{"nrhp_refnum":"00000749","name":"Main Street Buildings (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Clark County","state":"OH","lat":39.89803240200007,"lon":-83.80851390199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Bushnell Building at 14 East Main Street in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, is an L-shaped five-story steel-frame commercial building built in 1893 with a 1903 addition facing North Fountain Avenue. It is part of the Main Street Buildings group, and this amendment extends the listed boundary to cover the whole building.","why_significant":"The original 1979 listing left out the 1903 addition and about 23.5 feet of the rear of the 1893 section. The amendment adds them because the building is in essence a single structure. It is argued to be architecturally significant as the work of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, showing classical details and a tripartite facade in an early highrise. It was also Springfield's first major highrise office building, built for Asa S. Bushnell.","narrative":"The Bushnell Building at 14 East Main Street in Springfield, Ohio, is a five-story, L-shaped steel-frame office building completed in 1893, with a matching addition from 1903 facing North Fountain Avenue. Boston architects Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge designed both phases in a Second Renaissance Revival style, using light buff brick, terra cotta swags and garlands, round-arched windows, and a three-part facade. The 1903 section has a U-shaped marble entranceway and a marble and wrought iron stairway. It was built for Asa S. Bushnell, later governor of Ohio, and was the city's first major highrise office building. Early tenants included a bank, a dry goods store, law offices, and the local Masonic Temple. In the late 1920s it became a department store. The 1979 listing had omitted the addition and part of the rear, so the boundary was enlarged to cover the whole building and the period of significance was extended to 1903.","period_of_significance":"1871-1903","architect_builder":"Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Renaissance (Second Renaissance Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Department store use ended around 1987 and the building stood vacant for a number of years until it was purchased in 1994; current function is listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.41761-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/00000749.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987066","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clark-county/main-street-buildings-boundary-increase-00000749/"}