Worthington Park – was given to the
town of Logan in 1816 by then Governor Thomas Worthington.
Worthington had platted Logan several years before the March 31, 1818
organization of Hocking County. The town of Logan was named after
the Mingo Chief James John Logan. As the town grew, it was
incorporated on March 5, 1839.
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From section 7 of the
listing of Logan Historic Distict in the National Register of Historic
Places:
(For more information on the Logan Historic District listing, click here.)
On
the
south
side
of
Main
Street,
the
corner
with
Market
is
occupied
by Worthington
Park,
historically part of Logan’s 1816 public square
(Photo 15).
In
addition
to
a
frame
gazebo
from
1992,
it
contains
a
granite
monument
with
a
bronze
statue
of
a
Union
soldier
with
the
inscription
“In
Memory
of
the
Boys
in
Blue
of Hocking County 1861-1865”
(Photo 16).
The
monument
was
dedicated
on
Memorial
Day
1921
by
the
G.A.R.
The
statue
was
fabricated
by
the
W.
H.
Mullins
Co.
of
Salem,
Ohio. |
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(1) Hocking County Courthouse – Corner
of Main and Market – is a neo-classical structure completed in
1925. This building, the third courthouse on this site, was
designed by Frank L. Packard, a well known architect of that era.
This site was once the site of a Native American mound.
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At
the
western
end
of
the
block
[of
Main
Street
between
Mulberry
and
Market]
is
the
Hocking
County
Court House,
built of smooth limestone in a Neo-Classical Revival style (5 E. Main,
Photos 9-10).
Designed by
noted Columbus architect Frank Packard, the
courthouse is an imposing presence in the streetscape. It has a
rectangular mass with a parapet roofline set off by a projecting
cornice that wraps the building. A projecting central pavilion at
the
façade features monumental two-story Corinthian columns
supporting a classical entablature. The frieze contains an
inscribed
“Hocking County Court House” and an inscription at the parapet above
pledges “To None Will We Sell ~ To None Will We Delay ~ To None Will We
Deny Right or Justice.” The interior of the building features the
original three-story central atrium with skylight, with the surrounding
floors visible from the atrium through arcaded openings.
Neo-Classical
Revival interior details include moldings, corbelled brackets, fluted
pilasters and roundels. |
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Keynes House – 88 South Market – is a Colonial Revival structure
built in 1905 by Charles Keynes, then owner of Keynes Mill.
Keynes Mill is Logan’s oldest continuing industry with the fifth
generation of the family in the milling business. |
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Wright House – 9 East Second – was built in 1889 by prominent
farmer Charles Wright. The site, now a commercial business, was
constructed in the Queen Anne style.
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Two
significant
brick
residences
exist
on
the
east
side
of
Market
at
the
intersection
with
Second.
On
the
northeast
corner
is
the
Keynes
House (88 S. Market, Photos
24), a large brick Colonial Revival built
in 1905. Its distinctive features include a dentilled cornice and
a
pair of gabled wall dormers with original multi-paned arched
sash. A
slate-roofed two-car garage also exists on the property. At the
southeast corner is the Wright House
(9 E. Second, Photo
25), a
distinctive brick Queen Anne home with sandstone trim, original frame
porch, and front gable with triangular oriel bay among its
features. To
the north of the Keynes House, also fronting Market, is a vernacular
brick flat-roofed office building with front porch (54 S. Market, c.
1920, Photo 10)
that
was
used
as
the
county
jail.
On the west side of Market north of Second Street are two
early
buildings (Photo 21):
a
four-bay,
hipped-roofed
frame
Italianate
house
(53-57
S.
Market,
c.
1880)
and
a
six-bay
mid-19th
century
two-story frame house with sandstone block foundation (89-91 S.
