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10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH modeled after Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of George Washington in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which dates from 1539. The SAE Chapter House is the only example of its type in the nation. In addition, it is the work of Russell S. Potter, University from 1933 to 1947. The distinctive features of the English Manor Tudor Revival style are the simple massing of the main block; the brick and House also resembles the pattern of windows on Sulgrave Manor. While Tudor Revival style was widely used for residences during the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, most examples represent the later iterations of the style. II.
OVERALL HISTORY In 1803, the new State of Ohio set aside land in the almost uninhabited woodlands of northwestern Butler County for the and the first lots were sold. In the following year the first school was built and by 1830, with a population of over 700, the number of annexations during recent decades increased the size to approximately six square miles. Today the population Founded in 1809, Miami University is the second oldest liberal arts educational institution in Ohio and was the location of the first fraternity west of the Alleghenies in 1835. By 1891, Miami became known as "the Mother of Fraternities." Of Road. Like the campus, the predominant style of these houses is Colonial Revival.
There is only one other Tudor Revival chapter house, Kappa Sigma at 404 East Withrow Street, which appears to have been built as a single-family home and then converted for use as a fraternity with a major addition. III. HISTORY OF THE SAE CHAPTER HOUSE champions were Professor Fred Whitcomb, the only Sig Alph in the University and Judge Nippert was another tireless worker for the cause of Miami." (The Miami Student, 1919.) The SAE fraternity was founded in 1856 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Because of tensions between North Section number 8 Page _ I. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Chapter House is eligible for the National Register under Criterion C as an excellent and rare example of a fraternity house in the style of an English Tudor manor house.The chapter house is specifically financial support of education.
In 1810, a year after Miami University was chartered, the Village of Oxford was laid out sixth of all members of Greek letter fraternities belong to societies founded at Miami University. (The Miami Years, p. 90.) Today there are 33 fraternities represented at Miami, and 26 have chapter houses. Most of the fraternities are clustered The property has been continuously owned by the SAE fraternity since 1931.The Ohio Tau chapter at Miami University chapter at Miami was described in The Miami Student as *one of the biggest eventsin Miami Fraternity history of recent years." SAE was the most truly national fraternity, with 92 chapters scattered throughout every state in the Union.
The and South related to the Civil War, the organization remained exclusively based in the South until 1883, when a new stone masonry walls; side-gabled, steeply pitched, slate roof; and the projecting stone entrance porch with a Tudor-style Village of Oxford was incorporated. A charter form of government was adopted in 1961, and a decade later population growth had turned the village into a full-fledged city. The original boundaries of Oxford consisted of a square mile. A to the north and west of the campus, on Campus Avenue, East High Street, East Church Street and North Tallawanda chapter was created in Gettysburg, Pa. In 1919,the chapter at Miami was one of eight charters granted. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 2 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH house was a small, two-story, white stucco building with an open porch on the east side. Behind the house was a three- story frame barn which housed about ten members on the second floor, and more on the third floor in two-decker beds.
purchased a beautiful lot 150feet wide fronting Tallawanda Road and are now dickering with two contracting firms for The deal on the property finally closed on March 31,1931, but the stock market crash delayed construction for nearly a and, with the selection of Sulgrave Manor as the model for construction, the Judge and other members of the committee preferred style for fraternity houses; thus the design was a matter of Nippert's personal taste. Finally, ground was broken in October 6, 1937; the cornerstone was laid on November 6, 1937, and the building was dedicated a year later, on The new SAE Chapter House at Miami University was made possible by Judge Alfred K. Nippert, who not only became a co-signer of the mortgage on Sulgrave Manor, he also paid off what remained of the mortgage on the old house and then restaurant on the property.
