Heritage News * of Chillicothe, Ross County & South-Central Ohio


Endangered Places

 * Let's keep an eye on these, and work towards their preservation!

A quick index:

Buildings

Single, relatively isolated houses, shops, etcetera

Chillicothe & Environs

Ross County
Outside of Chillicothe

Saved

Solid conservation underway
Newly restored former shoe shine booth under exterior stair at 4 E. Second St, owned by John Blair, 4 E. Second St, Chillicothe, OH, USA

Hopeful

Owner trying to conserve
James Emmett Canal Warehouse & Mill
Kern Canal Tavern / House L T Franklin House 		Bourneville Elementary

Threatened

Troubled past and uncertain future
Chillicothe Schools Administration Building
Carol Bennett House House damaged by fire previously, and then gradually but not completely renovated, now up for auction 28 May at N. end of Church St., Chillicothe. 		Sulphur Lick Hotel McCafferty Cemetery

Doomed

Will certainly be lost without heroic measures
75 (?) W.7th St., firebombed about 1986, near site of Southern School and now owned by city - southern Chilicothe, Ohio, USA. Severely altered Spanish Colonial Revival church (right side) and plain 1950s commercial building (left side), 77 S. Walnut St., Chillicothe, Ohio, USA Lutz House, Williamsport Pike, Union Township, Ross County, Ohio, USA. Built about 1817, abandoned about 1970.

Lost

Irreplaceable heritage gone forever
Ruins of Delp House after double fire in March or February 2005, on Western Avenue, western Chillicothe, Ohio, USA

Disposable

Just get rid of this junk before you complain about any other usable, relevant, historical building!
blank large storefront windows on a bland grey little box of a contemporary commercial building

Structures

Single, relatively isolated constructions other than buildings
...none yet...

Complexes / Groupings / Neighborhoods

Cohesive clusters of buildings, structures or sites

Chillicothe & Environs

Ross County
Outside of Chillicothe

Threatened

Troubled past and uncertain future
"Priority of Buildings"
Detached baseboard lying nails-up, with rotting plywood, from storefront of 75 N. Paint St., Chillicothe, Ohio, USA. New sign without Design Review Board certificate just having been mounted outside 59 N. Paint St. (2nd St. side), Chillicothe, Ohio, USA.

Downtown Chillicothe
including North High Street BP Expansion


North End of High Street

West Fourth Street

75 (?) W.7th St., firebombed about 1986, near site of Southern School and now owned by city - southern Chilicothe, Ohio, USA. Black neighborhood could have been historic district in 1970s but unconquered drug and crime problem, vandalism and arson, and demolition and insensitive infill have decimated it.
Mechanic Street African-American Neighborhood:
Mechanic, W. 7th, W 6th, S. Walnut streets

Lost

Irreplaceable heritage gone forever

Sites

Locations with significance
...none yet...other than many relatively unknown prehistoric earthworks...

Routes / Areas

Roads and geographic places

Threatened

Troubled past and uncertain future
Walgreens or Greenspace?
Western Avenue between Plyleys Lane and University Drive
(...and from Locust Street to Main Street)
Scenic Highway or Bridge Street Clone?
State Route 104 from US 35 and Pleasant Valley Road to U/C SR 207 Connector in Scioto and Union Townships


Ranking

I have ranked these endangered places by my own professional reckoning, judging each's importance and endangerment, and then averaging the two appraisals:

The historical or architectural significance of the place is designated by:
  • 10 : National
    • 7 : State
      • 5 : Region
        • 3 : County / City / Town
          • 1 : Minor - but important part of scenery
The level of threat of destruction of the place is designated by:
  • 10: immanent danger of certain destruction
    • 5: threatened, but no known plans endangering
      • 1: in use, but current development trends may endanger it soon
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* Averaged together, these give each place its combined "Endangerment Quotient," on a level of one to ten: *
  • 10 : DO SOMETHING NOW!!!
    • 7 : Better get moving!
      • 4 : Start planning
        • 1 : Think about it...

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