Nomination for Goll Homestead

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. Aug. 2002) (Expires Jan. 2005) SEP 1 3 2005 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 2. Location street & number 26093 Township Road F city or town state Ohio 3. State/Federal Agency Certification State or Federal Agency or Tribal government In my opinion, the property _ Signature of commenting official/Title State or Federal agency and bureau Date Archbold meets Department Head Goll Homestead historic name Signature of certifying official for additional comments.) other names/site number National Park Service vicinity X 1.

Name of Property not for publication Ohio Historic Preservation Office - Ohio Historical Society United States Department of the Interior the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this_X_ nomination National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant nationally statewide X locally. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) 43502 request Ohio USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fulton County, OH 4.

National Park Service Certification I, hereby certify that this property is: Date of Action determined not eligible for the _removed from the National Register _ other (explain): _private X_ building(s) _ public-local X public-State _ public-Federal 0 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 0 object site structure district National Register See continuation sheet. Number of Resources within Property 5. Classification Goll Homestead Name of related multiple property listing (Enter N/A"if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) Page 2 entered in the National Register Contributing Noncontributing USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 6.

Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: AGRICULTURE/SUBSISTENCE Sub: agriculture outbuilding Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: RECREATION/CULTURE Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) MID 19t CENTURY/OTHER: four over four, bank barn with split forebay, wood frame farm buildings roof metal asphalt other DOMESTIC Sub: walls Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) wood Fulton County, OH Materials (Enter categories from instructions) Goll Homestead secondary structure straw and clay Page 2 Sub:outdoor recreation-nature preserve single dwelling 7. Description foundation concrete/stone Cat: OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 1 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Located 3 miles northwest of the village of Archbold in rural German Township, Fulton County, Ohio, the Goll the larger 321-acre Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, which features an old-growth forest remnant of the Great Black Swamp which once covered a large area of northwestern Ohio. All of the resources are contributing elements to the nomination. The topography of the nominated site is flat. Originally, fields surrounded the Goll Homestead and a lane entered the farmyard from the west, between the barn and granary/machine shed. In addition to the house and barn and other outbuildings, there was an orchard and a vineyard and a kitchen garden.

Old photographs show a post and rail fence once followed the newer driveway (which enters the site from the east) up to the house. Today, a mix of pine and deciduous trees planted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the current owner of the property, enclose the homestead site and shelter the surviving structures. Just west of the Homestead, Township Road F passes the small Goll family cemetery (now owned by German Township), which sits on an elevated site overlooking the Tiffin River and is separated from the road by a post and chain fence. The cemetery contains well-tended gravesites, a bench, and a historical marker that relates the story of the Goll family and the history of the cemetery. Although not a part of the nominated property, the proximity of the cemetery, with its old headstones, including those of Peter F. Goll, Sr.

and his wife, Catherine, enhances the historic appeal of the landscape and contributes to the nominated site's integrity of feeling and Goll Farmhouse (Photos 1 - 9): The ca. 1862 Goll farmhouse sits on the eastern edge of a small clearing, at the end of a long straight driveway that gives access to the Homestead off of Township Road F, one of two roads that service the Goll Woods State Nature Preserve. Facing east, the two-story, three bay vernacular farmhouse is rectangular in shape and measures approximately thirty-two feet on the east and west elevations and thirty-one feet on the north and south elevations (the latter measurement includes the approximately eight feet ell and porch that extend to the rear, or west). The house sits on a rock-faced cast concrete block foundation and rises to a gable roof covered with asphalt shingles.

Horizontal wood siding painted white conceals the structure's internal framework, which utilizes the German "half-timbering" construction technique known as "Fachwerk." The façade features a later, ca. 1910 neoclassical inspired full-length porch with four slender, round, Tuscan style columns supporting a metal hip roof. The front door is located slightly off center to the south due to the association. (8-86) 7. Description Homestead consists of a farmhouse (ca.1862), barn (ca. 1865), garage (ca.1930), and a granary/machine shed (date of construction unknown).The nominated area occupies an approximate 2.315-acre cleared site within NPS Form 10-900-a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 2 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio fact that there were once two centrally located doors, the second door being walled in during the early 1900s. Windows are one over one (wood) sash: one on each side of the front door and four across the second level. The rear, or west, elevation features a later, partial width enclosed porch to the north and a small ell to the south. A metal shed roof covers both the porch and ell. Slightly battered columns, which sit upon a solid porch balustrade of horizontal wood siding, help define the porch area and the porch entry door and add a subtle flavor of the Craftsman style. The rest of the porch above the balustrade is enclosed with newer T1-11 wood panel siding.

Two windows flank the porch entry door: a large horizontal three light casement window to the north and a one over one sash to the south. There is a batten cellar door and a one over one sash window in the west wall of the ell. Three one over one sash windows pierce the second floor wall above the porch and ell. The north and south elevations of the main block of the house feature two small arched windows that light the attic contains a pair of one over one sash windows protected by a wood and metal canopy. The original walnut window frames appear to be intact.! House Interior (Photos 10 - 11): The interior of the farmhouse follows a simple four over four plan. There is a sitting room and a parlor (most recently used as a dining room) in front (both rooms measuring approximately thirteen by sixteen feet) and a small bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in the rear. A ca.

1910-1915 craftsman-influenced wood room divider separates the front two rooms. A handsome wood staircase with craftsman-influenced square newel post leads original wood window frames, doorframes, and baseboards of the two front rooms remain unpainted. Either carpeting or vinyl covers the original wood flooring. A set of stairs located in the bathroom gives access to the dirt-floored basement that lies beneath the house. The second floor has two large bedrooms in front, two smaller bedrooms in the rear, and a central hallway. In the hallway between the two north bedrooms is a built in cupboard with drawers below made from black walnut wood paneling has come loose from the walls, old floral wallpaper is revealed. The floors are carpeted. Some of the original doors still retain original hardware.

An enclosed staircase located in the second floor south front bedroom accesses the attic level. ' Maura Johnson, field notes, 2003. 2 Ibid. (8-86) Goll Homestead and poplar.Chair-rails add decorative interest to some of the hallway and bedroom walls.Where the newer level. The first and second floors each have two one over one sash windows. The rear porch's north wall from the sitting room to the second floor.Walls surfaces are plaster covered with newer wood paneling.The OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 3 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Old family photographs and an old site plan of the Goll Homestead found with family papers reveal that the The house, originally facing south, was turned a quarter-turn to face east and placed on a new foundation over a newly dug basement (from where the original floor joists made from large rough hand hewn timbers are partial width enclosed front porch to the current full-length open porch with pillars and the replacement of the original two front doors with a single front door. The wood siding is made from local poplar.

