GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING'A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES NOV 1 2 1973 FORM PREPARED BY Mary Elizabeth Schwartz, elder July 11, 1973 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 National Register in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set GPO 931-894 039 Seconds ORGANIZATION Degrees DATE LONGITUDE Minutes STATE ATTEST: Portsmouth LATITUDE Name COUNTY CORNER NATIONAL First Presbyterian Church CODE Ohio REGISTER Scioto County Records Privately printed. Local Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Schwartz, Mary Elizabeth.
Minutes of the Session of First Presbyterian LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES History of the First United Presbyterian Church, STREET AND NUMBER: level of significance of this nomination is: 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: 2813 Gilbert Avenue DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY Associate Director, Proféssional Services Title less than1 PHOTOS 3 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN NOV 2 8 1973 INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back National Register Write-up MAPS Federal Register entry Scioto WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW HISTORIAN 114.73 BRANCH CHIEF 11.12 Ref73001532 11./2.73, 3936 CONTROL REVIEW Re-submit 1l,23, 73 1-1-24 2. Location. . 3. Classification. . 4. Owner of Property. . 5. Location of Legal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. _ 7. Description. .
Statement of Significance. - 9. Bibliography. - 10. Geographical Data. to be off by about Photographic Coverage. _ Other - SIGNED: ( Name. Map Coverage. Acreage. criteria in full. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation office for clarification of the information indicated below. NAME OF PROPERTY Form Prepared By. Please check. X 12. Certification. _ PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE PROPERTY IS RESUBMITTED. Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev.
6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) E Building - Unoccupied - In Process - Preservation work - Comments Commercial - Scientific OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 145 LOCATION Site Religious Private Military Government Both ACCESSIBLE Portsmouth CATEGORY OWNERSHIP NAME Entertainment CLASSIFICATION Restricted District Transportation Being Considered Structure Agricultural Yes: Park Private Residence Scioto Educational Museum STATUS Public CODE Industrial Scioto County Courthouse COMMON: NATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: REGISTER Ohio 615 Sixth Street Public Acquisition: Retired Senior First Presbyterian Church Volunteer Program Object TO THE PUBLIC 221 Court Street County ENTRY DATE STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER OF PROPERTY William H.
Harsha CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) - Federal PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) ENTRY NUMBER 1974 DESCRIPTION (Check One) - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE style brick building, built 1849-1851 and measuring approximately 57 by 99 feet. It has a smooth dressed local sandstone foundation, belt and an octagonal wooden cupola mounted on a square wood base, topped by 1engthened by about 16 feet, and the cupola, which had been blown, off in building, in the same style as the main building, was added to the north- has north and south stairways with severely simple, handmade balustrades.
a short hall, flanked by classrooms of equal size, to the hall which fills narthex the size of the vestibule below, a balcony above it, and the 1963 the sanctuary ceiling, cracked by sonic blasts, had furring strips installed, since there was no other way to made the plaster safe. CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Fair supporting the divisions of leaded stained glass. refloored in hard wood, so that total carpeting was eliminated.Lighting are the original solid walnut ones with their original cushions and pew the second floor windows were replaced with stylized symbolic scenes. rectangular second floor windows are tall and narrow with Latin crosses the lower hall, and the first floor south windows have been altered.
lower floor consists of a vestibule that runs the width of the church and In 1865 five of the original six chimneys were removed, the building was the 1910 educational wing was totally remodeled and made fireproof.In the organ a walnut choir loft was built and the pulpit moved forward and J.W. Steere and Co. tracker organ in 1892 for its 75th anniversary.For west corner.The original red and white rectangular panes of glass in The two doors at the west side of the vestibule lead down three steps to replaced by cement after the 1937 flood and the wood pillars by steel. X Good - Moved a finial and weathervane. nailed through the 4" of plaster to the joists, and tile ceiling was and louvered. Brick pilasters flank the second floor windows. The the rest of the original building. Both halls are paneled in wood but have A cellar under the hall was filled in.
The second floor consists of sanctuary. The original cloth-covered entry doors to the sanctuary have always been painted and now show the warping of the 1937 flood. The pews Excellent been both painted and papered previously.The original wood floors were Exterior:The First Presbyterian Church is a two-story Greek Revival The windows in the cupola are round arched The door on the north side has been moved from the front to the back of fixtures have been changed from oil to gas to electricity.
