Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century hotel with a deep verandah across its front. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Shawnee Hotel

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,404 words across 13 pages, filed in 1985. 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 85003044, 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.

NPS Form 10.900 OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 6 1985 5 1985 1. Name and or common 2. Location street & number city, town .vicinity of X unoccupied _ agriculture X building(s) X private X commercial - work in progress - in process X yes: restricted .government -yes: unrestricted -military 4. Owner of Property Shawnee Building Ltd. Partnership 5. Location of Legal Description has this property been determined eligible?
_ federal depository for survey records 023 45502 code both Category transportation county entertainment yes museum Accessible date Springfield religious site Ownership object educational structure being considered DEC other: industrial district historic park title Status local scientific date entered (3-82) not for publication Clark private residence Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form Shawnee Hotel (none) Ohio Type all entries-complete applicable sections Columbia and Limestone Streets state Ohio 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 333 North Limestone Street 3. Classification See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Present Use National Park Service National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior received NOV For NPS use only X no 039 public Main and Limestone Streets 7.
Description _ deteriorated X original site - excellent _ unaltered X altered - moved date X fair Mechanics Federal Savings and Loan Association building, a 1978 Skidmore, Owings and level, but the facade along Limestone Street slopes downward so that at the northern buildings. East of the hotel along Main Street is a vacant lot, recently the site of cut limestone and a vigorous projecting upper portion, fabricated from sheet copper. a recessed center section, which gives the building a U-shaped plan on these floors. rooms, including a large ballroom at the east end, although this space is now plainly business, a bar, has a remodelled interior, the hotel survives in largely original altered. A few recent partitions were carefully constructed around the moldings, and apartments. Condition ruins unaltered.Even its gigantic rooftop sign is still present.
intersection in downtown Springfield.It is diagonally opposite the Merchants and -unexposed not seriously compromise the original fabric.Aside from some missing balusters on the This building stands on the northeast corner of Main and Limestone Streets, the main floor is also separated by a horizontal stone course and is further differentiated by structures in the downtown, although there are several downtown buildings which are height than the other floors and features a horizontal stone course above.The top the use of yellow brick.An attic story is incorporated into a massive cornice which Although portions of the interior are quite deteriorated and the one remaining commercial Small limestone balconies appear on selected windows on the third, fourth and eighth the north is the small two-story Link & Link Building and two other small commercial Check one Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

faced with limestone at the ground floor which forms pilasters and an entablature to the facade is faced with red brick with limestone trim.The second floor has a greater Some bathrooms have been converted intokitchens when the building was last used for Merrill structure which forms part of a redevelopment block in the city's downtown which also includes the new city hall and the Credit Life Insurance Co.building. style and presents a refined and elegant appearance. is extensively altered and is not a part of.this nomination. The Shawnee Hotel is the largest building on this corner and is one of the tallest Street is the hotel's heating plant, a plain two-story building- .The heating plant ground floor is devoted to shops as is the basement level. The second floor has meeting Each room has a small bathroom with generally old fixtures which are undistinguished.
exterior and some early signs of deterioration, the exterior of the hotel is basically is the crowning feature of the hotel. The cornice has a bracketed lower portion of skylight, now covered over. The lobby is accented with marble and walnut trim which condition. The lobby, although dirty and displaying some damage, has not been seriously date Limestone Street. The building's exterior is vigorously ornamented in the Neo-Classical other details and can readily be removed.It also appears that the bar interior does The hotel is an eight-story structure which is roughly square in overall form.It is floors. finished.The upper floors have standardized plans with longcorridors and small rooms. The facade along Limestone Street is broken up on the upper six floors by The recessed section is directly above the main entrance to the is on 8.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Significance - agriculture X architecture exploration settlement. X. 1900- politics government H. Ziegler Dietz, Architect Builder Architect Caldwell-Marshall Cor, Builder Criteria C historic St. James Hotel, erected in 1879 in the Italianate style, as the site for as the builders and H. Ziegler Dietz, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, as the 1916-1917 1800-1899 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 communications 1500-1599 invention theater commerce engineering education conservation archeology-prehistoric archeology-historic literature humanitarian transportation Period philosophy industry science prehistoric music law -communityplanning from American cities. Specific dates .economics social/ ago and has remained vacant.Plans are underway for the building's complete reno- vation for use as senior citizens housing with the exterior and lobby restored.