Some of the siding may be original, but the siding on the façade appears to be newer, possibly replacing older siding at the Finally, the first and second floor window sash do not appear to be original but when they were replaced is not With respect to the interior of the house, and according to the old site plan, the original two front doors gave entry to a parlor and a sitting room. Behind these two rooms were two small bedrooms. A half hallway parlor (north front room) was walled in, the parlor became the dining room (with a stove that no longer exists), the small bedroom located behind the dining room was converted to a kitchen, and a portion of the hallway that once opened onto the rear porch was converted into a bathroom (during the 1930s or 1940s). The layout of the second floor remains unchanged except for the addition of closets in the bedrooms. 3 Interview with Dr.

Ted Ligibel, September 13, 2004. 4 Maura Johnson, field notes, 2003; E-mail message from Peter Wilhelm dated 04/05/2005; E-mail message from Kris Jemmont dated Oral history interview with Martha and Don Juillard (Martha is Peter Goll, Sr.'s Great-Great-Granddaughter and was the last Goll born in the Goll House), February 5, 2003 at Sauder Village, Archbold, OH. (8-86) 04/06/2005. Alterations: enclosed at an unknown later date, but most likely around 1910-1915 based on the use of the battered columns. farmhouse underwent a number of exterior and interior modifications beginning at the turn of the 2oth Century. between the back bedrooms led to the then open rear porch.At some point, the front door that opened into the within the first decade of the 2oth Century².

Other exterior alterations include the conversion of the original NPS Form 10-900-a time the house was turned and one of the front doors was eliminated and covered.The rear porch was also visible). Based on the material (rock-faced cast concrete block) used for the foundation, this move took place known. Metal frame storm windows also have been added. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET German Township, Fulton County, Ohio BED ROOM Summer Ca. 1900 drawing of Goll farmhouse floor plan Current floor plan of Goll farmhouse An old photograph of the house, taken before it was turned and placed on the new basement and foundation, Goll Barn (Photos 12 - 22): Located to the rear or west of the farmhouse and almost invisible from Township Road F because of the elevations.

Three raised jetties extend six feet from the south elevation wall. The original footprint of the barn measured approximately seventy-nine feet by forty feet, but sometime between 1880 to 1900°a ten-foot projection of an upper storey of a building beyond the plane of a lower storey."(http://www.yorkconservationtrust.org/glossary.html) Forebay, outshot, or vodordock are terms with similar meanings that have been used in various discussions about the Goll barn's possible antecedents, but may suggest different framing typologies, functions, and ethnic origin. For purposes of this nomination, the terms jetty and &E-mail message from Kris Jemmont dated 04/06/05. See also Section 7, page 6. (8-86) LATER Goll Homestead barn's timber frame is enclosed with its original vertical board siding, most of which is in good condition.

The BARN addition was constructed across the entire length of the rear (north) side of the barn. The original part of the addition sits on a foundation that is a combination of poured concrete and stone covered with cement. The barn sits on a random course stone foundation, patched in areas with brick and concrete. The ten-foot rear PARLOR approximately seventy-nine feet across the north and south elevations and fifty feet across the east and west forebay are used interchangeably. shows two interior gable end chimneys.Today, a single chimney located between the center and north end of NPS Form 10-900-a Section 7 Page 4 the house has replaced the original two chimneys.

shaped barn is of mortise and tenon timber frame construction and oriented east-west.Itmeasures SITING BEO One of the most unusual characteristics of the Goll Barn is its raised jetties.The term jetty can be defined as"the Kiteh ThEN Living Room surrounding trees, the ca. 1865 Goll Barn is a rare example of a triple jetty bank barn? The large rectangular PANTRY PORCH OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 5 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio original flooring is composed of large wood planks ranging in width from twelve to fourteen inches. The entire on in the 1970s. Five lightening rods with glass balls are evenly spaced across the ridgeline of the roof.

The main, or south, elevation is banked and features three raised jetties that are attached to the main structure by an external framework. The jetties are six feet deep with the two end jetties being approximately sixteen feet wide and the central jetty being approximately twenty feet wide. The area under the east jetty has been enclosed. Positioned between the three jetties are two wagon entrances, each containing what appears to be the original double doors, hinged on wooden pegs. Smaller doors are incorporated within the tall wagon doors. Wood plank ramps in an advanced state of decay lead up to the wagon entrances and give access to the upper floor of the barn.

A hanging door that slides on a metal track gives access to the enclosed area under the east The north elevation features five sliding doors: four give access to the basement level and one is located on the east end of the loft level. A sixth sliding door located under the eaves on the west end of the north elevation has been incorporated into the wall. The metal track from which this door once hung is still attached. Sliding doors east elevation has two doors: a sliding door and a Dutch door, both giving access to the basement level. The west elevation has three small openings across the bottom of the wall that measure approximately two feet wide by The window under the eaves on the west elevation has vertical slats for ventilation. The window under the eaves on the east elevation is open, but probably once contained similar vertical slats as well.

One small glazed four light window with a triangular pediment is centered high under the eaves on the north elevation. The superstructure of the barn is built of hand-hewn oak timber posts and beams, joined by the mortise and tenon system, and secured with wooden pegs. The original frame is composed of six bents that result in five ' E-mail message from Peter Wilhelm dated 04/05/2005. 10 Personal notes from fieldtrip to Goll Homestead on September 27, 2002. "Noble, Allen G. and Richard K. Cleek. The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 1995, 54. (8-86) jetty. boards, made from local poplar and white pine, measure between six inches and sixteen inches in width.1 The four feet high. These openings are covered by wood plank doors and may have once served as feeding chutes.

The framing system utilizes unique "pseudo"Esel Fuus joints.A true Esel Fuus joint (found in earlier barns NPS Form 10-900-a bays. Each bent in the original frame is made of three principal posts, two wind braces, a tie-beam, and two girts (to either side of the center post). The jetty is externally framed and attached to the exterior on each post. structure is covered by a triple pitch gambrel roof sheathed with asphalt shingles (with gutters and spouts), put became popular in the late nineteenth century to help reduce damage caused by high winds when opened.l The NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 6 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio built in Pennsylvania) occurs when the tie beam, rafter plate and post meet at the same point.

In the Goll barn, though, the joint does not meet exactly at the same point and is allowed to stagger to one side of the post. On the two outer bents they face inward and on the inner four bents they face to the interior of the two threshing floors (away from the hay mows). Wind braces are framed at a sixty-four degree angle and are mortised and joints. On the main level, there are two threshing floors with hay mows to either side. According to oral histories, the west hay mow area was called the Geese Barn because this was where the Golls kept their flock of geese. They used the goose feathers to make pillows and mattresses for the household. Sheep were kept in the basement on the upper level, was pushed down for the sheep in the basement. According to Martha Juillard, when she modified over time.

The original barn appears to have been a wood shingled, gable roofed structure that sat on the ground. At some point it was lifted and put on a raised foundation over a new basement and the gable roof track was probably added at this time. The original barn also had drive through bays with doors in front and back. With the addition of the shed on the north side of the barn, though, the back doors were removed. The area under the east jetty was also enclosed at a later date. The siding of this enclosure is made from oak and shows the marks of a circular saw.