1860,was replaced on the gable roof.In 1910 a rectangular Sunday School RECEIVED PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| Indus try STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The First Presbyterian Church is a notable example of Greek Revival church members, the building was dedicated for use April 6, 1851, and The congregation, organized May 24, 1817, also built the first church were moved to the present building, but in 1852 the church pur- chased a new large brass bell, toned letter "F", designed by G.W. Coffin & Co. and cast by the Buckeye Foundry in Cincinnati. Details of the floor, and 1937 when water covered the second floor, making it necessary AUG 2 sanctuary.
Military Conservation losophy Architecture Transportation Religion/Phi Aboriginal Communications Engineering Theater Commerce itarian NATIONAL Prehistoric Education Science Literature Music Agriculture Social/Human- SIGNIFICANCE Landscape Urban Planning style architecture remarkable for its impressive size and relatively to refinish the floor and pews though their solid walnut construction Volunteer Program.The Presbyterians are now considering a merger which, functions and for services.The clock was put on the south wall of the Invention Political beams in the church yard and rung during the Civil War for war aid The solid construction of the building enabled it to withstand the floods Sculpture was not affected.
so became the first church dedicated for use and still in use in the 17th Century An active church body, the members have done important work in missions, church building in Portsmouth in 1823.The bell and clock from that if carried out, will cause the present building to be abandoned. 1849 and built by a local contractor under the supervision of five sanctuary were not fully completed until 1865. of 1883,1884,1907,1913when the water reached nearly to the second Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) REGISTER In 1860 a tornado ripped the cupola off but deposited the bell and clock 1849-1851 cians praise it as having the finest accoustics in the city.Begun in Center was begun in 1970 and the church now houses the Retired Senior MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Church. 1817-1973.
Scioto County Records, Scioto County Court House, Portsmouth, Ohio, Recorder's GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES FORM PREPARED BY Mary Elizabeth Schwartz, elder July 11, 1973 2813 Gilbert Avenue CITY OR TOWN: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion forth by the National Park Service.
The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register Date January 23, 1974 GP O 931-894 039 LATITUDE Seconds Degrees Local Portsmouth LONGITUDE Name Minutes DATE Degrees Minutes Seconds COUNTY ORGANIZATION STATE CORNER ATTEST: CODE First Presbyterian Church REGISTER Minutes of the Session of First Presbyterian NATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set I hereby certify that this property is included in the APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Office (City Abstract of Conveyance of Deeds, Volumes Q, R, 86). STREET AND NUMBER: in the National Register and certify that it has been level of significance of this nomination is: National Register.
less than 1 NAME AND TITLE: [LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Ohio CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Send-back _ KEEPER PROPERTY Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit National Register Write-up Federal Register entry MAPS WORKING NUMBER BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF STATE Chis PHOTOS LOC. - PORTSMOUTH, OHIO PH. EL 3-1424 Photographer PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER BILLY GRAHAM PH. EL 3-1424 PROPERTY OE THE NATIONAL REGISTER BILLY GRAHAM PORTSMOUTH, OHIO PH. EL 3-1424 BILLY GRAHAM Photographer PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PORTSMOUTH, OHIO Sciito Co, Ohia Loc. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) 1. NAME 2. LOCATION 221 Court Street 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S.
7-1/2' Series NOV 1 2 1973 GPO 932.010 Portsmouth COUNTY Scioto DATE NOV NATIONAL REGISTER STATE SOURCE TOWN SCALE Form 10-301 First Presbyterian Church COMMON STREET AND NUMBER Ohio Friendship Quadrangle PROPERTY MAP FORM AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (July 1968) NUMERIC CODE (Aesigned by NPS) REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY: BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW 8 1973 1:240004115 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY First Presbyterian FRIENDSHIP QUADRANGLE KENTUCKY-OHIO STATE ONIO 2 8 1973 Huáson Historic District Chi11icothe Mr. Daniel B. Porter Hon. J. Will1an Stanton Columbus, Ohio 43211 Director, Northeast Region PR MMOTT: p1 11.30.73 Location Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Hudson Also Notified Ross County Director State Historic Preservation Officer Summit County Portauouth Saioto County Hon. Willian H.
