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OMB No. 1024-0018 RECEIVED 2280 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service MAY 21 2008 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NAT. 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 the National Register requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the 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. 1. Name of Property 2.

Location street & number_830 Dayton Street - n/a not for publication state Ohio county Hamilton code 061 zip code_45214 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination - request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant x nationally O statewide - locally. (O See continuation Dept. Head - Inventory & Registration Signature of certifying official Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 4.

National Park Service Certification 1, hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the Date National Register (Rev. 10-90) city or town_Cincinnati NPS NPS Form 10-900 code OH n/a vicinity other names/site number "Hatch's Folly," HAM-5-28 meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Xmeets - does not meet the sheet tor additional comments.) In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. (-] See continuation sheet for additional comments.) 5. Classification Category of Property Check only one - xprivate ] X building(s - public-local - district O public-State - site - public-Federal - structure - object Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the 6.

Function or Use Current Functions domestic: single dwelling work in progress 7. Description Greek Revival Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Foundation Noncontributing roof stone other walls stone, brick Total Materials National Register Mid-Ninteenth Century: Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) built-up Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) Historic Functions (Check as many boxes as apply) OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 1 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 7. Statement of Description 1851, with a sympathetic addition and alterations ca. 1880. It is located in a center-city neighborhood known as the West End, in the Mill Creek Valley northwest of downtown Cincinnati. The Hatch House was designed by noted architect Isaiah Rogers; its process of rectangular in form with a symmetrical facade and a low-pitched hip roof with octagonal cupola. Resting on a foundation of regularly coursed, rock-faced limestone, the house is built of brick, and the facade is faced with smooth-dressed ashlar sandstone.

Around 1880, a stone porte- cochere was added to the west elevation, and a two-story block with cross-axial hall and a grand open staircase in High Victorian Eclectic style was added to the rear of the dwelling. The house's main block, however, has remained almost unchanged, and its original plan and design are readily apparent. Compatible architectural details also help to unify the two sections. During the made to the floor plan to introduce new baths and kitchens. Most of the original interior features, including woodwork, mantelpieces, doors and ornamental plasterwork, were undisturbed, and have survived intact. In fair condition, the house is presently vacant, awaiting restoration. The landscape features: a low stone retaining wall, an iron fence, brick paving in the side drive and rear court, a tombstone, and a garden wall.

The Hatch House is located on the north side of Dayton Street between Linn and Baymiller streets. Nicknamed "Millionaire's Row," the 800 block of Dayton is lined with stylish brick and stone townhouses in a wide range of pre-and-post Civil War styles, dating from the 1850s to the early 1880s. Larger and more elaborate residences occupy the north side of the block, with smaller, more closely spaced townhouses on the south side. The scale and sophistication of the Hatch House sets its apart from the other residences on the block. The street is part of the Dayton Street Historic District, which was listed in the National Register in 1973. Architectural Description and Context See Isaiah Rogers Manuscript Diaries, 1838-1856, 1861, 1867 (Avery Architecture Library, Columbia University, New York).

Summary (8-86) nominated area includes the house and its surrounding lot, which includes the following The George Hatch House is an imposing and high-style late Greek Revival residence built 1850- construction is documented in his diary in 1850. Built on the center-passage plan, the house is late 2oh century, the house was converted to apartments. At this time minimal adjustments were 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 Page 2 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Isaiah Rogers, architect of the Hatch House, lived in Cincinnati from 1848 until his death in 1869. His manuscript diaries include many reterences to the construction of the house, including through at least five basic designs.

They also include references to specific architectural features such as the stone facade and cupola; a conservatory, no longer extant, whose location is unknown; and a rooftop balustrade, since removed. In 1974 and 1982, the Hatch House was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey E. Boucher, and documentation including Historical and Information by Carl A. Saladino (then of the Ohio State University in Columbus) and Architectural Information by J. William Rudd (then of the University of Cincinnati), both dated August 1974. As of 2007, the condition of the house, both exterior and interior, is essentially as shown in the Boucher photographs, a cross- section of which is included here.

The Layout of the House The Style and Type of the Hatch House The Hatch House was built as an elegant private residence in a developing urban neighborhood Dominating the façade are two room-sized curved stone bays that flank a narrower but pictorial entrance feature with domed semi-projecting entry. This leads the eye to the octagonal cupola atop the almost flat-roofed main block. Subtle articulation through pilasters and other Classical features is combined with the use of innovative materials, cast-iron and terracotta. The façade is clad is fine stone; the remainder of the exterior above the stone foundations, including the ca. 1880 addition, is brick. The original interiors are on a grand scale, with ten-foot high openings and lavish enrichment at the cornices and in chandelier medallions. The design of the major addition, inserted ca.

1880, is tentatively attributed to Erasmus Gest, the house's third owner. In any case, its designer provided an impressive, if somewhat overdone, entrance sequence from a new porte-cochere on the west side of the house, extending across the middle of the original house between the intact front block and rear wing. This addition was ingeniously integrated into a new whole that still retains the original façade and suite of formal kitchen and service area at the rear. The original main staircase was lost in the process, but a splendid new one was provided, winding up within a huge skylit stairhall that also served as the new main entrance and to unify the original and additional sections. Compatible yet (8-86) (HABS).

Survey documentation includes plans, elevation drawing(s), and photographs by Jack rooms, as well as what appears tobe the original dining room and pantry over a basement client meetings and construction details.The diary entries indicate that the house evolved 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 Page 3 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio distinguishable plasterwork and other architectural details tied together the two construction phases, as does a High Victorian tile floor that runs from the original front door throughout the Essentially cubical in form, the Hatch House is actually broader than it is deep, although the stone podium across the front.

The height is also extended visually upward by the "cupola," as The façade of the Hatch House is neither fully Greek Revival nor yet fully Italianate. The basic massing, treatment of surfaces, and horizontal articulation is bold enough to be Grecian, and all the exterior ornament has pure Classical sources, if somewhat freely applied. Yet the entrance feature and flanking bays introduce a complexity that foretells the Italianate. Similarly, there is a Greek, while not free or delicate enough to evoke the Italian Renaissance. In fact, the scale of the original interiors is even grander than the façade would lead one to expect. Architectural Features of the Hatch House The Exteriors of the Hatch House The house rests on a low terrace or podium, enclosed by a low limestone wall topped by an stands two-and-a-half stories high above a raised basement.

The symmetrical facade features a recessed central entrance flanked by full-height semicircular bays. The curved-glass windows contain 1/1 double-hung sash; those of the first story extend from floor to ceiling. The rear of the photographs, this balustrade is the only feature known to have been removed from the main From the front, the Hatch House has a more dynamic quality than its plan and layout would suggest. It is clear that this was not intended as an isolated villa or country seat by either the architect or the client, even though in his Diary Rogers mentions having to go out to the site as if (8-86) Diary. facade. lavishness of ornament inside, mainly in the plasterwork, which appears more Roman than forward-projecting elements of the facade convey an appearance of greater depth, as does the lot slopes downward, with the regularly coursed limestone foundation exposed.

As originally arcaded cast-iron fence. (Cast ca. 1980, the present fence is a reproduction of the original.) It first floor of the addition. built, a Palladian balustrade extended along the edges of the roof.Depicted in archival Rogers called it in his Diaries, echoing the semi-octagonal shape of the second-story central 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 4 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio to the country. Furthermore, the elevated stone platform or terrace across the front of the house itself is an urban feature. In particular, it evokes the much larger, full-story platforms that Rogers used as a podium for Cincinnati's Burnet House Hotel (demolished) on its steeply sloping lot at the northwest corner of 3d and Vine Streets.

The Hatch House terrace seems both to separate the house from the street and to link it as an architectural feature. Despite its self-contained quality, the front block also definitely suggests a townhouse, such as a typical antebellum double bow-front townhouse. The switch from dressed stone on the front to exposed brick on the sides implies that other residences were expected to be erected quite close to either side, as was in fact the case to the west. The relative lack of windows on the sides of the main block is another sign of expected proximity. In a gesture of refinement, the pilasters at the ends of the façade turn the corners, and the friezes of the front Orders and the eaves continue around the main block.

It is likely the sides were always intended to be painted, or even stuccoed, to match the tone and texture of the façade's As one approaches the house from the sides, the bays seem both large and dramatically bowed out, while the narrow entrance feature, set below the main cornice level, seems to be squeezed between them. The first floor order is shorter than that of the flanking pilasters, and the semi- octagonal bay above is surprisingly delicate and attenuated by contrast to what is below: there is a suggestion of a forced perspective in the change of scale upward. When one is directly across from the façade (only the distance of a fairly narrow urban street), the bays seem flatter, and the continuation of the underlying surface plane from corner to corner behind the bays and center pavilion reinforces the overall cubic sense of the block.

The placement of the central entrance stairs partially within the terrace also recalls the Burnet House. Here, in a small-scale yet even more elegant way, the entrance experience reinterprets that of the hotel, where a grand full flight rose between wings of the balustraded terrace, then led up to the shallow rectangular unpedimented lonic portico. Here one barely reaches the terrace of this diminutive portico is shaded as one approaches, but once inside the eyes lift to the shallow This recalls the half-domed temples set into the block at the entrance to one or more of Benjamin Henry Patrick Snadon's analysis in Michael W. Fazio and Patrick Snadon, The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry (8-86) stone.

before being led visually up into the semi-octagonal portico half-set into the wall.4 The interior Latrobe's and Sir John Soane's English country-house designs, specifically Latrobe's "Ashdown,"Sussex.See Latrobe(Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press,2006),pp.141-181 on"Ashdown." OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 5 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio umbrella dome with its curved ribs meeting in a rich floral boss. There are other refinements in this tiny space: the ribs are beaded, and graduated upward; there is a fine molded cornice; the inner corner angles have rounded niches carved out from them, creating an effect both rhythmic and sculptural, that previews the lavish ornamentation of the interiors without distracting from the relative severity of the façade.

that it was added. But close structural investigation reveals subtlety of treatment that makes both these suggestions unlikely. The round-arched openings appear nowhere on the outside of the house, but do establish a theme inside that reaches its climax in the curvilinear space inside the upper bay. hipped roof, the octagonal cupola from directly in front provides the finishing touch to the vertical ensemble of the entrance feature.

