Nomination for Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB NO. 10240018/246 (Rev. 8-86) AUG 1 3 1992 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines 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 Wheeling and Lake Erie R. R. Minerva Station 2. Location street & number 301 Valley Street not for publication city, town State zip code 3.

Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property X building(s) Name of related multiple property listing: listed in the National Register - State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: determined eligible for the National determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) Date of Action 109 site object Date Minerva vicinity structure district public-State Noncontributing public-local Total CAR-68-16 private REGISTER National Register. Registration Form Ohio NATIONAL Ohio Historic Preservation Office See continuation sheet.

historic name Number of contributing resources previously National Register of Historic Places National Park Service public-Federal removed from the National Register. other names/site number Signature of certifying official United States Department of the Interior Xentered in the National Register. National Register of Historic Places andmeets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Intered In tha county Carroll 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description foundation - walls - other - Describe present and historic physical appearance. concrete, with a furnace room under the former waiting room. Exterior brick walls are laid the station agent's office, projects from the south, or trackside, facade, with a characterize the low-pitch hipped roof.

The interior is basically intact, retaining its platform is largely preserved, although overgrown. The surrounding area, of mixed residential and commercial use, has changed relatively little since the station was constructed. - See continuation sheet shingle concrete brick roof TRANSPORTATION/rail-related Architectural Classification (enter categories from instructions) Materials (enter categories from instructions) Pilasters set off the building corners, and both the six-over-one double hung windows and The Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station is a one-story building, slightly Greek-cross the smaller six-light windows have brick sills. A rectangular central bay, which housed in a variant of the common bond pattern,with every fifth course of Flemish bond. NO STYLE WORK IN PROGRESS in plan, constructed as a combination freight and passenger station.

The design is utilitarian, with minimal ornamentation or embellishment. The foundation is poured original floor plan, woodwork, and terrazo floor in the freight room. The freight scales corresponding bay on the north facade.Wide overhanging eaves and a box cornice wood 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

X|locally Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates & Beaver Canal that ran through the village was a failure, and by 1880 Minerva had a railroads, and the Pennock Brothers (I.N.& Williard) began manufacturing railroad freight position as an interchange among three railroads (PRR, NYC, W&LE)and location for New York village of1200 people had 12 passenger and 10 mail trains passing through daily, and at The W&LE station was constructed in 1916 to replace an 1880 building, which was Western (successor to the W&LE) on August 14, 1981. Today the yards and shops, which once Transportation 1916-1942 Register. Unknown See continuation sheet Significant Person one time boasted three passenger stations.

Cultural Affiliation remaining in Minerva with direct association to the railroads and their dominant economic employed so many of Minerva's population are closed and the tracks removed.The other intact building directly associated with the railroad history that was the dominant Architect/Builder The period of significance of the nominated property extends from its date of stations and the old Pennock Brothers works have all been demolished.Although the former construction in 1916 to 1942,the established 50-year cut-off date for the National continued in use solely as a freight station until its final closing by the Norfolk & The last W&LE passenger train passed through Minerva in 1937,after which the building economic theme in the development of the village of Minerva.

were the chief factor in Minerva's doubling her population between 1880 and 1890 Minerva was laid out in 1833 and grew slowly through its first half century;the Sandy cars the preceding year.The old foundry they had leased burned in1880,and the Pennocks role in the village's history. Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) State significance ofproperty, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. (Ibid.: 580), but in 1898 the business was moved out of Minerva following its sale to American Car & Foundry, leaving the town without a major industry. Thereafter, Minerva's NYC roundhouse remains, it has been altered.

The W&Le station is the only intact structure Pennock patented a pressed steel gondola, and built what was reportedly the first steel statewide nationally The Wheeling & Lake Erie Minerva Station is significant under Criterion A as the last deteriorated and too small to accommodate current business originating at that point (AFE). industry "overshadowed all others in Minerva"(Heald Vol.I:579) until its demise.Williard 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Heald, E.T. The Stark County Story, Vols. I & III. The Stark County Historical Society, 1949 & 1952. Wheeling & Lake Erie RR, Authorization for Expenditure (AFE), 1916, Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., 1978. X See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A Jpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested X State historic preservation office Jpreviously listed in the National Register Other State agency recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description Legal lot description, as shown on attached continuation sheet. Boundary is based upon legally recorded lot description, and includes the property 11. Form Prepared By name/title - Jeffrey D.