Market). On the west side of Market south of Second Street is the
Bell-Metzler Home,
a
frame
I-House at the corner (107 S. Market, pre-1893, Photo 22) and a
Colonial Revival at 133 S. Market, built in 1909. On Second
Street are a frame Bungalow and American Four Square from the early
1900s (21 and 27 W. Second) that are good examples of these building
types (Photo 23).
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Bell-Metzler Home – 107 South Market – built prior to 1893, this
house has components of the original log cabin first built on this lot
when it was acquired from the heirs of Thomas Worthington. The
home has been in the Bell-Metzler family since 1921. |
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Keynes Bros. Mill – 1 West Front – was founded in 1869 on the
banks of the Hocking Canal by Robert Keynes from England. The
original structure burned in 1886 while the present building has been
here since 1889. Still operated by the Keynes family, the flour
mill grinds 20,000 bushels of wheat per day and produces 870,000 pounds
of white flour per day. |
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King Lumber – 67 East Front – The original portion of the King
Lumber Company is a post and beam constructed warehouse built on the
Hocking Canal in 1855. In 1861, J. E. Tritsch purchased the
building which was used as a flouring mill and founded the Logan Woolen
Mill. Wool goods for the Union Army were produced here.
Products included yarn, blankets, coverlets, and flannel. In
1908, the site became the Lumber and Supply Company and in 1936 the
King Lumber Company was established. The King family still has
the bell that alerted yard workers when a canal boat was approaching.
(Photo
courtesy
of
King
Lumber.) |
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Dental Clinic – 160 South Mulberry – This landmark building is
an example of the Italian style and has been used for a variety of
businesses for many years. Beginning in 1886, it has seen use as
a high school, locker plant, department store, Grange store, World War
II bomb shelter, and is presently a dental clinic.
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At
its
south
end,
the
district
includes
two
buildings
on
the
east
side
of
S.
Mulberry
Street
and
one
on
the
west
side..
One
[the
Dental Clinic] is a significant
19th
century
two-story
brick Italianate commercial building from 1886, noteworthy for its
bracketed cornices at the roof and storefront (160 S. Mulberry, Photo
32). To its north are a pair of frame two-story vernacular
late
Victorian houses (148 S. Mulberry and 111 E. Second, Photo 32). |
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Logan Clay Pipe and Logan Foundry & Machine Company – 201
South Walnut – The Logan Firebrick and Earthenware Company opened in
1876. In 1905, the Logan Clay Products Company took over
operations of the facility. The company today produces Logan Clay
Pipe as well as decorative garden accents. |
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The Sloan House – 179 South Walnut – has been in the Sloan
family since 1893. The house was built in 1850 and served many
travelers including Warren G. Harding, the twenty-ninth President of
the United States. Currently the Sloan House serves as a bed and
breakfast. |
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The Riggs-Bell House – 202 East Second – This two-story house
was
built in 1907 by Frank and Clara Riggs and remained in the Riggs-Bell
family for almost 100 years. In 2003, the new owners of the home
began restorations, including restoring the floors and woodwork to its
original beauty. The home now operates as a bed and breakfast.
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At
the
northeast
corner
of
Second
and
Mulberry
is
a
recent
non-contributing
motel.
To
its
east
are
four
contributing
homes,
including
a
pair
of
brick
Italianate
residences,
including
one
with
a
two-story
projecting
bay
with
brackets
(128
and
148
E.
Second,
Photos
33-34), and a pair
of frame
cottages that retain their imbricated slate
roofs (156 and 172 E. Second, Photo
34). Facing Walnut Street is
another frame cottage at 57 S. Walnut (Photo 35).
Across
Walnut Street
are the Riggs-Bell House, a
contributing vernacular frame 2½ story residence, and a
one-story brick 19th century commercial
building (Photo 36).
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Stage Coach Inn – Corner of Main and Walnut – is an Italianate
structure that currently houses a commercial business. The Inn
was built in 1867 by Captain William Bowen and then purchased by
Colonel Ferdinand Rempel in 1880. Rempel was an early
industrialist who operated a stagecoach line from Columbus to Pomeroy. |
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Petit-Saving House – 336 East Main – was built in 1900 by E. O.
