Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used inpreparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) Primary Location of Additional Data _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested _ Other State agency _previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register _ Local government designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: Ohio Yearly Meeting of _recorded by Historic American Engineering Record Friends (Quakers), Barnesville OH 1815-1919 Bibliography Architecture religious purposes.
Other University Religion Cultural Affiliation Criteria Considerations Federal agency Applicable National Register Criteria (Page 3) for National Register listing) individual distinction. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 1 Belmont County, Ohio County and State Statement of Significance The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House is locally significant under Criterion A as one of only nine constructed in 1815 as a replacement meeting house for the first Quaker settlement in Ohio and was the Plan" of architecture, the primary Quaker religious building type of the years 1770-1870. Concord Friends played an important role in the 1828 division in the Society of Friends; after 1831, only the Hicksite branch worshipped here.
The Hicksites "reduced" the building in 1898, producing its current "Cottage Plan" appearance. The Concord Meeting House is critical to our understanding of the history of this once- numerous religious group in eastern Ohio, which disbanded in 1919. The period of significance begins with the construction of the meeting house in 1815 and ends in 1919 when worship ceased to be held. Concord Quakers formed the first Friends settlement in Ohio in 1800. The log meeting house they constructed that year is reported to have been the first European house of worship in Belmont County and one of the earliest houses of worship in the future State of Ohio. Concord Friends played a key role in the development of Friends in Ohio in the early nineteenth century.
After the original meeting house burned in 1814, the meeting purchased property in a more central location and constructed the original portion of the current meeting house in 1815. In the mid-nineteenth century, a division and emigration reduced the once-large membership. In 1898, the meeting house was reduced in size and (with the exception of the used for non-religious purposes. Settlement of Friends in Eastern Ohio 1799-1800 Colerain Township was the location of the earliest Quaker settlement in Ohio. Earlier individual Friends who had settled along the Ohio River north of Kentucky have been documented.? In 1799, Benjamin Townsend, a Friends minister from southwestern Pennsylvania, traveled throughout the Quaker settlements in North and South Carolina with his brother, Joseph Townsend.
The Townsends notified Southern Quakers that the land in the Northwest Territory was guaranteed to be free from slavery. As a result ofthis visit, the entire Trent Friends Meeting and most of Core Sound Meeting near the southeast coast of North Carolina relocated en masse in 1800 to the area later to become Colerain Township, Ohio. Society, 1975), pp. 3-7. (8-86) Historic Overview Continuation Sheet later removal of a porch) assumed its current appearance.Concord Hicksites disbanded in 1919,the same spiritual home of many early Ohio Quakers. As originally constructed, the building reflected the "Quaker year that the larger eastern Ohio Hicksite group disbanded. Since that time the meeting house has been remaining Ohio Hicksite Meeting Houses and under Criterion C in the area of Architecture. It was of Friends, 1985, pp. 13-14;Charles P.
Morlan, A BriefHistory of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2James L. Burke and Donald E. Bensch, Mount Pleasant and the Early Quakers of Ohio (Columbus: Ohio Historical NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 2 Belmont County, Ohio County and State The first Friends meeting for worship held in Ohio by the North Carolina Quakers occurred in Colerain Township in 1800 at the home of Jonathan Taylor, reportedly the first residence constructed in the territory that became Colerain Township.
This initial worship was visited by three traveling Friends ministers from Concord Meeting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania: Hannah Reeve, Hannah Trimble, Alfred Whinnery, dated 1826, relates an old story that attenders of this first Friends meeting in Ohio sat Earliest Concord Meeting House 1800-1815 The first Concord Friends Meeting House was a log building constructed in 1800. It is said to have been reported to have been constructed of poplar logs; it is known to have had a brick chimney.' The deed for the property states that it was located in the northeast corner of Section 7 (Deeds D-400 and G-493), but the current Township map shows it slightly south of the actual corner. Concord was the first organized Quaker meeting in Ohio. At first, the meeting for worship alternated between Concord and Short Creek (Jefferson County).
