Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 995 words across 9 pages, filed in 1981. 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 81000432, 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.

Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER - NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT : Versaillesle - VICINITY OF Ton Kindness PRESENT USE -WORK IN PROGRESS - PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED -BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY 4 West Main Street LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 DATE OWNERSHIP CODE OBJECT LOCATION Greenville South Broadway COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT COMMERCIAL Columbus Darke ACCESSIBLE CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY DISTRICT STATE INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE HISTORIC TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE STATUS SITE NAME GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM PARK PRIVATE Ohio Historic Preservation Office Darke County Courthouse Ohio Historical Inventory RELIGIOUS COURTHOUSE. _EDUCATIONAL Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House DATE ENTERED TITLE -UNOCCUPIED Ohio Village of Versailles (5/7) and the Wayne Township Trustees (2/7) FOR NPS USE ONLY XPUBLIC - MILITARY X.BUILDING(S) -OTHER: -BOTH FEB 18 1981 -FEDERAL STATE COUNTYLOCAL 8 1980 RECEIVEDEC 7 DESCRIPTION XORIGINAL SITE LRUINS _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

CONDITION EXCELLENT DETERIORATED UNEXPOSED XGOOD UNALTERED FAIR removing the paint and repairing and painting the window and doorway trim. XALTERED department.Six round arched windows remain intact on the second floor, but changes The Versailles Town Hall and the Wayne Township House is located in the center under a bracketed boxed cornice of the low pitched hipped roof. were reduced in size,but the decorative window moulding remains.Two round arched sashes The building has resumed its former elegant appearance and is once again the The Main Street facade has an opening for the township offices and the fire and township officials began plans for restoration of the building by chemically CHECK ONE by long narrow windows that have galvinized iron hood moulds with fleur-de-lis on the first floor have been made to accommodate larger fire equipment. pride of this small town.
the words TOWN HALL is supported by heavy scroll brackets. The doorway is flanked detailing. On the second floor above the doorway, a pair of long narrow windows DATE chimneys have been removed.Through the years the exterior had been coated with doors under a filled-in transom.A projecting segmental pediment which features The west and south sides of the building are less ornate.The central bell layers of white paint which had begun peeling due to water damage.In 1978,village AREAS OF

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X 1800-1899 COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES James C. Goodall STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

space for meeting rooms, a caliboose with iron cell, the fire department, and an upstairs 1500-1599 1400-1499 1876 1700-1799 INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART PERIOD ECONOMICS EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY BUILDER/ARCHITECT XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT MUSIC 1900- XARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE LITERATURE RELIGION THEATER SCIENCE TRANSPORTATION CONSERVATION _ENGINEERING The town council and the township trustees signed an.agreement in 1875 to construct today with quarters for the mayor's office/police station, rescue squad, the income tax The 1876 building known as the Versailles Town Hall and the Wayne Township House department, and board of public affairs. _PREHISTORIC it was one of the few downtown structures that escaped the Big Fire of 19ol.
_1600-1699 _INDUSTRY _COMMUNITY PLANNING LAW is a fine example of Italianate style, rarely found in public buildings in rural western -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24,000 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Mrs.
Lois Ann Baker STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45380 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL X NATIONAL - 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 KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OF REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 513-526-4562 ORGANIZATION DATE CODE volunteer TELEPHONE ZONE NORTHING COUNTY Versailles SHPO 330 East Main Street Versailles Village Records.
Streets with the back exposed to Fountain June 1980 UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING Located on old Lot 26 in the Woods First Addition to the Interviews with Dick Christian, councilman; John McGreevy, Tony Monnin, Paul Mc Clurg, township trustees; Cyril Ploch, former mayor; 1979-80. less than l acre ATTEST: Views of Versailles, 1976. UTM NOT VERIFIED 14,415.5124,0 A[1,6] 17|1,410,0,0 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I original plat of Jacksonville, now Versailles.
The north half of Lot 26 is shown as Market Space in 1857 and 1875.The building is at the corner of Main and Center ELL Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF KEEPER Send-back CONTROL Maps Re-submit Photos Review TECHNICAL HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry 2.2.82 OTHER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST National Register Write-up 2/18+81 WORCH LUMBER CO. FEB 18 1981 Versailles Town Hall and Wayne East facade and south side WOBC Photograph 1/2 Township House DEC Versailles, Darke Ohio DEC81980 Versailles, Darke, On1o WOBC, Photograph # 3 Versailles Town Hall and Wayne East and north sides of building Township House DEC FEB 18 1981 DEC81980 STATE OF OHIO VERSAILLES QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE.
7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES VERSAILLES, OHIO Honorable John H. Glenn Mr. Dellas H. Harder Lake Central Region, HCRS Location STATE Name Date Entered Darke County Versailles Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Also Notified Honorable Thonas N. Kindness ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Acting State Historie Presezvation officer Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue FEB 18 1981 Columbus, Ohto 43211 Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House