The Center for Historic Preservation--Current Projects

McDonald, Ohio National Rgister District Nomination

During fall quarter, 1999, the Practicum class initiated a National Register of Historic Places district nomination for the town of McDonald, Ohio.  In 1917, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company (a subsidiary of U.S. Steel) began building a town for the workers near its new finishing mills, several miles up the Mahoning River from the Ohio Works in Youngstown.  The village of McDonald, named for Thomas G. McDonald, superintendent of the new mills, includes not only houses, but a municipal building, recreation center and Woodland Park.  Much of the original community is still there, making McDonald an ideal candidate for listing on the Register.

The fall semester, 2000 class worked on a HAER (Historic American Engineering Record) documentation of the McDonald Mills plants.  Students will complete a study of the plant and its equipment, some of which dates back to World War I.

North Side/Wick Park Historic District National Register Boundary Extension

In the fall of 1999, three preservation students began working with the North Side Citizens' Coalition on extending the boundaries of the North Side/Wick Park Historic District.  These students, as well as those enrolled in the Introduction to Historic Preservation Class, surveyed structures that had not been surveyed earlier, and completed Ohio Historic Inventory Forms on these buildings.  In 2001, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation added the Wick Park Historic District Boundary Extension to the National Register of Historic Places, adding 152 contributing properties to the 50 listed in the original 1990 nomination.

Underground Railroad Multiple Property Documentation

The Center for Historic Preservation completed a Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) on the Underground Railroad for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.  The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation accepted the MPD in 2001.  Council's approval means that anyone nominating an underground railroad related property in Ohio to the National Register of Historic Places can use the MPD for background research.

 

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