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Name of repository: (Enter categories from instructions) Property is: Applicable National Register Criteria Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: for National Register listing.) G less than 50 years of age orachieved significance (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) Bank block builaing Franklin Co., Ohio 10. Geographical Data (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By September 9, 1996 , rev, 1/22/97 organization - .date street & number1313 Lincoln Road - telephone_614/488-0425 city or town Grandview Heights - state Ohio zip code 43212 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.
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Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503 name Zone Columbus Photographs Maps Easting telephone Additional Documentation Boundary Justification Continuation Sheets Verbal Boundary Description Additional items Grandview Heights Historical Society Property Owner The Wagenbrenner Company Bank Block Building See continuation sheet Northing UTM References 1289 Grandview Avenue County and State (Describe the boundariesof the property ona continuation sheet.) Representative black and white photographs of the property. Name of Property A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. of this form to the Chief,Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O.
Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127, and the Office of Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OM8 Approval No.1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio Section number -8 The Bank Block Building is being nominated to the National Register under Criteria A and C within the context of commerce and community planning and development. Built in 1928 by Don Monroe Casto, among central Ohio's most significant twentieth century real estate developers, the Bank Block is representative of a new type of linear suburban commercial of significance for the Bank Block, 1928-1947, coincides with the commercial development of suburban Grandview Heights as Krogers and several merchants remained in the Bank Block In his book, Main Street to Miracle Mile, Chester H. Liebs described the evolution of Main Street business districts.
The first main streets in early American communities were lined with churches, stagecoach taverns and inns, stores, and rooming houses for livestock drovers. With the coming of railroads, new brick commercial buildings 1-10 stories tall, courthouses, city halls, theaters, libraries, hotels, and banks were added to commercial corridors creating a These mid and late nineteenth century commercial centers developed when the primary mode of transportation was either horse-drawn carriages or by foot. A new type of transportation which made an impact on the design of commercial centers was the interurban which opened Marble Cliff, and Grandview Heights. This movement away from older urban centers of transportation." [Francaviglia, Richard, Main Street Revisited.
Iowa City: University of became elongated, building heights were reduced, and windows widened with the coming of Chester H., From Main Street to Miracle Mile, Little, Brown & Co., 1985, p. 12]. The term was derived from the belief that these structures were speculative real estate designed to produce enough revenue to pay taxes and hold the property for future development [Liebs, p. 12]. Taxpayer strips attracted a variety of businesses including grocery stores, butchers, candy Page up previously undeveloped land. By 1910 new suburbs of Columbus had formed in Bexley, made available. corridor known as the "taxpayer strip," developed to accomodate the automobile.
The period not satisfy the needs of business patrons unless streets were widened and surface parking Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places accomodated interurbans and automobiles.Streetscapes in suburban commercial districts the automobile [Francaviglia, p. 47]. Liebs defines "taxpayer strips" as a commerical building dense throughfare along sidewalks. increased with the introduction of the automobile.Richard Francaviglianotesin Main Street The new suburbs offered developers opportunities to create new business districts that with a single row of storefronts occasionally capped by 1-2 stories of lofts or offices.[Liebs, up to 1950. Iowa Press,1996,p.47].It became evident that older main street commercial centers could (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio stores, hardware, banks and chain stores such as A&P, Woolworth, Sears Roebuck & Co., and autos increased, large parking lots were created at the rear of the commercial strip centers. between traditional Main Street development and post World War II highway strip centers. area. It was built in 1928 by Don Monroe Casto, founder of the Don Casto Organization. He began his career in the brokerage department of the Upper Arlington Company, developer of the automobile suburb of Upper Arlington adjacent to Grandview Heights. In the mid 1920s he began his own real estate company but met with sales resistance from potential home buyers in Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff reluctant to travel downtown to shop.
Casto constructed a two story commercial center in the mallway of Upper Arlington which opened in March 1928. The building was designed in the Tudor Revival style complementing the adjacent Municipal Building and several other commercial buildings part of the Upper Arlington Historic District, listed on 9/30/1985.] Casto acquired property along Grandview Avenue in Grandview Heights, a village incorporated in 1901, which was seeing an increase in residential development through the 1920s but had few neighborhood stores.
