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OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior RECEIVED National Park Service National Register of Historic Places 1. Name of Property historic name 2. Location street & number _ St. Marys NB vicinity city or town _ code_011 zip code - State 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certity that this X nomination -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 4. National Park Service Certification - See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National other, (explain:) 45885 Register.

Date 11-17-97 (AUG-973-8) Registration Form N not for publication National Register The Fountain Hotel entered in the National Register. REC'D BY OHPO Signature of certitying official/Title NPS Form 10-900 Date of Action 100-ll0 West Spring Street by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items meets -does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Kegper Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.

In my opinion, the property comments.) CES In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.( See continuation sheet for additional Auglaize County, Ohio 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) x building(s) - public-Federal _ Structures - object 6. Function or Use 7.

Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) CURRENTLY site brick Noncontributing public-State Narrative Description other roof public-local Materials Current Functions Historic Functions asphalt Architectural Classification Total Fountain Hotel walls COMMERCE/restaurant Number of Resources within Property DOMESTIC/hotel (Enter categories from instructions) in the National Register WORK IN PROGRESS LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne Number of contributing resources previously listed County and State COMMERCE/specialty stores district Name of Property Name of related multiple property listing DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) X private NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Fountain Hotel, St.

Marys The Fountain Hotel is located in the heart of St. Marys' downtown commercial district. the property on the east. three-story brick building whose basement (with sandstone foundation) is banked into With their recessed, projecting, and mousetoothed panels and cast iron rosettes, the (Photo #5, #7, #8). A central, rectangular parapet distinguishes the roofline; its top and sides were formerly enriched with floral detailing, but these were also lost before 1930. The hoodmolds whose consoles are rosette-enriched as well. The aforementioned piers create a pattern of alternating single and triple windows on the third floor, and single Substantial alterations have been made to the three street-level storefronts, although DESCRIPTION same time. National Register of Historic Places Auglaize County stone stringcourses between the stories-ispunctuated by distinctive engaged piers.

Continuation Sheet double-hung sash of the second floor originally featured transoms.Its central window replacements.Although the sash design of the third floor windows is unchanged, the thoroughfare(Photo #1).The St.Marys River and Miami-Erie Canal channel border and doubled windows on the second.The windows of the facade are modern was formerly stained glass but this detail was removed c. 1941.A balcony also The Fountain Hotel is an example of Commercial Queen Anne architecture.It is a removed as well(between 1941 and 1973;Photos#2and #5).The roofline does, Section number It sits on the north side of Spring Street, the city's major northeast-southwest the north side of Spring Street.Its strong horizontal massing-emphasized by slender however, retain its brick corbelling and dentillation.

The corbelling, dentillation, and The building's double-hung sash windows have segmental arches with brick appeared on the central section of the second story but this was removed at the name "Fountain Hotel" appeared in relief within the parapet, but this feature was Page (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Fountain Hotel, St. Marys DESCRIPTION (cont'd) each retains the original arrangement of central entrance and flanking display windows (Photos #1 & #2). Metal panels obscure the segmental arches and glass piers and underpanels. Metal canopies are another recent addition to the facade. An facade. (Photo #3). Its windows are identical as well, but have escaped replacement (i.e.,the second floor retains 1/1 double-hung sash with transoms).

The rear of the A twelve-room addition was made to the northeast corner of the building in 1895. It stories feature original, 2/2 double hung sashes. A now-rickety wooden walkway an 1895 photograph. The 1913 photograph also reveals that a one-story, frame addition had been made to the northeast (rear) corner of the building, attached to the 1895 addition (Photo #9). The purpose of the second addition and the date of its subsequent removal are unknown. The building was also sandblasted (date unknown). Regarding the building's interior spaces, at the commercial level there are presently west space appears to be pretty much in the original condition, there remains the pressed board ornamental ceiling and recessed entry, the second and third levels still have most of the original window trim, base, and doors and door trim.

The west (party wall) windows have been bricked in and open stair from the second to the third level remains with minor damage. Auglaize County Section number 7 the original structure and features similar roofline detailing(corbelling and National Register of Historic Places segmental arches and brick lintels; windows on the west side of the building have Page 2 NPS Form 10-900-a and glass block transom panels. Similar siding also covers or replaces the storefront overhanging sign proclaiming the "Hotel Fort Barbee" remains from the 1950s. The east (canal) side of the building is tri-sected by piers identical to those on the originally 4/4 double-hung sash (Photo #9). is three-story, brick with full basement. The addition is only a few feet shorter than dentillation). First floor windows are downsized, modern replacements, but the upper County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) XA Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) 1889, 1895, ca. 1913, ca. 1941 -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person - B removed from its original location.

