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

Nomination for Ruggles, Charles, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,338 words across 12 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 75001480, 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 INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE AND/ OR HISTORIC: 19 - Charles J.
Carney (Check One) In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments X Private Residence 3 Other (Specify) - Religious - Scientific OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: JUN 2 O 1975 099 Youngstown 039 County LOCATION Mahoning Both STATE CLASSIFICATION Commercial Government ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Entertainment NAME Unoccupied CATEGORY Site REGISTER Military Canfield STATUS Ohio District Structure Yes: Restricted Agricultural CODE Museum Industrial Private COMMON: Building Being Considered Fred Coopes DATA SHEET Public CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public Acquisition: 120 Market Street Park Object Educational.
17 Court Street NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES TO THE PUBLIC OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Local (Type all entries complete applicable sections) AUG 1 1975 ENTRY NUMBER House AUG DATE NATIONAL DESCRIPTION (Check One) - Deteriorated - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site many call a typical "Western Reserve" house, i. e., a simple tions are clapboarded. of the octagonal shafts rather than a standard Greek order.
Also, The east elevation has four windows, with another door at twentieth century.They are harmonizing in character and do not The two-story four column free-standing portico is the most drical or square.Their capitals are concave flaring continuations construction in the Greek Revival style.In basic form it is what maintained by the present owners.The house stands next door the soffits of both the horizontal and raking cornices are coved and the facade wall consists of flush siding while the other eleva- rectangular box with the narrow end facing the street and the door is a modern addition to provide attic ventilation. to the old first Mahoning County Courthouse (National Register).
important feature, as the columns are octagonal rather than cylin- detract from the integrity of the house, which has been well the south end of the east side.A one-story wing and enclosed porch were added to the southwest corner of the house in the - Unexposed CONDITION Ruins rather than flat.The semi-circular fanlight in the main pediment This is a medium-sized two-story house of wooden frame SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: - 20th Century - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) * Architecture - Literature - Communications - Conservation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

This house has a dual significance as the home of a moved to Youngstown. With the creation of the county, as .this house in 1847. The house has increased significance in occurs in the Sturgis house in Norwalk, Ohio, but the capitals JUN 2 o 1975 1846-1847 Commerce Engineering Aboriginal losophy NATIONAL REGISTER Transportation Science Military Theater Music itarian Prehistoric Social/Human- Agriculture Revival courthouse. flourish at Canfield and Youngstown, more especially at the Industry Invention Sculpture Landscape Ruggles house is an unusual and distinctive variation on the practicing lawyer in an early county seat and as an unusual Among the practicing lawyers.was Charles Ruggles, who built Education for its architecture. Another example of the octagonal column variant of the Greek Revival idiom.
But the Ruggles house is perhaps even more important Canfield from 1846 to 1876,when after bitter resistance it was conveying the early history of Canfield because of the decline Greek Revival style. Religion/Phi- of the village since the removal of the county seat, and also because it is immediately adjacent to the excellent Greek former town of course, since it was made the county seat. Political SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Joseph G. Butler observed, "the legal profession began to Art The county seat of the newly created Mahoning County was are different, and the coved cornices are very rare.Thus the Ohio (Chicago, 1921), 191, 208-209, 341. Richard Campen, Architecture of the Western Reserve (Cleveland, 1971)

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE GOORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES FORM PREPARED BY 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 Nationa 1 Register 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 8-1- 75 June 13, 1975 * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-i 039 DATE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees ORGANIZATION National COUNTY STATE CORNER ATTEST: Ohio Cleveland CODE 112.
Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Degrees Minutes Seconds The Western Reserve Historical Society December 1974 NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES level of significance of this nomination is: T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION CITY OR TOWN: NAME AND TITLE: UTM 17 520 040 4540 980 Am oK Less than one Seconds Name Keeper Minutes Title State Historic Preservation Officer STREET AND NUMBER: 10825 East Boulevard Local Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF, AUG 1 Federal Register Entry 1975 OTHER KEEPER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered CONTROL Maps Send-back TECHNICAL Re-submit HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up Mahoring United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 7-1-75 Accept BRANCH CHIEF 10-7-75 7/16/75 6.23.75 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev.
7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY AUG 1 1975 STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G. S. Canfield Quadrangle 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 3-1 099 1970 039 Mahoning NAME Ohio REQUIREMENTS COUNTY REGISTER DATE STATE COMMON: CODE SCALE: SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1:24,000 ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM MAP REFERENCE AND/OR HISTORIC: 17 Court Street Canfield (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: Coopes, Fred, House LOCATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Geauga County Clark, Jared, House State Historic Preservation Officer DI. Thomas H. Swith Hon. Charles J. Carney Fon. Ronald M.
Mott1 INT: 2950-75 Location 8/5/75 STATE Name Mahoning County Also Notified MMott/row Cuyahoga County Burton ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Regional Director, Midwest Region Canfield Ruggles, Charles, House Date Entered Hon.J.william Stanton Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Broadview Feights The Ohio Historical Society JIG 1 1975 Director 4 county code: ISTATE 12)SOURCE Of. NOMINATION Xless than 1 (B CONDITION - deteriorated XO SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 Omoved EO NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown -UNKNOWN-5 -unexcavated EO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 @OCLAIMS: explain -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 'first' O COMMERCE -6 C ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE - 23 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2 functions ) architectural style(s): ©landscape arohiteet / garden designer: * interior decorator: 1 artist: EVENTS : -- county seat, / 846-/87 _date.
IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 099 ASSOCIATION 4/11/78 INSTITUTIONAL: Xaltered reviewers initials XXexcellent FEDERAL ENGINEERING-11 Xoriginal site House WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: XXARCHITECTURE-4 historic events: ART-5 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 master builder: URBAN PLANNING-31 NPS REGION Dfeatures: PERSONAl:Charles Ruggles, orig.owner, local lawyer No Access SAVED? YES Oruins Midwest 2 OTHER NAMES: Dexcayated C SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) 'only' D @architect: FRONT ENTRANCE, TEMPLEFORM TETRASTYLE ENTRANCE PORTICO WITH PEDIMENT LUNFTTE, SIMPLE WINDOW AND DOOR AR- 17 Court ETHNIC builder/contractor: artisan: GROUP LOCAL Dfair appears on federal register: NAMES give role & date ADMINISTRATOR: vicihity of Dreconstructed unknown NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Dgood