Nomination for Stryker Depot

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JUL 0 3 1989 (Form 10-900a) Type all entnes 1. Name of Property other names/site number N/A NA not for publication city, town N/A vicinity zip code Classification X private Ubuildings Structures _objects 0 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 0 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Zentered in the National Register. J See continuation sheet. Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) Noncontributing 171 NATIONAL REGISTER site district Stryker public-Federal public-local Registration Form Date public-State Stryker Depot National Register. historic name removed from the National Register.

county Williams determined eligible for the National State/Federal Agency Certification Category of Property Ownership of Property Signature of commenting or other official Date of Action Number of Resources within Property Entered in the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Signature of the Keeper United States Department of the Interior State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of centitying official This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.See instructions in Guidelines Name of related multiple property listing: for Completing Natonal Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the requested information.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable."For functions, styles, materials. 2. Location street & number North Depot Street As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this and areas ofsignificance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professiona/ reduirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property meets C does not meet the National Register criteria. 43557 1014 Ohio Hational Begisten 6. Function or Use , Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description village of Stryker, Williams County, a northwestern Ohio community of 1423.

The depot is a rectangular structure 72 feet x 26 feet and is an unusually elaborate example of a traditional depot design. (1) The windows are one over one double-hung and include Elizabethan style leaded side. Architectural Classification Late Victorian Vacant/Not in Use (enter categories from instructions) Rail-Related/Train Depot Describe present and historic physical appearance. one-third of the walls consist of alternating smooth and rusticated sandstone, capped The front or south side of the roof has a parapet gabled dormer with brick face and sandstone blocks also separate paired windows on opposite ends of the building.

Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Materials (enter categories from instructions) is covered with slate on the north side and replacement asphalt shingles on the south See continuation sheet includes a keystone which extends to the sandstone cap of the rear or The six bay front or south elevation has a symmetrical fenestration and includes a referred to as a lap joint) and fastened with square wooden pegs.Also glass in the smaller upper portion of the The doors are in turn flanked by north side of the roof includes a large off-center chimney trimmed in brick and sandstone.There are crockets at each end of the roof The Stryker depot sits on a sandstone foundation with beveled watertable.The 1ower the window head just below the meeting rail.(7) One-over-one double-hung windows with leaded glass are also found on the other three elevations.

The Stryker Depot is located on Depot the center of the original plat of the foundation_ Sandstone The roof Slate, Asphalt Roman brick, with sandstone quoins and sills framing all windows and doors. (2) Stacked other The hip roof has wide overhanging eaves supported by beveled timbers joined at a diagonal supporting the eaves and the timbers themselves, are larger knee braces mounted on central observation bay window flanked by matching single panel doors with a single large walls Brick, Sandstone Stryker, Williams County, Ohio OMB Approvel No. 10240018 See Continuation Sheet entrance).

(8-9) The depot is divided into a large and small waiting rooms, baggage room, ticket office The main feature of the interior is the mahogany stained, pine, tongue-and-groove panelling, divided at the corners with vertical molding and further defined with a six panel solid wood door separates the small and large waiting rooms. (13-14) Other interior features include original hardware, locks and decorative metal fixtures, (17-19) The glass chandeliers are of recent vintage. Interior basement functions.

Stryker Depot, National Park Service chute and arched opening on the opposite wall still provide evidence of these earlier it extends another eighteen inches to the bottom edge of an entablature crown molding portion of window and door casings also include single rectangular recessed panels.A National Register of Historic Places includes a single one-over-one window with a double-six panel door (the baggage room United States Department of the Interior A small alcove or hall separates the two waiting rooms and is defined by a horizontal The eight bay north or rear elevation is similar to the south elevation.The only windows are covered with wood and plexiglass storm windows added recently to smaller entablature crown molding at the ceiling level.(12) Section number Page originally provided for coal delivery and ash removal.

