Nomination for Jackson, Andrew, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DETE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) FEB 1 3 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: Jackson, Andrew, Residence STREET AND NUMBER: 14 - John Seiberling In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments X Other (Specify) Lodge OWNER'S NAME: Akron I. O. O. F.

Temple Company LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: FEB 039 153 Akron Summit fraternal STATE Religious CLASSIFICATION LOCATION Site OWNERSHIP STATUS Agricultural NAME Government Military Museum Commercial District Ohio REGISTER Federal ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY Unoccupied Yes: Both CODE DATE Restricted Structure Transportation Entertainment Educational RECEIVED Being Considered Public Building Private Residence Private Park Industrial Scientific DATA SHEET 72 South High Street CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: COMMON: Summit County Building NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 277 East Mill Street Public Acquisition: CITY OR TOWN: Odd Fellows Temple REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC (Check One) Object ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION X] Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered * Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

of the house, but are flush with the wall to the rear of the bays. was added to the rear elevation. On the interior, the major change century taste, with the walls paneled with raised molding, a raised with paneled doors, heavily molded casings and wide baseboards, is intact. The floors have been covered with vinyl tile, and modern have been made. provide a parking lot.

FEB3 CONDITION Excellent Ruins REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED Fair 1918,major alterations were made.A rectangular porch with square drop moldings marks each of the three facade divisions.On the side elevations the windows also have moldings on the front half On the first floor the original mid-nineteenth century woodwork, park.Thus the structure is an important environmental amenity and hanging light fixtures installed.The original parlor mantelpiece was brick piers was placed across the facade.A smaller enclosed porch This was a very large brick mansion in the Second Empire The usual utilitarian additions for plumbing, electricity and heating perpendicular and two diagonal streets, and faces a small triangular was the creation of a large meeting hall by removing bedroom and hallway partitions.It occupies the entire width of the second floor, gonal bay on each side elevation.

A pair of windows with heavy replaced with a brick fireplace of the same period as the porches. After the acquisition of the mansion by the fraternal order in The building stands on a corner at the intersection of two platform around the circumference of the room, a coved ceiling This makes an impressive space ina rather sombre early twentieth cornice, and heavy dark furnishings reflecting the 'Mission" style. under eminent domain by the Board of Education and demolition to (Check One) focal point on its site.At present it is threatened with acquisition - Moved style. It is exactly symmetrical in form, a large rectangular block Over each projecting bay there is a hipped roof. The steep mansard roof rests on a densely bracketed cornice. broken only bya slightly projecting center facade bay and a poly

Statement of significance

John R. Buchtel, the founder of Buchtel College which was the fore- Jackson was then associated with John H. Hower, the industrial- sash, doors, blinds, etc. At the turn of the century the house was owned by John T. Railroad and of the Akron Division of the B. & O. It was acquired Bachtel, Clerk of Common Pleas Court and I. O.O.F. Grand Master of Ohio, and James Corey, Chairman of the Republican Party of Conservation Commerce Communications Military Architecture Engineering Landscape Religion/Phi losophy Aboriginal Industry Education Agriculture Music Art Literature Invention Sculpture tracts in Michigan.His partner William Buchtel was the brother of Social/Human- constitutes an important environmental asset to its location. runner of the University of Akron.Buchtel remained with Jackson among the most important citizens of industrial Akron.

This handsome example of a Second Empire house converted Johnson, general superintendant of the Cleveland Terminal and Valley the most important city officials and experts in all professions in Political later became an important banker.Jackson probably built this house Summit County.The membership of the Odd Fellows has included Andrew Jackson was one of the founders of Jackson, Buchtel occupying it in 19i9. Among the original incorporators were A.C. itarian to a fraternal lodge hall was originally built as a mid-nineteenth a few years before the earliest available record of his living at from Johnson by the Akron I.O.O.F.Organized in 1845,the Akron the life of Akron.The building still serves a large number of lodge had built its own temple on Main Street in 1892.They sold listed in the National Register of Historic Places. By 1879 Jackson this address (1870).

Other (Specify) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) only until 1871, when he organized his own lumber company, and also became a contractor and builder in addition to dealing in lumber, century merchant's residence by a man whose associates were 1918 fraternal organizations as a meeting place, and as a structure ist who built the great Fir Hill Second Empire mansion which is and Company in 1865,a lumber firm which developed large logging that building and purchased the Jackson-Johnson house in 19l8, LATITUDE AND LONGIT-IDE COORDINA TES DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY:

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

FORM PREPARED BY 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Title l * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 Seconds 4547560 LATITUDE LONGITUDE DATE Degrees COUNTY Name Cleveland ORGANIZATION Minutes Ohio National STATE CORNER CODE ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 10825 East Boulevard FEB3 Akron City Directories, 1870-1899. As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- Karl H. Grismer, Akron and Summit County (Akron, n.d.), 656.

