Nomination for Casement House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JUL 3 0 1975 NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: J. William Stanton (Check One) X Building - Structure In Process - Preservation work - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: SIDCO, Robert C.

Sidley, Trustee LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: 47 North Park Place TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: JUL 1 7 1974 085 039 LOCATION Religious STATE OWNERSHIP Site ACCESSIBLE Painesville Government CLASSIFICATION Entertainment CATEGORY DATE REGISTER Commercial Both STATUS County NATIONAL Yes: Unoccupied CODE Casement House Agricultural Restricted Museum Educational Lake Being Considered Park Public Transportation Ohio Private DATA SHEET COMMON: Private Residence Scientific Jennings Place Industrial Public Acquisition: Lake County Courthouse NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 436 Casement Avenue STREET AND NUMBER: Object REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC Military DATE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: District ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION X Excellent ] Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The soffit has closely-spaced modillions interspersed with stone and brick courses, reflecting the stone quoins at the building's pavilion with hipped roof and denticular cornice like the porch. fireplace, was located to the left of the hallway and the old library in organic patterns such as fruit and flowers, and wall and ceiling paintings, some naturalistic and some geometric to give the illusion of depth, abound. The dining room, kitchen and pantries were at the end JUL 1 7 1974 CONDITION Interior: Exterior: REGISTER NATIONAL Fair ular.A decorative cast iron balustrade runs along the perimeter of bond with a stone foundation and stone quoins at the building's corners.

Built 1870-1873,this High Victorian Italianate house is brick in running There is a central round-arched window extending up into the with a pedimented entrance in the center runs the width of the front of south facade) and segmental-arched with plain stone hoodmolds The building is basically rectangular in plan but it has projecting bays cornice and flanked by two pairs of rectangular windows on each side on the south, east and west sides.It is two stories in height with a On the first floor is a central hallway with a walnut staircase leading topped by decorative grillwork is located in the center of the building's of the hallway.Originally the second floor had a large central hallway, have been modified for use as office space. (Check One) Good the porch. rooms: a parlor, bedroom and bath.

Another parlor, with a large marble five bedrooms, two baths and servants' quarters which were connected to the kitchen below. A stairway lead to the cupola. All of the rooms round-arched with decorative stone hoodmolds on the front of the building Moved Original Site RECEIVED bracketed pediment which rises above the roofline.A one story porch Supporting columns on the porch consist of alternating On the east side of the building is a single-story square the building.S

Statement of significance

7th regiment, O.V.I., during the Civil War, was involved in the chased in 1840 from Colonel Lemuel Storres, an officer of the sixteen, he became apprenticed to the renowned architect and builder, to Cleveland in 1833 to supervise Goldsmith's work in that city, set of Heard and Porter designed St. Paul's Church, the Second Presbyterian Church and the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, as well as the Porter was later dissolved and Heard took in Walter Blythe, who had JUL 1 7 1974 Conservation Commerce Architecture Communications losophy REGISTER Aboriginal Military NATIONAL Engineering Landscape Religion/Phi Music Science Agriculture itarian The Casement House is the most pretentious Italianate villa in Lake Connecticut Land Company. northeastern Ohio in the nineteenth century.

Political Social/Human- Invention Literature Sculpture The architectural firm of Heard and Blythe was responsible for the and the first railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific in Puerto Prehistoric to Painesville from New York when he was young.At the age of up his own carpentry shop and by the 1840's was handling his own in 1876. He was the most well-known designer of public buildings in Education Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) (Check One or More as Appropriate) and her husband, John Stephen Casement. Casement, a major in the Laying of tracks for the Lake Shore Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, Jonathan Goldsmith, whose daughter he later married. Heard moved another influential architect of the area, Simeon Porter. The firm County.

Art Industry RECEIVED Heard died The partnership with It was built by Charles Jennings for his daughter Frances Administration Building at Lake Erie College. architectural commissions.He formed a partnership in 1849 with married Heard's daughter in 1857,as his new partner. design of the house.Heard and Blythe were very well-known in the northeastern Ohio area.Charles Wallace Heard and his parents moved 10.

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 3 acres JUL. 1 7 1974 FORM PREPARED BY Fazio, Michael W., Landmark Survey Coordinator Post Office Box 464 CITY OR TOWN: 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-| 039 DATE Local Degrees Name ORGANIZATION Seconds COUNTY CORNER LONGITUDE LATITUDE REGISTER NATIONAL STATE 9/27/72 ATTEST: CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds Minutes Ohio LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION National Register. Old Mentor Foundation NAME AND TITLE: Cleveland:The Press of Case Western Reserve University,197l. "The Casement House'(A pamphlet available on the premises.) STREET AND NUMBER: Campen, Richard. The Architecture of the Western Reserve, 1800-1900. APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION JUL 30 Title MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Form No.