All of these modifications effectively increased the barn's interior space and were probably undertaken during the late 1800s when agricultural census data reveals that the Goll farm experienced a tremendous increase in production with a resultant need for additional storage, either for hay or According to Rudy Christian, President of Friends of Ohio Barns and the Timber Framers Guild, the Goll Barn was not originally intended to look as it does. Unused mortises in the internal framework support his theory that the barn was initially conceived to resemble the other barns in the area. The jetties, unusual for northwestern 12 The description of the Goll barn's framing system is taken primarily from a recent restoration plan study titled "Goll Barn Restoration Plan" and a Master's Thesis titled "Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design," both written by Richard Rockwell. University.

His research for these two reports included interviews with a number of well-known barn specialists including Robert Ensminger, an authority on Pennsylvania barns. 1 Oral history interview with Martha and Don Juillard, February 5, 2003, 41, 42, 44. livestock. (8-86) in the barn.1 A milking station and large pen area are located in the east end of the basement. was a child she once fell through one of these openings on top of the sheep. Cows and horses were also housed tenoned at each girt. The girts and tie-beams have two pegs at each joint in the post except at the asel fuus under the west hay mow. To save time and effort, loose floorboards were separated and hay and straw, stored Physical evidence backed up by family stories and old photographs support the idea that the barn has been Mr.

Rockwell is an experienced timber framer and a recent graduate of the Historic Preservation program at Eastern Michigan 1 Rockwell, Richard. "Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design." MA Thesis, Eastern Michigan University, 2003, 30. raised to a gambrel with the new roof being supported by machine milled queen posts and rafters.14 The hay OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 7 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Ohio barns, appear to be an afterthought, and their framework attached after the main structure was assembled. Garage (Photos 23 - 26): Located to the south of the house, the ca. 1930 wood frame garage is a square structure measuring approxi- mately twenty-one feet on each side.

The walls rise about eight-and-one-half feet in height, are sheathed with horizontal drop siding with corner boards on all four corners, and are topped with a hipped roof covered with overhead garage door, approximately nine feet wide, is located in the north half of the east elevation. The north elevation features a door and a small four light window. Both the south and west elevations have a small four light window. The garage represents a new stage in the evolution of the farmstead, reflecting the automobile's growing importance in rural resident's daily lives, and was constructed about the same time that electricity and indoor plumbing were added to the farmhouse. Granary/Machine Shed (Photos 27 - 30): Located to the south of the barn, in the southwest corner of the nominated site, is a balloon frame Granary/Machinc. Shed.

This structure is roughly sixteen-and-one-half feet square, made with sawn timber, and covered with a gable roof. It is sheathed with horizontal flush wood siding covered with fading and pealing white paint. There are corner boards on all four corners and no eave boards. The structure is elevated and sits on concrete blocks that range from thirty-five to forty-seven inches wide and twenty-one to twenty-three inches high. Raised block foundations were utilized in granaries to help keep rodents away from the seed stock. The east elevation features a wooden door that slides on a metal track and is approximately four feet-two inches wide and seven feet high. An interior wood ladder gives access to a loft area that is lit by a six light window located under the eaves on the north side of the building.

Non-extant Structures (Old Site Plan of Homestead): Oral histories taken of Goll family members, old photographs, and the old site plan of the Homestead reveal that shaped frame structure that served as the family's residence while the current house was being constructed was destroyed by fire in the mid-1900s. This structure, which had a cellar beneath it, served as the farmhouse's original kitchen and then, after a new kitchen was installed in the house, as a summer kitchen. It was connected to the main house by an open porch with a roof. In an oral history, Martha Juillard emphasized the importance 15 Dean Buckenmeyer, "Goll Woods Barn a Historical Marvel," Farmland News (http://www.farmlandnews.com/gollbarn.html) and Richard Rockwell. "Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design," 25-26.

(8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a asphalt shingles.It sits on a poured concrete foundation that is crumbling at the southwest corner.Anewer According to Christian, "Its obvious that someone tried to turn it into a German forebay bank barn."5 several structures once associated with the Goll Homestead no longer remain. A single story, rectangular NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 8 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio of the summer kitchen as part of the farm complex and described the numerous household tasks that she helped Other structures that once occupied the nominated site but no longer exist are a gable roofed barn, milk house, two hog houses, chicken coop, brick oven, log shop, smoke house, wood shed, and scale shed.

A boardwalk led from the house to the surviving barn and various rail fences helped define certain sections of the farmyard. Rural Landscape (Photos 31 - 36) The Goll Homestead is located within a nature preserve that features an old-growth forest remnant of the Great Black Swamp, which once covered a large area of northwestern Ohio. It contains an abundance of giant bur oaks and exceptionally large white oaks, chinquapin oaks and cottonwoods, some of which are 200 to 400 years as it is known locally, is a short distance to the north of the homestead. Township Road F lies between the river and the homestead. It is a winding paved road that follows the river through the woods and forms part of the northern boundary of the Preserve. A long straight blacktopped driveway (ca. 1965) leads off of this road and of the boundary of the nominated property.

The barn and granary/machine shed are sited at the west end of the clearing and are almost invisible from the road because of the surrounding trees. The trees that now enclose the homestead and form the proposed boundaries of the nominated site were planted by the ODNR after it acquired the property in the late 1960s. A large, vintage weeping willow tree stands between the house and barn. A separated the house yard from the barnyard but they no longer survive. (8-86) 18 Dr. Ted Ligibel, October 20, 2004 site visit. 17http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/location/goll_woods.html Goll Homestead 16 Oral history interview with Martha and Don Juillard, February 5, 2003. old.A rich variety of native shrubs and wildflowers also occur in the woods.

The Tiffin River, or Bean Creek the ODNR in the1960s is located midway along the east side of the driveway at the northern edge and outside her mother and grandmother perform in this building.!6 into a 2.315-acre rectangular shaped clearing where the homestead structures stand. A large pole barn, built by USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fulton County, OH 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Property is associated with events that have made a significant Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or a grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) ETHNIC HERITAGE/EUROPEAN Period of Significance CA.