Management was reorganized during the Depression,,but the hotel remained in operation. -sculpture A picture postcard of the Shawnee Hotel names Caldwell-Marshall Co.,Indianapolis, prominence in the by the construction of this hotel.The building The Shawnee Hotel is a prime example of early twentieth century commercial architecture was owned and operated by the Link Hotel Co.,with C.F.McGiivray as president, impressive interiors.It has been the site of a major hotel for over one hundred years Areas of Significance-Check and justify below military Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) -other(specify) His new slogan,"Link & Link-We Sell the Earth"told in graphic terms his new -art in Springfield, Ohio. It is one of the largest and finest Neo-Classical style buildings. and is a good representative of a period of hotel architecture which is fast disappearing religion landscape architecture accommodations for Springfield.Link erected what was not only the finest hotel in and numerous meeting and banquet rooms, the Shawnee represented a new era in hotel which A.C.Link was instrumental in building in and around Springfield's downtown.
than the Arcade and including such innovations as plumbing in each room plus large in 1883,located at Fountain Square and still standing today.Link's new Shawnee Hotel was to assume the role of Springfield's most fashionable hotel.Much larger town but what was also the tallest building.It was the largest of a number of buildings Charles L.Nisley as vice-president and A.c.Link as secretary.It remained as A.C.Link was a prominent Springfield realtor and developer who acquired the city's his proposed new hotel. the city's tallest and largest structure until the building boom of the 1920s. for many years but had been surpassed as the city's premier hotel by the Arcade Hotel In recent years it was operated asa residential hotel and some of the hotel rooms 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Springfield City Directories, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1930. research for the Link family by Robert Hellmuth, c. 1970. Springfield, Ohio UT M References south side of Lot 21, as designated on James Demint's Plat of the Town of Springfield, Ohio. - state 11. Form Prepared By Steven McQuillin, Independent Preservation Consultant street & number 3515 Archwood Avenue Ohio 44109 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: GPO 894-785 county Northing code date organization Easting Zone national Attest: Cleveland local name/title Quadrangle name Verbal boundary description and justification I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Chief of Registration city or town date November 1984 Acreage of nominated property State Historic Preservation Officer signature NIA "A Guide to Springfield Art and Architecture,"Springfield Arts Council,1978. 10.
Geographical Data As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89 List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated The property islocated at the northeast corner of Main and Limestone Streets. less than one National Registes Entered in the For NPs use only 12-5--85- The nominated property consists of the west half of Lot 23 and a 21-foot strip of the research by Don Dunifon, Wittenberg University, 1984. according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. Keeper of the National Register NPS Form 10-900-a ONB No.
1024-0018 Shawnee Hotel, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio Next to the Shawnee, the Bancroft was the city's finest hotel building and it It was built and operated by John Heaume, who had previously operated a Bookwalter, an older and smaller building. Prince, Dr. Benjamin, ed., A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County "Ingledue's Travel Index", Summer 1950 (Cleveland Public Library). Mr. James Harmon, interview; longtime local resident and owner of Shawnee Hotel. (3-82) Inventory-Nomination Form Page Continuation sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service facilities or the meeting rooms of its competitor.The Heaume Hotel was built Additional biographical sources: never regarded as being in the same class with the Shawnee or the Bancroft.
Item number United States Department of the Interior date entered The 1950 hotel guide listed only four hotels in Springfield, the Bookwalter at the same time as the Shawnee and had the same number of rooms but it was Expires 10-31-87 having since been delisted. Today, none of the four remaining hotels are in but by peripheral motel construction around the interstate and freeways. vacant.These buildings were put out of business not by new downtown hotels, empty; the five-story Heaume building remains, although its lower floors are Ohio;New York:American Historical Society,1922;pp.256-57;46-47. boasted more rooms than the Shawnee,100,but did not have the dining For NPS use only WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NOV /6 1985 Working No. - Fed. Reg.
