Nomination for Mitchell Historic District

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

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAR 1-3.1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: - CLASSIFICATION (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments L Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal 043 039 LOCATION Milan Religious Sandusky Erie Structure OWNERSHIP Government CATEGORY Commercial NAME Private ACCESSIBLE Restricted Transportation Agricultural Educational Both Site District Yes: Entertainment Museum Ohio STATUS Unoccupied NATIONAL Park Erie County Being Considered Scientific REGISTER Building Public CODE 323 Columbus Avenue Public Acquisition: RECEIVED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Private Residence Multiple private ownership COMMON: Industrial OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Military Object STREET AND NUMBER: DATA SHEET 115, 118, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street 13 - Charles E.

Mosher Erie County Courthouse - Local DATE ENTRY NUMBER (See 10-300a) DESCRIPTION - Ruins - Unexposed X Altered X Original Site side of Center and three on the east. rict, a two-story brick house with unusually elaborate Greek Revival the east side, an oval leaded window on the north wall, large-pane entrance treatments, including a wide overdoor entablature (#136), NOV 11 1974 CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Deteriorated Moved Together these seven residences represent a Greek Revival neighbor- ally Greek Revival examples, with transom and sidelight entrances. The north wing is one story; the south wing one-and-a-half stories. modern stoop which does not complement the house well. angular blocks with sandstone foundations, sills and lintels.Two are over the first floor windows on the main facade.The house has period, four of brick and three of frame construction.

They stand degree of consistency and harmony. have one-story porches with Ionic columns and roof balustrades. and one with sidelights separated by modest pilasters (#l29). window sash, and rearrangement of the rear portion to include of the structure.

Ionic portico.The north and south wings flanking the main block (#ll5).The two on the west side of Center are more characteristic- kitchen and baths, but these do not detract from the basic integrity pilasters of the mature Greek Revival style.There are different structure.Alterations include the addition of sheds and porches on The frame houses have the robust frieze and heavy corner The one at #l23 has a bracketed Italianate veranda which harmonizes wooden corner pilasters.The dentiled cornice surrounds the entire detail.The facade on Center Street has a two-story four column parallel to the street and one has the gable end facing the street Of the six other houses, the three brick ones are simple rect- (Check One) hood at the height of the style's development with a remarkable at the intersection of Center and Judson Streets, four on the west On the northeast corner is the the dist- well with the house.The house at #ll8 (next to #l28) has a small DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

acanthus leaves in low relief, the motif being used over both the Excellent Fair RECEIVED The exterior woodwork is the most distinguishing feature.The Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Urban Planning Political * - Other (Specify) - Science - Sculpture X Social/Human- and dignified Greek Revival house in the town, one of the most house for years, the names being taken from Minot Mitchell, the owner of the land, and a later owner named Turner. The house country. Another resident of the house was Jeptha Wade, later 1847 Conservation Commerce Military REGISTER Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Religion/Phi losophy Communications Aboriginal Literature RECEIVED Transportation NATIONAL Theater Architecture Industry Cleveland benefactor. itarian form a natural environmental and historic unity. Prehistoric Landscape excellent detail and especially their relationship to the Mitchell- Invention Music Education president of the Western Union telegraph company and an important Agriculture important architectural examples in northern Ohio.

annexation to the village which was subdivided in 1847.Thus the Revival style including and complementing the most elaborate The other six houses, because of their good proportions, Turner house and to one another on the residential street, tor and engineer, one of the first builders of iron bridges in the STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Milan, a period resulting from the building of the Milan Canal, This isa group of houses in the Greek and lasting through the 1830s and 1840s.It is part of the Mitchell NOV 11 1974 was actually built by Zenas King in 1847-1848. King was an inven- Art central house has been popularly known as the Mitchell-Turner

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (Cleveland, 1963), 29. 1971), 196-197. 10, GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PRO-ERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES NOV 11 1 FORM PREPARED BY NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 Degrees COUNTY Local LONGITUDE LATITUDE DATE Title Seconds ORGANIZATION ATTEST: Cleveland National CORNER Name Ohio Minutes 4572480 STATE CODE RECEIVED Degrees Minutes Seconds Western Reserve Historical Society 2.8 Acres June 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: 10825 East Boulevard National Register. 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION level of significance of this nomination is: CITY OR TOWN: History of Erie County, Ohio (Syracuse, 1889), James A. Ryan, APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE O) forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Reserve REGISTER Lewis Cass Aldrich, Richard N. Campen, Architecture of the Western Reserve (Cleveland, The Town of Milan (Sandusky,1928).

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY and details of the Greek Revival, but more important, they support seven houses, and comprises approx. 2.8 acres. Scale: 1" = 100' NATIONAL GP 0 921-724 FEB281975 North Judson COUNTY Erie DATE Center Ohio REGISTER Street RECEIVED Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group. #129 ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) #123 The seven houses are surrounded in both directions along distinction.The six smaller houses display the excellent proportions importance nor as well-known as Zenas King or Mitchell. However, houses which do not achieve quite the same level of architectural the houses clearly express their share in the prosperity, growth and intensify the superlative character of the Mitchell house.

Form 10-300a Center Street by late nineteenth and early twentieth century deserves recognition asa distinctive set of neighboring houses. and good taste of the era.For these reasons, the entire group (Number all entries) 2.Location.The group is defined by the property boundariesof the The owners of the other six houses were not of the same STATE MAR131975 #136 #128 LEBOVICH Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back 124,74 MAR 1 3 1975 Re-submit 2, 28, 25 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 TECHNICAL KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER CONTROL HAER Entered Maps HISTORIAN Review Photos BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up State Bha INT:2106- 74 12-4-74 11.19.74 Working Number 11 11, 74, /990 8-6-75 3.3. 15 DISTRICT HAS AESTHETIC JUSTIFICATION.