1862-1955 Significant Dates 1862-1865 - time frame for construction of house and barn Significant Person(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) ARCHITECTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Goll Homestead National Register listing) distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "X"in all the boxes that apply.) Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark"x"in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for Page 3 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Goll Homestead Fulton County, OH 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) X preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been 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 X Other Name of repository: Fulton County Historical Society; Martha and Don Juillard; Sauder Village 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 2.315 acres 1 16 719817 4603637 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

Form Prepared By requested. University Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation Local government previously listed in the National Register Page 4 Other State agency Federal agency Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) See continuation sheet. USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fulton County, OH Kathyrn A. Keefer organization The Friends of the Goll Homestead date 02/03/2005 street & number c/o Sauder Village, 22611 State Rte 2 telephone 800/590-9755 or 419/455-5251 city or town Archbold Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Ohio Department of Natural Resources street & number 1889 Fountain Square Ct., Bldg. F-1 telephone 614/265-6453 (Div. of Natural Areas and Preserves) Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to Keeper, National Register of Historic Places, 1849 "C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. Maps Photographs Property Owner name/title Page 5 including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Continuation Sheets Estimated Burden Statement:Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response Goll Homestead existing listings.Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic city or town Columbus state OH zip code 43224-1388 Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 9 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio 8. Statement of Significance Located in rural German Township, Fulton County, Ohio, the Goll Homestead meets National Register of Historic Places Criteria A, in the category of exploration/settlement for its association with the nineteenth century Euro-American settlement of northwestern Ohio and Fulton County, especially in relation to the early development of Ohio's Great Black Swamp region. It also meets Criteria C, in the category of architecture, as it contains excellent examples of old world building techniques and heavy timber frame construction that are characteristic of regional settlement patterns.

The early German and French immigrants who settled in Fulton County and within the Great Black Swamp region of northwestern Ohio introduced distinctive building and cultural traditions that helped fashion the landscape. The vernacular style Goll Family Homestead, with its "fachwerk" farmhouse and large triple jetty bank barn, stands as an important reminder of the community's ethnic heritage and the emigrant families who were instrumental in shaping it. The Goll family has also contributed to local, state, and national natural history by preserving the Goll Woods (now the publicly owned Goll Woods State Nature Preserve), which is considered to be an exceptionally fine example of the primeval swamp forest that was characteristic of northwestern Ohio's Great Black Swamp. The examples of an oak-hickory dominated forest in Ohio.

The National Natural Landmarks Program, which is of our country' s natural history. Designated by the Department of the Interior, there are currently fewer than The Settlement History of Northwestern Ohio: The State of Ohio was formed in 1803 from the Northwest Territory. Germans, hoping to escape poor economic conditions and political unrest in their homeland, were the first predominant permanent immigrant German migration to America occurred. During that sixty-year period, 4.4 million Germans, representing nearly one-third of the total immigrant population, entered the United States. Some of the early German immigrants and their descendants settled for a time in Pennsylvania before continuing west to Ohio where these Pennsylvania border).? Amish and Mennonite communities were also established predominately in eastern 'http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl 2 Wilhelm, Hubert G. H.

"Germans in Ohio." To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In America. Ed. Allen G. Noble, Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1992. (8-86) Summary: 600 NNLs in the country. Preserve is also a National Natural Landmark (NNL), designated as such because it is one of the best remaining "Pennsylvania Dutch" settled mostly in and around Stark and Tuscarawas counties (in eastern Ohio near the maintained by the National Park Service, recognizes and encourages the conservation of outstanding examples group in Ohio. They were lured to the Buckeye state by offers of enormous acreage parcels of prime agricultural land and employment in rapidly expanding urban settlements. Between 1830 and 1890 the greatest NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 10 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Ohio (today Holmes and Wayne counties have the largest population of Amish in the world). By 1850, the Germans were firmly established throughout Ohio, but especially in the northwestern portion of the state where German Township was German-born and 18% were born in France.

Northwestern Ohio also attracted a significant number of immigrants from France, most notably the Alsace-Lorraine regions where the Goll family The Great Black Swamp Northwestern Ohio was the last part of the state to be settled due to remnant Native American occupancy and during early post-glacial times (15,000-12,000 BC) was the lake bed for predecessors to present day Lake Erie.® northwest Ohio counties from the Sandusky River to the Indiana border, an area about the size of Connecticut?

The region's massive and dense forest cover combined with the near permanence of standing water created the in 1837 in the Maumee City Express lamented: "There's a funeral every day, without a hearse or pall; they tuck them in the ground, with breeches, coat and all"' Undaunted by these obstacles and foreseeing the area's agricultural potential, German, Swiss, and French pioneers, including Peter Goll, Sr. and his family, came to northwestern Ohio and settled in Fulton County where they helped tame and drain the inhospitable swamp. around them. In 1859 the Ohio state legislature enacted ditch laws and by 1860 government sponsored ditch projects began the process of draining the swamp.

This process involved first improving natural drainage channels or constructing new open drains that would eventually facilitate an extensive underdrainage system and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 71. 6 Wilhelm, Hubert G. H. "Germans in Ohio," 71. Development." MA Thesis, Bowling Green State University, August 1983, 1. (8-86) 01/12/2005. 3http://www.amish-heartland.com/?pathToFile=%2F%2Farticles%2F-Amish+Culture%2F&file=ordersoftheamish.txt&article=1, Goll Homestead $Promotional pamphlet Goll Woods: An Ohio Nature Preserve" produced by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, 2. 1982.

The area's flat topography and impermeable clay substrate gave birth to the swamp,which once covered ten their concentration was ten percent greater than in the state as a whole.In 1850,7%of the population of 4Wilhelm,Hubert G.H."Germans in Ohio.To Build In A New Land:Ethnic Landscapes In America.Ed.Allen G.Noble,Baltimore 5 Wilhelm, Hubert. "The Origin and Distribution of Settlement Groups: Ohio: 1850," Ohio University: Department of Geography, originated, and from Switzerland. These groups added to the strong Germanic cultural influence in the area. most importantly, the notorious Great Black Swamp? The Great Black Swamp was a poorly drained plain that These early farmers tilled the highest land and attempted to dry out their fields by digging shallow open ditches http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/location/goll_woods.html; http://www.historicperrysburg.org/history/swamp.htm 7ibid.

NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 11 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Only twelve years after official efforts to drain the swamp began, significant results were being reported. On August 19, 1872, the following description of Fulton County, written by a prominent resident using the name "Ranger," appeared in the local newspaper, the Republican: the changes that have been made would seem very great.

It is doubtful whether another couhty in the which twenty years ago few men would have taken as a present, owning to the wet and swampy condition of the same, has been converted into tillable soil of the very best quality....All over the county, the land, the most difficult of cultivation, either has been, or is rapidly being put into a tillable and prosperity....The extensive and judicious system of drainage, which has obtained in our county, has Data contained in the 1850 and 1880 US agricultural censuses for German Township and Fulton County reveal how the Goll farm prospered and grew as the Great Black Swamp was diminished. In 1850, the Goll farm, Early Settlement History of German Township and Fulton County, Ohio: German Township is located in the southwest corner of Fulton County, which is located along the Michigan border in northwestern Ohio.

