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style. Clad in white glazed terra cotta, the six-story building features colossal composite piers, arondel ornamented frieze and a Greek key sill course. The Carnegie Library is a buff sandstone building also designed in the style of Beaux Arts Classicism. The highly sculptural two-story building was
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The Commerce Block-Hermes Building Building was constructed in 1870, but its Neo-classical stone ashlar façade now reflects the changes the district went through from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The elevation facing Maiden Lane Alley includes paired windows with round arch drip molding,
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The Main–Market Street Historic District is the heart of the North Village of Akron's original town plat, created in August 1833. Developed to the north of the canal town of Akron, and eventually merged into one city, this area of Akron has long been a successful commercial center. The intersection
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style with local sandstone and brick, the building housed a performance hall, offices and retail space. After an 1897 fire, owner S.T. Everett renovated the building and added two additional stories, making it primarily offices, although the Akron Public Library occupied the second story.
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designed by architect Frank O. Weary who designed several other prominent Akron buildings during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most notably the Glendale Cemetery Memorial Chapel.
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of Main and Market is now a primary gateway into downtown Akron. The district reflects Akron's late 19th and early 20th century economic boom from the milling and rubber industries.
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style, the building has the vertical orientation of a classical column, with the corner elevations clearly divided into separate base, shaft and capital sections.
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origin. One of the first important cultural buildings, the Everett Building, was completed in 1871. Constructed in the
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15-47 N. Main St., 1-39 S. Main St., 39-168 E. Market St., 18-42 N. High St., 70 Broadway St.,
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The Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company building was constructed in the
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Buildings of note in the district include the Old Akron Post Office, an
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
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National Register of Historic Places in Summit County, Ohio
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Main–Market Historic District is located in Ohio
Main–Market Historic District is located in the United States
Akron, Ohio
41°05′06″N 81°30′58″W / 41.08500°N 81.51611°W / 41.08500; -81.51611
Harpster & Bliss
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Akron, Ohio
National Register of Historic Places
Italian Renaissance Revival
James Knox Taylor
hip roof
Akron Art Museum
Neo-Classical
Beaux Arts
Italianate
Second Empire


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service




public domain material
Main–Market Street Historic District

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