Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Sessions Village

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 3,159 words across 20 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 75001401, 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) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) FEB 2 0 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 12th -- Samuel L.
Devine (Check One) - Structure In Process - Preservation work - Comments OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: PEB 2 O 1975- 039 DATA SHEET STATE Franklin LOCATION NATIONAL Religious Government ACCESSIBLE Commercial OWNERSHIP NAME Both CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Restricted Educational REGISTER Transportation Sessions Village Being Considered District Entertainment Agricultural Yes: STATUS Columbus Sessions Drive Private Residence Private Scientific Ohio CODE Park Museum COUNTY: COMMON: Unoccupied Public Site Federal Industrial Public Acquisition: RECEIVED Military CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Building Franklin County Recorder's Office Board of Trustees, Sessions Village TO THE PUBLIC REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 380 South High Street STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Object PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other (Specify) 049 ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION - Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

It was unique for its time since it was designed to the The first building to be completed, in 1926, was the apartment To the left, inside the main entrance, there is a red brick timbered, with figures carved in the wood. It has diamond-paned gable to the street and main entrance facing south, opening onto a French garden. It too has diamond-paned windows. Three houses border the square. To the left, directly behind the pool, is a large Tudor home of rough-textured stone, with At the square, the street branches into two lanes. The pool CONDITION windows. ivy-covered house with arched doorway and carved stone entryway. buildings have diamond-paned windows and slate roofs. Altogether gable end.
carved stone entryway and diamond-paned windows.Two small Carved stone also borders the second floor windows.A tulip- of stucco with high-pitched roof and intricately patterned To the right of the main entrance there are two homes.The first smallest detail before any part of it was begun. windows pierce the high-pitched roof. leaded glass windows.It has also a projecting second floor projecting above the street from the second story windows.It See continuation sheet. Sessions Village presents collectively a low, rectangular mass there are four apartments.
building has rough stone walls and a high hipped roof.Both by an overhead apartment which is accessible through the west patterned iron gate fence, repeated elsewhere in the village, with vertical accents of pitched roofs, gable ends and chimney is of stucco, built gable to the street.It has iron balconies At this point the street widens into an area resemblinga complex which faces Broad Street and spans the entrance to the runs along the front.There is a circular window in the front Further along the side is a Norman French house and Tudor house behind it are to the left of the fork in the (Check One) French "public square."To the left is a small pool with street.In the "v of the fork isa small stucco house with - Excellent - Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Moved village.
Tudor in design, the flanking houses are connected Ruins building.The west apartment building is of masonry and half- balcony. Across the street is another stucco house, again with is topped by chimney pots. The second house is Tudor, half- Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER 2.
Location INOV22 1974 REGISTER GP O 921.724 Franklin DATE STATE COUNTY NATIONAL Description of boundaries Sessions Village Beginning at the midpoint of the intersection of Sessions Drive (Continuation Sheet) extension of Sessions Drive and follow the east and north property lines of #l2 Sessions Drive to the northeast extension of Sessions Sessions Drive, then go southwest and south along the rear property Street to its intersection with the east property line of #2 RECEIVED (Number all entrles) lines of nos.1l,9,7,5,3 and1 Sessions Drive,to the centerline Drive. Crossing this, follow the north property line of #11 975 and East Broad Street, go east along the centerline of East Broad Sessions Drive.Go northeast along the rear property lines of along the property lines of #l0 Sessions Drive.Cross the southeast

Statement of significance

(1820-1892), a prominent Columbus author, humanitarian and civic The village, which is situated on a small portion of land once As a result of numerous trips to France, Robert Reeves planned street of cobblestone with slate sidewalks, each house to be an adaptation of "minor French domestic" architecture. These when viewed together were to create a harmony of line, form effort to layout streets, build houses, and plant gardens in streets. Architecture Communications losophy Commerce Military Engineering Conservation Art Science Aboriginal Transportation Religion/Phi and color. Prehistoric Literature Education itarian Theater Pre-Columbian Sculpture Agriculture Political Landscape Music Industry Invention by such details as the narrow stone-paved street, the central Sessions Village was named in honor of Francis Charles Sessions See continuation sheet.
homes, no one of which was to display excessive ornamentation, a governing board of trustees was set up to supervise the "compact, self-contained, and free from contacts with neighboring Provincial style.By 193l twelve homes were completed.The to insure that future homes would be in keeping with the French A native woods would be left to separate it from surrounding consist ofa narrow entrance gate formed by flanking houses and through the center of the village and widen at the junction owned by Sessions, captures the pervading atmosphere and Old Social/Human- '30s as a planned community by the firm of Miller and Reeves. A 1927 brochure described the village as"a carefully considered with an easterly branch, creating a sort of "public square." Incorporated in 1927 asa community within the city of square and the "city gate" on Broad Street.
AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other (Specify) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATEIS) (If Applicable and Known) World charm of a small French town. The effect is enhanced 1927-1931 developments."T construction and maintenance of the public areas.It was also a connecting overpass.A curving dead-end road was to wind The design of this isolated community was to pettiness of the work-a-day world be forgotten."It was to be