"Without Brother Nippert's contributions and generosity, we would probably still be up on High Hannaford and Edward W. Nippert, a second cousin to Judge Nippert and an officer at Fifth Third Bank for many years. for furnishings and landscaping. (Allen p. 71) The contractor of the new SAE House was George Miller, whose son, Forrest, was a member of the Ohio Epsilon chapter of SAE. Judge Alfred K. Nippert member of SAE. A prominent attorney, he was the senior member of the firm of Nippert & Nippert, with his son Louis as Cincinnati industrialist who co-founded Procter & Gamble. Street, the second house west of Campus Avenue, which has long since been replaced by a commercial building. The (Allen, p. 69) Residents of "The Barn" were known as "barn rats." the fraternity and anything that you can do to help will be appreciated." to have the complete plans drawn by an architect.
It happened to be the 200 anniversary of George Washington's birth Mascott on January 14, 1932, "Plans are now under way for the erection of a new house which is to be the only exact and November 6, 1938 on Homecoming Day. (See Continuation Sheet, Section 12, page 1, for 1938 view.) quadrangle" on Tallawanda. In a letter dated December 23, 1930, Judge Alfred K. Nippert wrote, "The boys have he bought the old house from the Ohio Tau House Corporation. He then sold it to a man named Osborn who put a Born in Frankfort, Germany in 1872, Nippert was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati (UC), where he was an active the Army War College, Washington, in World War I. His wife, Maude, was the daughter of James N. Gamble, the pioneer NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH Nippert Stadium on the UC campus (HAM-2002-2), dedicated in 1924, was named in honor of Judge Nippert's son, houses for both the UC and Miami chapters of SAE as further memorials to his son. The SAE Chapter House at UC was SAE brother and 1899 graduate of UC. the building committee. He threw himself into the planning of the temple, contributing time and money. Designed by story stone building, also in the Tudor Revival style, erected in 1929-1930. This was the first national Headquarters building ever built by a college fraternity. Manor, which had previously belonged to the Priory of St. Andrew at Northampton.
Lawrence Washington was a great-grandfather of George Washington, crossed the Atlantic. should be a proper celebration of the centenary of the end of the war of 1812-the last serious armed conflict between England and America. Prominent statesmen and civic leaders were recruited to form peace committees in the United The central projecting entrance porch was added to the house by Lawrence Washington. The porch is two and a half stories with a front gable; the corners are adorned with randomly sized stone quoins. The doorway has a simple arched Sulgrave Manor When the Fraternity decided to build a new national headquarters in Evanston, IL, Nippert was selected as chairman of After the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIll in 1539, Lawrence Washington took the opportunity to buy Sulgrave around 1560, based on architectural evidence.
Lawrence's descendants lived in the home for over 120 years (1539 - 1659). When the English Civil War between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary Army broke out, many of More than250years after the first Washingtons landed in America; President Theodore Roosevelt decided that there States, Great Britain and Canada. The British committee decided to purchase George Washington's ancestral home on behalf of the British and American people and, after World War I, King George V was a leading contributor to the Sulgrave SAE Chapter House, and the book was donated to its library. (The Oxford Press, November 10, 1938) gable is a plaster bas relief of the royal arms flanked by a lion and dragon. James G. Nippert, captain and star center of the Bearcat football team, who died on Christmas Day, 1923, as a result of built at 2707 Clifton Avenue in 1924-25.
The house was designed in the Tudor Revival style by Clifford M. Stegner, an successful wool merchant and Mayor of Northampton. He began to alter and expand the manor, which was completed emigrated to Virginia and in 1656, Colonel John Washington, the great-great grandson of Lawrence Washington and the Society of the Colonial Dames of America raised an endowment fund. opening with a stone lintel. Above it is a square stone plaque, a triple casement window at the second floor and in the NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH upper sashes are stained glass medallions of the coats of arms of the Washington family. On the second floor, the exposed beams, a wide fireplace and a stone floor.
