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Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 43812 date 43211 name Easting Zone Columbus Maps Northing Photographs name/title Additional Documentation Ohio Continuation Sheets organization UTM References Robert Simpson Boundary Justification Eldridge-Higgins Building Ohio Historic Preservation Office County and State Verbal Boundary Description 567 East Hudson Street Additional items 525 Orange Street (Explain why the boundaries were selected ona continuation sheet.) Acreage of Property Less than one (Describe the boundariesof the property on a continuation sheet.) (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) of this form to the Chief. Administrative Services Division,National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of 117 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Statement of Significance architecture in Coshocton. Designed in 1904-05 by the Columbus architectural firm of Richards, McCarty, and Bulford, the warehouse building reflects the early work of this firm and shows the influences from the prevailing architectural trends of the period on the development of the firm's design. Furthermore, the Eldridge-Higgins Building is a significant component to the early 20th century industrial/commercial architecture in Coshocton and represents the regional growth of this central Ohio wholesale grocery concern. Coshocton in 1801. Located at the confluence of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas Rivers where they merge to become the Muskingum River, the setting was ideal for establishing mills necessary for the survival of any frontier town.
Originally named Tuscarawas the town The opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal through Coshocton in 1833 caused the population to nearly double by 1840. was reflected throughout the county as well. The county's growth also doubled during the communities were noted for their warehousing facilities, especially Roscoe, as crops from became the favored mode of transportation over canals, many of the canal towns in the county, including Roscoe, began to decline. Other rail lines through Coshocton followed and without the rivalry of Roscoe it became the only community in the county to have continued throughout the county awaited transport along the canal.
Continuation Sheet the later railroads and increased coal mining operations prompted increased migration into The Eldridge-Higgins Building meets Criterion C as a significant example of warehouse Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places seat directly rivaled it in size and population.Largely an agricultural county, both decade of the canal's opening. The village of Roscoe located across the river from the county Taking advantage of the surrounding abundant natural resources, Isaac Hoagland platted The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad passed through Coshocton in 1855.As railroads Historically the county seat of Coshocton County, Coshocton's growth as a result of the canal name was changed to Coshocton in 1811.By 1830 the small village had a population of 327. Page commercial growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
By 1900 the construction of Section number 8 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Coshocton and the county as a whole. Also by the turn of the century varied manufacturing diversification was reflected by the establishment of a Board of Trade in 1899. Since the early 1800s Coshocton had been a transportation hub for the county. Before the need for warehouses. With the decline of the canal mid-nineteenth century, Roscoe was no spurs were built to accommodate various warehouse facilities. regional expansion of this Columbus-based wholesale grocery concern. The Eldridge & Higgins Company, importers and wholesale grocers, was established in 1876 by J.N. Eldridge and Charles C. Higgins.
In 1892, Eldridge retired and the company incorporated with firm also had a New York office that dealt with the eastern and importing trade. The The firm was putting up facilities elsewhere within their distribution area during this same states that the Eldridge-Higgins grocery warehouse to be built in Coshocton will be modelled Front Street in the heart of the industrial warehouse area just north of downtown Columbus. (this building was later rennovated into the City Hall Annex and demolished in 1980) Continuation Sheet located in Coshocton, thus positioning themselves to expand their facilities into Coshocton. canal era roads were laid out in the 1810s to neighboring county seats. Businesses such as company specialised in all kinds of fancy groceries, dried fruits, canned goods, and teas for facilities.
Again the railroads increased the capacity of transporting goods and continued the longer the county's center for warehousing. This distinction passed to Coshocton as railroad a capital stock of $100,000. The officers were Charles C. Higgins, President; Frank Jones, Vice-President; Thomas J. Bulford, Secretary; and Morris S. Booth, Treasurer. At the turn-of- National Register of Historic Places completion in 1905 of the massive Charles C. Higgins Company Building located on North period. An October 7,1904 article in the Coshocton newspaper, the Democrat and Standard, (8-86) a greater amount of goods to be transported at one time, thus giving rise to warehouse same time, the company was expanding its home base facilities in Columbus with the In 1904, the Eldridge & Higgins Company bought out the D.Almack Wholesale Grocery the grocery trade.
the-century the company's trade covered a territory including Ohio and West Virginia. The interests were beginning to make a presence in the city.The importance of this taverns and inns supported the roads and later the canals. Transportation by canal allowed for after "...ones the company has in the course of construction at Findlay and Marietta." At this Section number Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Architects for these Eldridge & Higgins Company buildings were the Columbus firm of Richards, McCarty, and Bulford, a noted architectural firm practicing in Columbus, central Ohio and in several other states from 1899 until 1943.
