{"nrhp_refnum":"83002000","name":"West Side Planing Mill (rear)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"197 Maholm St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newark","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.05084835000008,"lon":-82.42754007199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rectangular frame woodworking shop at the rear of 197 Maholm Street on the west side of Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was set up as a planing mill in 1921 in an older barn, said to date to the late 19th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill embodies a distinctive type of turn-of-the-century shop technology. It is a complete woodworking shop with belt-driven machinery dating from 1886 to 1915. Its continued operation as a commercial enterprise offers a rare view of an early 20th-century shop that may be unique in Ohio.","narrative":"Tucked in the middle of a residential block on Newark's west side, this two-story frame building houses a working planing mill. Its low gable roof and tar-paper-covered tongue and groove siding hide a structure thought to have begun in the late 19th century as a barn for mules on the Ohio and Erie Canal. Brothers Wayne Meridith Walters and Ernest Elmer Walters, both carpenters, set up the shop in 1921, buying second-hand machinery from the Jewett Street Car Works after it closed in 1919. Inside, a steel line shaft with wooden pulleys drives sanders, saws, planers, shapers, a mortising machine and a lathe by leather belt, with equipment dating from 1886 to 1915. The mill produced standard millwork such as sash, doors and turned work. It was listed because it preserves a complete early 20th-century shop that still operates commercially, which may be unique in Ohio.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1921)","architect_builder":"W.M. and E.E. Walters","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in commercial use as an operating woodworking shop; condition listed as good 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 02:53:14.822346-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002000.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989734","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/west-side-planing-mill-rear-83002000/"}