Built in 1897 in the Romanesque Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. 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 Clark County Heritage Center is a Romanesque Revival-style building, specifically Richardsonian Romanesque, in central Springfield, Ohio, United States. Originally built for the city's offices in 1890, it was replaced in 1979 with the current Springfield City Hall and is now the location of the Clark County Historical Society, which includes a museum, research library and archives.”
Wikipedia article Clark County Heritage Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 32 National Register listings in Clark County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1897, Romanesque Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.73001394- 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.
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One Myers was killed near Urbanw by a party of wandering Indians, and u fumily named Elliott, living on Mad Niver, was visited by an Indian of 'teeumsch's tribe, who demanded a buteher-knife of them, was refused, and told to leave. Mrs. Elliott was soon after out getting firewood in the door-yard, when o rifleshot was heard and o ball whistled through the front of her sun-bonnot and grazed the skiu upon her throat. These acts, coupled with the gathering together of the Indians under the Shawnee brothers, induced a panie among the people of this nnd other counties, Tho bold and warlike organized into companies. The tavern of Foos was made u temporary stronghold, while many fumilies Jeft in haste for their previous homes in Kentueky., The whites demauded the aggressors: (he Indians denied knowledge of their committal, and it was left to 1 council to be held ut Springfield. The commiasioners for the whites wore General Benjamin Whiteman, Major Moore, Captain Ward, and two others. he Indians were led by Tecumseh, Round Head, Black Fish, and other chiefs, The council took place in w maple-grove ncross the atreet from the tavern. The Tniiens bad come in two bodies; the band of Tecumseh from towards Fort Wayne, and one from the north, some seventy in numbor, in charge of McPherson. Each party, unfriendly to the other, charged them with the deeds unlawful. Me- Pherson's party, by request, had loft their arme at a distanos, but Tecumseh and his bravew refused to disarm themselves, the chief suying that in bis tomahawk was his pipo, and it might be needed for a smoke.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Building between
2002 and 2002, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,434 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Municipal Building between 1840 and
1975: 962 Animalia, 333 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Municipal Building: 6 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 56 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Several utility poles were down, a barn was blown off of its foundation, and minor damage occurred to a house and an apartment due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
A tornado touched down along Moorefield Road, just to the east of State Route 4. Trees were either uprooted or snapped off towards their tops with additional large limbs down from other trees. Some minor structural damage occured as well along the 250 yard damage path. The tornado was rated EF-0 with top wind speeds of 70 mph.
A barn was blown over on Victory Road. Several trees and power lines were down on Sintz Road. In another location, a roof was peeled back due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
There was scattered damage at a mobile home park affecting four mobile homes. A metal carport was heavily damaged. Three evergreen trees were also downed.
Numerous 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were downed in Snyder Park. A tree fell on a house on Upper Valley Pike. Part of the roof was removed as a result.
Three to four inches of rain fell across southern Clark County as thunderstorms pushed slowly east during the late evening. A car was washed into a flooded ditch near the Springfield Airport along US 68. High water caused several road closures across the southern part of the county, with basements flooded on the south side of Springfield.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
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From the nomination file
6,819 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.
Description of the property
As originally constructed, the City Building consisted of a rectangular structure, 465 feet long and 50 feet wide, constructed of both brick and The eastern, or principal end, rises four stories, with a dominating, western end, now housing the Springfield Police Department, is of similar design, but the tower is shorter by at least one story. The central portion is built largely of red brick, with window facings, When originally constructed, each tower was capped by a pyramidal apex When new, all of the stone work -- both ends and the other decorative places black, presumably both from air pollution and the proximity of the (now) Penn-Central Railroad tracks, over which coal burning locomotives ran for many years after the building was erected.
For approximately fifty years after construction, a large, ornate baroque fountain faced this building, located in the middle of the esplanade. It was a gift of the manufacturer Oliver S. Kelly to the City in 1889. The third floor of the City Building is said to be in poor repair, with MAY 9 CONDITION DESCRIPTION funds. stone. REGISTER from within. NATIONAL Ruins Excellent central clock tower rising approximately another four stories.The This gave the name Fountain Ave.to what had formerly been Market Street. weak floors in places. stories with numerous gables, dormers and chimneys making up the fourth clock tower.
The fountain was removed in the 1930's due to need repairs and insufficient moldings and bonding courses of cut stone.This portion rises three RECEIVED being in poor repair, and a radio antenna is now mounted on the top of the story.The eastern end has two,3/4 towers flanking the base of the (Check One) red brick central portion.
Cregar, and should probably be called "Modified Richardsonian architecture, indicates that Cregar attempted to copy this style, in his Raphael's Church, which contains many elements similar to the City Building the Richardsonian school stressed a horizontal emphasis, this could not be market, a tradition which has been maintained in Springfield from its 1888-1890 Architecture Transportation Military Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Conservation Communications itarian Aboriginal Prehistoric Science losophy Literature Theater Agriculture Education Religion/Phi- Invention balance the long structure and orientated the principal tower towards the Music Cregar also exhibited considerable ingenuity in adapting the needs of the Social/Human- but with a concession to the neo-Gothic in the window designs.
Urban Planning government and private enterprise in the same building. the Asa Bushnell House on East High St.,which is truer Richardsonian originality in his tripartite entrance off Fountain Ave. than just a not constructed entirely of cut stone, as is characteristic of the truer square, still preserving the horizontality in the central portion. Sculpture Cregar's other monumental structure still standing in Springfield is St. a flourishing one, though considerably reduced in size from former days. of red brick in the central portion.A comparison of this building with Industry the tenets of Richardson's school as expressed in the Bushnell House This also represents the somewhat unique idea of the combination of city and the popular architecture of the time to the available land.
The significance of Springfield's City Building can be approached from a (which may have been designed by Richardson's disciple R.H.Robertson).
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001394, 47 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.
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.
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