Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for United Methodist Church

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,735 words across 22 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 75001432, 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 No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 11 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS The United Methodist Church AND/OR COMMON OTHER: 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE & BUILDING(S) . - WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 BOTH DATE Hamilton CODE Cincinnati HISTORIC TITLE None SITE ACCESSIBLE COUNTY STATE MUSEUM OCCUPIED 061 ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY XRELIGIOUS AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC TRANSPORTATION MILITARY RECEIVED INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL PARK PUBLIC NAME STATUS The Armstrong Chapel Trustees DATE ENTERED XPRIVATE Court House 5125 Drake Road _BEING CONSIDERED Court and Main Streets -DISTRICT DATA SHEET -EDUCATIONAL -STRUCTURE Indian Hill _OBJECT Ohio -The Armstrong Chapel -FEDERAL STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL First - Willis Gradison 1975 The Hamilton County Court House DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. The pews are the original, hand-carved pews that replaced the first CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED XUNALTERED CEILING XEXCELLENT WALL English parish churches.
with bricks is situated several feet above the doorway.Until the Armstrong Chapel is a simple rectangular structure with a projecting the stained glass windows and a somewhat unusual bowed ceiling. and except for a small brick arch and keystone over the front entrance, America that was derived from the tradition of Christopher Wren's funeral services.There are two memorial stained glass windows in doors were used for bringing in and removing the coffin during as a further extension of the church building tradition in early A window is placed on either side of the tower and four windows are _FAIR -GOOD is without architectural adornment. The bell tower was topped by an nally, there were two additional small windows above these windows DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

cutout openings on all four sides. This was smaller than the tower placed along either side of the building. Originally, a side door been where the windows second from the end are located today. These DATE The entrance consists of stone as the exterior. When entering through the front, you pass through pointed roof.The later bell tower was a simple box-like affair with and so produced an inset effect.T the east end of the church; one to either side of the altar.Origi- MOLDING LRUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

dist for over 140 years. Veterans of all U.S. wars from the Revolutionary to WWII are buried - in The Armstrong Chapel Cemetery- known if he fought in the Revolution, but it was on part of the "new land" such veterans could claim, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, that on their land in 1802, and it was said to be the second mill in the 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD AGRICULTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT SCIENCE ART THEATER MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE the Rockingham Militia and helped President Washington suppress the XARCHITECTURE the area, the Nathaniel Armstrong Family.
_EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Samuel Earhart 1900- POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _ENGINEERING _CONSERVATION dent Jefferson's government hired the Armstrongs to build flatboats at _TRANSPORTATION Louisiana territory from the French and erect a Western empire, Presi- SCULPTURE could be used, Burr was seized, and they were sold at public auction Hill.Nathaniel Armstrong had been a miller in Virginia,and his son dent Aaron Burr was mustering a flotilla of flatboats to sieze the hundred acres of government land" and worked a small farm there for 15 XRELIGION home was situated on the Little Miami River in what is today Indian _EDUCATION it represents a monument to one of the earliest pioneer families in -ECONOMICS -PHILOSOPHY _INDUSTRY John had been an ensign in the 58th Regiment of American church architecture since the building dates from 183l.
Nathaniel Shepherd Armstrong was born in 1749,and until the age of -LITERATURE _COMMERCE -1400-1499 by what he found in he prevailed upon his family to follow - MUSIC -LAW The denomination has been continuously Metho- His son, John Armstrong, left the family home in Virginia at the The Armstrong Chapel is a significant local historic landmark because -important locally because of its contributions to the growth of 36, lived near Baltimore, in Maryland's Hartford County. It is not end of the eighteenth century and traveled westward to the Ohio Valley. Thomas had been apprenticed to a millwright. They constructed a mill $100.00 a piece for an expedition to pursue Burr. Before the boats 1831 The Armstrong Chapel also has local historical significance as the methodism in the area.
