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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service DEC 2 6 1996 National Register of Historic Places architectural classification,materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property historic name - Eagles Building, Strand Theater other names/site number _ Location street & number_ .4Mot for publication city or town _ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification -request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Dept.
Head Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau National Park Service Certification entered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other, (explain:) 44601 151 comments.) Alliance Ohio Date Register. Wallace Building state Registration Form National Register Entered in the NZAvicinity 243 East Main Street In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.( See continuation sheet for additional NAT REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Signature of certifying official/Title zip code Date of Action RECEIVED National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested.
If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, county - As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this XX nomination Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant REC'D BY CHPO Stark 1624 1.25-97 Stark County, Ohio 5. Classification Ownership of Property L private 4 building(s) W public-State - object Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use 7.
Description walls - none Renaissance brick structure site asphalt district other public-local roof Architectural Classification Narrative Description Materials Total Eagles Building Historic Functions public-Federal (Enter categories from instructions) County and State Current Functions Noncontributing (Second Renaissance Revival) Name of Property Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) (Check as many boxes as apply) (Enter"N/A"if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) (Check only one box) COMMERCE/TRADE: business, professional SOCIAL: meeting hall stone NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number 7 Page 1 Eagles Building, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio The nominated property consists of an urban parcel in downtown Alliance that is bounded by East Main Street on the north, alleys on the west and south sides and a commercial building known as the Alliance and faces onto the city's main commercial street.
The property is on a level tract of land, but across the street to the north, the property slopes downward toward a lower plateau leading to the lot that exposes the west wall of the Eagles Building to view from some distance away. To the south, above the level of East Main Street. The nominated property consists of a single building that fills the site entirely. The Eagles Building is length.
It is rectangular in form, except for an indentation in the center section of the east elevation on although it seems at least fifty years old, and it may have replaced a taller building on this site, because the east wall of the Eagles Building is covered with stucco for at least one floor above its neighbor to exposed The building faces north and this elevation along East Main Street, west of the center of town, classically-inspired forms made from carved limestone contrasting with red brick background surfaces. This contrast recalls early American architecture, with white-painted wood trim elements contrasting The architectural treatment of the facade creates two primary points of interest, the storefront and the neighbors to give it a sense of monumentality.
The storefront is created through a classical colonnade with limestone pilasters and an entablature projecting out slightly from a wall of large blocks of upper recessed portico, with bands of windows in between.
Each of these primary features is two Continuation Sheet receives the most elaborate treatment.Its architectural style is Second Renaissance Revival.with with red brick walls.It therefore imparts an element of the Colonial Revival style to the building the stucco was used to cover rough brick created when that building was removed and the wall Ohio Edison Building on the east.The property is located about two blocks west of the center of Mahoning River, which is about a mile north of here.About a half block north of the Eagles Building stories tall, creating a colossal scale that combines with the building's tall height in relation to its is a major east-west railroad line, built on a raised embankment. To the west is a large open parking the land graduallyrises such that the street levels several blocks south of here are fifty ormore feet OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 a six story building that measures approximately forty feet in width by one hundred twenty feet in the east. This indicates the possible former presence of a building predating the Eagles Building and two-story commercial building. This building may be of more recent origin than the Eagles Building, elevation borders onto a narrow alley and a large parking lot, evidently the site of past commercial (8-86) building(s). An alley is directly behind this building. Adjoining the Eagles Building on its east side is a the building's top floor.The building standsin the city's historic commercial center and is part of a NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number 7 Page_ 2 Eagles Building, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio rusticated limestone.
The lower level of the storefront is open, with entrances at the center and east end and display windows elsewhere. When the lower levels were a single large theater space, this A large triangular canopy is set over the center of the building and is suspended from two large cables seems to be twenty to thirty years old, although the actual structure may be older than that. However, dates back to the days of the Strand Theater, since the building would have had to have been modified to accommodate the theater. The storefronts now have aluminum framework and doors and their construction resulted in the removal of the original storefront, perhaps with a wood or bronze framework Above the two-story storefront is a row of multi-paned casement windows that accents the third floor. These are set in a band of running bond brickwork with rusticated recessed banding.
Two separated broad bands of limestone demarcate the third and fourth floors and form the base for a balustraded limestone. The portico is flanked by small windows set at a higher level with delicate iron balconies. Above these windows are large limestone discs, which are carved into medallions. The portico features four sets of French doors at the fourth floor level set below pairs of multi-paned windows on the fifth floor. Small elaborate lanterns hang from the groin-vaulted ceiling. Stucco is used to create the surfaces within the recessed portico and forms spandrel-like panels and stringcourses. limestone above creates an architrave beneath a large projecting cornice with dentil molding set above The west elevation has a smooth-cut limestone facing made up of large panels of stone on its first floor.