(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University designated a National Historic Landmark - Other J recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: George Neargarder (ACHS) J recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1889-1947 COMMERCE Bibilography Register Architect/Builder Fountain Hotel Criteria Considerations Unknown Cultural Affiliation religious purposes. Applicable National Register Criteria Auglaize County, OH our history.

Auglaize County Public Library Property is: Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A Name of Property (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) AUGLATZECOUNTY, OH Name of Property 10. Geographical Data .28 -- less than one Acreage of Property (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By August 1, 1997 29½ East Auglaize Street street & number - telephone city or town - State . zip code - Submit the following items with the completed form: A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property.

(Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) Fort Barbee Riverview Limited Partnership Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). of this form tothe Chief, Administrative Services Division,National ParkService, P.O. Box 37127,Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

45895 43912 614/633-3035 date 419/738-4924 name Bridgeport Easting Photographs Zone Northing Wapakoneta name/title Ohio Additional Documentation organization Additional items Rachel Barber UTM References (consultant) Boundary Justification Continuation Sheets FOUNTAIN HOTEL County and State 213 Main Street 1 [1,6) A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing Maps OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Auglaize County, Ohio Criterion A. The building represents an important aspect of St. Marys' history, reflecting its vibrant commercial and industrial life after the discovery of oil and gas.

According to the 1917 Frederick Dieker, and Solomon Bamberger formed a partnership to found a hotel, they decided to build atop "The Fountain" (on land deeded Gordon by his father) and borrow its name for their new establishment. information was located about Bamberger.) Gordon (b.1855) dabbled in many fields, managing the family flour mill, operating the Hauss and Gordon Shoe Store, and serving as a postmaster, number of options on successful local oil wells. enterprise to make it one of the finest hotels in northwestern Ohio..employing all modern improvements, such as electric call bells, fire alarms, hot and cold water baths, etc. The building house"(ACD, July 4,1889).... "Almost 200 people of this place and abroad responded to affair was a grand success in every particular" (ACD, July 18, 1889).

One of the hotel's attractions was the fountain in the dining room, fed from the basement spring. Indeed, the spring supplied water for the entire hotel, an attraction unto itself since St. Page Continuation Sheet Section number Fountain Hotel The Fountain Hotel qualifies for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under (8-86) to expense and everything is first class.It is without a doubt the best house outside the (1876), while Robert B. Gordon, Jr, was the son of a prominent local mill owner.

(No the next few years when petroleum was discovered in great quantities in the country Each partner contributed $10.000 to the endeavor.The Auglaize County Democrat (May 12, principal cities of the state and its grandeur must be seen tobe appreciated....T)he bosses are invitations to be present at the opening of the Fountain Hotel on Wednesday evening.The 1887) reported that "Itjhe gentlemen interested in the new venture have the money and N/'S Form 10-900-a Throughout its history, St. Marys' primary commercial district has occupied Spring Street, so will be a brick structure, ninety-four feet front and ninety feet depth, with three stories and a Frederick Dieker had previously owned a hotel and had co-founded the Bank of St.

Marys Auglaize County auditor (1890-1895),and United States representative.He also owned a The hotel's opening was also a newsworthy event:"The Fountain Hotel is now complete and named because of the large number of artesian wells in the area.The biggest and most United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Auglaize County, Ohio third floors, where chambermaids filled pitchers and carried them to each room. The hotel also featured gas piped in from area wells, which provided lighting at night. Rooms with board went for $3.50per week.

In 1895 a twelve-room rear addition was added to the hotel, reportedly because it "has been a successful investment and for years has not been able to accommodate all In 1903a kitchen, electricity, and central heating were added, and floors replaced throughout very door of the hotel,"according to the Portrayal of St. Marys, Ohio, Past and Present (1907). However, the same publications states that "(The fact that St. Marys has two 1st class hotels is amply attested by the number of commercial travelers who go out of their way to spend was termed "modern in every respect" (The Ideal Directory of Auglaize County). recognition of a War of 1812 fortification.1The February 26, 1941, edition of the St. Marys Hotel Fort Barbee" (which undoubtedly included the removal of the balcony). The building functioned as a hotel until 1996. operations.

