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(Enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance important in prehistory or history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property is: (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) Previous documentation on file (NPS) type, period, or method of construction or represents NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Page 4 Franklin County, Ohio The George and Christina Ealy House is eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion A, for its association with the broad pattern of settlement in New Albany and surrounding township in the mid-19th century, as well as the historical association with the Ealy family.
The Ealy House is a legacy of a pioneer family that settled in Plain Township, Franklin County, Ohio, in the early 19"h century. Their farming and mill operations contributed to the formation of a flourishing local agrarian economy. The property is also significant under Criterion C, as an example of a double pile with central passage house type built by local craftsmen and the transition from Greek Revival forms to more Picturesque influence showing Italianate details. Pioneer settlement in Plain Township unfolded in two stages: the first before 1812, the second ran from 1812 to about 1830. In 1796 Congress created the United States Military District to provide bounty land warrants to veterans of the Revolutionary War. Plain Township was surveyed as part of the U.S.
Military District; each township was five miles square (total of 16,000 acres) and divided into quarters of 4,000 acres each. In 1800 Dudley Woodbridge acquired the southwest quarter of the township using land warrants obtained from veterans. At that time the federal government also began to dispose of the forty-100 acre lots in the southeast quarter that were reserved for veterans. Land speculators held a substantial number of warrants. In 1802 John Huffiman After 1812 the federal government offered for sale to all comers the 8000 acres unassigned in the northern half of the township at $2.00 an acre. Early settlements were established by 1813, and in 1837 Noble Landon and William Yantes laid out the town of New Albany on land they owned near the center of the township. New Albany was incorporated in 1856.
Professionals, tradesmen, and craftsmen occupied the 50 x 100 foot lots along the High Street. The 1856 town map shows a doctor's office, two hotels, four general stores, a cabinet from the village formed Company D of the Third Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. Company B was also formed from New Albany residents and served in the Siege of Petersburg in 1864. Postwar New Albany saw further development of its town structure and architecture, like much of the northern states saw following the war. In 1880 came new industry. Wilkins Lumber Mill started in 1881, now known as the New Albany Mill. Village fathers were looking for a new cemetery and Maplewood Cemetery was established. The Township Hall was built in 1885 and a jailhouse constructed behind the hall at a cost of $150. By 1901 New Albany had 300 residents.
In 1922 New Albany elected its first woman mayor, other businesses were established, and a new school was built called the "New Albany School of Plain Township." Following World War II, New Albany and Plain Township saw similar development and infrastructure the volunteer fire department was organized. A new elementary school was built in 1956 and the Plain township soon after. as the use of native wood handcrafted by skilled local carpenters.The house is also significant as an example of Criterion A:Plain Township Settlement and the Ealy Family shop, a harness shop, two churches, a blacksmith's shop, a wagon shop, among others. In 1856 the population was 50. The Civil War brought about many enlistments of township residents.' In 1863 those who enlisted improvements that were occurring across Franklin County as a result of the building and baby boom.
In 1943, masons and displays their workmanship. The building exhibits use of local stone and bricks fired onsite, as well bought Woodbridge's entire acreage for 4000 gallons of whiskey. He and a number of relatives moved into the NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number 8 Page 5 Franklin County, Ohio Township Fire Department was able to construct new facilities to better accommodate the growing community. 1966 saw the establishment of the first sub-divisions in the Village and township. These subdivisions exist today as Cedar Brook, Taylor Estates, New Albany View, Plain View, Pine Meadows and Oak Field. In 1967, a new Post Office was built by Gene & Louse Mayer and leased to the US Government.
The New Albany Savings & Loan Bank was built by the C. Howard Cring family. In 1980 the Census for the Village listed 414 township and 3,711 living in New Albany. (Plain Township) The New Albany Community Authority, allowing for the creation of a new community district, was established in 1992 as the result of a petition from the New Albany Company, a development company owned by Leslie M Wexner. The new district originally contained 3,830 acres set aside for residential and commercial development; its current area now encompasses 5,000 acres of land. This development has transformed the town and much of the township through annexation, extensive town planning, and design guideline restrictions that allow for only a Neo-Georgian style building to be constructed. The Ealy House and a handful of other historic homes are all that remain of New Albany and Plain Township's historic resources.