covered with slate. The front gabled entry porch with stone quoins and doorway surround and the crest in the gable is the manor, the first floor windows of the SAE Chapter House contain stained glass seals in the upper sash representing the Martin & Roth, Potter chaired the department of architecture at Miami University from 1933 to 1947. He received a degree inarchitecture in 1918 from the University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work at Grenoble, France. First employed in New York, he came to Cincinnati in 1922 to work in the offices of Harry Hake and Samuel Hannaford & Sons. Roth joined the partnership and in 1967, the firm's name was changed to George F. Roth and Partners. The firm is now known as The Roth Partnership. Architects (AIA). He was also a member of the Ohio State Board of Examiners of Architects from 1948 to 1956. He was awarded a fellowship in the AlA in 1961.
alterations and additions to Shillito's Department Store (1936), Liberty Street Firehouse (1938), the U. of Cincinnati Peck Building (1963) (in partnership with Harry Hake & Partners), the Jewish Hospital (1963), and Cincinnati Art Museum Additions, (1964). Other academic buildings included multiple dormitories at Ohio University (1954). clearly the work of an architect who excelled in the interpretation of historic styles. His interest in historic styles is partly demonstrated in an article entitled, "Classic Revival Architecture in Cincinnati," which he co-authored with Henry C. Architect most prominent feature that is emulated. Also, the first floor grouped windows are very similar.
Like the 16* century Sulgrave Manor in the placement of a wide fireplace in the end wall and exposed beams in the ceiling the Architects Society of Ohio and past vice president and secretary of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of While their designs in the 1950s and'60s tended to be modern, during the Depression era, the work of the firm tended toward revival styles, particularly at Miami University, where Georgian Revival is dominant. The SAE Chapter House is On each side is a single bay of grouped multipane windows. On the first floor, the windows have four sections.
In the various branches of the "SAE family." On the interior, the living room of the SAE House resembles the Great Hall of (1935) and Fine Arts Building at Miami University (1943); and in Cincinnati, Wyoming Elementary School (1935), Armory & Field House (1944), Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park (1958), Cincinnati Women's Club (1963), the John Weld Montgomery and published in the Society of Architectural Historians Journal in 1947. (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 5 Oxford, Butler Co., OH IV.
CONTEXT The Tudor Revival Style According to McAlester's AField Guide to American Houses,the typical characteristics of the Tudor Revival style are a prominent cross gables, usually steeply pitched; decorative half-timbering present on about half of examples; tall, narrow windows, usually in multiple groups and with multi-pane glazing; massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative appears on about half of Tudor houses. cottages that appeared in the 1920s and '30s, brick, stucco or wooden trim is frequently seen on gables or second stories, as is false timbering tended to be architect-designed landmarks which, like the first American Queen Anne houses built twenty years earlier, copied English models fairly closely.
Many were patterned after late Medieval buildings with Renaissance detailing that The uncommon Tudor landmarks of the Jacobethan type were joined in the decades from 1900 to 1920 by less pretentious Tudor houses which superimposed steep gables, half-timbering, or other typical detailing upon otherwise symmetrical facades (most commonly with full front gables.) These modest early examples, unlike most Tudor houses, tend to have walls clad with wood, shingles or stucco, thus avoiding the expense of solid masonry construction. A Field Guide to American Houses asserts that, "the popular name for the style is historically imprecise, since relatively 1500 and 1569,is an earlier and relatively rare type of Tudor Revival, known as English Manor Tudor Revival.
According to Doreen Yarwood in The Architecture of Britain, "The houses of the first half of the sixteenth century these houses were more spacious, with larger windows, better staircases and with chimneys, gables and cresting finally replacing Medieval crenellation. Inside, the flat, wood and plaster ceiling replaced the open timber roof, and walls were The SAE Chapter House exemplifies the characteristics of Tudor Revival style in its red brick masonry walls, steeply emphasized by a stone surround with a label mold, stylized quoins, Tudor-arched transom and double doors. But the wealthy land-owners built fine houses on their newly acquired estates.The need for defense continued to decline and few examples closely mimic the architectural characteristicsof Tudor(early 16-century) England.
