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Nomination for Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 6,689 words across 63 pages, filed in 1995. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings other names/site number Varium & Chemicals, Inc. Buildings 2. Location street & number County Road 44 N/AJnot for publication city, town X vicinity county Jefferson code 081 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property X private X building(s) J public-local _ sites J public-Federal _ structures _ objects _ Total Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register _ 0 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, heréby, certify that this property is: Mentered in the National Register. Jdetermined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. Jother, (explain:)_ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action Noncontributing code REGISTER Date district public-State state NATIONAL Steubenville Ohio (Rev. 8-86) Registration Form National Register. National Register of Historic Places See continuation sheet. historic name RECEIVED 413 NPS Form 10-900 zip code 43952 the requested information.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, VCL : 0 1992 As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) INDUSTRY/ PROCESSING/EXTRACTION T. Description Materials (enter categories from ihstructions) (enter categories from instructions) foundation _ _No Style The Describe present and historic physical appearance. approximately 133,000 square feet.

The Pottery is oriented northeast-southwest axis, parallel to and between the Cleveland and laboratory spaces are at the south end, with the bulk of the building is set on a high poured concrete foundation, its yellow brick walls arranged in a series of bays separated by brick and indeed the entire exterior is very plain and functional in Multiple-paned industrial steel windows occupy the full width of each bay and have simple poured concrete sills; these are employed on all four elevations, though a few bays on the south and east elevations have blank brick panels instead of windows at the second Doors are spaced randomly, their placement determined by the and west elevations have both personnel doorways and freight doors hinged wood doors that appear to be original. 4x See continuation sheet design.

BRICK CONCRETE walls Architectural Classification manufacturing facility roof OTHER: Built-up; cement-asbestos building occupied byproduction space in the northern part.The and consists of both one-story and two-story sections.Office and above the river. 1946 and 1950,the building has reached its current size of The Steubenville Pottery building dates from 1925,when its first Pittsburgh Railroad on the west side and the Ohio River on three small doors leading into laboratory and office spaces. The The 1925 portion of the building is approximately 530 by 153 feet story level. doors here are simple aluminum and glass or plain steel.

The north for receiving and shipping materials by rail.Some of these are United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number - Page _ 2 The 1946 addition is along the east side of the original building original, the addition also has industrial steel windows and simple of "sawtooth" design, unlike the generally flat roof of the original to provide extra interior light. The 1950 addition measures 40 by 35 feet and was built at the east end of the south elevation to provide additional office space. Measuring three bays by three and one story in height, it has Industrial steel windows 1ike those elsewhere on the building, and a industrial spaces, with exposed structure, unfinished masonry and large clear spaces without interference of structural columns.

Several pottery kilns remain in the former production areas, but south end are finished, with plaster walls and linoleum tile floors but with very little ornamentation. In the original portion of the wood wainscote. the northeast corner of the building is a steel water tower of corner of the building; and south of the main south elevation are are not known, but all appear to date from the period when the complex still operated as a pottery. North of the main building is a metal storage building dating from 1978, outside the period of significance; and just east of the 1946 addition is a long one-story gable-roofed building from about the same date. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places flat roof.

unknown date;a small brick guardhouse stands just off the southwest building isa second-floor library which still contains its wooden The interiors of the original buildings and the additions are (PS Form . 0900a and measures 490 by 105 feet. Built of yellow brick like the rectangular doorways with metal doors. The töoflon the addition is building; though the roof of the original has a variety of monitors Several other structures are part of the pottery complex. Just off RECEIVED 4V3 0 1992 three small wood and brick storage buildings. Construction dates shelving.0ffices in the 1950 addition are finished ina varnished United States Department of the Interior Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefferson Co., Ohio Section number _7 North Page Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places CHB Approvel No.

