East High Street District

where, but has often been lost. the distinction of possibly being the oldest in the district, since a Italianate brick house with low hip roof, extensive veranda with elaborate of the century, the front portion of the house was radically altered by raising the roof to a steep, pitched design and inserting a palladian limestone, perhaps locally quarried. The three-bay facade has a slightly the entablature which carries an elaborate, cast iron railing, terminating at either end in large stone baskets with 'flowers. Flanking the entrance metal (copper or lead) with a dentil molding at the roof line and an Renaissance moldings and has a moderate pitched roof. Of particular note CONDITION Unexposed Ruins are two windows with segmental arches framed by elaborate stone architraves.

The second story has three windows arranged symmetrically over the first asymmetrical and mixes roof brackets of the Italianate with simple two engaged stone pilasters of modified Corinthian design, which support Original Site the windows of which are similar to those used elsewhere on the first floor. window in the shingled attic pediment facing High Street (north facade). general configuration as the front portion of the present structure.The At some time the front veranda was also removed and a new doorway created through one of the front windows.A rear section of the house still has the three major architectural styles of the late l9th century- the 2.The Rinehart-Bowman House,8l5 E.

High St.,is a two-story, square Fair constructed of brick, but the main facade is faced with dressed The Charles M. Clark House Town Club), 805 E.

the City of Springfield of 42 lots, numbered by the city as lots 604-646. west, High Street on the north, York Street on the east and on the south in part by Mound Street, in part by Mill Run Creek. By 1856 a street Charles Clark was born in Coshocton, Ohio in 1808 and was brought to county. Although born to a poor family, he showed the industriousness of many early settlers. He built up a large wool-buying business, had acquired $25,000.00 by the time of his marriage in 1846 and held over 400 acres of land in Moorfield Township and was the largest stockholder that of the 1865-70 period when the Italianate profile of the 50's was Asa S.

Bushnell, later Governor of Ohio, was born in New York in 1834 and firms, he married Ellen Ludlow in 1857 and entered her prominent father's losophy Conservation Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Engineering Landscape Military Aboriginal Communications Music Education Pre-Columbian itarian Religion/Phi Literature Agriculture Prehistoric Social/Human- came to Springfield in l85l.After six years of clerking with several In the five years following the Civil War, the industrialization of which would win out and become the fashionable street until well past appears to be Charles M. Clark. 1900.

Starting about 1869,one major businessman after another located, of his fortune swept away.He had to sell most of his stock to remain In 1848,the brothers William and Gustavus S.Foos platted an addition to Political This is an area bounded by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad on the drug business.In 1867he became a partner in the agricultural Springfield moved into "high gear",so did the financial growth of the Art Industry SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) business. In this move away from the core of Springfield, many built tried to promote West High Street.