The new commercial center was named the Bank Block because First Citizens Trust (known as Ohio National Bank after 1932) was the first commerical center to serve residents in the Tri-Village area: Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff, period newspapers as the Grandview Community Shopping Center, the village council widened Grandview Avenue to allow on-street parking and installed streetlights between First The opening of the Bank Block, and corresponding Grandview Avenue street widening, was celebrated with a parade featuring members of the "Our Gang" comedy short films, and a emphasized the innovative commercial center free parking lot with 350 spaces where, "wives and mothers might SHOP IN SAFETY -- in safety to automobile, to their infants, and youngsters, and to their packages...Shoppers may leave their cars in the auto park, in the care Community News, published by the Upper Arlington First Communty Church, July 20, 1928.] (8-86) streetfair with childrens games and musical entertainment.Local newspaper advertisements National Register of Historic Places and Third Avenues.
of an uniformed attendant --who will also guard their children and their bundles.."[The business to sign up as a tenant and remained there until 1964. Casto intended his new NPS Form 10-900-a Section number - 8 - Page -2 Development of taxpayer strips, which ended with the Depression, marked a transition and Upper Arlington. In anticipation of the opening of Casto's the Bank Block, referred to in Montgomery Ward. Taxpayer strips featured curbside or perpendicular parking. As the use of constructed between 1925-1929. [Note: these buildings were listed in the National Register as The Bank Block Building illustrates how taxpayer strip centers developed in the Columbus NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio Early tenants of the Bank Block included several national chain retailers: Kroger Grocery Company (1928-1950), Piggly Wiggly (1928-1934), A&P Tea Company (1928-1938). Other important businesses with a long tenure in the Bank Block were First Citizens Trust Company, later Ohio National Bank (1928-1964), and James V. Cardi Barber Shop (later known as the Bobby Shoppe and the Bobby Barber Shoppe, 1928-1968). regional shopping centers and new residential subdivisions were constructed near the entrances of new interstate highways. Unlike the smaller strip centers, these developments , of shops, and storefronts were turned inward away from the main street. [Liebs, p.
31] Casto's influence as a shopping center developer increased and after World War II he dominated the commerical real estate development business making his mark on the built environment of Columbus. Shopping centers built after the Bank Block were increasingly larger with more stores and larger parking lots. In 1948 he built the Town and Country the Kresge store, which was the first store to feature evening hours. [Hendrickson, Robert, The Grand Emporiums, The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores, New York: Stein and Day, 1980, pp. 272-273.] Eastern (1955), Great Western (1955), Great Southern (1957), University City (1961), Square (1994).
When Casto died in 1963, radio commentator Paul Harvey described him as The Bank Block was one of Don Casto's first strip shopping center projects and the largest openings, and Georgian Revival elements including concrete quoins, a concrete belt course running the length of the facade, and the "Bank Block" inscription with Art Deco-inspired lettering. This 1920s commercial center marks a midpoint in the transition from nineteenth project of its kind in the metropolitan Columbus area. Although the building has been altered Other neighborhood strip commercial centers built by the Don M. Casto Organization in "the man who changed the shopping habits of the free world." [Corporate Archives, Don M. Continuation Sheet significance.
These features consist of storefront openings, concrete archways, window Casto Organization] (8-86) offered a climate controlled shopping experience, acres of free parking, and a larger number National Register of Historic Places Columbus include Central Point (1952),Graceland (1954),Northern Lights (1954),Great it retains the essential physical features that made up its character during the period of Town and Country Center featured the first suburban J.C.Penney store and another tenant, Berwick Plaza (1964),Bexley Square (1983),Dublin Village Center(1988),New Albany Shopping Center, also dubbed the "Miracle Mile" on East Broad Street in Whitehall. The Strip centers developedin the 1920sbegan to decline in the1950s and 1960s asenclosed by the automobile. Section number - century Main Street architecture geared to pedestrian traffic, to comercial architecture dictated CMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Block Building, Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio Section number - Columbus This Week, 1928, Vol. 7, No.9, p. 7. The Community News. Upper Arlington First Community Church, June 28, 1928. July 20, 1928 - August 17, 1928. "Developers in Your Success." Don M. Casto Organization, n.d. "East Side, West Side... all Around the Town!" Don M. Casto Organization, n.d. Francaviglia, Richard. Main Street Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. Henderson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums. The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. Historic Property Evaluation for the City of Columbus, Phase I. Benjamin D. Rickey & Co., Liebs, Chester H. From Main Street to Miracle Mile. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985. Polk, R.L. Columbus City Directory, 1928-1965.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (microfilm): Ohio, Grandview Heights, 1922, 1946. Reproduced from maps published by Sanborn Map Co., New York. September 30, 1985. 1990. Bibliography "Patriarch of the Shopping Centers." Columbus Dispatch Magazine, November 10, 1974. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a Page - Upper Arlington Historic District. National Register of Historic Places application form, (8-86) Section number . Grandview Heights, Ohio VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION: Lots 32, 33 and 40, Croughton & Denmead's Suburban Subdivision, Village of Grandview BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION: The boundary consists of the suburban lots historically associated with the nominated Heights property.
Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Bank Block Building National Park Service Unlted States Department of the Interior Page United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Grandview Hts., Ohio The following information is the same for all photographs: 1255-1293 Grandview Avenue Grandview Heights, Ohio Photographer: Ken Frick Neg. on file at 1600 Roxbury Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43212 1) Looking northwest from 1255 Grandview Avenue 2) Looking west at #1255-1269 4) Looking northwest from #1269 11) "Bank Block" inscription Photographer: Tracey Liberatore. Date of Photograph: January 1997.
Page Continuation Sheet Photographs: National Register of Historic Places Bank Block Building 17) Interior second floor doorway Date of photograph: June, 1996 7) Looking west at #1279 16) Interior second floor woodwork 3) Looking southwest from #1289 10) Looking west at #1293 The following information is the same for photos12-17: (upstairs) 13) Interior Fireplace mantle #2 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number SupplemenPage - Franklin County, Ohio 1922 SANBORN MAP (Updated 1941) National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet National Park Service 216 (8-86) Bank Block Building United States Department of the Interior W. 2ND 202 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Franklin County, Ohio W 3RD 202 HOLLYWOOD INES National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 452 1483 United States Department of the Interior Bank Block Building 1462 1946 SANBORN MAP (Updated 1966) W. 2ND Section number Supplemenpage 1453-51 HALL (8-86) 1236 226 BROADVIEW 167 457 125 Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio Historic view, c. 1931 (614) 488-0425 Grandview/Marble Cliff Historical Society Historic Photo 1 Bank Block Building lst Ave.
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iexplain:) comments.) Grandview Date National Register entered in the National Register state Registration Form OH county Franklin National Register of Historic Places Bank Block Building request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of 1255-1293 Grandview Avenue Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau Entries and narrative items on continuation sheets(NPS Form 10-900a).Use a typewriter,word processor,or computer,to complete all items. This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the code MAY Name of Property 8.
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Don Mionroe Casto Developer, Columbus, Ohio 9. Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 W State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency -previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government L University - Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Ohio Historic Preservation Office J recorded by Historic American Engineering 1928-1947 Register Bibilography Commerce Architect/Builder religious purposes. individual distinction. Criteria Considerations Property is: Cultural Affiliation Significant Dates Significant Person Applicable National Register Criteria Narrative Statement of Significance significant in our past.
designated a National Historic Landmark (Enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) A owned by a religious institution or used for Name of repository: for National Register listing.) CFR 67) has been requested Record # County and State - B Property is associated with the lives of persons United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Block Building, Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio The Bank Block Building,1255-1293 Grandview Avenue, is a combination one and two story commercial building built in 1928. The building occupies a prominent location along the main street of Grandview Heights, a suburb of Columbus.
There is a parking lot located at the rear of the Bank Block built for 350 cars. The building has five sections, two single story and an entire city block. (Photo 3) The first floor was constructed to house 16 separate storefront unified appearance and rhythm along the street, displaying modest Georgian Revival details including quoins, stone entrance and window surrounds, and belt courses. The Bank Block was built of brick with simple storefront windows aproximately six feet square, spanning the entire length of the storefronts. The foundation was built using concrete walls of the eight inch thick masonry sructure is structural tile with plaster finish. The floors are hardwood maple, 2 inch wide tongue and groove. The roof is built up and has a 1:12 pitch with parapet walls surrounding the front and sides.
