Nomination for Barber, O. C., Creamery

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) 2.2 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 14 John F. Seiberling, JI. L0.39 TO THE PUBLIC X Building - Unoccupied - Structure - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments . Commercial X Private Residence - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: Mrs.

Paul Pamer LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 153 Barberton Military STATUS ACCESSIBLE Religious LOCATION Both STATE CODE Site CATEGORY Restricted Private District Entertainment OWNERSHIP Akron Being Considered CLASSIFICATION Educational Government Summit Museum Scientific Public Yes: Ohio Agricultural Summit County Courthouse COMMON: REGISTER Park Public Acquisition: OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 365 Portsmouth Avenue STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE County Object Industrial 209 South High Street (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: NAME Barber, O. C., Creamery MAY - Deteriorated - Altered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

present age, as it reads "O. C. B. 1909". The Creamery is, like all of the other Anna Dean Farm buildings, used. Probably not pleased with the effect, Barber built the Entrance to the rest of the Creamery cannot be made through windows, about 8 feet high, are actually three separate sets of CONDITION DESCRIPTION these living quarters. these windows provided for natural lighting. section were large doors through which both milk trucks and square section that housed the dairykeeper and his family. used for distribution.On the extreme west side of this is a skylight that emits sunshine into a second story bathroom.

The Creamery is best described as having a long rectangular The two dairy rooms are both one story high and are connected other Anna Dean Farm buildings using only red brick.The only building in which different shades of red brick were overhangs.On the north side of the roof above the living quarters buildings after the Creamery had concrete dentil work instead of of the building clearly attests to its former owner and the Creamery and, even though there was electricity in the Creamery, connected to the furnace. The basement for the Creamery extends only under the living quarters. living quarters of the Creamery have i2 rooms on two floors. while the room in the west section of the Creamery was section running east to west with a smaller square section made of brick and trimmed with concrete block.Mr. Barber had milk wagons were loaded.

The dairy section of the Creamery is built on a slab. The roof of the Creamery is the hip style roof and the entire roof a great eye for symmetry and beauty and the Creamery was the Also on this side of the roof is a brick chimney that is The basement is odd because it is on three individual levels. NATIONAL three sections could be opened to provide a breeze to cool off The 0.C.Barber Creamery is 1ocated approximately 200 feet (Check One) - Unexposed MAY 1 S0973 Ruins Fair The long rectangular section of the Creamery contains two rooms. Creamery has rather large unusual outside windows. These RACEVED windows mounted on different tracks.

Any or all of these attached to the southwest side of the building.It is this by a large set of interior doors.The dairy section of the The room in the east section of the Creamery was used for is covered with red tiles.There are two dormers on the east side of the roof above the living quarters.This building was the east of Barn No.l.The concrete datestone on the south end REGISFER

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 18th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1909 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) > Agriculture MAY 1 5 1973 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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In 1890, O. C. Barber, head of the Akron based Diamond Match Company, was sued by the city of Akron for over $163,000 amounted to over $600,000 annually. Outraged over the suit, Barber decided to move his match Crouse, and Colonel George T. Perkins, Barber purchased more and called the city's natural lake, Anna, after his daughter. the Anna Dean Farm in 1905 and the first building, Barn No. 1 When the Anna Dean Farm was completed, there were twenty-three buildings in all, including a forty room mansion and twelve incubators, trucks, and a wide assortment of gadgets that cost In the East room of the Creamery the milk, taken from Barber's REGISTER Conservation NATIONAL Communications Architecture Military Commerce Engineering Landscape Theater Aboriginal Literature Prehistoric Invention Science Religion/Phi Music Industry ten times their worth.

Education Political Transportation itarian Sculpture Social/Human- farm would soon make it self-sufficient.In keeping with his Barber insisted that his Creamery be mechanized. company and its subsidiaries to some land he owned near be completed by Ohio Columbus Barber. Opened in 1909,it was the longest-running Anna Dean enterprise. beliefs of scientific farming, he purchased steam tractors, later by the Creamery. him on 2,ooo southeast of Barberton.Construction began on The Creamery was the second Anna Dean Farm building to By 1894 Barber's business interests had abandoned Akron and called in Michael Alexander and had him lay out a farm for paid a penny federal tax on each 100 matches he made, which Barber named the new town Barberton, in honor of himself, Iand and had Michael Alexander lay out a town for him. Barber had ignored the city tax, as he New Portage.