Though now closed off, the coal Entablature door and window surrounds repeat the ceiling theme. However, the vertical with access from both waiting rooms because the large waiting room was closed molding with recessed panels and brackets projecting from the wall lines to the ceiling.The coved portion of the ceiling is covered with horizontal protect the leaded glass. and early light fixtures probably installed when the depot was wired for electricity. The two bay east elevation has two one-over-one windows while the two bay west elevation ticket office countertop with bracketed original"ticket office"lettering difference is the presence of two small single glaze windows instead of the bay window.

divided at the top of the window surrounded by a narrow cornice there Stryker, Williams County, Ohio National Park Service Section number - -updating of wiring, lighting, plumbing and heating to meet current codes; and National Register of Historic Places Alterations Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior The depot has undergone only minor alterations.They include: construction of an outside entrance to the basement and handicap ramps at the new -replacement of some interior sills in main waiting room. -replacement of hot water heating with forced air system; 1 Page 3 -replacement of slate with asphalt shingles on the south side of roof; have been replaced. A new door was also installed between the two waiting rooms.

Additional changes are now being made in preparation for the depots adaptive reuse as a (8-86) Stryker, Williams County, Ohio Please note: the name of the property, photographer, date of photographs and location of 7. camera facing NE Village of Stryker, Ohio Photograph List National Park Service National Register of Historic Places negatives is the same for all photographs and is therefore only listed once. Stryker Depot June 1987 See Continuation Sheet North Depot Street Ted Fisher United States Department of the Interior Section number Page Stryker Ohio OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Page Stryker, Ohio Stryker, Williams County, Ohio OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - This is a recent architects Though some Reduced Stryker Depot LARGE Continuation Sheet taking place. capital letters.

National Park Service rehabilitation work currently drawing of the Stryker Testrooms),the historic floor plan National Register of Historic Places modern needs in the Bistoric use is indicated in United States Department of the Interior Depot, completed for remains essentially the sane. TICKET Page SMALL changes are being made to accomodate WAITING ROON AREA Original: 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Architect/Builder and C. Under A for transportation, representing the importance of rail transportation to example of the standardized "country"or small town railroad stations constructed by many The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, which built the Stryker Depot in 1900, to 1900 Architecture town. Transportation Architectural Significance unknown Significant Person population, commerce and corresponding passenger service supported the larger facility.

replace an earlier frame structure destroyed by fire, apparently predicted continued The building is constructed of sandstone and brick and contains both large and small Cultural Affiliation visual evidence of the high hopes which both the railroad and local citizens had for their Significant Dates of two well preserved brick and stone depots remaining along the Lake Shore and Michigan Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) small communities at the turn-of-the-century and under C, the Depot is significant as one See continuation sheet Period of Significance State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.

station [2].The town later languished.However, the Stryker Depot remains as important railroads in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1] Applicable National Register Criteria Southern Railroad's famous "Air Line Route."The depot is also significant as an excellent towns"along the route and thus the recipient ofa substantial brick and stone railroad The depot's72'x 26'dimensions place itin a"class one or two"category of standardized adapted to the needs of the railroad. *locally waiting rooms, a separate baggage area and combination ticket and operators office [3].

treatment, deep set window placement, wide overhanging hip roof supported by knee braces Distinctive characteristics of the Stryker Depot include its brick and stone wall features of the building suggest both the increasing standardization of depot construction Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) growth for the town.In fact, Stryker's rapid growth made it one of the so called "big Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: and the possible influence of late Victorian era Richardsonian Romanesque architecture depot designs [4].Such buildings were normally intended for county seat towns where the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Stryker Depot, Stryker, Williams County, Ohio northwestern Ohio into Indiana, where it joined existing rail lines to Chicago (Toledo Blade, May 26, 1980). [5] this place - - ." (Bowersox, P.

294) At the turn-of-the-century Stryker, located in the center of a rich agricultural district, fire. Historical Background showed substantial growth and increased population brought on by increased business, became the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.Takeovers and expansion also eventually built the coming season, and the timber is cut and framed at Stryker, seven miles east of agricultural, and shipping activity due to the railroad. improvement at a time when roads throughout northwest Ohio were impassable much of the National Register of Historlc Places empire and became part of the New York Central system.[8] it is likely the original Stryker passenger depot was built sometime after 1874.

