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Photograph of Times Building-Lodge Hall
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Times Building--Lodge Hall

Built in 1902. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 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

“Waterloo St. in Canal Winchester, Ohio, was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

Wikipedia article Times Building-Lodge Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1902 · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 19 E. Waterloo St., Canal Winchester, 43110
  • When was it listed? 1989-08-15
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Canal Winchester MPS
  • Township. Madison township
  • When was it built? 1902
  • National Register reference number. 89001028 - 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.

The ground it stands on

792 words

This property stands in Madison Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Madison Township - 792 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Times Building--Lodge Hall between 2010 and 2010, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 715 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 715 specimens collected within 10 miles of Times Building--Lodge Hall between 1895 and 1975: 704 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bill May, C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1895F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1896not recorded
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521897R.C.O. et al.Lockbourne
A photograph of the species Cambarus robustus, not of this specimenCambarus robustus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Big Walnut Creek, near confluence with Alum and Blacklick Creeks, 2.0 miles NW of Groveport OH, NW Madison Township
Etheostoma sciotense Osburn & Williamson, 18981897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, tributary of Scioto River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
Hybopsis dissimilis (Kirtland, 1840)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonScioto Big Run, Franklin County, Ohio

All 715 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Times Building--Lodge Hall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Map coverage status

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.

From the nomination file

2,421 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.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates 1902 - 1938 William Boyd, brickmason State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Property Type F.3.

"Railroad, Agriculture, Conmerce, Religion, Social Interurban/Auto Era, 1905-1938", for its contribution to the their headquarters, and it is the building with the longest association or built in its forger path along High Street, and a few frane additions Street, all of which related to autonobile or agricultural inplenent X See continuation sheet communications architecture Cultural Affiliation The Tines Building/Lodge Hall is significant under Criteria C, Historic Architect/Builder businesses.

most part, active businesses in the early 2oth century were continuing to the building's use of a lodge hall, which served the Masons and Eastern of social activity.Further contributing to its social significance was Significant Person commercial block"with understated detailing.It is the most dominant. the canal was abandoned, a few new frame infill structures were moved in brick one-story brick and/or frame commercial buildings built. c. 1920-1930,west of the central business district along West Waterloo five are being noninated also NR-Peoples Bank Building).For the both the canal side and the East Waterloo St. side, it was a constant hub Star for nearly 8o years.

Zlocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) The Times Building/Lodge Hall is one of only five early 20th century Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: tall and because of its unusual blonde brick construction with vernacular with the newspaper. As the newspaper headquarters, the building served also as the central community infornation center.With main entrances on Criteria A,Historic Context E.2 and E.3 "Agricultural Commerce: details.The Times Building/Lodge Hall is also significant under commercial buildings built in the central business district.

Read the complete 2,421-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 2,421 words, 18 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 89001028, 18 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Peoples Bank Company Buildingunder 500 feet1989
Canal Winchester Methodist Church0.1 miles1982
King, William, House0.1 miles1989
Foor--Alspach House0.1 miles1989
Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Depot0.2 miles1988
Chaney, O. P., Grain Elevator0.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 295 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.