It also fills in the gap between the forward profiles of The articulation and use of the Classical Order on the façade is also both plain and very refined Huge flat stones are used to create an unarticulated surface on the front of the podium, edged by continuously from in front of the podium, through it, and then immediately into the curved steps molded base, fluted shaft, and elegant (likely cast-iron or terracotta) capital, relating to some of the more elaborate ornamentation inside. The angled corner piers, however, seem like simplified interior. These piers are similar to but slightly smaller than those at the ends of the façade and around the corners on the lower floor; just as the elegantly stylized pilasters on the upper corner order mimic that of the freestanding columns of the portico.

The main cornice seems all the larger because of the tiny one on the upper central bay, yet it repeats at a larger scale that of the lower portico, with shallow shadow-fillets below a bare frieze. primarily to provide rhythmic accents missing elsewhere on the façade. The modest cornice of the monitor also resembles that over the second-story bay. The 1912 and 1914 photographs are not clear enough to confirm either hypothesis. (8-86) the curved bays. that radiate from the portico floor.

The main order of the portico is Composite, with a thin The actual eave is very thin and flat, supported only by plain modillions that seem intended Barely visible as one approaches the house along the street because of its setback on the low It has been suggested that the second-story bay was originally opened and later filled in, or even Hatch, George, House version of capitals on the porch of the Athenian"Tower of the Winds,"which also appears in the NPS Form 10-900-a a flat stone strip in which the cast-iron railing is embedded. The ventral steps are plain, rising OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section ( Page 6 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio cornice and belt-course are at the scale of the façade as a whole; the paired pilasters at the end of the block reduce the scale to two separate stories; the entrance portico makes the transition to the human scale of the state rooms on the first floor; and the delicate second-story central bay still farther reduce the scale to the more intimate rooms inside. It is the quality of the stone and stonework, however, that seems to give the facade its chief absolutely smooth surface in which the eight large deep-set windows seem to be punched out, with absolutely no exterior moldings and minimal frames for the sash.

The lower openings extend down to the thin, unadorned water-table course that separates the basement and first floor; and rise to the belt-course between stories, whereas the second-story openings that appear to be the same size have bare wall-surface both above and below. Recast in 1980, the present fence is a reproduction of the original. Possibly Egyptian in inspiration, it seems more abstract and less Classical than the usual ironwork of the period. Round arches are linked by what appear to be stylized Egyptian lotuses. The spaces between the The quality and originality of this exceptional design is particularly apparent in contrast to the of the front block, and emphasizing the bows of the front bays.

There seem to have been substantial solid panels at the corners, reinforcing the vertical thrust of the pilasters on the taçade; despite these solid ends, the balustrade was strikingly open. Both the terrace railing and Side and rear elevations. The side and rear elevations of the house are much more simply treated, with fewer openings and minimal ornamentation. The brick walls are covered in smooth- double-hung windows contain 1/1 or 6/6 wood sash and are finished with plain sandstone slip sills. The west wall contains four bays; the east wall, five, and the rear (north) elevation, three. It seems very unlikely that such large one-over-one-pane sash, let alone so precisely curved panes, could have been manufactured in the 1850s; but it is also difficult to imagine the surfaces divided into smaller panes.

(8-86) elements are as interesting and rhythmic as the cast-iron members themselves. large, multi-pane windows, adjoin the side elevations. the roof-balustrade are explicitly mentioned in the Rogers Diary. full-bodied balusters of the open parapet that originally stood around the edge of the roof, at least finished stucco, with projecting belt courses dividing the first and second stories. The tall, The whole facade composition, as John Clubbe points, presents an interweaving of horizontal character. Warm red-tinged golden sandstone is laid with almost invisible seams, creating an The house is built into a gentle slope, with the foundation exposed at the rear. Areaways, lit by and vertical elements and patterns, with refinements visible only as one approaches. The main NPS Form 10-900-a Hatch, George, House Diary. OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 7 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio A limestone porte-cochere, with segmental archway, was appended to the west elevation ca. 1880. A doorway was cut into the wall at the same time to provide access to the new carriage door. A shallow wooden double oriel, which overlooks the driveway, was added to the rear room, likely at the same time. A cast-iron balcony, likely commercially manufactured, extends along the east elevation, actually have been used somewhere in the original house, with floral and Gothic Revival ornament, the last including miniature "rose-windows." A Greek Revival iron door is set into the rock-faced stone foundation of the rear elevation, leading down into the basement.

It features an intricate pattern of recessed panels within panels, studded with rivet-heads. A brick-paved driveway extends along the west side of the house, leading into a partially paved the rear yard Interior Layout of the Original Hatch House The basic layout of the Hatch House in its original form seems to have consisted of three parts: the front block facing south onto Dayton Street, the middle section that has been swallowed up The first floor of the front block consists of a fairly narrow central hall, with minimal natural light, flanked by a single long parlor on the right and a pair of rooms on the left that open into on the right side of the hall open directly across from the single fireplace centered on the east wall of the parlor.

The placement of the fireplaces in the two rooms on the left is different: that of the front room is not quite aligned with the door from the hall, and the one in the rear room is centered on the perpendicular axis between them. The latter room is also not as deep as the almost square front room, and has a double recessed window at its west end. Diary. (8-86) suspended above the basement areaway. Its design mixes geometric Classical patterns, that may The well-proportioned room in the northeast corner of the back wing, likely the original dining NPS Form 10-900-a rear court. A simple limestone tombstone marks an unknown grave. A high, plain wall surrounds by the ca. 1880 addition, and the rear wing. each other through what Rogers called"folding doors""but are now pocket doors.Double doors OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 8 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio room, it is as wide as the rooms in the front block, but a little longer than those on the left and a good deal shorter than the parlor. Its fireplace on the north wall emphasizes the north-south axis in the northwest corner of the rear wing, along with what may be an original, or at least equivalent, back staircase. case on the west side, where the later porte-cochere and entrance confuse the evidence. It is possible that, within the original middle section, or even extending east or west of it, there was the "conservatory" referred to in Rogers' Diary.

The floor plan and three-dimensional realization of the second floor of the original block is perhaps even more interesting than that of the first. It consisted of two almost-matching chambers on either side of a central hall, and the curious polygonal room over the front portico, which links the two front chambers in a lateral suite and provided private access between them. An unusual, innovative feature for an antebellum house is the pair of closets at either end of the closets, opened by doors at front and back, also served as passage-ways between the bedrooms on that side.

Aside from the different placement of their fireplaces, the two back rooms are identical, but the two front chambers, which may well have served as bedrooms and sitting rooms for the master also somewhat different: those for the east room are slightly deeper and wider, and that against the east wall has a large window (possibly inserted later). But the more important variation is that, while the inner corners of all the closets flanking the alcoves are rounded vertically, those of the east room are also curved in an S-shape flanking the bed-alcove. The effect of this is to echo the curves that lead into the front segmental bay-window from the south corners of the room, so These features recall those in Thomas Jefferson's "Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va., for instance. See particularly various articles and contemporary descriptions of the Burnet House Hotel.

(8-86) walls between the front and back rooms on this floor, forming shallow recesses presumably used but the flues from the single fireplace in the east parlor must angle up to one of the two chimneys indoor plumbing. wall of the middle (altered section) aligned with that of the rear wing; this was probably also the Structural evidence on all three floors (including the basement) indicates that the original east and what were surely linked dressing rooms: another advanced feature.Moreover, there may and mistress of the household, are subtly different and spatially fascinating. Their"closets"are of the room, but is not aligned with the entrance from the middle hall. Two presumed pantries lie NPS Form 10-900-a " The placement of the fireplaces on the second level reflects that of the first. as bed-alcoves in the French style and possibly for dressing tables in the back rooms. These Diary.

have been sanitary facilities in the"closets,"as Rogers'hotels were noted for their innovative OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 9 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio that the space as a whole is doubly symmetrical and almost suggest a curved octagon. On the south side the space fits into the semi-octagonal feature on the façade, with shallow recesses for the windows and probably also for interior shutters. The interior wall to the upstairs layout of the whole second floor in the front block integrates both functional innovations and spatial variety in a visually exciting way.

The upper floor of the back wing--which is narrower two rooms each served by a fireplace on the north wall, a single closet between them, and the landing for the backstairs, with curved ends. This wing may have been used for servants' cupola or monitor), but there must also have been guest-rooms as well. Aside from its probable dimensions, it is difficult to reconstruct the original middle section of the enlarged east rooms. the first floor with the kitchen and its facilities in the basement below, with a cellar of sub- basement below that in the northwest corner. There was a separate carriage-house/stable on the lot to the east, which appears to have been incorporated as the back of a church building.

Because it sits on a separate parcel and has been subsumed by the church, it has been excluded The Interiors of the Hatch House One's first impression of the interiors of the Hatch House is likely to be of dignity, nobility, even monumentality, reinforced by restrained distribution of "correct" yet rich Classical ornament. In contrast is the lavish and relatively undisciplined, even provincial, yet robust, character of the (8-86) The original back wing was approximately square, although slightly smaller. The original rear quarters, as they are unlikely to have lived in the minimal attic (despite its generous octagonal extends from the upper front central hall to the rear wing. Its fine plasterwork not only is consistent with that elsewhere by Rogers, but also appears to have been carefully differentiated ornamentation in the addition.

The original interior scale is extremely impressive and consistent. from the nomination. by the width of the northwest corner pantry (and cellars below)--may be as it was originally, with spaces are rectangular, of varying proportions, oriented toward fireplaces to suggest different Moreover, the central two-story room above the main entrance is both ingenious and intriguing. hall is curved three-dimensionally with the opening carved out in a truly sculptural manner. The from the post-bellum moldings in the ca. 1880 addition, just as occurs in the added and/or block was not only a service wing, but contained the large dining room, pantry, and a veranda on house.The only original interior feature of this section seems to be the oblong coved ceiling that NPS Form 10-900-a The openings are very large and tall, some even reaching to the cornice moldings.Most of the OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Page 10 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio axes, but varied by unusual curved elements in a majority of the spaces. The four front rooms reflect these exterior bays but with more fluid shapes emphasized by their being linked to the adjacent corners by continuous, S-curved cornices, and the upstairs front rooms also have (and surviving chandelier medallions) counteract the grandeur of the spaces. From the elegant, even quaint, exterior vestibule, with its niches and umbrella dome, one enters (through a door that is not original) directly into the front hall, without the mediation of an interior vestibule.

The hall is a long, tall, fairly narrow, closed space, lit only by the round- arched transom over the entrance and possibly by a top-lit main staircase in the original middle section of the house, straight ahead. The side walls of the entrance hall are broken only by a the interior wall from the portico, the round-arched front door is framed by full-height pilasters identical to the stylized Composite pilaster at the ends of the exterior second story, as well as an wall of the original main block, which is pierced and lit by a pair of tall windows that may have given onto a conservatory or veranda before the ca. 1880 alterations. Directly across from the doors from the entrance hall is the fireplace (not original) set in a full-length bare wall, probably left bare in case another townhouse was built in the side-yard to the east. The cornice unifies the whole space.

