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

Nomination for Valentine Theater Building

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 3,150 words across 26 pages, filed in 1987. 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 87000686, 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 9 1987 received APR street & number city, town X public X unoccupied - agriculture - museum X building(s) - private - park - structure . work in progress - private residence - religious - yes: restricted - government _ scientific - being considered X. yes: unrestricted _ transportation - military X other: Vacant One Government Center, Jackson Street 43604 N/A vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. - yes - county - _ local 095 039 Category entertainment code Toledo commercial both date Accessible educational Columbus site district object historic Ownership industrial Renaissance Building Status (3-82) 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys Valentine Theater Building Lucas County Courthouse Ohio Inventory-Nomination Form date entered Public Acquisition National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Type all entries-complete applicable sections Ohio Historic Preservation Office Present Use Ohio Historic Inventory 3. Classification state Ohio See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name has this property been determined eligible? Adams at Erie 405-419 St.C1air/402-412Adams 2. Location N/A not for publication depository for survey records 4. Owner of Property N/Avicinity of City of Toledo United States Department of the Interior MAY191587 and or common N/A in process July, For NPS use only title 10-31-87 Expires county Lucas 7. Description .original site .excellent - deteriorated .unaltered - good X altered - moved date .
unexposed The Valentine Theater Building, constructed in 1892, is a four story, yellow architect E.O. Fallis, fills nearly half of a city block and features broad first floor runs another wide, decorative terra cotta coursing that displays flat terra cotta planes alternating with extended talon, bead and reel, and flat pearl patterns - multiple panes, below which are narrow, raised cornices with dentils and On the Adams Street elevation, the second story window above the main Condition entrance is surrounded with decorative terra cotta detail, featuring Street elevation is painted and contains several windows that lack See continuation sheet. window is separated by wide brick pilasters with raised stone bases and of decorative terra cotta.
The remaining elevations facing Superior and Jackson Streets lack the pilasters and scrolled vertical bands, and a hood featuring decorative terra three narrow bands of terra cotta in bead and reel, wave, and egg and dart Check one dentilled terra cotta capitals. block from Adams to Jackson, and contains the theater and office entrances. The first floor commercial facades on the St.Clair and Adams Streets were features a protruding cornice with decorative bands of terra cotta ina The south facade facing St.Clair Street runs almost the entire length of the fair belt course of terra cotta in two rinceau patterns and a smooth band of terra The Jackson corner brackets. three equal size panes of glass with wooden bulkheads. Each triparte display architectural quality of the Adams and St.Clair elevations.
The display windows themselves are divided vertically into cotta dripstone with scrolls, dentils and a central urn. modillions.The frieze, which is also decorated with terra cotta, displays Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

variety of patterns including egg and dart, and a triglyph above scroll-like The entire center section of this facade is-slightly recessed..The flat roof cotta.The deep-set windows are one over one with no moldings and stone lug Exp. 10-31-84 Valentine Theater Builäing, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio Item number 7 visitor could view the elaborately detailed and lighted lobby ceiling four stories above, but the drop ceiling that was installed at the time of the Chinese murals and a set of three tall, slender modern columns with a planter carved wood paneling and trim, and a mural featuring Charles Dickens condition. arches. Deco style.
Page date entered Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places contains the stage entrance, fire escapes, and numerous windows of varying National Park Service The interior was completely redecorated in 1942,in a unique modernistic theater contains bathrooms for men and women that were redone in the late Art OMB No.1024-0018 architectural details.The Superior Street elevation faces onto an alley and plaster details of the original theater auditorium walls and ceiling were used as office space, but was not altered from the room arrangements used United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only the St.Clair entrance to the hotel is a lobby that was redecorated with NPS Form 10-900-a Continuation sheet In 1936-37,the original office building was remodelled into a hotel.Inside shapes in an irregular placement pattern, and topped with segmental brick (3-82) Chinese theme.The theater entrance contains three sets of glass doors under and commercial interiors are in fair condition.The exterior remains in good The building is currently vacant and both the theater characters painted below the ceiling molding.The building has since been while it was a hotel.T - economics _ literature .
