Nomination for Brooks, James, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev.

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE X County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) XX Building AND/ OR HISTORIC: Brooks, James, House MAR 1 8 1975 L 113 TO THE PUBLIC EX Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments X Private Residence OWNER'S NAME: Patricial Easterling, Easterling Expressive Ohio 45402 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local Montgomery 039 NAME Dayton LOCATION ACCESSIBLE Military Site CLASSIFICATION Government Yes: DATE STATUS Structure Being Considered OWNERSHIP CODE Entertainment CATEGORY Both Agricultural Educational Park Private Scientific COMMON: Museum Public Religious Unoccupied Ohio Public Acquisition: DATA SHEET Industrial OWNER OF PROPERTY Object NAL DISTRICT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS XCommercial 41 East First Street DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: In Process STREET AND NUMBER: (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: 451 West Third Street The Old Court House DATE OF SURVEY: 1 June 1968 Other (Specify) MAY 2 9 1975 MAY Thir Photography Studio Montgomery County Historical Society CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Easterling Building Montgomery County Landmark Committee Report Montgomery County Recorder's Office RECEIVED 7.

DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved [X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

a plain stone water table, heavily molded Victorian door on has heavily molded paneling and a paneled Victorian door has above the capitals to extend the pilasters of the facade up to right. The first addition has two bays and a gable roof with CONDITION radiating stone voussoirs intersect the sub-foundation and the See continuation sheet window that lights the hall with continuous stone lintels The entire facade including the English basement is in the right has a protective wrought iron fence at the sidewalk, The James Brooks House is a Greek Revival town house additions to the rear. century by renovation of the cornice and other decorative was removed and replaced by a Victorian bracketed cornice hung sash with plain stone lintels and sills.

tion (to ground level) exposed bya stairwell with stairson (Check One) - Ruins veranda on the left (west) side walled in between the pillars English basement level of the facade. A stone panel is inserted between the sills and belt courses! Exterior blinds have been added. 'Stone belt courses separate the levels of the house. The capitals, which bear on the belt course. plain brick with 2/2 double hung 'sash windows on the right and stone sills. not symmetry. symmetrical transoms and lug silis, the central window being the cornice. The rear eaves are molded cornice, andhthe gable corbelled molding, a smaller chimney is left of the ridge said to be adapted from a type found in Thomas Clegg's native Iloor main entrance in the left bay of the three bay facade a stone lintel that has been Victorianized by rounding the toward the rear and the back part has a central chimney offset shingle.

decorative wrought iron railing. The three bays The architrave and vestibule The recessed entrance has The side walls are The fenestration is dictated by function The elevated first to create additional rooms.There are two small service Two interior edge chimneys on the west wall have Fair the left.Two fixed windows capped by flat stone arches with The left wall has a three section decorative is approached by suspended stone steps (on concrete) that have corners of the arch with fillets.

Good 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 (Number all entries) exterior chimney at the ridge and a partial shed roof on the The back addition has two bays and a low gable roof wall that has a cherry handrail, plain balusters painted white Ded molding, shelf, plainend blocks and smooth colonettes. molding, shelf, four fluted Ionic pilasters and paneled end hood molding and fluted pilasters in a rectangular nitch. The walls are trimmed with picture rails, molded baseboard and the of the additions had disclosed the first, now an apartment, kitchen or a utility area associated with Mr. Davis' brewery that stood to the rear. GPO 921-724 Montgomery COUNTY STATE DATE Ohio addition had a peculiar fireplace now partially demolished.

breast was extended into the second window which was partially bedrooms are obviously the Greek Revival ones removed from described has a light of decorative art glass superimposed in closed to form a round arched Victorian window decorated with the ceiling and above a picture rail plus sculptured plaster The interior is a mixture of Greek Revival and later (Continuation Sheet) with stepped gable. symmetrical fluted door trim with corner block and plinth, (July 1969) Easterling Building. (Brooks, James, House) left. and ornamental brackets. sculptured cartouche. Section 7. Description. Victorian Renovation with Revival dominant. Wall trim has contained what seems to have been workrooms one of which has a ceiling decoration. The large triple window previously the transoms.

The rectangular mantelpieces in the primary The chimney the parlors below when the house was Victorianized.The mantel- The gray Italian The rooms of the rear wing are secondary but marble round arched mantelpieces have paneled spandrels and delicate dogleg open string stairway supported by a paneled piece in the back bedroom is unusually plain, gray marble with The wood trim is Revival with fluted lar panels.

