Nomination for Unionville Tavern

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William Stanton Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: Box 114) 3- CLASSIFICATION - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: (office) Box 114 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: X Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 085 039 Washington LOCATION Unionville Painesville Religious Commercial STATE Both Entertainment Military ACCESSIBLE NAME REGISTER CATEGORY Government Private Site OWNERSHIP Museum Restricted Unoccupied District STATUS NATIONAL Lake Structure DATE Yes: 011 Park CODE Public Scientific Private Residence Being Considered Agricultural COUNTY: Ohio Library of Congress Industrial Educational COMMON: Historic American Buildings Survey Unionville Tavern Carver, RECEIVED Lake County Courthouse Public Acquisition: TO THE PUBLIC ENTRY NUMBER Congressional District 1l OWNER OF PROPERTY 47 North Park Place CITY OR TOWN: Object Harry A FOR NPS USE ONLY (Check One) Other PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) (July 1969) 1936 Building Intersection of County Line Road and State Route 84 (Mailing Address: DESCRIPTION Excellent - Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

is of brick.

In the basement, part of the original log construction of here - JUN 2 9 1973 Interior Exterior CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins Fair and chimneys were of fieldstone while most of the remaining construction architrave returns against the face of the clapboard facade.The The dominant element of this building's exterior design is the two- hung windows with nine lights per sash -- five windows at each floor and its corner post.The clapboard siding is interrupted by numerous double- piece of trim is the greatest extravagance enjoyed by the early carpenters Doric columns rise from the porch and support an architrave above;this covered entry, no longer used as such; and above is the old ballroom still story portico which was added sometime after 182o.Four huge square bounded by an additional gabled structure;the right side still shows a simple doorway at the center of the first floor.

possible by the fact that the entablature only supports the (Check One) the first tavern still remains. The building's left side was once a intact.The first floor of the main building is divided into four large Woodwork is simple throughout even at the mantels.A small molding or startling feature of this architrave is its great bay size -- some twelve RECEIVED Good - Pre-Columbian: - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) Built 1818-20 - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) Agriculture - Landscape - Literature STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

cabin, identical to the first and directly beside it, was erected. mail route from Warren, Ohio to Cleveland, a distance of some 150 miles This event led to the conversion of the two cabins into a single, two- New England House, and finally to the Old Tavern. Civil War building in northeast Ohio, the Tavern is said to have been JUN 2 9 1973 Communications Commerce Military losophy Aboriginal Architecture Conservation Engineering REGISTER Theater Transportation Education Music Invention Science Buildings Survey. Prehistoric NATIONAL Religion/Phi Social/Human- itarian Political Industry storied saltbox with rooms arranged as they are today.During this a station for the Underground Railway.If all of these claims are true, period of growth, the tavern's name evolved through Webster House, had appeared and with them passengers to rest overnight in Unionville.

Sculpture The earliest tavern on this location was a log cabin erected around The building was the scene of numerous Civil War parties and dances 1798.The location was a good one along the road from Pittsburgh, In 1803 the tavern was located on the Cleveland-Buffalo Road, the The present living room lounge was once one of those cabins. RECEIVED scarcely a slave must have remained in the south by1865. --a distance negotiatedat that time by foot.By 1815 stage coaches PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) through Warren, Ohio and leading west. As business increased another The Unionville Tavern has been recorded by the Historic American Art SIGNIFICANCE which took place in the still extant ballroom.Like almost every pre- AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Dover Publications, 1944.

DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 41 46 49.5 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1/4 acre JUN 2 9 1973

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FORM PREPARED BY Post Office Box 464 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICAHION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended GP 0 9 01.08 7 039 Mentor 9-28-72 12.5 LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Degrees DATE LONGITUDE COUNTY ATTEST: STATE Name Local Ohio REGISTER CORNER NATIONAL CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds NOT APPLICABLE MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Old Mentor Foundation National Register. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES level of significance of this nomination is: STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: Frary, I.T.

Early Homes of Ohio. New York: Dover Publications, 1970. Hamlin, Talbot. "The Old Tavern" - (A pamphlet published by the management). 0. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Fazio, Michael W., Landmark Survey Coordinator Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register Seconds Minutes Title Cleveland:. The Press of Case Western Reserve University, l97l. Federal Register entry . JUL 2 6 1973 Maps Entered 73001492 HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Send-back REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER Photos TECH REVIEW National Register write-up CONTROL REVIEW 9-4-73 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Lake STATE Ohio WORKING NUMBER 6-29-73- 3193 Tavern NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Aesigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S.

7-1/2' Series Madison, Ohio Quadrangle REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW JUN 2 9 1973 GPO 932-010 TOWN COUNTY COMMON NATIONAL 1:24000 REGISTER Unionville SOURCE Lake STATE SCALE Unionville Tavern AND/OR HISTORIC Form 10-301 STREET AND NUMBER RECEIVED PROPERTY MAP FORM Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entties-attach to or enclose with map) 1960 Revised 1970 (July 1968) DATE .O MINUTE SERIES TOPOGRAPHIC MADISON QUADRANGLE ROAD CLASSIFICATION STATE OF OHIO 1960 UNITED STATES MADISON, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT CP HIGHWAYS STATE ONTO JUL 2 6 1373 Date Entered JUL Ohto Asylum for the Blind 1Mott : jal Location 7/30/73 Worthington Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Director Hortheast Region Wayne County Franklin County Unfonville vicinity Columbus, Ohio Wooster Unionville Tavern The Ohio Bistorical Society