Old School Privy

War, when the Northwest Territory was becoming a such as the water table, slab steps, thresholds, and sills. The ornamental characteristics are the rusticated four separate toilet rooms, two for students and two arches that contained wooden louvers for ventilation. Each elevation is symmetrically balanced. This Michael R. Barthold, Landmark designer CONDITION Excellent Ruins Fair Landmark Survey is a simple but elegant building orange brick with rusticated stone trim, probably round arched openings often in brick and rusticated dressing of the stone surface and its use say as the The major recognizable elements of this style are building reflects the stong pride that the Genoa area late Victorian architectural period known as area in the prosperous period following the Civil stone work.

This example is built of the local soft designed in all the detail and high style of the social and economic influence in the nation. two doors in each of the gabled ends of the building, false chimney on the opposite end from the usable one The fine quality of design in this rather humble symmetry was carried to the extent of constructing a that vented the pot belly stove. Higher in each gable are two quarter part round spring blocks of the arches over the doors. and practical because of its use in heavy wear areas each with a five paneled door and fan light transom (Check One) had in building its civic buildings in the l87o's The "old School Privy",Building #8 on the Genoa Good Romanesque Revival. The style was popular in our from local limestone quarries.

The stone is ornamental for faculty, each with a separate door. There are and 80's. The straight forward rectangular plan was divided into - 16th Century - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF

most elegant privy in the county, if not the region, of civic pride in Genoa, incorporated in 1868. original use as a rest stop, and thus draw Commerce Architecture Communications Military Conservation SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Engineering losophy Religion/Phi Science Literature Transportation Art Prehistoric Pre-Columbian Agriculture itarian Theater Music at major crossroads throughout the Northwest Landscape in the school district. This structure is significant as the largest and architecture which reflects the early development Sculpture Industry Social/Human- Bicentennial Commission plans to put it to its Invention community attention to the beauty and significance one in Genoa.

In restoring this little building the Genoa Area Although small comfort stations were once erected The paternal priority of thinking of the village Territory, few were ever as significant as this of the oldest and smallest brick public structure fathers is implied by the order of building Political The privy is representative of the quality by a newer building on the same site. brick school which was built in 1870,now replaced Mill in1872 and the Town Hall in 1885. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) Education "Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, 1874"