Major Bibliographical References Canton, pamphlet published c. 1908 by Bucher, Columbus. B. F. Bowen, 1904) Immigration and citizenship records of August Schuffenecker, 1882, 1888. Quadrangle name Canton West Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 _ state 11. Form Prepared By Mary L. Reeb, Regional Preservation Officer November, 1981 street & number 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification - 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 date code county organization Northing Canton telephone name/title Xlocal Attest: Chief of Registration UMT References 10.
Geographical Data State Historic Preservation Officer signature Acreage of nominated property List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Zone Easting Keeper of the National Register Stark County Regional Planning Commissidate For HCRS use only The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: city or town 51l Stark County Office Bldg. less than one SHPO Verbal boundary description and justification Pts. of lots 783 and 784, Parcel, 02-02570, City of state OH 44702 Schuffenecker Building, Canton, Stark County, Ohio Society, 1952. Continuation sheet received Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places date entered United States Department of the Interior For HCRS use only of the 20th century. Heald, Edward. The Stark County Story, Vol III.
Canton: Stark County Historical FHR-8-300 (11-78) Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places 440 G. St., NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Enclosed are new National Register nominations and one nomination returned been approved by the state review board and the appropriate notification procedures have been followed. *-. New Nominations St. Stephen Church and Rectory Mosgrove, Dr. Adam, House Sharp, Samuel, Residence Woodruff, William, House Onesto Hotel Schuffenecker, August, Building Lebold, John, House Reeves, Jeremah, House and Please let me know if you have any questions.
State Historic Preservation Officer WRL/DS: jb Tuscarawas Butler Hocking Sincerely, Athens Delaware enclosures Stark NATIONAL Hamilton Name: Wood RECEIVED Ohio Historic Preservation Office Champaign Trumbull County: Eagle's Temple Carriage House REGISTER Barber-Whitticar House National Park Service Underwriters Salvage Corps Dewalt Building Floral Hall City National Bank Building Canton Public Library Dear Ms. Shull: White's Mill June 16 by your staff for additional information. All the new nominations have W. Ray Luce VATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service Schuffenecker, August, Building, Stark County, OHIO, Fed. Reg. Date Date Due: _ REJECT. Date 7/2k/52 Location 3. Classification J4. Owner of Property X 7.
Description resubmission alterations/integrity date Accessible completeness Name clarity deteriorated Condition owner objection Category Action: summary paragraph Nomination returned for: good technical corrections cited below Status Review: Substantive V6. Representation in Existing Surveys original site _substantive reasons discussed below Ownership Jnited States Department of the Interior Federal Agency: comments: Working No. Public Acquisition Check one 5. Location of Legal Description K RETURN 7-29-83 - appeal - request sample - Recom. / Criteria ruins unexposed moved ACCEPT SHEET excellent NR decision boundary selection Present Use see continuation sheet unaltered Significance Specific dates NA justification of excepticn 9. Major Bibliographical References V 10. Geographical Data 11.
Form Prepared By - state _ local - Date - completeness context clarity checked Maps Photographs Other applicable criteria Bullder/Architect summary paragraph 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet justification of areas the resource Quadrangle name Acreage of nominated property UMT Reterences relationship of integrity Verbal boundary description and justification State Historic Preservation Officer signature Phone: 202 272 -3504 relating significance to Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Period Signed Dell United States Department of the Interior received JUN 1 8 1982 street & number - not for publication city, town - vicinity of - state 3.
Classification X unoccupied _ agriculture - museum & building(s) X private -park .both X work in progress .site _ religious .object - in process *- yes: restricted - government - scientific - yes: unrestricted . transportation _military _ other: 4. Owner of Property M. B. Belden (Harter Bank and Trust Co., T. P. Kessler, Trustee OH 44702 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Stark County Office Building has this property been determined elegible? - yes date November, 1981 _ federal - 039 Category Accessible Canton entertainment code Ownership structure educational commercial industrial district Status being considered Public Acquisition public date entered Present Use Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places 209 Tuscarawas St. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys Type all entries-complete applicable sections 1. Name and/or common 2. Location Xprivate residence See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms For HCRS use only county X local county Stark 1200 Harter Bank Building) FHR-8-300 (11-78) 7. Description X original site _ excellent X unaltered X good _ moved date by a projecting cornice with brackets that suggest modillions,, stone quoins, a stone belt course defining a brick water table, and segmental stone lintels. Through his use of the classical idiom on a utilitarian building, the architect ob- are owned by a Canton citizen who has undertaken, with private money, the restoration of Condition ruins fair a temporarily weakened preservation ethic in this city.Both the Schuffenecker Building Central Business District of its impressive architectural past.
Canton (land cleared by demolitions preparatory to its being developed into an office and compound terra-cotta arch of the entry which is shouldered by a horizontal element braced terra-cotta detailing.Late Rennaissance Revival in feeling if not strictly in form which runs across the top story window line highlighting five windows of varying heights punctuated by two terra-cotta wreaths found in the front facade at second story height.
motel complex called Newmarket)renders the Schuffenecker Building critical to resuscitating The building's most singular feature is a series of enriched arcaded stone windowheads is one of the few remaining structures that rim a four-block cleared area in downtown Check one contains Neo-Classical elements as well), the building features a brief parapet underscored Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance the Saxton House on the National Register in April,1979).With one or two ex- unexposed The August Schuffenecker Building is a rectangular, three-story polychromatic multi- and widths as if to unify these.
