arched windows and conical roof.The building was enlarged in 1900 and GOOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE - CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE X ARCHITECTURE _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE with the outside world. The presence of the depot served to make this new community the Scioto Valley Railroad Company. resulted in a long, narrow silhouette which was characteristic of the N& W stations.
The rail- A group of citizens moved the depot and are in the process ofadapting the structure for community use. 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION LAW ECONOMICS EDUCATION THEATER RELIGION BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE LITERATURE MILITARY ART INDUSTRY SCULPTURE 1900- COMMERCE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _CONSERVATION _COMMUNICATIONS PHILOSOPHY XTRANSPORTATION _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN dominant town in the region.In addition, it may well be the only existing depot from the the railroad era:The arrival of the railroad stimulated a settlement where it crossed a major _PREHISTORIC After several earlier attempts, the third Scioto Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in -1400-1499 -1800-1899 The Ashville Depot is important for several reasons.
The town of Ashbille was born during -1600-1699 Norfolk & Western railroad in 1890.The enlargement and alteration of the Ashville Depot C.1900 country road.The depot quickly became a center of commercial and passenger activities The Ashville Depot was built at this time.The Scioto Valley Railroad was purchased by the 1874-75. Construction of a railroad from Portsmouth to Columbus was completed in 1876. -1500-1599 EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT road elimina ted passenger service in 1976, vacated the building and threateneddemolition. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Fraunfelter, E.E. and W2E? Shuemaker, The First Directory of the Village of Ashville. Ashville, Ohio, 1896. Sherman, J. and I.W. Drew, Atlas of Pickaway County, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pa., C.O. Titus, 1871.
Van Cleaf, Aaron, History of Pickaway County, Ohio, Chicago, II., Biographical 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Steiner, Rowlee, A Review of Columbus Railroads, unpublished, 195 ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one UTM REFERENCES NORTHING - VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION go north 66 to the/ point of beginning. STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE - Robert L.
Hines/Nancy Recchie, Regional Preservation Officer STREET & NUMBER 514 South High Street CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - 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 DIRECTOR. OFFICE-OF ABCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION GPO 892.
453 11/77 DATE CODE TELEPHONE COUNTY Columbus Ohio Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission ZONE EASTING Beginning at the southeast corner of.the intersection of Madison and Cromley (614)228-2663 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES LOCAL X Publishing Co, 1906, Pgr 124-132 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the DATE 2.20.00 ORGANIZATION ZONE Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FEB 1 2 1980 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Ashville Depot, Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio ing's integrity, particularly in light of its having been moved some700 feet from its original site along the N&W railroad tracks and due to the loss of its trackside tower and extension of its south end about 1900.
usable from the depot; the residential area of modest homes and tree-lined streets adjacent to the depot is still substantially the same in scale and appearance to that adjacent to the original site. Though the removal of the tower and lengthening of the building constitute a loss of original integrity, it must be noted that the depot is essentially the same as it was immediately after those c. 1900 alterations. It has had its present appearance for cant to its town and region as a depot of the Norfolk and Western Railway not of the undergone very little alteration and loss of integrity. Further, the major changes ing of the building - are all quite common in railroad depots, which frequently evolved in the fabric of the Ashville Depot and should be regarded as evidence of how the building grew and evolved over time, not as a loss of integrity.
As the nomination notes, the alterations of c. 1900 made the depot conform in appear- turally it is undistinguished, as they are, with embellishment confined to some modest The Ashville Depot is significant not for its singularity or distinctiveness but for bining passenger, freight, baggage, express, mail and telegraph functions) on this of NGW Depot which evolved from an earlier form, it has substantial integrity and RECEIVED Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service has raised questions regarding this build- common across the U.s.and now becoming increasingly rare.It is typical but it is DATE ENTERED enhancement of the roof brackets and the mix of.door panels and siding patterns.
The necessity for moving the depot has been discussed.There is no question that not is at an angle to the track.otherwise the site is very similar to the original-the linear cluster of industrial buildings and grain elevator along the track is still FOR NPS USE ONLY ance to that of many other small frame N&w depots.This writer has personally seen depot now stands some 150' from the track rather than adjacent to it and the building (Hev. 10-74) to have done so would have meant its demolition. with N&W not its predecessor. As an example of a N&W depot, which it has been for which did occur - removal of the tower, blocking of the freight doorway and lengthen- N&W line between Columbus and Portsmouth, a distance of over 90 miles. As an example been moved differs from the original principally in its distance from the tracks.
over time to meet constantly changing traffic demands.These changes are easily read several such buildings in Ohio and the Ashville Depot is similar to them.Architect- The new site to which the depot has Form No. 10-300a (Hev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FEB 2 5 1980 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Ashville Depot, Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio Jeffrey T. Darbee 1/80 PAGE RECEIVED Grants Manager Ohio Historic Preservation Office deserves listing in the National Register. DATE ENTERED Photos - 2. 20.80 Send-back _ OTHER KEEPER Inventory CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL HAER Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Working Number 9. 1 9.
78.4/2/ 2-3-81 National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF TEB 2 5 1980 Entered N W Depot Ashville Photo taken c. 1880 SEP 19 1978 FEB 2 5 1980 Pickaway Co. Ashville, Ohio Bob Hines Ashville Depot 102 Park St. SEP 19 1978 FEB 2 5 1980 October, 1977 Pickaway Co. Bob Hines Ashville Depot 102 Park Street Ashville, Ohio ASHVILLE, OHIO- ASHVILLE QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ashville Depot SEP 19 1978 RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROAD CLASSIFICATION OHIO-PICKAWAY CO. 17 332350 4397760 STATE OHIO FEB 25 Honorable John Glenn Mr. David Brook Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Location Wooster 2/28/80 Ashville Name Date Entered Wayne County Pickaway County Also Notified Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historic Preservation Officer Ashville Depot Honorable William H.
Harsha The Ohio Historical Society For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER College of Wooster Honorable Ralph Regula county code city / town - STATE )CONGRESS. DISTRICT SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - LOCAL - deteriorated Daltered 17 features: *SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -2 Oruins Omoved 2C NOT INTACT-O Oreconstructed - Unknown Dunexeavated -- NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono IAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - POLITICS/ GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 -ENGINEERING -11 "first' O -ARCHEOLOGY -prehistoric -2 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION-22 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 - EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 -URBAN PLANMING -31 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION-8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS - 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 C EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2) functions major alterations : @architeotural style(s): ©landscape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: Tartisan: @builder/contractor: 129 Midwest Ashville ASSOCIATION CONDITION ENTERTAINMENT-26 Pickaway PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: EVENTS: COMMERCE-6 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Ashville Depot master builder: historic events: Ashville Norfolk & Western Station Doriginal site Dunexposed vicinity of Madison and Cromley St.
NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP PRIVATE ORGANIZATION NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET date. ADMINISTRATOR: dates of initial construction: Dexcellent LANDSCAPE ARCH.-15 ONAME as it appears on federal register: Ofair of entry: SAVED? YES GNPS REGION: 5O UNKNOWN-6 QCLAIMS: explain -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) 'only' D lreviewers initials. ETHNIC LOCATION GROUP NAMES engineer: UNKNOWN-5 artist: 2OTHER NAMES if state who prepared form? street & number
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