Instead the style is Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University steeply pitched roof, usually side-gabled (less commonly hipped or front-gabled); a façade dominated by one or more commonly contrasted with stone, stucco or wooden surfaces on principal gables or upper stories. False half-timbering Stone commonly appears as trim on all subtypes but only a relatively small proportion of houses have stone as the more typically based on a variety of late Medieval English prototypes." About half have ornamental false half-timbering; chimney pots. Within the style, there are several principal subtypes that are defined by the exterior cladding, whether stucco, brick, stone or wood. The most common subtype is brick cladding. Often when used on the first floor, it is principal wall material, and these were mostly large landmark houses built before 1920.
In the modest stone-veneered The Tudor Revival style was based on 17th-century Elizabethan architecture in England, revived by English architect Richard Norman Shaw in the 1880s. The earliest American houses in the style date from the late 19t century. These were popular during the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and James I (1603-1625), the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras represent a transitional stage between the Medieval pattern and the Elizabethan great house. The years 1530-50 were a time of energetic house building, from large mansions to small homes. As Henry VIll re-allocated the monastic property, covered by a wood and decorative plaster frieze and below this, oak panelling... pitched slate roof, front-gabled projecting stone porch, and grouped windows with multi-pane sash. The front entrance is NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH early form of Tudor Revival, as described above, or English Manor Tudor Revival. Historic Architecture in Oxford Female Institute, High Street and College Avenue. Oxford, Lane's Mill Historic Building, 3884 Wallace Road, south of Oxford; Pugh's Mill Covered Bridge, Four Mile and Tallawanda Creek, one mile north of Oxford; and the Unzicker-Cook House, 2975 Oxford-Middletown Road There are only four listed properties in town that are not directly associated with the campus: the Dr. William Alexander Avenue; the Henry Maltby House, 216 East Church Street; and the Oxford Railroad Depot and Junction House, S. Elm and W. Spring Streets.
Two properties, the Langstroth Cottage and William Holmes McGuffey House, are National Historic Landmarks. Historic architecture on the Miami University campus and in downtown Oxford generally tends to be red brick buildings in fine examples of the English Gothic Revival, but there are no other examples of Tudor Revival listed. houses in Oxford. In addition to the SAE Chapter House, there are four other examples of Tudor Revival in Oxford, which fraternity; the Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Church and Main, Glos Hall at the corner of Chestnut and examples are built entirely of stone and represent a later form of the Tudor Revival style. A few of the fraternity houses are older and of architectural interest; however none are in the early English Manor Tudor Revival style. VI.
CONCLUSION typical of later examples.It most closely resembles Sulgrave Manor, which is an early example of the style, as described been designed to closely resemble it, in the stone panel above the doorway and the SAE coat-of-arms hand-carved in exposed ceiling beams. stone between casement windows.It also imitates Sulgrave Manor in the use of stained glass seals in the upper sashes There have been 16 National Register listings in Oxford, which is surprisingly few considering the age of the community and the quality of the historic architecture there. Six listed properties are on the campus or owned by Miami University: Elliott and Stoddard Halls, Fisher Hall, Herron Gymnasium, William H. McGuffey House, 401 Spring Street; and Oxford Six of the listed properties are located on the outskirts of Oxford: Austin-Magie Farm and Mill District, Sec.
14, Oxford Other buildings that could be listed for the same association include examples of Tudor Revival and other fraternity SR 27, and the Stancote House (BUT-40-1) at 305 Patterson Avenue. Unlike the SAE Chapter House, all these SAE Chapter House is atypical in that it does not display multiple gables or half-timbering and is a rare example of the are not listed--a modest stone cottage house at 404 East Withrow (BUT-2161-1), which houses the Kappa Sigma of the first floor windows, and the arrangement of the living room to resemble the Great Hall, with its wide fireplace and Section number8Page NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number - Oxford, Butler Co., OH 9. Bibliography 1956, 5:1. Grove, Bert, "A Pilgrim to Mecca of SAE." Havighurst, Walter. The Miami Years 1809-1984.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958, 1969, 1984, 175 anniversary ed. 90-101. "History of Fraternities" on website: www.thehookup.richmond.edu/~ifc/greek_life/origin.htm Lanyon, James W. "Ohio Tau's Dream Comes True," The SAE Record, May 1938. 285-286. McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. International University), www.beaconnewspaper.com, Jan. 12, 2004. The Miami Recensio (Miami University Yearbook), 1920, 1922, 1939, 1960, 1972. "Once Upon a Time in Oxford, The Oxford Press, May 31, 1973. "Potter Reelected by Architecture Board," The Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 1, 1952, 10:2. Historians Journal, vol. 6, p. 18-21 (July/Dec 1947). "R.S. Potter, Architect, Dies; Burial Service to be Private," Post Times Star, Jan. 7, 1966, 16:1. "SAE House Gets Gifts on Dedication," The Oxford Press, November 10, 1938, 1:7.