The mantel in the front bedroom of paneled wood with bed RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER MAR 1 8 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 Easterling Building- (Brooks, James, House) The Easterling Building, the only building with prominent Victorian, 1850) a few blocks away, makes an outstanding MAR 1 8 1975 Montgomery REGISTER DATE COUNTY STATE RECEIVED NATIONAL Ohio architecture in street front urban dwellings. (Continuation Sheet) example of the transition from Greek Revival to Victorian (Number all entries) Victorian Italianate,1857) and the Edwin Smith House MAY 8 9 1975 (July 1969) Section 8. Significance.

GP0921-724 Greek Revival facade still standing in Dayton, in conjunction with the Dr.Jefferson A.Walters House next door (High - Pre-Columbian: - 16th Century - Education - Urban Planning - Prehistoric -: Other. (Specify). - Science - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

he came to Dayton and started the Washington Foundry Street, and in 1833 he changed the Ioundry between Cooper Street and Monument Avenue, where the first ironswas meltedein in England, in 1830 Mr. Clegg made an exhibi- he made an overland trip to California, where Clegg affirms that her deceased husband, a descendant of Commerce Architecture Conservation Communications Aboriginal SIGNIFICANCE eighty-nine. Engineering Military Religion/Phi losophy Agriculture Literature itarian Clegg: Social/Human- Landscape Sculpture Detween Wyandot and Wayne streets.In 1850 Political Being familiar with the manufacture of gas many business ventures his son, Joseph Clegg, Thomas Clegg, with his four little boys, under the firm name of Thomas Clegg & Son. see continuation sheet reliable Pioneer Life in Dayton and Vicinity, says of Thomas Mr. Clegg and Mr.

McElwee established an iron The house referred to is the subject of this.nomination; on the northwest corner of Jefferson and the first freestone front building in Dayton Cotton Factory on the Cooper race just above he stayed about ten years, but returned to tion on a small scale at the old National near the east end of the Steele High School The origin of "Clegg House"as it is traditionally Invention Dayton and died here in1879 at the age of PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1832 First streets, and in 1835 erected a sawmill building. He associated with himself-in Hotel on Third Street. In 1832 he erected Iisnes that Thomas Clegg never owned or paid taxes at this Art location. His name does appear on one mortgage which unfor- James B.,John,Joseph,and AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Edgard, John F. Pioneer Life in Dayton and Vicinity, 1796- and Company, GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES FORM PREPARED BY 25 Sept. 1974 CITY OR TOWN: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa1 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 level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I Dayton 45402 Degrees ATTEST LATITUDE LONGITUDE 039 Name COUNTY CORNER CODE National STATE Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Date STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION The Old Court House Ohio: U. B. Publishing House, 1889. History of Dayton Ohio with Portraits and Biographieal Sketch- ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES MAR 1 8 1975 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended 1840. Dayton, Ohio: U. B. Publishing House, 1896. Loca Seconds Minutes 1840. Montgomery County Historical Society es of some of Its Pioneer and Prominent Citizens.

Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY NUMBER MAY 2 8 1975 (Number all entries) Easterling Building. (Brooks, James, House) a time when the land belonged to George Davis. under "T. Hawley and Company" made its first brewing in house, he represented his ward on the town council in 1842 and 1844. It is recorded that Dr. Jefferson A. Walters, physician and druggist, and his wife Lucette, Brook's daughter, were until it fell into commercial hands about twenty years ago. GP O 921-724 Montgomery Canal. COUNTY DATE ale.

STATE (Continuation Sheet) The house was sold to prominent merchant and Presbyterian Ohio Mr.Davis first appears in history as the unfortunate living in the house at the time they built their home next preacher James Brooks in 1836.Brooks had sold his plantation from Pittsburg rafted down the Ohio and up the Miami and Erie first board of health in 1833 after a serious cholera epidemic propritor of a shop which was destroyed in Daytons"first major that spread from early German immigrants arriving by the new Walters in 1869 shortly after James had succeeded his father Section 8.V Significance.

he established Dayton's first lumber yard with pine lumber FOR NPS USE ONLY (July 1969) the proprietor of Dayton, passed through the hands of Jesse Hunt who appears to have built a small house there, to near Clarksville, Tennessee, and brought his wife north to also nominated to the National Register. Dr. Walters was neveroccupied by the Cleggs and was immediately sold. in the drugstore.The house was passed down through the family The property originally granted to Daniel C.