Above this level, the elevation is faced with American bond red brick and has a variety of rectangular openings of various sizes and spacing. At the first, second and third levels, the main space here was occupied by a theater which once had windows. These have been infilled with masonry some building. anchored into the upper level of the storefront. This canopy has a contemporary metal fascia that canopy over the center of the storefronts.
The canopy was probably constructed when the storefronts Continuation Sheet the canopy, at least in its present form, does not appear to be original because there are two decorative were modernized about thirty years ago, although it is possible that the framework of this canopy The sixth or top floor features a row of large eight-over-eight double-hung windows.A band of anchors mounted lower and closer together, suggesting that they were once used to stay a smaller portico.The fourth floor features a recessed portico in its center.This two-bay wide portico extends into the fifth floor and culminates in a pair of arches supported by a center Ionic column, formed from OMB Approval No 1024-0018 a narrow brick frieze.
This cornice ends at the facade and does not wrap around the sides of the CMB Approval No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number 7 Page 3 . Eagles Building, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio surfaces. The taller windows above, which extend up through the third level, are infilled with brick At the fourth floor level, the windows are closely spaced and have smaller modern sash, probably floor are set beneath a narrow band of closely spaced clerestory windows which are transom-like in The rear elevation is plainly finished, with a chimney near its center and ranks of six-over-six windows, two per floor, that lead to the rear stairway and restrooms. The east elevation, as previously large closely spaced windows face, identical to those on the west and north elevations.
The fifth floor features four plain windows near the center of the wall. Below this level, the wall is stucco-covered. The main entrance to the upper floors of the Eagles Building is at the east end of the facade and enters scissor fashion, with its landing set above the main entrance. The elevators have cast metal doors that basement and to all floors of the building. ownership and now houses office space. It has dropped acoustical tile ceilings, modern partitions and upper levels. At the second floor level, a webwork of newer steel framing interlaces the building. It this space, perhaps where a theater balcony was once located. When the framework was installed, it was evidently intended to create two complete floors of space here in addition to the new first floor, but this work was abandoned in an incomplete state, but apparently with all steel framing complete.
In the process of making this transformation, the original steel beams were opened up for connections, etc. and, as a result, the decorative plasterwork was stripped away. Also, moisture infiltration from years of roof leakage has severely eroded the decorative plasterwork in most areas. Only segments of front elevation. described, has its top floor recessed in the center, facing onto a small roof over the fifth floor. Here In the past, the first three floors were a single large theater space and this may be observed on the modern fluorescent lighting Continuation Sheet replacing larger multi-paned original wood windows.Widely spaced single-paned sash on the fifth creates a floor level for the third floor, which has actually only been constructed at the north end of form. The sixth floor has a row of large closely spaced eight-over-eight windows, like those on the have been painted.
Large panels of polished marble accent the walls and marble tiles are used to form The basement is large and has modern finishes.A vault along the west side evidently extends into a vestibule containing two elevators and a broad open stairway.The stairway is arranged in underneath the alley.The first floor has been modernized in more recent years under a previous NPS Form 10-900-a the floor in the entry. The stairs have simple metal railings with wood handrails. They lead to the (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number 7 Page 4 Eagles Building, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio the decorative plasterwork remain in place in this former theater.
From these remains its is possible to visually reconstruct this as a fairly grand Neoclassical interior, but somewhat restrained for its period. The fourth and fifth floors have similar plans. Each has some small offices in front that face onto the recessed portico at these two floor levels. Behind these offices and consuming the bulk of each floor perhaps twelve feet tall, and has very simple plaster trim. A row of offices along the north side of this floor is taller, perhaps fourteen feet, and is more elaborate. Its clerestory windows and east side only by modern fluorescent lighting and acoustical tiles applied to its ceiling, but more seriously by with only smaller areas still largely intact. Its wood floor has been removed to expose the sleeper jeists. The rear of each of these halls is partitioned off to form restrooms and the rear stairway, a The sixth floor has a different plan.
It is entirely devoted to offices and has a C-shaped plan around corridor, with opaque-glazed borrowed light panels, opens onto offices on either side and connects the front and rear stairways. These offices are plainly finished and yet seem to have had little alteration over the years. They are heavily damaged from years of water infiltration. Continuation Sheet decoration.The beams take the form of entablatures and the projecting supports along the walls are simple feature. provide plenty of light and air into these rather small offices. The plan here is simple. A center windows make this a brighter space and the structural system here is sheathed in classical plaster are large halls.Both have fairly tall beamed ceilings.That on the fourth floor is slightly lower, space makes it smaller than the fifth floor hall, which runs the entire width of the building.
The fifth pilasters with relatively simple capitals. The original decor on this floor has been compromised, not the small light well that appears only at this level and is on the building's east side. Large windows Eagles Building Stark County, Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance