Nomination for Muskingum County Courthouse And Jail

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JUN 1 5 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: LOCATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 10th - ACCESSIBLE .

STATUS (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work - Comments Commercial OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 119 Zanesville CLASSIFICATION DATE Military Government Muskingum Religious CATEGORY Structure OWNERSHIP STATE Museum Both REGISTER Unoccupied Restricted CODE Entertainment Educational Private Ohio Site Building NATIONAL Transportation Muskingum County Courthouse Public Agricultural Yes: Scientific Park Industrial COMMON: Muskingum County Being Considered Private Residence Fourth and Main Streets Public Acquisition: TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Object Clarence E.

Miller Muskingum County Courthouse and Jail REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 039 DATE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) NAME District OWNER OF PROPERTY ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION - Unexposed - Unaltered E9 Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

to 1877. The building rests on a stone foundation, and measures is a columned porch, whose roof has a stone balustrade topped with roof, a belt course of stone divides the first and second floors The mansard roof is constructed of multi-colored, patterned The two-stage tower, located in the center of the west side, CONDITION characteristics. Excellent Moved with consoles. Deteriorated Ruins which forms the base for the tower.The doorway is round arched and is flanked by two small round-headed windows.At the entrance tower has four sides topped with iron cresting and a weathervane. converted house with an addition of cellblocks in ashlar stone faces are placed under pedimented cornice, and the dome on the Four, short mansardic towers that also have dormers are located The interior of the courthouse retains many of its original ends of the building, and the first floor ceiling is vaulted.

The three and one-half story (including raised basement) Muskingum County Courthouse was built of smooth-dressed stone from 1874 level also contains the chimes for the clocks above.The base is in the Second Empire style, and possesses most of that style's with Corinthian capitals on the walls, and the cornice is supported roof is composed of grey slate, and has two dormers with segmental The Muskingum County Jail is located adjacent to and east of the rises about forty feet above the roof line. It is square, and on the west side is located in a projecting pavilion The first and second floor windows are either round-headed or pilasters, and a smooth stone belt course runs between the first water cleaning, but is otherwise in good condition. in an excellent state of repair. pieces of slate. Two dormers are on each side of the building. (Check One) Ilat roofs. features.

Extant is the mosaic tile floor, and the heavy, hard- the first level has pedimented, louvered openings. The first courthouse. pediments on the north side. and second floors.Smooth stone hoodmolds adorn the first and rectangular with stilted segmental-arched hoodmolds. The entrance The section of the tower containing the second floor is a blank frieze and consoled cornice.The mansard The stairways are located in the west and east mansardic in shape.

Fair The main roof is an unusual slate pattern, and is of the building.Square, rusticated stone quoins form pilasters Empire style.The two and one-half story jail appears to be a clock faces is located behind ornamental iron cresting.The clock wood woodwork.T Good on each corner of the courthouse.These short towers have It was built of brick circa 1870 in the Second second floors of the original part of the building.Above the The building could use a thorough urns and a cartouche in the center.At the level of the porch

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (Il Applicable and Known) courthouse built 1874-1877 - Education - Urban Planning - Historic - Other (Specify) - Agriculture - Invention - Science - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Literature - Theater - Transportation the county seat, was named for Ebenezer Zane who was com- West Virginia to Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky. on this road, "Zane's Trace." Part of his land became the site for Zanesville, which he and John McIntyre laid out in They named the village Westbourn, but the post office established there was called Zanesville. It was selected Columbus for the capital, the statehouse became was built at a cost of $222,060.

Conservation Commerce Communications Congress gave Zane the authority to construct the road itarian Military Both the courthouse and jail appear to be sound structures Architecture are in good condition. not long before the town chose the name for itself.Zanesville Zane received three land grants in return for his labors the county commissioners decided to construct a new building in 1796. Landscape to design a new courthouse, and T.B. Townsend was selected the latter part of the nineteenth century.At that time The first Muskingum County Courthouse was contained in a Religion/Phi Muskingum County was formed from parts.of Washington and buildings are excellent examples of their type, and they Indian word meaning "town on the river side." Zanesville, of the Statehouse.

of Ohio during the legislative sessions of 1810-1811 and was built as a statehouse to attract the legislature for on the same site.The county hired architect H.E. Myer able to meet the county's needs in the years to come. The Industry STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

missioned by Congress to construct a road from Wheeling. seat of the state government in 181after the erection Fairfield Counties March 1, 18o4. Muskingum is a Delaware Engineering Political 9losophy temporary log structure in Zanesville. The second courthouse Art 1799. Music the county courthouse. This building proved adequate until became the county seat, and was also the temporary capital a more permanent stay.But when the state government

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES American Buildings Survey, National Parks Service, Washington, D. C. Howe, Henry. Cleveland, Ohio: privately printed, 1966. Sutor, J. Hope, Past and Present of the City of Zanesville and Muskingum GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES N 39° 56 - JUN 1 5 1999 FORM PREPARED BY May 11, 1973 STREET AND NUMBER: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 c-iteria and procedures set Keeper of The National Register GP0 931-894 20240.

