Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Sloane, Rush R., House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,222 words across 13 pages, filed in 1975. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 75001390, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) FEB 2 4. 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) * Building - In Process - Preservation work * Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: 531 Wayne St.
LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 Nursing 043 Sandusky Religious Erie STATE ACCESSIBLE Commercial OWNERSHIP Ontario Government Restricted Entertainment STATUS CATEGORY District Site Museum CODE NAME Yes: Educational Both Agricultural Unoccupied Ohio CLASSIFICATION Park Transportation Scientific COUNTY: Military Private NATIONAL Public LOCATION Structure 44870 Private Residence Being Considered DATA SHEET CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public Acquisition: Absher Nursing Home Erie County Courthouse Estella Absher Cupples 403 East Adams Street STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OWNER OF PROPERTY REGISTER Object REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS ENTRY DATE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Industrial PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Federal - Comments DATE COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER 3-23-78 DESCRIPTION * Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed | Unaltered - Moved X Original Site three-bay facade, with the entrance at the west bay above a tower, the rear (north) wing and the great northeast bay were added.
The detail of the brackets, the window pediments and Italianate. The irregular outline of the east elevation clearly CONDITION RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins Villa style was transforming itself into the High Victorian not close enough to a significant group of structures to be house would still be complete without it. high basement. The mansion was occupied by the Sandusky Business Fair cream and mint green is unfortunate.The Sloane house is is largely unaltered, although the present color scheme of the portico seem to come from that period when the Italian However, the present appearance is the result Villa style. The square front block was built first.It has a for its present use asa nursing home,but the exterior aspect belongs to the taste of the Civil War period or later.The College from 1926 to 1949.The interior has been remodeled a part of a historic district.
upper stage of the tower reveals that it is an addition;the (Check One) Good DEC31 1974 This is a large three-story stucco mansion in the Italian of an extensive expansion and remodeling. The square corner PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1854 - Urban Planning - Historic STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

ca. 1854. Sloane (1828-1908) was born in Sandusky, his father to the bar in 1849. In 1852 he walked into the office where a number of fugitive slaves were being held for a hearing, and simply told DEC31 1974 losophy Commerce Architecture Conservation Communications Aboriginal Engineering Landscape REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE Transportation Theater RECEIVED Science itarian Invention Music Education Agriculture Literature Political Pre-Columbian Sculpture stations for which there is substantial documentary evidence as to Social/Human- The square front portion of the house was originally built by Dayton & Cincinnati Railroad in 1867,was elected mayor of Sandusky reasonable to assume that his extensive expansion and remodeling the involvement of the owner in the abolitionist movement.It is such cases in Erie County.
also an especially interesting example of an Italian Villa which was appointed by the President as an agent for the Post Office in Chicago Water Street. Rush Sloane began working in a law office at the built in two stages. them.Sloane lost the verdict under the Fugitive Slave Law and of the house dates from that time.He was president of the Sandusky, Religion/Phi- The Sloane house is one of the reputed underground railway paid the judgment of $3,ooo in full. This was one of only two Industry in 1879,and built the Sloane Hotel in 1880.He served as president them to leave.The owner sued Sloane for the value of three of having arrived in Ohio in 18l5 and operated a jewelry store on age of sixteen.He studied law for five years and was admitted of the Firelands Historical Society from 1899 to his death in1908. Samuel Torrey in the early 1850s.It was sold to Rush R.Sloane in 186l.
There he made a fortune dealing in real estate, and it is NATIONAL! Other (Specify) Military 1854 (?) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Sloane became a probate judge in Erie County in 1857.He was 198, 275, 278, 438 Society, Columbus, Ohio. 1972.

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF APROPERTY APPROXIMATE AÇREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES CITY OR TOWN: 2.
STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: 039 ORGANIZATION National Degrees LATITUDE Name LONGITUDE 4590510 CORNER DATE REGISTER Title COUNTY STATE Cleveland CODE UTM Ohio ATTEST: MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES RECEIVED Local Degrees Minutes Seconds Western Reserve Historical Society Eric Johannesen, Preservationist NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Less than one 17/357550 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES 10825 East Boulevard evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set FORM PREPARED BY I hereby certify that this property is included in the NAME AND TITLE: April 1974 National Register.
STREET AND NUMBER: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES in the National Register and certify that it has been Keeper of The National Register 1974 * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-147/1442 3-l Seconds Minutes Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Erie County, Ohio (Syracuse, 1889), Working Number 12.31. 74.2226 Inventory - FEB 2 4 1975 KEEPER TECHNICAL Entered ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER Send-back HAER CONTROL Maps HISTORIAN Review Re-submit National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Photos State ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 1-13-75 1.10.75 Micz housz Colz IN T : 2 106 - 74 Property 114175 2.13. Erie Hi's fonichae Form No.
