Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) : _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been _ previously listed in the National Register - previously determined eligible by the National Register _ designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # _ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # - State historic preservation office - Local government _ University 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property: 1.08 UTM References: Zone Easting Northing requested. Unknown Zone Easting Northing Primary Location of Additional Data: Other state agency X See continuation sheet. X Federal agency 1)17 Other -- Specify Repository: See continuation sheet. The building is See continuation sheet. The nominated property 11.
Form Prepared By Street & Number: 15610 Vaughn Road Telephone: (330) 657-2096 State: OH ZIP:44141 Additional Documentation A USGS map indicating the property's location. Photographs Figure 2 First Floor Plan Continuation Sheets Figure 3 Second Floor Plan Boundary Justification: Figure 4 Historic Photograph City or Town: Brecksville continues to retain its historical integrity. Verbal Boundary Description: located on the north side of Hickory Street on Warwick Section 18,Lot 31 Name/Title: Sam Tamburro, Historian for the Village of Clinton (NE M) Warwick Road, Franklin Township, Summit County. Figure l Site & Photograph Map Organization: NPS/ Cuyahoga Valley Nº Maps Date:2/01 associated with the Industrial Era heritage of the Village of Clinton and NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 7 Page 6 Summit County, Ohio resource (photo 10). Build in 1901, the Schmitt Store is a front-gabled, two-story, building is clad with narrow wood drop (novelty) siding, and the plain-faced surrounds. There is a small, square window in the gable apex of the façade, a characteristic element of the Queen Anne style (photo 1 and 2) - the entire length of the façade (photo 1 and 2)- The first floor project out approximately 15 feet from the façade of the to the east of the store's façade (photo 1 and 2). Description CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service Full-sized windows are two-over-two, double-hung sash with facade elevation.The walls are approximate 3.5 feet high and of the store contains a recessed central entryway flanked by sloping hillside.
The grassy lot has a heavy treeline along the The facade elevation contains a second-story porch that extends The Louis Schmitt House and Store (hereafter referred to as United States Department of the Interior large commercial front display windows with wood panels beneath roof is covered with asphalt tab shingles.A chimney is located Metal posts support the second-story porch (photo 3).Flared, the west of the store. The privy is considered a contributing cut-sandstone walls are located on the east and west side of the Louis Schmitt House & Store off center within the roof's surface on the west elevation.
the lights (photo 3).The windows are currently covered with and south edges of the lot.A privy is located to Village of Clinton.The store is"banked" into a moderately structure (photo1and 2).There is also a set of concrete steps store)is located on the north side of Hickory Street in the (10-90) Village of Clinton plywood sheets. The fenestration pattern is window-door-window. balloon-frame building in the Folk Queen Anne style.The OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 7 Louis Schmitt House & Store Summit County, Ohio The porch roof's east and west elevations' fascia contain a sawtooth treatment (photo 2) . The store's west elevation has 4 bays with a door located near The door opening is currently boarded-up.
The store's east elevation also contains 4 bays with a door situated near the rear (north) elevation (photo 4 & 5). The east The store's foundation is combination of sandstone, clay tile elevation. elevation's fenestration pattern is window-window-window-door. second floor. elevation's fenestration pattern is window-window-door-window.
structure's north elevation along the east corner.The addition spans approximately two-thirds the length of the original National Park Service Description (continued) flanking a central five-panel door.The second-story shed roofed situated in the northwest corner of the core structure's north The addition's roof is covered with asphalt shingles.A door is The fenestration pattern of the second story is the same as the United States Department of the Interior original fabric including a bead-board treatment on the ceiling Village of Clinton NPS Form 10-900-a window is located in the center of addition's north elevation.
is clad with narrow siding similar the core structure and a original construction of the building (photo 9).A set of stairs served as the 8).The addition first floor (w-d-w)and includes two large display windows The store's north elevation has a one-story shed roofed (10-90) the rear (north) of the structure (photo 7 and 8). The west block and concrete block.The first floor contains some of its OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 8 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio with a horizontal bead-board treatment that extends to the asphalt shingles (photo 10). second-story rooms contain a vertical bead-board wainscoting rooms have large baseboards moldings that appear to be original.