[7] In 1869 the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana merged with the Lake Shore Railroad and town's major employer) and a tannery chose not to rebuild after they were destroyed by By 1857 the first passenger service was established and the first printed timetable was in as well as increased availability to markets for the county's agricultural and The coming of the railroads brought about a rise in population throughout Williams County Rail service through Stryker dates from 1855,when the Michigan Southern took over the Continuation Sheet accelerated the process of depot replacement slated for the "big towns"along the Lake rapidly since the Air Line Railroad is completed from Toledo.Some thirty new buildings have been completed within three weeks...A large and commodious eating house is to be National Park Service period Times.February 21,1959).Though no exact date has been confirmed, United States Department of the Interlor The Civil War brought increased traffic on the railroad.Asa result anumber of new and (8-86) NPS Form 10-000 Section number _ use [6].

The 135 mile trip from Toledo to Elkhart, Indiana took just nine hours, a major Because of a booming area economy, the destruction of the earlier depot may have simply Shore route. Ironically, it was a series of disastrous fires that also spelled the end year.

Page manufactured products.This growth and prosperity resulted in a building boom in of Stryker's dreams of continued growth and expansion.Both a boat ore factory spelled the end of the L.S.M.S.In 1914 it was absorbed by the vast Vanderbilt railroad communities where the railroads stopped.The 1920History of Williams County included United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Stryker Depot, Stryker, Williams County, Ohio stations along the Lake Shore line, a favorite pastime of villagers was to "meet the train." Town and country folk alike participated, driving their buggies (and later their 1959). [9] years earlier, the Wauseon Depot is nearly identical in plan.

Exterior features are similar, including the brick and stone wall treatment, roof type, eaves, brackets or Notes and References currently refurbishing the depot and will maintain it as an office and community center. After being vacant for several years the building was purchased by Buzz and Marnie Osborn Some interior alterations are necessary in order to bring the building up to current America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.For many, the railroad was building codes and to accommodate the handicapped.However, the current adaptive reuse Shore" line. function for which it was intended. Like airports today, there was usually an aura of excitement and anticipation at the dimensional corporate trademarks.According to Bohi and Grant the "carbon-copy 1.Charles Bohi and H.Roger Grant have called these standardized depots three of the two buildings are similar.

However, the highly polished Mahogany stained tongue the only places to send and receive telegrams. In an age of high speed travel and high tech communication it is difficult to appreciate active railroad station, a scene that was repeated in countless places across the country. will enable the Stryker depot to continue to be used as a public space, in historic National Park Service automobiles) to the station to watch the trains come and go Times, February 21, or understand the role of the railroad and the town depot in the daily life of small town NPS Form 10-000 OMB Approva/ No. 1024-0018 The Stryker Depot was evaluated locally against the Wauseon Depot, the only other and converted into an antique shop. This shop later closed.

In 1985 Erie Sauder, a local traditional size red brick was used in the Wauseon Depot.The floor plans and interiors not afford to travel often lived the experience vicariously.At Stryker and at other Declining passenger service in the 1950's spelled the end of the Stryker depot as an their only contact with the outside world.In fact, for many years "country depots" were and groove panelling of the Stryker Depot gives it a more elaborate appearance. surviving brick and stone depot on the former "Air Line Route."Built approximately four There were plenty to watch.As early as 1879,over 6,000 passengers passed through the NPS Form 10-000 OMB Approve/ No. 1024-0018 Stryker Depot, Stryker, Williams County, Ohio telegraph instrument for receiving train orders, was located here.

(Letter from Francis Parker, AICP, January 13, 1989) nomination, listed in 1978, indicates that a partial set of working drawings marked Old City Hall. The plans were dated 1900 and marked for Bellvue, Ohio. The Mentor PP. 119, 123). "Bedford stone" with pressed brick, slate roof, quarter sawn oak woodwork and marble schemes. Continuation Sheet National Park Service shared immediately recognizable decorative features.

Though few historic documents and manuscripts discuss the philosophy behind depot The bay window in the Operators office provided a view up and down the track.The Limited documentation has thus far been found on specific standardized depot designs Railroad Depot and Freight House (Mentor Railroad Station) National Register The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad also employed standardized plans for a series National Register of Historic Places architecture of the nations small town depots became even more recognizable when There were four or five brick and stone depots built, approximately one-fourth of the 1903,and Tipton,1902.A contemporary news article described the Lafayette depot as of stations built between 1901 and 1904.Their stations were referred to as "Number stations on the "Lake Shore" route. in design and plan to the Stryker Depot.