House stands at 6359 Dublin-Granville Road. With this acreage he had found a prime location for a mill, the best remaining site in the lower half of the township. He paid a premium of $3.00/acre for the property, paid for in Washington County, Pennsylvania. This property was then passed down to George Ealy, his son, in 1845. The property already contained a home, barns, and livestock at that time. An unmarried sister of George Ealy in 1845 in Plain Township, among his belongings his executor offered for sale were books written in German. through several generations. Like other persons of German descent, they gravitated to a church having a strongly German congregation. The Ealys were early members of Peace Lutheran church in Gahanna.
George and his wife Christina built the current house on a separate part of the property and now the house and remaining acreage are all that remain of the original farm. The Agricultural Census of 1850 credited George "Ely" with 65 acres of improved land, 10 of unimproved. In 1852 George Ealy bought 36 additional acres adjacent to the original farm, and in 1856 he purchased another adjacent parcel of 44 acres. In 1860 the Agricultural Census shows that the Ealy's owned 135 acres of improved land, 10 unimproved. The purchases listed above extended George Ealy's holdings to the approximate size of a quarter section, a standard for family Ealy" in the Agricultural Census of 1860 reflect the property's farming characteristics at that time: 5 horses, 9 "milch" cows, 11 "other cattle," 2 swine, 25 bushels of wheat, 1000 of corn, 250 of oats.
At this time the Ealy farm was appraised at $6000, showing a considerable increase from the value at the 1850 Census of $1700 and likely as a result of the land purchases and improvements to the farm, including construction of the house. As with many German immigrants, the Ealys appear to have kept alive the language they brought with them married Christina Clouse in1836.The present-day spelling"Ealy"is an Anglicization ofa German surname. with inheritance from his father's landholdings, and subsequently moved his family from East Finley Township was permitted to live the remainder of her life in the original Ealy homestead." George Ealy (1807-1889) residents and 4,897 people living in the Township.
In the 2000 Census there were 5,926 people living in the In 1830 John Henry Ealy" (1772-1845) bought approximately 73 acres in the township including where the Ealy farms of Plain Township during the time when agriculture was the primary industry. Entries under "George Family members in the U.S. spelled it variously as"Ihli""Ili,""Yhly,"or"Illy."When John Henry Ealy died NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Page 6 Franklin County, Ohio map of Plain Township shows a cider mill on George's land, giving reason to believe he planted a part of his holdings to an orchard which subsequent owners maintained to within recent memory. Secondly, and more John Henry Ealy likely brought in good revenues.
The Ealy mill was one of five water-powered mills known to Water powered mills in Plain Township generally did not outlast the 1850s. One sign of a related adjustment in Township. Nor do they appear in the Census of Jefferson Township, the next jurisdiction to the south, where some of Peter Ealy's descendents located. The Census taker may have overlooked the Peter Ealy family and sister Christina because they were in transition in the year George Ealy built his house. Ealy presence in Plain Township diminished toward the end of the century. George Ealy died in 1889, his wife later sold the Ealy House and the original 73 acres to Alexander Doran, descendant of another pioneer family.
The property was passed down to Doran's son Charles, who died in 1930, leaving the estate to Doran's three The 50 acres were subdivided for new construction, and one daughter Ruth Hilbert lived in the house on 27 acres longer than any other resident. In 2004 the New Albany-Plain Township Historical Society purchased the Ealy House and the approximate 0.4 acre parcel associated Criterion C: Architectural Significance The most important building concepts New Albany and Plain Township settlers adhered to were the building traditions brought with them from their native states and countries. Many New Albany and Plain Township residents moved to Ohio from the New England states, Pennsylvania, and one of the primary masons was a native of Germany. These traditional building forms and use of materials are evident in the extant architectural examples in the area.