At least the tall openings on the north wall have elaborate lintels above the frames, filling in the space up to the original cornice. The front room on the left has a bay window matching that in the parlor, but is half the latter's size, with a fireplace not quite aligned to the door on the west wall. Huge but finely detailed construction) lead into the second west room, with the fireplace centered on the north wall, so changing the visual axis from east-west to north south. This second room may well have had only a single window facing west but also perhaps one or two on its north wall; in the ca.

1880 alterations, however, rooms may have been added where the new entrance area is, and perhaps the west window enlarged into a shallow double square bay, in order to compensate for less light.Both these west rooms have the grand cornices, generous woodwork, and large openings On the outside, this bay has narrow angled outer corners, recessed panels below the two windows, and (8-86) entablature. of the entrance hall and parlor (as do most of the original rooms upstairs). pocket doors (originally described as"folding"by Rogers, but perhaps changed during internal curved corners.In every major original room, plaster Classical and/or floral cornices NPS Form 10-900-a slender colonnettes between them.

double door into the parlor on the right and by a single door into the front room on the left.On Section The formal parlor is a long space extending from the curved front wall inside the bay to the back 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio cast-iron balcony and a single window to the left of the fireplace centered on the north wall. The two adjacent pantries are naturally more functional in character, but the backstairs, which appear to be original, have refined spindles and a voluptuous newel post concocted from Classical elements used elsewhere in the house.

manner, with "eared shoulders," sides tapering outward toward the baseboards at the floor, and At present several steps lead up from the upper landing in that altered stairhall to the central hall that divides the second story of the main block. This hall, like the other upstairs rooms in the main block, has rich crown-moldings that echo those in the public rooms downstairs on a slightly smaller scale. The layout and probable functions of the family rooms have been described above.

Their scale is reduced by the closets flanking bed-alcoves in the partitions that divide the larger front bedrooms from the probable bedrooms behind The most intimate, as well as a unique space, is the complex room at the center front, which around the upstairs front rooms make them seem both more intimate and unusual than the spaces The present balcony landing, with its elaborate cove skylit ceiling that seems to be original, leads to two doors into the rear wing. Over the dining room is a large but slightly narrower room with a fireplace on the north wall and fenestration like that of the room below.

The room at the northwest corner is intruded upon by a closet for the northeast room, but has a distinctive cast- rope-moldings linked to the shelf by a keystone, and there is a narrow raised iron panel against mantels have been observed in other houses in the Ohio River Valley in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. At least one of these houses was designed by Rogers: the Thomas Gaff House at Aurora, That the curved partition between the hall and "boudoir" is original is demonstrated by the crown molding at the south end of the hall, which curves to conform to the shape of the boudoir wall. (8-86) downstairs. Indiana. the wall above the shelf. Similar, if not identical, Baroque-inspired mid-19ih-century cast-iron iron mantel that appears to be original.Its side volutes frame a round-arched opening defined by plain surfaces defined by raised moldings at the out edges.

The rear wing contains what probably was the large dining room, with windows giving onto the Throughout the first floor, doors and windows are framed in a grand Grecian, almost Egyptian projects over the octagonal entrance and has a curved inner wall with a segmental-arched Page 11 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 Page 12 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Although the main parlor mantel has been replaced, one of the original mantels remains in the northwest room on the first floor, with a compatible if obviously somewhat later gilt-framed mantel-mirror above it and also in the southwest room. A plainer marble mantel of the same type survives in the southeast chamber on the second floor.

A staircase (but with similar spindles to those in the other backstairs) rises from the rear of the second-floor hall in the main block to the attic. This is dominated by the octagonal cupola or monitor that rests in the center of the hipped roof to provide clerestory windows with distant views over the downtown basin and surrounding hills. Four windowless corner spaces, with low angled ceilings that incorporate some structural beams, occupy the corners of the attic. The "English basement," raised a considerable height above ground-level, underlies the entire existing house and even extends under the front terrace and the two front bays, with their narrow includes the space under the obviously added eastern two-thirds of the east room in the ca.

1880 addition and possibly space under its western end, where two staircases and other features ground-level or in the areaways around the north and west sides of the rear wing. There are substantial stone walls throughout and evidence of several hearths. On the northwest corner, below the stuccoed stone corner pantry, is not only a basement room, but a sub-cellar (perhaps described as "the cellar under the kitchen" in Rogers' Diary), whose original function is not The Erasmus Gest Additions and Alterations Architectural clues and archival maps strongly suggest the rear addition and porte-cochere was added during the tenure of Erasmus Gest, the house's third owner, between 1875 and 1884.

They are clearly shown on the footprint of the house on the 1883-1884 Atlas Map of Cincinnati, which In terms of layout, the Gest additions radically changed the external approach and internal circulation systems of the house. Although the driveway along the west side of the Hatch-Gest There is structural evidence in the basement--in outside foundation walls and in the large beam where the original east wall of the middle section of the house was located - for the reconstruction of the original and altered middle section proposed here. (8-86) Diary. is copyrighted 1883. horizontal windows above the terrace itself.The basement, which has full-height ceilings, indicate some changes. known.! 14Most of the main basement spaces are large and well-lit by windows at OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio House is narrow, squeezed between it and the adjacent Hickenlooper House (The porte-cochere ground-level that contains a short flight of steps to the main level. Another set of double doors opens into the two-story stairhall under a large square skylight. This entrance is flanked under the landing of the new staircase by small lobbies that lead to the western back room of the original front block on one side, and to another space that provides access to both the original backstairs and a flight to the basement under the north flight of the new staircase.

This plan The changes primarily reoriented the experience of the interiors from Rogers' relatively narrow stairhall and the two large east-facing rooms with their broad bay-windows and fireplaces on to a pair of small rooms above the porte-cochere. The second flight leads to what is in effect a The Interiors of the Gest Addition The high-quality HABS photographs by Jack E. Boucher provide the only interior views of the house taken before the present so far found. They include only five interior views, and those are confined to the front hall and the addition. Nevertheless, they do record the ca. 1880 new entrance and circulation experience, as well as some ornamental details. The interiors of the addition, which also entailed some alterations to the original structure, remain virtually intact.

They begin with the porte-cochere structure attached on the center of the west side of the house between the original front block and the one-story stuccoed stone block at the rear northwest corner. The porte-cochere itself is an open archway flanked by chamfered Hatch House is through a large but not elaborate pair of solid paneled Italianate doors; its molded frame extends upward without break to form another three-centered arch over a transom. The below.) (8-86) Section_7 well as the exterior porte-cochere and entrance, are described and discussed in more detail staircase winds around three sides of the entrance hall, with a balconied landing providing access indicates ingenious planning and a certain sense of interlocking three-dimensional spaces.

itself extends to the lot line.), double doors lead from its passageway into a vestibule just above impressive entrance into the second-story east room.Both east rooms are approached through wide openings framed by columns. (The architectural and decorative aspects of the addition, as north-south central halls to the two-story east-west axis of the new section, with its skylit NPS Form 10-900-a their east walls, which no doubt looked out over gardens in the side-yard. The grand new The entrance to the new sequence of perpendicular(east-west) spaces across the center of the Page 13 stone piers that support three-centered or elliptical arches with paneled keystones. balcony connecting the upper floor of the front block with the rear wing, as well as creating an 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 Page 14 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio splendid new hall - a true "Great Hall" although it lacks the traditional fireplace and inglenook - completely re-orients the interior to the east-west axis. In effect, the new spatial sequence ingeniously incorporates as a cross-axis the original north-south circulation hall The main feature of the addition is the grand three-flight staircase.

Its original dark stain makes it similarly paneled solid wood wainscot against the wall of the staircase and lower landing The full-width landing is experienced as a balcony between the original front and back blocks of landing under the steeply coved ceiling that leads to the smaller skylight seems to incorporate original Rogers Composite columns that frame a wider opening with arched corners from matching square piers that face north and south, also surely by Rogers. the second-story cornice of the stairhall, with some additional detail that resembles but does not The whole ensemble of staircase, vestibule, and landings is imposing, as Gest must have particularly in its spatial arrangements. (8-86) system. of the addition is pretentious, even pompous, and eager to reference Classical architecture and the landing have carefully spaced pairs of plain heraldic shields.

This treatment continues around ornament. It is robust, iconographically ambitious, certainly ingenious and even imaginative, the house. The ceiling of this landing, apparently part of Rogers' conception, is coved, with an seem even more massive, as does its thick, solidly paneled parapet (not an open railing or intended. The addition incorporates and builds on elements of the original residence.The effect strictly imitate Rogers' cornice moldings. balustrade) that runs continuously except for Neo-Grec incised newel posts.There is also a narrower side-panels framing round-arched openings. The corners at the ends of this"wall"are some fine original features.

The eastern wall of horizontal boards laid flat (possibly to suggest stone) resembles an internal"facade." It is set back behind a pair of elegant and probably In contrast to the Classical Rogers plasterwork, the beams that now support the coved ceiling of elongated skylight in the center, and elaborate plasterwork. The east side of the upper balcony- Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 8. Statement of Significance

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Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) National Register listing) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. (- C Property embodies the distinctive characterstics of a the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable Period of Significance entity whose components lack individual distinction. Ca. 1850-1880 - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates ca. 1850-1851, ca. 1880 - A owned by a religious institution or used for religious Significant Person - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or a grave.

- D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Rogers, Isaiah Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

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architecture Bibliography Property is: Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Name of repository: Cultural Affiliation (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for type, period, or method of construction or represents OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 1 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The George Hatch House meets Criterion C in the area of architecture as a rare and exceptional surviving example of the residential work of Boston architect Isaiah Rogers, one of America's leading architects. Rogers has been acclaimed as America's greatest Greek Revival architect, and the decade of the house's construction - the 1850s - was the period of his richest and most diverse achievement.

An exceptional late Greek Revival design with Italianate tendencies, the house introduced the curved bay to the Cincinnati area and set a standard for architectural and interior design in the decade before the Civil War, when the city enjoyed a period of unprecedented growth. The Hatch House was one of Rogers' earliest and finest domestic works after his move to the Midwest. Rogers chose to relocate to Cincinnati in 1849 after winning the addition - significant in its own right - both the exterior and interior of the Hatch House remain extant, with the Hatch House being one of only two or three representing his later work. The Hatch House has been evaluated in the context of the domestic architecture of Isaiah Rogers during the last two decades of his career, from ca. 1848-1869. The house's period of significance The Hatch House demonstrates Rogers' mastery of the Greek Revival style.