10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVEDJUN 2 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED JUL 3 0 1975 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7,8,89 PAGE addition, there is a series of wooden ducts in the walls which could circulate some modern lighting have been installed, but all original walls, woodwork and (Date: 1869-1872) Autumn, 1968, 130-142. fixtures are intact. buildings in existence. described, indicate that the Casement House is one of the most significant Heard 7.The masonry partition walls throughout the house continue up through all of the facade. These are among the best documentary evidence connected with The original plans by Heard and Blythe were discovered in the house.

also two signed elevations in color which were evidently preliminary versions of the architectural integrity of the house.A few temporary partitions and to match the Victorian Renaissance Revival furniture.The bathrooms were fur- The adaptation for office space has been done without any serious alteration heated by a central furnace fired by natural gas found on the property.In *or you can say the most important designer of public buildings in Cleveland any building by Heard, and together with the construction and design details in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. (Rev. 10-74) They show each floor, the heating ducts and even the sewer layout. There are Casement House (Jennings Place) Lake County, Ohio 8. Delete: "most well-known designer...etc." That's a little extravagant.* 9. Eric Johannesen, "Charles W.

Heard: Victorian Architect," Ohio History, cool air drawn from underneath the porches. nished with marble lavatories, some with two basins, and the house was steam- STATE ( 7. 17. 74.1169 CONTROL REVIEW JUL 3 0 INT: 1538-73 PROPERTY Entered PHOTOS ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Send-back MAPS Federal Register entry WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 75001454 KEEPER , 1. Name. _ 2. Location. 4. Owner of Property. 5.. Location of Legal Description. ts be off by about Please check. b. Acreage. - 12. Certification. criteria in full. Other. Bibliography Classification. SIGNED: Geographical Data. DATE: Photographic Coverage. NAME OF PROPERTY necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register Form Prepared By. Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. office for clarification of the information indicated below.

The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your Map Coverage. Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. of our professional review. Correction of these technical errors does not PLEASE RETURN THIS FQRM WHEN THE PROPERTY IS RESUBMITTED. CASEMENT HOUSE (TENNINGS PLACE) MAIN (SOUTH) FACADE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 3 0 1975 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

JUL 1 7 1974 GPO 932-009 1974 TOWN NATIONA Painesville DATE COMMON COUNTY Casement House Eric Johannesen REGIST Jennings Place Western Reserve Lake PHOTO CREDIT Historical Society, 10825 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 436 Casement Avenue (6/72) STATE RECEIVED Ohio LASEMENT HOUSE (TENNINGS PLACE) EAST FACADE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION JUL 3 0 1975 STREET AND NUMBER 436 Casement Avenue 3. PHOTO REFERENCE JUL 1 7 1974 Historical Society, 10825 East 4. IDENTIFICATION Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

GPO 932-009 1974 TOWN COMMON DATE Ohio Jennings Place Painesville Lake Casement House STATE COUNTY REGISTER NATIONAL Eric Johannesen PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) (6/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PROPERTY OF THE MATIONAL REGISTER RECEIVED NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: U.S. Geological Survey Painesville, Ohio Quadrangle JUL 1 Z 1974 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. S. Latitude and longitude reference.

085 039 NAME COUNTY DATE Painesville Casement House STATE CODE REGISTER 1:24000 Lake COMMON: NATIONAL Ohio PROPERTY MAP FORM SOURCE: 436 Casement Avenue SCALE: MAP REFERENCE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REQUIREMENTS 1960 Revised 1970 CITY OR TOWN: LOCATION 2 o 1975. PAINESVILLE QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC)2 JUL 1 7 1974 UNITED STATES PAINESVILLE, OHIO June 18, 1975 Mr. William Murtagh, Keeper JUN 2 O 1975 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Clark, Jared, House, Cuyahoga Co. St. Mary's Catholic Church, Erie Co. The Royalton House, Fairfield Co. Reber, Valentine, House (Smith, Robinson, Reber House), Fairtield Co. The Corinthian Capital, Franklin Co. Goodwin, Dr. Erastus, House, Geauga Co. The United Methodist Church, Hamilton Co. The Washington Heights School, Hamilton Co. Christ Church at the Quarry, -Knox Co.

Mason, James, House, Lake Co. The Old School Privy, Ottawa Co. Franklin Township Hall, Portage Co. Geeting Covered Bridge, Preble Co. Gustavus Center Historic District, Trumbull Co. NATIONAL Ruggles, Charles, House, Mahoning Co. REGISTER Freedom Congregational Church, Portage Co. Dhio Historic Preservation Office NEW SUBMISSIONS: Board and owners of subject properties have been informed of our intent to The Elliott House (Ohio Education Center), Hamilton Co. Beni Israel Temple (Allen Temple), Hamilton Co. Transmitted herewith are twenty-five (25) completed National Register forms. All have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Shuey's Mill, Montgomery Co. Morris Farm, Greene Co. National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th and C Streets, N.W. Gates, Holsey - Handyside, Edna Gates, House, Cuyahoga Co.