German Township was organized on March 4, 1839 and Fulton County, made up of parts of Lucas, Henry, Defiance and Williams Counties and Michigan, was established on April 1, 1850. In acreage, German is the county's largest township and the topography is very level. The Tiffin River (or Bean German Township has a unique settlement history. According to A Standard History of Fulton County: 78, 80. Production of Agriculture, 1880. (8-86) which consisted of thirty-two acres of improved land and forty-eight acres of unimproved land, was valued at "To a person who had visited and traversed this country twenty years ago, and who should now do so, Goll Homestead 13 Reighard, Frank H., Ed. A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio.

Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1920, condition....and the whole changed from what once seemed barren desolation, to an appearance of thrift 14 United States Census Records.German Township,Fulton County, Ohio. Sch.4-Production of Agricuture,1850 and Sch. 2- Creek) runs through the northwest corner of the Township.Brush Creek also passes through it. 12 Wilhelm, Peter, 2. formation into Ohio's most productive and intensely farmed region."li2 State has made during that time greater and more lasting rural improvements. Large quantities of land S800. By 1880, the Goll farm had grown to 520 acres consisting of 260 tilled acres, 100 acres of permanent been of incalculable service in developing and making available the intrinsic wealth of our soil."l3 meadows, pastures, orchards or vineyards and 160 acres of woodland, and was valued at $7,100. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 12 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Unlike the history of any other township of Fulton County, that of German Township began with the simultaneous settlement within it of many people - more than forty.

Other townships experienced a gradual incoming of settlers, but German Township settlement may almost be described as German Township's first settlers, immigrants from the Alsace region of France (in the vicinity of Mulhausen) and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, arrived in 1834: The first settlement of the township was effected on August 23, 1834, at what is now called Lauber's together with Christian Lauber and Christian Rupp, and their respective families, all of Alsace, in the vicinity of Mulhausen...started for America (3 families totaling 21 in all)...On their way across the ocean they were passed by a larger vessel, containing many immigrants from Schaffhausen, Switzerland...From that city (New York) they came to Buffalo...From Buffalo, they came on the Lake to Cleveland; thence on the canal to the little town of Fulton, in Stark County, where they were met by one Peter Schrock, and a number of other generous Amish brethren, who conveyed them to their comfortable homes in the vicinity of what is now called Marshallville, Wayne County, Ohio.

Here they remained..for six weeks. Their entertainers were blessed with fine farms and handsome buildings...There were no other settlers in German Township in 1834l6 The Goll family arrived in German Township in 1836. Their journey from France to American and then to Ohio and German Township followed almost the exact same route that German Township's first settlers followed German population. Goll Family Historical Context: Peter Goll, Sr. was born in 1809 in Grand Charmont, in the Alsace region of France near the borders of Germany and Switzerland. In 1836 Peter, a tailor by trade, immigrated to America with his wife, Catherine, and their two-year old son, Peter, Jr. The following account of their journey to their new home on America's 1 Reighard, Frank H., Ed. A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio.

Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1920, 1 Census of Ohio for 1850 accessed at www.hti.umich.edu (Making of America, online digital library). Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 73. (8-86) 18 Wilhelm, Hubert G. H. "Germans in Ohio. To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In America. Ed. Allen G. Noble, Hill, two miles east of Burlington.... Jacob Binder and his family, on the 8th day of March, 1834, colonization... 16 ibid, 281. population of 7,780. 280. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 13 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio western frontier comes from The County of Fulton, A History of Fulton County, Ohio and is supported by oral histories of Goll family members: Peter F.

Goll was a native of France and emigrated to this country, June 24, 1836, and with his family thirty-seven days. Mr. Goll purchased his farm of eighty acres on section 24, and added there to until he owned 600 acres. In early life he learned the wagon maker's business, but upon settling here devoted his entire attention to farming. Upon landing in America, Mr. Goll first stopped for a time in Stark The Golls, who were French speaking Lutherans, actually first stayed for a short time in a house with other pioneer families in Stryker, a predominantly French settlement in Defiance County, before taking up residence in German Township and renting a log cabin near Burlington. In 1837, Peter blazed his way through the forest to the Federal Land Office in Lima, Ohio where he purchased 80 acres for $1.25 an acre. Peter, Sr.

soon built a log cabin on his new property, which served as the family's home for many years. A successful farmer, Peter continued to buy land in the area until he had acquired over 600 acres. In 1854, Peter, Sr. purchased the 141.54 son, Peter, Jr. built the house and barn that still stand nearly a century-and-a-half later. The Goll farm was a diversified operation. The 1850 US agricultural census data reveals that the Golls' owned butter, Irish potatoes, and hay. The 1880 US agricultural census data reports that the Golls continued to be prosperity coincided with the increased efforts to drain the Black Swamp and the establishment of government data, the Golls' original eighty acres had grown to 520 acres. They now owned six cows and ten other cattle. the farm. Produce remained the same except it was grown or made in much greater quantities and buckwheat Association, 1905, 226.

(8-86) two "milch" cows, two oxen, four sheep, and two hogs. Produce included wheat, Indian corn, oats, wool, sponsored ditch projects that took place between1860and1920.2According to the1880 agricultural census NPS Form 10-900-a settled in German township. They came over in the sailing vessel, Albany, and made the passage in Their sheep flock had grown to eighty head and their hogs to twenty-five head. Eighty chickens were added to was added as a grain crop. The most interesting addition was an orchard. By 1879 the Golls were devoting seven acres of land to apple orchards with 120 trees that produced 200 bushels of apples annually. This part of acres of land that the homestead would eventually be built upon. During the early to mid-1860s, Peter and his diversified farmers, and that their operation had grown tremendously over the previous three decades.

This 20 Wilhelm, Peter, 5-6; United States Census Records for 1850 and 1880, German Township, Fulton County, Ohio. 19 Mikesell, Thomas, Ed. The County of Fulton, A History of Fulton County, Ohio...Madison, Wisconsin: Northwestern Historical county, Ohio. And from there made the trip to German Township in November, 1836, ox teams being NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 14 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio family made maple sugar from trees on the property. A sawmill also operated on the Goll property and was located about a half mile northeast of the farmhouse (east of Township Road 26 and south of Township Road F). It was originally powered by steam but was later converted to run on a gasoline powered Case tractor.

The Golls judiciously managed the timberlands and jealously guarded what became known as "the big woods." They only reluctantly allowed extra timber cutting during WWII to aid the war effort. 2 Peter F. Goll, Sr. also built wagons for westward traveling pioneers and household furniture. Family members are still using many pieces of Peter, Sr.'s furniture, made from cherry and maple harvested from the woods. 4 The Goll family farm has been owned by four successive generations, passing from Peter F. Goll, Sr. to Peter Goll, Jr., to George Goll, and finally to Mrs. Charles (Goll) Louys and her siblings. In 1966, after being home to five generations of the Goll family, Mrs. Louys sold 321 acres of her share in the farm, which included the homestead area, to the State of Ohio. Shortly thereafter, the Goll Woods State Nature Preserve was established.