Petit,
a Common Pleas Court judge. It is an excellent example of the
Queen Anne style. The bricklayers for this house were the
Kleinschmidt brothers who did much of the early brickwork in Logan. |
This
block
of
East
Main
Street
has
a
distinctive
grouping
of
late
19th
and early 20th century buildings. Two
of the district’s grandest homes
are the c. 1900 brick Queen Anne structures located on large lots on
the north side of the street at 316 and 336 East Main (Photo 78). The
house at 316 is red brick, with a boxy shape, steep slate roof and
massive wrap-around brick porch. The
Petit
House at 336 is an
elaborate
Queen Anne with buff-colored Roman brick, spindled front porch with
second floor conical-roofed balcony, and varied roofline with gables,
dormers and tall chimneys (Photo
79). Continuing to the east of this
house is a row of three frame two-story houses, all with slate roofs
and front porches (Photo
80).
The
[Tschudy] house
at
360
E.
Main
is
Queen
Anne
in
style, while the other two homes are examples of American Foursquare
design. The building at 390 has an original one-car frame garage
that
matches features of the house. Behind these houses facing Culver
is
another frame American Foursquare at 49 N. Culver (Photo 80). |
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Tschudy Home – 360 East Main – was built around 1900. This
Queen Anne style house sits on property once owned by Thomas
Worthington, the father of
Logan. He purchased the land in 1816. |
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Houston House – 359 East Main – was built in 1870 by A. Houston,
president of Logan Manufacturing Co. This house is a fine example
of Victorian architecture. |
On
the
south
side
of
the
block
are
two
frame
American
Foursquares
from
about
1900
(335
and
345
E.
Main,
Photo
81) and a Half I
House (or Side
Hallway) painted-brick Italianate dwelling, [the Houston House] (359 E. Main, Photo 81). built
in
1870 with bracketed cornice, segmental arched windows with original
sash, and entry door with transom and sidelights. At the corner
of
Culver is St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
(375 E. Main, Photos 81-82), a
simple Late Gothic Revival brick church with slate gabled roof and
parapet façade, built in 1912. To the south of the church
facing
Culver Street are two well-maintained Gabled Ell houses (Photo 82), one
built of molded concrete block at 37 S. Culver and one built of frame
at 45 S. Culver.
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – 375 East Main – This Late Gothic
Revival church was constructed in 1912. |
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Schempp House – 98 North Culver – was constructed in 1881 by a
grocer, R. O. Kittsmiller. For many years the house was in the
Keynes family. A Keynes family wedding occurred here on June 12,
1895 with an unusual event of electric power being turned on during the
daytime for the wedding ceremony. Currently the Hocking County
Historical Society is housed here. |
The
west
side
of
Culver
[between
the
alley
and
E.
Hunter
includes
three
contributing
homes.
At
65
N.
Culver
is
a
gable-front
1½-story
frame
cottage
(Photo 73) and
59 N.
Culver is a classic brick and frame gabled
Bungalow with knee-brace bracketed eaves from 1915 (Photo 74).
This
property has a tile block retaining wall at the alley (paved in brick, Photo 74).
Crossing to the east side of Culver, the property at
the corner of Culver and Hunter is the Schempp
House, a painted-brick
three-bay Italianate house built in 1881 (Photos 75-76). It
features a
corner projecting two-story bay with mansard roof. The property
is
partially enclosed by a wrought iron fence. This house is occupied by
the Hocking County Historical Society, which also owns the next two
buildings on the east side of Culver (Photo 76).
One is a
non-contributing headquarters of the organization, completed in 1997 at
64 N. Culver. Adjacent to it is a frame carriage house that was
originally associated with the Schempp house (Photo 77).