Rossville Historic District, Butler Co. Stonehurst (The Martin Farm), Brown Co. Martin, Henry, Farm, Brown Co. RECEIVED Sells, Benjamin, House, Franklin Co. +Mr: William Murtagh page two June 18, 1975 Casement House, Lake Co. St. James Episcopal Church, Lake Co. NAME CHANGE FOR NOMINATION SUBMITTED JUNE 9, 1975 Thomas H. Smith, Director Sincerely, Ohio Historical Society Additional materials transmitted herewith include: Exchange Hotel (submitted as Wayne Hotel [Porterhouse Hotel]),Erie Co. CONTINUATION SHEETS FOR FORMS PENDING IN WASHINGTON: Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Willis D. Gradison, Jr. Hon. Ronald M.

Motel Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location STATE Bedford Also Notified Name Date Entered 8/4/75 Cuyahoga County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Painesville Lake County The Washington Heights School Lancaster vicinity The Ohio Historical Society Hamilton County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Gates, Holsey, House Reber, Valentine, House Casement House Indian Hil1 BUL 3 0 1975 Fairfield County Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. MMott State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. Clarence E. Miller Dr.Thomas H. Smith September 8, 1978 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper SEP 19 1978 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20240 already listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination is the Cincinnati Street Gas Lamps, Hamilton County. It has been We recently learned that the address of the Zimri Cook House, Medina County, listed owners are Mr. & Mrs.

David Fawcett, 6999 Spieth Road, Medina,Ohio 44256. The part of Lot 15, Tract 4, York Township. Street, Worthington, Ohio. The number of the house was also recently changed to 475 Amanda-Northern Road., S.W., Amanda, Ohio 43102. The Lot Hathaway House, Geauga County, is owned by R. & G. Blossom, 12236 Old State Route Road, Chardon, Ohio 44024. The owner of the Hoyt Block, Cuyahoga County, is the National Land Title Insurance 144 N. River Road, Waterville. 113, P. O. Box 18, Birmingham, Ohio 44816. Enclosed is also an addendum with new information for the Casement House, Lake County. Thomas H. Smith Director, Ohio Historical Society THS: cw 5751. Sincerely, NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer RECEIVED Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places the owners informed.

nio Historic Preservation Office Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service The Royalton House, Fairfield County, is now owned by Mr.& Mrs.Joseph Veffer, Dear Dr. Murtagh: reviewed and approvedby the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board and property is a 2oo foot square with the UTM reference as the center point.It is The owner of the Mark Russell House, Franklin County, is Doug White, 5751 N. High 9.19. on the National Register on June 22, 1976, is 6999 Spieth Road, Lester. The current Company, 623 St. Clair, N.W., Cleveland, Ohio 44113. The new owners of the Pray-Starkweather House, Lucas County,are Mr. & Mrs.

Dale Meyer, Enclosed is one regular nomination form and several address changes for properties Form No: 10-308a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8-9 PAGE 8. Drawings of the veranda of the Casement house, with its square Sailors Monument (1894) in Cleveland, the State Asylum (1869) in Columbus, the Ohio Reformatory (1884) in Mansfield, and the Ohio DATE ENTERED in the Levi T.Scofield collection at the Western Reserve Hist- rusticated brick and stone piers, have been recently discovered (l978) (1842-19i7) was the architect of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Monument at the World's Columbian Exposition (l893). 9.Levi T. Scofield, architectural drawings Acc.#235). ing to the owner, the veranda was added in 1902.Levi T.

Scofield Jennings Place (Casement House), Painesville,_Lake County,Ohio RECEIVED SEP 19 1978 orical Society. They are signed by Scofield but not dated. Accord- 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 6LOCATION street & number 1436 Casement Ave. Midwest 12SOURCE of NOMINATION 12) WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANOMARK? 1 CONDITION 17features: Omoved - Unknown ZD NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access SAVED?

-YES §AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY -prehistoric -2 C LAW-16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 LARCHEOLOGY -historic -1 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANWING -31 'oldest' D - ACRICULTURE -3 -O CONSERVATION - 8 C MILITARY - 18 CE ARCHITECTURE-4 DO ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY - 13 C MUSIC- 19 CJ SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 'only' D D ART-5 C EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 D PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions @cates of initial construction 187041873 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: house *landscape architect / garden designer: @artist: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE county ASSOCIATION FEDERAL ENTERTAINMENT-26 historic events: INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: major alterations: COMMERCE-6 artisan: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION EVENTS: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP 7-30-75 ENGINEERING-11 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Ddeteriorated ADMINISTRATOR: LOCAL Daltered Oexcavated Coriginal site GNPS REGION: Cunexposed Dexcellent Oruins YES.NAME Paines ville "first'O NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 4 county code: Oreconstrueted IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes @no - COMMUNICATIONS -1 - EXPLORATION -12 C HEALTH-27 Sarchitectural style(s): @engineer: ) interior decorator: NAMES give role & date Place ETHNIC stato ACREAGE builder/contractor: GROUP vicinity/of master builder: if state who prepared form? NAME as it gppears on federal register: UNKNOWN-6 Ofair Lake 085 Walter Blthe