music X_ 1800-1899 X 1900- - politics/government -_ invention other (specify) Specific dates 1892-1895/1942 Builder/Architect Edward Oscar Fallis The Valentine Theater Building is an important municipal, commercial, and century trends in commercial architecture, and a transition toward taller While the building has a strong horizontal emphasis, it also shows the section is punctuated by simple office windows, and lacks ornamentation. Toledo's oldest remaining theater, the Valentine's interior retains the original grand staircase, decorative coffered ceiling (covered), and the largest between New York and Chicago at the turn-of-the-century. A Rapp auditorium walls, and add to the character of the theater. The Valentine Theater Building was designed by Edward Oscar Fallis, a pioneer decades.
Fallis' 107 works included residences, commercial buildings, churches, and government buildings, and were located mainly in F. Kerr House, Grand Rapids, Ohio, NR 1979), Chateauesque (the enormous Rudolph Bartley House, Toledo's only remaining building in this style, 1973, and Shingle Style (Renolds-Secor House, Toledo, NR 1973). Fallis' 1600-1699 1400-1499 commerce 1700-1799 transportation humanitarian engineering theater Period industry social commercial and designs also varied stylistically.A Toledo landmark for fifty .communications 8.

Statement of significance

/Architect Edward Oscar Fallis The Valentine Theater Building is an important municipal, commercial, and century trends in commercial architecture, and a transition toward taller While the building has a strong horizontal emphasis, it also shows the section is punctuated by simple office windows, and lacks ornamentation. Toledo's oldest remaining theater, the Valentine's interior retains the original grand staircase, decorative coffered ceiling (covered), and the largest between New York and Chicago at the turn-of-the-century. A Rapp auditorium walls, and add to the character of the theater. The Valentine Theater Building was designed by Edward Oscar Fallis, a pioneer decades. Fallis' 107 works included residences, commercial buildings, churches, and government buildings, and were located mainly in F.
Kerr House, Grand Rapids, Ohio, NR 1979), Chateauesque (the enormous Rudolph Bartley House, Toledo's only remaining building in this style, 1973, and Shingle Style (Renolds-Secor House, Toledo, NR 1973). Fallis' 1600-1699 1400-1499 commerce 1700-1799 transportation humanitarian engineering theater Period industry social commercial and designs also varied stylistically.A Toledo landmark for fifty .communications 8. Significance tripartite vertical divisions exhibited in the architecture of the period. buildings in Toledo. _archeology-historic and Rapp redecoration was completed in 1942.Featuring a unique modernistic Toledo architect, noted for his remarkable variety of designs over several See continuation sheet. division is emphasized by a belt course composed of bands of terra cotta.
Criterion C .sculpture -prehistoric Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) of the stage, and in 1895 was unique in Toledo. The stage of the theater was -.architecture Martin Ziegner was retained to paint a mural at the base of the grand Areas of Significance-Check and justify below military -.education Toledo and northwest Ohio. -conservation .science _law -. archeology-prehistoric - community planning X agriculture - exploration/settlement - philosophy architectural history. Completed-in 1895, the Valentine reflects turn-of-the terra cotta cornice, projecting slightly, caps the building. Each vertical Chinese theme, the new interior won the Modern Theatre's award in 1943 for Fallis' residential designs include excellent examples of Queen Anne (Benjamin years, the massive Romanesque Revival Toledo Public Library was razed in 1940 1500-1599 staircase.
This cantilevered design allowed an unobstructed view cantilevered balcony. best theater decoration.As part of this redecoration, Swiss-American artist entertainment center which is a significant contribution to Toledo's The three story center The murals done during this redecoration remain on the lobby and terra cotta capitals;remodeled in the Tudor Style in 1942,the display areas -art 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Quadrangle name - UT M References Port Lawrence Addition, Lots 439, 1016, 1017; 1029 Vistul SE 120.4 ft. _ state 11. Form Prepared By July, 1986 Bowling Green, Ohio 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 665),I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated date Easting county code Northing Toledo Zone name/title national local Verbal boundary description and justification 10. Geographical Data Bowling Green State University Attest: State Historic Preservation Officer signature See continuation sheet. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Chief of Registration city or town Acreage ofnominated property less than one SHPO For NPs use only National Register Diana D.
