Downing Block

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About

Name

• Downing Block

Floor count

• 3

Status

• Still standing

Dates

Completion

• 1879

Location

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131-139

Address

• 131 N. Market St.

City

• Wooster

Township

• Wooster

County

• Wayne

State

• Ohio

Zipcode

• 44691

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Owners and Tenants

Owners

• William C. Downing July 25, 1867 - Purchased from Edward Avery executors Lucas Flattery and John C. McMillan, Charles I. Correll bought March 21, 1939 from surviving heirs of William C. Downing
  1867–1939

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Timeline

• 1879 - William C. Downing contracts to build a 3-story brick building, 39ft wide by 58ft deep, for business purposes.
• 1879 - September 11, The Downing Block is moving along rapidly. Mr. Downing is more than pleased with the work done by the contractors. He is now laying a substantial sidewalk of Warren flagstone that cannot be excelled in the State. It will be the best business property that has been built in Wooster for some years.
• 1924 - April 6, Fire damage to building

Tenants

First Floor

• Rice's Book Bindery
• Ohio Gas Company
• Wooster Electric Company

Second Floor

• M. R. Limb and Dr. H, C, Graham Dental Office
• W. G. Patterson office
• Wayne County Board of Health
• Justice / Police order / and Safety of the Peace
• L. B. Bolus

Third Floor

• Yeoman Lodge
• Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Miller (Apartment)

Newspaper articles

• March 12, 1879: "Local News", Wayne County Democrat, p. 3.

• April 07, 1924: "Woman, Trapped on Third Floor, is Carried to Safety as Flames Damage Downing Block" by Unknown, The Daily Record, p. 1.

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