Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) : _ 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 # Primary Location of Additional Data: _ State historic preservation office _ Other state agency X Federal agency _ Local government _ Other -- Specify Repository: 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property: .25 UTM References: Zone Easting Northing 1) 17 446970 4530620 University requested. Zone Easting Northing Sorrick-Oster Store considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been See continuation sheet. Summit County See continuation sheet.
The nominated property Name/Title: Sam Tamburro, Historian for the Village of Clinton Street & Number: 15610 Vaughn Road Telephone: (330) 657-2096 Additional Documentation Continuation Sheets Figure 2 Site and photo map. Figure 4 Second floor plan Maps integrity. Photographs Sorrick-Oster Store Boundary Justification: City or Town: Brecksville Figure 1 1927 Sanborn Insurance map. Pumroy Lot 22. heritage of the village of clinton and continues to retain its historical Figure 3 First floor plan Summit County, ohio 11. Form Prepared By Verbal Boundary Description: Organization: NPS/ Cuyahoga Valley Nº State: OH ZIP:44141 A USGS map indicating the property's location. Date:11 December 2001 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 . United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 7 Page 1 The Sorrick-Oster Store Summit County, Ohio 7846 Main Street on Lot 22.
The store is situated on the south side of Main Street in the commercial area of the village. The site includes several mature trees. A two-story house is house is sited on the lot along the east side of the store. Directly to the north of the store is the Limbach Block Built circa 1846, the store is a front-gabled, two-story, wood- approximately 25 foot, rectangular, gabled-roof addition along which is slightly lower than the main section, was likely added the store includes a central chimney and an additional center chimney is located at the southern end of the addition. The façade of the Oster Store contains a recessed central doorway with a narrow transom and a four-light sidelight. The second floor. There are two large 8/8 double-hung sash widows in 1 Referred to hereafter as Oster Store. building. Description lights.
CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service the first story that flank the recessed doorway.These windows situated to the west of the Oster Store.A (10-90) has a sunburst pattern in its bottom panel (photo l).Four Doric shortly after the original construction.The original section of Village of clinton Greek Revival (photo 1).The store contains an NPS Form 10-900-a the south elevation of the building (photo 2).The addition, pilasters support a full-length entablature across the front façade which serves as a visual separation for the first and front door appears to date from the late-nineteenth century and appear to have replaced an earlier, larger set of display The Sorrick-Oster Store islocated in the Village of clinton at OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 .
United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 2 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio The second story contains two 6/6 double-hung sash windows. The gable front is also adorned with cornice returns, characteristic of the Greek Revival style (photo 1 and 9). Windows along the west, south, and east elevations are windows have plain surrounds (photo 3) . There are two doors located along the east elevation of the that is supported by squared columns. The porch entry is decorated with a saw tooth treatment and the roof is covered and a 6 panel door with a wooden screen door (photo 6). The basement doors, portions of the sandstone block foundation are exposed. The south elevation also has four 1/1 double-hung sash windows with plain surrounds. There is a door located on the west end of the elevation.
The door has a significant drop off basement floor is poured concrete and the foundation is constructed of cut sandstone block. northern door contains a small gable-roof portico (photo 8). Description (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a The rear of the building contains a gravel Sorrick-Oster Store The interior of the building contains a full basement.The store.The southern most door contains a small shed roof porch fenestration pattern is asymmetrical (photo 2).All of the (10-90) combination of 1/1double-hung sash and the National Park Service and the roof is clad with asphalt tab shingles and tar paper. and it appears that stairs may have once existed (photo 5). The Oster Store is covered with clapboard siding with end boards basement doors that appear to be newer (photo 5). Near the with asphalt shingles.The entryway includes a 4 light transom OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 . United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 3 Sorrick-Oster Store Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio and-beam construction. Historically, this section served as the The interior of the store has plain-faced wood door and window surrounds, and all of the doors within the store are three design as a storefront and the current floor plan is consistent clad with wood tongue-and-groove paneling. storefront.A back interior wall separates the storefront from the remainder of the building.The ceiling of the storefront is Description (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a paneled.The Oster Store's floor plan retains integrity of with the historic massing of the building.