National Park Service Description (continued) An eave-oriented privy is located northwest of the store.The The second floor'smassing consists of four rooms including the The second floor also contains original doors and windows. privy is clad with drop siding and the roof is covered with NPS Form 10-900-a addition serving as the 4).Several of the ceiling.The floors are red)and several of the Louis Schmitt House & Store United States Department of the Interior (10-90) NPS Form 10-900-a CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Summit County, Ohio Name of Property: Louis Schmitt House and Store County and State: Summit County, Ohio Photographer: Sam Tamburro Date of Photograph: May 1999, January 2000. Schmitt House & Store, façade elevation, facing north.
Schmitt House & Store, front door (first floor), facing Schmitt House & Store, southeast elevation, facing Schmitt House & Store, rear(north) elevation, facing west. Schmitt House & Store, first floor interior southeast corner, facing southeast. 10. Schmitt privy, east elevation, facing west. northwest. Photographs National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Location of Negatives: Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area The following information is the same for all photographs. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Louis Schmitt House & Store Village of Clinton OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Page 9 Schmitt House & Store, east elevation, facing west. (10-90) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Section number 8 Page 10 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio Canal, Railroad, and Industrial Resources of Clinton/Warwick association with commercial development of Warwick during the In 1880 Louis Schmitt emigrated from Liesdorf, Germany to Germany. According to U.S. Census records the Schmitts had Warwick and in 1901 built the front-gabled house/store on the Schmitt Family. 2 1895-1901 Summit County Tax Auditor's Duplicates. Historical Development CONTINUATION SHEET Statement of Significance payday, providing a service for a new and transitional businesses in Warwick. Franklin Township.
United States Department of the Interior The Schmitt House & Store meets the registration requirements workforce.The Schmitt Store was one of the first retail site.²The building originally functioned as the residence for immigrants.Patrons were able to run tabs for groceries until NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES laborers, especially miners, in the community. The store also for properties eligible under Criteria Aas specified in the By 1895,Schmitt purchased the property of Hickory Street in NPS Form 10-900-a Louis Schmitt House & Store 2 sons and three daughters by 1900. the United States in 1885 and settled in the Warwick area.In (10-90) Store served as a beer garden and grocery store for many of the 1885, Schmitt married Barbara Stoltz, also a recent immigrant Multiple Property Documentation Form (Clinton MPD) . 1 1900 U.S.
Census, Schedule of Population, Summit County, functioned as a gathering space for Warwick's working class and This property is being nominated under Criterion A for its OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number 8 Summit County, Ohio Wilhelm Burkhardt, proprietor of Burkhardt Brewing Company in Akron, Ohio. According to The Clinton Story, Burkhardt provided Burkhardt's beer exclusively. A historic photo from the early façade with "Burkhardt's Beer" in large letters (See Figure 4). from the first floor by metal posts, which still exist. A metal groceries. Louis Schmitt's store sold "staples and fancy groceries", fresh and salt meats, coal, and feed. Catholics to hold (celebrate) Sunday Mass. Until St. George's Historical Society, 1991), 26. miner. The sign also indicates that Louis Schmitt was the proprietor. decorative scrolled support brackets.
CONTINUATION SHEET garden/grocery store for miners.
The beer garden served twentieth century illustrates that the building had a large sign The picture shows that the porch's turned spindle posts had United States Department of the Interior the space was a barroom and the other side was an area to buy Rogues Hollow, miners were a large segment of the population in National Park Service the area.If indicate that Schmitt worked asa NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The apron of the two-story porch contained a sawtooth treatment similar to the east and west fascia.The porch was supported The Louis Schmitt Store also served asa gathering place for Louis Schmitt House & Store Schmitt converted the basement of his house into a beer In the 1890s Schmitt entered into a business agreement with nail fence surrounded the front of the bar.On the one side of NPS Form 10-900-a Village of clinton (10-90) miner and the 19o0 U.S.Census listed his occupation as a coal Page 11 3 Sandra Walsh Dreurey, The Clinton Story, (Clinton, OH: Clinton Schmitt an interest free loan to open a beer garden to cater to located underneath the banister of the second floor porch on the Historical Development (continued) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Section number 8 Page 12 Summit County, Ohio As Warwick developed as an industrial community, its retail needs expanded. Matthias Schmitt, Louis' son, convinced his With the opening of the Schmitt Commercial Block in downtown Lee, Schmitt's granddaughter. Criterion A: Commerce the area and prospered due to the large amount of miners in the CONTINUATION SHEET twentieth century. United States Department of the Interior Rouges Hollow mining area with Clinton.Most of the area was National Park Service vital business operation.The building has remained in the Schmitt family throughout the twentieth century and was occupied the store.The family's new house burned down in the early NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES successful, and business increased substantially.