Brown/Regional Coordinator - date street & number 511 County Office Building city or town .state 44702 Northing Other Canton Local government Boundary Justification Specify repository: UTM References University designated a National Historic Landmark historica-ly associated with this building. Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National Register Zone Easting Record # telephone (216) 438-0404 Bohi, Charles W. and H. Roger Grant. The County Railroad Station in America. organization Ohio Historic Preservation Office Zone Ohio Acreage of propertyless than one NPS Form 10-000e OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 W.& L.E. R.R. Minerva Station; Minerva, Carroll County, Ohio Section number10 as being part of the southwest quarter of Section 1.

Township 16 (brown), Range 6 and Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places right-of-way line of Valley Street: Verbal Boundary Description Containing 0.340 acre. the true place of beginning, together with Grantor's station building situate thereon; by E & M Hoopes (142:349) and V&S Hardware Inc.

(218:768), a distance of 194.45 feet to National Park Service true place of beginning for the tract of land herein described: Situated in the Village of Minerva, County of Carroll and State of Ohio and known United States Department of the Interlor Thence continuing north 33° 15' 15" east, along the east line of Valley Street, a distance of Beginning at 1/2"iron pipe found at the northwest corner of lot #l of the Caroline Mackey addition to the Village of Minerva as recorded in Plat Book2,Page64and being on the east Thence south 78 05' 00" west, along the north line of tracts of land now or formerly owned PREMISES DESCRIPTION further described as follows to wit: 32" and a radius of 79.00 feet; line of the W&LE railroad lands; Thence north 33°35' 15"east, along the east line of Valley Street, a distance of 149.70 feet (8-86) line of said street, a distance of 79.16 feet to a 5/8" iron bar set at the P.

T.of said curve Thence south 89°oo'00"east,along the south line of McKinley Lincoln Street),a distance of 63.35 feet to a 5/8" iron bar set; to a l-1/2"iron pipe founid on the south line of W&LE Railroad and further known as the (said arc having a chord length of 75.89 feet and bearing north 62°17'38" east); Thence south 01°00'00"west, a distance of 86.25 feet to a 5/8"iron bar set on the south Page Thence in a northeasterly direction, along the arc of said curve and along the right of way MSKINLEY AvE 50" 4:57' 24 32* R= 79.00 FORMERLY LINCOLN ST. C= 75.89 ROBERT L - FOUND AS NOTCo VILLAGC OF MINERVA Carroll County, Ohio AKINS 0.340 Ac. (34:237) Wheeling G Lake Erie RiR. Minerva Station 86331 PLAT OF SuRVEY Depor E.É M. HooPcs (4Z:349) V2' IaN PIrC FOUNO Roscer L. AKINS PACE 38: RAILROAD 194.45 W.E L.E.

RAILROAD 218:768) N 33 NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9/10/92 DATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N Intered in the ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : DATE 8/13/92 REJECT MULTIPLE 9/27/92 DISCIPLINE REVIEWER RETURN RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: DATE OF 45TH DAY: APPEAL: N SLR DRAFT: N REFERENCE NUMBER: 92001246 NATIONAL: STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _architectural classification _summary paragraph _completeness _justification of areas checked _context _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other _acreage _boundary justification _presentation - Phone current FUNCTION materials DESCRIPTION Builder/Architect historic Period BIBLIOGRAPHY CLASSIFICATION SIGNIFICANCE Date Signed _count OTHER COMMENTS descriptive text ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION relating significance to the resource verbal boundary description Specific dates GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance one paragraph) UTMS _photographs _resource type Areas of Significance--Check and justify below _clarity _applicable criteria _sketch maps Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2546 January 25, 1995 SINCE 1885 Ms.

