Nomination for House, Col. Erastus, House

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JUL 3 0 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: OH Rays Corner 11 - J.

William Stanton TO THE PUBLIC In Process X Preservation work - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 007 Jefferson Structure Site Ashtabula NATIONAL LOCATION Ohio Religious Government Transportation COUNTY Educational ACCESSIBLE STATE NAME District Restricted Entertainment CLASSIFICATION Military STATUS Unoccupied REGISTER CATEGORY Both Federal Building OWNERSHIP Private Commercial Museum Agricultural Private Residence Scientific CODE Public Trent Bobbitt Park Yes: COMMON: Industrial Public Acquisition: Being Considered CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Ashtabula County Courthouse NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Form 10-300 705 Holden Drive OWNER OF PROPERTY (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: MAR 2 1 197 PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Object DESCRIPTION (Check One) Excellent - Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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to the rear of the chimney, with a great hearth and a bake oven. There is a smaller room on each side of the kitchen, making five A rear stair opened from the kitchen, making a right-hand turn to MAR 2 1 1974 CONDITION with the great chimney foundation occupying the center. Rocks and Ruins NATIONAL REGISTER timbers of the house, as well as the hearths and chimney masonry. going a careful and thoughtful restoration by the present owner the second floor. When the rear wing was added, this stair was All of the original mantelpieces and woodwork are intact. The since 1968.

Fair hall or keeping room has a chair rail which is original, as the walls timbers.These provide a bearing for some of the main framing The front door opens into a shallow stairhall, with the stairs in changed to continue straight into the addition.There is a full cellar, with a center entrance.The doorway has sidelights framed by slender on the walls of several first floor rooms. The house has been under- of the stairs have fireplaces in the central chimney.The corner posts front of the chimney stack making a sharp left-hand turn.The posts their double-hung sash with twelve panes over twelve.A modern This is a large two-story frame house of the seventeenth and moldings suggesting pilasters.The majority of the windows retain rubble support two giant hewn timbers, which in turn support corbelled and balusters are plain rectangular spindles.Rooms on either side a historic district.

The interior of the house has a typical central chimney plan. kitchen wing was added to the rear of the house around 19oo.There of the house frame can be seen in the rooms.The large kitchen is have been plastered to the rail. Extensive stencilling has been found are no neighboring structures of sufficient importance to constitute eighteenth century central chimney type. RECEIVED The facade has five bays rooms in all.The second floor plan isa duplicate of the first. Good

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far less common in Ohio than the later central-hall plan which ed by the addition of a lean-to providing additional rooms to the rear of the chimney. It culminated between 1700 and 1750 in the built by Colonel Erastus N. House, who migrated to Lenox Town- ship in 1809 from Sandisfield, Massachusetts. The Memoirs of his second wife Abigail Clark Fish were published shortly after successful dairy farmer, local postmaster and historian. He wrote a pioneer history of Lenox Township in the 1840's which was later destroyed in a courthouse fire in Jefferson. Colonel in the house until 1854, when she sold it to her son-in-law J.M. Commerce land.

Engineering Conservation Communications losophy Science Architecture Literature NATIONAL Theater REGISTER Landscape Religion/Phi Aboriginal Education Prehistoric Agriculture Social/Human- the builders came from a more conservative locality in New Eng- Music appeared around 1750 and which is more characteristic of the Adam House died in l844. Abigail House was a strong personality herself Sculpture Invention Urban Planning Industry The seventeenth century central-chimney plan was first expand- Military floor rooms. This house is a perfect example of that type, and This is an unusually well-preserved house of the Connecticut type in which a full second story was raised over all five first married Abigail in l8l9.This house was begun shortly thereafter, and Greek Revival Styles.

