Nomination for King, Ahimaaz, House

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NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NOV 0 7 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 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 Historic name King, Ahimaaz, House Other names/site number 2. Location street & number 1720 East King Avenue N/A not for publication city or town Kings Mills, Deerfield Township X vicinity state OH code 065 county Warren zip code 45034 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this Xnomination D request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Xmeets - 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 determined not eligible for the entered in the National Register - See continuation sheet.

removed from the National Register other (explain): - comments.) Date National Register Signature of Keepet does not meet the National Register Criteria.I recommend that this property be considered significant nationally Xstatewide Date of Action Septcmber12, 2008 RECEIVED 2280 Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering ocally. (LSee continuation sheet for additional comments. Department Head, Inventory & Registration In my opinion, the property - meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. (- See continuation sheet for additional 1, hereby certify that this property is: King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio 5.

Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) - private X building(s) X public-local - district - public-State - site - public-Federal - structure - object Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Domestic/Single Dwelling Queen Anne Asphalt Shingle Wood trim (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Stone roof Total other Vacant walls Materials Brick Architectural Classification Noncontributing Narrative Description 7.

Description Italianate Foundation Category of Property (Check only one box) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page 1 back about 150 feet from the street and accessed by a U-shaped concrete driveway that curves around the rear of the house. tiered cast-iron water fountain on the south lawn (photo 15), which appears in photographs dating from the 1890s. The fountain retains its basin, which is decorated with four Italianate cartouches. On the west side of the house, there are two rough stone slab benches in the yard, a cast-iron water pump, and a stone mounting (photo 16), which carries a bronze plaque from the old iron bridge that once spanned the Little Miami River.

are contributing objects, the monument is a noncontributing feature. on the top of the hill east of the house. The farm has been razed for a small residential subdivision. On the demolished for safety reasons when the operation was shut down. A ditch remains where the millrace once are clustered on the top of the hill around the house. Thomas D. Schiffer, author of Peters & King: The Birth & Evolution of the Peters Cartridge Co. &the King Powder Co. (lola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002) 14, 28. Setting The plaque reads "1913, built by the Oregonia Bridge Company, Lebanon, Ohio, F. S. Simpson, S. L. Irons, A. River. However, there are no contributing resources on this portion of the site. A horse farm was once located Kings Mills Avenue takes a right-angle turn to the south; the house is on axis with the road. The house is set 600'). The property includes a house (photo 1) built c.

1885, carriage house (photo 12) built c. 1885, small The fence and some trees were removed in 2006. A few original landscape features survive, including a three- King: The Birth & Evolution of the Peters Cartridge Co. & the King Powder Co., all of these buildings that were destroyed by accidental explosions during the operation of the King Powder Company were deliberately King property occupies the highest ground in the area (El 784') on the west bank of the Little Miami River (El by the Kings Mills Civic Club in the 1980s when the 1913-vintage truss bridge was replaced with a modern The property is boomerang-shaped, and extends to the east and south down the hill toward the Little Miami side of the hill, primarily at the bottom, once stood the various buildings of the King Powder Company, C. Baker, Co. Commrs.; T. C. Patterson, Co. Aud;" Sam. D. Henkle, Co.

Engr." The monument was installed large frame shed (photo 19) built c. 1990. The property is located at the northeast corner of the village, where United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page 2 King House Exterior The building has a deep basement with a 20-inch thick fieldstone foundation. The exterior walls are three withes of brick (about 13") thick (four withes in places), laid in American bond. According to Eugene King, a hipped roof typical of the Italianate style, with wide bracketed eaves and a widow's walk with a molded tin while the windows in the less formal spaces at the rear have two-over-two sashes. The windows are wider and windows have small casement sashes and limestone sills and headers.

The attic windows have single-light aluminum storm windows. rectilinear bay at the southwest corner.The one-story, full-width, front porch, eight feet deep, has a wood deck, wood railing with chamfered square posts and balusters and decorative scrollwork. The stone slab steps window the masonry is punctuated with a rectangular recess. pediment adorned with dentils (photo 1). This bay features windows on the sides and paired windows in the chimneys pierce the roof flush with the exterior wall. The entablature features a denticulated cornice molding, a The formal front portion of the house has one-over-one, double-hung sashes and rough limestone headers, casement sashes. Original shutter hardware remains, and the original shutters can still be found in the barn projects and is topped by a pediment.

The paired end-wall chimneys and central pediment at the roofline center, framed by stone band courses at lintel and sill and divided by a wide stone mullion. Below each The design is an intriguing mix of formal symmetry of the Renaissance-based Italianate style and exuberant approximately 54-feet-wide, 87½-feet-deep, and approximately 33-feet-high. (See figure 25.) The massing consists of a two-story rectangular block with a two-story ell and a one-story former kitchen wing on the rear, asphalt shingles but the solarium and former summer kitchen retain their metal roofs. Tall, slender brick along with several generations of storm windows. The first and second floor windows have contemporary have contemporary iron railings. A wood swing hangs from the porch ceiling on the east side. The porch is balustrade.

Originally all roofing was standing-seam metal; the main roof was replaced in the 1990s with Built circa 1885, the King House is an imposing two-story brick building with limestone base and trim (photo 1). and sidelights of stained and painted leaded glass and limestone sill and header.The doorway is discreetly limestone trim throughout - a low base, water table, window lintels and sills. The main roof is a low-pitched, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Section number Z Page 3 A paneled oak screen-door-and-window assembly, which appears to date from the 1910s, fills the recess. (Its bays in the kitchen wing. A three-bay one-story side porch at the ell has been replaced some time after 1919 west door. of a half-glazed door with a single large light and two vertical raised panels below.

Both doors are pine; the doorway has a deep wood frame with raised vertical panels, a rectangular transom and a limestone header. leads to the dining room, is a half-glazed door identical to the two doors on the west side of the ell. The the former kitchen a stone-lined areaway leads to a basement door with a limestone header and a wood batten story kitchen has no openings on the north end The west elevation is seven bays long, with three bays in the front (south), two bays in the rear ell, and two Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio typical of the Aesthetic Movement and exhibit a Japanese influence. The design comprises geometric patterns Moving from front to back (south to north), the east elevation features a three-sided angled bay in the main where a back stairway is located; and the kitchen wing has two bays. The angled bay has windows on each door painted blue.

The window above is a vinyl replacement. The north elevation of the rear ell is two bays wide, with a single bay of windows on the east side. The one- related wooden steps removed after 1999 (photo 4). side, but not in the center, where a chimney is located. At the ell, there is a two-story porch similar in design to Inside the porch, two original doors provide access to the kitchen and dining room respectively.Each consists vinyl-clad replacement, but a Victorian-period screen door with spindle work still remains.In the right bay of The two-bay west elevation of the kitchen wing has a window with plain stone lintels and sills. A half-height basement window below is boarded up.

The former breezeway on the right has also been boarded up and solarium has two doors - -one on the west and the other on the north.Both doors are half-glazed wood doors United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page 4 converted into a lavatory in the early 20 century. a panel in the door displaying a Japanese influence typical of the Aesthetic Movement. The design comprises with the corner posts on the floor above. Original Lincrusta-Walton wainscoting covers the plaster walls in the front hall on both the first and second boards around the perimeter, which are found in all the formal first-floor rooms. reminiscent of the aesthetic movement of the 1880s. The tile hearths feature tile in dark saturated colors.

There is a hierarchy of ornateness in the mantels that corresponds to the function of the rooms. The mantels The dining room has a fireplace on the west wall and door openings on all four sides; those on the east and domed opalescent glass shade with six bell-shaped pendant lights around the perimeter. The colors of the butler's pantry on the west side and a pass-through window to the kitchen. bookcases. The floor is two-inch-wide golden oak, which is typical throughout the front part of the house. The ceiling is decorative wood molding, which appears to be machined or embossed with rosettes, tops the wainscoting.

primarily of pine;the newel post and spindles appear to be walnut.The intricately carved newel post features a King House Interior had a centered ceiling fixture, according to previous owner Bobby Carter.Original fixtures have been stored in The first floor is divided by a central longitudinal main stair hall flanked by two parlors on the east side and a the east parlor is wide and open, while the other doorways are less wide and feature pocket doors. The hall The large formal stairway in the center hall runs up the west wall to the second floor (photo 5). It is built plain, with no cornice molding, a condition that is also typical. Most ceilings throughout the house have been Door and window surrounds in the formal rooms are richly molded with bullseye corner blocks, while those in mantel and grate.

The fireplace in the west parlor is extremely delicate with its theme of stylized flowers wing at the north end now houses a laundry and spa bathroom. A closet in one of the front rooms was geometric patterns and motifs based in nature - a pomegranate or apple and butterfly. Red jewel glass is used as accents. The corner panes have jewels in the center surrounded by four painted fleur de lis. floors (photos 5 and 8). Four-feet-high, this wainscoting is brown in color, to imitate leather, and unpainted. A the attic, and a gas pump remains in the basement. The floors have borders of contrasting dark-stained the rear are simple. Original brass hinges remain throughout the house, and the butler's pantry has original occupants. The ladies parlor in the southwest corner has a more delicate design with a flat incised floral motif outlined in gold and tile with raised floral pattern.

The library has an altered fireplace flanked by built-in west lead to side porches. In the center of the room hangs a handsome chandelier (photo 11) consisting of a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page 5 and the third to a back stairway. All three doors are capped by flat, pedimented lintels, which were oak floors are slightly higher, and were probably added c. 1917. The summer kitchen was converted to a spa the other side ends at the top with several newel posts. These elements, as well as the treads and risers of the steps, are black, either from paint or patina. in the front of the house have the same patterned oak flooring as the floor below. The southeast master inside corner.

In the rear ell, are a full bathroom (original to the house), a servant's room, a cedar closet, and and simple woodwork. The small, northwest bedroom, however, has the same oak flooring as the front. There are two bathrooms on the second-floor. The central bathroom, probably original to the house, has a is in the northwest corner of the front bedroom on the east side appears to be a later addition; it was rare for a house to have more than one bathroom until the 1890s, and also unusual to have a toilet in a front room. The house was originally heated with a gravity furnace, as reflected in the 1884 foundation plan (figure 25) contemporary appliances. unusual. The second floor is similar in plan (figure 33), with a central hallway, which runs from the front to the rear the original screen windows still remain in the barn.

The existing electrical system is a mix of knob-and-tube room and the kitchen.Ventilation was achieved during hot weather by opening the windows, equipped with The original vents are intact, and a metal coal chute remains in the basement. Sometime in the 2ot century, a bathroom in the 1990's with a double vanity sink, toilet, Jacuzzi, and shower stall. The rear stair, a half-turn stair with two landings, runs along the east wall and provides access to the service the back stair, which runs down to the kitchen and up to the attic. The finishes are humbler, with pine floors coal-fired boiler system with steam radiators was installed throughout the main portion of the house. A modern reconstructed by Bobby Carter after he removed wood paneling from the walls. The ceiling in the kitchen is typical throughout the rear ell.

Pine flooring was apparently original throughout the house; the more durable bedroom has an inlaid border of alternating wood species (photo 9), which skirts a half-bathroom added in the replacement; the original wood commode is stored in the attic, along with some other early chrome fixtures. On the east wall are mounted a chrome cup holder, soap dish and towel bar, all in the Victorian style. A half-bath Moreover, the striped inlaid design in the floor that wraps around it indicates that both the floor and the screens, to promote cross breezes.

Contemporary triple-track storm/screen windows have been installed, but gas-forced-air unit has been added under the spa bathroom (formerly the summer kitchen) and now heats that bathroom were probably part of a later remodeling.The extensive built-in closets in the back halls are also United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page 6 sash windows, half-glazed paneled wood doors on the north and south, and access to a widow's walk on the appears on the inside of the door, and the date 1867 appears inside. Hall's was a local firm in the Cincinnati There are a few elements in the house that appear to be alterations made in the 1910s, possibly around 1917, when the house was transferred to Robert A.

King, son of Ahimaaz and Amanda. These include widening of the doorway between the hall and parlor, the installation of new floors, the chandelier in the dining room, and 1930s or 1940s. surround are stored in the attic. The first-floor bathroom was probably inserted in a closet, a common practice house a toilet and a sink vanity. These were much later additions to the house. In the 1990s, the Carters carried out the renovation of the kitchen, conversion of the summer kitchen into a spa area. Alterations and 2oth century oriental rugs. There is also a cast-iron safe with painted decoration. "Hall's patent 1849" in the early part of the twentieth century as technology improved. The small space has just enough room to attic and in the built-in bookcases of the library. Mr.

Carter left many pieces of furniture that had been owned bathroom, removal of the side porch from the summer kitchen, repair of most of the ceilings with gypsum board, and replacement of the standing seam metal roof with asphalt shingles. Other than these changes, the roof. Numerous original furnishings are stored in the attic, including an original mantel and surround from the by the King Family: a leather chair, a leather chaise lounge, upholstered sofa and chairs, cane-seat chairs, the insertion of a bathroom in the front bedroom.

Drawings prepared by Samuel Hannaford & Sons in 1917 These plans were not carried out, but a one-story solarium was eventually built at this location, probably in the One fireplace, in the library, has been altered to a wood-burning fireplace; however the original mantel and (figures 26-30), show a two-story addition in the northwest corner for a sunroom and sleeping porch above. fireplace in the library, which was altered to burn wood, early roller shades, gas lighting fixtures for six rooms United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number Z Page Z east side of the house, and a livestock shelter with a wire-fenced enclosure northeast of the house. Further Carriage house/barn, c.

1885 (contributing) Reached by a U-shaped concrete drive that turns behind the house, the carriage house/barn, c. 1885, is a substantial red-brick structure with an ashlar stone basement and a cross-gabled roof covered mostly with concrete floor. A second low frame shed northeast of the house (photo 19) was built c. 1990 by Bobby Carter with lumber from another building that once stood on the north side of the house and was near collapse. Barn, c. 1990(non-contributing) Mr. Carter also built the barn(photo 17) and office building (photo 18) c.1990 from material salvaged from other old buildings, including a collapsed barn on the MacDonald horse farm adjacent on the east, and possibly Office building, c. 1990 (non-contributing) Livestock shelter, c. 1990 (non-contributing) Frame shed, c. 1890 (contributing) the south side has a door. A small square window in the west wall admits light.

Inside, the building has a includes the name, "A. King" in cutout letters and a vine motif above (photo 13). The barn is built into a bank, west, stand a one-story office building and a barn, both with wood frames and vertical board siding. Located near the house on the east side of the driveway is a frame shed (contributing) about the size of an outhouse (photo 14). Bobby Carter believes it may have housed a generator for electrical supply. This small, wood-frame structure has a gabled, standing-seam metal roof and vertical-board siding. The gabled end on asphalt shingles (photo 12). The roof has a steep center gable and a cross gable that ends in a hoist to the large area for storage and repair of equipment. Wide doors in the center bay in the front and rear allow a Outbuildings floor. The second floor served as a storage area for hay and carriages.

There is a gabled, metal-roofed hatch served as a milking area for cows. The main level is occupied by horse stalls, tack room, tool room, and a There are several outbuildings, including a carriage house/barn to the north of the house, a utility shed on the King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. X B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. XC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person LA owned by a religious institution or used for (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) religious purposes. Ahimaaz King - B removed from its original location.

Cultural Affiliation - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. Peters & Burns within the past 50 years. Samuel Hannaford & Sons Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

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Major Bibliographical References - State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR - Federal agency 67) has been requested - Local government -previously listed in the National Register - University - previously determined eligible by the National - Other - designated a National Historic Landmark - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record Primary location of additional data 1917 1885-1958 Property is: Register Bibliography Architecture Industry Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Applicable National Register Criteria Name of repository: for National Register listing) G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Previous documentation on file (NPS) (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 8 contributing carriage house were built ca.

1885 by Ahimaaz King (1839-1909), an important early industrialist Cartridge Company from their formation in 1877 and 1887, respectively, until his death in 1909. Both largest manufacturing establishments of their kind in the United States in their day. They were also grandson of Ahimaaz King. The house is also an excellent and intact example of a late Italianate-style rural dwelling. The architects of the house were Peters & Burns, among the early professional firms in Dayton. Luther Peters and Silas Reese and endured for a century, until 1980. Peters & Burns, like many architects of their time, were interpreters of History of the Property in 1788. In 1799, William Wood built a gristmill on the bank of the Little Miami River below the high bluff now George Hunt bought the mill and surrounding land about 1815. The mill continued to do good business grinding grain and even carding wool.

