{"nrhp_refnum":"80003200","name":"Wiles, Perry, Grocery Company","other_names":["Zak's Restaurant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32--36 N. 3rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.94083158800004,"lon":-82.00879610099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial complex at 32 North Third Street in Zanesville, Ohio, made up of a 4-story brick grocery warehouse built in 1892 and a 1914 annex on its south side. It was designed by Henry C. Lindsay and built by E. L. Winchell.","why_significant":"It is the long-time business home of the wholesale grocer Perry Wiles and Sons and the finest surviving architectural remnant of Zanesville's wholesale grocery firms. It is the only remaining commercial building from architect H. C. Lindsay's office and the only extant Romanesque-derived commercial structure downtown. Its facade, with a cast-iron storefront, is largely unaltered.","narrative":"Built in 1892 at 32 North Third Street in Zanesville, this four-story brick warehouse housed the wholesale grocery firm Perry Wiles and Sons, one of five such wholesalers in the city, together supplying more than 110 retail grocers. Architect Henry C. Lindsay designed it with rock-faced stone trim, a cast-iron storefront and an arcaded corbel table, and E. L. Winchell served as contractor. A plain brick annex was added in 1914. None of the other wholesale grocery buildings survive in recognizable form, and this is the only remaining commercial building from Lindsay's office and the only Romanesque-derived commercial structure downtown. Its upper stories and cast-iron storefront are largely unaltered, one of only two such nineteenth-century facades in the city. In 1978 part of the ground floor became a restaurant, keeping original iron columns, catwalks, windows and industrial elevator doors.","period_of_significance":"1892","architect_builder":"E.L. Winchell-builder; H.C. Lindsay-architect","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque influence (the 1914 annex is simple utilitarian brick)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; part of the first floor was rehabilitated in 1978 as a restaurant, with original iron columns, windows, catwalks and elevator doors retained. Condition listed as excellent and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.054024-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003200.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003200/73ade58977-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003200/73ade58977-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perry_Wiles_Grocery_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perry_Wiles_Grocery_Company.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990703","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Wiles_Grocery_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7169971"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/wiles-perry-grocery-company-80003200/"}