The village was founded in 1824, north of the confluence of three branches of the influenced development in St. Marys through the third-quarter of the 19th century: 1824: St. Marys becomes the seat of Mercer County. 1837: Construction begins on the Miami-Erie Canal, including the Grand Reservoir, a feeder for the canal adjacent to the village (completed by 1845). 184D: Celina replaces St. Marys as the seat of Mercer County. 1848: Auglaize County is created from parts of Allen and Mercer counties. St. Marys loses its campaign for the seat of government to fledgling Wapakoneta. completed 1877: The Lake Erie and Western Railroad arrives in St. Marys (freight service only). village "became the centre of milling operations for a large section" of the county" (Auglaize The original Ft. St. Mary's was built by a detachment of Wayne's army in 1794 prior to the march to Fallen Timbers.

The fort was abandoned in 1796. Page Continuation Sheet (8-86) Fountain Hotel In 1923 Harold Neely acquired the hotel and changed its name to the Hotel Fort Barbee, in St.Marys River.At the time 29 taxpayers lived here and the township at large. Several factors War of 1812 the site became an important supply storehouse and location for military Each of the above milestones affected development in St.Marys. Because of the canal the NFS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 102L-0018 Section number the building. These renovations were likely in response to the construction of The Palm Hotel Marys then had no public water system. Hydraulic equipment pumped water to the second and Sundays and other leisure time as guests of the local hostelries." In 1915 the Fountain Hotel The site of an 18th century Shawnee village, St. Marys is the oldest permanent settlement in Auglaize County.

As early as 1782 James Girty established a trading post here, and during the 1852:Plank roads between Fort Wayne and St.Marys and St.Marys and Wapakoneta are directly across the street in the headquarters of the interurban line,"the cars stopping at the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Auglaize County, Ohio County Atlas, 1880). As seat of Mercer County, St. Marys saw a constant influx of visitors from the rural areas and beyond. This loss in 1840 (repeated in 1848) caused a slump in morale that extended itself to development activities. In contrast, construction of the plank roads provided an outlet for the timber that local farmers desired to clear from the fertile land; it also provided (as did the canal) a means for farmers to transport their goods to distant markets.

Additionally, of Auglaize County, 1923). "hostelries" were established here between the 1820s and 1844. (Records are spotty for several had purchased the Bates House in 1853 and changed its name to his own; Dieker sold the operation in 1867. By the late 1870s the Dieker House was the only hotel in St. Marys, although The town's early economic strengths notwithstanding by the 1880s the pace of growth had establishment of the county, Wapakoneta had 504 residents, compared to St. Marys' 873. However, by 1880 Wapakoneta had 2761 residents, more than one-thousand greater than St. Marys' 1745. Then, however, an event occurred with larger and more sustained effects than any other in the town's history, bigger than the canal, or plank roads, or being county seat. Gas and oil were discovered near St. Marys.

The first successful well was drilled here on July 24, 1886, followed throughout the county. (Standard Oil of Ohio soon controlled much of the local production.) The first passenger train for the Lake Erie & Western Railroad arrived in the village on June 9, number of businesses and industries. This pace continued unabated for some time, as noted by Page Fountain Hotel 1888. In the same year the village extended gas mains to 800 homes around town, as well as a Continuation Sheet things. One was a special kind of engine, powered by natural gas to pump the wells. This need the roads "opened a tremendous traffic in hoop poles which in season were poured in almost Other aspects of the local economy responded to the discovery."The oil fields required many was supplied by[three machine companies]...Another direct result of the oil and gas at least one boarding house operated here aswell.

"The town became the center of a genuine boom...(ACA,1917). (8.86) NPS Form 10-900-a of the businesses.) Frederick Dieker (son of "St. Marys House" [1835] manager Anthony Dieker) by two others the same fall. By May 1887 more than three-hundred leases had been recorded Section number - ceaseless caravans to St. Marys for further transportation thence by canal" (McMurray's History Because of the economic activity at and stagecoach routing through St. Marys, as many as seven commercial development. Population figures reflect this lag. In 1850, shortly after the stoves onto the gas plant for customers. The number of stoves this fall will be greater than last. the Auglaize County Democrat:"The corporation gas boys have their hands full attaching slowed, and St.

Marys was rapidly losing ground to neighboring Wapakoneta in industrial and The time is near when we will have to begin paying for the gas..."(September 26,1889). OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Auglaize County, Ohio 1823-1973). McMurray reports also that "during the 90s [that] the residential section of the city was practically rebuilt" (1923) because of the discovery. Therefore, gas and oil reserves at and progressive town. (Figures 1 - 3). "Of recent years the development of the oil and gas business has made (St.