The two story sections of the building each contain an entrance door to the upstairs rooms. Each door features a curved concrete archway. The second story of the front elevation is highlighted by a concrete belt course which runs the width of the facade connecting the windows. (Photo 9) The second story facade over the entrance to #1269 Grandview Avenue section of the building which houses #1255 is decorated by concrete quoins. The second one story section from the south features a walk-through providing direct access from the street side back to the rear parking. (Photo 7) The upstairs consists of several residential apartments, currently being used as office space. The original gas fireplaces, no longer used for heating purposes, feature simple mantles and tiles. (Photos 12-16) There have been several alterations to several of the first floor storefronts since 1928.
The primary alteration occurred c. 1988 at #1293, when a front addition containing restaurant seating was installed, and at #1255 where stucco was applied to the brick. (Photos 1,10) second floor windows. The second floor windows have been replaced but the openings retained. The storefront openings appear to be intact. Although the awnings obscure the view of the building, they are removable. A brick parapet on each two story section was removed in c. 1975 due to deterioration. Original iron balconies at each second story window have been removed. The brick walls have been painted, but the brick bonding pattern is still Page visible. Continuation Sheet businesses. The second floor contained businesses and apartments.
The complex presents a National Register of Historic Places Elsewhere in the block canvas awnings were installed over the storefront entrances and over (8-86) block and poured concrete pilasters supporting the beams under the bearing walls. The inner Section number 7 features the inscription"Bank Block"with Art Deco inspired 4,1l) The three double story,alternating one story-two story-one story-two story-one story filling NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio Section number 8 The Bank Block Building is being nominated to the National Register under Criteria A and C within the context of commerce and community planning and development.
Built in 1928 by Don Monroe Casto, among central Ohio's most significant twentieth century real estate developers, the Bank Block is representative of a new type of linear suburban commercial corridor known as the "taxpayer strip," developed to accomodate the automobile. The period of significance for the Bank Block, 1928-1947, coincides with the commercial development of up to 1950. In his book, Main Street to Miracle Mile, Chester H. Liebs described the evolution of Main Street business districts. The first main streets in early American communities were lined with churches, stagecoach taverns and inns, stores, and rooming houses for livestock drovers.
With the coming of railroads, new brick commercial buildings 1-10 stories tall, courthouses, city halls, theaters, libraries, hotels, and banks were added to commercial corridors creating a These mid and late nineteenth century commercial centers developed when the primary mode which made an impact on the design of commercial centers was the interurban which opened Marble Cliff, and Grandview Heights. This movement away from older urban centers increased with the introduction of the automobile. Richard Francaviglia notes in Main Street of transportation." [Francaviglia, Richard, Main Street Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996, p.
47].It became evident that older main street commercial centers could The new suburbs offered developers opportunities to create new business districts that became elongated, building heights were reduced, and windows widened with the coming of the automobile [Francaviglia, p. 47]. Liebs defines "taxpayer strips" as a commerical building Chester H., From Main Street to Miracle Mile, Little, Brown & Co., 1985, p. 12]. The term was derived from the belief that these structures were speculative real estate designed to produce enough revenue to pay taxes and hold the property for future development [Liebs, p. 12]. Taxpayer strips attracted a variety of businesses including grocery stores, butchers, candy Page Continuation Sheet made available. accomodated interurbans and automobiles.
Streetscapes in suburban commercial districts National Register of Historic Places suburban Grandview Heights as Krogers and several merchants remained in the Bank Block dense throughfare along sidewalks. of transportation was either horse-drawn carriages or by foot.A new type of transportation not satisfy the needs of business patrons unless streets were widened and surface parking up previously undeveloped land. By 1910 new suburbs of Columbus had formed in Bexley, with a single row of storefronts occasionally capped by 1-2 stories of lofts or offices.[Liebs, OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio stores, hardware, banks and chain stores such as A&P, Woolworth, Sears Roebuck & Co., and Montgomery Ward.
Taxpayer strips featured curbside or perpendicular parking. As the use of autos increased, large parking lots were created at the rear of the commercial strip centers. Development of taxpayer strips, which ended with the Depression, marked a transition between traditional Main Street development and post World War II highway strip centers. The Bank Block Building illustrates how taxpayer strip centers developed in the Columbus area. It was built in 1928 by Don Monroe Casto, founder of the Don Casto Organization. He began his career in the brokerage department of the Upper Arlington Company, developer of he began his own real estate company but met with sales resistance from potential home buyers in Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff reluctant to travel downtown to shop.