The Preserve was designated a National Natural Landmark in December 1974. Until recently, an ODNR site Both the Goll farmhouse and barn exhibit distinctly European architectural elements and reflect the French and Germanic influence on the landscape of northwestern Ohio and Fulton County specifically. The Goll Farmhouse: original log home was too small to house three generations of Golls. The new farmhouse was completed on the Apparently, there were two special apple trees growing in the old orchard that were used exclusively for apple butter. Oral history 22 United States Census Records. German Township, Fulton County, Ohio. Sch. 2 - Production of Agriculture, 1880. and undated notes for tour of Goll Woods by Don Juillard; Oral History, 27-28.

found to date of the Goll family having any historic, pre 1955, professional or business associations with the Sauder family and local (8-86) manager occupied the farmhouse. cabinetry production. Architectural Context: 21 There were two orchards: the "old" orchard located north of the house and south of Township Road F (now a field of prairie The present farmhouse was built in 1862 in order to accommodate the growing Goll family, as the family's interview with Martha and Don Juillard, February 5, 2003, 37-38 and e-mail message from Kris Jemmont dated 04/06/2005. the farm operation was valued at $2,000. The orchards no longer survive. Census data also reports that the grasses) and the "new" orchard located north of Township Road F, across from the old orchard and stretching to the Tiffin River.

Golls kept bees for honey and wax.2 According to Goll family members, the farm also had vineyards and the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 15 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio The farmhouse follows a simple four over four plan. Originally, the facade featured two front doors that led into a parlor and a sitting room. A half hall and a staircase leading to the second floor separated the two back bedrooms.

Vernacular houses with two front doors are common in the American cultural landscape and were Guests would enter on the left into rooms designated for entertaining or special occasions such as funerals while family members could contain their household activities to one side of the house (and thus save wear and tear behind the sitting room, nor a dining room behind the parlor as found in more common two-door houses. When the house was turned in the early 1900s, one of the front doors was eliminated. It is likely that this is also when the first floor plan "opened up" and the original narrow doorway between the two front rooms was widened. The internal framework of the house also points to Germanic architectural influences.

The house is constructed using the German half-timber framing technique called "Fachwerk." This technique employs a braced, mortise and tenon framework secured with wooden pegs or "treenails." The spaces between the timbers are filled, or daub," or clay and straw. When this nogging was utilized, wooden staves were inserted vertically into the open panels and then wrapped with straw. The straw acted as a bonding agent for the daub that was then used to fill the panels.? In Ohio, Fachwerk construction is mostly found in three separate areas, each of which has a history of German and Pennsylvania-Dutch settlement: Monroe County in southeastern Ohio, Holmes and Tuscarawas counties in eastern Ohio and Auglaize and Mercer counties in western Ohio.

The most substantial amount of half-timber construction with brick nogging is found south of Fulton County in German-settled areas of Auglaize and Mercer counties. Clay and straw is the predominant nogging used in the German and Pennsylvania-Dutch areas of eastern Ohio. There are other structures in the vicinity of the Goll Homestead that are of "Fachwerk" construction. The John Baer house on State Route 2, one mile east of Archbold, has exposed Fachwerk with brick nogging on the interior. A farm located on the corner of State Route 2 and County Road 25 has a large barn and chicken coop Members of the Short (or Schad) family were relatives of and accompanied Peter F. Goll, Sr. and his family on Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 66-67. (8-86) "nogged,"with a different material to form the wall.

Brick is the historically common nogging but geography doors is that it provided a solution to the lack of privacy encountered with plans that did not have a central hall. 26 Domer, Dennis. "Genesis Theories of the German-American Two-Door House." Material Culture 26 No.1 (1994): 1. and local resources can dictate the use of other materials.? The Goll farmhouse is nogged with "wattle and of Fachwerk construction that also utilizes brick nogging. This farm is the original Short family farmstead. built by a number of different emigrant groups including Germans. One theory as to the purpose of two front 30 Wilhelm, Hubert G. H. "Germans in Ohio." To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In America. Ed. Allen G. Noble, 27 Nicholl, Michelle. "Two-Door Houses." Old-House Journal. May/June 1990. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 16 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio their journey to America in 1836. Currently in this area, only the Goll farmhouse is known to use the clay and According to Dr. Lauren Sickles-Taves, author of a recent manuscript on German architecture in America, "Fachwerk remains the most permanent and best form of vernacular architecture the German-speaking culture gave the United States. The Goll Barn: In 1978, geographer Alvar W. Carlson conducted a survey of northwestern Ohio barns and noted that: Most barns in northwestern Ohio date from between 1860 and 1920. They are built of lumber and beams derived largely from the continuous clearing of forests in the Black Swamp that dominated much of the physical landscape of the region.

Barn types reflected the ethnic backgrounds of the early settlers and the ideas of individual builders. The basic early barn in northwestern Ohio was large, frame- Adding to the above description, an analysis of Ohio farmstead buildings by Donald A. Hutslar, retired Curator braced-frame structures, and reflect the eclecticism in design brought about by the national agricultural press Physically, the Goll barn, minus the jetties or forebay and bank, fits the above description of a typical was later raised to a gambrel roof. The mortise and tenon framework, with its Esel Fuus joints and wind braces, reflects old world heavy timber construction with distinct German or other western European influences - either brought with the Golls from their home in the Alsace region of France or borrowed from their German neighbors in America.

Vestiges of red paint, under the eaves and on the wall hidden by the enclosure under the east jetty, suggest that the Golls may have adopted the local form of barn decoration. Although there is no 3 Carlson, Alvar W. "Designing Historic Rural Areas: A Survey of Northwestern Ohio Barns." Landscape, Vol. 22, Number 3, * Hutslar, Donald A. "The Ohio Farmstead: Farm Buildings as Cultural Artifacts." Ohio History, Vol. 90 Number 3, Summer 1981 (8-86) (http://publications.ohiohistory.org). straw nogging. constructed and gable-roofed. In time, the gambrel roof became quite popular. The barn often is red 31 E-mail message from Peter Wilhem dated 09/07/04. Goll Homestead with arches and columns painted white.Many have white louvered vents in the hayloft area33 of History for the Ohio Historical Society, indicates that the barns of northwestern Ohio are "large multi-bay Summer 1978. OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 17 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio evidence that the Golls relied on farm planning guides or barn plan books when originally designing or making modifications to the barn, a variety of these publications became available around the mid 1800s." On the other hand, the Goll barn features elements not usually found in typical northwestern Ohio barns. Barns in this region of the state rarely have forebays or overhangs. Banked barns are also unusual, likely due to the elements are incorporated into the Goll barn is unusual. More specifically, the Goll barn bank is located on the forebay side of the barn with the forebay being raised above the threshing floor and used for other than grain storage.