Marys) a place of these substances within the corporate limits of the town a few years ago, and the subsequent revival of almost every business in which the town was then engaged, the influx oil operators their fortune in this wonderful field" (ACA, 1898); "The boom that was to follow the discovery of oil in the St. Marys field gave both short term struggling to make a decent living from their small farms.. In the long run, however, St. Marys took its prosperity in stride. The oil boom brought many people to town....The oil 1850: 873 1860: 1188 1870: 1370 1880: 1745 1890: 3000 1900: 5359 1910: 5732 1920: 5679 John Kuethan, "abandoned" ownership of the Dieker Hotel to purchase The Fountain after Page 1973). Section number Fountain Hotel Continuation Sheet Bamberger reflect the entrepreneurial spirit that prevailed in St.

Marys after the discovery of The Fountain had no real competition in St. Marys for a decade-and-a-half. Indeed, in 1898 of diversified industry, a skilled work force, and a strong solid, stable citizenry" (Shuffleton, and long term benefits.Immediate good results were bestowed on many who had been man no less. But when Dieker rejoined this line of work in 1889, it was not an "old-fashioned" gas and oil. two-story frame operation like the one that still carried his name, but The Fountain, a new growth after the discovery of oil and gas: around St. Marys did not only benefit individual property owners; it also promoted industrial and producers, and the sudden transition from poverty to wealth of many who came to try boom days burst upon us suddenly and lasted many years.

As it slowly receded, it left a heritage buildings of pre-Civil War days came down and new brick business houses began to line Spring Other commentators concur in assessing the discoverys affect upon St. Marys: great activity, being in the heart of this industry. The writer remembers well the discovery of brick business house with water source and gas lights and fountain. Dieker, Gordon, and (8-86) In Shuffleton's narrative about the boom days he further states:"things began to happen. Old discovery was the growth of industry using these fuels"(Shuffleton's The St. Marys Story: OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Auglaize County, Ohio years of attempting to modernize and re-popularize the older operation.

Even the establishment of the rival Palm Hotel in 1903 failed to dethrone The Fountain. suffered a substantial fire in 1889 (three buildings destroyed, others damaged) and another in Sidney (each with their own NR commercial districts as well). In contrast, downtown St. Marys Ohio Historic Preservation Office, only twelve commercial structures were documented. Of the twelve (all of which are extant; five have been sandblasted) one dates from the Canal Era, two are c.1875, four (including the Fountain) are between 1886 and 1895, and five are c.1900-1910. The Fountain Hotel is a response to and a representative of the giddy but well-founded optimism that prevailed in St.Marys immediately after the discovery of gas and oil. Plans for Furthermore, at the time of its construction the Fountain's size was unrivaled in downtown of comparable mass.

By its sheer proportions, the building anchors the west end of downtown St. Marys. Like few other commercial buildings in St. Marys, therefore, the Fountain Hotel demonstrates St. Marys' dramatic metamorphosis after the discovery of gas and oil. been converted into residences [one in the mid-1870s), but retain little historic fabric) kitchen, electricity, and central heating in 1903, and exterior alterations (c. 1930 and in 1941)- elements remain-the corbelling dentillation, piers, window arrangement, etc.--allowing the Page these changes were responses to changing customer preferences, allowing the building to Fountain Hotel Fountain Hotel to tell its story, and represent an important part of St.Marys history.

continue in its original role for more than one-hundred years.Substantial architectural its construction were made public less than ten months after the initial successful well was St.Marys (its exposed east wall--adjacent to the Miami-Erie Canal--even exaggerates the NPS Form 10-900-a St. Marys' commercial buildings have not fared well in the past century. The business district 1895 (two mills and seven commercial buildings lost); it suffered as well from the 1913 flood. More recently, "progress" has also leveled a heavy toll in St. Marys, more so than in Wapakoneta (with its sixty-five building NR commercial district) or neighboring Celina and has numerous holes in its historic streetscape, because of insensitive renovations and building No other hotel provides such a reflection of this era, when St.

Marys "enjoyed a period of rapid considering the hotel as a building type, only the smaller, interurban-associated Palm remains today, the Dieker having been demolished in 1977. (Two of the early taverns exist, having but attest to its persisting success through the 20th century. Twelve rooms added in 1895, a growth and great prosperity"(Williamson's History of Auglaize County, 1905).Furthermore, The renovations that the Fountain has experienced do not diminish its historical significance perception for travelers coming from the east),and only two of the documented structures are OMB Approval No. 10240018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Auglaize County, Ohio The Evening Leader (newspaper), St. Marys, Ohio. (as cited in text) Hamel, Mathhew. National Register of Historic Flaces Nomination Form: Hotel Fountain Meyer, J.H, Atlas and History of Auglaize County.