In 1908, second floor of the Schmitt Store.Schmitt's operation was Schmitt built the two-story brick block buildings on North its historical association with the commercial development in Warwick,the Schmitt Store on Hickory Street ceased to bea Street and Third Avenue in"downtown" Warwick.The move was successful, and he built a large house for his family next to NPS Form 10-900-a father to build anew store close to the Warwick Railroad Depot community.One of the main railroad lines that connected the Church was built in 1908-1909, Sunday services were held on the Division Street, which still exist today.The 1910 U.S. census Louis Schmitt House & Store Village of clinton at the center of town. (10-90) by various tenants over the period. The current owner is Barbara lists Louis Schmitt as a barroom owner.
Schmitt Store was among the first stores in Historical Development (continued) The Schmitt Store is significant under Criterion A:Commerce for In 1905,Schmitt moved his shop to the corner of North Division NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number 8 Page 13 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio the population of the community grew, the needs of the design, setting, materials, feeling, and association. The intact, giving it the "feel" of an early twentieth-century The store is covered with wood drop siding, the original construction material, and the building contains several Queen Anne elements such as second floor porch, turned spindle posts, and the saw-tooth on the side elevations of the porch. Historic Integrity CONTINUATION SHEET commercial operation.
National Park Service United States Department of the Interior inhabited by coal miners.Schmitt himself worked as a miner.The to relocate their business to downtown Warwick.The Louis NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES communicated in the store.As Warwick became industrialized and bar/grocery store.The rear kitchen addition to the most likely added shortly after the original construction, does population outgrew the Schmitt Store, which prompted the family of Warwick. working class people in Warwick. setting and feeling.The original interior of the building is it to communicate its historic function as Louis Schmitt's The Schmitt Store is in its original location and is not Louis Schmitt House & Store Schmitt Store is an early example of the commercial development Most of the community's news and information was verbally not detract from the profile of the building.
(10-90) Criterion A: Commerce (Continued) store became an important meeting place for miners and other impacted by any new development, which provides for integrity of massing gable) of the building is intact enabling OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 9 Page 14 Dreurey, Sandra Walsh. The Clinton Story. Clinton, OH: Clinton Historical Society, 1991. New York: Knopf, 1997. (Draft). Prepared by ICON Architecture et al. Boston, MA: ICON Architecture, 1999. 1895-1901 Summit County Tax Auditor's, Duplicates. 1900-1910 U.S. Census. Schedule of Population. CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service Major Bibliographic References McAlester, Virginia And Lee.A Field Guide to American Houses.
United States Department of the Interior Ohio& Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor Management Plan NPS Form 10-900-a Louis Schmitt House & Store Summit County, Ohio Village of Clinton (10-90) - Contributing FIGURE ONE SITE & PHOTO MAP SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY NOT TO SCALE JAN 2000 NORTH STORE Hickory Street PRIVY FIGURE TWO FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY NOT TO SCALE JAN 2000 NORTH FIGURE THREE SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE CLINTON VICINITY JAN 2000 NORTH FIGURE FOUR HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH 19005 SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY JAN 2000 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 8-86) JAN 7 2002 NAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of Property historic name: Louis Schmitt House and Store other name/site number: Ohio Historic Inventory # SUM-3099-19 2.
Location not for publication: N/A vicinity: X code: 153 zip code: 44216 3. State/Federal Agency Certification of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this - nomination Dept. Headl State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property does not meet the National Register criteria. - meets sheet. RECEIVED Date Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements National Park Service Signature of certifying official United States Department of the Interior See continuation sheet. request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act NPS Form 10-900 city/town: clinton street & number: 2967 Hickory Street state: OH county: Summit Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO standards for registering properties in the National Register of 4.