www.stratford.co.uk/sulgrave: Dossier on the ancestral home of George Washington. Yarwood, Doreen. The Architecture of Britain. London: B.T. Batsford, 1976, rpt 1990. National Park Service Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University OMB No. 1024-0018 "Death Comes to A.K. Nippert," The Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 7, 1956, p. 1. Potter, Russell S. and Henry C. Montgomery, "Classic Revival Architecture in Cincinnati," Society of Architectural Walt, Joseph, ed. The Phoenix, Manual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 9 ed. Evanston, IL: SAE, rev. 2003, 254 pp. "Friends, Relatives, Charity Get $250,000; Nippert Residue Goes to Widow, Children." The Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 17, "Russell S. Potter; Noted Architect," The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 7, 1966, 30:4. Page Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH 10.
Geographical Data Acreage of Property.38 acres 1 16 694709 4376074 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title organization_Beth Sullebarger, Principal, Sullebarger Associates date _5/25/04 street & number 1080 Morse Avenue telephone 513 772-1088 _ zip code 45246 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) street & number 3336 Walworth Avenue benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
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10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH Verbal Boundary Description Situate in the Village of Oxford, County of Butler and State of Ohio, and being known and designated on the recorded plat continuing north on said east line a distance of 149.6 feet to a point in said east line; thence west parallel with the north and south lines of said Outlot a distance of 110.66 feet to a point; thence south parallel with the east and west line of said National Park Service distance of 110.66 feet to the place of beginning. Boundary Justification Section number 10 Page _ The boundary of the nomination coincides with the boundary of the lot that the building is located on. of said Village as part of Outlot No.
309, which is more particularly bounded and described as follows: Outlot a distance of 149.6 feet to a point; thence due east on a line parallel with the north and south lines of said Outlot a NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 12 Page 1 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH 1938 View in The SAE Record, Sept. 1938, page 309. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 12 Page 2 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH Existing Floor Plan by Jack Howard, October 2003 CONTINUATION SHEET OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 12 Page 3 Oxford, Butler Co., OH List of Photographs Name of property: Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Photographer: Beth Sullebarger Date taken: May 13, 2004 Location of negatives: Sullebarger Associates Front (east elevation) North elevation, looking southwest Living room, looking north Stained glass in living room 10. Dining room 11.
View from the front, looking east toward Miami University campus Cornerstone CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service Additional Documentation Entrance detail South elevation Front doors and center hall Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Rear (west elevation) NPS Form 10-900 Location: Butler County, Ohio UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE REJECT DATE RETURN 2/10/05 12/28/04 DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE REVIEWER 1/29/05 ACCEPT OTHER: PDIL: NAME: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 45TH DAY: Histovian APPEAL: N REQUEST: Y REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: 1/14/05 SAMPLE: DATE OF PENDING LIST: NPS Form 10-900 RECEIVED 2280 OMB No.
1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page6 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH SAE Chapter House is atypical in that it does not display multiple gables or half-timbering and is a rare example of the early form of Tudor Revival, as described above, or English Manor Tudor Revival. Historic Architecture in Oxford Miami University are Elliott and Stoddard Halls (listed jointly), William H. McGuffey House, 401 Spring Street; and Oxtord associated with the Junction House was demolished.) Six of the listed properties are located on the outskirts of Oxford: Austin-Magie Farm and Mill District, Sec.
