Decorative drawing: a row of nineteenth-century main-street storefronts. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Mount Union College District

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,619 words across 12 pages, filed in 1972. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 72001044, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Congressional District: 16 Frank T.
Bow Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: see continuation sheet (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: LOCATION 039 1972 151 Canton Both Site Religious Private NAME CATEGORY DATE Stark CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE Commercial STATE Government Federal Military STATUS Entertainment Yes: Agricultural Unoccupied Restricted District Transportation Structure Alliance CODE Museum Ohio Scientific Public Private Residence Building Educational Industrial COMMON: Park ENTRY NUMBER Mount Union College District Being Considered Mount Union College Public Acquisition: 209 Tuscarawas Avenue West Stark County Office Building REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Object STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 219 W.
State Street TITLE OF SURVEY: OWNER'S NAME: (July 1969) OCT Local DESCRIPTION X Good - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered buildings, Morgan Gymnasium, Miller Hall and Chapman Hall. were added at each entrance and the attic story with dormer windows women. It is now a men's dormitory. CONDITION Excellent on each side.A semi-circular projection at the southeast corner terior timber structure was replaced by a steel frame, stone terraces floors contain longitudinal corridors with twenty rooms on each floor. running track have been removed. The original entrances were at the east and west ends of the building. Fair was added.
houses an interior stair to the balcony overlooking the gymnasium with a copper dome which was originally used as an astronomical ob- The Mount Union Coliege District is composed of three 19th century arched windows on the entrance tower and two oculi on either side of sists of ten bays with segmental arched windows, articulated by en- the facade..Cornices are bracketed.In 1966-1967 the original in- a central tower projection on the facade of each of the narrow ends (plus attic and basement) red brick building with a dressed sand- Chapman Hall -(Hartshorn St.at Miller Ave.) This is a three-story structure was replaced in 1918.The Hall once housed both men and (Check One) Miller Hartshorn St.) A three-story (plus basement) brick Morgan Gymnasium A rectangular (50'x 75') brick - Moved - Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

dormitory, the building measures 135' x 47'. The exterior design con- the southeast corner of the building and the balcony-level indoor building, it is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Large round-arched windows at the floor level are topped by pairs of floor. and four corner battlemented towers.The central tower on the south The cylindrical tower which supported an observatory dome at main body of the building is Romanesque in style.There are triple round- arched lancet windows.The hipped roof has gabled projections PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) X 19th Century SIGMIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) X Other (Specify) - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Chartered in 1858, Mount Union College was the outgrowth of a "Select be no discrimination because of race, sex or position. Chapman and Miller Halls were both designed by Simeon Porter, one of Cleveland firm of Heard and Porter, Porter was the builder of the Chapman Hall, built in 1862-1864, is the only remaining Ohio college The first (and for many years, the only) Mount Union College academic building, its architectural design is unique combination of features of the pre-Civil War styles, sith the Romanesque block, Gothic turrets, Morgan Gymnasium, built in 1890-1891, is an excellent example of the Pliny Marsh, Mount Union's second president and a great advocate of principal donor, Thomas R.
Morgan, Sr., the gymnasium was the home of The three buildings in the Mount Union College District illustrate the 1862-1891 sport Commerce Architecture Communications SIGNIFICANCE Education Conservation Landscape losophy inter-collegiate Engineering Historic Art Literature Science Religion/Phi itarian Pre-Columbian Agriculture Music Invention Military the original manuscript specifications in the architect's handwriting. northeastern Ohio's most noted nineteenth century architects.Of the and experimental subjects would parallel the humanities and there would design in Alliance. Union College building constructed during the presidency of Tamerlane a need for a new coeducational institution in the West where science Urban Planning Industry late Colonial or Greek Revival cupolas, and the Italianate bracketed and brick segmental arches over the windows.It was built in 1866.
Miller Hall is a simple rectangular block with a distinctive design Western Reserve College buildings in Hudson as well as a number of College team was formed in 1896,but no collegiate competition developed public school buildings in Cleveland. Political TE(S) (It Applicable and Known) and Root, designed the building. Morgan Gymnasium is the only Mount School" begun in 1846 by Orville Nelson Hartshorn, who felt there was featuring engaged piers and corbeling between each rank of windows building. Romanesque Revival style.Frank D.Long of the Chicago firm of Holabird one of the country's first college basketball teams.A Mount Union in Ohio until I897when Mount Union's first home game was played in this