039 Name Degrees Seconds LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION Columbus DATE Minutes LATITUDE State COUNTY CORNER ATTEST: Local NATIONAL Ohio REGISTER CODE Associated With Them. 1932 Forest Village Lane National Society of Colonial Dames, Historical Activities Committee. Degrees Minutes Seconds Larry Alan Beers LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: County, Ohio. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1095. CITY OR TOWN: National Register.o W 82° APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1 açre forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Historical Collections of Ohio.

Cincinnati, Ohio: State Title Historic Counties and Courthouses of Ohio and the Prominent Men Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation RECEIVED JUL 1 6 1973 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps HISTORIAN Re-submit Send-back PROPERTY WORKING NUMBER CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN TECH REVIEW Federal Register entry National Register write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Photos 3 7300/515 Muskingum 6-20- 6.15.73.3114 9-4-73 KHC NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 800 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CODE COUNTY: LOCA TION May 9, 1973 NATIONAI NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

INT: 154-72 039 Zanesville IDENTIFICATION Muskingum NAME DATE STATE PHOTO REFERENCE The Ohio Historical Society Larry Alan Beers Fourth and Main Streets Ohio COMMON: East and north sides, Muskingum County Courthouse ENTRY NUMBER Columbus, Ohio PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: JUN 1 5 1973 CODE Muskingum County Courthouse and Jail PROPERTY OF THE NAT:ONAL REGISTER NPS Humber Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CODE COUNTY: JUN 1 5-1973 AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: May 9, 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

INT: 154-72 039 Zanesville Muskingum NAME Fourth and Main Streets IDENTIFICATION DATE Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE STATE REGISTE CODE COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER Larry Alan Beers PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM The Ohio Historical Society PHOTO CREDIT: West side (front), Muskingum County Courthouse NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Columbus, Ohio (Type all entries~attach to or enclose with photograph) CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) Muskingum County Courthouse and Jail NATIONAL ENNEY PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Muskingum | JUN 1 5 1973 LOCA TION May 9, 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Columbus, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

INT: 154-72 Zanesville IDENTIFICATION NAME COUNTY DATE PHOTO REFERENCE CODE Ohio STATE 039 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Larry Alan Beers PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAT COMMON: North side (front), Muskingum County Jail. AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The Ohio Historical Society Fourth and Main Streets CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER: DATE OF PHOTO: FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) REGISTE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Aesigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3.

MAP REFERENCE 1: 24,000 JUN 1 5 1973 GPO 932.010 1961 STATE and Jail DATE NATIONAL REGISTER Ohio SCALE RECEIVED PROPERTY MAP FORM AND/OR HISTORIC Fourth and Main Streets West Quadrangle NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUMBER USGSE7t' Series, Zanesville REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: Zanesville Muskingum COUNTY COMMON Muskingum County Courthouse ZANESVILLE WEST QUADRANGLE ZANESVILLE WEST, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO Bus Route JUL 16 1973 Director, Northeest Region Location Name STATE Ross County Date Entered Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Guernsey County Courthouse Zaneaville Chil1icothe vicinity Hon, John P.

Seiberling, Jeo Sumit County Tucarcras County Courthouse Puscarewas Couty June 24, 1974 Mr. Charles Herrington, Chief 18th and C Streets, N.W. Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Building; Columbus; Franklin was demolished in November, 1973. result of the tornado of April 3, 1974. Daniel R. Porter, Director Registration Sincerely, National Park Service been demolished: National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior demolished in January,1974.The county is preserving the courthouse. Dear Charles: I regret to inform you that the following National Register buildings have State Historic Preservation Officer County.Entered in the National Register on January 18,1973,the MHomewood Cottage (Brown, Hallie Quinn, House); Wilberforce; Greene Muskingum County Courthouse and Jail; Zanesville; Muskingum County.

Entered in the National Register on July 16,1973,the Jail only was building was demolished as a result of the tornado of April 3,1974. Register on January 18,1973,the building was demolished as a Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue historical society/ ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432ll/telephone (614) 466-4688 S., House); Wilberforce; Greene County. Entered in the National DRP: dal We hope there will be no more demolitions to report this year. 8727 County.Entered in the National Register on March 14,1973,it