Casto constructed a two story commercial center in the mallway of Upper Arlington which opened in March 1928. The building was designed in the Tudor Revival style part of the Upper Arlington Historic District, listed on 9/30/1985.] Casto acquired property along Grandview Avenue in Grandview Heights, a village incorporated in 1901, which was seeing an increase in residential development through the 1920s but had few neighborhood stores. The new commercial center was named the Bank business to sign up as a tenant and remained there until 1964. Casto intended his new commerical center to serve residents in the Tri-Village area: Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff, and Upper Arlington.
In anticipation of the opening of Casto's the Bank Block, referred to in period newspapers as the Grandview Community Shopping Center, the village council widened Grandview Avenue to allow on-street parking and installed streetlights between First and Third Avenues.
The opening of the Bank Block, and corresponding Grandview Avenue street widening, was celebrated with a parade featuring members of the "Our Gang" comedy short films, and a emphasized the innovative commercial center free parking lot with 350 spaces where, "wives and mothers might SHOP IN SAFETY - in safety to automobile, to their infants, and of an uniformed attendant -- who will also guard their children and their bundles..."[The Community News, published by the Upper Arlington First Communty Church, July 20, 1928.] Continuation Sheet (8-86) National Register of Historic Places constructed between 1925-1929.Note:these buildings were listed in the National Register as Block because First Citizens Trust (known as Ohio National Bank after 1932)was the first Section number _ - Page - the automobile suburb of Upper Arlington adjacent to Grandview Heights.
In the mid 1920s youngsters, and to their packages....Shoppers may leave their cars in the auto park, in the care complementing the adjacent Municipal Building and several other commercial buildings streetfair with childrens games and musical entertainment. Local newspaper advertisements NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Bank Building, Grandview Hgts., Franklin County, Ohio Section number - Page - 3 Early tenants of the Bank Block included several national chain retailers: Kroger Grocery Company (1928-1950), Piggly Wiggly (1928-1934), A&P Tea Company (1928-1938). Other important businesses with a long tenure in the Bank Block were First Citizens Trust Company, later Ohio National Bank (1928-1964), and James V. Cardi Barber Shop (later known as the Bobby Shoppe and the Bobby Barber Shoppe, 1928-1968).
Strip centers developed in the 1920s began to decline in the 1950s and 1960s as enclosed regional shopping centers and new residential subdivisions were constructed near the entrances of new interstate highways. Unlike the smaller strip centers, these developments offered a climate controlled shopping experience, acres of free parking, and a larger number of shops, and storefronts were turned inward away from the main street. [Liebs, p. 31] Casto's influence as a shopping center developer increased and after World War II he dominated the commerical real estate development business making his mark on the built environment of Columbus. Shopping centers built after the Bank Block were increasingly larger with more stores and larger parking lots. In 1948 he built the Town and Country Shopping Center, also dubbed the "Miracle Mile" on East Broad Street in Whitehall.
The the Kresge store, which was the first store to feature evening hours. [Hendrickson, Robert, The Grand Emporiums, The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores, New York: Stein and Day, 1980, pp. 272-273.] Columbus include Central Point (1952), Graceland (1954), Northern Lights (1954), Great Berwick Plaza (1964), Bexley Square (1983), Dublin Village Center (1988), New Albany Square (1994). When Casto died in 1963, radio commentator Paul Harvey described him as "the man who changed the shopping habits of the free world." [Corporate Archives, Don M. project of its kind in the metropolitan Columbus area. Although the building has been altered it retains the essential physical features that made up its character during the period of significance.
