Nomination for Abbott-Page House

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State Form 10-300 (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: R.R. #1, Mason Road CITY OR TOWN: 1 039 (Check One) - Unoccupied - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: Mr. & Mrs.

Richard Page Wheeler 422 Queen Street Ohio Virginia LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: X Federal - Local DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Sandusky Washington 1971-72 LOCATION Site Religious Commercial CLASSIFICATION Entertainment Structure Government Erie Private Military Alexandria ACCESSIBLE Educational Restricted District CATEGORY OWNERSHIP Building Both DATE Agricultural Being Considered 043 NAME Scientific Museum Industrial CODE Yes: Ohio Private Residence Park STATUS Public Library of Congress DATA SHEET 011 Historic American Buildings Survey COMMON: Object Abbott-Page House Public Acquisition: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OWNER OF PROPERTY Erie County Courthouse Milan vicinity REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS ENTRY NUMBER STREET AND NUMBER: Route #1 (joint mailing address TO THE PUBLIC In Process Milan 27 1975 PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) & Mrs.

Dinsmore Wheeler DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved * Original Site lateral end gables and a rear kitchen ell. The walls are covered with The lower portion of the central gable end is presently a 3-bay, enclosed roof, enclosed side porch with board and batten siding and casement Interior: The central entry hall has a gracefully curving stairway with Some alterations were made to the interior in the 1930's. MAR 1 4 1975 shutters. CONDITION RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins windows (also added in the 1920's). To the rear is a one-story, gable- Fair gable roof, in a modified T-shape, with a central gable end (south), cherry handrail.To the west is a double parlor;to the east isa first porch which shelters a spring-fed well and a dairy room. (Check One) X Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known)PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

It is one and a half stories (two floors) with narrow lapped siding except for the first story of the south front which of the end-gable wing is enclosed. On the east side is a hipped The Abbott-Page farmhouse is a good example of a late Federal-Greek revival entire front of the house. It was converted to the closed-in version in roofed kitchen ell which is original. The west side of the ell Excellent transitional building. the 1920's.The remaining columns are plain Doric type.The second story has flush boarding.The cornice is plain.Windows are double hung,6/6 - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Political - Urban Planning - Religion/Phi- - Other (Specify) exploration & - Science - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Literature - Military - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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the founders of Milan township. The building is important, too, as an early, still surviving, farm which has been owned by only two families David Abbott, born in Massachusetts in 1765, was one of the earliest settlers westernmost reaches of the Western Reserve and, with thirty other families, became a very prominent citizen, serving as county sheriff, a member of the convention for the formation of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, an elector of the President in 1812, clerk of the county supreme court, and a member, numerous times, of both houses of the state legislature. Abbott's first home was on the east side of the Huron River, near Avery, the 1815) of the Firelands, then known as Huron County. The War of 1812 had age 57. His son, Benjamin, took over, finishing the house in 1824. In 1836 reached all the way to Milan, south of Abbottsford, and people moved there.

of Avery or Abbottsford. Homer Page was born in Milan in 1835 and, being an excellent farmer and land 1824 Conservation Architecture Commerce losophy Engineering Aboriginal SIGNIFICANCE Prehistoric Education Music settlement itarian Agriculture Communications Landscape Industry his first phonograph.The propety has been owned by the Page family since The area on which it stands is rich with the history of early Ohio settlers, Pre-Columbian Homer Page.Today nothing remains of the first Abbott house or of the towns population of Avery moved elsewhere.Abbott began a new home on the west Invention altered 1920 village which Abbott had platted and which was the first county seat (l8ll- across from Old Avery.For a time it flourished since a tow path from Lake 186l and the Pages are proud of its heritage.

Benjamin Abbott platted the town of Abbottsford on the west side of the river stopped any influx and soon after 18l5 the area was re-organized into two of the area now known as Milan township.He purchased 1,8o0 acres in the Art PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) The Abbott-Page house, which is listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey, is a good example of a Federal-Greek revival transitional building. side of the river about 1820. Before he completed it, however, he died at manager, had become one of the county's wealthiest men. His wife, Marion Edison, was an elder sister of Thomas Edison, who was a frequent guest in settled the land about 1810. The tract was rich farmland on both sides of the Huron River and included the only fair river crossing for miles. Abbott counties, Huron and Erie.

New county seats were named and much of the his sister's home.On one of his visits, Thomas presented his sister with throughout its 150 years. Benjamin died in 1854 and in 1861 his wife sold the house and farm to AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Frohman, Charles E. A History of Sandusky and Erie County. Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Historical Society, 1965. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1907. Ledger Publishing Co., Milan, Ohio, 1959. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY 17. 367500 4577110 MAY 1 4 1975 FORM PREPARED BY Mrs. Lucy Pope Wheeler May 1973 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 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 ORGANIZATION LATITUDE STATE LONGITUDE Washington Name CORNER ATTEST: Degrees COUNTY Columbus RECEIVED CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds 011 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NATIONAL NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: National Register. 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Department of the Interior Date STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 1982 Velma Ave OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended one Ohio REGISTER Local 311/75 Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - MAY 1 4 1975 Send-back - Entered MAY 2? 1975 Federal Register Entry Re-submit . OTHER KEEPER HAER Maps ARCHEOLOGIST Review HISTORIAN TECHNICAL REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Accept National Register Write-up CONTROL BRANCH CHIEF 75001383 Working Number 3. 14. 75:3 84 Cole 3. 17.

