Nomination for Wilson, Valentine, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) BAY 2 2 1973 NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: 15th - Chalmers P.

Wylie (Check One) - In Process PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation X Comments X Other (Specify) 5 years OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 097 London 039 Somerford Madison Religious LOCATION Military Site OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE CLASSIFICATION STATUS District Government Commercial Entertainment CATEGORY Museum Unoccupied Yes: Somerford vicinity County Restricted CODE Educational Scientific Structure Agricultural Private Residence NATIONAL Building Both Park Public Being Considered Madison County Court House Industrial COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Ohio some storage REGISTER Private Object Public Acquisition: Recorder's Office ENTRY DATE STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Wilson, Valentine, House TO THE PUBLIC vacant for FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: * Preservation work Someriord Township Cemetery, State Route #56 E<-01-L DATE RECEIVED Somerford Township Cemetery Trus tees Route No.

56 and mile west on Interstate [t Deteriorated - Ruins U Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved [X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

a chimney stack (part of which has fallen in) and small gable- been replaced downstairs but remain in the upstairs bedrooms. All In spite of the leaking roof, falling plaster, warping floor (continued on contin. sheet) with wooden trim and mantel piece. NATION not trim along the rakes thus creating wide expanses of uninter Shortly after the completion of the main structure, a one-story lor" design with additional one-story brick and wood structures end windows and contains a large fireplace, simply appointed The plain wall surfaces are a consequence walnut woodwork including built-in cupboards and superb original is slightly pinker and lighter in color than the rest of the six-panel doors.A circular "ladder" stair ascends from the hal six symetrically placed openings, the front door being in the middle.

a glorious rich color now somewhat subdued and made motley with of the rooms exhibit complete chair rails and excellently crafted east gable and not on the corresponding opposite gable. RECONDITION southwest facade, but a common bond is used on all other exterior The main two-story section has tall internal gable-end chimney inset on the flu area between the attic windows on the south- The overall jointing used is very thin and the cement used a window and door, opening on the same side as the main facade, Prior to 1875,a common, one-story wooden frame structure was ad The Valentine Wilson House is a two-story, brick,"hall and par After l875,a simple porch was added to cover this door but has (Check One) to the attic. DESCRIPTION The wing has but two of the mantels remain. two-room addition was used as a hog pen in later years. Excellent Fair the house are not pierced by openings.

the architectural character of the total structure. since been removed. Without exception, the four rooms of the original rectangular structure contain fireplaces which have since been bricked in, The wide oak floor boards have of the jack or flat arches over the doors and windows being made brick used.The jointing in these rubbed brick arches are prac The flemish technique of bonding the brick is used on the smooth gable ends the cornice does not return and mouldings do stacks which terminate in a flared fashion.Except for two small flush with the exterior walls.The rubbed brick for these arches walls. Good - Pre-Columbian| - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1820 - Prehistoric - Agriculture MAY 1 5 1973 STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Valentine Wilson was Ohio, In 1816, where he bought 200 acres, of which he added to his death, it is believed that he owned the largest improved farm in the State of Ohio. His Darby Plains farm contained 50 and exterior, a certain boldness, and at the same time, a feel- ness area of Madison County, by a man of relative affluent gable-end chimneys and typically blank gable walls.

Therefore (continued on contin, sheet) Engineering Military Architecture Conservation Transportation Communications Other Theater Aboriginal Science Music Religion/Phi Literature SIGNIFICANCE itarian Sculpture Landscape Social/Human- The people of the Mid-Atlantic region influenced the North, ing of reserve that gives this piece of architecture a dignity Invention The Valentine Wilson House, orginally constructed in a wilder- Industry westward direction in which folk cultures were carried out of tidewater architecture in this Madison County area. dle Atlantic architectural styles in folk housing to this migrant to the Mid-Atlantic region usually erected two-story Commerce circa l820,shows excellent refinement of details both interior Township, Madison County, Ohio.He Settled on original Virginia this source area by diffusion and migration.It of the National Trail.