Ralph Hunt laid out a town on the riverfront called Gainesboro in the 1820s. An 1856 wall map of Warren County shows that Isaac Stubbs (1794-1874) owned the mill and time the 1875 atlas was issued (figure 21), probably because of flooding Articles about Kings Mills, Ohio," Warren County Historical Society Museum, 1976, 47. brought their grain down the steep road to the mill, and shipped surplus grain down the river on flatboats.3 businesses, located on opposite banks of the Little Miami River in Warren County, Ohio, were among the surrounding property by that date. Gainesboro didn't last long, however; it was apparently abandoned by the rulings." The Ahimaaz King House was the first dwelling to be built in the community of Kings Mills, at the (figure 1).

King was a founder and the manager of the King Powder Company as well as the related Peters owned the entire town of Kings Mills, most of the land surrounding it. It was an empire under the Kings The Ahimaaz King House is eligible for the National Register under criteria B and C. The house and its Burns were in practice together from 1881 to 1907, and succeeded by the firm Pretzinger & Musselman, who were Dayton's leading architects from 1907 until 1928. The firm was continued by Pretzinger and his sons, 2 Interview with Louis T. Romohr, by Mrs. Miriam Lukens, in "Interviews and Articles about Kings Mills, Ohio," 54 responsible for building virtually the entire village of Kings Mills to house their employees. One local resident head of King Avenue, where it anchored the new company town.

The house was the home of Ahimaaz King the Miami Purchase of land between the Little Miami and Great Miami Rivers bought by John Cleves Symmes occupied by the village of Kings Mills. A raceway led water from the river to supply power for the mill. Farmers The Ahimaaz King property [plat 16-12-200-025, Section 12, range 2 of Deerfield Township (4)], was part of from its construction until his death, and remained in the family until 1988, when it was sold by J. W. King, Interview with Alice C. Pelle, June 4, 1975, by Miriam Lukens, Alma Kintzel and Constance Witt, in "Interviews and described the Kings as a,"sort of a Dupont of the Warren County area. They had huge operations.

They United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Isaac Stubbs had come to Ohio from Georgia with his father, also named Isaac Stubbs, in 1805. They settled in Millgrove on the Little Miami River, a place now known as South Lebanon.* The elder Stubbs owned a Stubbs Mill. The road connecting it with Lebanon is still known as Stubbs Mill Road.According to the 1850 census, Isaac [IIJ had moved downriver to Deerfield Township, to the mill at the present-day Kings Mills. Isaac daughter Margaret. In 1843, he purchased a hotel in Lebanon, known today as The Golden Lamb. Founded in 1803, the hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Ohio.

evidence of his insanity was his profligate purchases of real estate at inflated prices, including several derelict mills. By 1873, the mill at Kings Mills was rundown and inactive.® Isaac [II] died on April 15, 1874, and the only daughter, Margaret Irons, was deemed invalid due to insanity by the same judge in 1874? August 8, 1877 to Joseph Warren King (uncle of Ahimaaz), Ahimaaz King and other members of the King homestead on this parcel. Plat maps drawn in 1910, after the death of Ahimaaz, show that Amanda still owned the 84.04 acres. The A. King, Jr., and his wife Margaret sold 5 acres and the house to his brother Joseph and his wife Lucille King on May 16, 1970. Cleveland, Betty A., "Ohio & Pennsylvania Hotel at the Sign of the Golden Lamb, Bradley House, Stubbs House, Lebanon House," Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, Aug. 1, 1977.

6Judge Keys' Decision, Warren Probate Court, The State of Ohio on Relation of Albert Stubbs against Isaac Stubbs," Western Star, August 7, 1873 7 "Warren Probate Court, in the matter of the Last Will of Isaac Stubbs, dec'd.,"Western Star, June 4, 18/4. Section number 8 Page 9 On December 26, 1879, Joseph Warren King (figure 2), sold 57.32 acres to Kings Great Western Powder the section) for $5,462.60(see 1891 atlas, figure 22). Shortly afterward, Ahimaaz and Amanda King built their 1875 Atlas shows the property belonging to the "Isaac Stubbs Estate" (figure 21). His will, which excluded his on September 19, 1885, Amanda King (wife of Ahimaaz King) purchased 84.04 acres (part of the north side of related waterways. She transferred it to Albert and Isaac Stubbs on January 5, 1877.

They quickly resold it on manager of the Golden Lamb hotel in Lebanon, which he owned and operated until 1914.] property was transferred to their son, Robert Ahimaaz King on July 19, 1917, two months after Amanda's At the end of his life, Isaac [II] was ruled to be insane by Judge Keys at the behest of his son Albert. The 4 "Isaac Stubbs," in Personal Sketches, Everts, L.H. Combination 1875 Atlas and Map of Warren County, Ohio, p. 22½. Company, predecessor of the King Powder Company. The company subsequently purchased more land, and United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 10 December 31, 2001 and is developing the 65-acre parcel as a park named after the Carters.

Ahimaaz King (1839-1909) Ahimaaz King (figure 1) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, on October 18, 1839, and grew up on a farm. "His and located at Xenia, Ohio, about 1857." There, thanks to his uncle Joseph Warren King, he worked for the Joseph Warren King(figure 2) was born on August 30, 1814, also at Suffield, Connecticut. "While still a boy, Goes, near Xenia, Ohio, operating for a while as Austin & King, then under his own name and finally as the powder mill in 1833 on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in a place near Akron known as Old Forge, and who had moved there from North Carolina. Ahimaaz and Amanda married on September 20, 1863 and produced ten children and eight grandchildren. Seven of the children survived both parents--George, Hattie, was then known as South Lebanon, in Warren County, Ohio. 1 Amanda Luck King, Obituary, Western Star, May 17, 1917.

After remaining in the King family for three generations spanning a century, the property and house were sold 9 Van Gelder, Arthur P., and Hugo Schlatter, History of the Explosives Industry in America, (Columbia University Press, Miami Powder Company for five years, first as an employee, and then as a foreman. he struck out for the West seeking his fortune and within a few years acquired considerable means. He first established the mill at Goes about 1846 with another partner named Carleton. several hundred miles which would last perhaps a month."° (See figure 3.) "According to J. W. King, his About 1877, King sold his interest in the Miami Powder Company and partnered with his uncle in the From The History of Warren County Ohio Part, V. Biographical Sketches Union Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, father and mother died at an early age and Mr.

King, then a mere 'boy, poor and without means,' came West Miami Powder Company. The Austin brothers, who originated in Wilmington, Vermont, had built their first Ahimaaz became a partner in the Miami Powder Company and traveled regularly through the state of Indiana New York, 1927), quoted in Schiffer, "King Powder Co.," Muzzle Blasts, April 1986, p. 4. Although the term "black "'Schiffer, "The King Powder Co.," Muzzle Blasts, April 1986, 5. Isa, Harry, Robert, Jessie and Stella. 12 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 11 his death, he was President of the Loveland National Bank. For many years he had been a prominent Mr. King was essentially a man of affairs.

He was possessed of a comprehensive grasp of mind, which active and concise thinker and he was quick to perceive and to understand the essential features of a Issue. In his family Mr. King was kind, generous and indulgent both as husband and parent.His affection for success in business affairs he was wholly without ostentation and rarely alluded to his material was not without great firmness of character, but his gentle methods enabled him to maintain order and According to his obituary, dated 1909, Ahimaaz died at his winter residence in St. Augustine, Florida.. His Mills, while the four daughters were all married and lived elsewhere. The King Powder Company The earliest known manufacture of black powder in the U.S. occurred c. 1675 in Milton, Massachusetts, on the and arms. After the Revolution, E. I.

Dupont de Nemours and Company began making black powder in 1803 Adams, Director, Warren County Historical Society Museum, 1981. his home and family was charming.He was modest, quiet and gentle.Notwithstanding his signal grinding would cause it to explode.The wet powder was then pressed hydraulically into blocks.The blocks The components of black powder(or gunpowder) are a nitrate (usually potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur. three sons-George G., Harry L. and Robert A. King - all followed him into executive positions in the two British troops on Lexington and Concord was aimed in part to confiscate unauthorized supplies of powder, ball, this mix using heavy vertical roller wheels rolling through a circular bed trough.