National Park Service Certification other (explain): 5. Classification Ownership of Property: Private Category of Property: Building (s) structures sites Total buildings objects Register: Date See continuation sheet.
removed from the National Register National Register Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Number of Resources within Property: State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official Signature of Keeper determined not eligible for the entered in the National Register of Action Noncontributing - Contributing FIGURE ONE SITE & PHOTO MAP SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE JAN 2000 NORTH STORE Hickory Street CLINTON VICINITY PRIVY FIGURE TWO FIRST FLOOR PLAN SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE JAN 2000 NORTH CLINTON VICINITY SCHMITT STORE SECOND FLOOR PLAN SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE CLINTON VICINITY JAN 2000 NORTH FIGURE THREE SCHMITT STORE FIGURE FOUR HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH 1900g SCHMITT STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY JAN 2000 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/14/020A58 DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: OTHER : N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: TELEPHONE REJECT DATE RETURN DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 1/07/02 2/22/02 REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA ACCEPT National Register DATE RECEIVED: Entered in the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Schmitt, Louis, House and Store REASONS FOR REVIEW: N SLR DRAFT: N PROPERTY NATIONAL: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLRY/N Sum m it County,ohio Schmitt House :Store SUmmIT COUNTY, OhIO Schm irt House 3 Store Schmitt House ?Store 3OFIO SummiTCounTY.Ohio SchmiTTHouse Store Schm iTTHouse Store 5 of10 Schmist House 3 sTore SummiT counTY.Ohio SchmiTT Houses store SummiT CovnTY,Oho 70F10 SchmiTt Houses store Schmitt House STore SummIT CouNtY,ohio SchmittHouye STore W DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NORTON UNITED STATES DOYLESTOWN, OHIO DOYLESTOWN QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1994 improved surface 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Light-duty road, hard or A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 17 946180 4530 480 § Summit Co., OH UNITED STATES DOYLESTOWN QUADRANGLE Schmirt Store DOYLESTOWN, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga Valley National Park 15610 Vaughn Road IN REPLY REFER TO: Brecksville, Ohio 44141 26 October 2001 Ms.
Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places 1849 C Street NW Room MC 400 Washington, DC 20240 for Clinton, Ohio: Louis Schmitt House and Store, Clinton, Summit County, Ohio Enclosed please find for your review and signature the Louis Schmitt House and Store nomination. The nomination has been signed by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office and I am Should you accept this nomination, Cuyahoga Valley National Park's Historian, Sam Tamburro, would like a copy of the signed certification page. package, please contact Mr. Tamburro at 330.657.2096. John P. Debo, Jr. Jeff Winstel, Planner, CUVA David Humphrey, Supervisory Landscape Architect, CUVA Sincerely, Enclosures H32 Superintendent RECEIVED and Federal Nominations. Thank you for your consideration of these nominations.If there are questions regarding this Dear Ms.
Shull, Re:Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor National Register Nominations forwarding the form to you per requirements outlined in36 CFR Part 60, 60.10, Concurrent State JAN NAT REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 0 7 2002 2280 RECEIVED United States Department of the Interior 15610 Vaughn Road NAT REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Brecksville, Ohio 44141 7 February 2002 Ms. Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places 800 North Capital Street NW Washington, DC 20002 for Clinton, Ohio: Louis Schmitt House and Store, Clinton, Summit County, Ohio Enclosed please find for your review and signature the Louis Schmitt House and Store nomination. The Ohio Historic Preservation Office has signed the nomination and I am This nomination form was originally submitted to the National Register office in October 2001, package, please contact Mr. Tamburro at 330.657.2096. John P. Debo, Jr.
Jeff Winstel, Planner, CUVA David Humphrey, Supervisory Landscape Architect, CUVA Enclosures H32 Sincerely, Superintendent the signed certification page. and Federal Nominations. FFR82002 Dear Ms. Shull: Thank you for your consideration of these nominations. If there are questions regarding this Cuyahoga Valley National Park National Park Service but your office has informed us that it was destroyed by postal irradiation.Should you accept this Re:Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor National Register Nominations IN REPLY REFER TO: Suite 400 forwarding the form to you per requirements outlined in 36 CFR Part 60,60.10, Concurrent State nomination, Cuyahoga Valley National Park's Historian, Sam Tamburro, would like a copy of FFR
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