Carol Shull, Keeper P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 The following properties have been moved, demolished, or extensively damaged. Our office requests their removal from the National Register of Historic Places at this time. CUYAHOGA CO.: St. Joseph's Church and Friary (ref. # 76001403) Ohio Valley Clay Company (ref. # 79001868) MONTGOMERY CO.: Classic Theater (ref. # 75001496) MORGAN CO.: Rock Hollow School (ref. # 83002014) MUSKINGUM CO.: Grant School (ref. # 80003193) Lind Arcade (ref. # 82003626) SCIOTO CO.: Peck, Judge William V., House (ref. # 79001939) Fine Arts Building, Heidelberg College MRA (ref. # 79002770) 614/297-2470 SOCIETY National Park Service Dear Carol: RECEIVED PARK SERVICE National Register of Historic Places JEFFERSON CO: SENECA CO.: AN 3 ICY RESOURCES DIVISIOYISTORICAL OHIO STARK CO.: Hotel Courtland (ref. # 87001195) reflect the demolition of the Annex.

Do not remove the Stark County Courthouse.) VAN WERT CO.: Van Wert Bandstand (ref. # 82001493) 1. The property, Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station, ref. #92001246, should be listed as located in CARROLL CO. (#019), not Miami Co. (# 109). 2. The property, Paulding County Carnegie Library, ref. #83002021, should be listed as located in PAULDING CO. (# 125), not Hancock Co. (# 063). 3. The property, Eagles Building, ref. # 86000850, should be listed as located in LORAIN CO. (# 093), not Defiance Co. (# 039). In reviewing our files, we have found that we are missing forms for some properties. We would appreciate it if you would send us a copy of the nomination forms for the following properties. CUYAHOGA CO.: Rose Hill and Community House (ref. # 94000413) BROWN CO.: Ripley Historic District (ref. # 85000552) DELAWARE CO.: Highbank Park Works (ref.

# 74001466) Spruce Run Earthworks (ref. # 73001431) KNOX CO.: Stackhouse Mound and Works (ref. # 73001483) Adena Mound (ref. # 75001529) Brown, Austin, Mound (ref. # 74001613) Cedar-Bank Works (ref. # 74001614) Frankfort Works Mound (ref. # 73001530) files. Several other matters have also been brought to our attention.Please correct the following information in your "Annex"portion of Stark County Courthouse and amend the nomination to ROSS CO.: ROSS CO. (cont'd.): Great Seal Park Archeological District (ref. # 74001615) High Banks Works (ref. # 73001524) Hopewell Mound Group (ref. # 74001616) Kinzer Mound (ref. # 74001617) Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District (ref. #74001611) Spruce Hill Works (ref. # 72001039) Story Mound State Memorial (ref. # 73001529) Sincerely yours, W.

Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer please contact Barbara Powers at our office.Thank you. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you require any additional information in order to handle these matters, NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Entered in the Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.

/CRITERIA - TELEPHONE DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE RETURN 1/31/95 DATE REJECT REVIEWER 3/17/95 PERIOD: PDIL: Entered in the OTHER: ACCEPT NAME: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: N SLR DRAFT: N DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N NATIONAL: Neg. at OHPO (NE RCO) by U D. Brown, Feb. 1992 Photo by J.D. Brown, Feb. 1992 Neg. at OHPO (NERCO) ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERVA QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) MINERVA, OHIO 1960 Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey N4037.5w8100/7.5 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 AUGI3 1992 Fax: 614/297-2411 NATIONAL August 12, 1992 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C.

20013-7127 -W. Ray Luce .State Preservation Officer SOCIETY HISTORICAL County 614/297-2470 REGISTER Carroll RR Station Stark New Submissions notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Wheeling & Lake Erie Minerva Enclosures Enclosed are three (3)new National Register nominations.All the appropriate National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Ideal Department Store Building Department of the Interior Walter S. Putman House Please contact me if you have any questions. Dear Ms. Shull: Sincerely