Nomination for Twinsburg Congregational Church

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev.

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: 14 - John Seiberling * Building X Private *x Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Transportation4 Commercial - Other (Spec) DEC 19 1975 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: X Federal - Local 153 1934 Twinsburg Akron Washington Summit Site Religious LOCATION Military CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE Unoccupied Government CATEGORY OWNERSHIP DATE Entertainment Private Residence District Agricultural Both CODE STATUS Park Educational Ohio Yes: 011 NAME Structure Museum Public Scientific Industrial Summit County Building Twinsburg Congregational Church CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Library of Congress Being Considered Historic American Buildings Survey REGISTER Public Acquisition: 039.

OWNER OF PROPERTY Church Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TO THE PUBLIC ENTRY DATE MAY31974 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OWNER'S NAME: STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: In Process Object First NATIONAL COMMON: 72 South High Street Twinsburg Public Square MAY ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION - Fair : - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved a recessed panel above, and the side bays have shuttered originally completely plain, the chancel area was remodeled in the present arrangement was made, with a divided chancel and DEC 1 9 1973 CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL Ruins Excellent building are unchanged. original elegance.

This is a frame church building in the Greek Revival Style, The temple-like facade is divided into three bays church as an educational annex in 1954,and considerable general Original Site by two attached Doric columns and two sets of flat pilasters. and 1963,but the basic design and structure of the church The steeple was rebuilt in 1856, and the clock was with a steeple of three octagonal stages between its base and A concrete block addition was constructed to the rear of the repair has been done over the years, especially in 1949,1952 1908,when the chandeliers were added, and again in 1963,when the spire. rosette in the center of the ceiling gives the only touch of installed in the steeple in 1896.

(Check One) RECEIVED theseelements support a well-proportioned entablature and a background set piece consisting of four square pilasters and The original plaster with two aisles and divided in the center. Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1848; 1848; 1856 - Urban Planning - Prehistoric Other (Specify) - Invention STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

England meetinghouse adapted to the Greek Revival idiom, this church, which also stood on the Twinsburg Square, has been but whose steeple was different, burned in 1965. on the east side of the Square, and existed until 1948.? The at a cost of $210.

pilasters), and the proximity to Hudson, it has been suggested that the architect-builder was Simeon Porter, the Hudson master to those of the Streetsboro church, designed by James Clark, and the Twinsburg Methodist Church, built by William Clark, DEC 1 9 1973 Commerce Conservation SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Transportation Theater Communications Military Aboriginal REGISTER Religion/Phi Science Education Literature itarian NATIONAL Music Agriculture Political Industry Social/Human- .losophy Landscape Architecture destroyed;and the Brecksville church, whose facade was identical at Streetsboro has been removed to the Western Reserve Village The Twinsburg Congregational Church was organized in 1822.

near Peninsula;a Methodist church identical to the Streetsboro The steeple was destroyed in a windstorm of 1856 and replaced Sculpture building is very significant as the only one remaining on its that one of the Clarks seems equally likely as the builder. In addition to being a superior example of the late colonial New It used a log schoolhouse, and later a frame building on the present church building was erected in 1848 ata cost of $3,300. of the facade to that at Brecksville (Doric columns instead of Art The architect-builder is unknown. On the basis of the similarity AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Summer 1965, 176. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: less than one DEC 19 1973 FORM PREPARED BY Sept. 1973 CITY OR TOWN: 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 Nationa 1 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: Title ( GP0 931-894 039 DATE Degrees ORGANIZATION LONGITUDE NATIONAL Cleveland Loca LATITUDE Ohio COUNTY CODE STATE ATTEST: REGISTER CORNER Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds RECEIVED 10825 East Boulevard NAME AND TITLE: 5.2.74 History of Iwinsburg (Twinsburg Historical Society, 1967), 47-48 STREET AND NUMBER: Keeper of Thd/National Regis Seconds Minutes Name Twinsburg, 1967), 12-13.

Eric Johannesen, Preservationist CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN KEEPER MAY31974 Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Send-back MAPS TECH REVIEW INT:1538-73 HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF 12.27 WORKING NUMBER REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Summit STATE Ohio PHOTOS 2 Accept 174001634 13.19,73.412 SURVEY RECORDS (is form correct?): SHEET DESCRIPTION: WRITE-UP COMMENT the write up, please indicate then below. engineer, etc.): If there are conn NAME: etc. PROPERTY: COMMENTS: STYLE OR CULTURE: (leave attached to nomination) SIGNIFICANCE (specify paragraph or line): Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: E. Johannesen DEC 19-1973 Sept. 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Northwest corner of church, showing educational annex to right, looking southeast.

INT: 154-72 Twinsburg IDENTIFICATION NAME Summit 039 COUNTY DATE PHOTO REFERENCE Ohio REGISTE Western Reserve Historical Society STATE CODE NATIONAL COMMON: Twinsburg Public Square Twinsburg Congregational Church NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT: PROFERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) DATE OF PHOTO: -153 ENTRY RLMBER Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: Sept. 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT: DEC 1 9 1973 INT: 154-72 1974 039 Twinsburg 153 MAY NAME Summit IDENTIFICATION PHOTO REFERENCE COUNTY DATE NATIONAL STATE CODE COMMON: Twinsburg Congregational Church Ohio East facade, looking northwest.

Western Reserve Historical Society Twinsburg Public Square NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER E. Johannesen PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM REGISTE (7/72) STREET AND NUMBER: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME MAY 3 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3.

MAP REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY SOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: DEC 1 9 1973 GPO 932-010 1970 Twinsburg TOWN STATE REGISTER DATE SOURCE SCALE COMMON NATIONAL Summit COUNTY Ohio Congregational Church 1:24,000 RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC Twinsburg Public Square PROPERTY MAP FORM Form 10-301 (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 1974 UNITED STATES TWINSBURG QUADRANGLE TWINSBURG, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Revised in cooperation with State of Ohio agencies Congregational Church GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 4573280 HAY 3 1974 Schug, Mary, House Hosford, John, House Hon. Rohert Taft, Jr. Me. Daniel R. Porter, Director Hon. James V. Stanton Hon. Delbert L, Latta Mr.

Steven Ruttenbaun, GSA Location STATE Name Date Entered Seioto County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cuyahoga County Also Notified 5/7/74 Paulding Paulding County Courthouse Ottawa County Canal Winchester vicinity Ottawa County Courthouse Otway Covered Bridge Twinsburg Congregational Church Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Huron County Cieveland Franklin County Otway vicinity Paulding County Bergstresser Covered Bridge Sunmit County State Bistoric Preservation Officer Hon. John M. Ashbrook Monroevllle Old Federal Buflding (and Post Office) Port Clinton MMott Twinsburg MAY Interstate #7l at I7th Avenue