The arched theme of this arcading is repeated in the deteriorated family residential structure of hard yellow.facing brick highlighted with sandstone and Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - archeology-historic - sculpture _education - social/ _theater _ communications _ other (specify) Specific dates Builder/Architect J. M. Bostick Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) tecture built during Canton's boom period (1900-1920). It is significant, as well, as Canton's post-McKinley years marked an unprecedented period in its economic history, a During this period, the business district, heretofore clustered about the Public Square and the County Court House east along Tuscarawas Street and north on Market, began a steady march south and west, eventually encompassing earlier residential neighborhoods.
it was erected, a full city block, was purchased in 1903 by August Schuffenecker from Mary wins the people" was advertised as being "clean, cool and inviting", its proprietor as the man whg "handles meat perfectly, keeps it right and sells it right, treating everybody He had, by then, as well, established himself firmly in Canton's German community, having For a discussion of the architectural significance of the building, see the last paragraph 1600-1699 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 conservation economics military industry engineering humanitarian agriculture Period invention science music prehistoric literature phase of his personal economic evolution from entrepreneurship to real estate development. was purchased from Schuffenecker's widow by Frank S. Lahm.According tq contemporary reports, 8.
Significance "Camp Kagle pickeral" as the house specialty.) evidence of the economic coming-of-age of immigrant groups (represented by the builder, German-born August Schuffenecker) who participated in the boom through a variety of avenues. law The August Schuffenecker Building is significant as an example of multi-family archi- more by people and a kind of local entrepreneurship than any accidental availability of The building was built in the heart of this developing district.The property on which house into which he moved his family.He financed the purchase from proceeds of his butcher shop which he established in 1892,ten years after he immigrated to Canton at the age of 22 The present building was one of identical "twin flats"which Schuffenecker built on his of section #7.
consolidation of manufacturing reduced the number of businesses from 502 in 1900 to 287 in 1900 and 1920,Canton's population grew from nearly 31,000 to over 87,000.A concommitant X_1900- - archeology-prehistoric -community planning X commerce _ exploration/settlement _ - philosophy _ transportation (by which was meant, probably, that its boom was fueled from the Alsacian village of Masmlnster. His shop, touted in 1906 as "the meat market that Cook--a local milliner and property developer--and included a fine high Victorian Gothic alike" Separatist village of Zoar southwest of Canton. (Bender's Restaurant in Canton still features The twin flats property retained its investment potential into the late teens when it 1800-1899 architecture art politics/government become a charter member of the Camp Kagle fishing club which spent communal vacations at the 9.
Major Bibliographical References Canton, pamphlet published c. 1908 by Bucher, Columbus. B. F. Bowen, 1904) Immigration and citizenship records of August Schuffenecker, 1882, 1888. 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle name Canton West Quadrangle scale -1:24,000 Verbal boundary description and justification Pts. of lots 783 and 784, Parcel, 02-02570, City of _ state 11. Form Prepared By Mary L. Reeb, Regional Preservation Officer street & number 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 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 I hereby dertify that this property is included in the National Register county Canton Northing code date organization Easting Zone national telephone name/title Attest: UMT References Chief of Registration State Historic Preservation Officer signature Acreage of nominated property List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries less than one city or town For HCRS use only 51l Stark County Office Bldg.
November, 1981 OH 44702 _ local according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservationand Recreation Service. SHPO GPO 938 835 Stark County Regional Planning Commissidate Keeper ot the National Register Schuffenecker Building, Canton, Stark County, Ohio man Samuel Lahm, Frank S. moved to Paris, France in 1881--at the age of 21--to become semi-annual return visits to Canton in 1907, he founded the Aero Club of Ohio, a local local aeronauts (with mixed results). Nearly simultaneously, Lahm, whose son, Frank P., was colorful and industrious residents. Society, 1952), p. 3. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Continuation sheet National Register of Historic Places date entered Paris with Wilbur Wright.
Inventory-Nomination Form The single remaining twin flat, the August Schuffenecker Building stands as a reminder descendent of the famed French Aero Club, which sponsored a series of balloon ascensions by of Canton's liveliest period, and represents the enthusiasm and success of two of its more United States Department of the Interior tion was likely to supercede ballooning--a discovery made after a 1908 flight he made in the first winner of the coveted Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 for a harrowing balloon flight Edward Heald,The Stark County Story-(Voi:III;Canton:The Stark County Historical of the 20th century. For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) Lahm was himself a colorful Canton character. The son of an early settler and congress- fascinated with aeronautics, which in the late 19th century meant ballooning.
On one of his over the English Channel from Paris to Yorkshire, recognized that "heavier than air" avia- 2Canton (Columbus: Bucher, 1908), P. 15. received JUN 18 1ยบ82 Schuffenecker Building, Canton, Stark County, Ohio Society, 1952. Continuation sheet date entered Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Inventory-Nomination Form of the 20th century. For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) Heald, Edward. The Stark County Story, Vol III. Canton: Stark County Historical National Park Service Property: Schuffenecker _ resubmission Recom./ Criteria S Discipline 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7.
Description boundary selection dates alterations/integrity REJECT Reviewer clarity RETURN comments: owner objection completeness summary paragraph Action: nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: _substantive reasons discussed below Date Due: .Nomination returned for: Fed. Reg. Date: . - technical corrections cited below Working No. maps Substantive Review: see continuation sheet 2.1.83 photos" appeal EVALUATONVP RETURN SHEET 6.18.82-1816 8. Significance justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By - netional _local - Date - Signed - Phone: 202 272- 3504 checked completeness clarity context Maps Other Photographs summary paragraph applicable criteria 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification relationship of integrity the resource Quedrangle name - UMT References -.
state justification of areas Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet relating significance to Canton, Stark, Oh. Photo: M. Reeb Date: 1981 Building Schuffenecker, August Schuffenecker, August Canton, Stark, Oh. Date: 1981 Building 760 Photo: M. Reeb Schuffenecker, August Canton, Stark, Oh. Photo: M. Reeb Date: 1981 UNITED STATES
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