Nomination for Ferrey, Aaron, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AUG 1 3 1994 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 14 - John F.

Seiberling X Building Public Acquisition: - - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: MAR 2 1 1974 039 133 Portage Brimfield NAME LOCATION Religious Ravenna Entertainment Government Unoccupied Educational ACCESSIBLE Commercial Site Restricted DATE OWNERSHIP NATIONAL Agricultural CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Ohio Military Private Private Residence Both Being Considered COMMON CODE COUNTY Museum Yes: District Park Main Street Scientific STATUS Public REGISTER Industrial Kent vicinity Aaron Ferrey Home CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Brimfield Township Object NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Winan Snyder OWNER OF PROPERTY ENTRY DATE 5058 Sunny Brook Road STREET AND NUMBER: Structure (Check One) In Process TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) Snyder, Winan, House Portage County Courthouse ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION (Check One) * Excellent - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X] Original Site wall battens extending down over the top of the hood.

The single center chimney is designed to be seen as three parts, i.e., MAR 2 1 1974 CONDITION REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL Deteriorated dicular scroll-shaped brackets frame the lower porch and support general the architectural character of the interior has not been seriously altered. roof at the eaves is supported on simple rafter brackets.The plate. The cottage is T-shaped in plan, with a kitchen wing proj- This is a symmetrical frame house in the Early Gothic Revival most distinctive architectural feature of the house.Large perpen- Style whose design is based on a specific A.J.Downing book Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL(if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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feature is the window hood, a slanted bracketed awning, with the exterior siding of the house is vertical board-and-batten. The very simple. Plumbing and heating have been added, but in second. The The second most characteristic Fair The door and window casings and moldings are basically principal rooms on the main floor and three bedrooms on the From the upper porch a full-length Gothic window ell on the south side of the rear wing, but this was recently the upper one. opens into a front bedroom. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning' - Historic - Other (Specify) - Agriculture - Science - Theater - Transportation settled in Ohio in 1831, and moved to Kent in 1850.

Ferrey worked in his own business of brick manufacture in Amherst, Massachus- etts, until 1842, when he also moved to Portage County, Ohio. arrangement like this, when a leading feature, like the gabled Otherwise, the distinctive 1866 Conservation Architecture Commerce Aboriginal Engineering losophy REGISTER Communications Religion/Phi NATIONAL Military Education Music Literature MAR211974 Landscape RECEIVED Downing's plate. Political Sculpture itarian story of the dissemination of architectural ideas in northeastern Social/Human- Invention Ohio.While the use of pattern books was common for details The design differs from this executed building in one respect. dormer room in the Downing plan. Industry OF

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SIGNIFICANCE This house is a replica, with one modification,of Design A.J.Downing's place in spreading the Early Gothic and Tuscan He moved to Kent in 1846,and then settled in Brimfield Township and brick yard, just south of the house, appear in the county The Aaron Ferrey home is a building of major importance in the Aaron Ferrey was born in Massachusetts in 1808.His parents II in A.J. Downing's The Architecture of Country Houses (l850). atlas of 1874. and real pleasure in this balance of three parts (is)made by an STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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and proportions, the duplication of a complete building is relatively in 1866. There he carried on a brick yard until 1880. The house Art the vertical siding, and the chimney style are identical with porch design, the characteristic window hoods, the symmetry, Revivals is well known.He called this design "A Symmetrical window in the front of this cottage, is placed exactly in the centre." Bracketed Cottage."Downing remarks on the symmetry,"a direct AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES E 469340 Dover reprint, 1969), 82-91. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Less than one MAR 2 1 1974 FORM PREPARED BY Eric, Johannesen, Preservationist 12. 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 National Register. 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 Seconds Local Ohio Degrees LONGITUDE LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Name ATTEST: DATE REGISTER COUNTY Minutes NATIONAL Cleveland CORNER STATE Degrees Minutes Seconds 607-608. Western Reserve Historical Society CODE November 1973 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: History of Portage County, Ohio (Chicago: Warner, Beers, 1885), APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Title 10825 East Boulevard 3. 21. 74. 449 CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Send-back _ 1974 Re-submit _ AUG 1 3 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST PROPERTY National Register Write-up MAPS TECH REVIEW Portage WORKING NUMBER 76001605 BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Cole STATE Ohio PHO TOS Federal Register entry Oct.

1, HISTORIAN /30/74 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE November, 1973 E. Johannesen 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Facade and southwest corner, looking northeast. MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 DATE COMMON NAME Historical Society Western Reserve Kent vicinity NATIONAL REGISTE Aaron Ferrey Home PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NEGATIVE FILED AT (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) Brimfield Township PHOTO CREDIT (6/72) 5058 Sunny Brook Road Snyder, Winan, House STREET AND NUMBER NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) AUG 1 3 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE E. Johannesen November , 1973 4.

IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. South elevation, showing modern porch, looking north. MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Portage DATE COUNTY STATE Historical Society Western Reserve Ohio Brimfield Township NATIONAL REGISTE COMMON PHOTO CREDIT Aaron Ferrey Home PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC NEGATIVE FILED AT RECEIVED (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER TowKent vicinity (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) 5058 Sunny Brook Road Snyder, Winan, House Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) ENTRY NUMBER AUG 1 3 1974 STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G. S. Kent Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS MAR 2 1 1974 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3.

Latitude and longitude reference. # U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148X1441 3-1 039 133 1970 Portage NAME COUNTY REQUIREMENTS Ohio DATE STATE REGISTER COMMON: CODE LOCATION NATIONAL SCALE: Kent vicinity 1:24,000 Brimfield Township SOURCE: MAP REFERENCE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: Snyder, Winan, House Aaron Ferrey Home 5058 Sunny Brook Road 41° 07' 38" KENT QUADRANGLE KENT, OHIO OHIO-PORTAGE CO. 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC 81° 21' 53" UNITED STATES AUG 1 3 1974 . Arlington Avenue District Ferzey, Aaron, House Kuenzer, Joseph II, Residence Pexkins, Colonel Simon, Mansion Ion. Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Daniel R. Porter Hon. Charles J. Carney Colusbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. J.

Williau Stanton Location Cuyahoga County Name Date Entered MMott/row Akron 8/16/74 Independence Portage County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer Mahoning County Also Notified The Ohio Hfstorical Society Claridon Congregational Church Mahoning County Courthouse Geauga County Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Regional Director, Midwest Region The Palner House Northfield Center Youngstowm Director Hon. John F. Seiberling Hon. Charles A. Vanik Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. Summit County Howard, C.B., House Ion. Williaa Minshall STATE Claridon