It exemplifies the monumentality, austerity and severity that were characteristic of his Greek Revival work, complex, almost Baroque spatial planning, and its impressive and consistent interior scale. Its layout integrates innovative features, such as the bedroom closet/alcoves, and spatial variety in a visually exciting way. This is demonstrated, for example, by the complex second-story room over the center entrance, which has a curved inner wall with a segmental-arched opening into the The Hatch House also dates from the decade of Rogers' richest and most diverse achievement.

During the 1850s he designed Cincinnati's internationally famous Burnet House Hotel, acclaimed as the finest hotel in the world, as well as a series of Greco-Italianate hotels in major largest and most important hotels built in the South and West between 1840 and 1865."The Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America (Oxford University Press, 1944), 115. hall. (8-86) SUMMARY remarkably intact. Of the nine known residential designs attributed to Rogers, only five are commission to design the famed Burnet House Hotel (demolished) downtown.With one major begins ca.1850, its estimated construction date, and ends ca.1880, the estimated date of a major Section 8. Statement of Significance renovation campaign and addition. NPS Form 10-900-a cities of the Midwest and the South."[Tjhe list of his work includes almost every one of the tempered by a rich, yet "correct"classical vocabulary.

It is particularly noteworthy for its 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 Page 2 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio prominent hotel designs; the undulating subtlety of facade and interior spaces presented in his all of these distinct characteristics of his work, and remains largely intact. The house's Italianate tendencies mark the stylistic diversity that was the overriding characteristic of Rogers' late career. During the 1850s and 1860s he experimented with other fashionable styles of the period, including the Italian Villa, Gothic Revival and Norman Revival. The Hatch House retains a high degree of integrity under all its aspects. It has survived almost balustrade and the loss of the original light fixtures.

The Rogers-designed front block has remained virtually intact since construction, retaining its original floor plan and a wealth of decorative features. Cosmetic changes carried out in the High Victorian era do not affect its overall integrity; these include replacement of the front door with a new, half-glazed door, replacement of some mantelpieces, and the addition of low-relief plaster friezes in the formal rooms. The house's state of preservation also compares favorably with that of other surviving Rogers designed residences: the Forbes House, which has an added attic story, and the faithfully restored Gaff House, both of which are National Historic Landmarks. By contrast, the Gothic Revival-style Resor House in Cincinnati, another late Rogers design, lost some exterior and many interior features when it was adapted as a school and, later, as apartments.

The Hatch House is a contributing building in the Dayton Street National Register Historic District. In addition, the 800 and 900 blocks of Dayton Street are included in a locally designated historic district called the Dayton Street Protection Area. The house is being nominated to the apply for grants to help fund the restoration. Architectural Context Isaiah Rogers: Life, Career, and Significance Summary of Rogers'Significance Isaiah Rogers was already a leading American architect when he moved from Boston to Cincinnati in 1848, having received the commission to design the Burnet House Hotel--one of his masterworks but demolished in the 1920s--for a group of city leaders on a site then at the (8-86) interpretation of mid-19"h century picturesque stylistic trends.

The Hatch House appears to reflect unaltered since the late 19"h century, apart from minor changes: the removal of the rooftop Register individually in recognition of its exceptional architectural significance and in order to Hatch House is a residential interpretation of the qualities, spaces and features seen in his OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 3 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio center of the downtown area? Thus Rogers began with a circle of ready-made clients and soon the behest of Cincinnatian Salmon P. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln, completing that phase of the U.S. Treasury Building.

Although there are significant gaps, Rogers' daily journal from his working years provides the closest view of a As the leading hotel architect of his day, Rogers arrived in Cincinnati with the most prestigious possible commission, the Burnet House Hotel. The hotel was to be, not just a resting place for overnight visitors, but the center of the booming city's life. It was to be comparable to those Rogers had designed in Boston and New York. No doubt it was intended to give Cincinnati a competitive edge over other cities on the Ohio River. Not only did prominent visitors, particularly literary figures like Charles Dickens spread the word about Cincinnati's great new institution - the Illustrated London News called it "the world's best hotel." The Burnet House Hotel Commission led to Rogers' claiming many of the plum projects available.

In the public arena, he provided designs for the Hamilton County Courthouse and Jail, banks, stylish stores, mansions and villas or country seats, even tombstones, for many prominent citizens in Cincinnati and Louisville. Rogers and his short-term partner Henry Whitestone had designs in the Midwest for two decades. It is very likely that Rogers' work was a good deal more extensive that historians have yet recognized, as there are missing years in the Journals and relatively few commissions have been identified through other means for this early period. Not all of the projects we know about were built, and few survive today, yet Rogers' impact on the Midwestern as well as the East Coast man-made environment must have been considerable in the decades before the Civil War and even for a short time afterward. See the Bibliographical Essay below. (8-86) years.

professional architect's activities during the mid-19"h century, particularly during his Cincinnati schools, and one of Cincinnati's more fashionable new Episcopal congregations.He designed the Longview Asylum (one of the largest and most up-to-date in the Midwest), libraries and offices in Louisville and Frankfort,Ky.He continued tobe the chief supplier of modern hotel NPS Form 10-900-a decided to practice here.His base remained Cincinnati for his remaining next twenty years (he died in 1869), except for a couple of years he spent in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War at 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 Page 4 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The Architectural Context in the Cincinnati Area Rogers arrived in Cincinnati at an advantageous point, especially for an architect. The city's construction and design. This gave Rogers and his contemporary architects in the Cincinnati area styles. After he returned from Washington Rogers' career seems to have waned. In ill health and with considerable controversy over his role in his larger public projects, he turned over much of Rogers in 1848 entered a fertile architectural field already thriving and soon to burgeon exponentially. He represented, not an already successful if not outstanding career on East Coast, but an older generation of practitioners.

Although certainly innovative technologically and up- to-date in many other respects, he remained stylistically quite conservative, with an essentially Greek Revival outlook no matter what style he practiced in. Historians have come, nevertheless, to appreciate the considerable intrinsic aesthetic qualities of his achievement, although relatively few of this works survive (and most of them altered) to provide first-hand experience of his actual buildings. Intensive study of such a building as the Hatch House justifies great admiration for his compositional skill, his treatment of surfaces and materials, and the spatial and ornamental aspects of his interiors.

Moreover, comparison of the Hatch House with another largely intact surviving Rogers residence in the Cincinnati area, "Hillforest," the Gaff House in Aurora, Ind., suggests that application of the same basic principles of design could produce a wide and subtle range of design solutions. Isaiah Roger: Life and Works Rogers was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts in 1800, of an old New England shipbuilding family proud of their descent from Mayflower Puritans. A revealing description of his early interests, abilities, and character may be quoted from the 1876 Biographical Dictionary of Ohio, perhaps the closest to a contemporary account of his life and career: His early and elementary education was received in the county schools located near his home.

On account of the limited facilities then offered for a thorough training, the course of studies he was able to pursue was neither varied in kind nor satisfactory in degree. But by close and careful study in after life he acquired a valuable fund of information on a vast variety of subjects and an acutely intelligent appreciation of the utilities and beauties (8-86) the opportunity to work in most of the major building types and current historicist architectural population doubled between1800 and1840, and there was enormous demand for both of science....He early displayed an admirable taste and sound judgment in all matters his practice to his son. OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio relating to the architectural profession, and devoted the whole of his leisure time to the acquisition of an extended knowledge of its rules and principles. All plans that, falling under his observation, possessed any notable excellence, he copied with zealous and Rogers was apprenticed at the age of 17 to a Boston shipwright. In 1822, when he won a competition for a theater in Memphis, Tenn. (completed 1824), he joined the Boston architect he had a special affinity. Rogers worked for Willard during the design of several of his major works, but was practicing on his own by 1826.

Rogers was a partner with Willard in a quarry in works until 1844 were "Greek Revival with monolithic granite columns." Rogers' first nationally important work was the Tremont House of 1828-1829 in Boston, which in this field. It was unsurpassed for the dignity of its exterior and the convenience of its plan, the latter ingeniously masking the irregularity of the site (through the use of around-the-corners curved bays like those on front of the Hatch House). William H. Eliot's book, A Description of commissioned to design numerous hotels throughout the East and Midwest, including the Burnet House in Cincinnati (1848-1850). He moved to New York City in 1834 after designing the Astor House (1832-1836), an even larger and mechanically more advanced hotel than the Tremont.

His prolific, almost exclusively Greek Revival work included his masterpiece, the internationally McKim, Mead & White's former National City Exchange Bank was superimposed on the original building, in the process destroying an immense Pantheon-inspired brick vaulted dome eighty feet in diameter. Although usually associated with Boston and New England before moving to Cincinnati, Rogers actually was considered a major New York architect during his decade there, as Talbot Hamlin treats him in Greek Revival Architecture in America. He was considered an integral part of the transition from the elegant but belated Federal style of such architects as Joseph Mangin and with such well-known New York practitioners and pattern-book promoters as Martin Thompson (see above on James K.

Wilson), Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, and Minard (8-86) John McComb, Jr., to the full-scale monumental Greek Revival of the 1830s and 1840s, along Solomon Willard (1783-1861). Willard was a major supplier of New England granite, for which recognized New York Merchants' Exchange on Wall Street (1836-1842). In the early 20"h century 1842, and until 1842, according to architectural historian Denys Peter Myers, most of Rogers scrupulous care, and careful studied all the works on architecture that he could procure. Tremont House (1830), spread Rogers²fame among his contemporaries, which led to his being NPS Form 10-900-a Page 5_ set a new standard for hotel design and is generally recognized as initiating American leadership OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 6 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Lafever. While in New York, Rogers was a founding member in 1836 of the short-lived but important American Association of Architects (precursor of the American Institute of Architects chartered in 1857), with major architects of previous generations, William Strickland, Thomas U. Walter, and John Haviland, and soon younger architects including Town, Davis, Asher Benjamin, Rogers' Boston Merchants' Exchange (1840-1842) was even more monolithic, and inaugurated his return to Boston in 1841, which lasted only until he returned to New York to design the Astor Place Opera House (1847).

