Nomination for Dewitt, Zachariah Price, Cabin

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES But ler INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORLC: DeWitt, Zachariah Price, Cabin 1/4 mile north of U.S. highway 73 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 24 East of Oxford ai Walter E.

Powell L017 - Structure ) In Process - Comments Commercial OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: - Local 039 LOCATION Site STATE JAN.3 Military Religious County Both CLASSIFICATION Private Ohio Government Entertainment vacant CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE Restricted Transportation Agricultural OWNERSHIP Building Private Residence Miami University Educational Yes: Hamilton Federal CODE District Unoccupied NATIONAL STATUS Museum COMMON: Scientific Park Public Industrial Being Considered Butler County Courthouse 1805 Cabin Preservation work STREET AND NUMBER: Object OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: TO THE PUBLIC Public Acquisition: REGISTER Other (Specify) CITY OR TOWN: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: (Check One) NAME Oxford 131973 DESCRIPTION - Unexposed X Unaltered This two-and-one-half story structure, which measures twenty-one by weather-boarding covering the exterior of its twenty-four foot above, is unusually thick due to diagonally-laid panelling on the back.

panelled, and a fragment in the west room indicates the former fireplace lining, handmade shutters, a portico (now deteriorated), JAN 3 CONDITION Excellent REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL The cabin consists of four rooms plus the kitchen addition.There fifteen by twenty-one feet which has a stone cellar; the kitchen addition To the rear of this original building is a lean-to kitchen measuring The exposed rafters show adze and pit-saw marks, and are pegged floor ceiling is beamed with dressed boards grooved at the joining thirty-six feet,has hewn oak logs of varying widths covered with wood a grove of trees before opening onto the cabin and its surroundings. edges.Above the second floor is a large attic with a west window. was added about 15 years after the original structure was built. directly to the wall joists instead of bearing on a plate.

way of a small rural lane which crossesa stream and meanders through which is eight feet in width.Eighteen-inch logs rest on the stone The facade is three bays wide with a central door on the first level. The cabin dates from 1805 to 1810,but major changes occurredin (Check One) Good X Deteriorated - Moved X Original Site The floors of the first level are approximately 1825 when the kitchen, the weather boarding, brick DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

and stones. The front door, which had a four-paned rectangular window Fair The second six-and-one-half feet and has an eight-foot hearthstone. presence of a walnut chair rail encircling the room.The interior high walls. There is a stone chimney in the middle of the east wall wall under the ladder stairs is-daubed.The east fireplace opens to and a detached smokehouse to the northeast of the cabin were all added. are two rooms down and two up.

Statement of significance

owned and operated the sawmill, a vital part of early American life. He Estate. Commerce Architecture Aboriginal Communications losophy Landscape Religion/Phi Science Agriculture Education Sculpture Invention Industry use is as a museum and supplementary museum association office. The Oxford Museum Association has taken a great interest in the cabin. Engineering spersed with woodland on the gently rolling landscape.

The DeWitt cabin is the oldest log cabin still standing in Oxford residence until the mid-twentieth century when it was used as a barn for Zachariah Price DeWitt was one of the first settlers in Oxford, and Social/Human cabin standsis part of the two- and-one-half sections of land in the After the DeWitts ceased residence in their cabin, it continued as a township settled before Miami University was founded and not deeded to a leading member of the early Baptist Church, and was secretary to the a nearby (now absent) house.The land surrounding the cabin has been Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Oxford (chartered in 1823) for many occupancy of the cabin is to allow the Bachelor Estate'sproposed Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta fraternity headquarters in the 1830's.

came to the aid of his country in the War of 18l2 when he commanded a Political PERIOD One or More as Appropriate) seer of the Poor in 1811 and 1813,and Supervisor of Roads in 1813.He company of riflemen from Butler County which went to Detroit to assist used almost continuously for agricultural purposes, but this is inter- Pioneer Museum. This project is now on its feet, and the Association has Transportation Music itarian Art high quality of construction and detail.The land upon which the outdoor education program to use it as its headquarters. Another possible Its main project in the past few years has been the Butler County Harcourt, Verna E., "Pioneer Days of Oxford Township through 1859", thesis, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1953. Hutslar, Donald A., Ohio History, Volume 80, Summer/Autumn, 1971, #3 & 4, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Stewart Press, Oxford, Thio, 1930. DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES [LIST ALL STATES PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Ohio from As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion APR 13 1973 GPO 931-894 1882. Degrees LATITUDE Cincinnati LONGITUDE Name ORGANIZATION DATE COUNTY CORNER 11/16/72 ATTEST: REGISTER STATE NATIONAL Title CODE

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 039 Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Ohio Arts Council 801 Mercantile Library Building LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: GEOGRAPHICAL DATA National Register. evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: in the National Register and certify that it has been level of significance of this nomination is: 1acre MeGinnis, Ralph, History of Oxford,_Ohio from Earliest Days to Present, Smith, Ophia D., "DeWitt House", Oxford Press, Dec. 15, 1938, article. Butler County History of 1882. Western Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio JAN 3 Gale Brooks, Environmental Preservationist forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended FORM PREPARED BY 1973 Seconds Minutes Local - DEWITT CABIN see name abone APR 1 3 1975 Send-back Maps ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Re-submit Photos HISTORIAN KEEPER BRANCH CHIEF CONTROL REVIEW WORKING NUMBER 1. 3.73. National Register write-up TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Butler STATE GHco Federal Register entry _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN PROPERTY /8 0 5 south elsuation PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. ButleR,Obio - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title:Dewitt Cebin N32-71-17 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: NPS Number 4/13/73 OXFORD QUADRANGLE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1805 Cabin UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) OXFORD, OHIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) But ler FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: 1/4 mile north of U.S. highway 73 CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S.