On 6/1/1801, Redstone Quarterly Meeting (the regional organizational unit in Brownsville, Pa.) established separate meetings at Concord and Short Creek and a local business meeting called a preparative meeting (the Quaker organizational unit usually compared to a township) for both settlements. The dramatic influx of Friends from North Carolina and elsewhere led to the establishment of the next level of Quaker business meeting, Concord Monthly Meeting, on 12/7/1801 (the monthly meeting is often compared to a county).' Concord was the first established Friends meeting for worship in Ohio, the first Preparative Meeting in Ohio, and the first Monthly Meeting in Ohio.
Horton Howard, a medical doctor who later printed a book of herbal remedies titled An Improved System of Botanic Medicine (setting forth remedies used by the American Indians in Ohio), was a leading Friends minister who served as the first Clerk of Concord Monthly Meeting and later the Friends Miscellany, vol. XII (1839), pp. 216-220. J.A. Caldwell, History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio (Wheeling WV: Historical Publishing Co., 1880), p. 535; 5 Caldwell, p. 186 Swarthmore College (minute books of 1821-1919). The earliest women's minute books have been lost; the minute books of 1828-1875 are at Swarthmore College. (8-86) Continuation Sheet on logs during the worship. 7The men's minute books are located in the Quaker archives at Malone College(minute book of 1801-1821) and and Stephen Mendenhall. The name of the new meeting is likely derived from their visit.
A short paper by the first European house of worship in Belmont County and one of the first constructed in Ohio. It is the name Concord is derived from the French word for peace, which may have contributed to its adoption. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 3 Belmont County, Ohio first Clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting when the highest level of the Quaker organizational structure was established in 1813. Howard also worked with employees of the Steubenville Land Office to help thousands of Quakers and other people to settle in the Seven Ranges.® Concord Friends played a major role in the settling of Friends meetings in eastern Ohio.
The minute books indicate that Friends such as Borden Stanton and Horton Howard were particularly busy with nurturing new meetings. Before 1804, Concord Friends assisted in the settling of Quaker communities in Jefferson County (Plymouth/Smithfield, Cross Creek, and Short Creek) and Belmont County (Plainfield, Flushing, and Stillwater). As each community grew in numbers and experience, the Quaker included several smaller organizational units in Belmont and Jefferson Counties which gradually grew and became separate monthly meetings on their own. In 1804, Concord Monthly Meeting was divided in half, when Quakers in Jefferson County were set off as Short Creek Monthly Meeting.
Concord Monthly Meeting afterwards included local meetings at Concord, Stillwater, Flushing, and Plainfield (all in rather unusual for the time, the new Concord Monthly Meeting contained only Concord itself and a New Meeting House 1815 A new Concord Meeting House was built in 1815. The minutes of 1/20/1814 mention that "Our meeting house [was] destroyed by fire." A committee was appointed to construct a new meeting house on the ridge west of the first meeting house (the location of the current building), a location more convenient to the road system that had developed since 1800. The 1815 Concord Meeting House was a one-story building that included two walls of the current "Quaker Plan" of nonconformist religious architecture (see the significance section below for a discussion used by the women and men, respectively. The interior had two rooms divided by a moveable partition.
Elevated benches along the east wall were used by the ministers and elders, and the remainder of the committee reported on 2/23/1815 that the cost of the construction was $551.52, and that the work was almost complete. Burials continued at the old meeting house site until 1820, when a new burial ground was laid out beside the 1815 meeting house. ® Concord Monthly Meeting minutes, 12/7/1801; Horton Howard, An Improved System of Botanic Medicine (Cincinnati: J even though they lived in the State of Ohio. (8-86) Continuation Sheet County and State of modes of Quaker religious architecture).
The six-bay building had doors in the second and fifth bays, Belmont County).In 1808, Concord Monthly Meeting was divided into three smaller units.In a move Columbus to Pittsburgh; Quakers in western Ohio belonged to Indiana Yearly Meeting and were called "Indiana Friends" nascent meeting of Friends in Wheeling, which last met in 1819. building. The only known photograph, taken in 1888 by Gilbert Cope, shows that it was an example of the Kost,1852). The organization called "Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends" historically covered the geographic area from NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 4 Belmont County, Ohio County and State Divisions of Friends at Concord Concord Quakers struggled in the early 1820s from loss of membership. By this time, most Quaker ministers at Concord, including Horton Howard, had moved tonewer settlements with better farmland, organizational structure in the area to address the low membership of Concord Monthly Meeting. Complicating the issue of re-organization was dissention over the ministry of Elias Hicks, a Quaker minister from Long Island. Hicks was a rather divisive minister who spoke specifically against a growing tendency among British Quaker ministers to adopt terminology and techniques from liturgical traditions in England.
