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Zweig Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“The Zweig Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Bellaire, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1912, it is an early example of the Chicago school.”

Wikipedia article Zweig Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 15 National Register listings in Belmont County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3396 Belmont St., Bellaire, 43906
  • When was it listed? 2000-01-28
  • Category. building
  • Township. Pultney township
  • Architectural style. Chicago School
  • National Register reference number. 00000018 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

36,037 words

The chapter on Pultney Township in Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names Bellaire. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

In 1845 the second church building was erected, and here the church saw its maximum growth. But its growth was seriously checked l)y the rapid formation of other Presbyterian churches in its original held ; beginning with Martin's Ferry in 1841 and following rapidly were founded Wegee, Kirkwood, Bethel, Bellaire ist, Farmington, Coal Brook, Bellaire 2nd, and last, Pleasant Valley. Each have drawn on the territory or population of Rock Hill until only a small part of the lordly heritage of the fathers remains to the old church. Notwithstanding the forming of these new churches and the constant stream of emigrants going forth, the old church yet retains 117 communicants, slightly more than the average for the 60 years past.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

West Wheeling in Pultney township is midway between Bridgeport and Bellaire. The old town was laid out in 1838 by Martin S. Todd, and contains a population today of 574. The principal industry is the paper mill of David Wagner, but many of the employees of the mills and factories in the city of Wheeling opposite make their homes in West Wheeling, crossing and recrossing the river upon the old ferry that was established in the early history of the village. For years the leading industry of West Wheeling was coal mining and flatboat building as conducted by Redick McKee. It was a profitable industry.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Pultney Township - 36,037 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Zweig Building between 1992 and 2018, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBENWOOD - FALLOVA DRIVE
6 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPINE HILL ROAD
4 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13386
2 May 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryFISHERS LN.
3 April 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWV RT. 2
20 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTURKEY VULTURE FIRE
18 April 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWV RT. 2
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12085

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,302 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,302 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zweig Building between 1800 and 1975: 1,079 Plantae, 129 Fungi, 92 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio

All 1,302 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Zweig Building: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benwood PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
John D Tonkovich and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms near this property

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellaire, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBellaire$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBellaire$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBellaire$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
February 2007FloodBellaire-Small streams were flooding do to ice jams between Bellaire and Neffs with Trough Run out of its banks flooding roads just off SR 149. Other flooding was reported west of Powhatan Point on Cats Run was flooding county road 56 and Cats Run Road near SR 148.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBellaire-Large trees down.
May 1997Flash FloodBellaire-McMahon Creek went out of its banks. A car was swept into the creek. No injuries were reported.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBellaire-A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Bellaire. South of Shadyside Pipe Creek went out of its banks, one car was swept away and some basements were flooded.
March 2026HailBellaire-no account filed
April 1998HailBellaire-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodBellaire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

From the nomination file

3,857 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Significant in our past. represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - 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. within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 3,857 words, 40 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 00000018, 40 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
B & O Railroad Viaduct0.4 miles1976
Imperial Glass Company0.6 miles1983
Belleview Heights0.7 miles1994
Rock Hill Presbyterian Church2.1 miles2009
Kirkwood, Joseph, House3.5 miles1986
Frasier, Thomas T. and Wesley B. Houses3.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000018 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Belmont CountyAll 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.