Other major railroads of the time United States Department of the Interlor large two story structure which included an agents apartment.All "Pennsy"stations six sizes,A-F,ranging from the smallest freight-passenger) depot toa waiting room and was designed for well established communities and Grant,1979, The two waiting rooms were usually identified as "men's waiting room" and women's One"and "Number Two."The basic difference in the two designs was length.Number at this time, as well as the L.S.M.S.The two examples are located at Lafayette, present day retail and fast food chains) selected their own color same color they become heralds..."(Bohi and Grant,1979,p.118) spit in the more genteel "women's" room. Section number _8 Page _4 f1oor. (Letter from Dr. Francis H.

Parker, AICP, January 13, 1989.) Station is an exact duplicate of the design with the plan reversed and very similar "Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Passenger House" were discovered in Mentor's and Missouri River Railroad in 1895."By having them shaped alike and painted the design, there is some written evidence.We have simple structures along our route Two measuring 72'x 20' in size to the Stryker depot) contained a single that serve comfortably the public needs,"remarked a superintendent of the Burlington NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Stryker Depot, Stryker, Williams County, Ohio The stretch of track between Toledo and Kendalville, Indiana, approximately seventy Some of the fastest trains in the world would "fly" over the roadbed, thus the name Air Line (Bowersox, 1920, p. 259).

The stations named on the table were Toledo, Springfield, Centerville, Delta, Wauseon, Archbold, Stryker, Bryan, Edgerton, Butler, Waterloo, Corunna, Kendalville, Rome, Wawaka, Leggonier, Millersburg, Goshen and Elkhart. (Goodspeed, 1882, p. 218) of railroad equipment and technology, which must have attracted observers from far through which 5,000 gallons of water could literally be slammed into a tender while During the winter, boilers located in a building just outside of Stryker, heated the Historical Society, 1978, p. 302) Mergers have continued until recent times.The New York Central and the Pennsylvania water.During especially cold weather many men spent their days picking ice from the the New York Railroad. two Atlas publications.

National Park Service Time was the enemy of railroad schedules and trackpans were devised to enable steam Railroad merged in 1969 and became Penn-Central.Conrail has operated the track separate passenger depot now located on the north side of the tracks indicating that inches deep and nineteen inches wide, with the top of the pan one inch below the top since 1976. of the rail.Markers indicated to engine crews the exact place to lower a scoop. the train was traveling forty to fifty miles an hour. Atlas map of Stryker shows only a freight depot located on the south side of the miles, was said to be one of the longest straight stretches of track in the country.

In addition to its "big town depot, Stryker was also the location of a major piece United States Department of the Interlor this facility was built sometime between 1874 and 1894, the twenty years between the engines to take on water without stopping.Trackpans a half-mile long) Section number _8 Page_s In fact, keeping the pans in repair and working properly provided employment It is unlikely that independent passenger service existed prior to 1864. An 1864 depot and scales, indicating a combination use.The 1894 Atlas map reveals a were located between the rails.They were constructed of rolled steel plates eight Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. Bryan Press, April 15, 1943. Bryan Times, February 21, 1959. Goodspeed, Weston A. and Charles Blanchard, Editors, 1882, County of Williams, Ohio, Chicago: F.A. Battey and Company, Publishers. Letter from Dr.

Francis H. Parker, AICP, January 13, 1989. ] See continuation sheet -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Survey # Record #_ 10.

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

Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By street & number city or town - _state Ohio 2) James T. Bernath, Village Administrator Village of Stryker, North Defiance Street Stryker, OH 43557 University Local government Stryker Depot.

Other State agency Center for Archival Collections Federal agency Boundary Justification Acreage of property 0.509 Verbal Boundary Description Other The nomination includes the property historically associated with the operation of the Bowling Green designated a National Historic Landmark Commencing at a point marked by an iron pin at the intersection of the East line of West State historic preservation office UTM References recorded by Historic American Buildings Zone Easting previously listed in the National Register Specify repository: Previous documentation on file (NPS): Ohio Historic Preservation Office, NW Region, has been requested recorded by Historic American Engineering Primary location of additional data: the point of beginning; thence N 80° 10'E along the South line of Depot Street 300.00 Northing Major Bibliographical References Pioneer America, August 1, 1979, Volume II, No.