One more
house
to the south on this side of Culver is included: it is a frame American
Foursquare located at 50 N. Culver (Photo 77).
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The Carriage House is part of
the
Hocking County Historical Society’s museum complex. Currently
this building houses historical agricultural equipment. Behind
this building is a garage housing the 1898 Lutz steam powered vehicle,
built by Logan inventor Henry Lutz. |
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Old Nazarene Church (now Church of God) – 321 East Hunter – The
Craftsman style church was built in 1914. |
At
the
west
end
of
the
block
[of
Hunter
between
Culver
and
Orchard],
at
the
corner
of
Orchard
Street,
is
the
Old
Nazarene
Church (321 E. Hunter, Photo
69). The
original 1914 portion of
the church faces Orchard Street and exhibits a Craftsman influence with
its broad gabled brick façade, central arched window and gabled
brick entry porch to one side. Attached to the north side is a
flat-roofed brick wing added after 1949. South of the church,
[the Williams Home] at
56 N.
Orchard (Photo 70),
is
a
brick
Italianate
house
from
c.
1880
with
intact
features;
a
hairpin
wrought
iron
fence
is
at
the
street.
East
of
the
church
is
a
pair
of
hip-roofed
cottages
at
325
and 359 E. Hunter
(Photos 71-72).
Although built
of different materials (325 is frame and
359 is brick) they share common features including large front and side
roof dormers and a full-width porch with heavy brick piers.
Between the two is a non-contributing building that dates from 1970
(343 E. Hunter). |
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Williams Home – 56 North Orchard – was built in 1876, from the
Victorian era. The Classic Italianate style edifice features a
fireplace in every room. |
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Wee Care Day Care – 61 North Orchard – The Italianate home,
built circa 1871, has operated as a day-care since 1968.
Previously it served as a boarding house in Logan. Note the
delicate round-arched windows. |
This
block
of
Hunter
[between
Orchard
and
Walnut]
includes
eight
contributing
buildings,
including
houses
and
a
1925
church.
The
south
side
of
this
block
has
five
contributing
residential
buildings.
Fronting
on
Hunter
is
a
large
Queen
Anne
at
211
Hunter
and
a
1½
story
cottage
at
257
Hunter
(Photo
65).
A
vernacular frame
two-story Queen Anne is at 56 N. Walnut (Photo 64).
Two
significant
brick Italianate homes face Orchard Street within this block. The
[Easterling House] at 87 N.
Orchard (Photos 65-66) was built in
1872 and
features two elevations with entry porches, paired brackets at the
eaves and segmental arched windows. Next to it stands the
[Wee Care Day Care] Italianate
brick at 61 N. Orchard (Photo
67), a significant house that retains its
round-arched windows with brick hoodmold and its central entrance with
transom and sidelights. |
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Easterling House – 87 North Orchard – This Italianate house was
built in 1872 by Amos Parker. Leonard’s funeral home operated
here
until the 1930’s. Later the home was used as a banquet house and
tea-room by the Easterling’s until 1949. |
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St. Matthew Lutheran Church – 258 East Hunter – This church was
built in 1852. It is an example of the Late Gothic Revival style.
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The
south
side
of
this
block
has
[two]
contributing
residential
buildings
and
a
contributing
church.
At
the
northeast
corner
of
Hunter
and
Walnut
is
the
Huls House, a frame
2½ story Colonial Revival built in
1902 (212 E. Hunter, Photo 58).
Among
its
features
is
a
decorative
Palladian
window
in
the
front
dormer.
Next
door
at
230
E.
Hunter
is
a
Bungalow
and
then St. Matthew
Lutheran Church, built in 1925 using
buff-colored brick in a Late Gothic Revival style at 258 E Hunter
(Photo 63).
The
church
features
a
prominent
bell/entry
tower
at
the
corner.
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Huls House – 212 East Hunter – This house was built by A. E.