1024-0018 Sketch map showing construction dates SBO X I6D; 1925 1946 (Mo a (490x 105 NPS Form 10-000e National Park Service Photo view map (For clarity only exterior North National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 390x15 views are included here) United States Department of the Interior 490x 105 Steubenville vicinity. Section number (8-86) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 JUL 1O 1992 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Page 5 Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio The nominated property includes eight separate resources, of which five are The following are the noncontributing resources: building, probably dating from the original 1925 construction. The guardhouse at the southwest corner of the main building, probably dating from the 1946 expansion. 2.

A gable-roofed metal shed built at an unknown date along the east side of the main building, just south of the water tower. A metal building constructed in the 1970s just to the north of the National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet northwest corner of the main building. contributing and three are noncontributing. 1.The main pottery building, built in 1925,with additions in 1946 and 1950. Cumulative List of Resources 2.Three storage buildings south of the main pottery building.One is of from the 1925 construction of the main building. 3.The water tower the northeast corner of the main Section number 7 brick construction and two are of frame construction. They appear to date 8.

Stateme:ii of Signific vr.ce Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co.Ohir Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) 925- 194 works, perhaps those at East Liverpool (25 miles above Steubenville) contributed to the valley's prodigious ceramics output. The= It ceased operation in 1944. Much of its plant has been demolished, announced plans to move completely to a new plant along the river north of the city limits, which it did when the new plant was [ See continuation sheet INDUSTRY National Register. Products included dinnerware and semi-vitreous Canton China.

Significant Dates the foot of Washington Street.Its production consisted of functional items such as house pots, tanks and furnace bricks, and Cultural Affiliation in the context entitled "Industrial Development in Steubenville, The Steubenville Pottery Company building is being nominated under Criterion A for its role in the industrial history of Steubenville, The upper Ohio River has been home to numerous pottery and china Architect/Builder The Steubenville Pottery Company was a major industry for 80 years Significant Perenn Ohio Valley Clay Company was established in 1882 along the river at century occupied a 470'by 210'site and had 200 employees. Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) State significance of property, and justify criteria,criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.

in Steubenville, one of the most important industrial cities of the being best known. At Steubenville, however, two major concerns Railroad grew rapidly during the 1880s, and by the turn of the Over 75% of its products were decorated. In 1924 the company South Street and the crossing of the Panhandle (Pennsylvania) The Steubenville Pottery Company dated from 1879.Its plant at but the one remaining brick structure has been listed in the upper Ohio valley.The city's industrial heritage is fully treated Period of Significance 1847-1959,"pub1ished by the City of Steubenville in 1990. Unknown. National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefferson Co., Ohio Page _ at the pottery's original downtown site. Upon completion of the new plant, the Steubenville Pottery Company was one of the major dinnerware manufacturers in the United States.

recognized industrial designer Russel Wright. In 1937, when Steubenville Pottery Company was in bankruptcy, Wright persuaded the firm to produce his new line of American Modern dinnerware. Production began in 1939 and lasted until the plant's closing in American Modern was intended by its designer to serve as functional, inexpensive, convenient and well-designed ware for production, pieces of American Modern in Wright's rounded, fluid designs remain prized among china collectors. Competitive pressures caused Steubenville Pottery Company to cease operation in 1959, and late in that year the property was taken over by Barium & Chemicals Inc., a chemical processing and supply firm The Steubenville Pottery Company had both local and national because it was the city's only decorative china producer.

Though East Liverpool and other cities in and near the Ohio Valley had (and still have) large producers of decorated ware, Steubenville Pottery firm was important also as a major employer. With 200 workers, it was a major component of the city's economic base. Nationally, the firm was important for its association with Russel well as in ceramics. He worked also in plastics, glass, fabrics, easier. American Modern dinnerware from Steubenville was one of the earliest expressions of this philosophy and is still widely recognized as one of the most successful mass-produced designs ever.