Piqua, Ohio: The Magee Brothers Company, Printers and Binders, 1917. Shuffleton, Frank B., The St. Marys Story, 1823-1973. St. Marys, Ohio: The Leader Printing and Hunter Printing 1973. Williamson, C.W., History of Western Ohio and Auglaize County: Columbus, Ohio: W.M. Linn & Sons, 1905. Company, 1923. Fountain Hotel Continuation Sheet Walsh, John B, Atlas of Auglaize County. Wapakoneta, Ohio: 1917. (draft). 1997. Home Coming Week, July 1 to 7, 1907. St. Marys, Ohio: Allied Press, 1907. Howland, H.G, Atlas of Auglaize County. Philadelphia: Robt. Sutton, 1880. McMurray, William J, History of Auglaize County. Indianapolis: Historical Publishing National Register of Historic Places Section number Page NºS Form 10-900-2 Auglaize County Democrat (newspaper). Wapakoneta, Ohio. (as cited in text) Touvelle, Mrs. T.G, Portrayal of St.

Marys, Ohio, Past and Present, issued as a Souvenir of Page Neargarder, George. interviews, photograph collection, and archives. July 1997. (8.86) NPS Form 10-900 a OMB Approval No 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Auglaize County, Ohio Section number 10 Verbal Boundary Description Boundary Justification Page Fountain Hotel The property is located on Lots 32 and 33 of the Original Plat of St. Marys. The property includes the land associated with the building since its construction in 1889. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet (8.86) FIGURE 1 Fountain Hotel, Auglaize County, Ohio OIL WELLS IN LAKE ST. MARYS The World's First Off-shore Drilling Took Place Here In I89l. First Oil and Gas Lease in Auglaize County was issued on July 19, 1886, by and between quarter of same.

Learsed for S5O.00 year for each gas well and royalty of one-eighth Fountain Hotel, Auglaize County, Ohio FIGURE 2 John N. Shipman and Louise Shipman. This lease was for west half of the southwest of all oil produced.Photo of first oil well.

quarter of section 35, township 5 south (NOBLE), range 4 east, and also south half FIGURE 3 Fountain Hotel, Auglaize County, Ohio View in 1895 of the oil well derricks along the east bank at the present site of the State Fish Hatchery Photo Jrom Tom and Betty Revlin NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Auglaize County DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 12/02/97 REFERENCE NUMBER:97001564 NOMINATOR: STATE OTHER : N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE TELEPHONE REJECT 01/05/98 RETURN DISCIPLINE REVIEWER 12/18/97 11/21/97 MULTIPLE ACCEPT NAME: PERIOD: RECOM./CRITERIA COMMENT WAIVER:N PDIL: REASONS FOR REVIEW: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF 16TH DAY: LANDSCAPE: N I LESS THAN 50 YEARS: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORT MOTEL RESTAORANT The Fountain Hotel cumcra facing nw GtMarys.onio EDU- CATERERS EWING CENTER INDAS SEW N SO The Fountain Hotcl Photo #2 Arenitects cumera faciny ne 7/07 ART & FrameMaker HOT MORE FOR BARB Dy Rachel Barber camera facing west eustdslde, negatives: schwab camera facing se Architects StMavys ny Rachel Barber HOTEL FOUNTAIN, ST.

MARY'S, OHIO. [HOTEL FOUNTAIN HOTEL photographer unknown Photo#5 cumtra Facing nw St Marys cacade and east side, MANUEL camcra tacing nt me Fountain HotcI avglaize covnty, onio On Routes 29, 66 and U. S. 33 HOTEL Hotel Fort Barbee St. Marys, Ohio 42169 The FOuntaIn Hotcl gt MAVVS posteara image Photo #7 Spring St. East from Front, St. Marys, O. strectscape w/ the tar right Photo #8 camcra facing ne Tne Fountain Hotcl augluize covnty, onio photogrupher unknown ~snowing trame addition Photo #9 (and Palm Hott), opposite) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF OHIO ST. MARYS, OHIO 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 1960 ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ST. MARYS QUADRANGLE DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY U.S. Route 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 (614) 297-2300 Fax : 297-2411 SINCE 1885 November 17, 1997 Ms.

Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Park Service National Register, History & Education Programs Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C. Street, NW Enclosed please find one (1) new National Register nomination. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission. NEW SUBMISSION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. State Historic Preservation Officer COUNTY Auglaize SOCIETY Sincerely, enclosures HISTORICAL Fountain Hotel Dear Ms. Shull: Washington, D. C. 20240 Amos J. Loveday, Jr. OHIO