Date: du/ nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: - -appeal -request Reviewer - _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? - yes 7.
Description M excellent -unaltered - original site Iruins - summary paragraph J boundary selection moved completeness Category resubmission Ownership REJECT Date Discipline unexposed Recom./Criteria RETURN clarity sample Status alterations/integrity Action: Shawnee Hotel deteriorated 85003044 owner objection Condition Clark County Substantive Review: Accessible Public Acquisition NR decision Present Use Reviewer's comments: Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Check one ("R" June 1984) LACCEPT fair National Boglater good Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 11. Form Prepared By _local J Maps - Date . - Phone: - Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet Signed Builder/Architect state completeness applicable criteria Photographs clarity State Historic Preservation Officer signature summary paragraph context 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Specific dates Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Verbal boundary description and justification justification of exception justification of areas checked Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 10. Geographical Data The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 8. Significance UTM References relationship of integrity to significance Acreage of nominated property relating significance to the resource _national Quadrangle name title Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Ohio: Looking NE at west Shawnee Hotel, Springfield, (L.) and south (R.) facades.
HOTEL Shawnee Hotel Springfield, Ohio November 1984 Steven McQuillin, photographer negatives in photographer's collection SH-2 north side and rear, looking southwest SPRINGFIELD QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 17/260100/4422950 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR City of Springfield, Ohio office of the city commission (513)324-7340, 324-7343 - Mayor November 19, 1984 - Assistant Mayor Kenneth E. Whaley - Commissioners Dr. W. Ray Luce Jerry K. Smedley Timothy F. Ayers Eugene B. Kunk - Clerk of Commission Dear Dr. Luce: have any questions about the City's position on this project, please LLS/GC :ct Steven McQuillin, Preservation Consultant Greg Collins, Core Renewal Corportation Newsweek's "American Dream City" - 76 e. high street, springfield, ohio 45502 nomination.
Priscilla Smithers Sincerely, Ohio Historic Preservation Office State Historic Preservation Officer Your cooperation and support will be appreciated. Leland L. Schuler Advisory Board for eligibility to the National Register of Historic let me know. our city will be considered by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation The City of Springfield has been made aware that the Shawnee Hotel in The City of Springfield supports the proposed conversion of this 1985 Velma Avenue I have no objections to the nomination of the Shawnee Hotel to the Columbus, OH 43215 Leland L. Schuler, Mayor both preliminary and final approval for the Shawnee Hotel nomination. building into elderly housing units. It will once again become an DEC 3 1984 November 29, 1984 Dr. W. Ray Luce, Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Dr. Luce: December 7, 1984 meeting. We are aware that there is the provision for a sixty-day Mr.
Gerald Furay Mr. James A. Harmon matter. National Register. Ohio Historical Center the National Register of Historic Places receive both State Historic Preservation Officer request that the property not be placed on the National we are requesting that the nomination of this building to the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board at their Sincerely, of National Register nominations, during which the owner of Thank you for your interest and cooperation in this preliminary and final approval when it is considered by 1985 Velma Avenue As the owners of the Shawnee Hotel in object to the nomination of the Shawnee Hotel to the Dr. Carlos O Andarsio Register. review and comment period between preliminary and final approval We specifically waive the right to comment or 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 October 28, 1985 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O.
Box 37127 Dear Carol : County, nomination have been received from the property owners and City of Springfield. Please expedite this nomination. Barrett, George, House Ray Luce NOV 6 1985 614/466-1500 Greene SOCIETY County HISTORICAL Enclosures Cuyahoga Sincerely, Jackson Gibson House New Submissions Shawnee Hotel Ohio Historic Preservation Office Department of the Interior State Historic Preservation Office National Register of Historic Places Clark Kennedy Apartments and Commercial Block WRL:bp Please contact me If you have any questions. Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 OHIO National Park Service