Harsha First Prasbyterian Church The Ohio Historical Society District OHIO OMB Approval No. 29-R0218 . NUMBER 3. STATE SAI - PREAPPLICATION - NOTIFICATION OF INTENT (Opt.) C REPORT OF FEDERAL ACTION 4. LEGAL APPLICANT/RECIPIENT a. Applicant Name : Ohio Historical Society b. Organization Unit - Ohio Historic Preservation Office c. Street/P.O. Box d. City b. TITLE h. Contact Person (Name & telephone No.) 7. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT'S PROJECT 8. TYPE OF APPLICANT/RECIPIENT I- Higher Educational institution First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, J- Indian Tribe windows, repair and painting of cupola. 9. TYPE OF ASSISTANCE 10. AREA OF PROJECT IMPACT (Names of cities, counties, 11. ESTIMATED NUM- 12. TYPE OF APPLICATION States, etc.) Portsmouth, Ohio 14. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF: 17. PROJECT B-Decrease Dollers PROJECT START d. LOCAL ESTIMATED DATE TO 19.
EXISTING FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER FEDERAL AGENCY - JUN 7%1977 20. FEDERAL AGENCY TO RECEIVE REQUEST (Name, City, State, ZIP code) 21. REMARKS ADDED - Yes [X No 8. To the bast of my knowledge and belief, with the attached assurances if the assist- &. TYPED NAME AND TITLE A. SIGNATURE c. DATE SIGNED Year month day 24. AGENCY NAME APPLICA- Year month day 26. ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT 27. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 28. FEDERAL APPLICATION D.C. 20240 33. ACTION DATE * IB. REJECTED - C. RETURNED FOR [] d.
DEFERRED STANDARD FORM 424 PAGE 1 (10-75) 39-76-00266-00 31-4389673W 424-101 TOTAL National IDENTIFICATION DATE 1980 BENEFITING ENDING ACTION Leave APPLICATION Columbus OTHER CATION DURATION SENTATIVE 20,000 RECEIVED GRAM TYPE Ohio REPRE- C-Revision WITHDRAWN Federal ASSIGNED CERTIFYING day PROPOSED FUNDING E-City Historic Preservation FIER STARTING Catalog) A-State E-Cancellation 6,350 Blank Grants Administration Div. AMENDMENT Grants-in-Aid for C-increase Duration Months 5,250 District Scioto Country CERTIFIES D-County Director and SHPO C-Substato F-School District C-Loan 11,600 A-Basic Grant FEDERAL ASSISTANCE Enter appro- E-Augmentation IDENTI- C.STATE H-Community Action Agency of the First United Presbyterian Church. Stephen Newman Ohio State Clearinghouse CANT'S priate letter(s) Enter appropriate letter D-Insurance D-Decrease Duration PRO- (Name and telephone no.) ance is approved.
202 523-5472 it has been cr is being mado. B-Interstate Thomas H. Smith, SHPO, APPLI- same as #35 15.TYPE OF CHANGE K-Other (Specify): (Mark ap- 5. FEDERAL EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO. Exterior painting, repair and protection of Source of non-federal match: Private sources A-Increase Dollars are attached: THAT P 29. ADDRESS AGENCY B 31. ACTION TAKEN CONTACT FOR FOR FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 OFFICIAL B-Supplemental Grant E-Other 43211 Interior FUNDING DATA A-New D-Continuation National Park Service BER OF PERSONS FOR ADDITIONAL BE SUBMITTED TO G-Special Purpose duly authorized by the governing body of 1982 Velma Avenue propriato true and correct, tho document has bean Year tho applicant and the applicant wilt comply Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev.
6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE 1$ - Âj -73 AND/OR HISTORIC: (Check One) LX Building - Structure - In Process - Object - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments -. Commercial LX Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS.
ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 145 039 STATE LOCATION Religious CLASSIFICATION Portsmouth COPY CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE Scioto Restricted Both Site OWNERSHIP STATUS Unoccupied Retired Senior Yes: First Presbyterian Church COMMON: CODE Private Residence Scioto County Courthouse Government Industrial Public Acquisition: Park Being Considered Scientific Ohio Museum Public Volunteer Program STREET AND NUMBER: Entertainment Educational 615 Sixth Street CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: OWNER OF PROPERTY CITY OR TOWN: William H. Harsha 221 Court Street TO THE PUBLIC DATE OF SURVEY: Agricultural (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NAME TITLE OF SURVEY: STREET ANE NUMEE ? Private Militory ENTRY NUMDI.F Local 7. DESCRIPTION X Good - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered style brick building, built 1849-1851 and measuring approximately 57 by 99 feet.