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES N 390 W 82 FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: William H. Carlile Sept., 1972 STREET AND NUMBER: 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 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 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l Degrees LATITUDE NOV221974 Seconds ORGANIZATION COUNTY 039 LONGITUDE Local 4425970 RECEIVED Name ATTEST: NATIONAL Columbus Minutes CORNER STATE CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds Realtors, 1927. REGISTER 10 North Drexel Avenue LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Date 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION National Register. CITY OR TOWN: Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation - Sessions Village. Columbus: Converse and Fulton, Ohio 2.19.75 Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) 7. Continuation of Description a high gable roof and a large tower to the left of the entrance. In addition, stucco walls separate the property from the sidewalk.
One round and one rectangular window are in the tower; the house has two gabled dormers with arched windows at the eaves. At about the middle of the roof's slope, standing by itself, is another small dormer window framed by a round arch with sash to To the right of the fork in the street is a large, rambling two, three or four, and are glazed with diamond panes. each, with its unique design and detail, harmonizes with the others branch and eight along the eastern, the last being built in 1956. elements of the old village into its design, though they are not 8. Continuation of Statement of Significance Depression halted construction and not until 1946 were the remaining lots sold when R.R. Reeves, Jr., took over the task of completing his father's plan.
Today Sessions Village, as it was described in the brochure of NOV 22 1974 GPO 921-724 Franklin COUNTY REGISTER DATE STATE NATIONAL Sessions Village Ohio match. RECEIVED planned community. part of this nomination.
Each of the new houses incorporates many of the traditional 1927, expresses harmony, repose and permanence.The village displays two-and-a-half story structure are set singly or in groups of a diversity of design and materials which complement one another The two branches in the street go north and east;originally they (July 1969) were left for future development.The twelve unitsdescribed were the gabled roofs of varying pitch and is surrounded on two sides (Number all entries) -EB 2 0 1975 branches began anew.Five houses were completed along the northern original houses of Sessions Village.They all stand today and without creating monotony --a successful attempt at an early house with both stone and stucco walls.It has both hipped and UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER INOV 22 1974 fenced Columbus, Ohio Drawn by Jeffrey Darbee November, 1974 East Broad Street GP0 921-724 North new garden court square STATE garage Franklin DATE REGISTER NATIONAL COUNTY RECEIVED District boundaries Ohio Form 10-300a lawn (Continuation Sheet) (Number all entries) in red Sessions Village Not to Scale (July 1969) patig Homes wall FEB # 0 1975 gate Drive wal1 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Send-back - Re-submit .
CONTROL KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER TECHNICAL Maps 12-17-74 Photos Review HISTORIAN Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Entered SB 20 1075 - IN T:2106- 74 OTHER 11.2374 4-1=15 TO THE WEST OF ENTRYWAY. FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION NOV 22 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Ohio Historical Center 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1973 Franklin May Columbus RECEIVED COMMON DATE Ohio STATE NAME COUNTY REGISTER TOWN Sessions Drive Entrance to Sessions Village on Broad Street, view showing PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT apartment to the west of entryway.
(Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) Sessions Village Larry Beers NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 932-009 ENTRANCE TO SESSIONS VILLAGE ON BROAD STREET, VIEW SHOWING APARTMENT NATIONAL WEST SIDE, JUST INSIDE ENTRY, FACING SOUTHWEST, SHOWING ENTRY AND SIDE OF BUILDING TO WEST OF ENTRYWAY. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) 1. NAME INUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 2 0 1975 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER NOV 22 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Ohio Historical Center 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.
GPO 932-009 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Columbus TOWN DATE STATE COMMON COUNTY REGISTER May 1973 Ohio Sessions Drive West side, just inside entry, facing southwest, showing PHOTO CREDIT entry and side of building to west of entryway. Larry Beers (6/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Sessions Village NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 2 0 1975 LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Ohio Historical/ Center 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. NOV 22 1974 GPO 932-009 Franklin Columbus Larry Beers TOWN DATE STATE COUNTY COMMON NATIONAL Ohio RECEIVED Sessions Drive REGISTER North end of Sessions Drive where it branches. View looking north.
PHOTO CREDIT May 1973 (Type all entries - attach to or en close with photograph) PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER SESSIONS VILLAGE NEGATIVE FILED AT FRANKLIN CO., ONIO Nol FRANKLIN CO., ONIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE May 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. GPO 932-009 Columbus Center NATIONAL RECEIVED COUNTY COMMON TOWN Franklin NAME Ohio Sessions Drive NOV221974 REGISTER Larry Beers Entryway arch showing connecting apartment, view facing north.
PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Sessions Village STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) STATE FEB 2 0 1975 FRCPRTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER FRAMKLIN CO., ONTO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) PEB 2 0 1975 LOCATION - Columbus STREET AND NUMBER NOV 22 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NATIONAL 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. GPO 932.009 May COMMON STATE DATE COUNTY Ohio REGISTER RECEIVED Franklin Sessions Drive OWN Larry Beers Ohio Historical Center PHOTO CREDIT Homes along west side of Sessions Drive, facing southwest.
PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM SESSIONS VILLAGE (6/72) NEGATIVE FILED AT FRANKLIN CO., ONIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC FEB 2 0 1975 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. WEST SIDE, FACING SOUTHWEST FROM "PUBLIC SQUARE. NOV 22 1974 GPO 932-009 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Columbus Franklin COMMON DATE COUNTY TOWN STATE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER Sessions Drive Ohio Larry Beers PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT Sessions Village Ohio Historical Center NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (6/72) (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) May 1973 NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) NEGATIVE FILED AT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER NOV 22 1974 3.
PHOTO REFERENCE 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. GPO 932-009 Franklin May Columbus DATE entryway. Sessions Village NATIONAL STATE Larry Beers TOWN Sessions Drive RECEIVED COMMON REGISTER Ohio COUNTY PHOTO CREDIT East side of Sessions Drive, facing northeast, just inside (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) (6/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NUMERIC CoDE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 2 0 1975 FRAMELIN CO.OHIO EAST SIDE OF SESSIONS DRIVE, CORNER HOUSE, FACING SOUTHEAST. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME NUMERICCODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION - Columbus NOV 22 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.
GPO 932-009 May DATE COMMON NATIONAL COUNTY STATE Franklin Ohio REGISTER RECEIVED Larry Beers Sessions Drive Sessions Village PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY OF TIE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) (6/72) FEB 20 1975 TOWN UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER NOV 22 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT Ohio Historical Center 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. "public square" with small garden and fountain.
GPO 932.009 May Columbus TOWN REGISTER DATE COMMON Sessions Village STATE Sessions Drive NATIONAL Ohio COUNTY View facing west from east branch of Sessions Drive, showing PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Larry Beers PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (6/72) SQUAR-" #909 Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) ENTRY NUMBER -EB 2. 0.1975. AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: 1"= 24,000" TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. . North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.
039 1964 COUNTY REQUIREMENTS Columbus DATE NAME CODE STATE COMMON: MAP REFERENCE REGISTER NATIONAL SOURCE: Sessions Drive LOCATION Ohio SCALE: Sessions Village PROPERTY MAP FORM NOV (July 1969) Franklin NOV 22 1974 3 UNITED STATES SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO - FRANKLIN CO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS, OHIO Hon. John H. Glenn Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director iion. Samuel L. Devine Hon. Tennyson Guyer Columbus, Ohio 43211 Mr.
Richard Leverty, Corps of Engineers Regional Director, Midwest Region STATE Location Sunbury Name Bantam vicinity OHIO Franklin County MMott/cha Delaware County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 3-3-75 Columbus Also Notified Miami County Eldean Covered Bridge Elk Lick Road Mound Sunbury Township Hall Date Entered The Ohio Historical Society Sessions Village State Historic Preservation Officer Troy vicinity Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Clermont County Hon. William H.
Harsha < NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 2 OTHER NAMES: 3date of entry: 4 county code: 12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated 17) features: Oruins Dunaltered 9O NOT INTACT-O -good Dunexposed SO UNKNOWN -6 3O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 -YES -Unrestricted - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 "first'O - COMMERCE- 6 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW-16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2dates of initial construction: 2 functions Residential major alterations : @master builder: -7 1 artist: EVENTS : _date 6 377 IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED.
NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE 049 Midwest CONDITION ETHNIC Franklin ASSOCIATION GROUP ENGINEERING-11 2-20-75 engineer: Columbus PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: FEDERAL historic events: vicinity of Sessions Village ARCHITECTURE WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ADMINISTRATOR: CURRENTLY: Cexcellent LOCAL V Both sides of Sessions Dr. IAME as it appears on federal register: Dexcavated SAVED? YES Bartisan: BNPS REGION Ceriginal site Dmoved (1)CONGRESS. DISTRICT IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? I - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 -OTHER (SPECIFY) ©landscape architect / garden designer: * interior decorator: Oreconstrueted - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION - 12 builder/contractor: reviewers initials architectural style(s): if state who prepared form?
NAMES give role & date SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-3 city/town LOCATION street & number Dfair yate U UNKNOWN=4