These warehouse buildings reflect one of the early major commissions of the firm and display the national influences that define Both George E.Bulford (1870-1942) and Clarence E. Richards (1865-1921) had worked for the noted Columbus architectural firm of Yost & Packard before forming their partnership in 1899 with J. E. McCarty. One of their early commissions, the Ohio Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, completed in 1899, (NR: 10/84) displays the distinctive use of French architectural features in the steeply pitched hip roof and twin towers featuring richly executed carved stone ornamentation. This building clearly shows the influence of Yost & Packard's work, with similar stylistic treatment seen in some of the major public and institutional work The early twentieth century work of Richards, McCarty, and Bulford reflect broad architectural trends of the period.
These warehouse projects reflect a trend towards massive, industial buildings displaying round-arched windows, use of simple materials such as brick or stone, and simple ornamentation often Romanesque or restrained classicism. The Marshall Fields Warehouse in Chicago by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1885-1887 is considered the February issues of Architectural Record entitled "The Warehouse and Factory in Architecture" with admirable designs of simple character." These examples show distinctive brickwork, parts. The Marietta warehouse is a trapezoidal brick building with narrow windows. Located in the Marietta Historic District (NR: 12-19-74) the building has been altered with many of classical detail reflecting Richards, McCarty, and Bulford's skilled use of historic eclectisism.
The firm's designs for public buildings, libraries, clubs, and banks show a return to classicism and a formal, academic approach. Stylistically ranging from the Georgian Revival style Continuation Sheet of that firm. The Eldridge and Higgins warehouses show these trends.The buildings in Columbus and brickwalls pierced with round arched openings, and "no high priced materials." their work. Findlay (OHI:HAN-405-8) are massive brick structures with narrow round arched windows, the elevations broken up by beltcourses and brick corbelling dividing the buildings into three the windows bricked in. Of the four, the Coshocton building displays the most refined use of shows several New York City examples of warehouse buildings"...treated in a grandiose way, Section number 8 Page prototypical example of this treatment. A two part article appearing in the 1904 January and (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Continuation Sheet Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Athletic Club of Columbus (1916), to the Neo-Classical style Ohio National Bank in the stripped down modernist classicism of the Federal Building (1935) part of the Columbus Civic Center (DOE: 9/88) the firm's architecture reflects broad architectural trends of the early 20th century and the influence of nationally known architects (The design of the Ohio National Bank building at 51 N. High Street in Columbus is borrowed directly from the Knickerbocker Bank in New York City by McKim, Mead, and White, architects). equipment, such as a motorized freight elevator, was installed in the new building. The building was wired for electricity when built.
Railway spurs from the Pennsylvania Railroad The Eldridge-Higgins Building has had commercial operations in it since it was constructed. American Artworks, Inc., a lithographing and engraving firm that used the building as a warehouse. The current owner, MFM Building Products, purchased the building in 1966. The earliest examples of warehouse buildings in Coshocton date to the canal era. Evidenced by the few remaining, these canal warehouses are large brick structures with gable roofs and sandstone details, displaying a storefront street side and a rear loading elevation adjacent to the canal (see OHI COS-70-15 for example). Reflecting the later phase of warehouse representation of the low-scale, brick warehouses and industrial buildings built along the railroad tracks at the turn-of-the-century.
(Photos 25-29) The Eldridge-Higgins Building is a significant example of the early development of Richards, McCarty and Bulford's architectural work. The warehouse is an important reflection of National Register of Historic Places and the adjacent Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ran into the new building. National Park Service In the 1920s the Beach Enameling Company purchased the building. This company made adequate shipping and receiving facilities of the wholesale grocery business.Modern The Eldridge and Higgins warehouse reflects the firm's ability to design functional buildings with attention to style and character.The warehouse addressed the need for ample light and metal advertising signs and Coca Cola trays.
The building was sold again in 1941 to The Columbus(1917) and Beaux Art classicism of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts(1932) to NPS Form 10-900-a Section number _ 8 buildings in Coshocton, the Eldridge-Higgins Building clearly stands out as a significant Coshocton's industrial growth and development in the early 20th century. Page (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Taylor Publishing Company, 1985. The (Coshocton) Democrat and Standard, Vol. 4, No. 6, November 25, 1904. "Eldridge-Higgins Builds Fine Store." The (Coshocton) Democrat and Standard, Vol. 3, No. 5, October 7, 1904. HAN-386-8, Ohio Historic Inventory, Kirk Block, Findlay, 1983. Hunt, Wilma, Editor. A Pictorial History of Coshocton County. Coshocton, Ohio: Coshocton Mercantile Advancement Company. Ohio, The Home of Statesmen, Columbus, Its Capital. Columbus, Ohio: Press of Nitschke Bros., 1897.
