Nomination for Broadwell, Cyrus, House

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form 10-300 (Rev. 6-72) - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 2 9 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: BAR 12 1975 3882 Mt. Carmel Road (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC X Building - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: Mrs.

Balle Jones LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: * Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 1936 LOCATION Cincinnati CLASSIFICATION STATE 23-13 Religious ACCESSIBLE Government NAME CATEGORY Site Entertainment OWNERSHIP REGISTER Yes: 061 Restricted Both STATUS Educational Private Being Considered District Commercial DATE CODE Unoccupied Museum Military Private Residence Public Hamilton County Courthouse COMMON: Historic American Building Survey Scientific Park Agricultural Industrial CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: The Broadwell-Jones House Structure Court & Main Streets DATA SHEET Public Acquisition: Washington Object OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Library of Congress Vicinity of Newtown RECEIVED 039 CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) OHIO - Hamilton OEni Broadwell, Cyrus, House \Thomas NATIONken PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) First, ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION X Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved * Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

dormers on each side of the roof, with a chimney on each side also. The northeast room, the library, has original built-in bookcases which on the southwest, has two built-in corner cabinets with pilasters and CONDITION Excellent Ruins single pine tree. frame structure housing the original kitchen and dining room was porch.Supporting the ten foot deep porch are twenty-three unfluted center portion and seven in the flanking portions.The lights are as- the large rectangular living room on the northwest and dining room. evenly spaced windows. Fair outstanding example of Greek Revival architecture. the house.This wing contains a kitchen, breakfast room and garage.

Doric columns with a twenty-one inch square column at each of the above the simple architrave molding; it has eleven lights in the were papered with Italian wallpaper depicting a classical Italian triple hung sash 6/6/6,black louvered gauged brick lint- razed, and a brick service wing was added at the southeast corner of foot two inches in diameter at the top.Each column was made from a There was a basement under the eastern veranda which was closed in rooms has the original fireplace and mantel. sembled in a brick-like pattern.

house from the north entry to the south entry.After 19o7,the walls identical in form and detail.The paneled door is flanked by unfluted The building is a simple rectangle in plan with a peripteral (Check One) rooms date to the 194o's when the roof was raised and the dormers en- On the eastern side of the hall there is a dog-leg stair which leads each side by two windows.In 19o9 it was bricked the hall The south veranda was enclosed with glass in 1898.In 1940 a detached garden.

Exterior: opening.There are paneled floor to ceiling sliding doors between lights.The tripartite transom is separated by concave molding, now used as the main entrance.Both of these center entrances are match those in the bedroom on the southeast.The dining room, located larged.The basic integrity of the house remains, and it is still an They are all twelve feet high.The round columns are one The main entrance was originally on the north.The south entrance is behind it was converted to a bathroom.The western facade has four On the main floor there are fourteen foot high windows that have There are two rooms on each side of this hall.Each of these windows have diagonal wooden lattice work across the top third of the This house is located on a hill near the intersection of Interior:There is a large center hall which runs the length of the the 194o's.There was a center door on the east facade flanked on PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

- 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) AREAS OF

Statement of significance

for the peripteral style of the house, which is unusual for this MAR 1 2 1975 Conservation Transportation losophy Architecture Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Industry Engineering Communications Aboriginal condition. Military Religion/Phi Theater Invention RECEIVED Science Music Literature itarian Political Sculpture This house is an outstanding example of Greek Revival peripteral was well known in this area and were among the first settlers.

Education Very little is known about Cyrus Broadwell himself.He was married Social/Human- Landscape the area and entertained many people in the house, including Agriculture Moses Broadwell laid the first road from Mercerburgh (Newtown) to style residence.It was built between 1820-40 by Cyrus Broadwell the Little Miami River in 1793.He owned a brewery and sawmill in The house remained in the Broadwell family until 19o7 when it was addition to a townhouse at Fourth and Pike Streets in Cincinnati. REGISTER Art to Virginia Goodall who was from the South.This fact may account and the former owner put the land for sale. The Broadwell family ey in Hamilton County.They were prominent in the social life of residence, and the present owner has maintained the house in good sold to Mr.and Mrs.John V.Campbell.He was a prosecuting attorn- NATIONAL

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.: Williams, Caroline, City of Hills, Ruter Press, 1938. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES STATE Chio MAY 22 1975 FORM PREPARED BY Gale Brooks, Project Director August 9, 1974 CITY OR TOWN: Cincinnati, Ohio: 12/ STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l Seconds Name LATITUDE COUNTY LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds CORNER CODE RECEIVED 039 Environmental Preservation DATE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES National Register. Public Library, date unknown. level of significance of this nomination js: NAME AND TITLE: NATIONAL Fisher, Mrs. Teasdale, Cincinnati History, Mimeographed by Cincinnati Kidney, Walter C., Historic Buildings of Ohio, Ober Park Associates, 414 Walnut Street forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Degrees Minutes Keeper of The National Register Pickering, Ernest, Homes of America, Ty Crowell Co., N.Y.,N.Y.: Ohio REGISTER STREET AND NUMBERMercantile Library Building Photos STILL IMPRESSIVE GREEK REVWAL Inventory - MAY 2 2 Send-back _ EnteredIAY 2 9 1975 Re-submit - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 OTHER KEEPER CONTROL TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Maps HISTORIAN Review BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up 3-14-75 Federal Register Entry 4.9.75 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Hamilton 313.75 Working Mumber 3, 12, 75,3 64 DESPITE ALTERATIOWS (20TH C). INT:2106 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN ACCEPT LEBOVICH Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR COUNT HAMILTON LOCA TION 3882 Mt. Carmel Road MAR 12 1975 HAMILTON CO, NEGATIVE FILED AT:Environmental Preservation Office DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