These features consist of storefront openings, concrete archways, window running the length of the facade, and the "Bank Block" inscription with Art Deco-inspired lettering. This 1920s commercial center marks a midpoint in the transition from nineteenth century Main Street architecture geared to pedestrian traffic, to comercial architecture dictated by the automobile. Continuation Sheet Casto Organization] Other neighborhood strip commercial centers built by the Don M. Casto Organization in National Register of Historic Places openings, and Georgian Revival elements including concrete quoins, a concrete belt course Town and Country Center featured the first suburban J.C.Penney store and another tenant, Eastern (1955),Great Western (1955),Great Southern(1957),University City (1961), (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Bank Block Building, Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio Columbus This Week, 1928, Vol. 7, No.9, p. 7. The Community News. Upper Arlington First Community Church, June 28, 1928. July 20, 1928 August 3, 1928 "Developers in Your Success." Don M. Casto Organization, n.d. "East Side, West Side.... all Around the Town!" Don M. Casto Organization, n.d. Francaviglia, Richard. Main Street Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. Henderson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums. The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. Historic Property Evaluation for the City of Columbus, Phase I. Benjamin D. Rickey & Co., Liebs, Chester H. From Main Street to Miracle Mile. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985. Polk, R.L. Columbus City Directory, 1928-1965.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (microfilm): Ohio, Grandview Heights, 1922, 1946. Reproduced from maps published by Sanborn Map Co., New York. Upper Arlington Historic District. National Register of Historic Places application form, September 30, 1985. Bibliography 1990. Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places "Patriarch of the Shopping Centers." Columbus Dispatch Magazine, November 10, 1974. Section number Page NPS Form 10-900-a Page - (8-86) Grandview Heights, Ohio VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION: Lots 32, 33 and 40, Croughton & Denmead's Suburban Subdivision, Village of Grandview BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION: The boundary consists of the suburban lots historically associated with the nominated property.
Heights Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Bank Block Building National Park Service Section number 10Page Unitea States Department of the Interior Page United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Grandview Hts., Ohio The following information is the same for all photographs: 1255-1293 Grandview Avenue Grandview Heights, Ohio Photographer: Ken Frick Date of photograph: June, 1996 Neg. on file at 1600 Roxbury Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43212 1) Looking northwest from 1255 Grandview Avenue 3) Looking southwest from #1289 4) Looking northwest from #1269 10) Looking west at #1293 11) "Bank Block" inscription Photographer: Tracey Liberatore. Date of Photograph: January 1997.
17) Interior second floor doorway Photographs: Page (upstairs) Bank Block Building 7) Looking west at #1279 Continuation Sheet 16) Interior second floor woodwork National Register of Historic Places 2) Looking west at #1255-1269 The following information is the same for photos l2-l7: 12) Interior Fireplace mantle #1 NPS Form 10-900-a Section number SupplemenPage - Franklin County, Ohio 202 216 Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Bank Block Building National Park Service United States Department of the Interior 1922 SANBORN MAP (Updated 1941) W 200 AY OMB Approval No 1024-0018 W. 2ND 225 168 (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Franklin County, Ohio BROADVIEW 1462 HAINES Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service (8-86) Bank Block Building United States Department of the Interior 1946 SANBORN MAP (Updated 1966) 1540 NPS Form 10-900-a HOLLYWOOD PL. 302 02 /12 452 1445 W. 2ND* HALL 225 Section number Supplemenpage /500 W.3RD March 5, 1997 Dr. Amos Loveday State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Society 1982 Velma Avenue Historical Society's efforts to place the "Bank Block" building on Grandview The Grandview Avenue Shopping Center, which served a six to ten-mile radius, were grouped together at one suburban location when Piggly Wiggly, A & P and sixteen stores were constructed in-line to provide consumers with variety and convenience in one stop; and parking for 300 cars was provided at the rear of the building.
Other early tenants included a drugstore, general store, barber shop, movie theater, and an Ohio National Bank branch. industry, it changed the course of our organization as well. As a third-generation owner of the Don M. Casto Organization, I encourage you to give this deserving nomination your thoughtful consideration and look forward to its placement on the Sincerely yours PHONE National Register. Dear Dr. Loveday: Center and it represents one of the seminal events in the evolution of the shopping center industry. Kroger (then a bakery) joined a local grocer known as Polumbo's.
The original 209 EAST STATE STREET (614) 469-8376 (614) 228-5331 immediate neighborhood.It was also the first time that national chain grocers FAX We are proud to lend our support and wholeheartedly endorse the Grandview Avenue for placement on the National Register of Historic Places.The building was the first shopping center built to serve a trade area reaching beyond the Don M. Casto, III COLUMBUS OHIO 43215 Not only was the Grandview Avenue Shopping Center important to the retail DEVELOPERS was developed in 1928 by Don M. Casto, Sr. as the Grandview Avenue Shopping ORGANIZATION Benkbock OHIO-FRANKLIN CO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 1255-1293 GRANDUIEW AUE 17 325340 326 3284.5MI.TOU.S.23 SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE 3298300 2'30" 40°00' I850 000 FEET (315) THE BANK BLOCK BUILDING GRANDUIELO HTS, OH 1.3 MI. TO INT.
