Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002101- 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.
Fires near this property
4 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Shield's Block between
2014 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning
4
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 2,548 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Shield's Block between 1843 and
1975: 2,223 Animalia, 238 Fungi, 58 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Shield's Block: 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Newark, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 5 flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed.
A 30-foot by 30-foot section of a roof was ripped off of a building on the southeast side of town. A construction trailer was turned on its side, and a steel overhang was pulled off of a home, causing minor damage to a wall.
1 paper 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.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
1,815 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
Built C. 1870, the buildings located at 23-29 South Park Place, are good examples of commercial architecture of this period. Constructed in brick on a stone foundation, the buildings rise three As a result this wall is pocked with joist holes, former stairway attachments, and of the front elevation to a full three stories at the rear. The rear is irregularly CONDITION MOVED DATE EXCELLENT RUINS CHECK ONE however, the architectural features on the upper levels are nearly intact. The double hung stories in height and have a flat, built up roof. The storefronts have been altered extensively, define the floor levels.A bracketed cornice completes the design. GOOD pierced by warehouse doors and segmental arched windows.
The nomination does not include the Park Bar building, but rather the four commercial formerly served as a common wall with another building that has since been demolished. These buildings are an integral element in the.townscape surrounding the Courthouse Square. 2over 2windows possess simple stone lintels and sills. Brick bel tcourses separd teqvisually _UNEXPOSED - UNALTERED X_FAIR chimney flues.This side wall gradually tapers down from the three and-a-half stories Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED 4 NOV 6 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM WUV 2 9 1978 Shield's Block, Newark, Licking County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 The Park Bar, adjoining the west wall of the Shield's Block, was built about use of steel supporting columns throughout, although its exterior proportions the Shield's Block, the lower story commercial front has been altered.
The Courthouse Square and surrounding commercial area are important for both historic and architectural reasons. Historically, the Courthouse Square has been the governmental and commercial center of Newark. Architecturally, it is a well preserved example of a mid nine- The Ohio & Erie Canal opened in Newark in the 1830's and the railroad between 1852-1855, both within two blocks south of the courthouse square. These developments attracted further four identical facades.
This unique feature results in the courthouse facing all sides of the by the current owners, and is critical to demonstrate the viability of reusing old 1600-1699 EDUCATION INVENTION THEATER ART LAW PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE MILITARY PREHISTORIC 1900- INDUSTRY BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY LITERATURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC POLITICS/GOVERNMENT X1800-1899 XARCHITECTURE X.COMMERCE during this period. _ENGINEERING _COMMUNICATIONS The Licking County Courthouse, aswell preserved stone structure influenced by the Second National Register. rapidly sprang up facing the courthouse square.
1878 Licking County Courthouse occupies this site as did the three courthouses which preceeded The buildings located around the square represent a nearly intact collection of late nineteenth buildings to the community. earlier buildings gave way to fire or progress, the courthouse square was gradually rebuilt. _CONSERVATION Empire style, domina tes the square.Designed by H.E.Myer and completed in 1878 it possesses as the governmental center of the county.Newark was no exception.Commercial buildings teenth to early twentieth century townscape. -1500-1599 _SCIENCE activity and increased the importance of the area.As Newark prospered and as some of the square.The courthouse is surrounded by a large, landscaped park.It is listed in the it.
The location of a courthouse in a town assured that it would become the commercial as well -1700-1799 -1400-1499 The majority of new building took place between 1860-1910.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002101, 17 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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