Hicks's detractors accused him of not fully accepting the inspiration of scripture. In 1827, year, the division spread across the continent. The division at Concord took place on 2/20/1828. The larger Quaker community had previously decided to re-organize the organizational structure in Belmont and Jefferson Counties, but when they started the throughout eastern Ohio at the same time. When Ohio Yearly Meeting met later in 1828, it was a Concord Hicksite named Isaac James who broke into the Mount Pleasant Meeting House and famously share the meeting house for three years, with mixed results. In 1831, the Orthodox withdrew and constructed a new meeting house elsewhere. The division was nearly even; a Mount Pleasant newspaper reported the Orthodox had 115 members and the Hicksites 129.
Importantly, most of the local leaders became Orthodox, including all local ministers, elders, and overseers. Some Concord Hicksites, including Thomas Vickers, George Cope, and Mary Ann Updegraff, were prominent among Ohio Hicksites. However, Concord Hicksites had no ministers until 1894, and elders (who were responsible for nurturing ministers) were not appointed until 1847. As a result, it appears that worship at Concord was substantially silent throughout the latter two-thirds of the nineteenth century. Throughout the nineteenth century, the Hicksites declined numerically. During the 1830s and 1840s, nearly 100 Concord Hicksite Friends moved to other areas with more fertile farmland, draining most of the younger members of the meeting. Even with the loss in membership, Ohio Hicksites made their mark the building.
(8-86) Decline of Concord Meeting The division had a devastating effect upon Concord Meeting. The Hicksites and Orthodox attempted to process that day, the Hicksites chose to separate rather than re-organize. Other divisions were taking place threw Jonathan Taylor, Clerk of the Yearly Meeting, out the gallery door and onto the ground outside of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Section 8 Page 5 Belmont County, Ohio through their anti-slavery activities, including the Underground Railroad, and later with the temperance In 1874, Concord Monthly Meeting was one of the earliest Hicksite meetings in Ohio to merge the men's and women's business meetings.
Quakers had organized separate men's and women's business meetings in North America in the late seventeenth century as a means of providing a check on the influence of particularly outspoken Friends. The men's and the women's business meetings needed to agree to each The development of the bicameral business meetings precipitated the traditional 'Quaker Plan' of meeting held their monthly meeting in 1874, and on 9/20/1876, the minutes officially became those of the "men and women Friends." In Quaker parlance, Concord Friends had decided to hold future business meetings "in joint session. In the 1890s, Concord managed to escape imminent extinction. The Hicksite regional organizational unit appointed a committee to visit Concord Friends on 8/16/1879 because they had not held meetings for worship for three months. This committee helped re-establish regular worship again.
About this time, a Friend at Concord named Isaac Vickers began to speak during the worship. On 8/18/1894, Vickers was recognized as a minister. He was the only Hicksite minister at Concord after the 1828 division. For two decades, the minutes do not mention imminent disintegration of the meeting. In the late 1gth century, many Hicksite meetings around the nation decided to "reduce" their meeting houses provided a more convenient setting for worship and were easier to heat and maintain. Several meetings demolished one half of the building, which changed the building from a "Quaker Plan" building In 1898, the "reduction" took place at Concord. A building committee was appointed, which proposed to demolish the west and south walls of the meeting house and reduce it to a size of 22'x30'.
The initial plan had been approved on 5/25/1892, and the minutes specifically state that the new meeting house would purchase wallpaper for the new interior (the committee never reported when the work was complete). Local historians report the construction work was conducted by E.U. Fox. movement. Reduction Campaign, 1898 (8-86) Continuation Sheet Name of property decision separately before it could be made (using a process very similar to the U.s. House and Senate). to the "Cottage Plan." Ohio Hicksite meetings which reduced their meeting houses in the late 19" century County and State not have a partition. Work began in late 1897, and the meeting appointed a committee on 4/20/1898 to (usually the west room) and one used by the men (usually the east room). Concord's women Friends last decision to merge the separate men's and women's business meetings.
