Built in 1910 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
From the record
“The Alameda Apartments is a historic apartment building at the northeast corner of 7th Street and Elberon Avenue in Zanesville, Ohio, United States Of America. Built circa 1910, the building was one of many apartments constructed during Zanesville's industrial and population boom of the early twentieth century.”
Wikipedia article Alameda Apartments, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Muskingum County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1910, Queen Anne style.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number.82003623- 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.
Then and now
1910 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19101992
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Zanesville city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C.
Zanesville and its immediate vicinity possess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if not quite, all the industries requiring skilled labor, it is believed, all things considered, equal, if not superior to those of any place East or West. In every item to be taken into account in the make-up of a manufacturing city comparison is challenged. It was the remark of the late John Quincy Adams made in reference to the water power here existing, that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal inspection of the water power at this point, said: "The water power furnished by the James river at Richmond makes it the best manufacturing site in the United States save that at Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were expressed before the era of coal and railway transportation.
The manufacturing interest of Zanesville are at this time its leading attraction. It is a growing interest and is imparting to the city a permanent and solid character, and placing it among the most prosperous cities of the West. The progress made in this direction has been rapid during recent years. Old industries have been enlarged and extended, and new ones added which bid fair to become large and prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to manufacturing industry is attributed to the fact that fuel and living are so cheap, market supplies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for shipment so superior, and the location so central and generally so advantageous. Besides a more enlightened and liberalized sentiment than heretofore existed now prevails, and there is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage productive enterprises by furnishing money at liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Alameda Apartments
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
34
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
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 858 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Alameda Apartments between 1873 and 1975: 737 Animalia, 96 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Alameda Apartments: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Zanesville, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down four power poles and power lines just north of Zanesville. Several trees were also reported down across the eastern part of the county.
Street flooding was reported in and near Zanesville after 1.30 inches fell in 20 minutes. Large branches were downed east of Zanesville. One branch fell on a passing motorist's car. There was no mention of any injuries.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
level apartments flank this entry. This late Gothic Revival building has many interesting details and 6/1 double-hung sashes.A 4th bay consists of a door opening onto a 2 bay Check one than those on the facade but are in sympathy with their general appearance.The center the original delicate cast iron balustrade intact.A On the street level a fixed lancet-arched transom is over a door leading _ruins The7th St. facadehas 2 dormers with ogee arches and tracery on the casement to interior upstairs apartments. To the right, double panel doors with upper of the building. the Elberon Ave. facade. Symmetrically set between, but on the street level below asymmetrical masses planned well for its corner siting.
Its tapestry brick with corbelling for the parapets beginning midway on the 2cnd story. Consoles lights flanked by 2 large windows lead to the large commercial corner section These openings are intact although covered with signage. corbeled stone belt course extends across the front forming the sills of the windows. Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric - community planning landscape architecture - archeology-historic - conservation _ economics _architecture .exploration/settlement X 1900 - industry _ invention other (specify) Builder/Architect probably Harry C. Meyer, architect Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Alameda Apartments derive their significance from architecture, as an early 20th-century residential/commercial mixed-use complex. The early years of the century in Zanesville saw an impressive industrial boom, due primarily to the housing needs rose, while, obviously, land in the downtown area suitable for housing remained static. As a result, the pre-war years saw the construction of a series of stages around 1910, was one of the finest of these endeavors.
Most of the early profile includes curvilinear gable ends (said to have been designed in the form of whisky bottles), a lancet-arched doorway leading to the apartments on the second floor of the Seventh Street section, dormers with trefoil-type fascia, and the handsome gable-roofed oriels along the Elberon Avenue elevation. Further, the addition built along the Elberon Avenue side features a name "Alameda" inset into of the building to the local scene. It is not known, but it is likely that the structure was designed by Harry C. Meyer, a prolific local architectwho practiced here until the First World War.
1400-1499 commerce 1800-1899 1600-1699 1700-1799 communications 1500-1599 philosophy politics/government transportation engineering humanitarian theater Period education music agriculture art religion science prehistoric law literature social/ sculpture 8. Significance military flats have been razed. Architecturally, the building draws on elements of the Gothic Revival and the Queen Anne movement of the mid- and late-nineteenth century. Its picturesque Specific dates ca. 1910 the wall and made of locally-produced Mosaic Tile, all contributing to the significance astounding growth of the ceramics industry.With the success of this enterprise, "flats" for the growing needs of the downtown.The nominated structure, built in two Taylor, David. Interview, October 1980.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003623, 12 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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