Section number 8 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet persistence in introducing American Modern to the public and in was the only representative of this industry in Steubenville.The United States Department of the Interlor 1904 and 1976,his busiest and most productive years being the noted for his work in aluminum houseware and furniture design as It is best known for its association with the internationally OMB Approver No. 1024-0018 completed the next year. Today there are no above-ground remains convincing major retail outlets to carry the line eventually made it the most successful mass-produced dinnerware ever made: over 80 million pieces were made at Steubenville. Today long out of which still owns and uses the former pottery building. and did applicance, product and interior designs. He lived between importance.

Locally, the pottery was important to Steubenville middle-class Americans.T OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior JUL 1 O 1992 National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefferson Co., Ohio of uniquely American design and also made life and daily living two major efforts, one his American Way program of the 1930s and only partly successful, the mass-produced household items created by American Way program did bring a new level of thoughtful design and universally praised, did make useful suggestions about ways to efforts promoted Wright's basic belief that good design that was of But before these efforts, Wright had to make the jump from limited sales of hand-crafted items, generally to an economically well-off Wright had designed the line in 1937 but could not find a che only firm wright could find, after a search of many months, that would produce American Modern, which first came out in 1939.

ended up being produced for 20 years, and only by Steubenville in Because of slow initial sales, Wright was forced to come up with ceramic, glass and plastic lines of housewares and dinnerware from the 1940s through the 1960s. national significance. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet manufacturing facility to make the pieces.Steubenville Pottery was people's lives. dinnerware lines --innovations such as in-store demonstrations and remains the most successful mass-marketed line of dinnerware ever, nationally significant designer Russel Wright and thus itself has its one manufacturing plant.

mass-production of well-designed products which both evoked a sense simplify the necessary domestic activities of daily life.Both played a pivotal role in teaching Wright the principles essential During this time his interest in design changed from creation and 1940s, the other his book Easier Living, published in 1950.Though uniquely American origin could make a measurable improvement in marketing of limited quantities of hand-crafted items to marketing ideas that would show the way for most future marketing of Steubenville Pottery Company playeda major role in the career of Section number 8 Wright was most active and creative during the 1930s to the 1950s. displays, low-cost "starter" sets, and a liberal return policy. American Modern, which ended up selling 80 million pieces and convenience to American consumers.

Easier Living, while not audience, to inexpensively produced items intended for the public at large.American Modern dinnerware is what facilitated this jump. (8-86) JUL 1 0 1992 United States Department of the Interlor Continuation Sheet Section number _ The period of significance of the nominated property extends from the date of construction of the first part of the main building in 1925 to 1942, the established 50-year cut-off date for the National Register. This terminal date closely corresponds to the end of the time that Russel Wright had his most profound impact on the company.

National Park Service National Register of Hlstorlc Places Page _s National Register of Historic Places Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson County, Ohio The information on these continuation sheets is submitted in reply to NPS comments dated 3/24/92 and 12/21/92, which accompanied the nomination for the Steubenville Pottery The Steubenville Pottery Company is nominated for local significance under Criterion A because of its contribution to the industrial heritage of Steubenville, Ohio. Steubenville was settled at the turn of the 19th century, and from early in that century until the end of World industrial underpinnings - its rich people gained their wealth from industry; its middle-class Chamber of Commerce booklets and the centennial celebration book dwelt at length on Steubenville's industrial history and contemporary industrial might.

To its citizens, industry Steubenville industries included iron and steel,glassmaking, coal mining, pottery and clay products, and paper products. With the exception of the iron and steel industry, which is still buildings that once housed them are gone as well. Today the city's industrial past is represented by the steel works, two buildings of the Acme Glass plant, a portion of the Ohio Valley Clay Products plant (NR), a portion of the former ice plant, a portion of a brewery, and the Steubenville Pottery plant. The pottery has been nominated under Criterion A because it is one of the few surviving structures representative of the city's industrial heritage. It is well remembered locally, and many area families still have collections of the well-designed and useful ceramic ware produced at the plant.

