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< SINCE 1885 4. Present Name(s) 5. Other Name(s) Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories Basement? Yes C 17. Date(s) or Period c. 1900 30. Foundation Material 31. Wall Constructior 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectanqular 23. Ownership Public Road? Changes Addition - Private 2 Altered - in #42) Moved - 24. Owner's Name & Address, if known Condition U.T.M. Reference 37 N. Main, Mech., 43044 25. Open to Structure * 26. Local Contact Person or Organization . On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and 2.
Further Description of Important Features (Continue on reverse if necessary) Large frame Colonial Revival residence features: a Palladian window in the central gabled dormer, front porch with lonic columns, projecting central bay on the second floor, an oval 3. History and Significance I. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Sources of Information 46. Prepared by N. Recchie Dohron Wilson, local historian 47. Organization B.D. Rickey & Co. 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) residence 6/84 hip/composition stone commercial/agriculture Front Register? frame Preservation Exterior good Side Easting Northing County Site Underway? 4438760 Demand-Gest Residence Endangered? OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY wood siding Frontage on Road (Explain Dohron Wilson Eligible? Champaign John Westfall 37 N. Main St. 1231920 City or. Town lf Rural, Township & Vicinity 18.
Style or Design Building X Object C No X Part of Estab. Yes [ Potent'!? i. Name of Established District window on the side. It is Located close to the street with a small front yard and an iron fence. It was also unknown Interior one of the most impressive turn of the century residences in Mechanicsburg.It is also significant as the residence of at least 2 important local businessmen. (Mechanicsbueg (Mechanicsburg HRA) was also the residence of Neil Gest, who was a wealthy farm owner railroad, is one of very few businesses dating from the early Revival style - the symmetrical facade, central projecting bay on 5. Continued Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Co., Inc., 1917.
Acreage Significance Statement exhibits many of the characteristics typical of the Colonial Champaign County Courthouse records Demand-Gest Residence classical columns on the front porch, entrance with transom and Less than one acre. the second floor, Palladian window in the gabled dormer, early 2oth century styles represented. Middleton, Judge Evan P.,History of Champaign County, Ohio. 37 North Main Street built after l920 in Mechanicsburg and this is one of the few It was built by Dr. Demand, one of several practicing medical doctors in The Ohio Grain Company, which has always been located adjacent to the NORTHERN '3 LOT #/ an oval window in the stairhall.There were very few houses example of the Colonial Revival style in Mechanicsburg.
20th century that is still operating in Mechanicsburg.It is now commercial history of the community and it is an excellent This building meets Criterion A& C.It is related to the Mechanicsburg c.l9oo there is only one retired doctor).It United States Department of the Interior Entered Page / % 3 Multiple Resource Area Nomination/Type of Review 1. Baker, Major John C., - 3. Burnham, Henry, House 4. Church of Our Savior 5. Clark, Dr., House 6. Culbertson, William, House 7. Demand-Gest House 8. Hamer's General Store 9. Hunter, Norvall, Farm Attest Keeper Date/Signature Name Continuation sheet State dnr-11 Barr House National Register Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places (3-82) Mechanicsburg Multiple Resource Area National Park Service 10. Kimball House Thematic Group Item number OMB NO.1024-0018 Champaign County.
OHIO NPS Form 10-900-a Eatered in tho Entored ia tha Expires 10-31-87 Entered ln tha VASO Form - 17 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Demand-Gest House (Mechaniesburg MRA) JUL 1 5 1985 -nomination by person or local government - owner objection Federal Agency: - -appeal -sample -request Reviewer . Date - - - - - see continuation sheet _ technical corrections cited below _ substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7.
Description -excellent -unaltered -original site -good J ruins - moved _unexposed -completeness - alterations/integrity yes Ownership fair Category resubmission Condition Accessible deteriorated REJECT RETURN Action: Champaign County boundary selection summary paragraph Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: National Register Recom./Criteria Public Acquisition Discipline. Has this property been determined eligible? Working No. Status Entered in tho Nomination returned for: 2. Location NR decision Present Use Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Check one clarity "R" June 1984 Fed. Reg. Date: 214/86 Date Due: 815/85 summary paragraph applicable criteria J justification of exception J other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature L Photographs Phone: _ Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet clarity context Date completeness Signed Builder/Architect Maps title justification of areas checked relationship of integrity to significance Specific dates Verbal boundary description and justification UTM References 8. Significance relating significance to the resource Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance