Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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 7 National Register listings in Hocking County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84000449- 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
40 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 40 fires within 5 miles of McCarthy-Blosser-Dillon Building between
2006 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
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 2,613 specimens
collected within 10 miles of McCarthy-Blosser-Dillon Building between 1839 and
1975: 1,889 Animalia, 446 Plantae, 228 Fungi, 35 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. N. Bragg, A. Schrader, A. White (from N. Rubenstein-OSU) 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
9 workings within 5 miles of McCarthy-Blosser-Dillon Building: 7 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Logan, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 10 flood, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 10 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.
3 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
pending.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned 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
which are further enhanced by hand quarried and hand carved stone lintels and sills. The main facade of the building on the second and third floors also The windows are further delineated by headers of stone carved lintels with brackets. Pro- tecting the structure is a plain stone boxed cornice with brackets which projects approxi- mately 2 ft. over the south and east faces of the building. The first floor facade on the east is face brick flush with the brick pilasters. Here were facade, the stone pilasters were carried to grade level with full glazed store front and Presently the exterior of the second and third floors stand untouched except for the painted trim which further accentuates the inset panels.
On the first floor, attempts have been been bricked up as the interior functions changed. Condition date unexposed fair unaltered 7. Description the windows Built in 1883, the McCarthy/Blosser/Dillon building is a 3 story, masonry load bearing building of the Victorian Italinate style, which sets on a foundation of hand quarried double door flush entry with a single light transom. made to modernize the main entrance and a new rear entrance by attaching a "man-made" cut The building suffered a fire in 1980 which virtually gutted the interior. The present Areas of Significance - Check and justify below X architecture X 1800-1899 X commerce politics government other (specify) Builder Architect Milt Gafney (for Charles & Elizabeth McCarthy) Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The McCarthy/Blosser/Dillon Building is significant under Criteria C as the best representa- represents the commercial and downtown development of Logan which typifies many small towns Built in 1883-84, the building displays characteristics of Victorian Italianate commercial upper two stories which are delineated vertically by stone pilasters flanking recessed architectural style similar to the Blosser/Dillon building, but today it is only one of the two remaining in downtown Logan. This building stands alone as an example of the Victorian Italianate Style. The building is located at the intersection of Main and Market Street in the center of town. lot to the west of the building, it is located on a corner.
lot and does still read well from the south and east elevationswhich were always visible. Built by Milt Gafney, the building housed Harrington's Drug Store and later, at the turn- in the back room of the building on the first floor. He travelled about Ohio and West mercial blocks, the second floor of the building was used for law offices and the third floor was the home of the exclusive Cresent Club, the most elite social club in Logan of Restaurant on the first floor, which was housed in the building until the fire. century with the construction of the Ambrose Hotel in 1906; the Elk's building in 1909; the post office in 1915; the present Courthouse and the Logan Theatre both in 1925.
After a fire in 1947 which destroyed a portion of the historic fabric along Main Street, the McCarthy/ Blosser/Dillon building stands as the best representation of the late nineteenth century commercial development of Logan, 1600-1699 1700-1799 engineering economics 1400-1499 communications military philosophy invention 1500-1599 transportation education archeology-historic literature industry Period music exploration/settlement 8. Significance theater sculpture prehistoric law social/ throughout Ohio.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84000449, 21 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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