Of these there are homes that can be compared to the Ealy house, the same local craftsmen and masons also constructed these homes and the influence of German heritage in both the builders within New Albany and Plain Township's historic and current architectural context. It is one of two double pile the house within this architectural context shows the prowess and skill of the local builders employed there, as well as, impresses upon the observer that the house at its time of completion would have been distinguished from those that preceded and followed its construction. It is interesting that George Ealy chose to build his home in this more expansive plan type rather than following the established I-House type found in most of the remaining historic homes in New Albany.
The Ealy House structure was devised according to a surviving architectural tradition with modifications to that tradition that are reflective of the Italianate style, the house shows transitional features of both Greek Revival and Italianate forms. There are no properties located in New Albany listed in the National Register. Most of New Albany's early buildings have been demolished, but a few children.The property was later separated into a 50-acre parcel and a 27-acre parcel that included the house. historic homes remain. and the residents is evident.The Ealy house is significant from these homes in that its building type is unique Ealy enterprises is the absence of Peter Ealy-and his sister Christina-from the1860 Census of Plain Apart from the farm operation, two additional operations also account for George Ealy's prosperity.
The 1872 importantly, Ealy's ownership, together with his brother Peter, of the original mill established by their father be operating in the area of the village and township." The Ealy mill, a little to the west of the village on Rose Christina having died earlier. Like his father before him, he left the 73-acre farm to his son David Ealy.* David plan houses in New Albany, and the only one retaining integrity to its original construction. The placement of NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Franklin County, Ohio George Ealy wrote on the attic wall of his new house, under the date of 1860, the names of the "work hands" he had hired to craft the house.
(Photo #43) Most notable ofthese names were the Beecher family of carpenters and the Schott (sometimes "Shutt") family of masons. Three surviving brick houses in New Albany and Plain Township, in addition to the Ealy House, can be attributed with certainty to Beecher carpenters and Schott masons: the Clouse House (1861), Taylor House Family connections of three of the owners make it likely the owners would have hired the same workmen. The first of these, according to a presumed chronology, is a brick I-house built by George Clouse (brother in law to George Ealy) located at 8370 Clouse Road (Figure 2).
According to family tradition, it was built in 1861, or, '...in the first year of the Civil War." The Clouse house shares many like qualities with the Ealy house, its brick construction, three bay façade, plain stone lintels and sills, cut stone foundation, and window configuration are all exterior features the properties share. The Clouse house, built a year after the Ealy house, does not display the same elements of ornamentation such as the bracketed eaves, or inset ornate entry door. The two homes when compared side by side still bear a striking resemblance to one another. The Taylor House located at 6625 Dublin-Granville Road (Figure 5) was built in 1863, like the Ealy house, it the Second Empire style. It survives with a mansard roof, dormer windows, and cresting along the roofline.
It, like the Clouse House and Ealy House, shares in features its brick construction, plain stone lintels, window configuration, and cut stone foundation with water table (a feature shared solely with the Ealy House). John J. Beecher, George Ealy's son in law and carpenter for the Ealy House, built the third house sometime at the end of the 1860s, presumably after the war. (Figure 6) A smaller home, being only two bays wide and one room deep, it bears the same brick construction, stone foundation, and plain stone lintels and sills as the other houses. The Beecher house also has built in access to the basement level through an exterior door, also taking resources of the other three owners, but his skill enabled him to embellish his house with decorative detail comparable to that in the more expensive Ealy and Taylor Houses. Two details especially bear his signature.
One is the newel post of the staircase in the Beecher House, which does not seem to stand, as newel posts do, in isolation. Banister and post are fitted together in a graceful curve so that the two seem to be all of one piece. (Figure 19) John J. Beecher, or the Beecher brothers together, used the same technique in making the newel fretwork used to decorate the stringer of the stairs in both the Beecher and Taylor houses. John Andrew Schott ("John Shutt" on the attic wall) was born in Germany. Local deeds show he had migrated to Columbus by 1833, where he worked as a brick mason. In 1850 he bought land in the northwest corner of Plain Township and a small parcel over the line in Blendon Township. He and some of his sons settled into the life of the community as brick masons. The son (born in 1840), whose name George Ealy also inscribed on his wall, was John Charles Schott.