14, Oxford Oxford, Lane's Mill Historic Building, 3884 Wallace Road, south of Oxford; Pugh's Mill Covered Bridge, Four Mile and Tallawanda Creek, one mile north of Oxford; and the Unzicker-Cook House,2975 Oxford-Middletown Road. Four properties that were listed have been demolished: Fisher Hall and Herron Gymnasium, formerly on the Miami Historic architecture on the Miami University campus and in downtown Oxford generally tends to be red brick buildings in KumlerHouse(1856),now gone, but there are no other examples of Tudor Revival listed. houses in Oxford. In addition to the SAE Chapter House, there are four other examples of Tudor Revival in Oxford, which SR 27, and the Stancote House (BUT-40-1) at 305 Patterson Avenue. Unlike the SAE Chapter House, all these examples are built entirely of stone and represent a later form of the Tudor Revival style. A few of the fraternity houses VI.
CONCLUSION The SAE Chapter House exemplifies thecharacteristics of English Manor Tudor Revival style in its red brick and stone multi-pane sash. The front entrance is emphasized by a stone surround with a label mold, stylized quoins, Tudor-arched above. While the SAE Chapter House is not fully built of stone like Sulgrave Manor, the details above the doorway have been designed to closely resemble it, in the stone panel above the doorway and the SAE coat-of-arms hand-carved in exposed ceiling beams.
stone between casement windows.lt also imitates Sulgrave Manor in the use of stained glass seals in the upper sashes National Park Service transom and double doors.The SAE Chapter House is atypical in that it does not display multiple gables or half-timbering with the campus: the Dr.William Alexander House,22 North College Avenue; the Elias Kumler House,120 S.Main 05000022 DEG 2 I 2005 the Georgian Revival style.
The Hunting Lodge Farm (1833) is a fine example of the English Gothic Revival, as was the Other buildings that couldbe listed for the same association include examples of Tudor Revival and other fraternity fraternity; the Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Church and Main, Glos Hall at the corner of Chestnut and masonry walls; steeply pitched, side-gabled slate roof; front-gabled projecting stone porch; and grouped windows with of the first floor windows, and the arrangement of the living room to resemble the Great Hall, with its wide fireplace and NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Township; Zachariah Price Dewitt House, US 73 east of Oxford; Hunting Lodge Farm, 5349 Bonham Road, northeast of the age of the community and the quality of the historic architecture there. Listed properties on the campus or owned by (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page Z Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University Oxford, Butler Co., OH an early form of the style, and the only fraternity house at Miami University that exemplifies that style. Tudor Revival is powerful and generous individual and prominent SAE member, who also made possible the construction of two other buildings for SAE-the Ohio Epsilon Chapter House at UC and the Levere Memorial Temple in Evanston, Illinois. All three buildings were designed in variations of the Tudor Revival style, but the SAE Chapter House is the only known example in the nation of a fraternity house modeled after Sulgrave Manor. National Park Service NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
1024-0018 The SAE Chapter House is significant under Criterion C because it is a rare example of the English Manor Tudor Revival, style. The SAE Chapter House of Miami University resulted from the personal leadership of Judge Alfred K.
Nippert, a NAME : STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Butler COMMENT WAIVER: N 02/04/06 DATE REJECT TELEPHONE 12/21/05 MULTIPLE RETURN REVIEWER PERIOD: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET OTHER: PDIL: ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: VACCEPT DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF 45TH DAY: SLR DRAFT: N PROPERTY DISCIPLINE NATIONAL: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N SAE chapter House Front elevation Photo#1 may 13,2004 SAE Chapter House Photo side (sonth) elevatim may 13,2004 Photo wear elevation SAE Chapter House May 13,2004 side (north) elevation Photo Oxford, OH Butlerco Photo may13,2004 NOVEMBER SIXTH.A.D.