With the backing of John Robinson, George 1,000 head of prize dairy cattle which (continued) 1909 losophy in back taxes. scientific farming.He believed that the produce from his Art was completed in 1909.Barn No.1was fo1loweda few months Barber decided that he would like to do the same.Barber

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Arter, William, "Ohio Columbus Barber", Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 13, 1963. Library, Started a City", Akron Beacon Journal, 1951. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law National Register 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended Local C GPO 931.894 039 LONGITUDE Barberton ORGANIZATION Seconds Degrees LATITUDE Name DATE Minutes Title COUNTY ATTEST: STATE CODE CORNER Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL Steve Kelleher 4/73 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 706 Wisteria Dr in the National Register and certify that it has been As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: Ohio, 1890 - 1962, Barberton Public Freudenheim, Milt, "They Still Gasp Over O. C. Barber, the Man Who 6.

acres ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation REGISTER Ohio Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER Barber, O. C. Creamery 7. Description 8. Significance A conveyor moved the milk bottles past the nozzle of the vat, where the the end of the line it was in the distrubution room where it was placed When Barber died, in 1920, Western Reserve College turned down his bequeathal Creamery was used as a clubhouse for the Anna Dean Golf Course, after which it was sold, along with Barn No. 1, to its present owner. etc. between them. MAY 2 2 1973 GP 0 921-724 COUNTY Summit STATE DATE NATIONAL (Continuation Sheet) REGISTER Ohio that were destroyed for short time gains.

land, razing Barn No.l for a senior citizen apartment under the FHA 236 The Creamery is in excellent condition inside and outside.It has received to prevent the city of Barberton from completing their purchase of this Recently the owners of Barn No.1 and the Creamery were asked to sell their Om March 27,1973,the 0.C.Barber Carriage House and Apiary were torn down sold to the Telling Belle Vernon Company who ran it as a dairy.Later the land asa park site.They join the Barber Mansion and other farm buildings Places.It is hoped that the Creamery and other remaining O.C.Barber Barn No.1was recently placed on the National Register of Historic 2000 acre farm, are now quite seperate with roads,playing fields, apartment$, he insistedbe periodically vacuumed)was poured into a large holding vat. with the cream in l/2 pints. (Number all entries) great care and does not show its age of 64years.

Program.The owner now threatens to have both barn and creamery destroyed. workers who capped them and sent them on their way.When a bottle reached RECEIVED (July 1969) bottles were stopped and filled.The conveyor belt then moved them to STATE Oh R TECH REVIEW Photos 4 National Register write-up Federal Register entry MAY 2 2 1973 Summit KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps Entered Send-back Re-submit BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF WORKING NUMBER CONTROL REVIEW 5-15- 515.73.2924 HISTORIAN 7-3-23 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 753-9418 NPS Number Title: Loc. Photography By Barberton, Ohio 44203 Bob Kamenar V38 1at. St. n. W. NPS Number Loc CL REGISTER NPS Number Title: PROPERIY UF IHE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Title: UNITED STATES AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AKRON WEST, OHIO Barber, O.

C.,Creamery ROAD CLASSIFICATION E450180 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S. 7.5' Akron West Quadrangle RECEIVED MAY 1 51973 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 039 153 1967 MAY NAME Summit DATE COUNTY STATE 1:24000 CODE COMMON: REQUIREMENTS SOURCE: Ohio SCALE: 365 Portsmouth Avenue MAP REFERENCE AND/OR HISTORIC: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM Form 10-301 (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) LOCATION NATIONAL REGISTER MAY 2 2 1373 Coshocton County Courthouse Barber (O.C.) Piggery or Berber (O.C.) Creanery Bon. John H Ashbrook Columbus, Ohio Ion. John I. Seiberling, Jr.

Director, Northeast Region , NRowland:1mp STATE 5-24-73 Name Date Entered Director Coshocton County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cleveland Sumnit County The Ohio Historical Cociety Barberton Cuyahoga County Coshocton State Historie Preservation Officer Somerford vicinity Delaware County Courthouse Hon. Louis Stokes Schweinfurth House Delaware County Vilcon (Valentine)House Hadicon County Hon. Chalnere Po Wylie Location PHR 43211 Hon.Samuel J.Devine Hr.Daniel R.Porter "Pork Palace"