Besides his He was so impressed married not accompany them west.Their first Hill. - INVENTION him and in l800 the entire family arrived in Plainville. Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in l795.E

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UTm ReF oK - wn ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than 1 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Margaret Sambi, Architectural Historian STREET & NUMBER 812 Dayton Street CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 888-445 721-4506 ORGANIZATION COUNTY 9-23-74 CODE NORTHING DATE TELEPHONE None Cincinnati ZONE No. 2, June, 1972, p. 2. Ohio ATTEST: Miami Purchase Association ZONE EASTING Cincinnati, 1974, pp. 1-15. "Armstrong Chapel Restoration" DEO IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 114-75 SHPO LOCAL X [4,313,717,2,0] 2-22-75 Form No. 1P-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEC 4 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - THE ARMSTRONG CHAPEL CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 for $22.00 a piece. thaniel S. Armstrong and his wife, Hannah Norris Armstrong, in 1830.
or sect, but, most democratically, to which ever sect had the largest Samuel Earhart supervised the construction of the chapel and it is In 1972 the chapel underwent extensive restoration under the direc- The Armstrong Chapel Cemetery be buried there and she died in 1827. Nathaniel died and was buried there in 1845. Veterans of all U.S. wars from the Revolutionary to Anna who was the daughter of a French soldier who came to America with PAGE RECEIVED The property upon which Armstrong Chapel stands, was a gift of Na- tion of John Kittridge and Robert Montgomery. ministers were circuit riders of the Methodist Church.
a church and burial ground.In the deed dated June 18,1830,conveying in in 1759,served in the Revolutionary Army the gave it not to any specific congregation made the trip in 1788.In 1810 he married Nathaneil S.Armstrong's until 1829,as a man of 70, that he moved to Hamilton County.His Samuel Earhart's father one of the first settlers in the (Hev. 10-74) Little Miami Valley, having made the Journey from Chester, Pennsyiva- Earhart, James Armstrong, William Flinn, David Hobby, and Solomon and Earhart are memorialized in the two stained glass windows in the For 120 years Armstrong Chapel was the only church in Indian Hill. service he followed a life at sea for seventeen years. It was not wich and fought in the War of 1812.
He was married to a woman named The land was a choice corner of their property and was given for úse believed that the bricks wère made from his property across the road. Church. The Armstrong Chapel Cemetery is located directly behind the chapel, Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVEDNOV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEC 4 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET Revolutionary War Robert S. Flinn John F. Lux George De Mar J. J. Ellinger Robert L. Pohlmeyer Richard G.
Wood Civil War Harry Finch William Anschutz Elisha Norris David Miller Karl Keller John Armstrong George Kramer Spanish American War Martin Miller Bernerd Meyer Washburn Gordon John Maxfield Verne Finch Fred Miller Samuel Earhart William Canfield Lewis Printy Sheridan Finch William Finch David Hobby Walter Finch LaRue Conger Abraham Bush Aaron Booso Robert Pogue Samuel Hall Amie DeMar Truesdell John Ward as follows: John De Mar World War II FOR NPS USE ONLY War of 1812 (Rev. 10-74) THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - THE ARMSTRONG CHAPEL Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEC 4 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET DATE ENTERED ITEM NUMBER 9 RECEIVED NOV 11 1975 THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - THE ARMSTRONG CHAPEL Ohio, L.A. Williams and Co., PAGE S.B.
Nelson,History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,S. B. Nelson Publ. Co., 1894, Cincinnati, p. 397. 2nd contral Sheet Working Number6, 20. 75,//63 Photos - Inventory - OTHER KEEPER TECHNICAL Entered Maps HAER Re-submit CONTROL Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST Review HISTORIAN State National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 11.12.75 Cole 75001432 11-25-75 INT:2106-74 Working Number 6.20. 75.1/63 Photos - Inventory - Send-back 9,5.75 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Review State Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF 6.25.75 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the.Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 9-4-75 7-11-75 A SINGLE NOMINATION. (ALSO, I HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERUING THE SCHODL'S ELIGIBILITY).
INT:2106- 74 Maps Re-submit 1975 9/3/75- DEC 4 15 Geographical Data -- Acreage: BE NOMINATEO SEPERATELY. (OMF) Map Coverage: Description: Certification: Bibliography: Statement of Significance: Date: IS RESUBMITTED. Photographic Coverage: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION Verbal Boundary Description: Chief, Branch of Registration UTM Reference(s): Thank you for your attention to the above items. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. STATE INT:2105-74 Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to THE NOTE: DATE: NPS Number VIEW: PHOTOGRAPH BY. SUBJECT: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. The UNitED MettadisT ChuRch Title: Form No. 10-301a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV 11 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DEC 4 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON VICINITY OF . CoUNTY Hamilton NEGATIVE FILED AT Southwest corner of Armstrong Chapel GPO 892-454 Peggy Sambi IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC LOCATION RECIEVED The United Methodist Church Miami Purchase Association The Armstrong Chapel PHOTO CREDIT NAME PHOTO REFERENCE DATE ENTERED STATE Ohio PHOTO NO. DATE OF PHOTO 10-21-74 DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET NOTE: DATE: PHOTOGRAPH BY. Loc. SUBJECT: VIEW: NPS Number -Onrchase Qust PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGIS 10/21/74 Form No. 10-301a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DEC 4 DATE ENTERED TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON _VICINITY OF STATE Ohio COUNTY Hamilton PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT Miami Purchase Association DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET GPO 892.454 Peggy Sambi 10-21-74 LOCATION IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC Northwest corner of Armstrong Chapel NAME PHOTO CREDIT The United Methodist Church SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS The Armstrong Chapel PHOTO NO. CITY.TowN Indian Hill NOV 11 1975 RECIEVED Ohio Purchase NPS Number Title: NOTE: DATE: SUBJECT: PHOTOGRAPH BY. VIEW: Loc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 12/47 Form No. 10-301a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECIEVEDNOV 1 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON _VICINITY OF COUNTYHamilton PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET GPO 892.454 Peggy Sambi HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION LOCATION The Armstrong Chapel PHOTO CREDIT cemetery located directly behind the chapel Southeastern corner of Armstrong Chapel showing Miami Purchase Association NAME STATE Ohio The United Methodist Church SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO NO. DEC 4 Form No. 10-301 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM DEC 4 1975.
DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -. ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON CITY. ToWN Indian Hill _VICINITY OF COUNTY Hamilton MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S. 7½' Quadrangle Map "Madeira, Ohio " TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES REQUIREMENTS LOCATION DATE HISTORIC SOURCE The Armstrong Chapel SCALE NAME 1:24000 photorevised 1970 The United Methodist Church STATE Ohio INT: 3464 - 75 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) MADEIRA QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 16 729 230 4337 720 November 3, 1975 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Dr.
Murtagh: Transmitted herewith are twenty-two (22) completed National Register Advisory Board and owners of subject properties have been informed of our intent to Register: NEW SUBMISSIONS Paige, Judge David, House, Lake Co. 3 (Armstrong Chapel, Hamilton Co. Jefferson School, Hamilton Co. NOV 1 1 1975 Shawnee, Perry Co. Palymyra Center Hotel, Portage Co. Quarry, Greene Co. Groveport Log House, Franklin Co. New Baltimore Inn, Stark Co. Tallmadge-Mithoff House, Fairfield Co. Maria Stein Convent, Mercer Co. Hosford House, Crawford Co. Buehl House, Cuyahoga Co. Gibson House, Hamilton Co. Trinity Episcopal Church, Vinton Co. Eakin Mill Covered Bridge, Vinton Co. Gurney-Kochheiser House, Richland Co. Garfield, James A., House, Portage Co. Young, Thomas F., House, Portage Co. Bellville Village Hall, Richland Co. Secor Hotel, Lucas Co. Bellevue (Congo Farm), Pickaway Co. Coulton House, Lake Co.
Thomas H. Smith, State Historic Preservation Officer; Director, Ohio Historical Society Ohio Historical Center I-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 Sincerely, NATIONAL enclosures REGISTER RECEIVED Ohio Historic Preservation Office THS/g1k STATE OHIO DE. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Willis D. Gradison, JE.
Regional Director, Midwest Region Columbus, Ohio 43211 INT: 2950-75 Location Name Date Entered Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Chio Historical Society Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Hamilton County DEC 4 United Methodist Church State Historic Preservation officer Director - NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 2 OTHER NAMES: Nate of entry: ) county code: NE of Mariemont ADMINISTRATOR : - deteriorated Omoved °O NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown -unexcavated EO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 -YES -Unrestricted - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 'first'O - COMMERCE -6 - LAW - 16 C SETTLEMENT-29 C ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE- 23 D AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 C MILITARY - 18 ARCHITECTURE- - ECONOMICS - 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' O - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3) funotions @) dates of initial construction: major alterations : /890 5 landscape arohiteot / garden designer: " interior decorator: S artist: @artisan: @bullder/contractor: 061 Hamilton Midwest ETHNIC ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 GROUP CONDITION FEDERAL 12-4-75 ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: 1831 master builder: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP URBAN PLANNING-31 Barchitectural style(s): SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT NPS REGION LOCAL historic events: if state who prepared form?
NAMES give role & date TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED.NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE Mfeatures: vicinity of SOURCE Of NOMINATION Cunaltered EOUNKNOWN-S LOCATION street & number city / town (11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT RELIGION - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) @engineer: ACCESS PRIVATE ORGANIZATION United Methodist Church (Armstrong Chapel) reviewers initials, 5125 Drake Rd., NE of Mariemont Corginal site Dreconstructed Ounknown Vtate