John Andrew Schott settled into the life of the community in another way in 1852 by signing the constitution of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, located at present just over the line in Blendon Page (1863) and Beecher House(ca.1864). Comparisons of details from house to house illuminate their work. originally had a squarish shape and a double pile with central passage plan. In the 1890s it was remodeled in advantage of a slope in the landscape, or ramped earth construction. (Figure 9) John J. Beecher lacked the posts in the Ealy and Taylor houses (Figures 18 and 20).A second signature detail is a scalloped design of NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Page 8 Franklin County, Ohio Township on Walnut Street.
Church records of the strongly German congregation show that he and his brother John Killian Schott, "constructed the fieldstone walls" of the first church. The Schotts were the principle masons in the area during the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. They laid up most of the surviving brick buildings and the Ealy house is a prime example of their work. Their hallmark, as seen in all houses they are attributed to, is the feeling of stability that the solid construction portrays. Characteristics of their masonry work, if compared to the recurring features of the homes they built, appear to be solid brick masonry resting on a coursed rubble foundation, a few of the homes bear ashlar stone capping of the foundation to give it a clean, finished look, and a few of the foundations are topped by a smooth stone (sometimes limestone) water table.
The treatment of window openings is also a characteristic found on all or most known Schott buildings. The lintels and sills, where evident, are of smooth the sills generally are more slender, also simple in design. The lintel stone over the primary entryway is another trait attributable to the Schott masons. The wide, smooth stone provides a subtle but effective emphasis to the primary façade. The lintel, as originally constructed, would have dominated the entrance of many of the homes they have constructed.
The Ealy house is the last remaining example of their work with a high level of integrity, and shows how the façade was intended to be displayed, in contrast to the other homes that have had compared with that of the Ealy house further demonstrates the characteristics and skill in construction of the Schott masons, as well as displaying the significance of these local artisans to the architectural context of the Brickwork at the time included not only the laying of, but also the making of the bricks. Word handed down through various family members is that the bricks in the Clouse, Ealy, and Taylor houses were made onsite. Blackened bricks in the walls of the Beecher house point to the same conclusion.
The Beecher family, judging from the birth date (1840) and birth location (Ohio) of the oldest child living at home at the time of the 1860 Census, arrived in New Albany soon after the town was laid out in 1837. John J. Beecher was one of two Beecher carpenters George Ealy inscribed on his 'new' attic wall. The business directory printed on the 1872 Map of New Albany describes John J. Beecher as a "joiner," as does the 1870 doors and windows. John J. Beecher left examples of fine craftsmanship in the entrance and stairs of the house he built for himself and his wife Lucinda in the village (presently numbered 95 W. Main Street).
The 1872 business directory describes him as the, "inventor of the Folding 10ft Measuring Pole." The other Beecher George Ealy identified was "William Valentine Beecher." Most likely he is the William Beecher, born in Pennsylvania, age 28, whom the 1860 Census describes as a carpenter and locates with his own family in Jefferson Township. Birth dates above suggest that he was another of Thompson Beecher's offspring born before Beecher's family settled in New Albany. George Ealy wrote William Valentine Beecher's name first and John J. Beecher's name second in the list. Probably the team of carpenters was made up, like the team of masons, of a younger man who had served an apprenticeship to an older, more experienced craftsman.
Section number sandstone or limestone.Lintels are usually in awide band and unadorned by ornamentation or embellishment, village.These features are evident on all the houses compared in this nomination(see figures 7,8,9,and 10). alterations to their façades. The professional quality of the stone masonry in the foundations of the three houses NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number 8 Page 9 Franklin County, Ohio Characteristics of their work can be compared by existing examples found in houses to which they are post has an almost fluid motion, curving down from handrail into a wide, chamfered and substantial piece. This feature is found in Beecher's own home he constructed for himself.
Other features attributed to Beecher workmanship include the scroll sawn details of the stringer on the primary stairs in the central halls of the homes he constructed. (Figures 21, 22, 23) The doors and door surrounds on the primary entries into Beecher crafted homes also display characteristics of his work. Accentuated by tall, narrow sidelights and crowned with a transom, Beecher's entries are slightly recessed, with slender pilasters that rise to the height of the doorframe and visually support the wide, stone lintel crafted in place by the Schott masons. The overall effect is that of an entablature supported by the entryway. This shows up in the Ealy house, among his other attributed homes, as an influence of the Greek Revival, but with mixed Italianate tones through Beecher's construction of a raised panel door and also found on his own home.