The rest of the file

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Clark, Homer J., Lewis Miller, E. Ball, J.W.F. White, and S.C. Porter. No. 3. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STÁ May, 1972 840 N. Park STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion GP 0 901.08 7 039 LONGITUDE Seconds ORGANIZATION LATITUDE Minutes 1965. National Local STATE COUNT Name DATE CODE CORNER Degrees Minutes Seconds Ohio Alliance Historical Society ATTEST: Alliance LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Eric Johannesen, Professor of Art, Mount Union College National Register.
FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: Degrees evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- in the National Register and certify that it has been CITY OR TOWN: I hereby certify that this property is included in the The Ohio Historical Society, 1969. Pp.37-39. Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation 10 -3.72 Title Condensed History of Mount Union College. Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Miller Hall), Aultman Avenue (Morgan Gymnasium). Alliance, Ohio: The Alliance Historical Society, 1971.
STATE COUNTY DATE Stark Ohio (Continuation Sheet) ENTRY NUMBER developments in style of American college architecture from the Civil (Number all entries) War period to the last decade of the 19th century. Hartshorn Street at Miller Avenue (Chapman Hall),335 Hartshorn Street SEr 81972 (July 1969) Osborne, Newel1 Yost. A Select School - Mount Union College. 1967. REGISTE NATIONAL AULTMAN AVE, 1"= 100' MILLER AVE. HARTSHORN ST. CHAPMAN HALL MOUNT UNION COLLEGE DISTRICT ARCHEOLOGIST Acknowledge KEEPER ARCHITECT HISTORIAN Re-submit National Register write-up NATIONAL Register no.
Federal Register entry EDITORIAL REVIEW Send-back Photos BRANCH CHIEF 9.8.72.1398 PECH REVIEW Norking number SEr81972 Maps 9/25/72 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: Riki Arnold, Ohio Historical Society 1" = 100' TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.
1972 039 NAME COUNTY 151 STATE Stark DATE Ohio CODE COMMON: SCALE: see continuation sheet MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: ENTRY NUMBER Alliance REOUIREMENTS AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM Mount Union College District LOCATION (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: 'Form 10-301 OCT ALLIANCE QUADRANGLE ALLIANCE, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES 40° 54' 12" - State Route ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l1/ telephone (614) 469-4663 August 31, 1972 Mr. William Murtagh, Keeper 1100 L Street N.W. Rm. 3209 Stark County, Ohio, which application has been approved by the by the owner in spite of the fact the owner has funds sufficient owner of the significance of the subject building and thereby Daniel R.
Porter DRP/mu Preservation Sincerely, REGISTE NATIONAL preserve it. Director National Register Places application form for the Mount Union College District, Dear Bill: Enclosed please find one completed National Register of Historic for its restoration.Registration may assist in convincing the three buildings, the Morgan Gymnasium, is slated for demolition RECEIVED Office of Archeology & Historic THIS IS AN EMERGENCY APPLICATION, for the reason that one of the Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Washington, D. C. 20005 the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l1/telephone (614) 469-4663 September 7, 1972 Washington, D.C. 20005 president of Mt. Union, Ronald G.
Weber, that one of the subject buildings, delete all reference to this building in the application form, or return SEP 2 1 1972 Director Sincerely, Miss Kitchen DRP/eg National Register Dear Bill: completed National Register district application for three structures on By covering letter dated August 31,1972,I transmitted to your office a This is to inform you that I have been informed as of this date by the same to me for revision. Daniel R. Porter Office of Archeology & Historic Preservation Mr. William Murtagh, Keeper Mount Union College Campus. Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue 1l00 L Street, N.W. Stark Co 10-5-72 Columbus, Ohio 43211 Director, Northeast Region NRowland :mm Location 10/5/72 STATE Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Stark County Glamorgan 72001044 Alliance State Liaieon Officer Ion. Frank I. Low Mount Union College District The Ohio Hietorlcal Society OHTO