The mix had to be wet or Mills, and built the beautiful and commodious residence which he and his family have since occupied British restricted its manufacture and controlled its importation by the Colonies. The April 1775 march by 15 Amanda Luck King, Obituary, Western Star, May 17, 1917. discipline. He was very just and possessed a sterling integrity without a trace of harshness. Such He became a large land owner in the vicinity of his home and had various other interests.At the time of United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 12 sized grains for different uses. Grain sizes could range from fine powder for small arms to softball size chunks in 1833 on the Cuyahoga River.

(By 1865 the Austin Powder Company's Akron-based mill would employ 20 Miami Powder Company. During the Civil War, there were three principal suppliers to the Union forces: Dupont; Laflin & Rand, which began before 1800 in Massachusetts and relocated to New York after 1810; and Hazard Powder Co, which until World War I. Company, which was renamed the King Powder Company on January 15, 1889. The company made black powder, which was used for rifle ammunition and blasting in the mining industry. Coal mining was consuming vast quantities of blasting powder, as was the construction of canals and other commercial enterprises. There steep adjacent hills. The old Stubbs mill was converted to grinding powder (figure 4), and the millrace was easy transport of workers, freight and first class mail." 16 History of Southwestern Ohio, 284.

The first mention of a powder mill in Ohio was the reporting in 1826 of an explosion at a mill in Cincinnati at the the Austins briefly participated in the mill near Xenia beginning in 1846. By 1850, J. W. King had joined the business at Xenia, which operated for a while as Austin & King, then under his own name and finally as the In 1877 J. W. King and Ahimaaz King moved to Warren County and started the Great Western Powder The powder mill's location on the Little Miami River was known as "The Gorge," with its very narrow valley and Miami River, contributed greatly to the growth of the powder mill (as well as the cartridge factory), enabling " Bone, Frank, Centennial Atlas of Warren County, Ohio, Lebanon, Ohio: Centennial Atlas Association, 1903. for large cannons.

The cracked powder had to be dried and tumbled or "glazed," then sifted again and packed and two years later acquired Cleveland Powder Company, which had been founded in the late 1850s.) Two of incorporated in 1843 in Enfield, Connecticut, (about five miles from Suffield, where Joseph Warren and next century. Of these Dupont, while no longer engaged in the manufacture of black powder, continues today. On the Confederate side, the Sycamore Powder Mills in Nashville, Tennessee, produced the largest quotient of the Confederate supply. The last plant was taken over by Dupont at the war's end and remained in production steel industry, quarrying, and heavy construction, as well as demand for sporting powder (i.e., gunpowder).

widened and a number of buildings necessary to powder manufacture erected along the millrace for a distance waters through massive stone headgates into a race of fifty feet wide and along the mills for nearly a mile and a half before it is finally returned to the main current" (figure 5). (The headgates are still extant, but the dam, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 13 Kings started business with 832,000 pound of surplus cannon and musket powder from the St. Louis arsenal, The resulting price war alarmed the Gunpowder Trade Association (GTA), which had been formed in 1872 by Matters were not resolved until after J. W. King's death, in 1885. A. King's son-in-law, Gershom Moore Peters, price guidelines. F.

Lindsley, an associate of Dittmar's, became its superintendent. After the new company, known as the American Wood Powder Company, failed in the panic of1893, Lindsley moved to Ohio and went to work for In 1894, the U.S. military dropped black powder as the main small arms propellant. With the adoption of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, chambered for a smokeless powder .30-40 caliber, jacketed bullet round, both Black arms. This was brought about mostly by the mechanical advances driving the development and improvement of the magazine-fed rifle, and the machine gun, which radically increased the rate of fire. Black powder Black powder rifle ammunitions and the arms that used them were diverted to the country's National Guard of 1898-1900.- Together with G. M.

Peters, Lindsley developed semi-smokeless powder, which used wood pulp that was smokeless was an absolute exclusive for Peters from 1896 until 1911 when Dupont created a competing semi- smokeless powder known as "Lesmok." 18 Schiffer, "King Powder Co.," Muzzle Blasts, 8 2 Schiffer, Peters and King, 73. King. who joined the firm in 1881 and became president in 1885, quickly agreed to join the GTA and abide by their By 1886, King's capacity was 1,000 kegs (25,000 Ibs) of black powder per day, and it occupied 400 acres of other producers, including Dupont, Remington Arms, and Miami Powder. The GTA tried to buy Kings, but after Miami Powder Company, with which they were formerly associated with King in September 1880 to persuade King to conform to GTA's price schedules, still with no result. land, and two miles along the river.

It was described as the, "largest powder concern west of the Allegheny Mountains." in Leading Manufacturers of Cincinnati." Dittmar, a Prussian Army officer who had worked with Alfred Nobel. Dittmar came to the U.S. and began nitrated, neutralized, and dried. Patented on January 17, 1899, this powder delivered wonderful results in 2 Schiffer, email, May 5, 2008 which they reworked in their mill. Production was 12,768 kegs of sporting powder and 28,067 kegs of blasting reveal the location of the shooter. Hence there was a lot of interest in smokeless powder, developed by Carl commercial production of Dittmar's Sporting Powder by 1878. In 1882, Dittmar sold the business, and Milton Powder and naked lead bullets began to step aside as the dominant propellant and projectile for U.S.

military units.These arms saw their last use when these units were pressed into service in the Spanish-American War United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 14 In his 1903 atlas of Warren County, Frank Bone asserts J. W. King is personally, "the oldest and most successful powder manufacturer in the United States at that time." Bone describes the works (see figure 24), as consisting of various factories magazines, warehouses and small mills, nestled along the race and river bank for a department of manufacture. 5,000 pounds of smokeless powder.2 and Russia in 1913, just prior to World War I, and from the US Government during the War.

Nevertheless, the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia were King's biggest customers during the first half of the waned. Black powder, which had been used in coalmines, was outlawed all over the country and different types of explosives were being substituted for it. King invented Detonite in 1933 and marketed it from its made for the oil exploration industry in the 1930s and to operate railroads, which continued to be fueled by coal smokeless was widely used at the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association competitions from the 24 Schiffer, Peters & King, 23,166,167,247.

was named Kico, a contraction of King Powder Company.24 have a combined capacity per day of about 40,000 pounds of blasting, 10,000 pounds of sporting and purposes and have a combined capacity of over 1,ooo horse power.The mills are substantially built, affords great protection in case of fire or explosion.It is also a great convenience in many of the 22 Bone. distance of two miles and spread back over the hills.A complete system of water works is provided for workers. The county also had railroad service along the Ohio River that could deliver raw materials. The plant King Powder Company continued in business through World War Il, after which demand for their product 'Ibid are equipped with the latest and best machinery, and are strictly up-to-date in every particular. They and drivers. However locating a plant closer to the customer meant lower costs and higher profits.

Thus King Powder Company established a second plant in the town of Wurtland, in Greenup County, KY, in 1919. The inception until King closed; a variation of it was used in mining as a "permissable" explosive. Much powder was until about 1955 when diesel power took over. Semi-smokeless powder was a very real force among those organization's founding in 1933 until the supply ran out in the mid-1950s. In 1957, George King, chairman of the company, died. King Powder Company ceased operations in 1958, and Eugene King sold the business. The company's buildings were all destroyed to prevent injury to curious passers-by.

All that remains is a ditch United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 15 The Peters Cartridge Company Company, which was established by a family member. Rev. Gershom Moore Peters (figure 8), a retired shaft) machine for loading shotgun cartridges. The machine drastically reduced labor costs, enabling three continued success of the King Powder Co. because other cartridge-makers used their own powder and weren't interested in buying it from King Born in Circleville, Ohio, in 1843, Peters graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1865, and from Rochester Theological Seminary in Rochester, NY, in 1869. He served as a minister in the Baptist talent for invention, and he became eminently successful.

