Nomination for Brown, Charles, Gothic Cottage

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

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 2 8 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: TO THE PUBLIC X Building - Structure In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments Commercial : - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: Lan ders LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS DATE OF SURVEY: - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: FEB28 1975 NATIONAL 155 039 Trumbull LOCATION Warren Religious ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP CATEGORY NAME Site Military Government STATUS CODE CLASSIFICATION Agricultural Both Restricted Being Considered Private Unoccupied District Educational Museum Transportation Entertainment Robert Ohio COUNTY: Yes: REGISTER Industrial Federal Public Private Residence Park Scientific COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Trumbull County Courthouse North Bloomfield Public Acquisition: DATA SHEET STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER OF PROPERTY TITLE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: (Check One) Object State Route 45 South DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered A.

J. Downing design, complete with a small stoop and traceried balcony, a central gable with prominent bargeboard ornament, a tion feature is the solid walls, made of stacked layered planks. is a central hall, but the hall staircase rises from the back rather CONDITION FEB281975 Moved REGISTER RECEIVED NATIONAL Ruins The exterior surfaces are vertical tongue-and-groove siding. Original Site original finish of artificial graining has recently been removed. form, with a shallow Gothic arch recessed in the architrave.The to convey the appropriate feeling and associations of the period. by sliding doors.The partition has been removed making one long room.Ceilings are high.The interior woodwork is all of a pattern transitional between the Greek Revival and the Early Gothic Revival.

The interior has a typical mid-century classical plan.There Fair This is a wooden construction residence in the Early Gothic Basically the door and window frames are a simple rectangular (Check One) Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

picturesque outline to.the various elevations. An unusual construc- than the front of the house.The south side had two parlors divided ornament of the bays and dormers is emphatic. The roof is high Nevertheless, enough of the original interior material is intact and steep, almost a mansard.The dormers give an unusually Revival style.The facade has the symmetrical disposition of an The floors have been sanded and finished with a high-gloss varnish. is on the short end of a long rectangle.The crenellated and turreted PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Invention Landscape - - Literature - Military STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Brown, builder of "Brownwood" directly across the road (National notes that "its suggestion of inner recesses and angles, raised the John S. McAdoo purchased the tract of land known as the "Lester Peace and a farmer, and had served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.

FREIB2 8 1975 Commerce Conservation Communications Transportation Science losophy Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Religion/Phi Education Architecture Aboriginal Theater REGISTER NATIONAL itarian Music Agriculture Sculpture Charles Brown was also the son-in-law of Leicester King, Social/Human- Industry iments of both Ephraim Brown and Leicester King.George Clary therein, where runaway slaves might be stowed and harbored on Register).It is a notable and well preserved example of the Early Political their journey north." This house was built by Charles Brown, the son of Ephraim station, no doubt partly because of the known anti-slavery sent- The house, which Campen suggests may have been built in 1846,is reputed to have been used as an underground railroad Gothic Revival, with an unusual solid plank wall construction.

a granddaughter of Ephraim Brown.McAdoo was a justice of the Other(Specify) on whose property the house was built.King was a promoter and Wing, who refers to the house as Charles Brown's Gothic Cottage, ardent Abolitionist who worked for the repeal of the"Black Laws. King died in the North Bloomfield home of his son-in-law in 1856. 1846(?) president of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, a State Senator and legend of a specially constructed, secret vault or compartment Charles Brown was born in 1814 and died in 1880. In 1882 Art RECEIVED (sic) King and Brown farms." McAdoo had married Mary H. Wing,

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1916), 18, 27, 30. County, Ohio (Chicago, 1909), 411-412. Trumbull County Atlases, 1874 and 1899. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY FORM PREPARED BY 0 39 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 level of significance of this nomination is: MAY 1 4 1975 * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l Seconds Degrees LONGITUDE LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Local DATE COUNTY CORNER STATE Name Cleveland Minutes NATIONAL RECEIVED Ohio CODE ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds REGISTER One acre 172. Western Reserve Historical Society September 1974 NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR/COUNTY BOUNDARIES forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties (Cleveland, 1882), 309-310.

