Photographs from the nomination case file, National Park Service records.
Main Street Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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
“For a few years after the coming of the above-mentioned pioneers, we have little knowledge of settlements made, and of those making them. William Simms and Samuel Brandenburg, the latter from Kentucky, entering land in Section 13, were early settlers of Pike, but the dates of their coming and further knowledge of them we have been unable to obtain.”
20th Century History of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.
one of 32 National Register listings in Clark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001790- 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.
Lhe survey completed, Foose and his party returned to Fraoklington for their fumilies. In their removal with their wagons, they made the first wagon-trucle from that direction into Springfield. The jouruey oveupied four wand uw hal! days, one day being given lo crossing the Big Darby. Virst they packed their goods acrosa upon horses, and then drew their wagons over with ropes, while some Their route through the woods had to be cleared with the axe in many places. After Moos arrived, he made prepirations for the erection of nh house.
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 Main Street Buildings 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 1,429 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Main Street Buildings between 1840 and
1975: 957 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Buildings: 4 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.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
2,895 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
MOVED duplicate. XALTERED now being empty and used for storage. the upper floors remain in original condition Each floor of each unit has a pair of windows framed levels of overlays culminating in a projecting level supported by owned for many years by Robert Q. King of Springfield, financier and tion, including rectilinear flowers, impressed rosettes and sawtooth cut-off by a moulding seperating the windows from the entablature. overlays.The Section from 6-8 E.Main was repainted within recent of a large, neon sign real estate speculator.
However, King owned a massive commercial but not so dramatically as the other two units.v Starrett & Fried Block.Constructed about 1878,these two parts, The design of both floors is The first floor has been drastically "modernized" into a dis- in 1870 and built the present structure the next year, or else radically had relatively few in its heyday and this is the sole survivor. the second and third floor windows. The unit at lo E. Main has either Form No. 10-300a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JAN 8 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Main Street Buildings, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio delphia" brick, which was the popular Springfield building medium in the The Bushnel1 Building at 14 E. Main St. is a five story structure of stone & brick, with basement. The foundations and first floor are of arched doorway. The doorway has been remodeled, a marble facing applied The second, third & fourth are almost exactly duplicate. They at either end and three sets of triple, side by side arched windows of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors. GPO 892 455 RECEIVED and third floors. is repeated.
The Bushnell Building, built by Asa S. Bushnell (Gov. of Ohio, 5th floors- & Glessner were well pleased with their homes and, Warder, however, gave the Library commission to Richardson's touches, but is largely in the newer styles of Beaux Arts and the later 1870's in terms of ornamentation, it is no different 1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE PERIOD LAW Coolidge. TRANSPORTATION PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT EDUCATION THEATER SCIENCE MILITARY SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE _COMMUNICATIONS LITERATURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT Second Renaissance Revival. ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT sonian fashion in Springfield. -CONSERVATION same time,Bushnell finally decided to build.He chose R.H.Robert- iron-front building.
Although this particular specimen dates to sance Revival detailing in the terra cotta decorations, cornice & has the Beaux Arts 5 part composition, combined with Second Renais- It is an ecletic structure with a slight Richardsonian touch son, a prominent Richardsonian imitator to do his new house on East in the ashlar foundation & the originally arched doorway.The facade especially in the arcading effect and the distinction between 4th& -1400-1499 lies principally in its architecture.
ENGINEERING It is of some interest to note the route by which this firm _PHILOSOPHY acroteria.The total effect of the facade gives the impression of Fried Block is of special importance by virtue of its being an Whether created out of rivalry with his partners or no, Bushnell technically from the earlier specimens done elsewhere in the l850's. & Glessner in Chicago. In '85,both of these men commissioned houses -1500-1599 _COMMUNITY PLANNING & Coolidge, the successors of H.H. Richardson. Its significanee _COMMERCE 1888o_Warder decided to give a Public Library to Springfield.At the -ECONOMICS - RELIGION - INDUSTRY -_1600-1699 INVENTION 1896-1900) was designed by the distinguished firm of Shepley, Rutan Glessner. By 1885, both Warder and by H. H. Richardson.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001790, 16 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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