Though it ceased production nearly four decades ago, the Steubenville that kept the Steubenville Pottery Company in production for 20 years, turning out 80 million as a part of Steubenville's industrial base, as a place of employment for hundreds of workers over the years, and as a compenent of the city's self-image as a tough, brawny industrial town. Significance Continuation Sheet Russel Wright.Though his American Modern dinnerware was a very successful national line National Park Service and the city were inseparable. 8 Page United Statee Department of the Interior Section number . Company when it was returned to the Ohio SHPO. Issues identified by NPS as inadequately addressed in the nomination included significance and integrity.

industrial workers; and its large blue-collar work force, most of them immigrants, represented by a plant south of the city, all these industries are gone, and nearly all of the Pottery plant remains a part of the city's remembered past. The plant is no longer being nominated under Criterion B for its association with designer made their livingsin the mills,plants and factories.Local"booster"publications such as National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson County, Ohio The Steubenville Pottery plant retains a high level of integrity; none of the other surviving structures from discontinued local industries has as much integrity. The pottery plant was integrity of the original 1925 structure. The expansion added additional floor space of the same character as the original, but in more modern materials.

The 1925 building is readily apparent to the viewer, and major spatial relationships were not altered by the expansion and remain intact today: the office/administrative area is at the south end, as it was originally; the rail spur and raw materials doors are still in place along the west side; and on the interior the The plant's high integrity is due primarily to the survival of several of the large circular kilns in which the ware was fired. Unlike other surviving Steubenville plants, which contain no trace of the production processes which once occurred in them, the pottery retains significant viewer. Because industrial equipment tends to be sold off when a plant closes and evidence of the industrial process tends to be destroyed fairly quickly, such a high level of integrity for a plant so long out of production is unusual.

The Steubenville Pottery Company retains essential physical features to convey its identity and significance as an early 20th century industrial complex reflecting Steubenville's industrial history and its surrounding features including the water tower, guardhouse, storage buildings, and railroad spur. The integrity of the design and materials remain through the retention of the overall design of the building reflecting the historic function and technology of the pottery industry through the retention of the original spatial relationships depicting functions of various spaces and aspects of the production process. Key exterior materials and design features remain such as the brick masonry structure punctuated with large expanses of industrial steel sash to allow for utmost utilization of light.

Overall, the Steubenville Pottery Company conveys the feeling and association of an early 20th century industrial complex through the main industrial building, its surrounding support buildings and physical features depicting the industrial use of the complex, retention of interior spaces serving similar functions as historically intended, and the retention of elements conveying the historic industrial process associated with the property. Page Continuation Sheet Integrity National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Section number _ large, open production spaces around the kilns have not been infilled or partitioned off. evidence of the production process and remains capable of communicating the process to a and development through its location, design, materials, setting, feeling, and association.

The property possesses integrity of location and setting through the retention of the pottery building Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio Centennial Souvenir of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio. Steubenville: The Herald Publishing Company, 1897. JUL I O 1992 Steubenville Sesquicentennial, 1947. Press, 1983. Lx See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): [XXpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested State historic preservation office -previously listed in the National Register Other State agency previously determined eligible by the National Register Federal agency designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # XX] Other Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # Ben jamin D. Rickey & Co., Columbus, OH 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of property 7.0 acres UTM References Verbal Boundary Description The nominated parcel is contained within the legally recorded parcels as detailed on the Boundary Justification The boundaries include all of the land historically associated with the operations of the Steubenville Pottery Company at this location. 11. Form Prepared By name/title Jeffrey Darbee, Historic Preservation Consultant organization Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. _telephone(614) 221-0358 city or town . state OH _ zip code 43215 Northing Columbus Easting University Local government attached tract descriptions. 9.Majo.Bibllographical References date _ September 29, 1991/ed. June-8, street & number 391 Library Park South 1992 Zone United States Department of the Interior JUL 1 O 1992 National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefferson Co., Ohio N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.