7/ (NORTHEAST 4429 WTm COORDIWATES SPAGI PIZZA & SPA KITCHEN Learn To Dance! PLUS 1289 1269 126* Staub's UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : TELEPHONE MULTIPLE REJECT RETURN DATE REVIEWER 8/01/97 9/15/97 DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DETAYLED EVALUATION: /ACCEPT DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N REQUESTED ACTION: RESUBMISSION STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Franklin Learn To Dance! 1269 1289 126! OPEN The Avenue Safon 1289 - PIZZA & SPA KITCHEN SPAGIC SPAGIO PIZZA & SPA KITCHEN BANK BLOCK DAVIS STORE TRUST CO.
ITIZE PIGGLY WIGGLY HISTORIC PHOTO #2 OKIGINAL PHOTO LOCATED AT: MISTORYC YIEW, C.1931 ISt AUENUE 014- 486-0425 ORIGINAL PHOTOS LOCATED ATI HISTORIC PHOTO #3 (414) 488-0425 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS, OH SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Fax: 297-2496 April 15, 1997 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places National Park Service MAY - 2 1997 P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Enclosed is one new National Register nomination for the Bank Block Building in Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission.
The nomination presents this building as an example of a specific type of building, representing an early automobile-related type of commercial development associated with early twentieth century suburbanization. Locally significant,the Bank Building factored into the early growth and development of Grandview Heights. The nomination identifies the distinct characteristics that the building retains to reflect its significance, namely its massing, relationship to the street, and provisions for parking. The building has experienced several significant alterations, particularly the addition of the canopy structure and the painting of the exterior brickwork. I am requesting a substantive review of this nomination in order to receive the full benefit of the National Register reveiwer's expertise to determine if these changes significantly impact the integrity of the Bank Block Building.
Please contact this office if you have any questions regarding the nomination or our request for substantive State Historic Preservation Officer 614/297-2470 SOCIETY Sincerely, review. HISTORICAL Dear Carol: RECEIVED 2280 OHIO Amos J. Loveday,Jr. Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Fax: 297-2496 Ms. Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places National Park Service 1849 C Street (NC-490) Washington, D. C. 20240 Enclosed is the resubmitted nomiation for the Bank Block Building in Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio. As requested, actual copies of historic photographs dating from circa 1931 are included in the Please contact this office if you have any questions regarding the resubmission. State Historic Preservation Officer 614/297-2470 resubmission.
SOCIETY HISTORICAL Sincerely, Enclosures SINCE 1885 Dear Carol: July 28, 1997 OHIO SEP 29 1997 Mr. Amos J. Loveday State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Dear Mr. Loveday: Building in Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio, to the National Register of Historic Places. After careful review of the nomination documentation, the 1928 Bank Block Building (also known as property's role as an important building type within the context of the community's historical to convey that significance because of the cumulative impact of non-historic alterations on the building's historic integrity.
Although the Bank Block retains character-defining qualities of its decorative arches to the upper floor offices, and some interior features such as second floor office Non-historic alterations to the Bank Block include: new storefronts (pardcularly Spagio's on the northernmost one-story bay) and various degrees of storefront changes; replacement of second parapets on the two-story sections because of deterioration; and the additions of stucco, paint, and several layers of awnings to the brick facade. Although the awnings are visually very obtrusive, would not meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Therefore, if any further changes to the building are carried out the eligibility of the property would need to be reexamined. to work closely with your office to effect more positive preservation treatments that would respect the historic character of the building.
If we can provide further information or assistance, please let us know. Carol D. Shull Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places National Register, History and Education BASIC FILE RETAINED IN 2280 FNP:BSAVAGE:NCOX:09\29\97:343-9500:F:INR\BANKBLCK.CH Sincerely, 2250-Greenberg bcc: 220o-Stevenson (Sgd) Patrick Andrus 0001-Stanton H32(2280) This is in responseto your request for the substantive review of the nomination of the Bank Block the Grandview Shopping Center) was listed in the National Register on September 15, 1997, for its A and C.