Huls in 1902 – 1903. A. E. Huls was the founder of Huls Printing
Co. |
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Munipal Building – Corner of Main and Mulberry – built in 1853
by Dr. Joseph Whipple, reportedly as a wedding gift for his
daughter. It has been used for city council meetings since
1884. The Ladies Comfort Station (which no longer stands),
formerly a part of the city structure, is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places. The Hall itself is also listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
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Masonic Temple – Corner of Main and Mulberry – was built in 1926
and operated by the knights of Pythias. The Pythian Theater stage
hosted live and screen performances. The old Chakeres Theatre was
housed here for many decades beginning in the 1930’s. |
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Rempel Block – 48 East Main – was built in 1909 and has served a
number of commercial businesses as well as the Elks local chapter for
many years. The BPOE purchased the building in 1917 and used the
entire third floor. The BPOE had a mortgage burning celebration
in 1940. Many prominent Logan citizens were members of this
organization.
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IOOF – 54 East Main – was built in the early 20th century in a
Commercial style. Lodge 262 of the Odd Fellows was the second
oldest lodge in the country. The building has served as host for
Logan High School basketball games, the National Guard, Firestone,
Kroger and Bob Casners Art Kraft photo shop.
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This
central
block
of
Main
Street
has
an
intact
row
of
late
19th
and
early 20th century commercial buildings on
both north and south sides.
At the northwest corner of Main and Mulberry is Logan’s Masonic Temple
(84-96 E. Main, Photo
2)
a large three-story brick building with four
storefronts and a central main entrance with canopy. Both
building and
storefronts have projecting cornices with modillions. To its west
is a
pair of early 20th century buildings,
including the one-story home of
the Logan Daily News (72 E. Main, Photo 3) with a
smooth
limestone
façade that displays Classical Revival details such as embedded
pilasters and a dentilled cornice. Next to it is an intact
Italianate
two-story brick building with bracketed cornice, paneled frieze and
segmental hoodmolds at second story windows (62-66 E. Main, Photos 3,
4). At the alley is the three-story Odd Fellows Building
[I.O.O.F.] (54-58 E.
Main, Photos 3,
4), built in 1893 with a stepped parapet façade
rendered in glazed rock-faced Logan brown brick. The alley side
of the
building is faced with a decorative tile block.
Matching the Odd Fellows Building in height across the alley to the
west is the Rempel Block
(44-48 E. Main, Photos 1, 5), a 1909
building
faced with buff-colored brick with three large segmental windows,
projecting cornice with paired brackets, and decorative parapet with
central name/date plate. To its west are three vernacular
one-story
buildings, one built in 1942 and two in 1958 (Photo 5).
At the end
of
the block is a two-story vernacular brick building with two
storefronts, built in 1905. A stone façade is at the west
corner
storefront, which functioned historically as a bank (Photo 11). |
On
the
south
side
of
this
block
of
Main
Street,
the
corner
is
anchored
by
the
Rochester
Block,
a
large
two-story
tan
brick
building
with
stepped
parapet
façade
that
dates
from
1910
(93-97
E.
Main,
Photo
6).
To
its west is a contiguous row of four buildings, three of
which are intact two-story Italianate buildings from the late 19th
century (81, 69 and 63-65 E. Main, Photo 8).
The last
building in the
row is noteworthy for its elaborate projecting pressed metal cornice
and also for its combined commercial and residential use. The
other
commercial buildings in the block are the two-story vernacular Hansel
Building from 1930 (75 E. Main, Photo 8) and a
narrow c.
1920s building
at the mid-block alley (51 E. Main, Photo 8). |
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Blosser Building – 4 West Main – was built in 1883 in a fine
Victorian Italianate style. The building has been home to several
drug stores, a grocery, a social club and a restaurant, and it is
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The
façade has exceptional detailing on the upper floors. |
The
north
side
of
Main
Street
to
the
west
of
Market
contains
three
contributing
and
one
non-contributing
commercial
buildings.