The history of the house is unusually well documented.It was and was certainly completed before 1825.Erastus House was a and an ardent supporter of the anti-slavery movement.She lived thus representsa persistent older tradition by 1800,and shows that her death by Josiah Atkins.They record the story of her life on the homestead.Colonel House's first wife diedin l8l8,and he Other (Specify) 1825(?) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) RECEIVED Art and Massachusetts central-chimney type.This type of plan is Ray, moving to a smaller house not far away. She died in 186l.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Dec. 15, 1972, 3-5. (New Haven 1924; Dover reprint, 1963), 5-17. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY State D National O FORM PREPARED BY Eric Johannesen, Preservationist STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 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 National Register.

in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: GP0 931-894 039 Degrees ORGANIZATION LATITUDE LONGITUDE Seconds COUNTY Name DATE CODE Cleyeland Minutes Title Ohio Local ATTEST: CORNER REGISTER Dec. Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Less than one NAME AND TITLE: MAR 2 1 1974 Quarterly Bulletin, Ashtabula County Historical Society, XIX, No. 4, OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended J. Frederick Kelly, Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut Abigail House, Memoirs, n.d. (Trent Bobbitt copy). Form 1C-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev.

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entrics - complete applicable sections) NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Corner 3. CLASSIFICATION * Building - Structure - In Process - Restricted - Being-Considered.- * Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) - Educational - Religious - Museum - Scientific OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: Ashtabula NOVELTY 5.

LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 007 Jefferson Ashtabula LOCATION Ohio STATUS ACCESSIBLE CODE Private Military Entertainment Yes: CATEGORY District Government Both Site OWNERSHIP Agricultural COMMON: Unoccupied Industrial Public Acquisition: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Private Residence TO THE PUBLIC .Commercial. (Check One) 705 Holden Drive- 14874 CAVES ROAD - Local S.E. CORNER Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road 1l - J. William Stanton DATE Trent Bobbitt Ashtabula County Courthouse Public Park Object 7. DESCRIPTION (Check One) * Excellent - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered eighteenth century central chimney type. -a historic district. A -rear stair opened from the kitchen, making a right-hand turn to CONDITION moldings suggesting pilasters.

The majority of the windows retain timbers of the house, as well as the hearths and chimney masonry. timbers. These provide a bearing for some of the main framing to the rear of the chimney, with a great hearth and a bake oven. with the great chimney foundation occupying the center. Rocks and The front door opens into a shallow stairhall, with the stairs in All of the original mantelpieces and woodwork are intact. The rubble support two giant hewn timbers, which in turn support corbelled since 1968. hall or keeping room has a chair rail which is original, as the walls The facade has five bays the second floor. When the rear wing was added, this stair was their double-hung sash with twelve panes over twelve.A modern front of the chimney stack making a sharp left-hand turn.

The posts on the walls of several first floor rooms.The house has been under- The interior of the house has a typical central chimney plan. and balusters are plain rectangular spindles.Rooms on either side with a center entrance.The doorway has sidelights framed by slender of the house frame can be seen in the rooms.The large kitchen is changed to continue straight into the addition.There isa full cellar, kitchen wing was added to the rear of the house around 190o.There - Unoltered This is a large two-story frame house of the seventeenth and rooms in all. The second floor plan is a duplicate of the first. have been plastered to the rail.

Extensive stencilling has been found going a careful and thoughtful restoration by the present owner are no neighboring structures of sufficient importance to constitute of the stairs have fireplaces in the central chimney.The corner posts Foir Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Education - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) - Transportation ed by the addition of a lean-to providing additional rooms to the rear of the chimney. It culminated between 1700 and 1750 in the built by Colonel Erastus N. House, who inigrated to Lenox Town- ship in 1809 from Sandisfield, Massachusetts. The Memoirs of successful dairy farmer, local postmaster and historian. He losophy Architecture Communications Commerce land.

SIGNIFICANCE Conservation Prehistoric Music Agriculture appeared around 1750 and which is more characteristic of the Adam Science Literature type in which a full second story was raised over all five first Sculpture and was certainly completed before 1825. Erastus House was a Aboriginal Engineering This is an unusually well-preserved house of the Connecticut The seventeenth century central-chimney plan was first expand- Religion/Phi. and an ardent supporter of the anti-slavery movement. She lived and Greek Revival Styles.

was later destroyed in a courthouse fire in Jefferson.Colonel Social/Human- his second wife Abigail Clark Fish were published shortly after thus represents a persistent older tradition by 1800,and shows that Theater Industry the homestead.Colonel House's first wife died in 18l8,and he The history of the house is unusually well documented.It was House died in 1844.Abigail House was a strong personality herself Political Londscope far less common in Ohio than the later central-hall plan which married Abigail in 1819.This house was begun shortly thereafter, in the house until 1854,when she sold it to her son-in-law J.M. Ray,moving toa smaller house not far away.Shedied in186l. her death by Josiah Atkins.They record the story of her life on Militory 1825(?) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE floor rooms.