In 1881, he went to work for his father-in-law, J. W. Peters, President; A. King, Manager; W. E. Keplinger, Vice President; J. H. McKibbon, Secretary; F. C. Tuttle, Treasurer; George G. King, Assistant Manager; and R. A. King, Second assistant Manager. The companies had offices at Fifth and Main streets in downtown Cincinnati and at 98 Chambers Street in New York. quickly ran out of space and moved to the other side of the river. By 1889, the machines were capable of Company was not affected. In 1895, Peters built a massive wood-frame tower for making lead shot. (See In 1896, a company brochure touted that, Its loading machine is without an equal in the world.

It loads with great rapidity and with far greater accuracy and uniformity than can be had by the most careful and expert hand-loading.It is entirely 28 Schiffer, 35, 242 of the property, along Columbia Road, in 1970.25 2 Ibid., 14,28,251. figure 9).In 1898,Peters received its first U.S.Army Ordnance contract.28 where the raceway once ran.The Taft Broadcasting Company erected King's Island Amusement Park on part Ahimaaz King played a leading role as manager in a second and related business, the Peters Cartridge Church for twelve years, mostly in Buffalo, NY, Even before he took up the ministry, Peters showed a natural King.When King died in 1885, leaving a large business behind with no sons to look after it, Peters assumed loading 4,000cartridges per hour.

In 1890, a terrible explosion destroyed the entire industrial complex--the loading machine revolutionized the design of firearms and production of ammunition. It was also critical to the Initially the cartridge business was located with the powder company on the west bank of the river, but it 26 Ibid, 30. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 16 establishment of its exclusive rights. feet, which would make one building about a mile in length with 30 feet in width. New buildings and lines. The output of all kinds of shells and ammunition amounts to hundreds of millions annually. WWi was a period of frantic activity, when the Peters Company radically expanded.

In 1913, although the US That year, Peters added a building for bullet manufacture. 1913 was also the year of a severe flood on the Bridgeport, Connecticut. Remington continued the manufacture of small arms ammunition. During World War owned by the U.S. government. In 1944, Remington Arms sold all their interest to Columbia Records, Inc. of Bridgeport, CT. This firm made building; the tall boiler house and stack, and shot tower. In 1979, Joseph Dues and Ron Baker formed the - Schiffer, 51. 31 Schiffer, 50 also flood-damaged, with reinforced concrete and brick. 30 1980s, when it in turn was replaced. The monument stands to the west of the King House. Arms-Union Metallic Arms Company that produced most of the small arms ammunition in the U.S. In 1916-17, ammunition plant in the world.

Its various buildings aggregate a floor space of over 150,000 square improvements and all running in charge of men of large experience and great success in their special was not yetparticipating in the war, the company received large ammunition orders from Russia and England Little Miami, and Warren County built a new iron truss bridge to replace one that was damaged.2 These During the war, Peters Cartridge Company was one of the six top commercial firms, along with the U.S. In 1934, the Peters Cartridge Co. sold the factory, land and houses to the Remington Arms Company of government engaged Remington to build and operate a new ordnance plant atop a hill south of the old Peters portion of the complex remains, including R-1, the main building; R-3, the machine shop; and R-9, the primer Articles about Kings Mills, Ohio," Warren County Historical Society Museum, 1976, 18.

and a huge smokestack, both displaying large letter Ps, identify the plant from a distance. II, the two Kings Mills plants worked together in the making of shells for small arms. In 1941, the U.S. plant. Known as the Kings Mills Ordnance Plant (KMOP), it suspended operations in March 1944.2 It is still The factories of this company are among the largest and certainly comprise the most complete United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 17 Places in 1985 in anticipation of using the federal tax credit for rehabilitation to assist redevelopment, but the cost of hazardous waste removal has hampered that effort.

Kings Mills is a small hamlet in Warren County, a company town built by the owners of the Kings Powder Soon after its founding in 1877, the King Powder Company built the 16-room Cliff House, a sort of boarding Stick-Style Baptist Church in memory of her husband in 1887. The first school was founded in 1889, and the high school was erected in 1890. A complex of six attached wood-frame row houses, called "The Manse," but Street west of the school in this new part of town.* the south and Lebanon seven miles to the north, making it possible for workers to commute to work there. Houses on Walnut Street and two double houses on Maple Street were built after 1910. The companies continued to own the houses and rented them to employees at very reasonable rents. When the companies opportunity to buy them at a very reasonable price. few have been renovated by new owners.

The livery stable and general store remain, but have been Little Miami Railroad, which was taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is also gone and the roadbed was Mills, Ohio," 49 History of Kings Mills Company for their employees. It was described in the 1903 Bone atlas as follows, "On top of the hill is a King, Ahimaaz, House lights was installed here long before it was available in the area. "In the early 1900s, the Peters Cartridge were built, typically wood-frame cottages. Most of the village was built by 1888. J. W. King's widow built the brick dwelling located at the head of King Avenue (figures 12 and 13). As the company grew, more houses Grace...moved into the first house, finished in 1903." George King built a palatial wood frame house on Church converted to other uses.The Interurban Railway ceased running in 1922 and was removed completely.

The beautiful village, built and owned by the company, with the exception of a few private dwellings. Here live most house for workers building the millrace before manufacture of powder began. This was followed by houses on top of the hill for the exclusive use of the employees. Ahimaaz King was the first one to build a home, a large ceased operation in 1944 and 1958,all employees living in company-owned houses were offered the the Cliff House, "The Manse," and the Homestead Hotel. The school still stands, but with a series of additions. 36 Interview with R, Eugene King, recorded May 14,1975, by Mrs. Miriam Lukens, in "Interviews and Articles about Kings The Peters Company also financed the Homestead Hotel, built in the early 1900s to house single employees Today the village is largely intact, with about 140 dwellings.

Most of the King-built buildings remain, except for After his death in 1957, George King's house was operated for several decades as a funeral home. It is now 35 Interview with Alice C. Pelle, recorded June 4, 1975 by Mrs. Miriam Lukens, in "Interviews and Articles about Kings Company built about four more streets on the west, calling it Petersburg. Harry King and his new wife converted to a bike trail beginning in 1984.The horse farm directly east of the old King homestead has been United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 18 about 20 years ago.

Construction of the King House An 1885 account cited by Rose Marie Springman in Around Mason, Ohio: A Story states that, "Ahimaaz King Little Miami River was used for the bricks."37 It remains the finest home in Kings Mills, and the only home built (figure 12). Other early photographs show the house with a windmill, water tower and carriage house (figures The house is an excellent and intact example of a late Italianate-style dwelling. Typical characteristics of the with large-pane glazing, and vertical proportions. The windows are not as elongated as earlier examples of the over-one in the formal rooms in the front and two-over-two in the service wing in the rear.

This house is primarily of the centered gable subtype, which according to Lee and Virginia McAlester in A Field Guide to and angled bays, which explode the symmetry of the massing, square headed windows, and a doorway with exceptional in their quality and variety. 1850 and 1880. It was particularly common in the expanding towns and cities of the Midwest as well as in Picturesque movement, a reaction to the formal classical ideals in art and architecture that had been fashionable for about two hundred years. The first Italianate houses in the US were built in the late 1830s; the style was popularized by the influential pattern books of Andrew Jackson Downing published in the 1840s and 1850s. By1860, it was dominant, but it began to fade, along with the closely related Second Empire style, after the panic of 1873 and the subsequent depression.

When prosperity returned, new housing fashions, The integrity of the house is very high. The house retains two bathrooms from ca. 1910, with marble wainscot kitchen and the house. They renovated the current kitchen and refurbished most of the ceilings in the house significant change was the removal of a porch from the west side of the summer kitchen. 15-17). and backsplashes, an original claw-foot tub and sinks. The Carters, the last private owners of the house, had constructed a House in Kings Mills for his family's residence. It was a 12-room structure and clay from the style. Italianate style windows are typically one-over-one and two-over-two; the King House has both, one- many older but still growing cities of the northeastern seaboard. The style began in England as part of the recently subdivided for new houses.

An earlier residential subdivision was built on the south side of the village of brick. A photograph from 1887 shows King Avenue with the King House in the center rear of the frame with gypsum board. They also replaced the standing-seam metal roof with asphalt shingles. The only other 3Rose Marie Springman, Around Mason, Ohio: A Story, 89. 38 McAlester & McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses, 212-214. particularly the Queen Anne style - rose quickly to prominence. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 19 The Architects dated by the architects, "Peters and Burns, Dayton, Ohio, June 1884." Apparently the King House was one of their early commissions.