Page 2 Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Section number 9 Dickran Tashjian.New York City:The Brooklyn Museum and Harry NPS Form 10-900- OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior JUL I 0 1992 National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio river bank, north 48 doi. 301 east 363 foet to a point on said river bank; thence 301 East 169 feet to the mogt. casterly corner of said desoribad property; thence water mark cf the Ohio River. For prior convoyance soe Vol, 272 pago 563 of Jefferson County, Ohio. six and eighty hundredths (746,60) feot to a point in tho west line of the C & P.

thenoe etill along said west right of way line with another ourve having a radius of Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places It being tho intentio:of the Grantor to convey all its right,title and intereat South by tha Steubonville Pottery Company and the C&P.R.R. Co.,on the north reoorded in Vol.138 page 329 of the Jefferson County Record of Deeds;thence south 171West gevon hundred twenty four and eighty four hundredths (724.84)feet to the Also the use of a twenty foot right of way.through the C& Pn.R.Company's north 4l deg.30i West 825 feet to the south line of the C& P.R.R.right of way owned by George Dempsey,tal,and in the nast right of way line of the C& Section number - Second Jract!

All that trnot or rarcol of land situate, lying and being in Seotion 3255.65 feot for a distance along the aro of said curve, one hundred seven Page at the most northerly corner.of the Steubonville Pottery Companyt's 9.l0 acre tract formerly owned by George Dempsey, et al, thance with the Dempsey line north 54 dog. dascribed; thence with said west right of way line on a curve having a radius of in and to the premdses owned by it, bounded on the west by I.c.H.No.7, on the toa stake; caid stake being the northwest cornor of herein described traot and hundred twonty four and oighty three hundradths (324.83) faot toa poirt, this point 4 deg.

10i East 942.27 foet to 8 point on the Ohio River Bank; thence along said United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio beginning for a dosoription at the point of interseotion of the Cleveland and Pitta- Lands belonging to the C.& P. R.R, Co. thence by Lands of the C & P.R.R. Co, along and whose radius is 3324.17 feet, for a distance of 1035.62 feet to a point in the Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Beaver Valley Traction Co. the Ohio River; Excepting and reserving any and all coal heretofore saodl o disposed former grantors lying west of the right of way of The Steubenville,East Liverpool and grantor if any was so resarved. family burial ground. from the parcel of land rnserved for graveyard purposes. Traction Co. and lies between it and tho Ohio.River.

West 40.92 feet to tho plaoe of beginning, containing 17.305 acres, excepting there- about one-fourth of an aore reserved in deod of Ephriam Cable to Stanford Cable asa page 489. Itis the intention of the grantor to convey to Grantee all of the land ownod by the ofway of the C & i.R.R.Co.and land owmed by the C.&P.R.R.Co.and the Ohio the "Caatner Farm. C&n R.R.Co south 68 deg.331 West 1227.70 feet toa point; thence with the lands thenoe with the west right of way line of the C& P.R.R.Co,north 50 deg..ooi E NPS Form 10-900- OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number . heroin desoribed produced through the C & P R. R. Company's river right of way to across these premises as part of what was well known.as the "Qibba Farm" and later of the abovomentioned R, R. Co.

along the aro of a cirole, ourving to the left, River; It boing understood that all of said land hereinbofore desoribed is cast of Grantor and being part of what was known as tho Cable Farm lying between the right property to take care of severago from Rivervlew Place, a subdiviaion owned by the the right of way and tacks of the Stoubenville, East liverpool and Beaver Valley Page 3 dintanoo of 378.37 feet to a point of tangent; thence continuing by lands of the of if thore be such. 2375.44 foet toa point; thonoe south 54 de.171 East 719.68 feet to a point in OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Jefferson Co., Ohio 7 as was sold to Kenneth J. Higgs, under date of July 23, 1957 and recorded, in Deed Records of Jefferson County, Ohio.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Manufacturers Light & Hoat Co, as recorded in doed book 368 page 210 and deed book All of the above.traots are subjeot to the right of way esgement granted to the Tor prior conveyance Bee deed book378page County Reoords. NPS Form 10-900- Section number - Fourth Tract: Being Lots Numbered 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 Page 7 in the above sub-division, subject to an exception of that part of said Lot Number And 27 in the Steubenville Pottery Company's Sacond Sub-diviaion, parts of Section OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefferson Co., Ohio Jeffrey T. Darbee The above information is the same for all 25 photographs. Aerial view dating from c1980. North is at left side of photo.