(Figure 15, 16, 17) Replicas of the Ealy House carpentry exist in the three houses listed below. Decorative mantels, which the Ealys or Beechers, or both, felt necessary to give focus to a room, are found as well as in the Clouse and Taylor Houses. The mantels are simple in design and composed of wide, plain boards that have rounded edged finishes. (Figures 11, 12, 13) The design of the interior elements for all of the homes is the same or very slightly varied. Simple treatment of door and window Beecher, Ealy, and Taylor Houses. The Clouse house uses them exclusively. These details indicate the importance of the Schotts and Beechers in the local economy. The 1860s may have been their most productive period. The Archibald Smith house, Smith, an early settler in New Albany, built his wood frame home in 1848.
(Figure 3) The house has a five bay façade with inset entryway, end chimneys, and where aluminum siding has been removed; the gable ends have a wide, plain frieze. The Daniel Swickard House, a brick masonry I House, was built in 1835 one of the first brick homes in New Albany. (Figure 4) It has end chimneys and an expansive five bay façade. When the New Albany Company spread a golf course over Swickard land in 1992, Jack Nicklaus, as designer of the course, persuaded the company to preserve the empty house, with its windows boarded up, as a visual "experience" for golfers coming on it over the greens. The Smith and Swickard Houses provide examples of the traditional building forms already in existence at the time the Ealy House was constructed.
A search of the Ohio Historic Inventory for other double pile and/or square plan house types of brick construction dating to the mid to late 19th century uncovered only five similar property types in Franklin, Delaware, and Licking counties. The earliest property and one bearing the closest resemblance to the Ealy house is the D. Inboden house (FRA0384824) in Canal Winchester, built in 1845. It is a three bay, brick, square plan Greek Revival with an embellished entryway and side gabled roof. A second comparable property is the John Cook Farmhouse (DEL000918), built in 1863 and located in Harlem Township, Delaware County. The Cook Farmhouse is a wood frame, square plan home with hipped roof; it rests on a sandstone foundation, and has a three bay façade and side elevations with ancillary rear additions. A third house of comparable plan type is the Jack A.
Metcalf house (LIC040804) located in Utica, in Licking County. It was built in 1860 with an addition in 1870, is constructed of brick, and has a three bay façade, hipped roof, and Italianate ornamentation frames is common to all four houses (including Ealy). (Figures 24, 25) Such frames are found in parts of the ornamentation, and they all feature the same entablature supported by small pilasters of wood. The mantels are attributed. The most recognizable Beecher element is a carved cherry newel post of distinctive design. The NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Page 10 Franklin County, Ohio bracketed eaves, embellished hood moldings, and is of brick construction. The Mr. & Mrs.
John Chrystal home in Sharon Township, Franklin County (FRA218203) is also of comparable plan. Built between 1855 and 1860, the house is square, with a three bay façade and side elevations. Built on a stone foundation and of brick sills, and was remodeled in 1919 that covered the exterior brick in stucco and made large changes to the interior woodwork and rooms. Lastly, the H. Vogt residence (DEL039407) located in Delaware County is also of square plan, three bay façade, with plain stone lintels and sills, brick construction, and a hipped roof. Only one of the properties, the Inboden House, can be directly compared through its construction, design, and stylistic features. The Ealy House is distinctive and significant from all of these properties in its overall form and massing, its construction, and high level of integrity.
The Ealy house is a fine example of a double pile house with central passage built by local craftsmen and masons and displays their workmanship, as well as being significant for its association with the broad pattern of brick, sandstone, carved woodwork - distinguish this house as a key representative of the local materials, quality craftsmanship, and skill used by local artisans vital to the historic architectural development and heritage in the New Albany vicinity and alone exhibits the level of integrity needed to convey the quality of its original construction and craftsmanship construction, the house has a hipped roof and hasno overarching stylistic features.It does have plain lintels and with bracketed eaves and decorative window hood moldings. The Masters House(DEL030705) built in 1872 of New Albany.
