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Decorative drawing: a fire station with an arched engine door and a hose tower. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Portsmouth Fire Department No. 1

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,395 words across 11 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 87002091, 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 Columbus. Ohio 43211 C SINCE 1885 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 2% Basement? Yes O 17. Date(s) or Period (Lot #320) c. 1895 Foundation Material 30 brick 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design brick, iron posts 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder shed, composition 33. No. of Bays Front 3 21. Original Use, If apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape Rect. 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition O Altered El in #42) Moved O 24. Owner's Name & Address, 37. Condition 9. U.T.M. Reference 25. Open to No X Site O Structure - Building X Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27.

Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes O 14. District Visible from Hist. Dist.? 15. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and retain their segmental arches beneath a red-tiled canopy added 43. History and Significance 44. Description of Environment and Outbulldings 45. Sources of Information Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1884-1939 Lorber, Henry A. "Souvenir of Portsmouth, Ohio," c. 1903. (photo) Date 49. Revision Date(s) 614/466-1500 none Register? Underway? Zone Eligible? SOCIETY County Fire Portsmouth politics/reform/welfare Exterior Scioto Excellent Department HISTORICAL fire station 5/87 unknown Northing Side Italianate Interior Potent'? Portsmouth Fire Department #1 Boneyfiddle Association Easting Preservation (Explain Frontage on Road vacant common bond Public Road?

OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY architectural significance as the City of Portsmouth's best remaining example of a 19th has three pairs of windows within segmental arched openings with 31.Wall Construction Criterion C (continued) facility is more intact architecturally than a station located to the east at Gallia and see separate list if known The Portsmouth Fire Department #1meets National Register criterion C because of its less than l acre PrivateXx 5. Other Name(s) Historic Name 5. Other Name(s) about 1915-20. The existing multi-light garage doors appear to date from about the same period as the canopy. One of two stations remaining from this period, the 7th Street set back to west, leaving both sides and rear facade of this building intact.

Evans, Nelson No O rectangülar brick central segmental arched doorway flanked by two garage doors which Located in predominantly residential area, near County Courthouse. Organization Adjacent building is century fire station. The second floor Boneyfiddle MRA, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio 642 Seventh Street openings at the tower, a hayloft door and an engine door. The earlier engine house, which was set directly on the street, was the building, which features glazed brick side walls and a pressed metal ornamental ceiling, is also intact.

History and Significance (continued from OHI): Fire Department #l, this building has been preserved in its original form interior features, including all of its original openings and exterior architectural details, its fire hose tower, and interior features such as the 1890s, was located to serve the east side of the city at Gallia and Contributing buildings: 1 Non-contributing buildings: 0 character. connect with the fire house and is considered a separate structure.

and is illustrative of municipal fire department construction during the change which has been made to the building was the addition of the front Portsmouth Fire Department Building that this building replaced an earlier fire station on this site in about Abutting the fire station to the rear of its west side is a two-story This structure served its original function as Portsmouth's Fire Department yellow brick building constructed about 1945-50.This building does not the engine house have simple windows set in pairs with stone lintels and constructed and this building was sold.Fire Station #2,built also during Investigation of Sanborn Insurance Maps for the 1880s and 1890s indicates Franklin Streets to serve the growing northern part of the city.

canopy and garage doors a few years after it was built.The interior of Fire Station #l through l977,when a new fire department facility was brick lintels and stone lug sills.The building's original window sash are have been made to the building which would alter its original form or glazed brick walls and an ornamental ceiling.The addition of a canopy to built in 1882 and its keystone was apparently added to the doorway of this Lincoln Streets.A third station was added between 1904-ll at Grant and late 19th century in Portsmouth.The station retains both exterior and #l for over 80 years.Built on the site of Portsmouth's first fire the ground story is an early 2oth century change which did not remove the Architectural Description (continued from OHI): photograph, with all elevations remaining as originally designed. The only original segmental arched openings of the building.

No other additions attic windows below a paneled frieze at the cornice.Side elevations of served as departmental headquarters until 1929.It continued to be used as intact.The roofline of the building is decorated by a trio of porthole station, it was a major addition to the city's municipal facilities and Lincoln Streets which has been altered.Built about 1895 as Portsmouth's building.The c.1895 building appears today exactly as it did in a 1903 NPS Form 10-800-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Scioto County, OHIO I1. Newman, William, House 12. Odd Fellows Hall No. 1 14. Portsmouth Foundry and 15. Purdum--Tracy House 16. Reed, Joseph G., Company State Continuation Sheet Attest Date/Signature Name District Section number National Register of Historic Places Page Machine Works Multiple Resource Area 20. Streich Apartments National Park Service United States Department of the Interior 18.

Sixth Street Historic 19. Steindam House Thematic Group Nomination/Type of Review Keeper Boneyfiddle MRA National Register Babered in the WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Portsmouth Fire Department No. 1 (Boneyfiddle OCT 2 6 1987 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: - nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - LJ NR decision Reviewer _ _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7.

Description I excellent -J unaltered -original site -moved summary paragraph Category yes Accessible ruins Ownership completeness request Status dates REJECT alterations/integrity appeal Discipline sample Recom./Criteria deteriorated fair clarity Condition Substantive Review: Working No. boundary selection Scioto County Present Use MRA) resubmission Check one Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Reviewer's comments: unexposed good 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - summary paragraph relating significance to the resource justification of exception - Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ state State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - J Maps Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to . Signed - Phone: - GPO 918-450 context Builder/Architect title clarity Period national UTM References completeness applicable criteria Specific dates 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Photographs Verbal boundary description and justification relationship of integrity to significance justification of areas checked Quadrangle name Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet _local Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio Columbus, Ohio Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area 642 Seventh Street Portsmouth Fire Dept. Bldg. View of north and west elevations Neg. at 391 Library Park S. J. Williams photo 3/87 PHILLIPS SUPPLY CO Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Columbus, Ohio Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area View of north and east elevations 642 Seventh Street Portsmouth Fire Dept. Bldg. Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Columbus, Ohio View of main facade, looking east Photo # 3| 642 Seventh Street Boneytiddle Multiple Resource Area Portsmouth Fire Dept. Bldg. Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Neg. at 391 Library Park S.

Columbus, Ohio View of rear (south) elevation Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area 642 Seventh Street Portmouth Fire Dept. Building for this property Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000611 Multiple Property Cover Sheet