Nomination for Northrop, Julia Carter, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries complete applicable sections) 1 4 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: 23 - Ronald Mottl - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey M.

Billings LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: PRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 035 039 LOCATION Site Religious Commercial Cleveland Cuyahoga OWNERSHIP DATE Government ACCESSIBLE Private CATEGORY STATUS STATE CLASSIFICATION Military Restricted Ohio CODE NAME Educational District Being Considered Both Structure Park COUNTY: REGISTER Museum Private Residence Federal Agricultural Industrial Public Building Object Scientific COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Olmsted Falls Public Acquisition: Yes: Cuyahoga County Building Entertainment Unoccupied 1219 Ontario Columbia Road OWNER OF PROPERTY DATA SHEET ENTRY DATE TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) Northrop, Julia Carter, House JUL ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

has the entrance to one side, a simple recessed Greek doorway with entrance into the dining room. The house has a hip roof, which is far The interior has undergone a number of alterations, but they At an unknown date, probably the late 1800s or early 1900s, a large interior is one of classical taste and comfortable living. Finally, CONDITION been raised with dormers whose low profile was specifically designed a transom and sidelights.The half-story windows are placed in the The second floor rooms have been much rearranged to provide a generous lawn and trees. frieze on the east facade, but on the north elevation they have since This is a relatively modest but well preserved one-and-a-half smaller parlors, now thrown together.All of the door and window less common than the gable on Greek Revival houses in the region.

no small part of the total charm of the house lies in its attractive opening was created between this room and the northwest dining room. have been done consciously in a manner to maintain the classical story frame house in the Greek Revival style. The three-bay facade spirit of the house. The original stair hall has an unusually steep north this contains a recessed porch with two posts, leading to an ent living room on the south side of the house was originally two to intrude as little as possible.

All of the windows have shutters and setting at the top of a gentle hill above the river, surrounded.by a bathroom, more light and ventilation dormers mentioned),and additional storage space.Nevertheless, the general feeling of the hardware which seem to be original.The main block has a one-story Its enclosed architrave is faced with classical molding.Along narrow slightly cramped in proportion. Since 1946 a large fireplace has been (Check One) stair whose simply turned newel post and flat rail seem to be of an wing of two bays wrapped around the north and west sides.On the On the south side there is a large modern chimney. out the corner of the house. Good O Fair Revival design, with a paneled overmantel, rather than Greek Revival. earlier pattern than the presumed date of the house (1842).The pres- PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

- 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Historic ] Engineering X] Other (Specify) - Science - Literature - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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stream, the topographical relief thus created, and to the fact that the 1870s. Unfortunately, there have been enough visits from the rop and Julia Carter, probably in 1842. It was built by Julia's in 1815. Thus Julia was the granddaughter of Lorenzo Carter, and 1842 Conservation SIGNIFICANCE Commerce Architecture losophy Aboriginal Communications Religion/Phi Settlement Landscape itarian Music Education Military Invention Agriculture so distinguished buildings which have the individual character to Theater 1875.As there are very few existing artifacts connected with the it experienced no important commercial or industrial growth after first permanent settler of Cleveland. Sculpture after her marriage she lived in Olmsted Falls until her death in The house was built for the marriage of Dr.Charles W.North- Carter family, this house assumes a special importance.

qualify as an architectural district. However, there are a dozen or of Greek Revival house in the town in which it is located. It is Social/Human- itinerant shingle and aluminum salesmen, and enough twentieth Industry century.village.This is due to its location on a wooded falling history of the Ohio Western Reserve, that of Lorenzo Carter, the father Alonzo Carter.Alonzo was the son of Lorenzo Carter, the of the first officials of the newly incorporated village of Cleveland also associated with one of the most important family names in the represent the heyday of the village, and this is one of them.

was to become the site of Cleveland.He arrived in 1797.Later his son Alonzo farmed on the west side of the river, and was one This house is an especially fine example ofa particular type Political AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Olmsted Falls, first settled in 1814 and incorporated in 1856, Art first permanent settler at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River which century alterations and construction, that the entire village does not retains to a striking degree the feeling ofa small mid-nineteenth

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 63, 74. DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Prèservation level of significance of this nomination is: ATTEST Title Director, Ohio Historical Society C of The National Register * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 LONGITUDE LATITUDE Name DATE COUNTY ORGANIZATION STATE Cleveland CORNER National Ohio CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds 116-117.