The resulting smaller meeting house design, with a frame partition dividing the meeting house into one room used by the women houses. This movement, which began in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1870s, was made possible by the included Westland in Morgan County, Plainfield in Belmont County, and Carmel in Columbiana County. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Section 8 Page 6 Belmont County, Ohio The organizational structure of Ohio Hicksites" completely collapsed in the first two decades of the twentieth century. In 1911, Concord reported that it had only 21 resident members. Attendance fell into single digits by 1913 and was often just one or two people.
When the meeting organized a centennial event in the meeting house, very few attended (according to the minutes, 1/17/1915). The monthly business meeting was last held on 9/21/1919, and it is thought that no meetings for worship were held there after that time. Ohio Hicksites disbanded in 1919, though the Hicksite meeting in Salem, Ohio, met sporadically until 1936. [Note: Hicksites in western Ohio, who belonged to Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), continued to exist, though of their pre-1828 congregations, only the one in Waynesville The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House has been used for various non-religious functions since 1919. After meetings for worship ceased here, the Colerain Township trustees assumed the maintenance of the meeting house and burial ground.
Around 1950, some young Friends from Barnesville organized a work day in which they repaired the woodwork in the meeting house. It is possible that the frame porch, which had already collapsed, was removed at this time." Following an incident of vandalism, the benches were removed and stored in the Mount Pleasant tin shop for 30 years. During the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976, an important Quaker at Concord was recognized. Josiah Fox (1763-1847) settled in the area in 1811. Earlier in his life, Fox had worked in the U.S. Department of the Navy, where he helped design the U.S.S. Constitution, U.S.S. Constellation, and the U.S.S. United States.
He himself designed several other warships in the following years, including three revenue Fox (whose relationship to Quaker founder George Fox has not been ascertained) constructed his residence in Colerain Township in 1830 and farmed there for his last 17 years. On 8/21/1976, many of Fox's descendants in the area gathered for the dedication of a memorial on his grave, listing the 18 ships the earliest settlers assumed maintenance of the building. In 2005, a special commemorative meeting for 1° Ohio Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) covered the geographic area between Columbus and Pittsburgh. Hicksites living in western Ohio were part of Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), renamed Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting in 1975. survives.] he designed and the three he helped design.
(8-86) Interest in the meeting house rebounded at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and descendants of Yearly Meeting (Wilburite) also approved the loan of some historic benches from the Stillwater Meeting Name of property County and State Mid Twentieth Century to Today cutters in 1797-98,eight gunboats in 1804-1805,and seven other ships in the early U.S.Navy (1797-1806). NPS Form 10-900-a worship was held at the meeting house, and unlike 1915, the building was packed with people. Ohio 5/22/1910 that he had repaired the porch, which then was only 12 years old. The porch appears to have been structurally unsound. Edward A. Berry reported to Concord Monthly Meeting on NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Section 8 Page 7 County and State House to foster a more historic feel to the interior of the Concord Meeting House. Research into the evolution of the design of Quaker religious architecture is a relatively recent phenomenon. Interest in the topic began with a picture book by J. Russell Hayes entitled Old Meeting- Houses: With over Fifty Illustrations. The book was soon enlarged and republished, then followed by a series to understand the design of typical meeting houses based on use. Quaker Meeting Houses and a Little Humor by Horace M. Lippincott and The Friends Meeting House by Hubert Lidbetter brought the first scholarly they primarily considered the meeting house designs of the 18th century.
Scholarship reached a new level with the 1993 master's thesis of Damon Tvaryanas. His work, which documented the Friends meeting houses in New Jersey, provided the first narrative basis and chronology for understanding American valley. The project culminated in a traveling display and the production of the booklet Silent Witness. Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present. At the same time, English architectural historians were conducting similar research. Christopher F. Stell produced a four-volume inventory of Stell's work with his three-volume inventory of Friends meeting house architecture in England and meeting houses in New England, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Indiana, and Evangelical Friends in Ohio Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Meeting, [2002]) the North of England (London: RCHME, 1994); and An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the East of England (London: RCHME, 2002). Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland (Dublin: Irish Friends Historical Committee, 2004). (8-86) Architectural Context Name of property Belmont County, Ohio consideration to the topic and began the process of standardizing some of the varying terminology, but Quaker religious architecture.' The Historic American Buildings Survey soon afterward expanded upon Tvaryanas'swork with a thematic studydocumenting Friends meeting houses in the Delaware River 1 Christopher F. Stell, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England (London: Royal 18 David M. Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain (London: Friends Historical Society, 1999); David M. Butler, The 12 J.
