{"nrhp_refnum":"76001386","name":"Central Hotel, Hackedorn and Zimmerman Building","other_names":["Ritchey House Hotel","Quay Building","Ritchey Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW corner of Harding Way E. and Market Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Galion","county":"Crawford County","state":"OH","lat":40.73352875300003,"lon":-82.78985202999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of three adjoining brick commercial buildings, the Central Hotel (1852), Hackedorn Building (ca. 1865) and Zimmerman Building (1874), at the southwest corner of Harding Way East and Market Street on the public square in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio.","why_significant":"The nomination calls these the most important and earliest remaining commercial buildings in Galion. They survive from the 1860s railroad-driven commercial boom, when many brick commercial buildings and hotels were built downtown. The data sheet describes them as fine examples of 19th-century commercial styles, in Italianate form.","narrative":"Three connected brick buildings on the southwest corner of Galion's public square form what the nomination calls the finest and earliest surviving commercial architecture in the city. The Central Hotel began in 1852 as a two-and-a-half-story inn, was enlarged to three stories in 1869 with a western addition, and gained rear wings in 1898. Next to it stand the Hackedorn Building, completed around 1865 and long home to a corner drug store, and the Zimmerman Building of 1874, with cast-iron storefront columns and bracketed cornices. The buildings are linked to the 1860s, when numerous railroads crossed Galion and brought trade that drove rapid downtown growth. The hotel reportedly offered 66 sleeping rooms and a 60-seat dining room. Its first floors were altered in the 1940s, and the hotel was sandblasted in 1972, but the upper stories keep much of their original Italianate character.","period_of_significance":"1852, 1865, 1874 (specific dates)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings in commercial use: hotel and shops in the Central Hotel, Quay Drug Store on the Hackedorn ground floor, and stores and apartments in the Zimmerman Building. The first floors have been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.449941-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001386.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001386/8594bce0f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001386/8594bce0f5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Hotel_complex_in_Galion.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Hotel_complex_in_Galion.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987309","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137633283"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/crawford-county/central-hotel-hackedorn-and-zimmerman-building-76001386/"}