Harriet Taylor Upton, A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 10825 FEB281975 East Boulevard Richard Campen, Architecture of the Western Reserve(Cleveland,197l) 3 4 75 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - MAY 1 4 1975 ARCHEOLOGIST HAER CONTROL Maps Send-back Re-submit KEEPER Photos Review HISTORIAN TECHNICAL National Register Write-up ACCEPT Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF LEBOVICH Working Number 2.1. 25. 30 3-6-75- INT :2106 - 74 Entered REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Trumbull Col Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CODE COUNTY: (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: State Route 45 South DATE OF PHOTO: 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

1975 039 155 DATE RECEIVED STATE Western Reserve Historical Society North Bloomfield PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CODE COMMON: FEB281975 Eric Johannesen Ohio South elevation and east facade, looking northwest. PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO CREDIT: NEGATIVE FILED AT: Trumbull NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) CITY OR TOWN: September 197l MAY U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 876 -167 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: FEB28 1975 September 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87 6 - 1 67 COUNTY NATIONAL DATE NAME RECEIVED STATE Eric Johannesen COMMON: IDENTIFICATION Western Reserve Historical Society CODE PHOTO REFERENCE North and west elevations, looking southeast.

North Bloomfield PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUMBER: State Route 45 South (7/72) AND/OR HISTORIC: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DATE OF PHOTO: 039 Trumbull Brown, MAY 281979 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. East facade and north elevation, looking southwest. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87 6 - 1 67 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 NAME DATE COUNTY PHOTO REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION STATE REGISTER September North Bloomfield Western Reserve Historical Society COMMON: RECEIVED PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Eric Johannesen NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Form No.

10-301a PHOTO CREDIT: STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) Ohio State Route 45 South FOR NPS USE ONLY CODE MAY281975 Brown, Trumbull (7/72) ENTRY NUMBER FEB281975D BRISTOLVILLE QUADRANGLE BRISTOLVILLE, OHIO UNITED STATES Brown, Charles, Gothic Cottage GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL 41° 27' 35" 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) RECEIVED Bioon Center vicinity D.B. Rose Mound Marshallville vicinity Wayne County Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mott/row Location 5/28/75 STATE Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Date Entered Huron County North Bloonfield Cleveland Cayahoga County Logan County Butler County The Ohio Hlstorical Society CLark County Bohomlan National Hall Interstate 7l at 17th Avenuo Hon.John H.Glenn.Jz. Phoenix Mille Hon, Zennyson Guyer Eon, John K. Ashbrook Lon- James V.

Stanton Baltimore vieinity Pair2leld Couty . Lagonda Club Building OHTO Springfield Hon. Clarence E.Hiller NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 3) date of entry: (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL 5 ACREAGE OO YES. NAME - deteriorated 17 Leatures: Omoved Dunexposed - Unknown Oumexcavated -- NOT APPLICABLE -7 SAVED?

-YES QAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain DARCHEOLOGY-prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION-22 D ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O D AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION -8 -O MILITARY - 18 M ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY- 13 C MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 83 functions 2dates of initial construction: major alterations : 5 architectural style(s): @engineer: ©landscape architect / garden designer: 3) interior decorator: @artist: NAMES give role & date county ASSOCIATION ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 SETTLEMENT-29 GROUP STATE ENTERTAINMENT-26 historic events: EVENTS: INSTITUTIONAL: HEALTH-27 COMMERCE-6 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATOR: first' URBAN PLANNING-31 LOCAL SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 as it appearson federal register: Qoriginal site vieinity of Qexcellent if state who prepared form?

EXPLORATION-12 GNPS REGION: NAMES: CURRENTLY:M ©NOT INTACT - O city / town G CONDITION Dreconstruoted IS ACCESS - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 @master builder: g builder /eontractor: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT - No Access WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: 3artisan: WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno EOUNKNOWN-5