(10-90) National Park Service The interior framing of the store reveals that the structure was The back section of the store, historically used for storage and a living quarters, is constructed with balloon framing. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 4 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio Name of Property: Oster Store Photographer: Sam Tamburro Location of Negatives: Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area 1. Façade elevation, facing south. 2. West elevation, facing east. 3. Northwest elevation, facing east. 4. Northeast elevation, facing south west. 5. South elevation, facing north. 6. West door, facing east. 7. Sandstone foundation. 9. Cornice return, north elevation, facing south.
A recent visit in January 2002 to the property confirms that the photographs accurately represent the appearance of the Photographs Date of Photograph: March, 1999* County and State: Summit County, Ohio Sorrick-Oster Store The following information is the same for all photographs. National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a (10-90) 8. Southeast elevation, facing northwest. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 5 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio Statement of Significance properties eligible under Criteria A (Commerce) and C (Architecture) as specified in the Canal, Railroad, and association with the commercial development of the Village of early twentieth centuries, the store maintained a retail destroyed many of Clinton's canal-era commercial structures.
Presently, the Oster Store is the only canal-era commercial building extant in the village. a building that embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction. The Oster Store is a The Greek Revival style is indicative of the influence of the opening of the O&E Canal on the growth of the community. The Northeast Ohio building tradition. These building styles were extended into the Clinton area, which is south of the Western Canal. Sorrick-Oster Store Industrial Resources of Clinton/Warwick Multiple Property The store is also significant under Criterion C for representing front-gable Greek Revival is strongly associated with the National Park Service Clinton during its Canal Era.Throughout the nineteenth and Clinton MPD as significant.
The Oster Store meets the registration requirements for function.During the operation of the Ohio & Erie (O&E)Canal, The Oster Store is significant under Criterion A for its catered to canal boat passengers and captains.The 1909 fire (10-90) Reserve's the construction of the O&E Documentation Form (Clinton MPD) . front-gabled Greek building type identified in the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 8 Page 6 Summit County, ohio Government originally owned Pumroy Lot 22. Thus, the entire of the Ohio & Erie Canal in 1832, the land directly east of the commercial development. Canal and south of the Village of Orradeen, which was founded in 1835.
The brothers named the area the Village of Pumroy, divided In 1844, William Pumroy sold lot 22 to Solomon Sorrick and two following year, Henry Oster purchased the store from Waggoner. the Village of Clinton served as a major grain and coal shipping port on the Ohio & Erie Canal and the town was home to several 2 1846 Summit County Tax Auditor's Duplicates. 3 1856 Matthews & Taintor, Map of Summit County, Ohio. property. Historical Background CONTINUATION SHEET Sorrick-Oster Store Like all the land in Franklin Township (Summit County),the U.S.
provisions"shop.During the first half the nineteenth century, township was designated the Congress Lands.With the completion NPS Form 10-900-a owner of the Clinton Roller the store for six years, In 1837,William and Francis Pumroypurchased a large parcel of Village of clinton (10-90) United States Department of the Interior it into approximately 70 lots and quickly began to sell subsequently selling the property to Lewis Waggoner in 1853. The canal channel (present day Clinton) became a prime area of land in Section 35 of Franklin Township east of the Ohio & Erie years later Sorrick built a frame structure on the site that is the current building." Sorrick, a local grain merchant and co- Henry Osterowned Lot 22and operated NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 8 Page 7 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio From 1859 to 1860 the tax valuation of the store increased from customer who refused to pay on his delinquent account. Charles served a two-year prison term, but retained ownership of the when John J. Hiltbrand purchased the building and operated a J.J. Hiltbrand as "a manufacturer of fine harnesses, and all kinds of horse furnishing goods. "? In 1900, Alice Brown retained ownership of the store. According (Akron, OH: Beacon Job Department, 1892),762. see Lane, Fifty Years and Over, 792-793. Historical Society, 1991), 121. 5 For additional information regarding the Oster-Kernan Homicide during this time.