Also, the forebay is attached to the main structure by an external frame instead of using cantilevers. Faced with these atypical configurations and elements, Richard Rockwell studied both American and European examples in his search for a possible prototype for the Goll barn. Two comparisons are especially interesting: the Bank-Into-Forebay barns of Pennsylvania and a variant of the Grundsheier, or ground level barn, found in The bank-into-forebay barn has a forebay located on the upslope side of the barn rather than the downslope and Cleek only noted four of this barn type in existence: two in Bucks County and one in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and one in Morgan County, Missouri. Robert Ensminger has since located four additional barns of this type in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

While researching possible prototypes for the Goll barn, Rockwell analyzed the seven bank-into-forebay barns located in Pennsylvania, noting their similarities and differences bank constructed on the forebay side of the barn. They were also similar in joint technique and frame typology, specifically with reference to the use of asel fuus joints and wind braces that run from sill to plate. The two major differences concern form and function: the forebay of the Goll barn is raised above the threshing floor and appears to have been used for storage whereas the Pennsylvania barns had forebays at the threshing floor level (e.g. the bank led into the forebay) and, in all seven cases, the forebays were used in combination with who helped with the barn's construction, by settlers who came to northwestern Ohio from Pennsylvania. Summer 1978. (8-86) side.

This configuration requires entry from the bank directly into the forebay. In The Old Barn Book, Noble 38 Ibid, 21. Historical Society. NPS Form 10-900-a region's level terrain.36Not only are forebay bank barns unusual for northwestern Ohio, but also how these two 35 Harper, Glenn A. Chronology and Bibliography: The Evolution of the Modern Midwestern Barn in Ohio and the Midwest." Ohio the Alsace region of France (according to Rockwell, none of the examples studied in America and Europe, 36 Carlson, Alvar W."Designing Historic Rural Areas: A Survey of Northwestern Ohio Barns." Landscape, Vol. 22, Number 3, though, could be said to constitute more than a "close call").37 with the Goll barn. The Pennsylvania barns and the Goll barn shared the common elements of a forebay and a 37 Rockwell, Richard. "Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design," 33. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 18 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio The Alsatian region of France, where the Goll family originated, contains a number of Grundsheier barns that grundsheier barns have independent external forebays that are enclosed and raised from the ground floor (it is not clear, though, whether the function of the forebay is the same as for the Goll barn). The Goll barn differs foundation materials, though, reveals that the barn was most likely originally built on the ground, thus eliminating this design discrepancy. Also, the European barns have gable roofs whereas the Goll barn has a gambrel roof. Again, it is known that the gambrel roof was a later modification, and the Goll barn originally had a gable roof.

What sets the two barns in this example apart is size, with the Alsace barns typically not consisting of six bents, as used in the Goll barn. The design of the Goll barn has been, and will likely continue to be, the basis of speculation among barn Although the barn contains certain elements of a variety of recognized types, it defies specific categorization. It is grounded in old world traditions yet embraces a sense of experimentation and innovation. Thus, the Goll barn Ohio and the region of the Great Black Swamp. There are presently no rural properties in Fulton County, Ohio listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rockwell found these examples while reviewing Ensminger's slide and book collection related to European barns. an anomaly. See: Rockwell, Richard.

"Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design." (8-86) Goll Homestead from these barns by having a raised foundation with a bank on the forebay side. An analysis of the Goll barn's exemplifies the spirit of the early European pioneers who helped settle and shape the landscape of northwestern prototypes included a number of other examples from America and Europe. He also presents an argument that the Goll barn may be Rockwell, Richard. "Theoretical Perspectives on the Goll Barn Design," 34. Rockwell's study of the Goll barn's possible share similar features and design elements with the Goll barn.39These particular European examples of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 9 Page 19 Goll Homestead German Township, Fulton County, Ohio 9.

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1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 9 Page 20 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Noble, Allen G. and Richard K. Cleek. The Old Barn Book: AField Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 1997. Promotional pamphlet "Goll Woods, an Ohio Nature Preserve" produced by Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Columbus, Ohio. Reighard, Frank H., Ed. A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio. Chicago and New York: The Lewis University. May 15, 2003. Sickels-Taves, Dr. Lauren. Unpublished manuscript re German architecture in America, 2004. Sloane, Eric. An Age of Barns. Stillwater, MN: Voyager Press, Inc. 2001. United States Census Records. German Township, Fulton County, Ohio, Schedule 4 - Production of Wilhelm, Hubert.

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"Draining the Great Black Swamp: Henry and Woods Counties, Ohio - A Case Study in http://www.historicperrysburg.org/history/swamp.htm http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/location/goll_woods.html http://www.amish-heartland.com/?pathToFile=%2F%2Farticles%2F- NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 10 Page 21 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio 10. Verbal Boundary Description: 2004 between The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Fountain Square, Columbus, Ohio Archbold, Ohio 43502, federal tax ID #30-0123339 (Managing Agency or Lessee).

Exhibit A of lease agreement dated June 1, 2004 (8-86) granary/machine shed) and the immediate domestic space around these structures up to the The nominated site occupies a 2.315 acre parcel of state owned property known as Goll Woods The boundaries have been set to include all contributing structures (the house, barn, garage, and surrounding tree lines. Boundary Justification: Goll Homestead National Park Service 43224 (Lessor) and the Friends of Goll Homestead (a 501C3 organization),P.O.Box 75, Homestead, the boundaries of which are shown on Exhibit A of a lease agreement dated June 1, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation Page 22 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Goll Homestead, Fulton County, Ohio Kathryn A.

Keefer, Photographer Dates of Photographs: 11/24/2003 and 01/29/2004 1. House: Façade (east) - 11/24/03 2. House: west (rear) elevation - 11/24/03 3. House: Façade (east) and north elevation - 11/24/03 4. House: south elevation - 11/24/03 5. House: Façade (east) porch with pillar detail - 01/29/04 6. House: west (rear) elevation, with detail of ell and rear porch - 01/29/04 7. House: window detail - 11/24/03 8. House: north elevation, detail of attic windows - 11/24/03 9. House: detail of "Fachwerk" - 11/24/03 10. House: interior, first floor, detail of wood newel post and room divider - 11/24/03 11. House: interior, second floor hallway with built-in closet - 11/24/03 12. Barn: south elevation - 11/24/03 14. Barn: east elevation - 11/24/03 15. Barn: south and east elevations - 01/29/04 17. Barn: south elevation with jetties - 11/24/03 18.

