Major Bibliographical References Marion Co. Historical Society for National Register listing.) distinguishable entity whose components lack a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Name of repository: Primary location of additional data: Previous documentation on file (NPS): Property is associated with the lives of persons CFR 67) has been requested A owned by a religious institution or used for G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Name of Property (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service George W. King Mansion Marion Co., Ohio The George W. King Mansion is a eligible under criteria A and B, area of Shovel Company from 1904-1917. George W. King was born in Richland Township, Marion County, on February George W.
King, along with Edward Huber (died 1904), Henry Barnhart Shovel Company on August 4, 1884 to manufacture dredging machinery, ballast and raised two children, Ray and Ava. ultimately president (1904-1917). During his presidency, the Marion Steam Page all shovels sold were manufactured at the Marion Steam Shovel Company.
of other heavy machinery manufacturers:The Osgood of significance industry, as the only residence remaining in Marion associated Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places King's prominence within the company resulted in a succession of higher general utility shovels) and the General Excavator and highway Shovel Company was chosen to produce the massive 27 steam shovels that were unloaders and mechanized steam powered-shovels.King started with the new 2000.The success of the Marion Steam Shovel Company spurred the development jumped to 1300 workers.In 1929 the company work force totaled an average of suction dredges built by the company between 1886-1929.George W. King 1890),Jacob Keiler and John Wolford, incorporated the Marion Steam The decade of the l890s saw the rapid development of the Marion Steam grew to 65 in 1888.
In 1890 the company employed 150 workers. In 1900 the company asa mechanical engineer and desigmed a land dredge dubbed King's industrial tools marketed by the company.The original work force of 20 men 23,1888.The couple moved into a house at 4l9 W.Center Street construction machinery).By 1910,the presence of these industries led to with George W.King founder and President of the Marion Steam farmers.He joined the Huber Manufacturing Company full time as an engineer in King showed an aptitude for industrial engineering.He received a patent on 19,1854.Asa boyhe worked in the grist/saw mill owned and operated by his title he held until his death),vice president Section number - his original design for a hay carrier and marketed the new product to local NPS Form 10-900-a Shovel Company.
King was responsible for the designs of many of the new 1883. management positions.He became superintendent in 1888,general manager in advanced to factory superintendent in 1888.He married Sarah Reber on October T.King.In 1875 he became a machinist apprentice at the Huber number of full time employees had increased to 310. By 1906 that number had Marion's designation as the "steam Shovel City." used to dig the Panama Canal in 1906.By 1910,it was estimated that 90% of George W. King Mansion George W. King purchased a four acre tract of land on Mount Vernon Marion Steam Shovel Company. In 1905 he hired Wilson Eyre, an architect with 55 rooms. Completed in 1908, the mansion was named Etowah, an Indian name for administration, 1920-1923. When Harding died unexpectedly on August 2, 1923, was occupied by Ava's brother, Ray King and his family. W.
Hoover Brown operated a family farm with his father until the Great Wyandot Popcorn Company with Howard Swink in 1936. In May they installed an ear com dryer, sheller, cleaning mill, and other equipment in a former one room schoolhouse in southern Wyandot County. The company offices were first In 1948 a subsidiary of Wyandot Popcorn Co. named Popped Right Corn Marion. Hoover and Ava Brown bought out Schine's half interest in the firm in 1950. During that year they added a new snack item, "Golden Crisp" Caramel Corn. By 1950 Wyandot Popcorn had grown in annual sales of about two million Page National Register of Historic Places which remains in Marion. original one room facility. Continuation Sheet 1953 a rear sanctuary addition was constructed.
The living rooms are now used The newly married couple lived on one side of the mansion while the other side of the business to finance the start up of his own advertising agency. Brown Avenue at Greenwood Street shortly after he was appointed president of the The King mansion was sold to the Central Christian Church in 1948.In company with over loo units across the United States. Popped Right provided bride received six dozen Columbia roses sent from President and Mrs.Harding. Depression forced him to look for additional sources of income.He founded the assets for $4,ooo.A new four storey processing plant was added onto the located in the basement of the King mansion.A year later Swink sold his half Etowah was host to Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison and Harvey Firestone who were leadership position with Marion Steam Shovel Co.It is also his only residence as classrooms and meeting spaces.
Marion Co., Ohio offices in Philadelphia and New York City, to design a new residence with over photograph # 14) Section number - "Beautiful Place." King lived there until his death in 1917. The house is had no large luxury hotels until the HotelHarding was completed in 1924. King's mansion, located across the street from the Warren G. Harding home, was married W. Hoover Brown on June 14, 1923 in a ceremony held at the house. The Company was formed in partnership with Schine Chain Theatres, an independent pre-popped corn for the theatres from a plant located on West Mill Street in pounds of raw popcorn in 1950.
(By 1989 this figure was 70 million pounds.) used by president to entertain important visitors to Marion during his house for visiting industrialists and clients of Marion Steam Shovel.Marion among the many prominent Americans attending the presidential funeral.(See formed a new partnership with his wife Ava who purchased 4og of the company's 1948 when the property was acquired by the Central Christian Church.Ava King The children and grandchildren of George W.King lived in Etowah until After George W.King's death in 1917,Etowah was often used as a guest OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 George W. King Mansion, Marion, Marion County, Ohio centers in the United States. in population, resulting in an unusual number of medium - small sized cities with major industrial interests.