County, the Oster grocery store also functioned as a saloon.4 CONTINUATION SHEET Samuel Lane, Fifty Years and Over, Akron and Summit County, building in the early twentieth century.8 Sorrick-Oster Store business to his son Charles. Shortly after inheriting the store, (10-90) Charles remained the proprietor of the store until circa 1884 to the Clinton Story, Brown operated a millinery shop out of the Historical Background Henry Oster ran the store until his death in 1864,leaving the Charles was convicted of manslaughter after beating to death a $395 to $570,suggesting that the south addition was added 6 Summit County Tax Auditor's Duplicates, 1883. provisioning stores. According to Samuel Lane's Akron and Summit Akron City Directory, (Akron, OH: N.H. Burch & Company, 1886), Sandra Walsh Dreurey, The Clinton Story, (Clinton, OH: Clinton National Park Service OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 8 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio A 1927 Sanborn Insurance Map indicates that the store contained a wrap-around porch on the south and part of the east elevation. was situated on lot 23. The house to the west of the store is still extant, the store on lot 23 no longer exists and a modest ranch house is now situated on the lot. The Sanborn Map also denotes that an automobile garage was foundation present on its former site. Later, George and Helen Walsh rented the building and opened a grocery store, living on the second floor. Currently, Rodney and Criterion A: Commerce: its association with the commercial development of the Village of Clinton during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
As the Canal, Railroad, and Industrial Resources of Clinton/Warwick Multiple Property Documentation Form notes, during the mid-nineteenth century, Clinton was a bustling canal and travelers on the Ohio & Erie Canal. In the 1850s, Clinton maintained four provision stores, one hotel/tavern, and three ° Dreurey, The Clinton Story, 14. rehabilitated. and has functioned as both a store and a residence.Dreurey Susan Funk own the store, and the building is being Sorrick-Oster Store The Oster Store is significant under Criterion A:Commerce for Historical Background National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a locatedon the southeast portion of to the (10-90) The map also notes that lot 21 contained a dwelling and a store alleyway.
The garage no longer exists and there is no remnant notes that William Klein rented the building for a post office.9 The building has had a series of owners in the twentieth century OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 9 Summit County, Ohio Criterion A: Commerce: (continued) warehouses. An 1856 Matthews & Taintor map of Summit County lists the following businesses in the Village of Clinton: John Price, General Merchandise & Coal Merchant, Dr. W.S. Hand, Merchandise, L. Wagner Shoe and Boot Manufacturer, H. Oster century. Moreover, the Oster Store is the only extant example of 1909, which is discussed in the Clinton MPD, destroyed most of the Greek Revival style, a building style directly associated entablatures and bold cornice returns.
In addition, the store has 4 detailed Doric pilasters situated along the façade with an entablature extending the length of the building that creates the "Greek Temple" effect. The Doric pilasters are bowed near by two large windows is also characteristic of Greek Revival General Documentation Form. Criterion C: Architecture: The Oster Store contains significantly distinct characteristics the the illusion of bearing is indicative of their design quality.The central doorway flanked National Park Service Industrial Resources of Clinton/Warwick Multiple Property the wood-framed Canal-Era commercial buildings in the village. Sorrick-Oster Store NPS Form 10-900-a of construction practices associated with the Village of The Oster Store retains significant architectural elements of the street suggests its commercial utility.
part of the business landscape in Clinton during the nineteenth a Canal-Era commercial building in the Clinton area.The Fire of (10-90) Village of clinton Clinton's "Canal Era" as defined by the Canal, Railroad, and commercial buildings. Moreover, the store's shallow setback from with Clinton's "Canal Era."The building contains classic Greek NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 10 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio settlers migrated to Northeastern Ohio from New York and New England they transported the Greek Revival style to the Western the settlers in the Clinton area migrated from the Pennsylvania region and were German/Pennsylvania Dutch.
Additionally, the predominance of Greek Revival, Canal-Era buildings demonstrates on the development of the Village of Clinton. Nearly all of the extant canal era structures are Greek Revival and were built after the opening of the O&E Canal in 1827. The Village of Clinton is a direct result of the opening of the O&E Canal and the Oster Store is an example of this development. Soloman Sorrick, the original owner of the Oster Store, co-owned American Life prior to the War between the States, (New York: Dover Publications, 1964), 280. freight.