Metal buildings from 1970s are visible just to north and just to east of main Looking northeast at southwest corner, guard house Looking northeast along main south elevation from Detail, looking north, of main entrance to offices, 1950 one-story addition at center right of photo. Looking northeast at southeast corner and south end of 1946 addition. Corner of 1950 addition at left. Looking west from southeast corner of 1946 addition toward one-story 1950 addition. Looking north along east side of 1946 addition. Looking south along E side of 1946 addition, from Description Photographer: in foreground. Continuation Sheet Section number PhotograpRage Negative Location: National Register of Historic Places entrance drive. building. its northeast corner. showing brickwork with blind panels. Photo No. Looking northwest from southeast corner of building. just inside entrance gate.

Date of Photograph: City and State: Name of Property: JUL 1 0 1992 Steubenville Pottery Company Steubenville vicinity, Ohio Summer, 1991 Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. Columbus, Ohio 43215 391 Library Park South OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville vicinity, Jefterson Co., Ohio Section numberPhotograph®age 1946 addition to left, 1925 building to right. Looking east along north end of 1925 building, from from near its southwest corner. Looking southeast at outbuildings located south of nain elevation. Looking north in entry hall for office area, first Looking south in office area, first floor, 1925 building, east of entry hall. Looking northwest in office area in one-story Looking southwest in existing lab area, first floor, along south elevation of 1925 building.

Looking southwest in second floor library, 1925 Typical pottery kiln on production floor, looking southeast, 1925 building. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Looking north along west elevation of 1925 building, National Park Service showing wooden freight doors. Looking north along west sides of outbuildings, its northwest corner. 1950 addition. building. showing relationship to main building. United States Department of the Interior Looking southwest at north elevation of building: Looking south along west side of 1925 building, JUL 1 0 1992 with main building south elevation beyond. floor.

Looking north at south elevations of outbuildings, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE 8-24-92 NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 8/06/92 7/10/92 REJECT PROPERTY MULTIPLE RETURN OTHER: RECOM./CRITERIA Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings REASONS FOR REVIEW: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: | LESS THAN 50 YEARS: SLR DRAFT: N 7/21/92 ACCEPT DISCIPLINE NATIONAL: DATE OF PENDING LIST: _count _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _historic _current _architectural classification _summary paragraph _completeness _applicable criteria _context _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage -verbal boundary description _boundary justification _photographs FUNCTION presentation materials DESCRIPTION Period Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE CLASSIFICATION ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION Signed Phone descriptive text Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Specific dates relating significance to the resource Areas of Significance--Check and justify below OTHER COMMENTS _clarity justification of areas checked Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

one paragraph) UTMS Date sketch maps USGS maps Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings Jefferson Co., Ohio the industrial heritage of Steubenville, and the associative significance of industrial designer Russell Wright, has not been the manufacturing plant, or did he just sell the design to the developed. SIGNIFICANCE not adequately substantiate claims of significance or evaluate The nomination does not provide sufficient information to There is no discussion in the nomination about the process used The case for local and national significance for association with Is the Steubenville Pottery Co.the most appropriate resource The nomination does not adequately explain the associative historical context for his development as a designer? What forces this is not sufficient to substantiate the significance of the producing pottery?

How does the location of the company relate to Pottery Company? significance of Russell Wright with the Steubenville Pottery Co. The nomination refers to a history published by the city, but What factors contributed to Steubenville's prominence in The nomination states that Russell Wright's "...mass-produced The nomination for the Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings, NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION RETURN SHEET the integrity of the pottery works. evaluate the significance of Russell Wright.Where was Russell the city, or its importance as an economic factor. nominated for national significance under criteria A & B, does helped to form his design philosophy? the development of Steubenville? Who founded the Steubenville the most important industrial cities in the Upper Ohio Valley"? company? Did he live in Steubenville during the period of Wright from? How did he achieve international fame?