The Ealy House retains a large amount of original fabric.It is only one of two such house plans Section number 8 and located in Ashley, Delaware County, Ohio, is a square plan home with three bay façade, hipped roof, and OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Franklin County, Ohio Figure 2. 8730 Clouse Rd. Figure 1. Ealy House Figure 3. Archibald Smith House Figure 4. Daniel Swickard House Figure 5. Taylor House 6625 Dublin-Granville Road Figure 6 Beecher House CONTINUATION SHEET NPS Form 10-900 Page 11 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Page 12 Franklin County, Ohio Figure 7.
Ealv House Figure 8. Clouse House Figure 10. Tavlor House Figure 9. Beecher House NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Page 13 Franklin County, Ohio Figure 12. Clouse House Figure 11 Ealv House Figure 13. Tavlor House NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Page Figure 15. Ealy House Figure 16 Beecher House Figure 17. Tavlor House CONTINUATION SHEET Franklin County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Franklin County, Ohio Figure 19. Beecher House Figure 20 Ealv House Figure 18. Tavlor House Page OMB No. 1024-0018 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number 8 Franklin County, Ohio Figure 21. Beecher House Figure 23. Tavlor House Figure 22. Ealy House Page 16 NPS Form 10-900 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number 8 Franklin County, Ohio Figure 24. Ealv House Figure 25.
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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 9 Page 19 Ealy, George and Christina, House Franklin County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property Approximately 6.4 Acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 17 344842 4438257 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) see continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) see continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By name/title organization John E. Saveson, New Albany-Plain Township Historical Society; Lisa Rupple, Ohio Historic Preservation Office date 2 February 2007 street & number 8370 Clouse Rd telephone 614-855-9809 city or town New Albany state Ohio zip code 43054 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.
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10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Page 20 Franklin County, Ohio The boundary for the Ealy House nomination includes parcel numbers 222-003130 and 222-003432 as recorded with the Franklin County Recorder's Office. See also included survey map. The boundary includes two parcels, one owned by the New Albany Plain Township Historical Society that includes the Ealy House and less than half an acre, the other parcel is owned by the Village of New Albany and with the original Ealy farm and provides for the integrity of setting that the house retains. Boundary Justification encompasses six acres. These parcels combined include all remaining undeveloped land historically associated Verbal Boundary Description Section number 10 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ealy, George and Christina, House Page 21 Franklin County, Ohio Date of Photographs: January, 2007 Location of negatives: Digital images, cd enclosed. New Albany-Plain Township Historical Society, Box219, New Albany, Ohio 43054 1. Ealy House façade, north elevation, photo taken facing southwest 2. North and east elevations, camera facing southwest 3. Detail view of foundation 5. Detail view of front entry, north elevation camera facing south 6. Window detail, north elevation, camera facing south. 7. West elevation, camera facing east 8. South elevation, camera facing north 9. East elevation, camera facing west 10. Detail of gable end windows 11. Detail of chimneys 12. Earlier attic photograph, date unknown 13. Detail of typical ash flooring 14.
Detail of baseboard found in central hall 15. Detail of doorframe in hall, east elevation, camera facing east. 16. Detail of hall stairs 17. Newel post, central hall 18. Central hall, camera facing north 19. Detail of formal parlor baseboard 20. Detail of formal parlor doorframe 21. Formal parlor mantel, south elevation 22. Detail of formal parlor window 23. Detail of typical door and frame 24. Detail of typical hardware 25. Detail of typical ornamental fireplace 26. Bricked fireplace in everyday parlor 27. Basement fireplace 28. Small basement storage room, northwest elevation 30. Detail of kitchen dado 31. Detail of fireplace in everyday parlor 32. Detail of cupboard in everyday parlor 33. Attic at present Exterior: Interior: CONTINUATION SHEET Photographers: Catherine and John Saveson 29.
