Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Mellett-Canton Daily News Building

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,989 words across 14 pages, filed in 1983. 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 83002058, 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 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common 2. Location street & number 401 W. Tuscarawas Street- XX not for publication city, town - vicinity of - state county - code 151 - public - unoccupied X private X commercial - work in progress . site . religious - in process . scientific - yes: unrestricted .military . other: 4. Owner of Property name Donald D. Graham Please notify: Robert Leach c/ Hawthorne Builders 5.
Location of Legal Description state Ohio 44702 -federal _ local museum transportation both code Category entertainment government date Accessible educational structure industrial Ownership historic park Public Acquisition agriculture Stark Columbus Status Inventory-Nomination Form object Ohio being considered private residence date entered Mellett/Canton Daily News Building Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use National Register of Historic Places Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 3. Classification 6. Representation in Existing Surveys For HCRS use only has this property been determined elegible? - yes X- no FHR-8-300 (11-78) _building(s) street & number 5220 Loma Linda Dr.
received MAR 2 | 1983 Canton district congressional district 16th (Regula) X altered _ moved date style building of dark brown facing brick and terra cotta, a building which runs along frontispiece, and bears the inscription "Mellett Building" in bronze. Except for three Condition unexposed fair energetic past. differentiated from the upper stories by an enriched terra cotta course featuring egg of an otherwise integrated structure. east and northeast corners are curved and feature curved windows.The street story is excellent 7. Description The Mellett/Canton Daily News Building is a narrow, five-story polychromatic commercial Xoriginal site and dart molding. Check one Daily News Building doubly precious, both because of its substantial integrity and be- western edge of Canton's Central Business District.
dows have been replaced by aluminum frames their transoms infilled.This _ deteriorated _ unaltered cotta sills, separated by raised brick piers, some narrower than others. Both the south- wreath detailing and consoles, the northeasterly of which is enscribed "Canton Daily News." The third entrance, on the east facade, is surrounded by an enriched classical Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

change and the aluminum frame southeast door are the principle alterations to the exterior cause it is one of the increasingly few remaining structures dating from Canton's more There are three entrances.The two corner entrances are enriched with classical The building features a simple brick parapet underscored by an enriched and molded terra cotta course.The top four stories feature simple ranks of windows with terra original recessed windows at the"Daily News"end of the building, the street level win- the entire west side of Dewalt St.between Tuscarawas St.W and Second St.Nw on the - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning _ archeology-historic . law _ science - agriculture - sculpture .architecture - military . social/ _ music _ theater _ 1900- X communications - politics/government Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) a daily by John and William MeGregor in 1878, the newspaper was later operated by a suc- cession of out-of-town owners (from Toledo, Hamilton and East Liverpool) from 1888. It was lett from the Akron Press, a man experienced in newspaper publishing and schooled in reform. sertion that caused Police Chief S.
A..Lengel to bring a $50,000 libel suit against the 1600-1699 1400-1499 commerce 1800-1899 1700-1799 1500-1599 transportation humanitarian engineering Builder/Architect Period education Specific dates unknown Canton Daily News,a newspaper noted for its Progressivism and its crusading, civic reform industry Roller Bearing, Timken Steel and Tube, Timken-Detroit Axel Company and Hercules Motor Corp- the old News-Democrat as the Canton Daily News reportedly so that the Progressivism of his from Timken and other newspaper-related sources for the arrest of the perpetrators; special The Mellett/Canton Daily News Building is significant as the original home of the own political leanings would have voice over and against the Republicanism of the rival Timken proceeded to lure the best reporters and managers he could entice from other Ohio papers, among them a former Repository reporter who had become the editor of the liance between law violators and certain members of the Canton Police Department, invention vicable building, its history represents the best tradition of the journalism of reform.
8. Significance _economics much underworld wrath, including threats by a Cantonian of Italian extraction whom Mellett the Stark County Democrat) by John Bernard in 1833.Renamed the News-Democrat and made The Canton Daily News was a direct descendent of the Canton News-Democrat, founded Areas of Significance-Check and justify below oration, was a civic-minded individual who was also the first president of the Canton prosecution of other northeast Ohio bootleggers and drug dealers, made him the target of posture, as represented by its publisher, Pulitzer Prize winner Don R. Mellett, who was noir, who was sentenced to life almost one year to the day from the date of his murder. Canton Repository.
In the early morning of July 16,1926, Mellett was ambushed outside his own garage Mellett was one of the seven newspaperman sons of the publisher of a paper in Anderson, in January and March,1926,Mellett went public with his suspicion that "there was an al- and shot through the head.A cause celebre,the incident brought contributions of $30,000 _literature - philosophy Mellett--a bootlegger, an ex-con, a deputy and Police Chief S. A. Lengel, Mellett's bete- James Cox bought the Daily News and, in the same tradition, he hired 34-year-old Don Mel- 1912 conservation art Indiana. exploration/settlement Almost immediately on becoming Cox's publisher, Mellett began alienating the interlock- This expose and the fact that Mellett had also been a witness in the successful murdered after a 1926-7 muckraking effort to rid Canton of corruption. Daily News.
had identified in the paper as the "King of the Black Hand,"a mafia-type organization. Chamber of Commerce and an organizer of the Canton Welfare Federation.He reconstituted investigators were hired; and talk was rampant about enlisting the help of Clarence Darrow 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Canton Daily News, December 29, 1912 Canton Repository, July 1926, Lot 37, Parcel # 02-06315, City of Canton 11. Form Prepared By May, 1982 street & number 2353 Woodmere Drive 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification _local 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated county code date Easting organization Northing state Zone County Records Attest: national Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name name/title Chief of Registration State Historic Preservation Officer signature UMT References Cleveland Heights Canton West Verbal boundary description and justification city or town List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Less than one 10.