Moran with assistance from Evelyn Bray Keeper of the National Register OMB No.1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 Valentine Theater Building, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio Item number 8 concrete structure, with giant elliptical arches springing directly from The Valentine was commissioned by George Ketcham, a Toledo businessman who named the building after his father, Valentine Ketcham, the founder of the of Toledo, brokering real estate, operating a successful civil engineering firm, and operating the Valentine Company, a theater circuit that included The Great Southern Theater and Grand Opera House in Columbus, the English 1983, the city moved into the new city-county building, leaving the Valentine to be owned and operated by George ketcham until 1918 when the Lowe's Circuit Page Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet (3-82) date entered National Register of Historic Places business activities which included the directorship of the First National Bank first skyscraper, and once featured an elaborate tower and terra-cotta of Toledo's central business district around the turn-of-the-century.
stories of the Valentine Building housed the City of Toledo municipal offices (Toledo) featured a simple facade with tripartite divisions and an elaborate The theater opened with a gala event on Christmas Eve in 1895,and continued National Park Service placement on the National Register in 1975.The Valentine is an excellent Building empty.
The Valentine Theater Building is a good example of an early mixed use Lowe's Valentine Theater and movies joined live theater and vaudeville.The structure,incorporating a theater and municipal offices (later converted toa United States Department of the Interior At least two other Fallis building may be compared with the Valentine Theater City of Toledo purchased the building and again moved its offices there.In for a parking lot.The Toledo City Market,1908,was a massive modern extant example of the significant influence E.o.Fallis had on the appearance NPS Form 10-900-a In 1936,the Toledo city offices were moved to a new city building and the For NPS use only Valentine was converted to the Willard Motor Hotel.In October of 1976,the Opera House in Indianapolis, and Valentine Theater in Toledo. assumed the lease and installed a movie screen.
The theater became known as received ornamental terra-cotta cornice.This building was razed just after its First National Bank of Toledo.George Ketcham was involved in a variety of structure was adorned with concrete floral and fruit garlands atop its twelve Rule" Jones and Brand Whitlock had their offices in the Valentine Building. hotel) in the same structure.Upon completion in 1895,the second and third Building.The Nasby Building (now the Security Building) is noted as Toledo's serving as the official city hall until the 1920's.Mayors Samuel "Golden NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior Valentine Theater Building, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio Item number 8 Although currently vacant, the interior of the theater and commercial building National Register of Historic Places date entered Page Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet commercial and entertainment center. the fifth floor as their broadcast studio, and the theater auditorium for National Park Service complex was renamed the Renaissance Building in 1971,but could not compete their auctions until 1980. clear reminder of the importance of this building to Toledo as a landmark remains in fair condition. The exterior is still in good condition, and is a For Nps use only 1976,Toledo's public TV outlet used the old city council chambers on (3-82) OMB No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Far NPS use only Valentine Theater Building, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES York, 1967. National Register Form, 1970 and 1976 Counties, OH; Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, 1895. Toledo Blade , August 31, 1983. Toledo Blade Magazine, October 16, 1983. Toledo News Bee, April 17, 1936. Johannesen, Eric, and Dickes, Allen L. Look Again. Landmark Architecture in Downtown Bowling Green State University, 1981. Page Continuation sheet Inventory-Nomination Form (3-82) National Register of Historic Places received Encyclopedia of American Biography, American Historical Company Inc., New Portrait and Biographical Record of City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Item number United States Department of the Interior date entered NPS Form 10.900-a Western Historical Association, Madison, WI, 1910.
10-31-87 Toledo and 0ld West End.Pittsburgh:0ber Park Associates,1973. Scribner, Harvey, editor; Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, For NPS use only Continuation sheet 5 10-31-87 Expires (CBD) Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places Page Item number TOLEDO CENTRAL National Park Service BUSINESS DISTRICT United States Department of the Interior date entered (3-82) NPS Form 1C.900-8 Valentine Theater Building, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio received OMB NO.1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a No.
