Label
The Clerk Reports
Title
Declaring the intent to designate the building located at 1301 Adams Street, Toledo, Ohio a historic landmark; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Architectural Significance of the Building for consideration to become a Designated Landmark.
The building at 1301 Adams Street is historically significant for its association with automobile transportation and commerce in Toledo. The building is located on Adams Street. Adams Street became a commercial and retail hub for the neighborhood as Uptown Toledo developed into a mixed-residential commercial district during the nineteenth century.
Constructed in 1914, 1301 Adams Street is a rectangular, three storied building with a full basement. It is of brick construction with a structural grid comprising of wood and iron beams and posts. The building features extensively glazed brick exterior walls. The square shaped building measures 100 feet along each side, thus having a 10,000 square feet footprint. The gross floor area of the building, including the basement, is 40,000 square feet. The building features brick veneers and terracotta ornamentation on its street facades, with the Adams Street fa?ade most extensively treated.
During the early decades of the twentieth century, Uptown, which was well-connected via streetcar lines to distant neighborhoods in the expanding city, also became a hub for automobile retail and service. It also housed light industrial plants that manufactured automobile parts for Toledo's own Willys-Overland company. At least two other buildings in the vicinity of 1301 Adams Street, namely the National Register listed Landers Company Building at 445 Jackson Street and 1401 Adams Street (currently the Toledo School of Art, just northwest of 1301 Adams Street) were associated with the Overland Company for light-manufacture, and sales and service, respectively.
The building at 1301 Adams Street was constructed by the Roberts-Toledo Auto Com...
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