Detail of pass-through cupboard, looking into Kitchen from Dining Room, south elevation Section number Photos NPS Form10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Page 22 Franklin County, Ohio 34. Typical bedroom closet 35. Historic photo of dam and millpond, ca. 1930s 36. Detail, eave brackets 38. Single chimney, showing detail 39. Typical window, from interior Additional exterior photos National Park Service 41. Signed attic wall Section number Photos 40. Rear porch, south elevation, camera facing north NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Addendum Page 23 Franklin County, Ohio 'Sylvester Ranney, New Albany town doctor in the second half of the nineteenth century, in a reminiscence of Town & Township who in answer to their country's call in the hour of peril boldly steped [sic] to the front." (From a handwritten manuscript in Sylvester's Case Books). Sylvester Ranney had in mind those who in 1863, according to a law enacted that year, formed in New Albany, Company D of the Third Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, Sylvester himself being the Company's First Lieutenant.
Company D, later Company B, drilled at its armory on Main Street in New Albany and in the summer of 1864 ("the hour of peril") "steped to the who worked on the Ealy House as a master carpenter in 1860 and married George Ealy's daughter Lucinda in 1861, was a member of Company B Thus far geneaologists have not been able to establish an air-tight connection of the American family with other individuals in Germany or with two men, John and George, bearing the Ihle name, who landed in Philadelphia in 1754.A father-son relationship with one of them and with George Ealy of Finley Township is likely, 1830 with the stipulation that George pay $30 each to seven of George's siblings. To an eighth, Christina, John half garden plot; also, use of furniture and other possessions not otherwise disposed of in the will or sold to pay debts and funeral expenses.
The will provided that if such "property" were "unexpended" when Christina died or if she married, it should be divided equally among "all my children." The 1850 Census locates Christina Ealy in the household of her brother Peter and his family. Other Census details make it certain that they were living in the house John Henry Ealy refers to in his will. Assuming it was a house John Henry Ealy built when he arrived, it would have been a log house. That conclusion is consistent with the fact that it is not drawn on the 1856 township map. The mapmaker's practice was to represent more permanent dwellings. He identified the farm and the one residence shown on it with the label "George Ealy." Christina Ealy died unmarried in 1881. whose unusual story is summarized in a D.A.R. biography. An application to the D.A.R.
submitted by his great- member of a Dutch family in Amsterdam, stowed away aboard a ship bound for the U.S. Discovered at sea, he was sold as an indentured servant to pay for his passage when the ship arrived in Baltimore. To regain his freedom, he enlisted in the Maryland Flying Camp, which saw the action against the British around New York City in the latter half of 1776. Later, while a resident of Codorus Township near York, Pennsylvania, he served in the Pennsylvania militia. He married there into a German family named Kenoyer. Marriage documents locate him and his family near Lancaster, Ohio, in 1805-07. In 1814 the first John Clouse bought from the federal government a quarter section on what is now Walnut Street northeast of New Albany in Plain Township. The Ealys and Clouses found each other compatible.
In 1844 George Ealy's brother Peter married Sophia Clouse, Christina Clouse-Ealy's sister. Judith Ealy, daughter of George Ealy's brother Daniel operated the first steam- powered mill on Babbit Road, long known as "Cornmeal Avenue." George Ealy's sister Rosanna, and his sister Eve after Rosanna died, married Daniel Hamaker, farmer and ruable justice of the peace in the 1840s and 50s. however. iv Christina Clouse was the granddaughter of a Revolutionary War veteran, the first John Clouse (1758-1822), Henry Ealy left occupancy of the dwelling in which he lived, barns, "stabling," "livestock,"and an acre-and-a- # Raymond Bell found the true German form in a record from 1718 of one "John Ihle" in Ittlingen, Germany.
Lincoln's call for"hundred-day men") in the siege of Petersburg,Virginia.John J.Beecher, i'It his will, probated in 1845, John Henry Ealy left to his second oldest son, George, the 73 acres bought in granddaughter Mattie Phelps, obtained by local genealogists, fills in other details. Briefly, in 1776 John Clouse, NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ealy, George and Christina, House Section number Addendum Page 24 Franklin County, Ohio The Clouses and the Ealys belonged to a distinguishable class in the township, prominent for their combined " The Ealy mill was one of five mills enumerated by Dr. Isaac Newton Smith in an address (preserved in a father Archibald's mill on Blacklick Creek, begun in 1833 and demolished in 1852, was one of them. Another, named by Dr.