2 4 INT:2106- 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Erie 4.14.75 Hlouse FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) MAY 2 7 1975 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT Steckel Photographers, Milan 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAR 1 4 1975 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 932-009 1973 Erie Milan TOWN DATE COUNTY COMMON STATE RECEIVED Ohio PHOTO CREDIT Steckel Photographers NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Abbott-Page Historic District See Continuation Sheet AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) (Type all entries-attach to or en close with photograph) Rear kitchen ell, 1o0king southeast. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1.

NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) MAY 2 7 1975 2. LOCATION See Continuation Sheet 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Steckel Photographers, Milan 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. South facade, looking northeast. MAR 1 4 1975 1973 DATE COUNTY TOWN Erie COMMON STATE Milan Ohio Abbott-Page Historic District Steckel Photo graphers NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NEGATIVE FILED AT AND/OR HISTORIC PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) (6/72) GPO 932-009 PROPERTY OF THE NATOMAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1. NAME 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Steckel Photographers, Milan 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

MAR 1 4 1975 GPO 932-009 1973 Erie TOWN Milan DATE COMMON COUNTY FORM10-301A STATE RECEIVED Abbott-Page Historic District PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM See Continuation Sheet Ohio Steckel Photographers STREET AND NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NEGATIVE FILED AT Rear kithen ell and side porch southwest. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (6/72) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) #384 MAY 2 7 1975 ATIONAL Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MAY 2 7.1975 LOCA TION Steckel Photographers, Milan, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1973 039 NAME DATE COUNTY CODE Erie Milan STATE PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Steckel Photographers PHOTO CREDIT: Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES see continuation sheet PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED IDENTIFICATION South facade looking northwest. (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NEGATIVE FILED AT: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) MAR 1 4 1975 2 US. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 Abbott-Page Historic District Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S. 7.5' Milan 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 3-1 043 039 1969 NAME LOCATION Erie Milan REQUIREMENTS STATE DATE COUNTY CODE 1:24000 Ohio COMMON: SCALE: Abbott-Page Historic District PROPERTY MAP FORM MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: See Continuation Sheet NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER MAR 1 4 1975 / UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 17 367500 4577110 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) MILAN QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT DF HIGHWAYS 1969 Abbott-Page DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES NATIONAL DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RECEIVED ROAD CLASSIFICATION MILAN, OHIO STATE CF OHIO 4 1 ° the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l/telephone (6141 466-4888 March 10, 1975 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper MAR 14 1975 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear De.

Murtagh: Al1 have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Tytus, John B., House, Middletown, Butler Co. Abbott-Page House, Milan vicinity, Erie Co. Burchenal Mound, Woodlawn vicinity, Hamilton Co. Ferris, Eliphalet, House, Mariemont, Hamilton Co. Ferris, Joseph, House, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co. John, Jehu, House, Harrison vicinity, Hamilton Co. The Madison-Steward Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co. Reily, Robert, House, Wyoming, Hamilton Co. Amherst Town Hall, Amherst, Lorain Co. St.Clair Street Historic District, Toledo, Lucas Co. Miller, Daniel, House, Dayton, Montgomery Co. St. John's Catholic Church, Canton, Stark Co. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director enclosures New Submissions: NATIONAL RECEIVED Western Shoe Company, Toledo, Lucas Co. REGISTER CP/g1k Wasserstrom & Company, Toledo, Lucas Co.

Acting State Historic Preservation Officer National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Transmitted herewith are fifteen (l5)completed National Register forms. Department of the Interior Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Stein, Edward and Alleen, Silo, Stoney Hill, Summit Co. Sincerely, Board and owners of subject properties have been informed of our intent Jutlor County Erie County 5/28/75 Location Name STATE Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Canton Also Notified Milan vicinity Grand Rapidg Wood County St. Jonn'a Cathollo Churoh Hon, Chazlen A, Hoshes Lucas County Stark County DVAY 2 7 1975 Harzon County Lon.Ronald M.Fottl Sangdon Mounds I and Ix ) date of entry: ) county code: L Abbott-Page House 2.5 mi. NE of Milan on Mason Rd.

(12) SOURCE of NOMINATION 1 CONDITION - deteriorated 17) features: *SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 2 Oruins Dunaltered Omoved GO NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed Oreconstrueted - Unknown Ounknown Ounexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyesi AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain "first'O -ENTERTAINMENT -26 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION-22 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O C AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 - MILITARY - 18 @architect: - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D C ART-5 - EDUCATION- 10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions @dates of initial construction: major alterations: 1920 @master builder: (1 interior decorator: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 043 county Midwest ASSOCIATION engineer: Erie ENGINEERING-11 1824 Milan FEDERAL CURRENTLY: HEALTH-27 STATE 5-27-75 historic events: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET PRVATE ORGANIZATION architectural style(s): Dexcellent NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ADMINISTRATOR: INSTITUTIONAL: LOCAL ACREAGE SAVED?YES NPS REGION: DNAME as it appears on federal register: 2original site 2OTHER NAMES: SETTLEMENT-29 city/ town D OWNER Access -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 @artist: Abuilder/contractor: _date- - LANDSCAPE ARCH.-15 -POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 ETHNIC GROUP COMMERCE-6 Dgood URBAN PLANWING-31 landscape architect / garden designer: if state who prepared form?

YES.NAME Bartisan: Ofair LOCATION street & number DNo Access WIEHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT