Levering Hall

ferent rooflines and different size window openings, although directly connected and Main Street and known as the Van Horn Block, is ten bays wide and three bays deep. On store furthest south retains its original ornate cast iron columns supporting a bracketed cornice directly above, but the remaining bays have been altered into a single modern which conceals the flat roof. Rising above the center of the cornice is a very elaborate Behind the front section is a long two story block, only slightly lower because of its has a slightly pitched gable roof, accentuated by pediments in the center of each side. These pediments are over slightly projecting central bays. The rear of the building is plainly finished, with plain stone sills and lintels around the window openings.

were once three separate stores have been combined into a single department store, which hall. This is a large two story high space with a small balcony at the rear of the hall, proscenium early in the twentieth century to allow restrooms and more dressing space behind, was taken down in recent years because sections were falling out, but it is possible to that the original ceiling was of a different character than the rest of the room, which is quite plain, evidently relying on wallpaper and stenciling to achieve ornateness. The third floor of the front section contains a large meeting room. Condition fair nameplate.

associated with this style.The building consists of two sections distinguished by dif- Check one the ground floor are three storefronts plus the main entrance to the upper floors.

(in one paragraph) that functions as a major visual landmark in Mount Gilead and which was built as a unique stylistic features of this building, the finely crafted cornices and lintels, the ornate ironwork on the ground floor, and the elaborate nameplates above, combine with the build- Gilead's first: major Italianate commercial building and although a number of other late nineteenth century buildings were subsequently constructed, no building in town is as seat of Morrow County which less than thirty years previously had been a very small cross- has served as a focus of activities in Mount Gilead. The town hall and fire station were located here until the mid twentieth century.

The opera hall above was the social center, Central Ohio has combined its public offices along with commercial businesses in a single Levering Hall was conceived and built in 1876, the result of local interest in ob- serving the nation's centennial. In March, the town council voted to submit a proposal to voters for construction of a town hall and fire station, plus facilities for a literary Association was formed for the purpose of erecting the front section of the building for courthouses in Erie, Licking, Crawford, Knox and Richland counties plus a number of build- ings in Columbus, including the old Neil House, state prison, Presbyterian Church and was largely completed by the fall.

After about thirty years of neglect, especially on the upper floors, a movement is underway to restore this building. Efforts are being lead by Encore, a local theatrical 1600-1699 1700-1799 commerce conservation 1500-1599 humanitarian communications building. engineering Period industry education invention exploration/settlement Specific dates 1900- 8.