1937 SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON OXFORD.OHIO POHIO TAU CHAPTER LODGE SAE Chupter House Connerstone may 13, 2004 may 13,2004 may 13,2004 Living Room Photo SAE chapter Honse Photo may 13,2004 Dining Room Photo SAE Chapter House may 13, 2004 Photo#11 Oxford, OH ButterLo OXFORD, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) OXFORD QUADRANGLE DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 16694709 1961 ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF OHIO RECD BY OHPO SEP 14 2004 CITY OF September 13, 2004 Stephen C. Gordon Survey and National Register Manager Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Dear Mr.
Gordon; Thank you for providing the Oxford Historic Architectural and Preservation Commission with copies of the correspondence you have had in recent months regarding a nomination to the National Register of the premises at 310 Tallawanda, here in Oxford. Pursuant to Oxford Codified Ordinances Section 1331.04(4) "The H.A.P.C. shall review Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter house located at 310 Tallawanda is not within a currently designated Historic District. However, O.C.O. Section 1331.01(2) charges the H.A.P.C. to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the public, including through " The protection, enhancement and use of structures, sites and areas that are reminders of past eras, events and persons important in local, state or national history." It was under this general authority and broad purpose that the H.A.P.C.
discussed the nomination of 310 Tallawanda to the National Register of Historic Places; and, at its regularly scheduled meeting on August 04, 2004, the Commission unanimously agreed to Please notify me of any further developments regarding this property. I would be pleased Christopher Westfall Historic Preservation Administrator cc: Christopher Maraschiello, H.A.P.C. Chair 101 East High Street - Oxford, Ohio 45056-1887 OXFORD Sincerely support the current nomination. Code Enforcement Officer to assist you as needed. HOME OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY all proposed National Register nominations for properties within its jurisdiction." The www.cityofoxford.org 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 614/ 298-2000 Fax: 614/ 298-2037 Visit us at www.ohiohistory.org December 21, 2004 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration 1201 Eye Street, NW 8t Floor Washington, D.C.
20005 Enclosed please find one new National Register nomination for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Review Board, recommendation was made to me to amend the nomination and add Criterion A. It was felt fraternities and sororities are an important part of the broad patterns of history. After consulting with the form preparer and my staff reviewer, it appears justification under Evanston, Illinois, and based on her research, a case for Criterion A does not seem to be supported. It should be noted the nomination has been reviewed by the Certified Local Government and a local historian, and no request was made then for additional criteria. nomination, please contact this office.
State Historic Preservation Officer SOCIETY enclosures Sincerely, HISTORICAL Ohio Historic Preservation Office National Park Service Given the Review Board recommendation, if you have questions or comments about this I am requesting a substantive review for this nomination.During consideration by the State procedures have been followed for this new submission. National Register of Historic Places Criterion A cannot be established. The form preparer has visited the SAE national archives in SINCE 1885 Dear Ms. Shull: Chapter House at Miami University in Butler County, Ohio.All appropriate notification Patrick W. Andrus To: Barbara Powers 02/10/2005 06:15 AM Subject: S.A.E. Chapter House National Register policy is that in order to be listed a nomination only has to establish that the property meets one of the NR Criteria.
We would not return a nomination simply because we believed that the building, if the Review Board had voted that it was not eligible under Criterion C, it would then be appropriate to suggest which criterion should be selected. the National Register Criteria for Evaluation" on page nine. I hope that this is useful. National Register of Historic Places EST Historian Sincerely, Patrick_Andrus@nps.gov policy on properties that are significant within more than one context is found in the bulletin "How to Apply Miami University nomination because the State Review Board recommended that Criterion A be added for Social History (in addition to Criterion C which is addressed in the form). I reviewed the nomination and listed the building for meeting NR Criterion C for its local architectural significance.
Our long-standing property also met additional criteria.The only instance where you can validly tell an applicant that they have to redo a nomination to address another criterion is in instances where the property clearly does not meet the requirements for listing under the one criterion that the nomination addresses. So for the S.A.E. If a Review Board refuses to approve a nomination because it believes that the property is eligible under
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