I AM ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Send-back TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Photos 5-6-75 Re-submit Maps Review State Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF 3-3-75 Working Number 1. 11. 74. /990 Erie INT: 21 LEBOVICH Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 1.8 1975 LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1ooking southeast. # U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III- 1 Milan Erie DATE COUNTY COMMON: IDENTIFICATION REGISTER CODE RECEIVED PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group STATE Eric Johannesen FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Western Reserve Historical Society PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR June 1974 (7/72) 1l8 and l28 (Mitchell-Turner House) Center Street, NATIONAL DATE OF PHOTO: NOV 11 1974 CB. PROPERTY OF THE NATEONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION 115, 118, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

* US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 - 1 1975 039 NATIONAL COUNTY MAR Group IDENTIFICATION Erie Milan DATE CODE STATE Mitchell-Turner Architectural PHOTO REFERENCE FOR NPS USE ONLY Western Reserve Historical Society COMMON: PHOTO CREDIT: Mitchell-Turner House, south elevation,looking north. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Eric Johannesen ENTRY NUMBER Ohio STREET AND NUMBER: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NEGATIVE FILED AT: June 1974 (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER 043 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 1 3 1975 LOCA TION June 1974 NOV 11 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

Mitchell-Turner House, west facade, looking northéasti| * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 PROFERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE COUNTY Milan Erie NAME STATE RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: NATIONAL Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group REGISTER Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO CREDIT: Ohio Eric Johannesen AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY IDENTIFICATION (7/72) (T115, 110, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street PHOTO REFERENCE Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION 118, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street June 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: NOV 1f4974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 123 and 115 Center Street, looking south.

* US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1973-729-152/ 1446 II - 1 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 DATE Erie COUNTY NATIONAL STATE CODE REGISTER 043 Eric Johannesen RECEIVED PHOTO CREDIT: ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) Ohio MAR 1 9 197 CITY OR TOWN: Milan IDENTIFICATION NAME COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group STREET AND NUMBER: Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 118, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street DATE OF PHOTO: NOV 11.1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * US.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 - I June 043 IDENTIFICATION DATE Erie Milan COUNTY RECEIVED CODE NAME 039 NATIONAL REGISTER STATE COMMON: PROPERTY OF THE NATORAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: 129 Center Street, looking northwest. (7/72) (Type all entries- attach to or enclose with photograph) CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group LOCA TION Eric Johannesen ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO CREDIT: NEGative FILeD AT: Western Reserve Historical Society Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - Milan DATE OF PHOTO: FEB28 1975 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

043 039 COUNTY Erie CODE RECEIVED NATIONAL DATE REGISTER Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group Eric Johannesen STATE Center Street Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COMMON: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 137 Center Street, looking northwest. January 1975 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER: AND/OR HISTORIC: IDENTIFICATION CITY OR TOWN: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NEGATIVE FILED AT: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY MAR 13 1975 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE NAME LOCA TION 876-167 PHOTO CREDIT: Form No. 10-301a (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: June 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 Milan Erie COUNTY DATE STATE Eric Johannesen REGISTER COMMON: NATIONAL CODE RECEIVED Ohio PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 043 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY 128 and 136 Center Street, looking north IDENTIFICATION (7/72) NOV TT 1974- E US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY Mitchell- Turner Architectural Group U. S. G. S. Milan Quadrangle NOV TT 1974 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973729-148/1441 3-l 1969 Milan Erie 039 NAME NATIONAL DATE COUNTY STATE REQUIREMENTS Ohio REGISTER CODE 043 COMMON: SOURCE: SCALE: PROPERTY MAP FORM 1:24,000 LOCATION ENTRY NUMBER MAP REFERENCE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: RECEIVED (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: 115, 118, 123, 128, 129, 136, 137 Center Street 1975 13 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) NOV 11 1974 UNITED STATES MILAN QUADRANGLE MILAN, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Mitchell - Turn 41° 17 40 82° 36" 06" Architectural Group DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ROAD CLASSIFICATION STATE OF OHIO Hon. John H. Glenn, Je. Hon. Robert Taft, Jr.

Columbuo, Chio 43211 Location STATE Name 3/14/75 Date Entered MMott Also Notified Regional Director,Midwest Region ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Acting Director Erie County Prauklin County Milan & OTHER NAMES: )date of entry: )county code: 2STATE Erie county 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION O deteriorated Wntered 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 Omoved OD NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Ounexcavated BO NOT APPLICABLE-8 - No Access 2 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -ENGINEERING -11 -RECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain "first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 COMMERCE -6.

- LAW-16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 -O INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATIOM- 25 2) funetions Residential major alterations : () interior decorator: 3artisan: @builder /contractor: SNAMES give role & date _date.

IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 043 Midwest CONDITION Milan ASSOCIATION CURRENTLY: ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL: 3-13-75 FEDERAL WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ENTERTAINMENT-26 vicinity of Mitchell-Turner Architectural Group PPIVATE ORGANIZATION master builder: Mitchell Historic District architectural style(s): NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP URBAN PLANWING-31 Iandscape architect/garden designer: ADMINISTRATOR: historic events: LOCAL NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 115-137 and 118-136 Center NAME as it appears on federal register: ARCHITECTURE-4 if state who prepared form? Dunexposed SAVED?YES LOCATION street & number Cexcellent Dfeatures: GNPS REGION: Ofair Oruins Oreconstructed IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICTALyes Ono 'only' D *engineer: aReek Revival (11) CONGRESS.

DISTRICT L LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS /GOVT.* 21 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 ETHNIC GROUP EVENTS: YES-Unrestricted artist: reviewers initials. Cofiginal site