(7.5') Oxford, Ohio Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 039 017 1961 DATE Cabin NAME COUNTY STATE 1:24000 CODE Ohio MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: SCALE: COMMON: AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Form 10-301 East of Oxford LOCATION REQUIREMENTS the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432ll/ telephone (614) 469-4663 Dr. William J. Murtagh Washington, D.C. 20240 applications themselves, have been approved for submission to you 1805 Log Cabin, Butler County Morgan, John H., surrender site, Columbiana County Kent, Zeno, House, Portage County Hale, Johathan, Homestead, Summit County Hope Furnace, Vinton County December Cordially, Director Encs.

NATIONAL DRP/eg REGISTER 1973 Completed application forms for: Department of the Interior National Park Service by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board.Owners of National Register of Historic Places Enclosed herewith please find seven (7) completed National Register The landmarks which are the subject of these applications, and the Ohio Canal ground breaking site, Licking County Here's to you and all your associates in the National Register our of Historic Place application forms. Dear Bill: Daniel R. Porter Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue 18th and C streets, N.W. Robinson-Elwel1 House, Lake County subject properties have been notified of the intent to register them. warm regards for a Happy New Year.May your wassail bowl be brimming. RECEIVED APR 1 3 1973 Oxford vicinity - Montgonery County Hon. William B. Saxbe Hon. Clarence E.

Miller Director, Northeast Region PHR NRowland: pcl 4/25/73 Location STATE Name Wright Laboratory Also Notified Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Washington County Marietta Mr.Daniel R.Porter DeWitt Cabin Butler County Hon. Walter E. Powell Dayton APR The Ohio Historical Soclety Director Hon.Charlaa W.Vhalen,Jr. OMB Approval No. 29-R0218 BER 3. STATE TYPE Year month 19 75 (Mark ap- NOTIFICATION OF INTENT (Opt.) 4. LEGAL APPLICANT/RECIPIENT 5. FEDERAL EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO. : Ohio Historical Society b. Organization Unit : Ohio Historic Preservation Office : 1982 Velma Avenue c. Street/P.O, Box PROJECT d. City : Columbus b. TITLE f. State h. Contact Person (Name & telephone No.) 7. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT'S PROJECT 8. TYPE OF APPLICANT/RECIPIENT I- Higher Educational institution J- Indian Tribe of log house to c. 1804 appearance. 9.

TYPE OF ASSISTANCE priate letter (8) 12. TYPE OF APPLICATION States, etc.) 14. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF: A-Increase Dollars 17. PROJECT PROJECT START d. LOCAL 19. EXISTING FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER $ 10,000 FEDERAL AGENCY P- 19 77 08 08 21. REMARKS ADDED Dept. of Yes QNo D. If roquired by OMB Circular A-95 this application was submitted, pursuant to in- b. SIGNATURE 6. DATE SIGHED Thomas H. Smith 24. AGENCY NAME 26. ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT 27. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Grants Administration Div. 29. ADDRESS 31. ACTION TAKEN 33. ACTION DATE - 77 08 08 b. REJECTED - C. RETURNED FOR Stephen D. Newman - d. DEFERRED (202) 523-5472 - . WITHDRAWN b. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 OFFICIAL it has been or is being made.

31-4389673W IDENTIFICATION 43211 National CATION Year day ACTION ENDING CONTACT 39-76-00329-00 Federal D-County DATE E-Augmentation Leave DURATION ASSIGNED THE Oxford BENEFITING GRAM attached FUNDING SENTATIVE District C-Revision E-Canceilation RECEIVED SAI Ohio PROPOSED FUNDING PREAPPLICATION CERTIFYING STARTING A-New Historic Preservation FIER A-Basic Grant REPORT OF FEDERAL ACTION FEDERAL ASSISTANCE D-Decrease Duration REPRE- Grants-in-Aid for DATE Year month day D-Insurance C-Loan Park Service IDENTI- (From Ohio State Clearinghouse H-Community Action Agency Enter appro- Enter appropriate letter (Name and telephone no.) Catalog) BE SUBMITTED TO B-Decrease Dollars CANT'S data in this preapplication/application are 25,000 APPLICATION B-Interstate APPLI- F-School District AMENDMENT Butler County, Ohio: C.STATE C-Increase Duration the applicant and the applicant will comply TOTAL ZACHARIAH PRICE DeWITT CABIN, Oxford vicinity, same as #35 Director and SHPO K-Other (Specify): a.To tha best of my knowledge and beliof, 8.Applicant Name 15.TYPE OF CHANGE 12cor12e) Response with tho attached assurances if the assist- See #34 10.

AREA OF PROJECT IMPACT (Names of cities, counties, 11. ESTIMATED 20. FEDERAL AGENCY TO RECEIVE REQUEST (Name, City, State, ZIP code) 8. TYPED NAME AND TITLE 28. FEDERAL APPLICATION FEDERAL GRANT SHPO, 614-466-8727 19 80 08 07 D-Continuation ADDITIONAL E-City INFORMA- Blank Department of the Interior G-Special Purpose C-Substate National Park Service B-Renewal ESTIMATED DATE TO true and correct, the document has boen duly suthorized by the governing body of Item Source of non-federal match:private sources of the Oxford Museum Assoc. and from donated services and materials of the assoc. SECTION IV-REMARKS (Please reference the proper item number from Sections ijapplicable) ANnARD FORM 424 PAGE 2 (10-75)