Cooper, sheriff from 1829-1837 and Montgomery County's representative George Davis was on the board.After selling the inherited the house and turned it over to his son James Brooks to the Whig merchants subsequent secondary career in public to the state legislature in 1832.Dayton established its was captain of the first Fire Engine Company in 1827,county The tax records affirm that the house was built in 1832 during service that was at its peak when the house was built.Davis built a new brick brewery on the north half of the fire" in February i8l5.This tragedy may have been the stimulus MAR 18 1975 9 NATIONAL REGISTER Working Number3.18,75. 423 Photos 3 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Col University!

Federal Register Entry OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL KEEPER TECHNICAL Re-submit Maps Send-back HAER HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up Montgimery BRANCH CHIEF The Side photo ruzals the exteni of as extension United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. / 75001495 7-1-25 Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: The Old Court House, Dayton, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Dayton DATE 039 COUNTY Easterling Building Montgomery County Historical STATE PHOTO REFERENCE CODE RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Ohio REGISTER AND/OR HISTORIC: West side and rear from the northwest NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries- attach to or enclose with photograph) September 1974 FOR NPS USE ONLY Loren S. Gannon, Jr.

IDENTIFICATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AL SOCIETY MONTGOMERI NATIONAL CITY OR TOWN: LOCATION FICE (7/72) PRE~ Brooks, James, House, 4l East First Street PICAL SOCIETY Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Dayton Date NAME COUNTY Proje STATE PHOTO REFERENCE MON CODE ENTRY NUMBER IDENTIFICATION Ohio East side from the east across Jefferson PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: September 1974 (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER AND/OR HISTORIC: CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 4l East First Street 039 (7/72) MAR 1-8 1975 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87 6 - 167 House Montgomery County Historical COMMON: O-FICE OHO SoC Form No.

10-301a Mont gome Brooks, James, House e LOCA TION MAR 18 1975 Loren S. Gannon, Jr. DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 039 COUNTY PRESERVATION OFFICE Date CODE STATE ENTRY NUMBER Ohio NAME PHOTO CREDIT: AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO REFERENCE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: MONTOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROPERTY OF TKE NATIONAL REGISTER FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR COMMON: 41 East First Street IDENTIFICATION (7/72) Dayton Photographer- DATE OF PHOTO: September 1974 Easterling Building Facade from the south slightly west across First Street. Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. Geographic Survey MAR 1 8 1975 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1.

Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. INT: 155-72 1965 Dayton Montgomery 113 NAME 039 REQUIREMENTS COUNTY DATE CODE STATE COMMON: MAP REFERENCE 1:24,000 SOURCE: Easterling Building SCALE: PROPERTY MAP FORM ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio RECEIVED AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LOCATION (Type all entries -attach toor enclose with map) Brooks, James, House REGISTER 4l East First Street MAR 1 8 1975 DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE DAYTON NORTH, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 16 740600 4404980 MAY 2 9 1975 Brooks, James, House Miller, Dantel, House Ba)Land Rond Covered Bridge Hon. Robert Taft, Jr.

STATE Dayton 6/2/75 Mott Montgomory County Warren County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Wood County Otterbein vicinity Also Notified Date Entered Grand Rapida Greeno County Regional Director, Midwest Region State Historia Preservation Officer Axnco Pazk Mound XI Janestom vicinity Name Location The Ohio Historical Soolaty 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION O deteriorated 17) features: «X SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -2 ED NOT INTACT-O -good -unexposed Oreconstructed SO UNKNOWN -6 Ounexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access SAVED? -YES IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Xno 21 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 X POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 - RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain - LAW -16 A RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE - 23 - URBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest'C Ó AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH -27 - MILITARY- 18 * ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS - 9 X INDUSTRY-13 8 MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions B architectural style(s): Dlandseape architect/ garden designer: ( interior decorator: EVENTS : IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE ETHNIC CONDITION ASSOCIATION GROUP STATE FEDERAL INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 builder/contractor: artist: ENGINEERING-11 historic events: -29-75 reviewers initials Xexcellent PRIVATE ORGANIZATION vicinity of ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 Xoriginal site NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET master builder: major alterations: Ofair NPS REGION: Dmoved Loren -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 X COMMERCE-6 'only' D @dates of initial constructikr:/832 Sartisan: ONAME as it engineer: Xaltered ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Oruins 113