What is the molded etc.? What other industries played a role in Steubenville as "one of to produce the pottery.How was it produced? Was is household items [were] created by a network of designers and defined for the pottery is 1925-1942. Does the building, which August 24, 1992 Historian INTEGRITY nomination mentions that Wright went on to design housewares well association with the company? remaining contributing resources buildings and one The issue of integrity is not discussed within the text of the the integrity of these resources? How do these other resources still owns and uses the buildings.

The period of significance purchased by a chemical processing and supply company, which has almost doubled in size since construction in 1925,retain nomination.When the pottery closed in 1959,the buildings were manufacturing building is important to the whole complex, yet the manufacturers..." where were his other designs produced? The National Register of Historic Places into the 1960s.Where were these other products produced? The name of the property "The Steubenville Pottery Company contribute to the whole complex? Patty Sackett Chrisman Buildings" clearly illustrates that more than just the structure) are only briefly mentioned and not described.What is the pottery?

Does it reflect the period of Russell Wright's NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE12-21.92 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE DETAILED EVALUATION: Y ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 11/06/92 MULTIPLE RETURN UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments _count _resource type _current _summary paragraph _clarity _relating significance to the resource _context _relationship of integrity to significance .justification of exception

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification _sketch maps -presentation - Phone FUNCTION OTHER DESCRIPTION materials Period historic BIBLIOGRAPHY Builder/Architect SIGNIFICANCE CLASSIFICATION Specific dates architectural classification applicable criteria Signed Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to justification of areas checked ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION descriptive text STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION Areas of Significance--Check and justify below _completeness _photographs Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) USGS maps UTMS OTHER COMMENTS Jefferson Co., Ohio Upon resubmission, the nomination for the Steubenville Pottery industrial designer Russell Wright, has not been developed.

December 21, 1992 Historian INTEGRITY SIGNIFICANCE clarifications contained in the original return sheet dated August National Register of Historic Places this document. The case for local significance for association with the industrial The issues remain: NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION RETURN SHEET significance or evaluate the integrity of the pottery works.The Patty Sackett Chrisman Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings since it was constructed in 1925,retain enough integrity to convey nomination.The period of significance defined for the pottery is the period of significance defined for the pottery?

24,1992 have not been addressed.Please refer to attached copy of The issue of integrity is not discussed within the text of the level of significance has been changed from national to local, 1925-1942.Does the building, which has almost doubled in size Company Buildings does not adequately substantiate claims of Jefferson Co., Ohio significance of industrial designer Russell Wright, has not been developed. SIGNIFICANCE not adequately substantiate claims of significance or evaluate Pottery Company? The nomination does not adequately explain the associative The nomination does not provide sufficient information to this is not sufficient to substantiate the significance of the producing pottery?

How does the location of the company relate to Steubenville Pottery Company in the overall industrial history of Is the Steubenville Pottery Co.the most appropriate resource What factors contributed to Steubenville's prominence in significance of Russell Wright with the Steubenville Pottery Co. The nomination refers to a history published by the city, but The case for local and national significance for association with The nomination states that Russell Wright's "...mass-produced NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION RETURN SHEET The nomination for the Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings, the development of Steubenville? Who founded the Steubenville household items[were]created bya network of designers and molded etc.? helped to form his design philosophy? evaluate the significance of Russell Wright.Where was Russell the integrity of the pottery works.

nominated for national significance under criteria A & Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings historical context for his development as a designer? What forces the most important industrial cities in the Upper ohio Valley"? What other industries played a role in Steubenville as "one of Wright from? How did he achieve international fame? What is the the its importance as an economic factor. to produce the pottery.How was it produced? Was is the manufacturing plant, or did he just sell the design to the There is no discussion in the nomination about the process used the industrial heritage of Steubenville, and the associative associated with Wright's career?Did Wright physically work at company? Did he live in Steubenville during the period of defined for the pottery is 1925-1942.