Nicholas, Samuel H. Coshocton County Centennial History, 1811-1911. Coshocton, Ohio: Coshocton County Centennial Commission, 1911. Jones, C. Tim. Coshocton County Overview. Report for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, 1985. Richards, McCarty, and Bulford Architectural Records, Preliminary Inventory, Columbus, Ohio Historical Society, typescript, n.d. Samuelson, Robert E., et al. Architecture: Columbus. Columbus, Ohio: The Foundation of the Columbus Chapter of The American Institute of Architects, 1976. Sturgis, Russell. "The Warehouse and the Factory in Architecture, I and II," Architectural Record, Vols. XV and XVI, Nos. 1 and 2, January, February, 1904. Bibliography Continuation Sheet County Genealogical Society, 1987.
National Register of Historic Places Coshocton County Genealogical Society.A History of Coshocton County, Ohio.U.S.A.: Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Section number - Page - 7 (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number 9, 10 Page -8 Taylor, William Alexander. Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Vol II. Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, IL: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909. Withey, Henry F., and Elsie Rathburn. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, (Deceased). Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company.
Verbal Boundary Description The Eldridge-Higgins Building is located on the northwest corner of Outlot #11, City of Coshocton, approximately 70 feet south of Orange Street and 12 feet east of Fifth Street. Verbal Boundary Justification Richards, McCarty, and Bulford architectural firm. The building is surrounded by other boundaries. Continuation Sheet warehouse and industrial buildings.These buildings are not associated with the history or National Register of Historic Places architectural significance of the Eldridge-Higgins Building and therefore not included in the Boundary is delineated on site map. Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio The boundary for the Eldridge-Higgins Building includes only the building historically "Work to Begin on New Grocery Early Next Week." Coshocton Age, October 7, 1904. (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Location of negatives: OHPO Date of photographs: Photos 1-3, 1997; Photos 4-29, 1998 Photographer: Photos 1-3, Mary Anne Reeves Photos 4-29, Barbara Powers 1. Front of building, camera facing northeast 2. North elevation, camera facing south 3. Rear of building, camera facing southwest 5. Rear of building, camera facing south 6. Adjacent building to the south, camera facng southeast 7. Adjacent building to the south, camera facing northeast 8. Basement, camera facing south 9. Basement (brick pier), camera facing north 10. First floor (warehouse area), camera facing south 12. First floor (office area), camera facing northwest 13. First floor (office area), camera facing east 16. Second floor (stairs, doorway), camera facing northeast 17.
Second floor, camera facing east 18. Second floor, camera facing southeast 19. Second floor, camera facing northwest 20. Second floor, camera facing west 21. Third floor (freight elevator), camera facing north 22. Third floor, camera facing southeast 24.
Third floor, camera facing west Photographs (8-86) Continuation Sheet Views: Eldridge-Higgins Building Section number PHOTOSA Page National Register of Historic Places National Park Service 11.First floor(wooden post and beam detail),camera facing southeast 14.First floor(office area showing original entrance),camera facing southwest 25.Railroad freight building located north of Eldridge-Higgins bldg.,camera facing northeast 15.First floor (office area showing personal office space), camera facing south NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number _PHOTOS Page - 10 Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio Views, continuted: 26. Warehouse/inds. bldg. northeast of Eldridge-Higgins Bldg., camera facing northeast 27. Warehouse/inds. bldg. on eastern side of Coshocton, camera facing northwest 28. Warehouse/inds. bldg.
on eastern side of Coshocton, camera facing south 29. Warehouse/inds. bldg. on eastern side of Coshocton, camera facing southeast Photographs Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) Boundary - - - BUILDING WITH - SITE PLAN. PhotographsViews (site map referenced in verbal boundary description) ALLEY ALTEDATIONE ORANGE ST. OF AINEIZAL FIREIL IAFG. co. S. SIXTH ST. Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton County, Ohio Photograph Views DEPARTI DATE: Ihe structural elements of these drawings have ELENATOR PIPE COLUAN." not been chicokied. Eldridge-Higgins Building, Coshocton County, OH DIVISION OF!
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