Marion, one of these smaller but substantial industry towns developed in the early 20th industrialists at the turn-of-the-century. Designed by the Philadelphia architect Wilson Eyre, best (8-86) century as a national leader in the manufacturing of road building and earth moving equipment. Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places This industrial growth brought about a phenomenal boom in economic activity and a related surge made Ohio a chief player in America's industrial growth.At the turn-of-the-century there was period revival borrowing from Italian Renaissance forms situated on a large landscaped grounds.
fourth most populous state in the country and one of the most powerful and diverse economic known for his residential work in Philadelphia's wealthy suburbs, the King house displays the United States Department of the Interior Ohio was a leading industrial center from the end of the Civil War until the Great Depression. The George W.King Mansion reflects the large estate lifestyle associated with prosperous scarcely a growing industry in which Ohio did not have a major interest. By 1930, Ohio was the NPS Form 10-900-a Page - 3 Location, natural resources, cheap energy, unrivalled transportation, and a plentiful labor supply Section number 8 Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Section number _ Marion Co., Ohio Brown, Ava Marie (King) and William Hoover, Our Lives in Review. Marion, 1979. Company, 1915. Vol.6, No.11. July 18, 1905.
Collection of the Central Christian Church. 1979. 1983. Bibliography: "Marion Power Shovel Company, 1884-1984." Company centennial brochure, 1984. Chicago, 1907. National Park Service Architectural drawings of George W. King Mansion, designed by Wilson Eyre, Historical Society, 1992. King, George W.,The Marion Steam Shovel Family. New York: Century History Jacoby, J. Wilbur, History of Marion County Ohio and Representative Citizens. George W. King Mansion Romine, Trella, ed., Marion County History.Marion County Historical Society, Lewis, Ralph T.,Marion Has Hit Its Stride,"Highway Topics, May,1929, "Etowah scene of local events,"The Marion Star, January 22,1983. Gordon, Stephen C.,How to Complete the Ohio Historic Inventory.Ohio United States Department of the Interior Historic Photographs reprinted from the private collection of George Brown. Page George W. King Mansion ("Etowah") 10.
Geographical Data TM Reference - See continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By _ date May 19, 1994 street & number 1982 Velma Avenue _ telephone_(614) 297-2470 city or town Columbus Submit the following iters with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. street & number 429 Mount Vernon Avenue . telephone city or town Marion - zip code 43302 a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amendea (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Zone Easting Photographs Maps Additional Documentation Boundary Justification Additional tems Central Christian Church Representative black and white photographs of the property.
Acreage of Property less than one CSC Regional Coordinator County and State organization Ohio Historic Preservation Office Property Owner Continuation Sheets Marion County, Ohio state_Ohio Paperwork Reduction Act Statement:This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate Northing Name of Property (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) name/title Sandra Davies, (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) . zip code_43211 Estimated Burden Statement: Public repo-ting burden for this form is estimated to average 18 - hours per response including time for reviewing name Verbal Boundary Description NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approvel No.
1024-0018 Marion Co., Ohio comer of Bradford and Mount Vernon Avenue.Follow the curbline east along Mount Vernon Avenue to the point of origin at Greenwood Street. The boundary has been drawn to include the house and grounds. A rear church Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION: National Park Service parking lot is not included within the nominated property. George W. King Mansion north and follow the curbline of Bradford Street to Point C at the southeast VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION: United States Department of the Interior Section number . and proceed along an imaginary line for 425 feet to Bradford Street. Turn OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 429 Mount Vernon Ave.
Marion, OH 43302 Date: February, 1994 Columbus, OH 43211 2) Detail: front elevation looking southeast 7) Interior, living room fireplace mantle 8) Detail, interior woodwork 10) Carved figure holding a shield, first floor doorway 11) Interior, second floor bedroom Date: c. 1907 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211 14) Guests of the King family during the Harding funeral photographed outside Etowah, August 1923. Photographer: W. Hoover Brown. Pictured (L to R): Rev. Photographs: Continuation Sheet Reprint of a photograph from the collection of William Schertzer Photographer: Sandra Davies National Register of Historic Places George W.
King Mansion 9) Carved figure of holding a book, first floor doorway 3) Front elevation looking southwest 13) Front elevation under construction looking south Location of negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office,1982 Velma Avenue, Marion Co., Ohio United States Department of the Interior 6) Rear elevation, west wing Reprint negative on file at Ohio Historic Preservation Office,1982 Velma National Park Service 4) West elevation Amperson.Reprint of photograph from the collection of George Brown.
12) Interior stairway to attic The following information is the same for# l-12: Jesse Swank, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Methodist Bishop (8-86) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PERIOD: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE REJECT 11/09/95 DATE 11/27/95 RETURN DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 10/13/95 Entered in the REVIEWER PDIL: RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: National Register DATE RECEIVED: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: APPEAL: N N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REASONS FOR REVIEW: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: maun, Mauon Co., Chie 429 Mt.
Vemon Aue Mansion Manon, Mauon Co., Chic 429 M+ Vernon Aee DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MARION EAST QUADRANGLE MARION EAST, OHIO STATE OF OHIO OHIO-MARION CO 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC (ZONE) (EAST.) N4030_W8300/7 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROAD CLASSIFICATION Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2546 October 5, 1995 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places P. O. Box 37127 OCT | 3 1995 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. NEW SUBMISSION King, George W., Mansion Mt. Tabor Church Building, Cemetery, & Hitching Lot If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. W.
Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer SOCIETY COUNTY Champaign Belmont 614/297-2470 Sincerely, enclosures Marion HISTORICAL Brick Tavern House National Park Service Enclosed please find three (3) new National Register nominations.All appropriate RECEIVED 413 Dear Ms. Shult OHIO
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