{"nrhp_refnum":"85001886","name":"Magruder Building","other_names":["Saxbe Offices"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mechanicsburg","county":"Champaign County","state":"OH","lat":40.07145310200008,"lon":-83.55510056299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story High Victorian Italianate commercial building at 16 South Main Street in Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, built in 1881 of painted brick with a flat built-up roof.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an outstanding example of the Italianate commercial style, which predominates in Mechanicsburg's commercial area. It represents the village's period of greatest commercial prosperity. Most other late 19th-century commercial buildings there have been severely altered, while this one retains its wood quoins, hoodmoulds, storefront columns and cornice.","narrative":"Built in 1881 at 16 South Main Street in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, this two-story brick commercial building was constructed by Percy Moore. It originally held Magruder's Harness Shop in the north section and Moore's Dry Goods in the south, with insurance agencies upstairs. Later it housed law offices of a former Ohio Attorney General and ambassador to India. The building is a High Victorian Italianate design, with an elaborate cornice carried on large angular brackets, paired round-arched hoods above each of its two sections, wood quoins, ornate hoodmoulds over the windows, intact storefront columns and a projecting bay window on the north side. It was listed because it is an outstanding example of the Italianate commercial style, the dominant style in the village's business district, and because it reflects the period of greatest commercial prosperity in Mechanicsburg. Many other commercial buildings from the late 1800s have been severely altered, while this one has changed only slightly.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by Percy Moore","architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Exterior in good condition; in commercial and office use. Two second-story windows on the north side were replaced, but integrity is said to be unaffected.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.239107-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85001886.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001886/47a41e123e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001886/47a41e123e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magruder_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magruder_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984522","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137606706"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/champaign-county/magruder-building-85001886/"}