Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Odd Fellows Hall

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,328 words across 13 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 87002090, 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.

Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Historical Name Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 4. Present Name(s) 2. County 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? 17. Date(s) or Period 7. City or Town 30. Foundation Material If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder No. of Bays 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangular 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition O Private X N/AAltered O 24. Owner's Name & Address in #42) Moved C I known Orlents Lodge, No. 337 9. U.T.M. Reference 37. Condition IOOF, 502% Court Street Interior Good Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 Exterior Good Open to Yes O Preservation Structure O Building X Object - 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 11.
On National Endangered? By What? No X 27. Other Surveys in Which Included District Hist. Dist.? 40. Visible from 41. Distance from and architecture in Portsmouth. Notable features of the style -- including the storefront, cor- 4. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Iccupies corner location in predominantly residential area of Boneyfiddle, Portsmouth's west 5. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by ianborn Maps, 1884-1921 J. Williams 47. Organization iver Town, Oxford, Ohio, 1982. 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1871 614/466-1500 Front none Side Easting Register? Site SOCIETY Scioto Italianate Portsmouth Criterion C Eligible? Zone Underway? unknown Boneyfiddle Association (Explain meeting hall OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Frontage on Road Boneyfiddle Assoc: significant for its architectural character as an excellent example of Italianate commercial side neighborhood.
brick bearing are intact. flat/built up the type of headquarters buildings built by fraternal organizations in the 19th century, with The cornice features paired brackets and frieze panels 500-506 Court Street bond brick 42.Further Description of Important Features (Continue on reverse if necessary) Northing 1semicircular pediments of pressed metal.Original 2/2windows Public Road? Odd Fellows Hall The Odd Fellows Hall is a three-story brick Italianate structure with (cont'd) Potent'!? 4288960 1. No. 5. Other Name(s) Historical Name 21. Original Use, if apparent 12. Is It 13. Part of Estab. Yes O 15. Name of Established District 5. Other Name(s) stone piers supporting an entablature and cornice of wood, with small 13. History and Significance Ivans, Nelson. liami University Art Museum, Portsmouth: Architecture in an Ohio Good Cols.
OHIO tor Politics/Social Welfare nice and window treatments -- are intact.The structure is also a representative example of in an alternating pattern.The building's storefronts feature Doric common bond brick 391 Library Park Boneyfiddle MRA, Portsmounth, Scioto County, Ohio Odd Fellows Hall 500-06 Court Street early single-light doors, transoms and sidelights. Storefront transoms upper stories, contains little decoration on the first floor. Rear and the IOOF during the 1850s, but the present building was not erected until 1871. At the time of its construction, it was estimated to cost $25,000. first floor, office space on the second floor, and the Odd Fellows Hall on the integrity of its architecture, with no changes made to the storefront Contibuting buildings: 1 Non-contributing buildings: 0 sills. residential neighborhoods.
The structure is more architecturally distinctive than the small scale are particularly noteworthy include the flush storefront with paired Expanded statement of significance

Statement of significance

: brackets above each pier.A central entrance with paneled door and transom The Odd Fellows Hall displays the distinctive characteristics of the Building is unique in its location outside the commercial districts of the space for commercial as well as fraternal uses. leads to the building's upper floors.Two separate storefronts to either city, making it stand out in its predominantly residential neighborhood.
or upper story treatments over the years.Elements of the building which The building was used early in its life as a grocery and warehouse on the entries flanked by display windows with transoms;the upper story windows north elevations have a plain cornice and windows with plain lintels and with 2/2 wood sash and ornamental hoodmolds; and the pressed metal cornice Architectural Description from organization to the present day and is used by a variety of local groups as Italianate style of commercial architecture as itappeared during the 1860s The Scioto Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was organized in a meeting hall.
History and Significance from 1844 as one of the earliest fraternal organizations to be established in membersby 1896.It appears that the lot for the building was purchased by the third floor.It has continued in the ownership of the fraternal also exist across the facade.The south elevation, while decorative on the and l870s in Portsmouth.The three-story building is also distinguished by side of this entrance have three bays with a central entrance featuring NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number . 11. Newman, William, House 12. Odd Fellows Hall No. 1 14. Portsmouth Foundry and 15. Purdum--Tracy House 19. Steindam House 20.
Streich Apartments State Attest Continuation Sheet Name Date/Signature District Page National Register of Historic Places Machine Works Nomination/Type of Review Multiple Resource Area National Park Service Thematic Group United States Department of the Interior Boneyfiddle MRA Scioto County, OHIO National Register Keeper 16. Reed, Joseph G., Company 18. Sixth Street Historic Bmtored in WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Odd Fellows Hall (Boneyfiddle MRA) OCT 2 6 1987 Fed. Reg. Date: nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: _ -appeal L sample J request LJ NR decision - see continuation sheet _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description - excellent J unaltered L original site - moved Category ruins yes resubmission Condition Ownership deteriorated dates REJECT Accessible Date unexposed completeness alterations/integrity Discipline Reviewer Recom./Criteria RETURN clarity Status Substantive Review: Working No. Scioto County summary paragraph Public Acquisition owner objection Reviewer's comments: boundary selection Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Has this property been determined eligible? Present Use Check one Ltechnical corrections cited below Nomination returned for: fair Bational Registeg 8. Significance J summary paragraph - completeness Japplicable criteria relating significance to the resource - justification of exception Other 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By -national State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect Date Signed context state title clarity UTM References Specific dates Quadrangle name Maps Photographs Verbal boundary description and justification Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification _local The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relationship of integrity to significance Acreage of nominated property justification of areas checked Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Neg. at 391 Library Park S.
Columbus, Ohio Looking NE at west and south elevations 500-06 Court Street Boneytiddle Multiple Resource Area Odd Fellows Hall DRINK Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Columbus, Ohio Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area 500-06 Court Street Looking NE at west and south elev. Odd Fellows Hall Photo # Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Columbus, Ohio Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area Odd Fellows Hall 500-06 Court Street J. Williams photo 3/87 Looking east and main facade Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Columbus, Ohio Odd Fellows Hall Detail of storefront, 1kg. north Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area 500-06 Court Street Photo #: Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J.
Williams photo 3/87 Columbus, Ohio Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area Looking NE at south and east facades 500-06 Court Street Odd Fellows Hall Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Please refer to the map in the for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000611