Russell Hayes, Old Meeting-Houses: With over Fifty Illustrations (Philadelphia: Biddle Press, 1909); J. Russell Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Yearly Houses in South-West England (London: RCHME, 1991); An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in 1962). NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 8 Belmont County, Ohio Evolution of Quaker Meeting Houses in North America 1670-2000" by Seth Hinshawl brought the seventeenth century English nonconformist context and moving through the architectural movements in the New World.
Since this latter thesis appeared, historians who have examined the topic have fine-tuned the typology and adjusted the terminology and chronology to produce a generally accepted understanding of the evolution of Quaker religious architecture, though the refined chronology has not yet appeared in houses" or "chapels." The Cottage Plan was characterized by entrances on a side wall (usually the south considered at the time less hierarchical in design than the Chapel Plan. The key intact English example Presbyterians, Quakers, and Baptists. Colonists of each denomination constructed Cottage Plan houses of worship in the New World, where the type dominated religious construction before the Revolution.
Among the numerous extant examples are the Hingham Meeting House in Massachusetts (now called "Old Ship," the oldest Congregational meeting house in the US); the Norriton Meeting House near Norristown, Pennsylvania (the oldest Presbyterian meeting house in the US); and the London Tract Lutheran houses of worship have a Cottage Plan exterior, although they have a Chapel Plan interior; examples include the Falls Church chapel in Virginia (Anglican, 1767), the Old Narragansett Meeting The Cottage Plan was the most common religious building type used by American Quakers from 1690 to 1770; the type then experienced a brief resurgence in the years 1860-1900. The earliest identified example is the Upland Meeting House near Chester City, Pennsylvania (1687), but soon thereafter examples were constructed in Quaker settlements from Maine south to North Carolina.
Representative examples were preservation, University or Pennsylvania, 2001. History 79 (Fall 1990), pp. 94 - 95. print. (8-86) (Lutheran, 1743). in print in 1990.? In their attempt to produce religious worship space not based on medieval Gothic County and State House, describes one of the two religious architectural types introduced by Puritans during the House in Wickford, RI (Huguenot/Anglican, 1707), and the Augustus Chapel in Trappe, Pennsylvania The"Cottage Plan,"the term describing the configuration of the Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting precedents,17th century Puritans constructed"meeting houses"of two types: the"chapel plan"and the Meeting House in Pennsylvania(oldest extant Baptist meeting house in the US).Some Anglican and wall), accommodation for speakers centered on the opposite wall, and minimal religious imagery.
It was served as a model for later houses of worship of nonconformists, including Congregationalists, various threads from the many monographs into one over-arching narrative, beginning with the 19 Seth B. Hinshaw, "The Evolution of Quaker Meeting Houses in North America 1670-2000," M.S. thesis in historic Commonwealth in England. The term was apparently coined in England around 1988 and first appeared "cottage plan." At the time of construction, these buildings were universally called either "meeting NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 9 Belmont County, Ohio constructed in Hampton, NH; Uxbridge, MA; East Blackstone, MA; Newport, RI; Flushing, NY; Catawissa, PA (one of the few remaining log Friends meeting houses); Kennett, PA; Cecil, MD; and Jamestown, NC. The Cottage Plan fell from favor during the dominance of the Quaker Plan (1770-1870), include Bristol, PA; Newport, RI; and Concord, PA). divided by a frame partition into two equal interior spaces. The Quaker Plan responded to the need to benches," where the ministers, elders, overseers, and clerks sat, was located along the side wall opposite and Baltimore, the east or right side), and the women sat on the other side.
The earliest meeting house constructed with the plan appears to have been the Caln Meeting House near Thorndale, Pennsylvania (c. constructed in Friends settlements throughout North America. Among the more relevant examples are PA; and Aisquith Street, Baltimore. which was "reduced" to a Cottage Plan building in 1898. The existing fabric helps convey its complex the group's existence. Photographs exist of a handful of other meeting houses to help complete the history. At the time of the 1828 division, the Hicksites retained some pre-division meeting houses; the existing Richland Meeting House at Quaker City is the sole survivor of this group. Among meeting houses shared by the two groups houses, which were four-bay buildings with doors in the two middle bays. Extant examples are Berlin (Mahoning County, c. 1835), Short Creek (informally called Emerson, Jefferson County, c.
1837), and Deerfield (Morgan County, c. 1830). The Carmel Meeting House in Columbiana County was apparently Columbus to Pittsburgh. Several "Indiana Hicksite" meeting houses survive in western Ohio. (8-86) history, which to a degree reflects the history of the changing modes of Hicksite houses of worship during Stillwater (near Barnesville, Ohio, 1878, the best known example), Mount Pleasant, Ohio; Buckingham, was the Mount Pleasant Meeting House. These pre-division buildings reflected the Quaker Plan. accommodate ministers and the separate men's and women's business meetings.
The gallery or "facing National Register of Historic Places Communities building new meeting houses after the division mostly constructed "truncated"meeting County and State meeting houses were"doubled"in the late 18 century to create Quaker Plan meeting houses(examples 1745),but within a few years the type became the American standard -with hundreds of examples As stated earlier, the Concord Meeting House was originally a one-story version of the Quaker Plan, The Quaker Plan was the dominant mode of Quaker religious construction from 1770 to 1870 and is the the main doors. The men sat on one side of the partition for worship and business (outside of Philadelphia which in many ways represented a "doubled" Cottage Plan building. In fact, many earlier Cottage Plan An understanding of the typology of Ohio Hicksite meeting houses?' is complicated by the drastic loss of fabric.
Today, only nine of the group's 47 meeting houses remain (see the map on a continuation sheet). 21 This paragraph considers only the geographic area of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), which covered the area from NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Section 8 Page 10 Belmont County, Ohio constructed as a truncated type in 1829 but was later heavily modified. Some Hicksite communities constructed Quaker Plan meeting houses, of which only West in Mahoning County survives. An important non-extant example was the Ohio Hicksite Yearly Meeting House, built in Salem in the 1840s only two survive: Concord and the dilapidated Westland in Morgan County.
The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House is significant as one of only nine houses of worship eastern Ohio. The building was constructed in 1815 for the first Quaker community in Ohio and replaced their earlier log meeting house (constructed 1800, burned 1814). When constructed, its architecture reflected the Quaker Plan, the mode most frequently associated with the Society of Friends. After the division of 1828, the building became the property of the Hicksite faction. The Concord Meeting House was the religious center of the community for a century, during which time those gathered participated in the nation sought more compact worship space. It is the only intact eastern Ohio example of a "reduced" Hicksite house of worship.
The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House retains interior and exterior fabric from its time of construction and from the time of its reduction and plays an important role in our understanding of the history of Ohio Hicksites. Conclusion (8-86) Continuation Sheet County and State of the 19t century, the meeting house was "reduced" during a time when Hicksite communities around remaining from the Ohio Hicksite Quakers, a once-numerous religious group that no longer exists in anti-slavery activities, including the Underground Railroad, and the temperance movement. Near the end and demolished c.1959.Though several Hicksite meeting houses were reduced in the late 19 century, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Belmont County, Pa.
Section 9 Page 1 County and State Quaker minute books, including Concord Monthly Meeting (1801-1919) Redstone Quarterly Meeting (1801-1805) Short Creek Quarterly Meeting (1805-1919) Belmont County, Ohio, 1994 Plat Book. Kettering OH: Mercury Publishing Co., 1994. Burke, James L. and Donald E.Bensch. Mount Pleasant and the Early Quakers of Ohio. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1975. "Dedication Service for the Commemorative Plaque in Honor of Josiah Fox 1763-1847," event leaflet dated 8/21/1976. Gould, Marcus T.C. Report of the Trial of Friends at Steubenville, Ohio. Philadelphia: by the author, 1829. Miscellaneous Repository (1828). Quaker newspaper printed in Mount Pleasant by Elisha Bates. Morlan, Charles P. A Brief History of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Barnesville OH: Ohio Yearly Meeting, 1959. Norton, James H.
