{"nrhp_refnum":"09000848","name":"Feick Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"158-160 E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandusky","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.45633287100003,"lon":-82.71033823599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story steel-framed retail and office building at 158-160 E. Market Street in downtown Sandusky, Ohio. The original three-story building was built in 1909 to a design by Purcell & Feick, and five stories plus a rear annex were added in 1923.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an early local example of steel-framed construction and of the Commercial style, with its exposed structural grid and three-part facade largely intact. It is also tied to the Minneapolis firm Purcell & Feick, Prairie School architects, and to the Sandusky Feick family construction firm that built and enlarged it. It is the tallest building in Sandusky.","narrative":"Rising eight stories above East Market Street, this steel-framed brick building is the tallest in Sandusky and serves as a landmark for boaters entering Sandusky Bay. The first three stories were built in 1909 from a design by the Minneapolis firm Purcell & Feick, with a foundation engineered to carry later additions. In 1923 George Feick, Jr., who had left that partnership to join his father's Sandusky construction firm, added five floors and a three-story rear annex. The building follows the Commercial style, with large Chicago windows set between narrow piers and recessed spandrels, a classical base, shaft and capital arrangement, and restrained limestone trim. Inside, the marble-faced lobby, terrazzo floors, original wood doors, an Otis elevator cab and a brass mail chute survive. A bank occupied the ground floor from 1923 until 1985. The 1974 storefront replacement is the main alteration. The property is valued for its early structural system, its design lineage and its intact historic character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Purcell & Feick (1909 design); George Feick, Jr. (1923 addition); George Feick & Sons Company","architectural_style":"Early 20th Century/Commercial Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a speculative office building, with a single commercial tenant on the first floor and professional offices upstairs; a certified rehabilitation is planned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.214919-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/09000848.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000848/ca61f7ec01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000848/ca61f7ec01-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feick_Building_in_Sandusky.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feick_Building_in_Sandusky.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001899","name":"Downtown Sandusky Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-sandusky-commercial-historic-district-100001899/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feick_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5441526"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/feick-building-09000848/"}