Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Shawnee Hotel, now called Shawnee Place, is a historic building in Springfield, Ohio. It is located on Main and Limestone Streets and at eight stories was the tallest building in Springfield when it was built in 1916-1917.”
Wikipedia article Shawnee Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85003044- 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.
Domint informed his visitors of bis intent to lay out a town, and offered valuable tracts of lund at low prices. John Dungherty, of Kentucky, & surveyor, was speedily engaged, nod the work of suryay commenced Mareh 17, 1801, This town plat was bounded on the south by the section line running parallel with Main Street, and distant from it south one hundred and twenty-five feet; on tho wort to the ulloy near the Prosbyterian Church; on the north to the top of tho rocks along Buck Creek; vod on the oast to the onst line of Spring Street. he number of lols incladed was eighly-two. 'They were not recorded us u town plat til 1803, What is now Columbia wag in this plat. Muin and the present Main wus enlled South Street. Mrs. Demint suggested that, on account of the numerous adjacent springs, the place should be called Springfield, and the name was adopted,
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee Hotel
in 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 1,410 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Shawnee Hotel between 1840 and 1975: 938 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee Hotel: 5 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. 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.
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
faced with limestone at the ground floor which forms pilasters and an entablature to the facade is faced with red brick with limestone trim.The second floor has a greater Some bathrooms have been converted intokitchens when the building was last used for Merrill structure which forms part of a redevelopment block in the city's downtown which also includes the new city hall and the Credit Life Insurance Co.building. style and presents a refined and elegant appearance. is extensively altered and is not a part of.this nomination. The Shawnee Hotel is the largest building on this corner and is one of the tallest Street is the hotel's heating plant, a plain two-story building- .The heating plant ground floor is devoted to shops as is the basement level.
The second floor has meeting Each room has a small bathroom with generally old fixtures which are undistinguished. exterior and some early signs of deterioration, the exterior of the hotel is basically is the crowning feature of the hotel. The cornice has a bracketed lower portion of skylight, now covered over. The lobby is accented with marble and walnut trim which condition. The lobby, although dirty and displaying some damage, has not been seriously date Limestone Street. The building's exterior is vigorously ornamented in the Neo-Classical other details and can readily be removed.It also appears that the bar interior does The hotel is an eight-story structure which is roughly square in overall form.It is floors.
finished.The upper floors have standardized plans with longcorridors and small rooms. The facade along Limestone Street is broken up on the upper six floors by The recessed section is directly above the main entrance to the is on 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) -other(specify) His new slogan,"Link & Link-We Sell the Earth"told in graphic terms his new -art in Springfield, Ohio. It is one of the largest and finest Neo-Classical style buildings. and is a good representative of a period of hotel architecture which is fast disappearing religion landscape architecture accommodations for Springfield.Link erected what was not only the finest hotel in and numerous meeting and banquet rooms, the Shawnee represented a new era in hotel which A.C.Link was instrumental in building in and around Springfield's downtown.
than the Arcade and including such innovations as plumbing in each room plus large in 1883,located at Fountain Square and still standing today.Link's new Shawnee Hotel was to assume the role of Springfield's most fashionable hotel.Much larger town but what was also the tallest building.It was the largest of a number of buildings Charles L.Nisley as vice-president and A.c.Link as secretary.It remained as A.C.Link was a prominent Springfield realtor and developer who acquired the city's his proposed new hotel. the city's tallest and largest structure until the building boom of the 1920s. for many years but had been surpassed as the city's premier hotel by the Arcade Hotel In recent years it was operated asa residential hotel and some of the hotel rooms 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85003044, 13 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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