Nomination for Brown-Wing House

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

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE County g NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES - Trumbull INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY JUN 2 0 1975 (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: Brown - Wing Wing, Mary Brown, House - Unoccupied 7 In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 155 Warren CLASSIFICATION MAY CATEGORY REGISTER Religious STATE Commercial DATE NAME OWNERSHIP Agricultural Government CODE Private Restricted Ohio ACCESSIBLE Site STATUS Entertainment Educational Building LOCATION Museum Being Considered Yes: NATIONAL Structure Public Park District COMMON: Public Acquisition: Trumbull County Courthouse Private Residence Robert Sherman Object North Bloomfield Industrial CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Park West Road ENTRY DATE REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DATA SHEET OWNER OF PROPERTY Scientific TO THE PUBLIC Both (Check One) Military CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: 11 - J.

William Stanton * Federal New House; DESCRIPTION * Excellent - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved * Original Site. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The main block measures 34 feet by 44 feet and a north wing is. 30 hall running the width of the house, approximately10 feet by 32 feet. sliding doors, but the partition has been removed and the area thrown entrance was originally closed, with a plastered wall on the interior by the present owner. kitchen and a small kitchen, both with large hearth fireplaces, back- and part of it has been adapted as a garage. CONDITION Fair the main house. The windows have their original louvered shutters. porch on the east side adjacent to the main house.

cupboards and a sink.The northernmost wing is unfinished inside, into one long room.All four areas have fireplaces which project into The second floor has essentially the same arrangement of four cham- The interior architectural trim is all from the same or related a Greek Revival entablature which forms a pediment at each end.The The most striking feature of the interior plan is a great central the room.In the southeast bed chamber the window next to the of architectural merit are the mantelpieces, also Benjaminesque." Benjamin patterns as the exterior doorway.The other chief details and false closed shutters on the exterior.The window has been opened door is flanked by side lights.The surrounding trim consists of fluted i.e.,a large center window with side lights.

The entire house has to-back.Between the kitchens and beside the fireplaces are two which appears.to be.a little later than the main house. The main entrance is in the center of the long side, and the The stair is enclosed between the hall and the rear bed chamber, and feet by.32 feet.To the north of that is another wing or utility shed Itis more remarkable because it is completely open with no stairwell. abundance of closets or"presses."The rear wing contains a large The center window above the entrance has'a"venetian' treatment, bers and a center hall.Each room has a fireplace and there are an (Check One) This is a large.two-story frame house in the Greek Revival style. Good detail. The only distinctive feature of the north wing is a recessed reached by a door from the hall.

There were two bed chambers on the pilasters and lintel with square paneled corner blocks, a motif derived east and two parlors on the west.The parlors were separated by directly from Plate 48 of Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter There are five bays on the facade and four on the side elevations of (1830).The two-column porch stoop is said by Barnes to be original. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (Il Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning * -' Prehistoric - Literature - Military STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

cendants until 1927. A site plan drawn by Ephraim Brown, plans for each of the two floors of the house, the builders' contract, bills and many Brown's brother-in-law to build in brick, which was ignored. For 1837-1838 Conservation Architecture losophy Commerce Communications SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Science Aboriginal Religion/Phi Transportation Theater Landscape Music Agriculture conspicuous setting but is actually simpler in architectural treatment Sculpture Social/Human- large central hall. itarian manuscripts, correspondence and plans. Education Historical Society archives.

They include a forceful suggestion from Finally, the house is an excellent architectural example of the The Brown-Wing House is significant because it is associated Ephraim Brown moved from New Hampshire to the Western ural plan, and because it is unusually well documented by primary with the early proprietor of the township, because of the architect- then took possession of the place, and it was occupied by.her des- letters pertaining to the house survive in The Western Reserve because of the financial depression of 1837,it proved impossible some reason, perhaps the view, the ground floor plan on either than Brownwood. The house was completed in 1838.

However, Industry Political North Bloomfield center and is reached bya secondary lane rather period in its own right, and especially notable because of the Invention Brown's New House' stands on the diagonally opposite quarter of unknown in the area at that time (National Register).In 1837 he than a formal approach from the State Road.It still has a more to Joseph K Wing in 1842 and the death of her father in 1845.She Reserve in 18l5 and founded the town of North Bloomfield.In 1820 Other (Specify) he built Brownwood, a late Adam house of an elegance "all but contracted for a new house, intending to sell Brownwood.

Ephraim to sell the old house, which Ephraim kept, and the new house was not occupied by the Brown family until after Mary Brown's marriage side of the hall was reversed, so that the existing layout is a Art AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Jairus Bronson Barnes, Brownwood, A Federal House in the Western Reserve (Unpubl. M. A. thesis, 1969, in W.R.H.S.). (MS 1872 A, W. R. H. S. ). Ms., W.R. H. S.). DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POIN I OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES - UTM - 17 510 440 4590060 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1 acre ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