Less than one October 1974 evaluated according to the citeria and procedures set STREET AND NUMBER: level of significance of this nomination is: National Register. Scott Dix Kenfield, Akron and Summit County, Ohio (Chicago, 1928), in the National Register and certify that it has been CITY OR TOWN: NAME AND TITLE: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIESOVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES GEOGRAPHICAL DATA OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 1975 Local Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Keeper of The National Register ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF - Federal Register Entry TECHNICAL OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps CONTROL HAER Re-submit Send-back Photos HISTORIAN Review Summit National Register Write-up 25.75 INT:21 Ohia United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 State 4-1-15 211 ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE Summit Co, Ohio NPS Number Title: NPS Number NPS Number Title: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. North and west elevations, looking southeast. 039 153 Akron Summit DATE COUNTY Ohio STATE COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE CODE October 1974 Lewis Henderson PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: Odd Fellows Temple (7/72) 277 East Mill Street IDENTIFICATION (Type all entties-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY LOCA TION FEB 197 Title: Loc. NPS Number Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER NAME LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

039 153 Akron 1975 Summit Ohio IDENTIFICATION COUNTY DATE STATE NATIONAL CODE PHOTO REFERENCE COMMON: October 1974 Lewis Henderson RECEIVED Second floor lodge hall, looking toward front of house. (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Odd Fellows Temple NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 277 East Mill Street AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (7/72) FEB 1 3 NEGATIVE FILED AT: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 87 6 - 1 67 Residence Lewis Henderson, Akron, Ohio FEB3 REGISTER NPS Number Title: Loc. ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE Form No. 10-301 Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY FEB 1 STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G.S. Akron West Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

039 153 Akron 1967 Summit NAME COUNTY DATE STATE FEB3 Ohio REQUIREMENTS REGISTER CODE MAP REFERENCE COMMON: 1:24,000 1975 RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER SCALE: LOCATION NATIONAL PROPERTY MAP FORM SOURCE: Odd Fellows Temple NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CITY OR TOWN: 277 E. Mill Street Residence AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE AKRON WEST, OHIO 41° 04' 491 RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY January 17, 1975 18th G C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C., 20240 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Odd Fellows Temple, 277 East Mill Street, Akron, Ohio is at Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director enclosure RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER Transmitted herewith is one emergency National Register nomination.

Historic Preservation Office National Park Service Acting State Historic Preservation Officer National Register of Historic Places The nomination has been approved by the Ohio Historic Site present threatened with acquisition under eminent domain by the Board of Education and demolition to provide a parking lot. Department of the Interior our intent to register. Preservation Advisory Board and the owners have been informed of FEB3 1975 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Sincerely, the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus,ohio 432ll/telephone (614) 466-4663 FEB 1 3 1975 (odd Fellows Temple) Mr. Charles C.

Pratt Location Name STATE Acting Director Date Entered Akron ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Regional Director, Midwest Region Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Summit County Columbus, Ohio 43211 The Ohio Historical Society Jackson, Andrew,Reeldence Odd Fellows Temple STATE 277 E. Mill St.

)SOURCE of NOMINATION ) CONDITION Dexcellent Omoved - Unknown -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE-7 -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1| - LITERATURE -17 C SCIENCE- 23 - URBAN PLANMING-31 J AGRICULTURE- - CONSERVATION - 8 - MILITARY - 18 D OTHER (SPECIFY) ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14] - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 2 ) functions major alterations : ( architectural style(s): Comaster builder: Dlandscape architect / garden designer: a interior decorator: @artisan: @builder/contractor: EVENTS : Wo date.

|IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE 153 2-13-75 ETHNIC Midwest Summit Akron ASSOCIATION GROUP PERSONAL: artist: Bgood CURRENTLY: ARCHITECTURE HEALTH-27 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ADMINISTRATOR: SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of NOT INTACT-O county code: Dunexposed IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yes Qoriginal site date of entry: Ofair GNPS REGION: KNo Access Oruins Eri'c Joha nneseh OWNER - deteriorat AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE 'only' D club building -ENGINE - NAMES Jackson, Andrew, CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 ENGINEERING-11 INSTITUTIONAL: FEDERAL ENTERTAINMENT-26 HER NAMES dates of initial construction: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-3 Dunaltered Dfeatures: Caltered YES.NAME SAVED? OYES less thonl