Nomination for McKisson, Robert, 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 ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) DEC 4 2 1974 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 22 - Charles A.

Vanik CLASSIFICATION - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation Comment - Other (Specity) ÖWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 LOCATION Akron Northfield Summit STATE Commercial Religious Site ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Government Both Agricultural Educational STATUS Yes: CATEGORY Ohio Entertainment District CODE Museum Restricted Federal Unoccupied Park COMMON: Public Private Private Residence Structure Being Considered Industrial Public Acquisition: Sagamore Hills Township Object 72 South High Street NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC Military Scientific REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 7878 North Gannett Road STREET AND NUMBER: AND/OR HISTORIC: (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: NAME PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) REGISTER 153 DATE Summit County Building William McKee Building ENTRY NUMBER McKisson, Robert, House - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered The principal entrance is on the long (south) side, the center one However, the interior has a floor plan typical of the earlier to a shallow vestibule in front of a large central chimney, whose formal parlor, and its woodwork is more pretentious and purely installed, the cellar floor paved with concrete, and the central JUL 1 1 1974 NATIONAL * CONDITION DESCRIPTION REGISTER on the land.The cellar hearth foundations consist of two giant repair and restoration by the present owners since 1963.

chimney was rebuilt under the supervision of a restoration This is a two-story frame house in the Greek Revival style. architect in the mid-i960s.The house has undergone intelligent fireplaces open into three principal rooms.The east room is the colonial Connecticut central chimney plam. late Colonial'style.Instead of a central hall, the entrance leads exterior door in this room is wider than the others, a so-called of five bays.A subsidiary entrance is in the center of the east end house make a total of five on the first floor.This is the typical whose antablatures have recessed slightly pointed arches.The east two columns.

To the west there is a one-story wing with a porch (Check One) All of the main structural timbers of the house, as well as "funeral" door.Two smaller rooms in the rear corners of the * Excellent - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

the finish carpentry, are of walnut, as walnut trees were plentiful tions of the building are those of the maturing Greek Revival style. canal. Modern plumbing, heating and kitchen facilities have been RECEIVED Fair facing the modern road. The main entrance has a small porch with Greek in style than any other room.There are wide window casings across its front. The frieze board, cornice returns, and propor- Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian! 2 X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Science - Theater STATEMENT OF

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result of a family quarrel, and the brother of David, least, it is of intense concern /a house combining charac- teristic features of both the late Colónial vernacular and the mature 1837-1838 Commerce losophy Conservation Transportation Engineering Architecture Religion/Phi Communications Aboriginal Military SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Literature Education Art Music existing and certainly Landscape itarian Social/Human- Prehistoric Political Industry Greek Revival style. Invention for the lakefront civic center. Sculpture was found guilty of murdering his sister-in-law Catharine.David which occupies ten pages in a standard county history.The mur- replaced the log cabin in which the murder took place.

characteristic features of both the late Colonial and Greek Revival This is a house in an excellent state of preservation with field then being a part of Portage County), and contemporary dered woman was the grandmother of the spectacular' Cleveland thousand to 15,000.This was the second execution in Portage murder.The builder Robert McKisson was the widower of the The present house styles.The house was built in 1838 on the site of a celebrated McKisson was executed on February 8,1838,in Ravenna (North- victim.Thus the house isa local reference point for an event mayor Robert E. McKisson (1895-1898), who laid the groundwork AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) County, the first having taken place in 1816. Murder is a social (or phenomenon.

At the very In addition, the house The murder, which took place on July 24, 1837, was the accounts estimate the attendance at the public hanging from several This house has always Other (Specify) 1854), 111-112. (Akron, 1892), 908-917. 1950%, 401, 591, 597. DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES State O

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FORM PREPARED BY April 1974 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 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 * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 Local Degrees LONGITUDE Ohio Name ORGANIZATION COUNTY LATITUDE Cleveland ATTEST: CORNER Title DATE CODE The Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Eric Johannesen, Preservationist LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES National Register.

Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation REGISTER NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: CITY OR TOWN: 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA NATIONAL L. V. Bierce, Historical Reminiscences of Summit County (Akron, forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Seconds Minutes STREET AND NUMBER: 10825 East Boulevard Samuel A. Lane, Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County CONTROL REVIEW HISTOR IAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN DEC 4 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST PHOTOS Send-back Federal Register entry MAPS National Register Write-up 7.12 TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Re-submit 1/.&2,74 WORKING NUMBER Cole 2. Location. 3. Classification. _ 4. Owner of Property. . 5., Location of Legal Description. - 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. 7. Description. 10. Geographical Data. 1l. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. Photographic Coverage.

. criteria in full. Bibliography. Other. SIGNED: Name. Acreage. Map Coverage. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. office for clarification of the information indicated below. Please check. te be off by about DATE: of our professional review.

Correction of these technical errors does not NAME OF PROPERTY Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation If there are comments(negative or positive) which will affect PRESENT CONDITION (altered, covered, ruins, deteriorated--archeological): DESCRIPTION: NAME: WRITE-UP COMMENT (leave attached to nomination) STYLE OR CULTURE: SICNIFICANCE (specify paragraph or line): SURVEY RECORDS form correct7): SHEET the write up, please indicate them below. STATE Uhi ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Re-submit - DEC 4 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back PHOTOS National Register Write-up TECH REVIEW WORKING NUMBER MAPS Federal Register entry Summit CONTROL REVIEW HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF 2-4-75 11-27-74 Cole 11.22 1974 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SUMMIT CO.

FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 Mc Kisson, Robert, House 153 039 IDENTIFICATION DATE COUNTY STATE PHOTO REFERENCE CODE NATIONAL 7878 North Gannett Road COMMON: Ohio South facade, showing west wing, looking north. Sagamore Hills Township Eric Johannesen REGISTER (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ENTRY NUMBER (7/72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OHLO 197 NAME DATE OF PHOTO: LOCA TION DEC4 RECEIVED April 1974 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUMMIT CO. (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) DEC 4 AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

JUL 1 1 1974 Northeast corner, looking southwest Mc Kisson, Robert, House 153 039 DATE COUNTY NAME STATE LOCATION IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL CODE PHOTO REFERENCE REGISTER 7878 North Gannett Road COMMON: Ohio Eric Johannesen Sagamore Hills Township PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (7/72) April 1974 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT: ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEC 4 1974 AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U.S. G.S. Northfield Quadrangle 1:24, 000 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 3-1 039 153 1967 Summit NAME REQUIREMENTS STATE COUNTY Ohio DATE CODE NATIONAL Sagamore Hills Township COMMON: REGISTER LOCATION SCALE: MAP REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SOURCE: 7878 North Gannett Road (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY McKisson, UNITED STATES NORTHFIELD, OHIO 41~ 19 22 House NORTHFIELD QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OHIO Mckisson, Robert, House Sagamore Hills Township' Blackslee, Burritt, House Gilbert, Calvin, House Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Hon, Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. Charles A. Mosher Hon. Charles A.

Vanik Columbus, Ohio 43211 Regional Director, Midwest Region Milan 12-11-74 MMott/cha Name Solon The Ohio Historical Society Medina vicinity Medina County Summit County Cuyahoga County Also Notified Erie County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer Interstate #7l at l7th Avenue BEC 4 Lockwood, J. C., House Location 1974 Date Entered