Does the building, which manufacturing building is important to the whole complex, yet the August 24, 1992 Historian INTEGRITY nomination mentions that Wright went on to design housewares well National Register of Historic Places purchased by a chemical processing and supply company, which has almost doubled in size since construction in 1925,retain association with the company? Patty Sackett Chrisman structure) are only briefly mentioned and not described.What is The issue of integrity is not discussed within the text of the still owns and uses the buildings.The period of significance The name of the property "The Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings" clearly illustrates that more than just the nomination.When the pottery closed in 1959,the buildings were into the 1960s.Where were these other products produced? manufacturers..." where were his other designs produced?

The contribute to the whole complex? the integrity of these resources? How do these other resources remaining contributing resources buildings and one the pottery? Does it reflect the period of Russell Wright's NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: 7/31/95 DATE NOMINATOR: STATE DETAVLED EVALUATION: Y ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT TELEPHONE DATE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER RETURN 6/16/95 MULTIPLE NAME: VACCEPT DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Historian DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N PROPERTY Steubenville Pottery Company Buildings UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PNOTO I OE 25 Inc ALL TRUCKS AT OFFICE REGISTER VISITORS STOP Inc AND OFFICE PNOTO 1I OF 25 PNOTO 15 F 25 ALL PNOTO 25 OF 25 WEIRTON, W. VA.- PA.

- OHIO WEIRTON QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WEST VIRGINIA-PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2411 July 1, 1992 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior P.O. Box 37127 Wash ington Dear Ms. Shull: Steubenville Pottery Please contact me if you have any questions. tate Historic Preservation Office SOCIETY 614/297-2470 County Sincerely, Jefferson HISTORICAL REGISTER Enclosures NATIONAL New Submissions Spencer's Landing : 1992 notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.

- Ray Luce-: 20013-7127 OHIO Company Buildings Enclosed are two new National Register nominations.All the appropriate Y 06 1992 Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 October 30, 1992 SINCE 1885 National Register of Historic Places National Park Service P. O. Box 37127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed is a resubmission of the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Steubenville Potter Company Buildings, Steubenville, citing inadequate context to justify significance. However, in discussing this matter with Patrick Andrus of your staff | learned that the problem with that there appeared to be adequate justification of local significance under originally written except for a change in claimed level of significance. We nominated for local significance within local context. Please consider this W.

Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer xc.: Jeff Darbee, nomination preparer Jeff Brown, OHPO Regional Coordinator Christopher Petrossi, Steubenville City Planner OHIO 614/297-2470 Enclosure RECEIVED ATIONAL HISTORICAL EGISTER Sincerely, Fax:297-2411 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Carol Shull, Chief of Registration Washington, DC Jefferson County, Ohio. The nomination had been returned to this office both Criteria A and B. We are therefore resubmitting the documentation as about this matter, please contact this office. are in agreement with Mr.

Andrus and believe that the property should be 20013-7127 SOCIETY the nomination was the claim of national significance.Mr.Andrus indicated Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 614/ 297-2470 Fax: 297-2546 HISTORICAL JUN 1 6 1995 Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find a resubmission of the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Steubenville sheets that address these items. These continuation sheets have been appended to the original document. The nominators have decided not to claim significance under Criterion B and note this condition in the appended continuation sheets.

Reference to Criterion B has also been deleted from page one (1) of the statement of significance, section eight (8). Please review this material at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, contact Barbara Powers of my W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer OHIO Sincerely, enclosure staff. Pottery Company, Jefferson County, Ohio. This document was returned in 1993 requesting additional information RECEIVED 413 regarding significance and integrity. The original nominator has resubmitted to this office additional continuation