Barn: north elevation, detail of hanging door and window - 11/24/03 19. Barn: east elevation door detail - 11/24/03 20. Barn: roof with lightening rods - 01/29/04 21. Barn south elevation, detail of framing of east jetty and siding of lower enclosure - 11/24/03 22. Barn: interior detail of hand hewn timbers and mortise and tenon framing system - 11/24/03 23. Garage: east elevation - 01/29/04 27. Granary/Machine Shed: east elevation - 11/24/03 28. Granary/Machine Shed: east and north elevations - 01/29/04 29. Granary/Machine Shed: south elevation - 01/29/04 30. Granary/Machine Shed: interior - 01/29/04 (8-86) Goll Homestead 26. Garage: south elevation - 01/29/04 List of Photographs NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation Page 23 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio 31. Landscape view looking south down driveway towards site and house (barn to west and hidden by trees) - elevations), and Granary/Machine Shed - 11/24/03 33. Homestead site view from south-west corner - 01/29/04 34. Township Road F in Goll Woods State Nature Preserve - 11/24/03 (outside nomination boundaries) 35. Goll Cemetery informational marker (west of Homestead site on TR F) - 11/24/03 (outside nomination 36. Goll Cemetery, looking east (TR F to left) - 11/24/03 (outside nomination boundaries) 01/29/04 boundaries) (8-86) Goll Homestead 32.Homestead site view from north-east corner showing House(north elevation),Barn(east and north NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation Page 24 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Historic photo: Original Home with small porch. Historic photo: East view with summer kitchen attached. Goll Homestead (8-86) National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation Page 25 German Township, Fulton County, Ohio Historic photo: West view of house with summer kitchen attached. East view of house, photo ca. 1990. Goll Homestead (8-86) FULTON CO., OH / thereare 7 2 are suplings tuundatim is in GOLL HOMESTEAD inal agate hascolapsem TO CAMBREL ROOF ATLATZR DATE Black ash grew prulifically large hale created Still have their original pins. , 20, and 15'9".

- loweR Sonw Support3:5an Siding FULION CO., OH All measuremeuts verticalwood plank 4light window GOLL HOMES TEAD NORTH ELEVATION metal truck for door, now missing nmetal fruck small,square Bent hinge, possibly hanging dloor above , fallenidoor one conner) (see duor on right side) pediment. FULION. CO., OH EAST ELEVATION : lightthinig rod: ALL MEASURE MENTS ARE APPRXIMATE open window w/framhingon -piled stunes. GOLL HOMESTEAD Pentroof? <guttea Gtlatekclate fLouR < metal Pole w Possible vemains - tophaltof fallen interior - 16/1". GOLL HOMESTEAD FULION COUNTY, OH ARE APPROXIMATE StonewoRk Nindow ALNEASUREMENS -loor 5' lowered (2) vertical wood plank sichna overstone NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N 10-26-05DATE RECOM.

/CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE RETURN DISCIPLINE REJECT 10/15/05 9/13/05 10/27/05 MULTIPLE REVIEWER OTHER: PDIL: SAMPLE: VACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Fulton nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.

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GOLL LOUYS, GREAT-GRAND DAUGHTER OF PETER R GOLL, DEEDED THE CEMETERY TO THE GERMAN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES NE Ne, SECTION 23, T7N, R4E, MANY OF THE NAMES ON THESE GRAVE MARKERS ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES WHO CAME TO THIS AREA TO SETTLE THE THEIR JOURNEY ON FURTHER WEST BY WAGON. ON JUNE 24TH,1836,PETER F.AND CATHERINE M.GOLL ALONG WITH FAMILY SET ASIDE THIS SANDY KNOLL IN THE WOODS AS THE FAMILY (NEW YORK) AND TRAVELED BY RIVER AND CANAL BOAT TO WAYNE CO., "BLACK SWAMP"AND TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE IN A NEW LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Gou HOMESTEAD Gou HOMESTEAD Goll Homestead Archbold vicinity UTMs Reference.

ARCHBOLD QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES ARCHBOLD, OHIO Fulton Co., OH STATE OF OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECD BY OHPO JUL 27 2005 Health, Human Services and Aging - Chairman Columbus, Ohio 43215 Highways and Transportation (614) 466-8150 Insurance, Commerce and Labor (614) 995-1522 (fax) Lynn R. Wachtmann 1st District July 25, 2005 Stephen C. Gordon Survey and National Register Manager Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Dear Mr. Gordon: I am writing to express my full support The Friends of Goll Homestead in their quest to have the Goll Homestead added to the National Register of Historic Places. Although I you my strong opinion of this important Northwest Ohio historic site. In 2002, State Representative Stephen Buehrer and I together were successful in ensuring $200,000 was allocated to the Goll Woods Homestead and Farm.

The General Assembly agreed this historic site was not only worth preserving, but wanted to ensure that The Friends of Goll Homestead have partnered with various organizations in various counties in Northwest Ohio and have been extremely successful in involving the public in their projects. The level of support from Northwest Ohio's residents is remarkable. added to the National Register of Historic Places and please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to further discuss this matter. Committees: will be out of state and unable to attend the August 5th meeting, I wanted to share with Ohio Senate State Senator LWachtmann@mailr.Sen.State.Oh.US Ohio Retirement Study Council Judiciary Civil Justice appropriate restorations could take place.

Senate Building Once again, I strongly support The Friends of Goll Homestead in having Goll Homestead August 2, 2005 Stephen Gordon Ohio Historical Preservation Office 567 E. Hudson St. Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Gordon: In 1966 the Goll family donated the state its property, including 2.9 acres of wooded land, a homestead that dates back to around 1862, and a barn built in the 1850's. This In 2002, Senator Lynn Wachtmann and I were successful in ensuring $200,000 was allocated to the Goll Woods Homestead and Farm. The General Assembly agreed this historic site was not only worth preserving, but wanted to ensure that appropriate restorations could take place.

Iam writing today to express my full support The Friends of Goll Homestead in their The Friends of Goll Homestead have partnered with various organizations in Northwest Ohio and have been extremely successful in involving the public in their projects. The level of support from Northwest Ohio's residents is remarkable. Thank you in advance for your consideration having Goll Homestead added to the National Register of Historic Places. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to further discuss this matter. 74** House District Fulton, Williams and 77 South High Street Parts of Defiance Counties Columbus, Ohio 43215-6111 704 Greenview Drive (614) 466-0892, (614) 644-9494 (fax) Delta, Ohio 43515 (800) 282-0253 (toll free) (419) 822-0124 District: Homestead.

www.house.state.oh.us District74@ohr.state.oh.us Capitol: Sincerely, share with you my strong opinion of this important Northwest Ohio historic site. State Representative quest to have the Goll Homestead added to the National Register of Historic Places. property is now known to northwest Ohioans as the Goll Woods Nature Preserve Although I will be out of state and unable to attend the August 5meeting, I wanted to Steve Buehrer September 9, 2005 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Park Service 2280 National Register of Historic Places 1201 I (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: NEW SUBMISSION Oesterlein Machine Company-Fashion Frocks, Inc. Complex Rochester Square Historic District If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000.

State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street, Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Hamilton Fulton Enclosures www.ohiohistory.org Sincerely, Stark OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO Goll Homestead procedures have been followed for these new submissions. National Register Enclosed please find three (3) new National Register nominations.All appropriate notification HISTORY