"Quakers West of the Alleghenies and in Ohio to 1861," Ph.D. dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1965. Ohio Historic Inventory Form Bel-7-3. Stanton, Borden. "A Brief Account of the regular movements of the Carolina Friends who went to settle over the Ohio river, in the year 1800," printed in The Friends Miscellany (Philadelphia: John Comly, 1839), pp. 216-223. Taber, William P. The Eye of Faith: A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting, Conservative. Barnesville OH: Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1985. (8-86) Bibliography Continuation Sheet Whinnery, Alfred."A Short Account of Conservative Friends in Ohio,"pamphlet published in 1926. Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property approximately 1 acre UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 17 517432 4441422 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 Seth Hinshaw date 10/22/2008 street & number 713 Norwood House Road telephone (610) 416-6687 city or town Downingtown state PA zip code 19335 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name_Roberta Mitchell, Trustee street & number P.O.
Box 53 telephone (740) 635-2255 city or town Colerain _state OH_ zip code _43916 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 benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, Photographs Maps organization Continuation Sheets Additional Documentation (Page 4) Property Owner Zone Easting Northing and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources.
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1hours per response including the time for reviewing this form to Keeper, National Register of Historic Places, 1849 "C" Street NW, Washington, DC 20240 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Belmont County, Ohio County and State Verbal Boundary Description See Map 6 and 7 for Verbal Boundary Description. Parcel is recorded as #02-60015.000 in the Belmont County Auditor's Office. Beginning at the center of Negus Road (TR 456), at the intersection with a vacated road leading due east, in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 7; proceeding south the vacated road; thence west 120 feet to the place of beginning.
The boundary of the tax parcel was used. Portions of the original deed were later subdivided, leaving approximately one acre where the meeting house and burial ground are located and historically associated. (8-86) Boundary Justification Continuation Sheet Section 10 Page 1 along Negus Road south 250 feet; thence leaving the road, proceed east 200 feet; thence north 220 feet to NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont County, Ohio Section 6 Continuation Sheet All photographs enclosed with this nomination were taken in 9/2007 by Seth Hinshaw using black and white film. They were scanned and printed by Arrow Camera Shop of Pottstown, Pa., using Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks on Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper. The following are captions to the photographs.
Meeting House, main elevation, facing NE Meeting House, main entrance, facing E Meeting House interior, facing E from the entrance. Note the raised gallery on the far wall. Meeting House interior, facing NE. Note the clerk's table with the hinged top Meeting House interior, facing S. The facing bench on the right is built into the platform. Meeting House interior, facing NW. Note the difference in handgrasps on the two middle benches and that on the far right. Burial ground, facing S. The more recent burials are to the right. Josiah Fox tombstone, facing E Commemorative marker on Josiah Fox's grave, listing his naval designs, facing W. Description Photographs (8-86) Continuation Sheet Name of property National Register of Historic Places County and State Photo # Meeting House, rear elevation, facing NW OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Maps Page 1 Vacated road to earlier meeting house Map 1. Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House sketch map. Negus Road (8-86) Burial Ground Meeting House Property boundary NPS Form 10-900-a Belmont County, Ohio Name of property County and State NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Maps Page 2 Belmont County, Ohio County and State Map 2. Detail of J.M. Lathrop & H.C. Penny, Atlas of Belmont County, Ohio (Philadelphia: H.C. Mead & Co., 1888). The "Friends Meeting House" shown in the northwest corner of the section was the Concord Wilburite Friends Meeting House.
(8-86) Name of property OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Page 3 Name of property Belmont County. Ohio Map 3. Aerial of the property, adapted from Google Maps. Maps (8-86) County and State NPS Form 10-900-a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Maps Page 4 Name of property Belmont County, Ohio County and State Minister's Gallery: raised 7" above the grade of the remainder of the floor. Facing Bench (original) Women's side Map 4. Measured drawing of the meeting house interior. The shaded benches were borrowed in 2006 from Stillwater. (8-86) Stove NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Maps Page 5 Name of property Belmont County, Ohio County and State Mount Pleasant Short Creek (Emerson) Note that some "Ohio Hicksites" were located in (West) Virginia and Pennsylvania. West Concord Berlin Richland (8-86) Carmel Deerfield Continuation Sheet Map 5. County map showing the location of all "Ohio Hicksite" communities. Names of extant meeting houses are given. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Maps Page 6 Name of property Belmont County, Ohio County and State Gor'1 80.00ch Sac. B T.7 R.3 1 5280.00 Berry, mary F Nixon, Danny SI. 316 - Cab.