This house is a perfect example of that type, and the builders came from a more conservative locality in New Eng- wrote a pioneer history of Lenox Township in the 1840's which Art Invention itarian MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Abigail House, Memoirs, n.d. (Trent Bobbitt copy). Quarterly Bulletin, Ashtabula County Historical Society, XIX, No. 4, Dec. 15, 1972, 3-5. J. Frederick Kelly, Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut (New Haven 1924; Dover reprint, 1963), 5-17. 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PRO®ERTY ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES FORM PREPARED BY 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 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Oftice of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: Local $ Kecpot of, The National Register. 039 ORGANIZATION State COUNTY LATITUDE Name LONGITUDE Cleveland Ohio ATTEST: CORNER National Degrees Minutes Seconds Title CODE Dec. National Register.

I2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Less than one STREET AND NUMBER: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: Date w DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PAOPERTY Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Seconds Minutes - 42'30" House, Erastus, 4613 4617 Cem 4616 1. Gas Well WEBSTER , Lenox Center West Lenpx T. 10 N ROAD (DORSET) CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back _ Sept. 3, INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit MAPS Federal Register entry National Register Write-up Ashtabula BRANCH CHIEF JUL 3 0 1974 WORKING NUMBER HISTORIAN TECH REVIEW Cole PHOTOS 726-74 M.BARWES WRITE-UP COXTIENT If there are comments (negative or positive) which will affect the write up, please indicate them below.

PRESENT CONDITION (altered, covered, ruins, deteriorated--archeological): SURVEY RECORDS (ig form correct?): SHEET PROPERTY COMMENTS: DESCRIPTION: STYLE OR CULTURE: SIGNIFICANCE (specify paragraph or line): (leave attached to nomínation) NAME: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME House, Colonel Erastus, 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC West facade, looking northeast. MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Home Ashtabula TOWN COUNTY Historical Society COMMON NATIONAL STATE Rays Corner NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road AND/OR HISTORIC (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) Ohio NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER TE TD E.

Johannesen RECEIVED DA1973 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE House, Colonel Erastus, NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 3 0 197% 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 1973 Home DATE Ashtabula COUNTY REGIST NAME Historical Society Cellar, showing hearth foundation. PHOTO CREDIT Rays Corner Western Reserve E. Johannesen AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL TOWN NATIONAL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME JUL 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION Rays Corner 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Western Rêserve 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Home TOWN Ashtabula COMMON Historical Society STATE COUNTY NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road E. Johannesen PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER Ohio NATIONAL PARK SERVICE House, Colonel Erastus, East elevation and l9oo wing, looking southwest. (6/72) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) RECEIVED PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME House, Colonel Erastus, JUL 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION Rays Corner STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE E. Johannesen 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Front stairhall, facing the central chimney stack.

MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Home 1973 Ashtabula DATE COMMON COUNTY Historical Society STATE Western Reserve REGISTE NATIONAL PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (6/72) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Ohio RECEIVED Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY JUL 3 0 1974 NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Jefferson Quadrangle MAR 2 1 1974 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-1 1970 007 039 Rays Corner Ashtabula Ohio STATE LOCATION REQUIREMENTS COUNTY DATE REGISTER NATIONAL CODE 1:24,000 COMMON: SCALE: ENTRY NUMBER SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Route 46 and Richmond-Footville Road MAP REFERENCE PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) House, Colonel Brastus, Home UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Erastus, Home JEFFERSON, OHIO STATE OF OHIO OHIO-ASHTABULA CO SCALE 124000 - State Route JEFFERSON QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey House, Colonel DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 80° 46 511 STATE OIO Raya Corner Mr. Daniel R. Porter Lon. Tennyaon Guyer Location Logan County Name Director Ashtabula County MMott/row Indian Lake State Park Hon.Howard M.Metzenbaum Hon. Charles J.

Carney Mahoning County Austintown Log House Austintowm township ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER House The Ohdo listorical Society 8/2/74 State Historic Preservation Officer Also Notified Interstate 7l at 17th Ave. JUL 3 O 1974 Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Date Entered Dunna Pond Mound