Peters & Burns were responsible for numerous commissions that are listed in the National Register of Historic brick commercial architecture and reputed to be the first major American office building to have a mail chute Office (1889), designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, is also listed. Mr. Burns and his wite are First Lutheran Church, designed by the firm and built around 1907, is a Gothic-style building of buff-colored Luther Peters and Silas Reese Burns were the progenitors of Pretzinger & Musselman, who were Dayton's partnership was dissolved in 1907 when Silas Burns moved to California. Pretzinger was followed into the business by his son Freeman and grandsons Albert Il and Robert. Freeman Pretzinger worked for his father back to his father's firm. After the dissolution of Pretzinger and Musselman in 1928, Albert and Freeman News, Dec. 7, 1989. Places.

These include the Benjamin F. Kuhns Building (1883), an outstanding example of late 19th-century 1980 when Albert Il died.40 Street, another National Register-listed design by Peters, Burns, and Pretzinger in 1901, is a fine example of Bainbridge stone veined in red, blue, and brown, with a 100-foot high tower on the side. It too is listed. The This is confirmed by an ink drawing of the foundation plan (figure 25) found in the house, which is signed and Peters and Burns had offices in this building for several years. The Woodland Cemetery Gateway, Chapel and the Mission style. Itis a rectangular, two-story brick structure with a square, three-story hose-drying tower. The as a high school student. He then earned a degree at Boston Tech, now MIT, returned to Dayton and went to became partners in Pretzinger & Pretzinger. Albert Il became an architect and joined the firm in the 1950s.

buried in this cemetery, whose gardens were designed by the renowned landscape architect Adolph Strauch, Hermann, and Brown, displays aspects of the Second Renaissance Revival style, including a rusticated raised These commissions demonstrate that, Peters and Burns, like many firms of the day, were adept at interpreting summer months. In 1893 he became a partner, and the firm became Peters, Burns & Pretzinger. This Benjamin,"Visiting the House"Poppo"designed;Pretzinger Family tours building for First Time,"Dayton Daily United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 20 and Second Street in downtown Dayton and the Dayton Public Library.* children born to this union; five sons and a daughter survived.

Luther, born May 11, 1846, is listed in the 1850 They had no children but adopted a niece, Helen. It is not known where Mr. Peters received his education. From 1881 to 1887 he was in practice with Mr. Silas R. Burns according to the Biographical Dictionary of American Architects. During that time they were the co- was admitted into a partnership under the firm name of Peters, Burns & Pretzinger. The firm is listed in the Dayton City and Montgomery County Directory for 1896-97 with offices in Rooms 26 to 31 of the Kuhn Luther and Jennie had their home at 307 S. Summit Street during the early 20* century and that is the address listed in obituaries in The Dayton Journal and The Dayton Daily News on Friday, February 18, 1921. He was Silas Reese Burns (1855-1940) Los Angeles, among numerous other projects.

43 Ibid Luther Peters' family moved to Dayton, Ohio, in November 1844 "making the entire distance by boat" Luther Peters (1846-1921) downtown Dayton. Luther is credited with designing the Fireman's Insurance Building, on the corner of Main (across the street from the Kuhn Building). His partners were George H. Hermann and Clifford C. Brown. 42 Ibid and his family loaded their possessions on a section boat and landed in Dayton in November. Joseph Peters census at age 3 living at 230 Warren Street, Dayton, Ohio, with his parents and again in the 1860 census at architect named Albert Pretzinger worked in their offices during the summer months. In 1893 Mr. Pretzinger Building. This partnership was dissolved in 1907 when Silas Burns moved to California. Today Pretzinger is considered Dayton's foremost native architect by Preservation Dayton.

Following this, Luther Peters worked in the firm of Peters, Hermann & Brown at 1129 to 1137 Reibold Building became one of the principal builders of the city, supervising construction of many churches and buildings in 45 Ibid. age 13. He married Jennie (or Janie) Rutledge, daughter of Mark and Augusta Livermore Rutledge in 1867. 44 Ibid. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 21 Mr. Eager withdrew from the partnership and it became the firm of Hunt and Burns until 1930, when Mr. Burns According to the Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, Mr.

Burns and his firm were involved in the building of many important structures in Los Angeles: the Children's Hospital, 1910; the Southwest Museum, 1914; the Los Angeles Country Club, 1922; the Automobile Club of Southern California, 1923; and Balch Hall at Scripps College, Claremont. Independently, Mr. Burns served as the architect of buildings at the Soldiers' listed as the architects of The Ebell of Los Angeles, home to a non-profit women's educational, social and Silas Burns died in 1940 in Los Angeles. Contributing resources Carriage House/Barn The carriage house/barn, c. 1885, was essential to the function of the King House. Its brick construction on an ashlar stone basement is unusual, and reflects the wealth of its owner Ahimaaz King.

Like that of the house, detail is a later addition but adds to the character of the building and its historical association with the house and its owner. property. These contributing resources are 1) cast-iron water fountain on the south lawn; 2 and 3) two rough hitching posts. Landscape features Silas Reese Burns was born in Morgantown, Virginia, on April 8, 1855, the son of Silas and Susan (Coombs) Devereaux in 1891. Mr. Burns specialized in institutional and educational buildings.In 1907, he relocated to Burns. He received his architectural training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston and served Home at Sawtelle (now West Los Angeles). Mr. Burns was listed as the architect of the Alhambra Theatre in In addition to the house and barn, there are eight landscape features that are considered contributing because Los Angeles where he entered into a partnership with Mr.

Hunt and Mr. A. Wesley Eager at that time. In 1910 of their age, integrity, and their contribution to the historical association and feeling of the King House and The rough stone monument with the bronze plaque from the 1913 iron truss bridge that once spanned the Little Miami River is not original to the property. It was installed by the Kings Mills Civic Club in the 1980s when the local history, itis not a historic landscape feature of the property, and therefore considered non-contributing. 46 Ibid. 47 Ibid.

retired.46 as a draftsman with leading firms in the city of Dayton before joining with Luther Peters.He married Louise United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 8 Page 22 represent the importance of Ahimaaz King (1842-1909), an early Ohio industrialist. King was a founder and largest in the country by 1890. The King Co. was the first to develop semi-smokeless powder. It later founded the National Register in 1985 with the hope that the buildings would be rehabilitated, but the complex remains eligible under Criterion C as an excellent and intact example of a late Italianate-style rural dwelling. It is also at least five that are National Register-listed.

Through its successor firms, Peters, Burns & Pretzinger, architectural works in Dayton and southwest Ohio. Conclusion 48Thomas D Schiffer, telephone interview, Oct.,18, 2007, and Peters &King,9. eligible under Criteria B and C. The property is eligible under Criterion B because the contributing elements the manager of both the King Powder Company and the Peters Cartridge Company until his death in 1909. history of a frontier-era powder manufacture which evolved into a force in the industry, and to be the third another company to load cartridges, which far outstripped the founder in size.According the author and expert employees. The Ahimaaz King House was the first dwelling to be built in the community, at the head of the Luther Peters and Silas Burns proved to be outstanding architects of the late 19"-century and early 20th - century.

Their body of work encompassed many different styles of public and commercial buildings, including Built ca. 1885, the Ahimaaz King House, along with its contributing Carriage House and landscape features, is associated with architects Peters & Burns, among the early professional firms in Dayton. Established in 1881, nothing remains of the King Powder Company. A portion of the Peters complex still remains. It was listed in United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 9 Page 23 9. Major Bibliographical References Deed Transfers of Warren County, Ohio. Robert King. 19 July 1917. Vol. 101, 600. Deed Transfers of Warren County, Ohio. J.W. King & Lucille King. 16 May 1970. Vol. 415, 617. Deed Transfers of Warren County, Ohio.