Although most of his early work was Grecian, he had begun to develop a restrained Italianate, or at least Roman-inflected manner that he maintained for the rest of his career. Two of his small-scale but much-admired works, the Granary Burying Ground gate Synagogue) Jews' Cemetery in Newport, R.I. (1841-1842), were inspired by ancient Egyptian motives. He had also employed an early version of the Gothic Revival for the granite mansion of Enoch R. Mudge in Swampscott, Mass. (1843-1844) and the Howard Atheneum in Boston (1846). Thus, with these and innumerable other public and private projects, Rogers had a most impressive portfolio of work before he moved to Cincinnati in 1848. The Burnet House Hotel was admired worldwide, especially by prominent visitors to Cincinnati such as Charles Dickens.

Set on a podium facing Third Street at the northwest corner of Vine Street at the then-center of the thriving downtown area, the hotel had an impressive bulk. Divided into a five-part composition, it was crowned by a Pantheonic dome that did not surmount an interior rotunda but provided a handsome visual landmark that drew attention particularly from visitors via the Ohio River. The platform provided a terrace for the hotel reproduced in miniature on the Hatch House). It led to a shallow portico (without pediment). The vertical blocks of the exterior were unmodulated, although the formal rooms on the terrace level had Roman round arches related to the dome. A series of chimneys along the outer wall advertised the presence of an advanced heating and ventilating system. During most of the next twenty years Rogers worked with Cincinnati as his base.

He was assisted after 1846 by his son Solomon Willard Rogers, who was obviously named for Rogers' early mentor. He became a partner in Isaiah Rogers & Son in 1855. Hamlin, Greek Revival (1944). Hamlin considers Rogers to have been an important member of his architectural generation in New York, among whom he includes Town & Davis. (8-86) proper, which was approached by means of a grand staircase that divided the podium (a feature Hamlin, Greek Revival (1944), pp.60-61; and other sources on Rogers. Lafever, Alexander Parris, and Ammi B. Young. NPS Form 10-900-a and fence in Boston (1839-1840; sculpted by Solomon Willard) and the (18"h-century Truro OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Page 7 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio In 1853 the architect Henry Whitestone (1819-1893), who was well trained and talented, became won the competition to design the extant Courthouse in Ennis, County Clare. Shortly after his marriage in 1852 he left Ireland owing to the Potato Famine and the resultant lack of work Whitestone arrived in this country with a letter of introduction to Abbott Lawrence (1793-1855), who was the U.S. Minister to Great Britain ca. 1842-52. Lawrence, who was from Boston, was probably the link between Whitestone and Rogers.

Rogers' diary records that by July 8, 1852, Rogers' commissions for Cincinnati in 1852-1853, including "Hillforest," the Thomas Gaff House in Aurora, Ind., and the Capitol Hotel in Frankfort, Ky. It is possible that Whitestone was involved with some of the finishing details of the Hatch House while in the Cincinnati office, such as the upper bay of the façade, which resembles to some extent the central feature of the Gaff House; both have a verticality and refinement that does not seem characteristic of Rogers' other known works. Rogers and Whitestone became formal partners in late 1853. According to Rogers' diary for November 16, 1853, he "made an agreement with Mr. Whitestone to do business together, to absence in Cincinnati and elsewhere.

I am to make designs and he to finish them and to take major role in the firm, which lasted until 1857, when Whitestone took over all the work in Rogers in Cincinnati in 1859 or 1860, departing in 1861 but claiming credit for several of the supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury Department. Among Rogers' and his associates' major works during the 1850s and 1860s were Greco- Macmillan Ency. (1982), III, 341-42, on the latter. Whitestone is the subject of a Master's thesis for the University of Louisville by Elizabeth F. Jones, who became D.X. Murphy & Co. and is now Luckett & Farley. A remarkable cache of Whitestone's and his successors' architectural drawings has been preserved at The Filson (Club) Society in Louisville; this includes presentation drawings, elevations, and floor-plans for some of the works of Rogers, Whitestone & Co.

(8-86) in Frankfort, Ky., where Rogers had designed the Capitol Hotel (1852-1853). A.B. Mullett joined has also discussed his relationship to Rogers in several papers that supplement and update her thesis.The firm later to this day in his successor firms.°Rogers and Whitestone had also opened a short-lived office Louisville and established his own firm.He maintained an important practice that has continued charge of the work in my absence.""Whitestone's percentage of the profits suggests he had a give him 2/3 of the profit for his services.He [is] to take charge of office in Louisville in my Whitestone was working in Rogers'office in Cincinnati.Whitestone worked on several of joint works. In 1863 Isaiah Rogers was called to Washington, D.C.,where he served as NPS Form 10-900-a Section Rogers' partner.

Whitestone had emigrated from County Clare, Ireland, where he had This architect is not to be confused with the well-known English architect James Paine (1717-1789); see apprenticed with James Paine (or Pain; 1799-1877) in Limerick, Ireland. In 1845 Whitestone 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 ( Page 8 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Italianate hotels in Louisville and Frankfort, Ky.; Nashville, Tenn.; Mobile, Ala.; and Dayton, within a restrained massing is Rogers & Whitestone's Fifth Ward/Monserrat School, which still exists in Louisville.

In most of these works, he usually treated the exteriors with a certain austerity and even repetitiousness, while lavishing a considerable decorative and spatial skill on the interiors, as embodied in the Hatch House in Cincinnati. Many of his major works were also noted for their functional and technological innovations and efficiency. which was an ambitious but awkward cross-shaped building with a portico and over-scaled dome once again based on the Pantheon. In the late 1850s Rogers' most important and effective project was the Longview Insane Asylum in Carthage, near Cincinnati (demolished). Rogers and his son were the last in a series of at least seven architects who contributed to the design and construction of the Ohio State House (1858-1861; National Historic Landmark): one of the masterworks of the Greek Revival in America.

The works from Rogers' Cincinnati period had more stylistic diversity than earlier. St. John Episcopal Church (later St. Paul Proto-Cathedral) in downtown Cincinnati was an adaptation of the Norman Revival, for which it may have stimulated an interest, as there seem to have been an not-quite-convincing attempt at a Gothic Villa. Two Italianate villas were in fact quite different: the Winthrop B. Smith House in Clifton was somewhat awkward, with its un-integrated tall "Steamboat Italianate." After the Civil War, Rogers & Son rebuilt the famous 1859 Pike's Opera 1856, and 1863, and a "burglar-proof" and fireproof safe in 1863. During the Civil War he was (8-86) The 1876 biography of Isaiah Rogers concludes: Toledo, and Springfield, Ohio.

Similar to these with its multiple recessed round-arched openings He never sought or held a public political office, and uniformly exercised his right of In Cincinnati, Rogers' firm designed an early 1850s project for a Hamilton County Courthouse, a Gothic Revival commercial facade, while the surviving Reuben Resor House in Clifton is a belvedere tower (demolished in the 1960s); but "Hillforest,"the Thomas Gaff House in Aurora, House, which has been destroyed by fire. Villa style, burned in an 1884 riot. The Tyler Davidson Store (1849-1850) was a rare example of Rogers, like Solomon Willard, was also an inventor, holding patents for bridges issued in 1841, Hamilton County Jail (1853), which contrasted with the Courthouse in its Italian or "Tuscan" eager to promote, not only his bridge design, but also one for a (portable?) battlefield hospital.

Ind., is a highly individual yet successful adaptation to a demanding site in what might be called unusual number of Norman Revival projects in the area during the Civil War period. The OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 9 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio discrimination between the candidates of the several parties. He was a valued member of perseverance have been but rarely excelled. His nature was as impulsive as it was benevolent, while his unassumed, frank and cordial bearing ever banished all doubt in the References in Isaiah Rogers' Diary to the Hatch House The first reference to the George Hatch House is Isaiah Rogers' Diaries is on February 18, 1850.

ride with him over his land to look at several sites for his house," before making two more Hatch and his wife's family were the original developers of what is now the Dayton Street neighborhood, so there may have been plenty of opportunity for choice.) Rogers returned to Hatch with two more plans, but Hatch declared that the plans were "Not right larger scale of rendering is not clear. Hatch seemed to like this fifth version, so Rogers worked on it for the next two days until it was finished on March 1. March 22 Rogers "Went to see Mr. Hatch to talk about his house. Did not much like his views of mode of setting about the building." Nevertheless, he "Took steps to make a working plan. " On Biog, Ency. (1876), Loc. Cit. (8-86) Queen City. Hatch, George, House was never perceptibly impaired by such visitations, while his willpower and untiring sketches.

(It is interesting that the first plans were proposed even before the site was determined. minds of those who were brought into contact with him of his entire sincerity of purpose. Though afflicted from an early age by violent physical prostrations, his mental calibre There is then no mention of Hatch until March 18,when Rogers made an"estimate of cost."On circle of relatives and friends. His son and successor [Solomon Willard Rogers], who had been associated with him from 1846, now ranks among the leading architects of the He was married, at the age of twenty-three years, to Emily W. Tobey, of Portland, Maine. worked on plans for the project most of the next two weeks, including"most of the day on April showed the next day to "Mr. Hatch,"who "Did not like it much." That same day, Rogers "Took a the Masonic order, of the fraternity of Odd Fellows and of the Mechanics'Association.

NPS Form 10-900-a March 26 and again on April 1, Rogers "Worked on plan of front of Mr. Hatch's dwelling." He The process began with Rogers making a first"ground plan"for a"dwelling house"which he yet."Rogers"Made another sketch of house to a larger scale": whether for a larger house or at a After a life of almost uninterrupted activity, and protracted suffering, due to an affectation OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio how important this commission must have been to both Hatch and Rogers. well." The plans and estimates were finished almost two weeks later and shown to Hatch on April 30. It was not until a week later that Rogers "Went out to Mr.

Hatch's place and located for for 10% of the cost." Note that no mention has been made of a commission for designing the At any rate, the site having been located, two days later Rogers "Went out to Mr. Hatch's lot to measured off the ground." Mr. Richards, however, did come to the site the following day, on this refers to a transitional design for a façade with a single curve, or to the two curved bays as built is not known. By June 11 trenches were being laid out for the foundations, while Rogers dug out over the next few days." This probably refers to the stone sub-basement at the northwest Although Isaiah Rogers had joined several other prominent East Coast architects in 1836 to found the short-lived American Association of Architects in New York, he was not later to join its successor, the American Institute of Architects when it was charted in New York City.

One of the main purposes of the A.I.A. (only reversed a century later after World War II) was to establish the status of architects as "professionals," like doctors and construction was frowned upon. Some of Rogers' later problems, or at least others' accusations, with important jobs like supervising the construction of his own Hamilton County Jail and Walter & Wilson's Hamilton County Courthouse, or even his work on the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington during the Civil War may have derived from his blurring these roles. On the other hand, quality control could more easily be obtained with an integral construction industry.