10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Southeast elevation, looking northwest * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 I- 1 COUNTY DATE Erie 1975 Sandusky 039 CODE STATE NATIONAL REGISTER 043 COMMON: Western Reserve Historical Society Eric Johannesen ENTRY NUMBER Ohio IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: 4o3 East Adams Street (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC: CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO REFERENCE (7/72) April 1974 Absher Nursing Home RECEIVED STREET AND NUMBER: Form No. 10-301a FEB 8 4 NAME STREET AND NUMBER: 403 East Adams Street 0 04 3 April 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. South facade and west elevation, looking northeast. *U.S.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/ 1446 III - 1 039 DATE COUNTY Sandusky Erie CODE REGISTER RECEIVED Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER COMMON: STATE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY Eric Johannesen PHOTO CREDIT: IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CITY OR TOWN: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) Ohio LOCA TION 31 1974 PHOTO REFERENCE Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: MAP REFERENCE U. S. G. S. Sandusky 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 1969 NAME Sandusky 043 Erie COUNTY DATE STATE Ohio REGISTER REQUIREMENTS NATIONAL COMMON: CODE ENTRY NUMBER RECEIVED LOCATION Absher Nursing Home SOURCE: 403 East Adams Street NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM SCALE: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: Absher 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES SANDUSKY QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SANDUSKY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO 82° 42° 20° DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Nursing Home 41° 27' 20* che ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l1/telephone (614) 466-4663 December 20, 1974 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Department of the Interior 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Spitler, Samuel, House, Montgomery Co.
- the Spitler House is currently Trumbull County Courthouse, Trumbull Co. - this was previously submitted Absher Nursing Home, Erie Co. Glendale Police Station, Hamilton Co. Exchange Bank of Madison, Lake Co. Johnson's Island Civil War Prison and Fort Site, Ottawa Co. Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Summit Co. enclosures REGISTER National Park Service new location. NATIONAL RECEIVED Acting Historic Preservation Officer in this new nomination.The house is therefore being resubmitted on its CP/g1k NEW SUBMISSIONS: Board and owners of subject properties have been informed of our intent National Register of Historic Places Transmitted herewith are eight (8) completed National Register forms. All have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Vanmeter Stone House and Outbuildings, Pike Co. but returned to us at our request for corrections.
Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Sincerely, on the Register, but has recently been moved a short distance as stated Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director STATE OHIO Austin, Eliphalet, House Harmon, Francis E., House Sloane, Rush R., Residence Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Hon. Clarence E. Miller Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Samuel L. Devine Hon. Charles E.
Mosher Location 2-28-75 Ashtabula Austinburg vicinity Sandusky Dayton Name Ashtabula County MMott/cha Montgomery County State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Sunbury vicinity Also Notified Delaware County Jackson County Wellston vicinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge Hopkins House Regional Director, Midwest Region Erie County Dayton Woman's Club Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Date Entered One of the Old Gothic Barns, Hamilton Co.; entered on National Register 7/20/76. owned by James A. Powers, 673 Mohawk St., Columbus, Ohio 43206. Texas 78701. Ohio, 43694. Wilson-Gibson House, Hamilton Co.Formerly owned by Mrs. James Gibson, now Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. owned by Michael Boggs, 375 West Main Street, St. Paris, Ohio 43072. owned by H. & D. Bobbitt, 14485 Main St., Burton, Ohio 44021.
"T address to 187 Mentor Ave., Painesville, Ohio 44077. Mr. & Mrs. Francis Kline, 453 W. Main St., Kent, Ohio 44243. property owners list for the Wistula Historic District, Lucas County pending in (listed on the National Register on 3/17/78) is enclosed. In addition, it was The correct UTM reference is 17/372320/4513110. Adams Street Double House, Erie Co.The owner, Francine Grabski has changed Was disassembled and moved to the historic village of Sharon Woods.These by Milton J. Grosse, Madison Industries, Inc., 709 W. 22nd. St., Austin, Berden Building, Lucas Co.Formerly owned by Madison Industries, now owned Enclosed is also several continuation sheets for pending or listed properties.The cause of the fire is still unknown.
23,1978 brought to our attention that the Renner G Weber Brewery, Richland Co.,was not smaller of the two barns was burned during the month of February 1978.The your office is included. A continuation sheet for item 8 of the College Hill Town Hall Davey, John House, Portage Co. Formerly owned by Paul Hershey, now owned by ge 2 Standert-Simmons Hardware Company, Lucas Co.,Formerly owned by Madison In- Smead House, Lake Co.The owners, James and David Smead, have changed their Church of Christ, now owned by the Fremont Church of God at the same address. her address from Sandusky to 5317 N. Santa Monica Blvd.,Milo, Wisconsin 53217. owned by the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners,950 Eden Park Drive, dustries, now owned by Wi1lis-Day, Inc., c/o Jeff Day, P.0. Box 676, Toledo Goodwin, Dr. Erastus, House, Geauga Co. Formerly owned by E.C.
Ulrich, now structures were to remain on the National Register as per a letter from Muntagh,Keeper 2 OTHER NAMES: 3) date of entry: 4 county code: 403 E. Adams St.
12)SOURCE of NOMINATION O deteriorated 17) features: -SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-D Ounaltered Omoved 9O NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown Junexcavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 - URBAN PLANWING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 D ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC-19 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 2) functions .dates of initial construction: major alterations: C /860 ) architectural style(s): @master builder: -landseape architect / garden designer: @artisan: @builder/contractor: 043 county Midwest ETHNIC Sandusky ASSOCIATION Erie ENGINEERING-11 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL: CONDITION STATE FEDERAL PRIVATE ORGANIZATION EVENTS: artist: CURRENTLY: historic events: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Absher Nursing Home ADAPTIVE USE 2-24-75 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of ADMINISTRATOR: city/ town IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yes NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET SAVED?
YES Oruins home GNPS REGION: Dexcellent Deriginal site Ogood AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : &Y SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) -engineer: S) interior decorator: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED. NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - COMMERCE- 6 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 PERSONALE if state who prepared form? LOCAL BACCESS Dfair