Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Old South Church

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,062 words across 9 pages, filed in 1973. 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 73001485, 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.

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 ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) SEP 2 0 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: Congregational Church of Kirtland, Ohio LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 085 039 Religious STATE Government Both LOCATION ACCESSIBLE REGISTER Entertainment Military Kirtland OWNERSHIP CLASSIFICATION Educational Unoccupied Private Painesville CATEGORY Site STATUS CODE Restricted Being Considered Yes: Structure Lake DATE Private Residence COUNTY: Park NAME Museum Agricultural Federal COMMON: Ohio District Public Scientific Industrial Public Acquisition: Lake County Courthouse STREET AND NUMBER: Object OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 47 North Park Place J.
William Stanton In Process TITLE OF SURVEY: TO THE PUBLIC DATE OF SURVEY: Old South Church CITY OR TOWN: X Building PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) AUG 2 2 1973 NATIONAL Local Chillicothe Road ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION [X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed XI Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

round-arched central window with two shorter flanking windows, all double- story, separated from the second by a belt course, has a louvered and south elevations have the same kind of windows, all with round-arched jecting from the west wall in the chancel surrounds an aedicula. The central motif in the gallery is a projecting wooden octagon AUG 2 2 1973 CONDITION century. Exterior: REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL circular wooden arch.Above the doorway are brackets and decorative Fair cessed cross motif is repeated several times in the decorative details This white frame building is rectangular in plan with a gable roof and Venetian Gothic window with tracery on the east, north and south sides.
hoodmolds.There are buttresses with pinnacles at each corner of the mainly in the chancel area and the gallery.A semi-circular arch pro- directions from the corners, beginning at the ground and extending up hung with semi-circular hoodmolds.Above the three windows isa circular iginally used by the choir.There is woodwork detailing in the by columns. side of the tower through a round-arched double door crowned by a semi- (Check One) Good X Original Site spire. On the east side of the tower, attached buttresses extend in two work in "X" patterns.
On the east facade, the second story has a tall The rectangular sanctuary has a gallery above the entry which was or- Interior: There isa bracketed cornice at the third story.The spire has recessed window also with a semi-circular hoodmold.There are identical circular with rings of concentric wooden circles insidep church.The foundation is stone.A basement was added in the 20th The gallery is supported flank the tower on the east side of the building.The four-bay north a three story tower on the east side.The tower is topped by an octagonal

Statement of significance

damaged this structure and subsequently, the decision was made to 1s among the oldest in the Western Reserve and was originally served by Reverend Joseph Badger, the Reserve's first itinerant preacher. styles, as were many churches built at that time. It is a good example AUG 2 2 1973 Conservation Architecture Communications Commerce losophy Military Aboriginal Engineering Literature Music Landscape REGISTER Transportation Agriculture NATIONAL Education Industry Prehistoric Theater Science Invention Sculpture Social/Human- Political itarian bell still remains but is cracked.The Kirtland Congregational Church Urban Planning The Old South Church is a combination of Carpenter Gothic and Romanesque present site, followed by a large frame building constructed on the RECEIVED In 1819 a congregation of ten persons organized the first church in Religion/Phi- erect a new building.
Ground for the present sanctuary was broken in 1859.The builder east side of the present highway #306.In 1842a storm severely AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 1859 Art of its type in Lake County. Crary, Marian A. 4605 700

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1 acre AUG 2 2 1973 FORM PREPARED BY Michael W. Fazio, Landmark Survey Coordinator STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 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 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 forth by the National Park Service.
The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: GPO 931-894 039 Mentor Degrees Seconds COUNTY LATITUDE DATE ORGANIZATION Name Title STATE LONGITUDE NATIONAL Minutes REGISTER ATTEST: 9/1/72 Local Degrees Minutes Seconds CORNER CODE MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES "Brief History of the Congregational Church of Kirtland, NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES RECEIVED National Register. 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION the church in May,1965). Old Mentor Foundation OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Photos 2 Federal Register entry_ 1/-6->3 SEP 2 0 1373 HISTORIAN Maps Entered Send-back KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST BRANCH CHIEF Re-submit TECH REVIEW WORKING NUMBER CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register write-up Lake 8-23 8.22, 73, 3481 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. Sept.
20, 1923 Lake Co., Ohia Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: Loc. east elevation UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1. NAME Old South Church 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE Chesterland, Ohio Quadrangle U.S.G.S 7-1/2' Series REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: AUG 2 2 1973 GPO 932.010 1970 TOWN Kirtland 1:24000 DATE STATE Lake COUNTY COMMON NATIONAL SOURCE REGISTER Ohio STREET AND NUMBER SCALE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (July 1968) Form 10-301 PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 9802 Chi11icothe Road RECEIVED CHESTERLAND QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CHESTERLAND, OHIO 2 0 1973 Hon, Robert Taft, Jr.
Columbus, Ohio 43211 PHR MMOTT: p1 9/25/73 Location Name Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Northeast Region Lake County The Ohio Historical Society Old South Church STATE OHIO Director Mr. Daniel R. Porter Kirtland Hon. J. Wiiliam Stanton