(8-86) scale." house itself.8 finally approved on April 13 "with few variations." The five or more basic designs emphasize stake out for house.Mr.Richards[unidentified] did not come aspromised.Mr.Clearwater and I 5."By April 11 he and his draftsmen had finished the"outlines"of the house, which Hatch work on the plans.Jobbing[presumably seeking contractors and sub-contractors] of house began Almost a month later, on July 8, 1850, Rogers"Marked out for the cellar kitchen,"which was with Mr. Hatch about his house and its progress.Made him a set of plans of his house on small worked on the"framing plans"for the basic wooden structure. On June 20 Rogers"Had a talk NPS Form 10-900-a May 10, to survey the lot.By May 13 the builders"Commenced digging cellar." On June 5 Rogers"Went to Mr.

Hatch's lot and laid out circular front for the digging."Whether More specific work began on April 18, when Rogers'son"Willard and my draftsman were at Section ( design-build process, particularly in the vicinity of a booming city with probably a basically unregulated his house,"probably for the specific site."Made bargain with Mr.Hatch to superintend his house lawyers,"rather than as"artisans,"like builders and contractors.Therefore even serving as"superintendents"of Page 10 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio basement," a half-story above ground. and the walls of the cellar under the kitchen were finished. By August 12 the walls of the front part of the basement were ready for the floor of the main level.

Stone construction continued, and on August 22 "The brick hauling commenced." A well on the west side of the house was begun on August 23. Rogers "Made bargain with a well digger to dig well for Mr. Hatch for $2.50 per [vertical] foot, to find all materials and make a and gates hung. Building shed for stonecutters."These may have been precautions to protect the building site, rather than the final cast-iron fence and gateposts that still exist. The first specific reference to the façade of the Hatch House is also made on August 29: "Worked on working plan of stone work for front." Yet on November 5 and 6 Rogers was still working on the "front elevation" of the house. Surviving and Related Works of Isaiah Rogers in the Ohio River Valley As noted earlier, despite Rogers' recognized importance and considerable known body of work, not many examples of his work survive.?

Nevertheless, several works, including a few still existing, have been identified in recent years through the Journals, among them the Reuben of his works throughout his career can be found in Denys Peter Myers' important contribution to the 1982 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. Rogers made his name in the design of the modern American hotel in the very successful, innovative, and well-published Tremont House in Boston (1828-1829). Only one hotel designed The emphasis here is on works of the Cincinnati period, from approximately 1848 until Rogers' death in 1869 in Cincinnati. He spent several years in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, working on the Treasury published source on the existing works of Rogers is the comprehensive list of his major works in Denis P. Myers, "Rogers, Isaiah," Adolf K.

Placzek, ed., Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (N.Y.: The Free Press, a division of Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982), III, 599-602, with a bibliography on Rogers. (8-86) up fence""around the lot"is first mentioned on August 29; by September 9, "Got fence all up corner of the house, on the assumption that the original kitchen was located in the main"English River Valley designed during Rogers'last thirty years (1848-1869). A fuller but less detailed list Resor House in Clifton, Cincinnati (see below).Here the emphasis is on works in the Ohio good well with sufficient water."A well 30 feet deep was announced on September 4."Putting NPS Form 10-900-a Page 11 Building during this period. Also, it should be remembered that there are serious gaps in the Journals. The best By July 16 the foundation was being laid; the walls were laid out on the 20"h, and its openings on the 23rd.

During the first two weeks of August work on the foundations and basement went well, 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio by him, however, is known to remain: the Oliver House in Toledo, Ohio (1858-1859), one of his last works, which is remarkably intact although adapted to different purposes with the loss of Rogers include the Phillips House in Dayton (1850-1852) and the Lagonda House in Springfield, A few of Rogers' public buildings survive. The Greek Revival New York Merchants' Exchange on Wall Street (1836-42) became the inspiration for and the base of the Beaux-Arts Classical National City Bank by McKim, Mead & White in 1907.'3 The portion of the monumental Grecian U.S.

Treasury Building for which he was responsible during the Civil War as Supervising Architect of the Treasury (1862-1865) remains within that complex, which has recently undergone extensive restoration. Rogers' contributions to the completion of the Ohio State House in Columbus have been recognized, although not perhaps fully identified in the recently restored and renovated building. 4 The Italianate Fifth/Ward Monserrat School in Louisville, Ky. (ca. 1855) is probably Rogers' and Whitestone's only remaining public building (recently restored) Gothic Revival west front and tower added to Brooklyn, N.Y., architect Rogers' houses have a better rate of survival than his commercial work. The following Rogers- designed residences are still extant: 32 See Jones and Luhan, Louisville Guide (2004), 87-88. See Jones and local sources. Only a wing added later remains. See Jones and local sources.

See, for instance, Robert A.M. Stern, et al., New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and urbanism 1890- with a Pantheonic dome is illustrated in Myers, Mac. Ency., III, 600. See also Roth and others on McKim, Mead & See the report prepared prior to the renovation by Schooley Caldwell Associates for the Ohio Department includes a bibliography and note on the surprising difficulty of finding and obtaining sources. See Jones and Luhan, Louisville Guide (2004), pp. 140-141. (8-86) White. Frankfort (1852-1854; demolished). Those no longer existing in the Ohio River Valley by Louisville sources. 1915 (N.Y.:Rizzoli International Publications,1983),pp.185-86,including illustrations.Its original exterior form See Elizabeth F.(*Penny") Jones, University of Louisville Master's Thesis in Art History, and other Page 12 Section some significant interior spaces.

Among other joint commissions, Rogers and Henry Whitestone designed several hotels in Kentucky, including the "Commercial Palazzo" W.B. Reynolds Store in the Ohio River Valley.! They did, however, contribute the design for the existing 1855 of Administrative Services, "The Ohio Statehouse Master Plan" (Columbus, Ohio, 2d printing, 1989), which Ohio (1869), one of his last works. William Keely's 1849-1852 Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville.' Building (later Seelbach's European Hotel) in Louisville (1855-57);1° and the Capitol Hotel in 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Robert Bennet Forbes Mansion, Milton, Massachusetts (1833-1834); National Historic "Hillforest," Thomas Gaff House, Aurora, Indiana (1853-1855); National Historic Horace L. Kent House, Richmond, Va. (1845) - Reuben Resor (later Seth Evans) House, Cincinnati (1850-1854) "Rosewell," Philatus S. Barber House, Louisville (1854); with Henry Whitestone - Stephen Salisbury House, Worcester, Mass. (1836-1838) The Forbes Mansion is a grand yet austere Greek Revival block to which the noted Boston firm of Peabody & Stearns added a more refined and ornamented attic story in the late 1800s. This addition, incidentally, appears to be comparable to that attributed here to Erasmus Gest in relation to the whole.

The Forbes Mansion is nevertheless a National Historic Landmark, for both historical and architectural reasons. Listed by Myers in 1992 as also extant were the Stephen Salisbury House in Worcester, Mass. (1836-1838), and the Horace L. Kent House in Richmond, Va. (1845; altered). A cross-section of Rogers' treatment of residential revival styles adapted in his rather restrained manner (except perhaps for lavish interiors) survives from the Cincinnati period. The Hatch House (1850-1853) is the first of these, reflecting perhaps in its bow-front a transition from the East Coast.' "Rosewell," the Philatus S.

Barber House in Louisville (1854), designed with An early Gothic Revival commission, only recently rediscovered through the Journal and another contemporary sources, is the Reuben Resor (later Seth Evans) House in Clifton (1850-1854), which later served as the Bartholomew-Ely School (for Girls). It has lost a few exterior and many interior features, as it was adapted for the school and then as apartments, and there is also a large late 19"-century Second Empire service addition. The Resor House nevertheless demonstrates Rogers' hesitant espousal of even the early Gothic Revival Castellated Villa style, Myers also identified the much-altered Greco-Italianate Peter G. Thomson House in Richmond, Indiana See Jones. Also Gregory A. Luhan, et al., Louisville Guide (N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), p. 328, as the Barbour-Middleton Blodgett House.

"Rosewell" is located in Harrods Creek, an eastern suburb of See The Western Horticultural Review, Cincinnati. The article, which features the landscape plan by only through an unidentified ca. 1870 in the Leon Van Loo (a professional Cincinnati photographer) Album; the only (8-86) Landmark Louisville-Jefferson County. Page 13 with its basic cube to which picturesque elements such as a cast-iron veranda (now gone), an Richard Davies, refers to the house as designed by "Mr. Rogers." Another Gothic Revival villa in Clifton is known (1851). OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Another National Historic Landmark in the Cincinnati area is "Hillforest," the Thomas Gaff The house was built for a successful banker, distiller, and steamboat owner. This rather fanciful adaptation of the Italianate style to particular conditions is basically intact, with only a compatible service wing added at a fairly early date. Although of frame construction (including wooden columns that emulate cast-iron versions of improbably slender stone supports), it gives from a distance an illusion of stone, with wooden quoins and some flat board surfaces.

Set on a steep hillside overlooking the city of Aurora and the Ohio River, "Hillforest" seems to be a delicately detailed cube, although actually the rear conforms to the slope. A semi-circular porch projects from the center of the façade, surrounding the semi-cylindrical vestibule; the center of the second floor rises in a curve above the vestibule, vertical ensemble most closely resembles the sequence at the center of the Hatch House façade, with octagonal forms replacing circular ones. Although they no longer exist, several Rogers residential commissions in the Italian Villa manner to deal with a new-fashioned style. The Winthrop B. Smith Villa (for a bookseller who was also seems incongruously added to a horizontal composition, although it was the effective focal point used elsewhere in the Cincinnati area before the Civil War).?

connection with Rogers is the use of a cast-iron railing identical to that of the Hatch House front terrace above a Probasco for the design of his new suburban villa. See the National Register and National Landmark nomination forms, and local literature. See The Western Hort. Review. in Strauch's Spring grove Cemetery, and probably others there. (8-86) See basic sources on the Smith-Ellis-Wilson-Joselin House. Rogers also designed the A.B. Coleman Tomb Walnut Hills (now considered part of Hyde Park).