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Records of the Warren County Historical Society. Schiffer, Thomas D. Peters and King: The Birth & Evolution of the Peters Cartridge Co. & the King Powder Co. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002 Snyder, Marion. "Who's credited with putting the 'King' into Kings Mills?" Lebanon Star, 12 April 1992. Springman, Rose Marie. Around Mason, Ohio: A Story. Cincinnati, Ohio: C.J. Krehbiel Company, 1982. Withey, Elsie Rathbum and Withey, Henry, A.I.A. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles, CA: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc 1970. and Arizona. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Print & Binding House, 1913. Adams, Director, Warren County Historical Society, 1981. "Judge Keys' Decision, Warren Probate Court, The State of Ohio on Relation of Albert Stubbs against Isaac Stubbs," Lukens, Miriam.

"Highlights and Holidays: An Oral History of Warren County, Ohio," Lebanon, Ohio: Warren County Who's who in the Pacific Southwest: a compilation of authentic biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California Bogosian, Don. ''The King Powder Company". Little Miami, Inc. Deed Warren County Auditors Records. Schiffer. "The King Powder Co." Muzzle Blasts Magazine, April, 1986, 5-10. Joseph W. King, Interview, in "Kings Mills, Ohio, Families," compiled by Constance Witt under the direction of Elva R. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 9 Page 25 June 6, 2005. Cleveland, Betty A.

"Ohio & Pennsylvania Hotel at the Sign of the Golden Lamb, Bradley House, Stubbs House, Lebanon House," Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, Aug. 1, 1977. Bobby and Betty Lou Carter, owners of the house from 1988 until 1999; personal interview in the King House, September 10, 2007. Internet-based Sources 2002, http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Landmarks/Brandywine_River_Powder_Mills.cfmD www.forgottenoh.com www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OH/Montgomery http://www.austinpowder.com the direction of Elva R. Adams, Director, Warren County Historical Society, 1981. Interviews Unpublished Sources Young, Roz. "Architect's Grandson, drug store clerk recall earlier times," Dayton Daily News, Mar, 25, 2000.

King, Ahimaaz, House Ambrosius,Brian, Nancy Edwards,&Kathleen Luhn."Ahimaaz King House, 1720 East King Avenue, Mason, Ohio,"TS, Perkins, Rowan, "#221 Brandywine River Powder Mills (1803-1921)" Hagley Museum and Library Wilmington, Delaware, Luhn, Kathleen. "Ahimaaz King House, 1720 East King Avenue, Mason, Warren County, Ohio," TS, May 12,2006. Kindig, Moira, "The History of Black Powder," http://www.blackpowderjournal.com/archives/vol1no3/articles/powder.htm "Gunpowder," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder "Warren County,"Ohio History Central, an Online Encyclopedia, www.ohiohistorycentry.org. www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com Dinger, Ed."Austin Powder Company," International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 76 (2005) King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property_65.283 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) X See continuation sheet. Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

Form Prepared By name/title organization Beth Sullebarger, Principal, Sullebarger Associates street & number 1080 Morse Avenue _telephone 513 772-1088 city or town Glendale Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Deerfield Township street & number 4900 Parkway Avenue, Suite 150 telephone (513) 701-6976 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of Photographs Maps Zone Easting Northing _state OH _ zip code 45040 A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. city or town Mason benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Representative black and white photographs of the property. Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Section number 10 Page 26 UTM References Zone Easting Northing A 16 737203 4359968 737586 4360224 C 16 D 16 737640 4360870 E 16 Verbal Boundary Description Auditor's office, and shown in the attached site plan. Boundary Justification The justification for the boundary is that the parcel contains the remaining property originally associated with Ahimaaz King at the time that he built his residence there.

Geographical Data 737225 4359834 737607 4359431 B 16 The boundary coincides with the boundary of the 65.283-acre parcel 16-12-200-025, as recorded in Warren County United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Additional Documentation: Maps Page 27 VILLAGE OF KINGS MILL Location Map KING PROPERTY KINGS MILL ROAD EXIT 25 PROPERTY LOCATION PLAN KING HOUSE United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Additional Documentation: Maps Page 28 KING AVENUE Existing Site Plan PROPERTY LINES King, Ahimaaz, House LIVESTOCK SHELTER C. 1990 NC SCALE: 1" = 100' STONE MOUNTING BLOCK C.

189 EXIS TING CONCRETE DRIVEWAY- EXIS TING GRAVEL DRIVEWAY BRIDGE MONUMENT 19805 NC - STONE BENCHES C. 1890 C- WATER PUMP C. 1884-85 C- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Additional Documentation: Maps Page 29 KING AVENUE ~ EXISTING SITE PLAN SCALE: 1" = 100' Key to Exterior Photographs CONTINUATION SHEET CARRIAGE HOUSE/BARN C. 1884-85 C -LIVESTOCK SHELTER C. 1990 NC OFFICE BUILDING C. 1990 NC CONCRETE DRIVEWAY RAME SHED C.1890 C BRIDGE MONUMENT 1980S NC STONE BENCHES C. 1890 C~ WATER PUMP C.

1884-85 C- PROPERTY LINES United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Beth Sullebarger November 7, 2006, June 29, 2007, July 6, 2007, September 5, 2007 1. Front elevation, looking north, July 6, 2007 2. Front and east elevations, looking northwest, July 6, 2007 4. Summer kitchen, looking southeast, June 29, 2007 6. East Parlor, looking east, July 6, 2007 7. Fireplace mantel, east parlor, July 6, 2007 9. Master Bedroom, looking northwest, July 6, 2007 10. Attic Tack Room, looking south, July 6, 2007 11. Dining Room, chandelier, July 6, 2007 13. Carriage House, south porch detail, looking north, July 6, 2007 14. Small Frame Shed, looking east, June 29, 2007 17. Barn, looking northwest, November 7, 2006 18.

Office Building, looking north, November 7, 2006 19. Large Frame Shed, looking west, September 5, 2007 Stair hall, second floor, looking north, July 6, 2007 Additional information: Photographs Page 30 16. Bridge monument, looking southeast, July 6, 2007 12. Carriage House, south and west elevations, looking northeast, November 7, 2006 15. Fountain, looking north, June 29, 2007 West and north elevations, looking southeast, November 7, 2006 5.Stair hall first floor, looking northwest, July 6, 2007 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Additional information: Figures Page 31 1. Ahimaaz King 2. Joseph Warren King 3. Ahimaaz King and His Wagon 5. Earliest known photograph of King Powder Company, looking northeast 6. King Powder Co. Powerhouse, 1896 7.

Early view of King Powder Company, looking northwest 8. G. M. Peters, President, Peters Cartridge Company, 1896 11. View of Peters Cartridge Company on Letterhead, 1925 12. King Avenue, ca. 1887, looking north 13. King Avenue, 1890s, looking northwest 14. Interurban Railway and Terminal in Kings Mills, early 1900s 15. King House, with Carriage House on left 16. King House, with wind mill and water tower on right 17. King House, 1896 18. King House, west elevation, date unknown 19. King House in winter, date unknown 20. Map of Warren County, Ohio, 1867 21. Combination Atlas and Map of Warren County, Ohio, 1875 22. Complete Atlas of Warren County, Ohio, 1891 9. King Powder Company and Peters Cartridge Company, 1896 10.Early view of Peters Cartridge Company, looking southwest King, Ahimaaz, House 4.

Stubbs Mill NPS Form 10-900 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET King, Ahimaaz, House Kings Mills, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio Additional information: Figures Page 32 23. Centennial Atlas of Warren County, Ohio, 1903, detail 24. Centennial Atlas of Warren County, Ohio, 1903, Kings Mills Sons, August 16, 1917 35. King House, west elevation, Preservation Architecture Services Team, August 10, 2007 (Rev. 10-90) OMB No. 1024-0018 28. West elevation, "Sleeping Porch and Sun Room for Mr. R. A. King, Kings Mills, OH," Samuel Hannaford & Sons, 25. Basement plan, "Residence for Mr. A. King, S. Lebanon, O." Peter & Burns, June 1884 32. King House, first floor plan, Preservation Architecture Services Team, August 10, 2007 35.

