{"nrhp_refnum":"80002974","name":"Toledo and Ohio Central Depot","other_names":["Hord &amp","Sons Plumbing and Heating"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"700 E. Rensselaer St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bucyrus","county":"Crawford County","state":"OH","lat":40.80793160800005,"lon":-82.96707021899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story brick railroad depot at 700 East Rensselaer Street in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, built around 1880 for the Toledo & Ohio Central line on railroad-owned land.","why_significant":"The depot is tied to the arrival of the railroad in Bucyrus, where the first train stopped in the summer of 1880 on the Atlantic & Lake Erie route later known as the Toledo & Ohio Central. The railroad shops provided jobs and income to the community until the 1940s. It is one of the last remaining examples of railroad architecture from the peak of the railroad era in Bucyrus.","narrative":"Built around 1880, this brick depot on East Rensselaer Street in Bucyrus served the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad. The building is 100 feet long and 30 feet wide, with a hip roof and cross gables, a rock-faced ashlar foundation and trim, and stained glass transoms over the windows. Projecting stone gabled pavilions hold the ticket windows, and a conical-roofed stone tower with a finial marks the southeast corner. The depot reflects the Victorian Gothic style. Its importance lies in the railroad history of Bucyrus. The line, part of the Atlantic & Lake Erie project sponsored by local people and incorporated in 1865, brought its first train to town in the summer of 1880. Railroad shops in Bucyrus supplied many jobs until rail use declined in the 1940s. After the line was consolidated, the depot sat vacant, then served as newspaper storage in the 1960s and later housed a plumbing and heating business. It remains one of the last examples of railroad architecture from the city's peak railroad years.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant for several years after the line was consolidated, used for newspaper storage in the 1960s, then bought in 1971 for a heating and plumbing business; the form lists it as occupied, commercial use, in fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.541971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80002974.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002974/98c1cca33e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002974/98c1cca33e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T_and_O_Depot_Bucyrus.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T_and_O_Depot_Bucyrus.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987325","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137628552"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/crawford-county/toledo-and-ohio-central-depot-80002974/"}