It served as a link between the formal block allowing a circular "sewing room" in front of the main stairhall on that level; and the low hipped Rogers added a similar tall belvedere to"Rookwood,"the Joseph Longworth House in East in the Cincinnati area are quite well documented, confirming a certain awkwardness in his ability roof is crowned above by a circular"belvedere"evoking a steamboat captain's aerie. This NPS Form 10-900-a ofan elaborate"rural"or picturesque landscape.The slender cast-iron veranda columns of the Section veranda. In 1858 Rogers also submitted a design, probably Gothic Revival, to the mini-competition held by Henry Smith House had Egyptoid capitals (perhaps based on part of the "Tower of the Winds" capitals Page 14 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 Page 15 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Extensive, somewhat Italianate additions to the basically Greek Revival ca. 1846 Robert B. Bowler House in Clifton (1855) were designed by Rogers; the mansion was demolished when the large property became Mt. Storm Park in the 1930s. The Possible Architectural Role of Erasmus Gest in the ca. 1880 Addition As has been described in Section 7, Gest was trained and had a great deal of experience as an engineer and surveyor, primarily of canals and railroads, both local and regional. Although his role was increasingly that of administrator and supervisor, he was still described as an engineer until the end of his long life, and in his obituary.

He is known to have designed the Xenia, Ohio, Railway Station (1850), which had a stylistically plain, if satisfying, Greco-Italianate design (rather like that of the Hatch House, coincidentally) adjusted to an awkward site. There are also characteristics attached to the Erasmus Gest Papers at the Ohio Historical Society Library. Moreover, the architectural profession in the Cincinnati was thriving in the mid-1870s, as in the 1870s and 1880s were considerably more sophisticated than the Gest addition. Until a specific attribution to another a professional architect is found, it seems likely that Gest virtually intact. It is this admiration and respect for Rogers' architectural achievement and its quality of construction and craftsmanship, as well no doubt as its impressive social associations, that have preserved the Hatch House in its remarkable condition today.

Historical Development The Hatch House is associated with at least two figures of more than local impact. The house is named for Rogers' original client, Mayor George Hatch (1813-1875), who played an important if reluctant role in saving Cincinnati for the Union under the threat of Confederate invasion in 1862. The few other owners and occupants before the house was adapted as a church in the early engineer who was identified with a series of transportation achievements both local and national. The house is currently being restored with the intention to use the property as a house museum and educational facility, following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Rehabilitation See Joseph Longworth in Western Hort. Review. (8-86) 20"h century were also prominent locally.

Erasmus Gest (1820-1913) was an entrepreneur and indicated above, and the known works of all the Cincinnati architects listed and others practicing served as his own designer in modernizing the Hatch House, which otherwise he preserved a number of early engineering drawings for canal and bridge projects with similar architectural and the kitchen/service wing, which had originally been designed by Howard Daniels." 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The George Hatch Family George Hatch (1813-1875), for whom Isaiah Rogers designed the Hatch House, was a controversial figure, on whom the verdict of history has not yet been decided.

The most controversial episode in his career occurred in 1862, two years after he had sold his house to a new owner. A Democratic politician, Hatch served as Mayor of Cincinnati from 1861 to 1863.A Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War, he reluctantly allowed the formation of the famous "Black Brigade of Cincinnati" in 1862. The unit was organized when Cincinnati was in danger of being attacked by Confederates. "Receiving deserved praise for their labor," the men The Brigade was later recognized as the first formal organization of Northern African Americans for military reasons. Members later fought with the 127 Ohio Volunteer Infantry and other black After his term as Mayor was concluded, Hatch moved to Florida and spent the rest of his life The 1974 Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) history of the Hatch House, written by Carl A.

Saladino, Project Historian for the National Park Service, provides the following George D. Hatch was born on July 11, 1813. During his earlier years he was involved in various real estate enterprises, and, among other properties in the area, owned the house under consideration.... He married Rachael [sic] Avery, whose father had originally subdivided land in the area. At one time he also owned the John E. Hatch Co., which completion of his term of office, he left the city owing to the political disfavor into which he had fallen as a result of his strong views concerning the issues surrounding the Civil War. He favored the South and went to Florida, where he purchased St. Vincent's Island.

Hatch's first wife, Rachel Russell Avery (1832-66), was the widow of Cincinnati attorney Henry Randy McNutt, "Marker dedication gives Black Brigade limelight," Cincinnati Enquirer, September 27, (8-86) information. there. regiments. 2003. of Historic Buildings. manufactured soap and candles.He was Mayor of Cincinnati from 1861 to 1863. Upon He died on August 1,1875and is buried there. Page 16 labored on defensive fortifications for three weeks, until the threat of invasion was removed.24 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Avery (1786-1838), a member of a prominent and early local family?

Henry and Rachel Avery had two daughters, one of whom, Miss Emily Avery, George Hatch's step-daughter but described handsomest [sic] private residences in Cincinnati.? Mayor Hatch was very popular. He was a liberal host and the Hatch residence was the scene of many brilliant functions, Miss Avery being a reigning belle of her day. When the prince of Wales - afterward King Edward [VII of England] - visited Cincinnati on Dayton street, which at the time was considered one of the most desirable residence Mayor Hatch's role during the early years of the Civil War in Cincinnati has been, as mentioned, controversial, especially recently, with increased attention to and judgment of racial issues in the Civil War period.

An evidently balanced and factual account of Hatch's actions during the and colleague of Henry Avery; no doubt they were the partners in Avery's & Kirby's Subdivision, from which the Hatch property was derived. Both worked extensively as surveyors and managers for General William Lytle after Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, May 27, 1912, 4:6. According to Wefing, Hatch was a banker. Several 1850s Cincinnati City Directories list him without with the Central Bank at the northwest corner of Court and Main Sts. By 1862 Hatch was listed as Mayor, residing Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

"The Black Brigade," Timeline (Columbus, Ohio), XVIII, 4 (August 2001), 42-53; unfortunately this Black Brigade of Cincinnati," quoted from William Wells Brown, The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and Fidelity (Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard, 1867; reprinted from the original edition in the Wesleyan University Library by Kraus Imprint Co., New York, 1969). (8-86) 1820. he was given two private, unostentatious receptions, including one at the Hatch House... and continues, The same article describes George Hatch as "one of the wealthiest mayors Cincinnati ever had" The beautiful mansion formed a part of the architectural structures of expensive homes An autobiography of Timothy Kirby in Joblin (1876), pp. 70-74, indicates that he was a longtime friend sections of Cincinnati.

28 "Squirrel Hunters"episode in 1862 is provided by a recent article by Jim Locke on"The Black NPS Form 10-900-a The magnificent mansion...cost some $50,oo0 and was then considered one of the Brigade.*29 Section Page 17 occupation (perhaps as a "capitalist"); a Stanley Hatch, however, and his partner Solomon Langdon, were associated article is not annotated or provided with a bibliography. An early account based on contemporary sources is "The Landmarks.*26 as his "adopted daughter,"is featured in a 1912 newspaper article on "Cincinnati Historic 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The Adolphus H. Smith Family and the Hickenlooper Connection Adolphus H. Smith bought the house from George Hatch in 1860.

He was listed as a distiller in the 1862 Cincinnati City Directory. The Smith and Gilbert (with Henry O. Gilbert) Distillery was located on Colerain Avenue. He and his wife, Sarah K. (Bates) Smith, had five children. On February 8, 1867, their daughter Maria L. Smith married General Andrew Hickenlooper, a hero of the Civil War, surveyor and city civil engineer, and after 1872 the vice-president and then Erasmus Gest Erasmus Gest (1820-1898) owned the Hatch House from 1875 until 1884 and probably remodeled it extensively, perhaps to his own design. He spent his long life spanning much of the moved several times from one branch of transportation to another--canals, local railroads, urban trolleys, and finally a rail line in the Pacific Northwest - following current developments, serving as an engineer, surveyor, administrator, and supervisor, as well as entrepreneur.

His best-known endeavor was the only partially successful attempt to construct a long tunnel through a ridge at Walnut Hills in Cincinnati. Even though that failed and some of his other enterprises were not altogether successful, Gest is believed to have assembled a considerable fortune. Overall, his lengthy career provides a cross-section of transportation from the 1830s until after the turn of the Gest was the designer and supervisor of construction of the Xenia, Ohio, railroad station, long segment of a triangle in plan, it was located between two diverging tracks. According to an 1865 photograph, it was a substantial two-story building of a Greco-Italianate character, with a plain but deep frieze and modillioned cornice below a low-hipped roof. Altogether, it looks like a dignified, serviceable, minimally Classical design.3® The Dunham Family John H.

White, Cincinnati Locomotive Builders, 1845-1868 (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum Center at sources on Xenia. The photograph is identified as Smithsonian [Institution] photo 42137. (8-86) public utilities. president of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Co., a successful private company providing 19"h century in the field of transportation, which was booming during much of that period. He twentieth century. completed in 1850 and described as a "station/hotel/dining hall"by John H. White. Basically a Page 18 Union Terminal, 2004), Fig.12, p. 33, and description, p. 141. The station was not demolished until 1955. [See 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 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio House in 1889 from Clarissa Gest, Erasmus Gest's sister and heir.

They owned it for a decade before moving to the fashionable hilltop suburb of Mount Auburn. Dr. Dunham was "a well known and highly regarded member of the medical fraternity in Cincinnati."31 He was associated with the health of women and children, and was one of the organizers of the Women's Medical College in Cincinnati. Dr. Dunham was active in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and also the State and American Medical Associations. "He has always been a student and performed with a sense of conscientious obligations." Mary Dunham was a daughter and The Bechtel Family and Later Owners property at 830 Dayton Street to Elizabeth T. (Moore) Bechtel, wife of Henry H. Bechtel. Henry H. Bechtel was an active businessman: in the 1901 Cincinnati City Directory he was listed as associated with the American Oak Leather Co., the Cincinnati Coffin Co., and the Hawley Down-Draft Furnace Co.

Prior to his joining the firm, the Cincinnati Coffin Co. was described to Margaret Crowe for S1; a widow, she sold it in turn later that year to the Roumanian Orthodox Congregation of St. Andrew. They eventually built a modest church facility next door to the east by the present owner, who intends to restore it as a house museum and educational facility. Biography of William H. Dunham, M.D., as well as Mrs. Dunham, in Greve, IV (1912), 179-81; Kennon Dunham, M.D., IV, 13-74. Cincinnati and Its Resources (1891), p. 86 and ad, p. 45, with a bull's-eye view of the extensive factory; similarly, Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of Cincinnati and Environs (N.Y.: International Publishing Co., 1886), p. 194. On the American (Oak) Leather Co., see, for instance, before Bechtel, George Mortimer Roe, Cincinnati: The Queen City of the West (Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Times-Star Co., 1895), pp.