Clinton area was initially part of the Congress Lands.The The built environment strongly suggests that the canal Account of Important trends in American Architecture and National Park Service The Greek Revival style is strongly associated with Ohio's the only grain mill in the village.Economic studies have Sorrick-Oster Store Reserve.1 However, as the Clinton MPD indicates, a majority of Criterion C: Architecture indicated that over 70 percent of all of the grain shipped on (10-90) transported ideas and traditions as well as passengers and the significant impact the opening of the Ohio & Erie Canal had Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number 8 Page 11 Summit County, Ohio the O&E Canal received at the Port of Cleveland originated from choice of a Greek Revival commercial building resulted from his Extended" Western Reserve culture. and still retains its defining features. The store's entablatures, cornice returns, pilasters, end boards, massing and fenestration, retain significant integrity of materials and its period of significance (1846-1884), experienced no communicating it is historic function as a store. The small town commercial setting surrounding the nominated property provides integrity of setting, feeling, and association. of Kentucky,1990), 133.
Historical Integrity CONTINUATION SHEET workmanship.The building is in the same location it was during Sorrick-Oster Store the Tuscarawas Valley.ll It is quite possible that Sorrick's United States, 1790-1860, (Lexington, KY: The University Press NPS Form 10-900-a The historical integrity of the Oster Store is well preserved. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The nominated building has a high degree of integrity of design Village of clinton (10-90) business interactions and connections with the "New England 1 Ronald E. Shaw, Canals for a Nation:The Canal Era in the Criterion C: Architecture (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 2 Page 12 Village of Clinton Summit County, Ohio Hamlin, Talbot. Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an York: Dover Publications, 1964.
Akron, OH: Beacon Job Department, 1892. Matthews & Taintor. Map of Summit County, Ohio. 1856. Shaw, Ronald E. Canals for a Nation:The Canal Era in the United Kentucky, 1990. Lane, Samuel. Fifty Years and Over, Akron and Summit County. Major Bibliographic References Sorrick-Oster Store McAlester, Virginia and Lee.A Field Guide to American Houses. Historical Society, 1991. NPS Form 10-900-a Account of Important trends in American Architecture and Dreurey, Sandra Walsh. The Clinton Story. Clinton, OH: Clinton 1846 Summit County Tax Auditor's Duplicates. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES American Life prior to the War between the States.New Akron City Directory. Akron, OH: N.H. Burch & Company, 1886. (New York: Knopf,1997. (10-90) States, 1790-1860. Lexington, KY: The University Press of S.
WATER FIGURE ONE SANBORN MAP, 1927 SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY NOT TO SCALE NORTH OSTER STORE W. MAin SITE AND PHOTO MAP SORRICK-OSTER STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE JAN.
2002 NORTH ALLEYWAY CONTRIBUTING MAIN STREET CLINTON VICINITY FIGURE TWO STORE FRONT LIVING ROOM FIRST FLOOR PLAN SORRICK-OSTER STORE SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CLINTON VICINITY NOT TO SCALE JAN 2002 NORTH KITCHEN BATHROOM FIGURE THREE FIGURE FOUR SECOND FLOOR PLAN SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO NOT TO SCALE CLINTON VICINITY JAN 2002 NORTH BEDROOM BATHROOM STORAGE SORRICK-OSTER STORE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : Clinton/Warwick, Ohio MPS DATE OF 16TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: Y PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED:N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE TELEPHONE REJECT PROPERTY ACCEPT 10/09/02 REVIEWER RETURN 8/29/02 10/13/02 Sorrick--Oster Store OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Canal, Railroad, and Industrial Resources of the Village of STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Summit REFERENCE NUMBER: LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N 02001123 MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE Oster Store SUMMITCO., OhIO SUMMITCo., Oh1o 20F 9 OsterStore Oster Store SummiT Co., oh SUMMIT Co., Ohio Oster Store Oster Store SUMMIT CO., Oh1O 50F9 SUMMITCO.,Oh1O 60F9 Oster Store Oster Store 70F9 SummiTco.johio 8 0F 9 Oster Store Summirco, Ohio Oster Store SUMMITCO., OHIO 90F9 UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DOYLESTOWN QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DOYLESTOWN, OHIO ) NORTON Oster Store - Unimproved road 1994
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