Nomination for Reid, Whitelaw, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) Reid, Whitelaw, House AND/ OR HISTORIC: Seven - Clarence J. Brown, Jr. L057 (Check One) In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: W. M.

Brenner LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: :: 1982 Velma Avenue 039 1973 Greene County NAME STATE Both LOCATION Religious ACCESSIBLE Military Entertainment CATEGORY Educational Government Site District Restricted CLASSIFICATION Private STATUS Columbus Unoccupied Yes: CODE Structure Being Considered Xenia Museum Agricultural Park Scientific Public Private Residence COMMON: Industrial Cedarville Building OWNERSHIP CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Greene County Courthouse Ohio Public Acquisition: 2587 Conley Road TO THE PUBLIC REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: The Ohio Historical Society, The Ohio Historical Center 69 Greene Street Object OWNER OF PROPERTY ENTRY DATE CITY OR TOWN: PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) DATE OF SURVEY: 1) 1966-7 2) 1970 REGISTER Southwestern Ohio DATE 2587 Conley Road,3 mile southwest of Cedarville-Yellow Springs Road Vicinity of Cedarville DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unaltered X] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The house was built by Reid's father in original forest, and the oak, black uated on one of the highest points in the county with a view of several miles by attaching a narrow window, lower than the doorway, to either side of the vestibule, hall-room and stairway area are completely covered with black 1973 CONDITION Moved strength." NATIONAL REGISTER Excellent in every direction. Whitelaw Reid made some later changes.The wing was extended and the roof been originally a two-story frame building with a one-story wing, in which investigation to ascertain the stages of its evolution from an 1825 farmhouse set off by an ornamental latticework divider, which is as wide as the room new rooms in the extension of the wing were finished in cherry, sycamore, flection of his life and times.

most ambitious room is just inside the handsome, double doored front entrance.c "shoulders" which sweep up at the outer upper corner of each window.The and strong, owing to the sharp angles at which the many lines meet and their walls, and on the ceiling is set in diagonal strips whose edges are cut in a (Check One) X Good - Unexposed MAR to the "Queen Anne Cottage" of today. However, as the alterations were made Ruins The entrance was emphasized door opening and surrounding the whole with moulding incorporating curved Fair maple woodwork. One enters a kind of vestibule, actually just a division of the main room fanciful capitals on the turned porch columns.

plastered and the windows of 8/lo panes of glass.Each room on the first with fireproof concrete blocks.There are piazzas and a porte-cochere and delicate, due to the small patterns in reeding and finely turned spindles, and second story completely covered.with red Akron tiles.Even the three saw-tooth design--as if they were cut with large pinking shears.The effect by Reid himself, its present form is probably of greatest interest as a re- - 20th Century X] Political - Social/Human- - Theater ] Transportation tute a case for preservation independent of the fame of its owner.

Although not a handsome house on the exterior, it is interesting from the standpoint more beautiful, with the pane led entrance rooms and stair displaying con- siderable craftsmanship, fine wood, interesting design and a pleasant at- The farm, which retains its 19th century feeling, perhaps due to its location on a narrow, tree lined, little-traveled country road, is illustrative of a being the birthplace and home of Whitelaw Reid, a journalist and statesman ownership' and editorship of the Xenia News. He gained national recognition During the Civil War, Reid served as war correspondent for the Cin- Îal staff of the New York Iribune, and in 1872 became its editor-in-chief York, Reid first accepted public office in 1889 as Minister to France, and Eerence for the Treaty of Peace between the U. S.

and Spain in 1898, and Am- seven years of his life were spent as Ambassador to Great Britain, for which vices in Westminster Abbey and, with full military and state honors, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. 1823 Engineering Architecture Commerce Conservation Communications Science Religion/Phi

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SIGNIFICANCE Music Landscape itarian Agriculture Prehistoric Education Industry Aboriginal Pre-Columbian Sculpture Literature The architecture of the Reid House has some features which would consti- at the age of twenty-three, when his newspaper supported Abraham Lincoln against former governor Salmon P.Chase in the Republican presidential pri- planter after the war and following this he spent two years writing Ohio In nineteen from Miami University, where he had been an outstanding student and who achieved during an outstanding life, the vice-presidential candidacy of Reid was the author of ten books and numerous pubiished addresses.

Invention His book, After the War, resulted from his experiences as a Southern cotton Whitelaw Reid was born 0ct.27,1837 on his family's farm between Cedar- cinnati Gazette and in 1864 was clerk of the military committee ofrthe House of Representatives, later serving as Librarian of the House 1892 and the ambassadorship to Great Britain. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) Military . the War (1868). In 1868 he was invited by Horace Greeley to join the editor- Great Britain in 1897 at the Queen's Jubilee, Commissioner to the paris con- losophy rison.Subsequent service included appointments as Special Ambassador to and proprietor. in 1892 he was candidate for Vice President on the ticket with Benjamin Har ville and xenia.He attended the Xenia Academy and graduated at the age of He also was chosen regent for life of the University of New bassador to Great Britain.for the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Howe, Henry. Onio, cincinnati, 1904, Vol.I - Pp.718-721. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PRODERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 6.00 Jan. 24, 1973 N4403/90 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law Nationa1 Register.

89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set GPO 931-894 Local Degrees LATITUDE COUNTY DATE Name LONGITUDE Seconds MAR ORGANIZATION 1973 CODE ATTEST: Xenia STATE Susannah Lane Ohio NATIONAL CORNER REGISTER 1010 Union Road NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Degrees Minutes Seconds Ohio Centennial Ed., State of NAME AND TITLE: STREET AND NUMBER: level of significance of this nomination is: CITY OR TOWN: FORM PREPARED BY Ute 2 vols. 1967, p.21. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Title Ohio Historical Society, Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Historical Collections of Ohio.

Photos 3 Accept- AML KEEPER - MAY 7 Maps HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Re-submit Send-back TECH REVIEW National Register write-up 3.8.73.2518 BRANCH CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF WORKING NUMBER 4-17- 4/19/73 STATE QL Federal Register entry Greene NPS Number _ s/7/23 Greens, Ohia Loc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number - Loc. GreenE, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) LAY 7 1973 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S.

quadrangle Cedarville, Ohio REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: MAR 8 GPO 932-010 Greene DATE TOWN REGISTER SCALE SOURCE COMMON NATIONAL Ohio COUNTY STATE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY MAP FORM Form 10-301 2587 Conley Road,.3 mile southwest of Cedarville-Yellow Springs Road (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) Reid, Whitelaw, House RECEIVED E257030 CLIFTON QUADRANGLE CLIFTON, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES 39*45* Bank of Xenia . Hon. William B. Saxbe Hon. Robert Taft, Jz. Location 5/11/73 PHR STATE Name Date Entered Also Notified Greene County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER NRowland:mm Hancock County Courthouse Hapakoneta Hancock County Auglaize County Courthouse Pulton County Director,Northeast Region Fulton County Courthouso Hon.

Tennyson Quyez Findlay Wiliiama County Couzthouse Auglaiza County Williams County Vicinity oe Cedazville Hon. Delbert D. Tatta Columbus, Ohio 43211 Greone County Hr.Daniel R.Porter Steta Historio Preservation Ofeicez Directox