Eric Johannesen, Preservationist One acre State Historic Preservation Officer Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION National Register. February 1975 STREET AND NUMBER: LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES 10825 East Boulevard As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA FORM PREPARED BY CITY OR TOWN: NAME AND TITLE: in the National Register and certify that it has been DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OFAPOPERTY UTm ok un William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950) APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Date July 25, 1975 Degrees EGIS 4580/710 North Working Number n. 28.

25, 1467 Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory _ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF OTHER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Re-submit TECHNICAL Send-back Maps KEEPER HISTORIAN Cuyahoga Review BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 8.1. 75 12-2-25 Col OGT 1 4 1979 IN T:2106- 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 State Qhio PROPERTY OF THE NATOAL REGISTER Loc Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION CITY OR TOWYimsted Falls JUL 2 8 1975 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 035 039 Cuyahoga DATE COUNTY REGISTER STATE Eric Johannesen CODE IDENTIFICATION COMMON: Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER East facade and north elevation, looking southwest.

PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: February 1975 Northrop, Julia Carter, House (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) NAME NATIONAI PROFERTY OF THE NATONAL FEGSTER Cyoloca Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: U. S. G.S. North Olmsted Quadrangle 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-l 035 1970 039 Cuyahoga Ohio COUNTY NAME DATE REQUIREMENTS Olmsted Falls REGISTER CODE STATE MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: ENTRY NUMBER 1:24,000 NATIONAL NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 7872 Columbia Road SCALE: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: 8 1975 LOCATION NORTH OLMSTED QUADRANGLE NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO Northrop, Julia Carter DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 17 424/510 East Northrop, Julia Carter, Olmsted Falls Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Director, The Ohio Historical Society Hon. John M. Ashbrook Hon. Ronald M.

Mottl INT: 2950-75 House Location Dayton STATE Name Brown County Knox County MMott Fredericktown vicinity Also Notified State Historic Preservation Officer Raleigh Mound Cuyahoga County Montgomery County Mount Orab Station The Conover Building Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Mount Orab Hon. William H. Harsha Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 73211 OHIO Regional Director, Midwest Region 155 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 3 date of entry: CCOUNTY I 8 ADMINISTRATOR: 11)CONGRESS. DISTRICT 12) SOURCE of NOMINATION 1 WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

6 CONDITION - deteriorated @original site Vfeatures: Omoved EO NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Cunexcavated T- NOT APPLICABLE - 9 B No Access I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY- prehistoric-2 'first' O - LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 SE SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 -oldest' D CO AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 C MILITARY- 18 GE ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 'only' D - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 -O PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 3functions @dates of initial construction: S architectural style(s): () interior decorator: @artist: Rartisan: EVENTS : TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE ASSOCIATION INSTITUTIONAL: FEDERAL ENTERTAINMENT-26 ENGINEERING-11 ACREAGE PERSONAL: CURRENTLY: vicinity of PRIVATE ORGANIZATION COMMERCE-6 LOCAL SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP historic events: major alterations: Ofair if state who prepared form?

GNPS REGION: Dunexposed YES.NAME Ounaltered Bexcellent WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HHSTORIC DISTRICT? SAVED? YES RSTATE Oruins House 1NAME as it appears on federal register: 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: (10 FUNDED? CYES -good Oreconstructed - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 Bmaster builder: © landscape architect / garden designer: give role & date Ireviewers initials. Columbia Rd. - UNKNOWN-4 - ART-5 builder/contractor: GROUP WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Dr. Charles and Julia Carter Northrop, orig. owmers, she was the granddaughter of Lorenzo Carter granddaughter of Lorenzo Carter, Cleveland's first permanent settler. engineer: EOUNKNOWN-5 0-14-75 ohanneseh