1024-0018 For NPS use only Valentine Theater Building, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio Item number N/A #1- SE and SW elevations #2- SE and NE elevations #10- Hotel lobby Superior Street 10-31-87 Expires Interior Exterior Continuation sheet National Park Service #8-Theater auditorium from balcony Inventory-Nomination Form Page #6-Theater Lobby #7-Lobby ceiling Photograph Key #4- Storefront detail Valentine Building National Register of Historic Places #5- Cornice detail United States Department of the Interior date entered #3- SW and Nw elevations St Clair Street OMB NO. (3.82) received #9-Theater auditorium from stage WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET APR - 9 1987 Working No. - Fed. Reg.
Date: S Date Due: _ owner objection Lappeal L sample -request _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - _technical corrections cited below 1. Name 2. Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description Lexcellent - deteriorated -unaltered - original site - moved - fair - summary paragraph - alterations/integrity - boundary selection Ownership completeness Accessible Condition Date yes REJECT ruins Status Category clarity unexposed Lucas County OHIO Action: RETURN Present Use NR decision resubmission Public Acquisition Check one Federal Agency: Valentine Theater Building Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance 3. Classification Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES nomination by person or local government Has this property been determined eligible?
(R" June 1984) _substantive reasons discussed below - good 8. Significance Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) - summary paragraph J justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By _national State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - GPO 918-450 Builder/Architect clarity Signed local state Phone title Maps UTM References Specific dates context completeness 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Photographs Quadrangle name Verbal boundary description and justification justification of areas checked applicable criteria relating significance to the resource Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet relationship of integrity to significance The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period 405-419 St Clair/402-412 Adams Toledo, OH Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO APR 91987 Renaissance/Valentine Building Southeast(front) and SW elevations/facing N Photo #1 Toledo, OH Photo Renissance/Valentine Building Southeast (front) and NE elevations/facing W Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO 405-419 St C1air/402-412Adams ON RED TURN RIGHT Toledo, OH Photo Renissance/Valentine Building Southwest and Nw(rear) elevations/facing E Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO 405-419 St C1air/402-412 Adams 405-419 St Clair/402-412 Adams Toledo, OH Renissance/Valentine Building Storefront detail on main facade/facing NW Photo#4 Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO 405-419 St Clair/ 402412 Adams Toledo, OH Diana Moran / 7-86/ OHPO Renissance/Valentine Building Cornice detail on front elevation/Facing NW Photo Toledo, OH Photo #6 Renissance/Valentine Building Theater lobby- mural and staircase 405-419St C1air/4C2-412 Adams Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO Toledo, OH Bill Firsck/1985/Bill Frisck Renaissance/Valentine Building Photo lobby ceiling detail 405-419 St C1air/402-412Adams #7 of 405-419 St Clair/402-412 Adams Toledo, OH Renissance/Valentine Building Photo Theater auditorium- stage and house from balcon.
Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO #8 of 405-419 St Clair/402-412 Adams Toledo, OH stage Renissance/Valentine Building Theater auditorium-balcony and main floor from Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO Photo #9 405-419 St Clair/402-412 Adams Toledo, OH Renaissance/Valentine Building APR91987 Hotel Lobby- ceiling, mural and wood wall panel Diana Moran/7-86/0HPO Photo #10 County, State Valentine Theater Building Lucas County, OH Nomination Form X_ Photographs (#s: 11, 12, 13) 87000686 Reference Number The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Property Name Missing Core Documentation USGS Map *= 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) TOLEDO, OHIO- MICH. TOLEDO QUADRANGLE OHIO -MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 1 April 1987 Ms. Carol Shul1, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 W.
Ray Luce SOCIETY Harrison Enclosures County Hamilton 614/297-2470 Lucas Stark Franklin First National Bank Building New Submissions Sincerely. HISTORICAL State Historic Preservation Office Dear Carol: National Register of Historic Places Valentine Theater Building Department of the Interior Please contact me if you have any questions. Laurel Homes Historic District National Park Service "Boom Town" Historic District Landes, Samuel House Franklin College Building #5 Enclosed are 6new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate WRL:bp OHIO notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. UNiTED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ORG - OFFICE TITLE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, NATURAL L ST DEPUTY DIRECTOR Energy, Mining & Minerals Div.
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