Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Erie County Office Building

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,311 words across 9 pages, filed in 1974. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 74001470, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev.
6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NOV 2 0 1974ATE AND/ OR HISTORIC: Erie County Children's Home (Check One) X Public - In Process - Preservation work L Comments OWNER'S NAME: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 043 039 Sandusky Erie LOCATION Religious Site ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATE Ohio Military Entertainment Transportation Structure CLASSIFICATION Yes: Sycamore Line Being Considered Commercial Restricted CATEGORY Unoccupied Agricultural Educational STATUS Government NATIONAL Park Private Both REGISTER Private Residence Museum CODE COMMON: Erie County District CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Industrial RECEIVED LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 323 Columbus Avenue Public Acquisition: Scientific OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: Erie County Office Building TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Object FOR NPS USE ONLY Other NAME 13 - Charles E.
Mosher COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: - Federal County of Erie Erie County Courthouse ENTRY NUMBER Building DESCRIPTION X) Excellent - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

has a five-bay facade, a gambrel roof and dormer windows. These CONDITION structure. NATIONAL Ruins Deteriorated marked by a projecting horizontal course and heavier rustication. their baroque look is not inconsistent with the Georgian style. This is a four-story institutional building of limestone construc making a T-shaped plan and providing a hospital and boiler room. type of window.The symmetrical rectangular wings have low hipped The interior of the building has been adapted for the offices of the tion, with flanking two-and-a-half story wings. The central block The gray cut limestone gives a generally cold appearance to the a small stoop with a classical porch.The high basement is clearly The rear (east) wing was added two years after the main block, but not the other children's home buildings on the same site.
county government.The building stands fairly isolated on a large a chimney which has a concave stepped outline.Although unusual, are features of the Neo-Classical mode of the Georgian Revival In the gambrel end of the main block there is a Palladian Fair (Check One) LCEIVED Good OCT 8 1974 REGISTER style.The main floor entrance is reached by a flight of steps and roofs.On each wing there is a balustrade supporting a dormer with PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Literature STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

institutional building, and also an excellent example of eclectic architecture. Generically, the building is in the Neo-Colonial or abandoned children, to help parents keep their children if OCT 8 1899 Commerce Conservation losophy Engineering Landscape Architecture Aboriginal Transportation SIGNIFICANCE Communications Education Theater Prehistoric Pre-Columbian NATIONAL REGISTER Art itarian Invention Science Military regular basis. Agriculture Music Political It is unusual in its construction of native Sandusky limestone. Religion/Phi- Social/Human- This is a good representative of late nineteenth century A permanent county children's home was begun in 1899 after Sculpture The children's home ceased to occupy the building in 1960, 1898.The building was erected ona five-acre tract. The hospital and it has been used as a county office building since the early 1960's.
and boiler room were added in 1902.Between 1900 and 1916 the style of the two.decades embracing the turn of the century. In1915a welfare agency was added in order to find orphaned Other AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Industry the construction was approved by the voters in the election of Hewson L. Peeke, A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio (Chicago, 1916), I, 318-319. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Minutes i APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY:

The rest of the file

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: STREET AND NUMBER: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Registe * U.S.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 Degrees LATITUDE COUNTY ORGANIZATION LONGITUDE DATE Seconds Local 4589620 STATE Name ATTEST: CORNER Cleveland Ohio NATIONAL CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds REGISTER Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 10825 East Boulevard Less than one MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES April 1974 level of significance of this nomination is: 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 358220 National Register, CITY OR TOWN: UTm 8 1974 Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Title 11.1474 STATE Ohia CONTROL REVIEW Accept ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Send-back _ Re-submit - NOV 2 0 1974 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST PHOTOS MAPS WORKING NUMBER National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF HISTOR IAN 10.8.74.1674 10,12 Federal Register entry Form No.
10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 2 O 1974 AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION April 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: OCT 8 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. West facade, looking northeast. * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 I[I - | DATE Erie COUNTY 039 REGISTER Sandusky STATE NATIONAL Western Reserve Historical Society CODE Eric Johannesen DENTIFICATION ENTRY NUMBER 043 PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1202 Sycamore Line STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: FOR NPS USE ONLY NEGATIVE FILED AT: Ohio (7/72) NAME Erie County Childrenla Home COMMON: RECEIVED Office Building Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 2 0 LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. East and north elevations, showing east wing, looking south. * U.S.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III- 1 Erie 043 COUNTY DATE Sandusky NATIONAL NAME Western Reserve Historical Society STATE Ohio ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO REFERENCE Eric Johannesen FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO CREDIT: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IDENTIFICATION CODE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NEGATIVE FILED AT: REGISTER CITY OR TOWN: April 1974 Erie County Office Building AND/OR HISTORIC: Erie County Children's Home (7/72) 0C781974 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY NOV 2 O 1974 STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Sandusky Quadrangle 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-1 043 039 1969 Erie Sandusky COUNTY Ohio DATE STATE REQUIREMENTS REGISTER NATIONAL CODE COMMON: LOCATION MAP REFERENCE NAME Erie County Office Building SOURCE: SCALE: PROPERTY MAP FORM 1202 Sycamore Line ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC: Erie County Children's Home UNITED STATES SANDUSKY QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SANDUSKY, OHIO Erie County STATE OF OHIO 41° 52" OCT 8 (Childrens Home) DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 4589 State Route 82° 41' 50 U. S. Route NOV 2 O 1974 Walters, Dr. Jefferson A., House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. Charles E. Mosher Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Charles J. Carney Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. William E. Minshall Hon.
Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Regional Director, Midwest Burton Dayton Youngstown Location Vermilion Region Sandusky STATE Lakewood 11/22/74 Mahoning County MMott/cha Name Montgomery County Erie County Wick Avenue Historic District Burton Village Historic District Cuyahoga County Clifton Park Lakefront District OHIO Also Notified Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer Geauga County Vermilion Town Hall The Ohio Historical Society Interstate #7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Erie County Office Building