3, pp. 116-129. Bowersox, Hon. Charles A. A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio, 1920, Volume I, Street (66 feet wide) and the South line of Depot Street (66 feet wide) is said Village: _telephone_419-372-2411 43403 Zone Stryker previously determined eligible by the National Register ___zip code - NPS Form 10-000-+ Stryker, Williams County, Ohio Letter to the Editor, Bryan Press, March 24, 1913. Map of Williams County, Ohio, 1864, Philadelphia: Stone and Titus, Publishers. Standard Atlas of Williams County. 1918, Philadelphia: Stone and Titus, Publishers. The Advance Reporter, August 23, 1978, p. 19. The Eagle, West Unity, February 7, 1881. Toledo Blade, May 26, 1980. Vignettes of Bryans125 Years, Bryan Times. Williams County Atlas, 1874. Williams County, Ohio. 1978, Volume II, Montpelier Ohio: The Williams County Historical and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1920.

Society. Historical Association. Stryker Depot National Park Service Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Bowersox, Charles A.,ed.A Standard History of Williams County,Ohio.Vol.1.Chicago OMB Approvel No 1024-0018 Section number 9 Shinn, William Henry.

The County of Williams, 1905, Madison, Wisconsin: Northwestern Page EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 7/03/89 RETURN 8/04/89 DATE MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE 8/17/89 REJECT REVIEWER ACCEPT RECOM./CRITERIA DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE Entered in the National Register UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF 16TH DAY: PROPERTY OTHER: Stryker Depot LESS THAN 5O YEARS: _justification of exception _sketch maps current acreage count FUNCTION materials DESCRIPTION clarity context architectural classification completeness resource type boundary justification Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY Period CLASSIFICATION other historic SIGNIFICANCE Date Specific dates verbal boundary description Phone ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION applicable criteria USGS maps relationship of integrity to significance Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to descriptive text summary paragraph justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource GEOGRAPHICAL DATA STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION OTHER COMMENTS UTMS Statement of Significance one paragraph) Signed _presentation photographs Williams County, Ohio Stry ver Depot Williams County, Ohio Stryker Depot Williams County, Ohio Stryker Depot 6 of 19 Stnyker Depot Williams County, Ohio Stryker Depot 8 of 19 strxker Depot Williams County,Oho Stryker Vepot Stryker Depot Stryker Depot Williams County, Oho Stryker Depot Stryker Depot 170f19 TEO FISHER PHOTOG.

DEPOT OEFICE Stryker Depot JUNE 1987 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WEST UNITY QUADRANGLE WEST UNITY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) N4130_W8422.5/79 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY County.Oho Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 June 30, 1989 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief JUL 0 3 1989 P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Moore, Jacob, House Lehman, Abraham, House Weber, Peter, House Griffith, James, House Epley, Henry, House Deitz, Samuel, Farmhouse Haffey, Parley. Farm Complex King, William, House Beery, Dr. L.W., House Decker, Elias, Farmhouse SOCIETY County 614/297-2470 Carty-Tussing House Methodist Church Parsonage deadline.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL REGISTER Helpman-Chaney House Arendt-Seymour House Bruns-Wynkoop House National Park Service Franklin Peoples Bank Company Department of the Interior Banhart-Bolenbaugh House Zellers-Langel House New Submissions Dear Carol: Enclosed is one Multiple Property Documentation Form and 25 new National nominations included photographs which were submitted to our office before the Times Building/Lodge Hall Historic Resources of Canal National Register of Historic Places David's Reformed Church been followed for these new submissions. We request a waiver of the 1 October Canal Winchester (MPD) 1988 deadline for the new photographic labelling requirements;some of these Register nominations. All of the appropriate notification procedures have June 30, 1989 Thrush, Morgan, Farm Complex Gayman, Christian, House Sincerely W.

Ray Luce WRL/BAP: emn Enclosures County Franklin Williams New Submissions Foor-Alspach House State Historic Preservation Officer North High Street Historic District Please contact me if you have any questions. Carol Shull Stryker Depot Page 2