“Homage to Clay” is the headline for a full page article about Logan Historic District in the May issue of the Ohio Historical Society’s monthly members’ newsletter, Echoes. Here is a brief excerpt:
Vintage commercial and public buildings, churches and residential streets spread out from the core in nearly all directions, illustrating Logan’s growth and prosperity, especially during the period from 1870 to 1930….
Logan was a center of the clay-products industry. … Locally made glazed tile blocks; bricks in a variety of colors and glazes; rusticated concrete blocks; and paving bricks appear throughout the Logan Historic District. They give it an artistic quality and serve as a physical reminder of Logan’s industrial history….
The article is illustrated with three pictures from the documentation for the District’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places:
Many of the buildings in downtown Logan were built during its heyday as a center of the clay-products industry and are faced with locally made bricks in a variety of distinctive colors and glazes.
First Presbyterian Church of Logan, built of rock-faced bricks and blocks molded to look like stone.
To learn more the article suggests seeing the Logan Historic District nomination at www.ohiohistory.org/logan. In addition to the parts of the nomination on the Ohio Historical Society web site, our web site has all of the 119 contemporary photographs and the map showing all of the contributing and non-contributing buildings, that documented the nomination. These can be seen at logantowncenter.com/historic.
An alley in the Logan Historic District, surfaced with locally made pavers.
