Nomination for Ward, John Q. A., House

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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 (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: X Building Public Acquisition: - - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: October, 1970 DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local 021 039 LOCATION STATE Champaign Urbana ACCESSIBLE CLASSIFICATION Religious REGISTER Military CATEGORY Site Both Government Restricted NAME Private Unoccupied Entertainment District Yes: NATIONAL Educational OWNERSHIP Museum Structure STATUS Ohio Being Considered Scientific COMMON: CODE Columbus Park Ohio Historical Society Private Residence Commercial Champaign County Courthouse Agricultural Industrial Public OWNER OF PROPERTY Richard C.

Rademacher Survey of Historical Features--Southwestern Ohio 1982 Velma Avenue Main and Court Streets NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 335 College Street STREET AND NUMBER: Object ENTRY DATE (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Clarence J. Brown, Jr. JUL 3 0 1974 MAR 2 1 1974 DATE ENTRY NUMBER DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: DESCRIPTION * Good - Fair - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered 1ikely that the porch was enclosed during the twentieth century. house. Kitchen is located in the rear, and bedrooms are found garage. Near the barn are two small sheds. MAR 2 1 1974 - REGISTER CONDITION Ruins NATIONAL now roofed with asphalt shingles.

This part of the house contains the same arrangement of windows as the other with the exception of one window on the first floor across and has an enclosed porch on the first floor.It is flanked by shutters, are double-hung sash with six lights over half story frame barn that contained the studio of John Q.A. parlor and living room on either side at the east end of the The house has gable ends with two small windows high in Also extant on the remaining five acre tract is a one and one- each gable.The building has two inside end chimneys and is covered with asphalt shingles. RECEIVED The two story brick, ell-shaped Ward House was built circa The interior of the house is built on a center hall plan with Excellent Ward.The studio is intact, but the barn is now used as a thirty-five by twenty feet and the wing extends about twenty on the second floor.

(Check One) [X Original Site the paneled front door is located im the center. Moved The house measures approximately The windows, 1820 on a stone foundation. The wing on the rear (west side) of the house is four bays OF SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| 15th Century : - Urban Planning - Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

gift for his son, John A. Ward. Noted sculptor John Quincy quite by accident when, at the age of six, he playfully urged him to pursue them. Because of his health, he was sent he modeled several heads of prominent men, and then returned in Brooklyn, "The Indian Htinter," "The Good Samaritan," artists.and served as president of the National Sculpture MAR 2 1 1974 losophy Commerce Architecture Engineering Conservation Communications Aboriginal NATIONAL John Quincy Adams Ward discovered his artistic abilities REGISTER Science Music Education Military Prehistoric Literature Sculpture Political Agriculture Social/Human- New York Stock Exchange Building. In later life Ward received many tributes from his fellow Industry Religion/Phi.

Landscape Ward settled in Columbus while also maintaining the Urbana copied the work of another artist.His relatives and a became a pupil and assistant of Henry Kirke Brown from numerous works, the house and grounds comprise the only physical record of his life. unusual projects was the sculpting of the pediment for the friend of the family took an interest in his talents and works.Some of these were statues of George Washington, The Ward House was built by Colonel William Ward who founded Urbana in 1805.Colonel Ward built the house as a wedding this house for much of his life. to Brooklyn to recover with a relative, and while there and "General Reynolds" in New York, and "Lincoln Goodale" Adams Ward of John A. and grandson of Colonel to Ohio. Invention Other AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Theater 1849 to 1856.

Ward then went to Washington, D. C. where studio. During his lifetime Ward executed many famous itarian The "Soldiers Monument" RECEIVED residence.In 1861 he returned to New York to open another in Columbus are some of his extant works.One of his most Society from 1896 until his death in 1910.Besides his Art Press, 1962.

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

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 MAR 2 1 1974 National O FORM PREPARED BY - June 29, 1973 STREET AND NUMBER: 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 - Local GPO 931-894 039 Degrees Seconds LATITUDE DATE LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION ATTEST: Name STATE COUNTY Title Minutes CORNER Columbus CODE REGISTER Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1932 Forest Village Lane Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Massie, 1932.

NAME AND TITLE: Larry Alan Beers NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION National Register. 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- level of significance of this nomination is: CITY OR TOWN: 224.74 1. Clark, Edna M. Middleton, E. P. E 266970 N 40° M Keeper of The Nationdl Register N4442680 W 83° APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY:5 acres History of Champaign County,Ohio. 3. 21. 74.448 PHOTOS 3 Send-back _ Re-submit - JUL 3 0 1974 INT: 1538-73 STATE Entered ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER WORKING NUMBER MAPS National Register Write-up Champaign Federal Register entry BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 3.27. PROPERTY , ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Sept: 3,1974 Cole UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Ward, John Q. A., Farm JUL 3 0 1974 2.

LOCATION TOWN Urbana 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT June 27, 1973 Columbus, Ohio 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Champaign DATE COMMON COUNTY Ohio STATE NATIONAL REGISTE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Larry Alan Beers 335 College Street PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The Ohio Historical Society PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) West side (front). (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER RECEIVED 6-27-73 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Ward John Q. A., Farm JUL 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE June 27, 1973 Columbus, Ohio 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Champaign Urbana Ohio STATE Larry Alan Beers TOWN DATE COUNTY COMMON REGISTE 335 College Street The Ohio Historical Society (6/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) South side showing wing at rear of house. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL RECEIVED 6-27-73 FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Ward, John Q. A., Farm JUL 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE July 10, 1973 Columbus, Ohio 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

MAR 2 1,1974 REGISTER GPO 932-009 Urbana Champaign Ohio COMMON TOWN DATE STATE COUNTY NATIONAL 335 College Street PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Ohio Historical Society Larry Alan Beers (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT East side of barn that contains Ward's studio. (6/72) NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR URBANA WEST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY E 266970 ROAD CLASSIFICATION DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCALE 1:24000 Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey URBANA WEST, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO Ward, John A., Fars U.S.

Route Van Wert County Connesut Works Loke County Champaign County Colurabus, Onto 43211 Location Urbana STATE Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Neville Also Notified Regional Director,Midwest Region Cuyahosa County Mr.Daniel R.Porter Ashtabula County Indian Point Fort Director Hon. Robert Taft,Jr. Pleasant Ridge (Cincinnati) Snead Kound Lnteratate #7l at 17th Ave. Stout vicinity State uiatoric Preservation Officer lea.Delbert L.Latta Haailton County JUL 3 0 1974 Van Wort County Courthouse Date Entered Adans County. Benhaa Hound Frcelich, John, House Clexmont County Don.Tho#aa A. Luken