C Peose Twp (8-86) Addition Penny 725 Shane, RoberT V.654 3567 Acr Au, Tofa 22.975 $. Map 6. Detail of tax map, showing the northeast quadrant of the northeast quarter of Section 7, Colerain Township. Sunny 856.74 See Colrain lots 15.8082 E' NanLy TOWN SHIP Cab C COLERAIN Sec. 7 T.7 R.3 Gov'i 80 00CN 1 5280.00 1129Y S1.175 Cob 721 Mieia NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Name of property Belmont County, Ohio County and State of the Meeting House 1888 (facing southeast); original is located in the Chester Before the 1898 alterations, the typical Quaker Plan circa 1900, after the renovation work of northeast. Note the frame porch on the removed many years ago. appearance. County (Pa.) Figure 2. (8-86) Historical Society.
main elevation, Figure 1.
Photograph meeting house had a Photograph of the by Gilbert Cope in Chapel Plan 1690-1730 Cottage Plan 1680-1910 (dominant 1680-1770) Springfield Type 1730-1790 Quaker Plan 1745-1925 (dominant 1770-1870) Chesterfield Type 1835-1915 Chapel Plan 1820-1920 Center Gabled 1865-1885 (steeples or towers after 1878) Akron Combination Plan Neo-Classical 1903-1925 Chapel Revival 1925-1960 Suburban Style 1955-2000 Modern 1970-2000 1885-1925 1690-1750 Bristol (Square) Plan A Guide to the Styles of Friends Meeting Houses 1670-2000 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE RETURN DISCIPLINE DATE MULTIPLE 7/11/09 REVIEWER 7/26/09 6/12/09 RECOM./CRITERIA Historic Places Entered in The National Register OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.
DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: APPEAL: N REQUEST: N REJECT 2.23-09 DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments I/N see attached SLR Y/N PROPERTY ACCEPT SAMPLE: Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont Co., Ohio #1, Facing NE Relmont Co, Ohio # 2, facing SE Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont Co, Ohio #3 (rear), facing NW REBUILT 1898 #4, Facing E Belmont Co., Ohio Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont Go., Ohio #5, facing E Belmont Co, Ohio #6, facing NE Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Belmont Co, Ohio #7, facing S Belmont Co, Ohio #8, facing NW Belmont Co., Ohio JOSIAH FOX DIED 1847 Belmont Co., Ohio # 10, facing E 1763 - 1847 JOSIAH FOX IN SHIP DESIGN DURING THE # Il.
facing W Belmon+Coo 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DILLONVALE QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DILLONVALE, OHIO STATE OF OHIO Belmont Co., Ohio ROAD CLASSIFICATION UNITED STATES Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION House 444142.2 RECEIVED 2280 JUN 1 2 2009 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 I (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: have been followed for this new submission. NEW SUBMISSION Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House Olive Branch High School I am requesting a SUBSTANTIVE REVIEW for the Groveport School nomination.
The property was Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board recommended that the property only be nominated under small rural community of Groveport. The board did not agree that the school is a significant local example of the early twentieth century Collegiate Gothic style by a well-known regional architect The opinion of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office is that the Groveport School meets National interpretation of educational architecture. The original building reflects the work of an important early twentieth century school architect and the post World War Il portions of the complex reflect the contemporary design solutions associated with school architecture.
Furthermore, the school's reflection of modern movements in architecture is an example of the type of modern architecture most likely to be Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY STATE www.ohiohistory.org significant. Belmont OHIO Franklin HISTORY Clark Groveport School OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Register Criteria A and C for local significance.The architectural significance of the school building National Register Groveport School National Register nomination material.
National Register Criterion A for its historical significance reflecting the educational development in the appeared tobea formulaic example.The minutes of the state review board meeting are included in the originally nominated under National Register Criteria A and C at the local level of significance.The Ohio built ina small rural community such as Groveport.Within the local context the school is architecturally Enclosed please find three (3) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification procedures specializing in school design, nor did they recommend that the property displayed significance in its nomination.
In particular, both phases of design for the Groveport School represent a significant local distinctive features associated with International Style architecture due to the fact that the building 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 Enclosures Sincerely,
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