During staff conference regarding the property, consensus was achieved on the commercial development; however, serious issues were raised concerning the strength of its ability massing, its essential parking lot with integral building pass-through to street storefronts, the majority of its fenestration pattern, many individual storefront features, its two entrance doors with floor windows and loss of their decorative metal grills; the removal of the uppermost portions of the they are additive cosmetic alterations, which appear to not be structurally invasive, and thus do not irretrievably damage the building's historic fabric or design.
Nonetheless, it is our opinion that many of these changes, particularly the new glass Spagio storefront and the large awning structures, If any future rehabilitation plans for the building are considered, we would strongly urge the owners doors and fireplaces, it has incurred a degree of alteration that has impinged its historic integrity. Mr. Amos J. Loveday State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 E. Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Dear Mr. Loveday: Block Building in Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio, to the National Register of Historic After careful review of the nomination documentation, the 1928 Bank Block Building (also center under criteria A and C.
During staff conference regarding the property, consensus was community's historical commercial development; however, serious issues were raised concerning the strength of its ability to convey that significance because of the cumulative impact of non- character-defining qualities of its massing, its essential parking lot with integral building pass- through to street storefronts, the majority of its fenestration pattern, many individual storefront features, its two entrance doors with decorative arches to the upper floor offices, and some interior features such as second floor office doors and fireplaces, it has incurred a degree of alteration that has impinged its historic integrity.
the parapets on the two-story sections because of deterioration; and the additions of stucco, paint, obtrusive, they are additive cosmetic alterations, which appear to not be structurally invasive, and thus do not irretrievably damage the building's historic fabric or design. Nonetheless, it is our awning structures, would not meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Therefore, if any further changes to the building are carried out the eligibility of the property would need to be reexamined. If any future rehabilitation plans for the building are considered, we would strongly urge the owners to work closely with your office to effect more positive H32(2280) Places.
northernmost one-story bay) and various degrees of storefront changes;replacement of second achieved on the property's role as an important building type within the context of the historic alterations on the building's historic integrity.Although the Bank Block retains and several layers of awnings to the brick facade.Although the awnings are visually very known as the Grandview Shopping Center) was listed in the National Register on September 15, preservation treatments that would respect the historic character of the building.
floor windows and loss of their decorative metal grills; the removal of the uppermost portions of Non-historic alterations to the Bank Block include:new storefronts (particularly Spagio's on the 1997,for its local importance as a seminal example of an early automobile-oriented shopping This is in response to your request for the substantive review of the nomination of the Bank opinion that many of these changes, particularly the new glass Spagio storefront and the large P. Anduo If we can provide further information or assistance, please let us know. Carol D.
Shull Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places National Register, History and Education Sincerely, f:Inr\bankblck.oh Control No.: 970513/AJA Sites Date: 05/02/97 Level of , LOCAL Certification BUSINESS Historic Federal 1925-1949 Agency BOUNDARY COMMERCE COMMERCE/TRADE Buildings ADDRESS/ Subfunctions Current Page ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING Significance NOT APPLICABLE OTHER NAME/ Criteria Considerations Periods of COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Structures Nominator Name Area of Significance Objects CITY: Grandview PROPERTY NAME: Bank Block Building SITE NO DATE WED, MAY 28, 1997.
2:20 PM REFERENCE No.: 97000510 MULTIPLE NAME: NOT APPLICABLE COUNTY: Franklin Nomination/Determination Type: SINGLE RESOURCE Nominator: STATE GOVERNMENT NPS Park Name: NOT APPLICABLE Certification: DATE RECEIVED/PENDING NOMINATION Significant Person's Name: NOT APPLICABLE Restricted Location Information 1255--1293 Grandview Ave STATE: OHIO Applicable Criteria: EVENT Casto, Don Monroe HAER No. N/A Describe Other Style: NOT APPLICABLE Zone Easting 1928 Northing UTM Designer BRICK Architect/Builder/Engineer Acreage ASPHALT NOT APPLICABLE Other Materials Wall Materials Roof Materials Styles Cultural Affiliation: Other Documentation NONE LISTED HABS No 17/ /3 25 340/ /44 27 640 Zone Coordinates
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