135-37. (8-86) and sold the Hatch House property to (the Rev.) Gerald J. Bates who, under various names and Dr. William H. Dunham and his wife, the former Mary Kennon McPherson, acquired the Hatch granddaughter, as well as wife and mother, of physicians. In 1899, prior to moving with her family to Mt. Auburn, Mary K. (McPherson) Dunham sold the progressive in his methods, devoting his entire attention to his professional duties which are In 1915, Nellie A.and John A.Bechtel, the only heirs of Elizabeth T. Bechtel, sold the property Page 19 Hatch, George, House with various partners, retained the deteriorating property for many years. It was acquired in 2007 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 1 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section 9.

Major Bibliographic References The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century names and publishers, 1878-1915. OH: Ohio State University Press, 1992) Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, May 27, 1912, 4:6. Giglierano, Geoffrey, and Deborah Obermeyer, The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years (Cincinnati: The Hamlin, Talbot, Greek Revival Architecture in America (London and New (8-86) Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988) (Cincinnati & Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1876; copyright York: Oxford University Press, 1944). by Charles Robson), Representative Citizens (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1904).

"Cincinnati Historic Landmarks," Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, May 27, Haverstock, Mary Sayre, compiler and editor, with Jeannette Mahoney Clubbe, John, Cincinnati Observed: Architecture and History (Columbus, Cincinnati "Blue Books,"i.e., elite social address books, under various NPS Form 10-900-a Vance, and Brian L. Meggitt, Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Greve, Charles Theodore, Centennial History of Cincinnati and 1912, 4:6. 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 Page 2_ Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio of Historic and Contemporary Architecture and Interior Design in Lee, Antoinette J., Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Cincinnati Enquirer, September 27, 2003.

Myers, Denys Peter, "Isaiah Rogers in Cincinnati: Architect for the Burnet Myers, Denys Peter, "Rogers, Isaiah," in Adolph K. Placzek, ed., Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (N.Y.: The Free Press, 1982), III, 599-602. author). (8-86) Dictionary (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2000), pp. 331-32. House, Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, IX, 2 Center at Union Terminal, 1997). Painter, Sue Ann, editor and author, with Jayne Merkel and Beth Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Museum property of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati but maintained by the (April 1951), 120-32. McNutt, Randy, "Marker dedication gives Black Brigade limelight," Cincinnati Before World War II" (unpublished work-in-progress; now the and Building an American City (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006).

."A Biographical Dictionary of Architect Who Worked in Sullebarger, Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing Langsam, Walter E., Great Houses of the Queen City: Two Hundred Years Supervising Office (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2000) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Rogers, Isaiah, Manuscript Diaries, 1838-1856, 1861, 186. Avery Architecture Library, Columbia University, New York Schultz, Charles R., "Erasmus Gest and the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Schuyler, Montgomery, "The Building of Cincinnati," Architectural Record, White, John H., Cincinnati Locomotive Builders, 1845-1868 (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 2004; 3rd Withey, Henry F.

and Elise Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Works Progress Administration, Cincinnati, A Guide to the Queen City and (8-86) Harry Graff). 1987], with a new Introduction by Zane L. Miller and a new Preface by others. Angeles, Cal., 1970). WPA Guide to Cincinnati [Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Historical Society, NPS Form 10-900-a Its Neighbors (Cincinnati: The City of Cincinnati, 1943; reprinted as The Architects (Deceased) (1956; reprinted by Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., Los (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1993). Zanesville Railroad," Railroad History, CXXXVII (August 1997), 5-19. Scott, Pamela, and Antoinette J. Lee, Buildings of the District of Columbia Williams' Cincinnati City Directories for 1853, 1855, 1857, 1862, and Page 3 XXIII, 3 (May 1908), 337-66. Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property_less than one UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 116 713702 4332611 - See continuation sheet. 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 Walter E. Langsam, Historic Preservation Consultant Date August 10, 2007 street & number 880 Rue de la Paix, #T 20 telephone 513-381-3405 city or town Cincinnati state Ohio Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location Representative black and white photographs of the property.

Additional items (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Hatch's Folly, L.L.C,, c/o Natasha Cavanaugh street & number_1018 Jackson Road Telephone _513-381-2838 _state Kentucky zip code _41011 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This informationis being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, zip code 45220 organization Photographs Maps Boundary Justification city or town_Covington Property Owner (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Zone Easting Northing listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings.

Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimatedto average 18.1hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0.Box 37127, Washington, DC20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. 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 Page 1 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description The George Hatch House is located within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati.

It includes, in its entirety, consolidated Parcels 32 and 33 of Avery & Kirby's Subdivision. The nominated area comprises measures 75 by 150 feet and comprises .259 acre. Please refer to map with boundary line drawn. Verbal Boundary Justification surrounding properties under different ownership or not associated with the house. (8-86) This boundary contains all the property presently associated with the George Hatch House. It includes sufficient acreage to enclose the house and its lot while excluding 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section 12.

Additional Documentation Photographer: Margaret Warminski (same for all photographs) Date: July 2007 (same unless noted otherwise) Location of negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office (same for all photographs) Photo 2 Description, direction: Cast-iron fencing. Looking north. Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Description, direction: Rear (north) elevation; partial view of east elevation. Looking Photo 6 Photo 7 (8-86) Location: 830 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Ohio (same for all photographs) southeast. Looking northeast. Description, direction: East elevation, with wrought- and cast-iron gallery. Looking Description, direction: Main (south) facade of house, looking north. Name: Hatch-Gest House (same for all photographs) Description, direction: Oblique view of main facade; partial view of west elevation. Description, direction: Main entrance, with semi-octagonal porch. Looking north.

Description, direction:Porte-cochere at west elevation of house.Looking north. Page 1 Photo 1 Photo 8 Description, direction: Main hallway, looking north from main entrance. 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Description, direction: East parlor, looking southeast. Photo 9 Photo 10 Description, direction: Marble mantelpiece and gilt overmantel mirror at west wall of west parlor. Looking west. cochere) entrance. Photo 12 Photo 13 Photo 14 Description, direction: Reception hall, looking east. Photo 15 Photo 16 Description, direction: Stair landing, second floor, with skylight. Door to porte-cochere Description, direction: East wall of stair landing, with faux rusticated stonework and Corinthian columns.

Looking northeast. south. (8-86) east. is visible in background. Description, direction: West parlor, looking south. Page 2 Description, direction:White marble mantelpiece at east wall of dining room.Looking Description, direction: Tile floor, reception hall. Looking west. Description, direction: Ornamental plasterwork and plaster capital, stair hall. Looking Description, direction: Stair hall and main staircase, looking west toward west (porte- Photo 17 Photo 18 Photo 11 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 Hatch, George, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Description, direction: East front bedroom, second floor, with marble mantelpiece. Photo 19 Description, direction: East rear bedroom, second floor. Looking southeast. Photo 20 (8-86) Looking southeast.

Page 3 George Hatch House 830 Dayton Street Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH Dashed lines indicate ca. 1880 alterations: east addition, west porte cochere, main staircase SECOND FLOOR PLAN FRST FLOOR PLAN Ham; Itn Co, George Hatch House 830 Dayton Street Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH Photograph key Hamilton ca., Hamilton Co., OH Hatch-Gest House. Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH South front of house. recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey. 1982. HABS-Ohio. 31-CINT.53-1. Hatch, Gecrge, thouse Hatch-Gest House. Cincinnati. Hamilton County, OH HABS-Ohio, 31-CINT. S3-6 Hatch, Gecrge, House Front hall. looking south.Recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey.1982. Hamiltn Co. , OH Hatch-Gest House. Cincinnati, Hamilton County. OH Stairhall. looking southwest. Recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey, 1982. HABS-Ohio. 31-CINT. 53-7 Hami ltn Co.

Ot Hatch, Gecrye, thouse Hatch-Gest House. Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH Stairhall from front hall, looking north. Recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey, 1982. HABS-Ohio. 31-CINT. 53-8. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PDIL: - PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE REJECT REVIEWER RETURN MULTIPLE 5/21/08 7/04/08 6/24/08 PERIOD: OTHER: NAME DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: Hatch, George, House APPEAL: N Accept C REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.

PROPERTY RECOM./CRITERIA DATA PROBLEM:N 500 Hamilton Co, OH Hatch-Gest House KENTUCKY-OHIO COVINGTON QUADRANGLE STATE OF KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) COVINGTON, KY.-OHIO RECD BY OHPO MAR 17 2008 Department of City Planning Suite 700 805 Central Avenue March 11, 2008 Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Phone (513) 352-6146 State Historic Preservation Officer Director of City Planning Chief Executive Officer, Ohio Historical Society Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211 the George Hatch House located at 830 Dayton Street in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Board reviewed the nomination at its meeting on March 10, 2008 and unanimously expressed its support, finding that the George Hatch House met the agreed that a number of technical corrections were necessary. For example, the building's architectural future use (private home or non-profit house museum) should be clarified. The use of "Boston Bow" and "Boston Bay" should be removed; the nomination's verbal description of the building's curved bays is sufficient. The Board agreed that while the nomination was thoroughly researched it was, at times, difficult to follow and to absorb. The Board felt that the nomination would benefit from the removal of speculative commentary and that the narrative should be more concise. Select editing will ultimately result in a more readable, focused nomination. I have included the staff report to the Board for your files.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this nomination. If you have any questions about the Board's review, please call me at (513) 352-4843. Equal Opportunity Employer Sincerely, Enclosures Fax Lisa A. Rupple, Ohio Historic Preservation Office Urban Conservator The Board was supportive of the nomination, but it did have a number of comments. The Board County, Ohio Dear Dr. Laidlaw, The City of Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board (Board) unanimously supports the nomination of Walter E. Langsam, Historic Preservation Consultant cc: Natasha M. Cavanaugh, University of Cincinnati Dr. William K. Laidlaw, Jr RE: National Register Nomination - George Hatch House at 830 Dayton Street; Cincinnati, Hamilton City of Cincinnati (513) 352-4853 style(Greek Revival or transitional Greek Revival/Italianate),type(country villa or townhouse)and Two Centennial Plaza Charles C.

Graves III requirements of Criterion C for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. OHIO RECEIVED 2280 MAY 21 2008 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 I (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: Enclosed please find one (1) new National Register nomination. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission. NEW SUBMISSION Hatch, George, House I am requesting a SUBSTANTIVE REVIEW for this nomination. The nomination for the George Hatch House is being nominated individually for its national level of significance as an example of the later residential work of architect Isaiah Rogers.

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. Dr. William K. Laidlaw, Jr. 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 Enclosures Sincerely, www.ohiohistory.org OHIO National Register OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY