Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2013. 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
one of 12 National Register listings in Fayette County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number.12001181- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 233 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 233 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Washington School between 1907 and
1975: 228 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Washington School: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
From the nomination file
11,828 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
Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions.) for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. 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 individual distinction. important in prehistory or history.
Significant Dates 1913, 1938, 1961 (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. Howard & Merriam, Architects (Columbus, OH) less than 50 years old or achieving significance Karg, H., Builder within the past 50 years. Thomas D. McLaughlin & Associates (Lima, OH) The original Washington School building was designed and constructed in 1913; designed by Howard & Merriam, Architects, it was constructed by H. Karg, Builder.
The Beaux Arts Classical building was (and remains) the dominant three additions were constructed: an auditorium, a gymnasium, and a garage. An enclosed walk-way at the second level of the original building connects to the classroom corridor that unites the three 1938 additions built at the same time. The Administration. In 1961, the final addition was built accommodating additional classrooms. Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) NA See Continuation Sheet #8 1913-1961 purposes. Architecture Architect/Builder Education Criteria Considerations Property is: Cultural Affiliation history.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 12001181, 84 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.
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.
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.
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