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OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 2. County Criteria A,B $ C 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 16. Thematic Category 29. Basement? Yes X 17. Date(s) or Period Lot 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder flat, composition Front 3 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment East Main 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangle 23. Ownership Public C Addition - Private & Altered O 9. Coordinates in #42) 24. Owner's Name & Address, Moved - if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference 209 S. Chestnut St. 25. Open to Preservation Site O Structure C Building X Object - 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included Part of Estab.
Yes S District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? Public Road? of Ravenna, Portage County, 41. Distance from and 42. Further Description of Important Features The storefronts have been modernized but have their basid 43. History and Significance 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings from the Riddle Carriage Factory buildings, which still stand, although the business 45. Sources of Information 1911, 1920 Sanborn maps of Ravenna 47. Organization 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1914 Side Changes Neoclassical Easting 2-84 Zone Underway? Register? Ravenna brick Long. Exterior Portage same Lat. voussoirs. Ohio Historical Center stone trim good and Prospect streets commercial block/apartments National Register nomination Riddle Properties Ravenna Heritage Association Frontage on Road (Explain Northing (Riddle Commerical Buildings Interior structure largely intact.
Riddle Commercial Buildings National Register nomination 31. Wall Construction Ohio) Riddle Block #11 Eligible? itself is long gone. This building is located at the eastern edge of the downtown and is across the street This is the last of nine existing Riddle commercial buildings erected from 1870 to 1914 and more elegant of the Riddle commercial Port Co. Historical Society 28. No. of Stories No O No D 15. Name of Established District and featuring prominently its name. 33. No. of Bays Steven MeQuillin Steven three Ohio Historic Preservation Office This building features a central parapet rising above the building Ravenna Heritage Assn. extends around the building. sixty foot frontage Brick pilasters link the The windows are accented by stone unknown retrained, academically-inspired interpretations of eclecticism.
with an individual, Henry Warner Riddle, who played an important This commercial block is an unusually fine and impressive example of Neo-classical commercial architecture and is one of the reshaped by a new architectural influence, the return of more community's largest downtown buildings. It is representative of a period in American architecture when communities were being. OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Portage County, OHIO 1, Etna House 2.
Phoenix Block 3, Riddle Block #5 (already listed 3/17/76) Attest Page Keeper Continuation sheet National Register of Historic Places State Inventory-Nomination Form Date/Signature National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Thematic Group Ravenna Commercial Center Multiple Resource Area Item number Nomination/Type of Review Entered in the Multiple Resource Area Mational hegistor dnr-11 Name WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Riddle Block #11 (Ravenna Commercial 6 1985 Date Due: - - RETURN nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - -appeal J sample L NR decision Reviewer's comments: _ see continuation sheet _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4.
Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description -excellent -unaltered J original site summary paragraph Category moved Accessible FEB Ownership resubmission Condition dates request Status completeness REJECT yes ruins Discipline Reviewer Recom./Criteria unexposed clarity Portage County Substantive Review: boundary selection 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Public Acquisition alterations/integrity Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Present Use Working No. Check one Nomination returned for: deteriorated Center MRA) fair 3-18-85 Fed. Reg. Date: 2/4,86 ACCEPT good 8. Significance J relating significance to the resource J justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11.
Form Prepared By _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect Signed context Period completeness title applicable criteria clarity national Maps UTM References Photographs justification of areas checked Specific dates Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name relationship of integrity to significance Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Verbal boundary description and justification summary paragraph Statement of Significance