NATIONAL dwellings, one room deep, two or more rooms long with internal means, can serve to illustrate the transplantation of the Mid- Education miles of fencing and l,2oo acres in one pasture alone. the Valentine Wilson House, so typical of this style of tide- REGISTER Art Political PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) died July 2, 1855 in this, his brick farm home, in Somerford Military Survey #3726, then Deer Creek Township, Madison County, His first son, William D. Wilson, born in 180%, is called man. losophy County. It is believed that he erected the first brick yard AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) central Ohio area during the early settlement years. The Valentine Wilson House,a typical early farmhouse that is lacking in other somewhat later, degenerate styles of on both sides of the Old Columbus Road which is the forerunner

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES pp. 3-10. Glassie, Henry, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PRO-ERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 30 - 22 0.622 acres FORM PREPARED BY Frank E. Slagle, Vice President April 15, 1973 CITY OR TOWN: 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 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 level of significance of this nomination is: GPO 931-894 London, 039 DATE COUNTY Degrees Seconds ORGANIZATION National LATITUDE LONGITUDE STATE ATTEST: CORNER Ohio Historic Minutes Title CODE Madison County Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds Preservation Officer Ohio 1120-4. NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: STREET AND NUMBER: National Register. 10 May 1973 Eastern United States, Univ. of Penn. Press, 1968, PP 36-41, 48-49, 58, 152-153. 1883, pp.

APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Name History of Madison County, Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Madis on INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAY 2 2 1973 is remarkable that this early style of architecture, a transplant, MAY 1 5 1973 GP0 921.724 COUNTY STATE DATE NATIONAL REGISTER structurally in sound condition. (Continuation Sheet) Ohio The Madison County Historical Society is presently developing plans for the restoration of the Wilson House. away from the nation's newest coast-to-coast "national trail".

(continued from category #7) boards, lose exterior bricks, replaced window casings, and the was spared by the freeway Interstate 70 and now lies only 200ft. RECEIVED installed),and in lieu of a few minor cracks in the walls is Photos 2 Federal Register entry _ MAY 2 2 1973 Maps HISTORIAN Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Send-back CONTROL REVIEW KEEPER TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF Madison REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register write-up WORKING NUMBER 73001505 5-15- ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN 5.15.73.921 NPS Number NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Wilson, Valentine, House MAY 1 5 1973 2. LOCATION 3.

MAP REFERENCE USGS 7.5' Series REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: GPO 932.010 Madison Somerford vicinity DATE COMMON 1961 REGISTER STATE TOWN COUNTY NATIONAL SOURCE SCALE Ohio STREET AND NUMBER Approximately one mile north of Somerford on State Route NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES RECEIVED AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY MAP FORM Form 10-301 (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) (Photorevised 1968) 1:24,000 No.56 and mile west on Interstate 7o Vienna Quadrangle UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VIENNA QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR VIENNA, OHIO (July 1968) 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) MAY 2 2 1973 2. LOCATION Madis on 3.

MAP REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: GPO 932-010 DATE TOWN Somerford vicinity STATE COMMON COUNTY REGISTER NATIONAL SOURCE SCALE Ohio STREET AND NUMBER RECEIVED PROPERTY MAP FORM Wilson, Valentine, House AND/OR HISTORIC Dec 1970 Approximately one mile north of Somerford on State Route Madison Co. Engineer NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Form 10-301 survey for Somerford Cem (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR March 1973) 1" equals l00' 9.554 Acres - 0.622 Acres remaining N88°37-46"W. 218.25 INTERSTATE 70 303.75 0.622 Acres MAY 1 5 1973 53'26'14"E. 281.85' S 88°-32'-14" W. 701.73' N 89º-22-47"E.

431.8/ Scale in Feet 235.00'1ef) Delaware County Berber (o.C.) Piggery or "Pork Palace" State Historic Preservation Officer Hon, Samuel Lo Devine Columbus, Ohio Hon. Louis Stokes Hon- Chalmers P. Wylie Director, Northeast Region NRowland: 1mp Location STATE Director 5-24-73 Name Barberton Date Entered 43211 Coshocton County Cleveland ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Delaware County Courthouse Cuyahoga County Coshocton County Courthouse. Sumit County The Ohio Hietorical Society Coshocton Mr.Daniel R.Porter Schwainfurth (Charles) House Barber (o.c.) Creanery Madison County MAY 2 2 1073 Ion. John F. Soiberling, Jr. PHR Delaware Vilcon House OHIO