It has a smooth dressed local sandstone foundation, belt course, sills and lintels. There is a denticulated cornice and pedinent lengthened by about 16 feet, and the cupola, which had been blown. off in building, in the same style as the main building, was added to the north- has north and south stairways with severely simple, handmade balustrades. The two doors at the west side of the vestibule lead down three steps to a short hall, flanked by classrooms of equal size, to the hall which fills narthex the size of the vestibule below, a balcony above it, and the 1963 the sanctuary ceiling, cracked by sonic blasts, had furring strips nailed through the 4" of plaster to the joists, and tile ceiling was Excellent the second floor windows were replaced with stylized symbolic scenes.
the organ a walnut choir loft was built and the pulpit moved forward and, are the original solid walnut ones with their original cushions and pew refloored in hard wood, so that total carpeting was eliminated.Lighting supporting the divisions of leaded stained glass. always been painted and now show the warping of the 1937 flood.The pews installed, since there was no other way to made the plaster safe. J.W.Steere and Co.tracker organ in 1892 for its 75th anniversary.For replaced by cement after the 1937 flood and the wood pillars by steel.
the 1910 educational wing was totally remodeled and made fireproof.In and louvered.Brick pilasters flank the second floor windows.The and an octagonal wooden cupola mounted on a square wood base, topped by lower floor consists of a vestibule that runs the width of the church and In 1865 five of the original six chimneys were removed, the building was (Check One) - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE the lower hall, and the first floor south windows have been altered. rectangular second floor windows are tall and narrow with Latin crosses Interior: Little major change has been made in the interior. The A cellar under the hall was filled in.
The second floor consists of a CONDITION Exterior:The First Presbyterian Church is a two-story Greek Revival been both painted and papered previously.The original wood floors were a finial and weathervane.The windows in the cupola are round arched sanctuary.The original cloth-covered entry doors to the sanctuary have The door on the north side has been moved from the front to the back of fixtures have been changed from oil to gas to electricity.In 1959 west corner.The original red and white rectangular panes of glass in Foir OF SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pro-Columbian!
X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATEIS) (Il Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning - Engineering - Other (Specify) - Industry - Invention Landscape - Literature - Militory - Conservation - Music church members, the building was dedicated for use April 6, 1851, and The congregation, organized May 24, 1817, also built the first church were moved to the present building, but in 1852 the church pur- chased a new large brass bell, toned letter "F", designed by G.W. Coffin & Co. and cast by the Buckeye Foundry in Cincinnati. Details of the floor, and 1937 when water covered the second floor, making it necessary An active church body, the members have done important work in missions, if carried out, will cause the present building to be abandoned. 1849-1851 sanctuary.
losophy Commerce Architecture Science Religion/Phi Agriculture Aboriginal Prehistoric Theater style architecture remarkable for its impressive size and relatively Sculpture The First Presbyterian Church is a notable example of Greek Revival to refinish the floor and pews though their solid walnut construction Transportation The solid construction of the building enabled it to withstand the floods church building in Portsmouth in 1823.The bell and clock from that Communicotions was not affected.
beams in the church yard and rung during the Civil War for war aid safely on the east side of the street.The bell was set on heavy wooden 1849 and built by a local contractor under the supervision of five of 1883,1884,1907,1913 when the water reached nearly to the second In 1860 a tornado ripped the cupola off but deposited the bell and clock Social/Human- Political AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) TATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE unchanged structure. The sanctuary will seat more than 500, and musi- cians praise it as having the finest accoustics in the city.
functions and for services.The clock was put on the south wall of the Center was begun in 1970 and the church now houses the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.The Presbyterians are now considering a merger which, so became the first church dedicated for use and still in use in the sanctuary were not fully completed until 1865. Art MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Scioto County Records, Scioto County Court House, Portsmouth, Ohio, Recorder's Office (City Abstract of Conveyance of Deeds, Volumes 9, R, 86). GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROºERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POIN1 OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: less than 1 State O FORM PREPARED BY 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law Nationa 1 Register.
89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion avaluated according to the coiteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Oflice of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register 039 DATE Seconds LATITUDE Portsmouth LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION Degrees COUNTY CORNER ATTEST: Minutes CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Minutes of the Session of First Presbyterian First Presbyterian Church As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- STREET AND NUMBER: in the National Register and certify that it has been LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES level of significance of this nomination is: Mary Elizabeth Schwartz, elder 2813 Gilbert Avenue CITY OR TOWN: NAME AND TITLE: Church. 1817-1973. Schwartz, Mary Elizabeth. 150th Anniversary, 1817-1967. Privately printed.
ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES July 11, 1973 National O Local D History of the First United Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio J. Williams photo 3/87 Columbus, Ohio Photo #/ Boneyfiddle Multiple Resource Area View looking Southwest 221 Court Street First Presbyterian Church (NR) Neg. at 391 Library Park S. Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000611 Please refer to the map in the for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet
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