Smith, a mile south on Blacklick Creek belonged to George Ealy's father in law, the second John grain..These mills ran day and night, sawing two or three thousand feet of lumber in 24 hours...Old cabins were replaced by comfortable frame houses...The mills also furnished means of grinding grain, one of the urgent needs fully knows all about it." One other of his six children he described as beloved, his daughter Lucinda Chippy, remarried after her first husband, John J. Beecher died in his thirties. George Ealy in his will distributed sums of $200 and $100 to his children other than David.
Favoritism which he seems to exhibit in several ways and the CONTINUATION SHEET made wonderful progress..There was ceaseless war on the woods for land must be cleared to raise manual and managerial skills and given to a genteel but hands-on lifestyle newspaper clipping) he gave to an annual reunion in New Albany at the end of the nineteenth century. His limited legacy evident in the will may relate to the "long chronic illness"he refers to. of the day.
Clouse.Dr.Smith wrote that during the"Ola {sic for old} Sawmill"era,Plain Township New Albany, Ohio BASEMENT PLAN FEET Franklin County Storage Room Work Room Attachment Ealy, George and Christina House 0124 New Albany, Ohio FEET Attachment Franklin County Porch Kitchen FIRST FLOOR PLAN Pantry Front Parlor Everyday Parlor Ealy, George and Christina House Dining Room 0124 Ealy, George and Christina House New Albany, Ohio Dressing Northwest FEET Bedroom Southeast Attachment Franklin County Porch Roof SECOND FLOOR PLAN Closet SURVEY OF ACREAGE PARCEL UARTER TOWNSHIP 3, TOWNSHIP 2, RANGE 16 UNITED STATES MILITARY LANDS VILLAGE OF NEW ALBANY, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO -0.097 Ac. R/W R -1909.86' Ch8-N7412 '557 0.407 Ac. Net 5.482 Ac. Net OR 26734317 IN. 199912060300.376 IN. 2002011800:7374 135.45 216.22 Ch9=S7647'02"w - Franklin County, OH 858, PG State of Chio 0.504 Ac.
Total - City Cf Columbus 0.398 Ac. 6.119 Ac. Total 0637 Ac. R/W Mark R. Poulin 2.833 Ac. Rose Run 27674 Ac. ChD=14122 ChD=30.03 Coiurnbus Southern Power Compony 0.239'c QR.22791E10 NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 08000626 N PERIOD: REQUEST: N N SLR DRAFT: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM. /CRITERIA If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE 6/24/08 DISCIPLINE 5/21/08 REJECT 7/04/08 RETURN OTHER: REVIEWER PDIL: NATIONAL: SAMPLE: MULTIPLE Historic Places The National Register EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Entered in NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT APPEAL: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR G.+C.
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EALy HOUSE THE EALY HOUSE, BARN, MILL, & DAM IN THE 1930's G.+C. EALY HOUSE 6.+ C. EALY HOUSE FRANKLiN Co., OHio 6.+ C. EALY HOUSE FRANKLiN Co., Ofio Gx C. EALY HoUSE G.+C. EALY HOUSE 6.+C. EALY HOUSE FRANKLIN CO, OHIO G.+ C. EALY HOUSE. NEW ALBANY QUADRANGLE CHRISTINA FRANKLIN 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EALY HOUSE GEORGE AND COUNTY, OHIO! E 344 842 NEW ALBANY, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey N4000w8245/7.5 RECEIVED 2280 MAY 2 1 2008 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: Enclosed please find five (5) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification forwarded to the National Park Service concurrent with this transmittal letter.
NEW NOMINATION Ealy, George and Christina, House The Verona Apartments South Main Street Historic District If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. 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 Ottawa COUNTY HISTORY www.ohiohistory.org Hamilton Sincerely, Enclosures Medina Franklin Summit National Register OHIO OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Island House National Register of Historic Places procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Please note that the Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer designation has changed.Notification of this change has been Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District
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