Geographical Data Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- For HCRS use only CLL Ohio 44106 National Register GPO 938 835 telephone 216/932-9794 Entered in the Keeper of the National Register E.T. Heald, The Stark County Story Stark County Historical Society) 1950 145161310 MELLFTT/CANTON DAILY NEWS BUILDING, Canton, Stark County, Ohio Item number Democratic Party, particularly Congressman Paul L. Sorg who hired Cox as private Cox owned the Canton Daily News from 1923 to 1930.
Having built a new $1,000,000 Page received Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Continuation sheet date entered National Register of Historic Places the first of his three terms as governor where he implemented a new progressive-in- The subsequent disappearance of the Canton Daily News as a name and an entity means and populists of national reputation confirmed him as a reformer and led him, at the spired Ohio constitution which inaugurateda basic reform program including the iniative, defeated the ticket and gave Harding to the world. portant episode in the reform history of Canton and Ohio. United States Department of the Interior that the Mellett/Canton Daily News building is the only physical remnant of this im- For HCRS use only In 1912, the year Timken reorganized the Canton Daily News, Cox was elected to the referendum and municipal home rule.
At the zenith of his political career, he building in 1927, he sold the paper to the rival Repository, discouraged by competition age of 28, to purchase the Dayton Daily News and, later the Springfield Daily News in a one-paper town and by the intractable gangsterism that Mellett's murder signified and the Miami News, all thereafter known as organs of his reform philosophy. News publisher James M. Cox's efforts at reform through journalism.A newspaper This incident was something of a high water mark in former governor and Daily nati Enquirer where he came to the attention of the progressive wing of the Ohio was the 1920 Democratic nominee for President (running on a ticket with the young FHR-8-300 (11-78) Fed. Reg. Date: - RETURN Reviewer - Recom. /Criteria - .se- continuation sheet - technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name Location 4.
Owner of Property 7. Description summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity Stark County resubmission Mellett-Canton Daily News Building 3. Classification nomination by person or local government boundary selection Action: Date Due: 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 5. Location of Legal Description .Nomination returned for: owner objection Federal Agency: Discipline dates lational Park Service ruins - REJECT - - sample . unaltered _ moved Substantive Working No. OHIO VATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES relating significance to justification of exception - Other 11. Form Prepared By - Photographs - Date - Signed context the resource clarity summary paragraph Maps completeness checked 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification applicable criteria 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 8.
Significance Phone: 202 272 - 3504 justification of areas Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relationship of integrity Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Municipality Canton County STA Comments - Archaeologist My impression is that this is an important local resource, but that it may be necessary DAS 5/28/82 Comments - Architectural Historian Section 7 date history.
Mapping Rewriting COMMENTS SIGNIFICANCE Rejected Initials/date Photographs Tabled Final Review Sent to SHPO OHPO ACTION Comment Period Expires Scheduled Date Comments - Historian Staff Recommendation NOMINATION REQUIRES PUBLIC HEARING National Register staff will probably want information on newspapers role in Progressivism Significant for its association with a major Progressive era crusader in Canton Name of Property Mellett/Canton Daily News INCOMPLETE NOMINATION NEEDS: NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION COMMENT SHEET Section 8 OSHPAB ACTION Preliminary Review Sent to HCRS in Ohio during the 19teens and 20s as an additional justification. to prepare a justification for it that draws on a larger context.In other words the 9/3/82 Canton, Stark, Ohio Photo: M. Reeb Building Mellett/Canton Daily News Date: 687 JCT Canton, Stark, Ohio Building 1982 Mellett/Canton Daily News Date: Photo: M.
Reeb Building Mellett/Canton Daily News Date: Canton, Stark, Ohio 1982 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CANTON WEST QUADRANGLE Canton, Stark County, Ohio 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC UTN: 17 468260 4516310 CANTON WEST, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR March 14, 1983 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 440 G. Street, N.W. Farmers Branch of the State Bank of Ohio Oakland Cemetery Chapel and Clement, George S. Hruve St. Ann Roman Catholic Church Complex St. Mary Roman Catholic Church Stenge1, John S., House Stormont, David, House Please let me know if you have any questions.
Sincerely, Enclosures Stark Fulton Erie Cuyahoga Butler NATIONAL Paulding County REGISTER Ottawa New Submissions Lucas RECEIVED Muskingum Riverview Apartments Department of Registration Brown Paulding County Carnegie Library The Rentschler House Ohio Historic Preservation Office WRL/DS:vb notification procedures have been followed for the submissions. Spitzer Building Superintendent's Residence and Office State Historic Preservation Officer Enclosed are fourteen new National Register nominations.All appropriate National Register of Historic Places Dear Carol: Commodore Apartment Building Catawaba Island Wine Company Mlontgomery Mellett/Canton Daily News Building Ohio Historical Center I-71 & 17th Avenue W. Ray Luce