At
the
northwest
corner
is
the
McCarthy-Blosser-Dillon Building (4 W. Main, Photo 11, NR
1984) a
significant three-story Italianate brick and stone building constructed
in 1883. The narrow façade is defined by rusticated stone
piers
between bays and at corners. A bracketed cornice is on the front
and
side elevations. To its west is the brick two-story Wasson-Rempel
Building from 1914 (24-34 W. Main, Photo 12) with
pair of
storefronts
and intact upper façade with stepped gable parapet, stone belt
coursing and diamond-shaped inset trim. The architect was H.
Charles
Jones of Columbus. The one-story c. 1950 building next door
(38-42 W.
Main, Photo 12)
is
non-contributing
because
of
the
wood
panels
covering
the
façade.
Before
the
alley
is
Artbreak, a
two-story
brick
building
(44-48
W.
Main,
Photos 12-13) that dates
from about 1870, with the large two-story front porch added between
1900 and 1907. To the west of the alley, the remainder of this
block is
occupied by non-contributing buildings and is excluded from the
district. |
On
the
south
side
of
Main
Street,
the
corner
with
Market
is
occupied
by
Worthington
Park....
Beyond
the
park
are
a
non-contributing
modern
bank
(11
W.
Main,
Photo 17)
and
then
five
contributing
commercial
structures.
These
include
the
Cook
Building
(c.
1942,
45-47
W.
Main,
Photo
17) with a
glazed-brick two-story stepped parapet façade, a c. 1875
two-story brick Italianate (53-57 W. Main, Photo 18), a
one-story
brick
building with intact early 20th century
storefront (61-65 W. Main, Photo
18), and the
Elberfeld Building, a large general merchandise
store built in two sections in 1927 and 1953 (79-97 W. Main, Photo 18). |
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Artbreak – 44 West Main – Currently a music shop, studio and
professional building,
this structure was built prior to 1875 and has housed many businesses
including Heartbreak Hotel rooming house, a saloon restaurant and
liquor store. Building features suggest that it may have seen
prohibition era use. |
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Logan Monument Building – 156 West Main – was built in 1883 in
the Victorian Style and has housed a nickelodeon, restaurant, saloon,
Willy’s Overland dealer and two monument companies. |
The
buildings
along
this
block
were
studied
while
preparing
the
Logan
Historic
District
nomination,
but
in
the
end
were
not
included.
Here
is
a
narrative
from
an
early
draft
of
the
nomination
that
mentions
their
historic
and
architectural
features:
The block of
West Main between Spring and High Streets is
a short block. On the north side, there are two bank buildings
that would have been non-contributing due to age: the US Bank at the
corner (108 W. Main, c. 1980) and the Citizens Bank (188 W. Main, built
1969).
The Logan Monument Building at
156 W. Main, a two-story
brick Italianate constructed in 1883, would have been contributing had
the district boundary been closer. |
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Palmer House – 244 West Main – This home was built in 1888 and
is a fine example of a Gabled Ell Italianate. The rooms in this
home contain oak and cherry woodwork. Notice the engraved designs
in the stone lintels above the windows. |
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McCortney House – 272 West Main – Built in 1847 (or earlier), it
was used as an inn on the Hocking Canal. It later housed a tavern
and grocery store. The late Jim Wells who later occupied the
house was the creator of Logan’s famed Christmas lights.
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Hocking Valley Feed – 287 West Main – was founded in 1927 by
Edward G. Hockman and Frank St. Clair. The building served as a
feed mill, a flourmill and as a John Deere dealer. The fourth
generation of the Hockman family runs the mill today. At the turn
of the century, this pre-1887 building served as a steam laundry and as
a roller
skating rink. |
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Columbus Washboard Company – 14 Gallagher – The Columbus
Washboard Company was started in 1895 and moved to Logan in 1998.
All boards are handmade one at a time at this unique facility. |
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