King House, south elevation, Preservation Architecture Services Team, August 10, 2007 27. Second floor plan, "Sleeping Porch and Sun Room for Mr. R. A. King, Kings Mills, OH," Samuel Hannaford & Sons, 30. Casement door details, "Sleeping Porch and Sun Room for Mr. R. A. King, Kings Mills, OH," Samuel Hannaford & 31. King House, basement floor plan, Preservation Architecture Services Team, August 10, 2007 34. King House, third floor plan, Preservation Architecture Services Team, August 10, 2007 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 1. Ahimaaz King, 1896 Figure 2. Joseph Warren King (Schiffer, Peters & King, p.9) (Warren County Historical Society) The King Powder Comt 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 3. Ahimaaz King and his Wagon (Schiffer, Peters & King, p. 11) Figure 4. Former Stubbs Mill (Schiffer, Peters & King, p. 13) BMPANYSWOR 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 5. Earliest known photograph of King Powder Company, c. 1892-1894, looking northeast (WCHS, gift of Helen Dowdell Bogart) Figure 6. King Powder Company Powerhouse, 1896 (Brochure, WCHS) Additional Documentation 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 7. Early view of King Powder Company, looking northwest (Schiffer, Peters & King, p. 62) 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio G. M. PETERS, PRESIDENT. Figure 8. G. M. Peters, President, Peters Cartridge Company, 1896 (Brochure, Warren County Historical Society) 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 9.

King Powder Co. (foreground) and Peters Cartridge Co. (background), 1896 (WCHS) Figure 10.Early view of Peters Cartridge Company, looking southwest (WCHS) The Hing Powder Company and Peters Cartridge Company, Kings Mills. 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 11. View of Peters Cartridge Company on Letterhead, 1925 (WCHS) Figure 12. King Avenue, c. 1887, looking north, with King Mansion in center and church under construction on left. (Schiffer, p. 150) Additional Documentation METALLIC AND SHOT GUN AMMUNITION The Peters Gartridge Gompany 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 13. King Avenue, 1890s, looking northwest (WCHS) Figure 14. Interurban Railway and Terminal in Kings Mills, early 1900s (Schiffer, p. 150) NPS Form10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 15. King Mansion, with Carriage House on left (WCHS) Figure 16. King Mansion, with wind mill and water tower on right (WCHS) 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 17. King Mansion, 1896 (WCHS) Figure 18. King Mansion, west elevation (Schiffer, p. 155) 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 19. King Mansion, date unknown (WCHS) 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Figure 20. Map of Warren County, 1867 Figure 21.

Combination Atlas and Map of Warren County, 1875 Additional Documentation Warren County, Ohio 166 Estate J.R.MA 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Thos Mrs A Figure 22. Complete Atlas of Warren County, 1891 King Figure 23. Centennial Atlas of Warren County, 1903 Additional Documentation Dill 144 116.2 47.39 71.25 Fox 8404 Jno Hoff Bill. i22. J.8A Fok 108.33 217 69.80 101.33 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 24. Centennial Atlas of Warren County, 1903 CONTINUATION SHEET Additional Documentation 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 25. "Residence for Mr. A. King, S. Lebanon, O," Basement Plan, Peters & Burns, June 1884 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 26. Sleeping Porch and Sun Room Addition, Basement and First Floor Plan, Hannaford & Sons, August 6, 1917 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 27.

Sleeping Porch & Sun Room Addition, Second Floor Plan, Hannaford & Sons, August 6, 1917 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number Page King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 28. Sleeping Porch & Sun Room Addition, West Elevation, Hannaford & Sons, August 6, 1917 Page 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 King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio Figure 29. Sleeping Porch and Sun Room Addition, Section and Window Details, Hannaford & Sons, August 6, 1917 Additional Documentation 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 Additional Documentation King, Ahimaaz, House Warren County, Ohio FIRST FLOOR 2,980 SF KING HOUSE SECOND FLOORHIØ SF BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN Date: 8-10-07 Hamilton County, Ohio 10,450 SF Services 513-281-7244 Architecture Team TOTAL ATTIC Figure 31 Project No: 07-584 2606 VINE STREET CINCINNATI,OH 45219 KING HOUSE AREAS P reservation BASEMENT 2,650 SF 2,410 SF FIRST FLOOR PLAN Architecture Services Preservation 513-281-7244 Team Date: 8-10-07 CINCINNATI, OH 45219 Project No: 07-584 2606 VINE STREET Figure 32 KING HOUSE Hamilton County, ohio CINCINNATI, OH 45219 ) SECOND FLOOR PLAN Project No: 07-584 Preservation Architecture Team 513-281-7244 Date: 8-10-07 Hamilton County, Ohio KING HOUSE 2606 VINE STREET Services Figure 33 THIRD FLOOR PLAN Services Preservation Architecture 513-281-7244 Team Date: 8-10-07 Hamilton County, Ohio 2606 VINE STREET KING HOUSE Project No: 07-584 Figure 34 CINCINNATI, OH 45219 ROOF FRAMING PLAN Services 513-281-7244 Team Architecture P reservation Date: 8-10-07 2606 VINE STREET Figure 35 Project No: 07-584 KING HOUSE Hamilton County, ohio CINCINNATI, OH 45219 CINCINNATI, OH 45219 KING HOUSE ROOF PLAN Hamilton County, Ohio Date: 8-10-07 Services 513-281-7244 Architecture Team Preservation Project No: 07-584 Figure 35 2606 VINE STREET Services 513-281-7244 Architecture Team Project No: 07-584 Date: 8-10-07 2606 VINE STREET P reservation CINCINNATI, OH 45219 Figure 36 Hamilton County, Ohio SOUTH ELEYATION Figure KING HOUGE EXISTING WEST ELEVATION Preservation Services Architecture 513-281-7244 Team Project No: 07-584 2606 VINE STREET Hamilton County, ohio Date: 8-10-07 CINCINNATI, OH 45219 KING HOUSE EXISTING NORTH ELEVATION CINCINNATI, OH 45219 513-281-7244 Team Architecture Date: 8-10-07 Hamilton County, Ohio P reservation Figure 38 2606 VINE STREET Project No: 07-584 Services SCALE: ** - 1-Ø° KING HOUGE EXISTING CINCINNATI, OH 45219 Hamilton County, Ohio Date: 8-10-07 Services 513-281-7244 Team P reservation Figure 39 Project No: 07-584 2606 VINE STREET Architecture EAST ELEVATION CINCINNATI, OH 45219 Project No: 07-584 Services Team 513-281-7244 Architecture 2606 VINE STREET Figure 40 Hamilton County, ohio BUILDING SECTION P reservation KING HOUSE Date: 8-10-07 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Warren DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE MULTIPLE 12/21/08 11/07/08 RETURN REVIEWER 12/03/08 PERIOD: OTHER: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.

DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: induotialiot A himaaz King. DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N King, Ahimaaz, House N PDIL: REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY 1219/2008DATE Beth Sulleburger Beth Sullebarger July 6,2007 Front and east elevations, lookingnw Wanrencounty, OH Beth Sullebärger West and north elevatrons, looking se Beth Sullebarger June 29,2007 summer kitchen, looking se July 6,2007 Beth Sullebarger July 6, 2007 East partor, looking east WarenCounty, OH July 6, 2007 warren county, OH Beth Sullebanger Warren County, of July 6, 2007 stuir hall, second floor, looking h Beth Suflebarger July 6,2007 Master bedroum, looking nw Beth: Sulheburger Beth.

Sullebarger July 6,2007 Dining room, chandelier Beth Sullebarger Warren county Of camiage House, south porch detail Kmg, Ahimaar, House June 29,2007 Frame shied, lookinge F.S SIMPSOK BUILT BY A.C.BAKER Warren County, OH Nov. 7, 2006 Beth Sulleburger Warren County, 0H King, Ahimaaz House Wanren County, OH office buiding, looking n NOV, 7, 2006 Bethi Sulleburger Sept.5,2007 Livestock shelter, lookingw SOUTH LEBANON QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES SOUTH LEBANON, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR F 16 737225 4359834 RECEIVED 2280 NOV 0 7 2008 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 November 3, 2008 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find five (5) new National Register nominations.

All appropriate notification NEW NOMINATION Fairfield County Children's Home Bull, Jonah, House King, Ahimaaz, House 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 Montgomery Hamilton www.ohiohistory.org Warren Enclosures Sincerely, HISTORY OHIO Clark OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fairfield National Register Masonic Temple Pinecroft procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Dear Ms. Matthews: If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register