VIEW OF THE NORTH FACADE FROM THE NORTH Cincinnati 039 DATE NATIONAL RECEIVED STATE Gale Brooks DENTIFICATION COUNTY: CODE Broadwell-Jones House COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE August 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) Ohio FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) NAME Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87 6 -167 Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HAMILTON DO, MAY 29.1975* LOCA TION MAR 1 2 1975 B. J. Foreman Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

VIEW OF THE SOUTH FACADE FROM THE SOUTH Cincinnati 061 DATE COUNTY IDENTIFICATION 039 NAME RECEIVED STATE COMMON: CODE PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER Broadwell-Jones House FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) PHOTO CREDIT: February, STREET AND NUMBER: 3882 Mt. Carmel Road NATICONWALL Form No. 10-301a HAMILTON LO. MAY 2 9 1975 LOCA TION MAR 12 1975 NATIONAL B. J. Foreman DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT:Environmental Preservation Office NAME February Cincinnati COUNTY DATE REGISTER 039 STATE CODE COMMON: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO REFERENCE Interior view of the north entrance.

(Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ENTRY NUMBER OHIO CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 876 - 1 67 BROADWELL-JONES HOUSE IDENTIFICATION 061 BROADWELL-JONES HOUSE Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION 3882 Mt. Carmel Road MAR 12 1975 B. J. Foreman February, 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT:Environmental Preservation Office DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

NAME IDENTIFICATION COUNTY CODE DATE REGISTER Cincinnati, NATIONAL RECEIVED STATE ENTRY NUMBER HAMILTON COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER AND/OR HISTORIC: Ohio STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) View of the fireplace in the dining room. DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) -USGOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 87 6-167 061 PHOTO CREDIT: Form No. 10-301a HAMILTON DOL LOCA TION 3882 Mt. Carmel Road Be Je Foreman February 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

Cincinnati MAY291975 DATE COUNTY 039 STATE CODE COMMON: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT: (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR View of the window in the dining room. AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CITY OR TOWN: OHIO DATE OF PHOTO: FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUMBER: (7/72) NAME NEGATIVE FILED AT:Environmental Preservation Office Ohio 45202 Broadwell-Jones House MAR 121975 RECEIVED Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY MAY 2 9 1975 Broadwell, Cyrus, House 3882 Mt. Carmel Road CITY OR TOWN: TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS MAR 12 1975 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

1961 NAME 039 DATE COUNTY REGISTER NATIONAL STATE COMMON: HAMILTON REOUIREMENTS MAP REFERENCE CODE SCALE: ENTRY NUMBER The Broadwell-Jones House 061 Vicinity of Newtown PROPERTY MAP FORM SOURCE: 1:24,000 AND/OR HISTORIC: Madeira Quadrangle U.S.G.S. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: OHIO NT: 155-72 LOCATION 6.O MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MADEIRA, OHIOO RECEIVED UNITED STATES MADEIRA QUADRANGLE LATITUDE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 16 732550 433470 ROAD CLASSIFICATION Hami1ton County Hon. John H. Glenn, Jx. Hon. Donald D. Clancy Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Name 6/2/75 MMott/row ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Cincinnati Regional Director, Midwest Region Burchenal Mound Mathew Mound Ferris, Eliphalet, House Madison-Stewart Hlstorio Distxict Hon. Robert Taft. Jr.

Broadvell, Cyrus, House Hon. Willis D. Gradison, Jz. STATE Newtom vicinity Woodlaw vicinity Wyoming State Historic Presorvation Officer Marienont 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 5-29-75V 5 LOCATION street & number . GNPS REGION: 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION 13) WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? 15 ACREAGE D YES.

NAME- 1S CONDITION Odeteriorated Doriginal site Tfeatures: EC NOT INTACT-O - Unknown EO NOT APPLICABLE-7 2 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION-28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHECLOGY - prehistoric -2 "first' D - LAW-16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS-1 -EXPLORATION -12 C LITERATURE-17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O O AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 CJ MILITARY - 18 IS ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 CO MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' O D ART-5 D EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3functions @dates of initial construction: C 1840 S arch itectural style(s): 0 master bullder: 1) Interior decorator: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE ASSOCIATION CURRENTLY: ENTERTAINMENT-26 artist: EVENTS: INSTITUTIONAL: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION COMMERCE-6 ENGINEERING-11 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Dfair historic events: SACCESS vicinity of NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ADMINISTRATOR: URBAN PLANNING-31 major alterations: county code: Cunaltered Dexcellent SAVED?YES Dexcavated Dunexposed ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 as it appears on federal register: Newton Omoved ESTATE LOCAL NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes ho WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT:house @engineer: ® landscape architect/ garden designer: @artisan: -builder/contractor: residence. BNAMES givs role & date ETHNIC GROUP reviewers initial House FEDERAL Dreconstructed WITHIN HATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? Maltered Gale midwest