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

FORM PREPARED BY Eric Johannesen, Preservtionist STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 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 Nationa 1 Register. 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 - Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 LATITUDE Degrees LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION COUNTY REGISTER NATIONAL DATE Name CORNER STATE Title ATTEST: CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds Ohio Western Reserve Historical Society Contract between Ephraim Brown and Noble Ferry and Samuel White LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Cleveland MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES February 1975 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: MAY 2 1975 An Inventory of Land Owned by Ephraim Brown (MS 3153,W.R.H.S.). Letters, Marvin Huntington to Ephraim Brown (MS 1872 F, W.R.H.S.). 10825 East Boulevard Seconds Minutes Minutes Seconds level of significance of this nomination is: 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA MAY S.H.Co Working Number 5, 2, 25.861 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF Re-submit 5,19,75 IN T:2106-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 OTHER KEEPER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL HAER Maps Photos HISTORIAN Review Property Federal Register Entry Cole National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF m.Barnes State Send-back 5.8. 75 8-5-75 Accept Trumbull Brown-Wing Nous e Brown, Ephraim, New House; Wing, Mary Brown, House 6-2-75 OK5.1.75 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Trumbull Co L. NAME Sherman, Robert, House Park. West Road CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: MAY 2 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 155 039 DATE COUNTY Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE CODE REGISTER IDENTIFICATION COMMON: North Bloomfield Central hall, looking south toward entrance.

PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM December 1974 STATE FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) Eric Johanne sen PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY OF TIHE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: (7/72) Brown, Ephraim, New House; Wing, Mary Brown, House LOCA TION 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: ENTRY NUMAER Form No. 10-301a JUN 6 0 1975 Sherman, Robert, House Brown. Ephraim, New House: Wing, Mary Brown, House LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: MAY 2 1975 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Trumbull 039 155 IDENTIFICATION COUNTY DATE NAME Eric Johannesen Ohio COMMON: CODE STATE December 1974 Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO REFERENCE REGISTER ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES West elevation, looking east.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER: Park West Road (7/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CITY OR TOWN: US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 876 -167 North Bloomfield Form No. 10-301a Trumbull Co. JUN 2 O 1975 LOCA TION CITY OR TOWNorth Bloomfield NEGATIVE FILED AT: MAY 2 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. South facade and east elevation, looking northwest.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 155 039 NAME DATE COUNTY Ohio Eric Johannesen REGISTER Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO REFERENCE CODE STATE ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Park West Road PHOTO CREDIT: December 1974 (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) DATE OF PHOTO: COMMON: Sherman, Robert, House U.S GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 876- 1 67 1975 IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL Form No. 10-301a JUN 2 0 1975 Sherman, Robert, House LOCA TION DATE OF PHOTO: MAY 2 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 Trumbull 155 NAME COUNTY DATE IDENTIFICATION Ohio 1975 Eric Johannesen STATE REGISTER CODE PHOTO REFERENCE Park West Road COMMON: North Bloomfield ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM December 1974 East and north elevations, looking southwest. PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) NATIONAL Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION MAY 81975 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Mantel, northwest parlor, looking west.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 155 Trumbull NAME COUNTY REGISTER NATIONAL STATE Ohio DATE CODE Eric Johannesen ENTRY NUMBER RECEIVED PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM North Bloomfield COMMON: FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO REFERENCE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) (7/72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITY OR TOWN: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Sherman, Robert, House DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 876 - 167 IDENTIFICATION Western Reserve Historical Society AND/OR HISTORIC: December 1974 PHOTO CREDIT: STREET AND NUMBER: Park West Road Brown, Ephraim, New House; Wing, Mary Brown, House 80 52' 29.5" BRISTOLVILLE, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY New House DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE BRISTOLVILLE QUADRANGLE Wing, Mary Brown DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS OHIO-TRUMBULL CO. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No.

10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G.S. Bristolville 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-I 155 039 1970 Trumbull COUNTY REQUIREMENTS NAME REGISTER STATE North Bloomfield Ohio DATE: SCALE: CODE COMMON: LOCATION 1:24,000 MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: Park West Road NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL 01975E WUN 2 0 1975 Poneroy, Alanson, Louse Hon. Robert Taft, Jz. Bon. Ronald M.

2ottl 6/24/75 Location STATE Name Cuyahoga County Date Entered MMott/row ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Kenilworth Regional Director, Midwest Region Portage County Strongavllla Cleves vicinity Canal Winchester viainitt Hon. John I. Glenn, JX. Bon. J. William Stanton Trumbull County The Ohio Eistozical Society OHIO ELlenwocd House Hon.wiilis D.Gradison, Jx. NAM E as itláppears on federal register: 3 date of entry: )county code: GNPS REGION: SNO )CONGRESS. DISTRICT (12)SOURCE of NOMINATION CO YES.

NAME I6 CONDITION Aoriginal site 9O NOT INTACT-O - Unknown 50 UNKNOWN-6 ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 IS ACCESS - No Access I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 D SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS-1 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE-17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING -31 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH -27 C MILITARY - 18 E ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 DART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 3 functions 2dates of initial construction: major alterations : 3 architectural style(s): @engineer: © landscape architect/ garden designer: 1) interior decorator: @builder/contractor: * NAMES give role & date IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE!

ASSOCIATION ACREAGE INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: FEDERAL ENTERTAINMENT-26 155 STATE PRIVATE ORGANIZATION CURRENTLY: EVENTS: COMMERCE-6 ENGINEERING-11 historic events: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 ADMINISTRATOR: Bexcellent Ddeteriorated LOCAL SAVED?YES Dunexposed master builder: WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? RECREATION-28 if state who prepared form? THIN NATIONAL REGINER HISTORIC DISTRICT? ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 Dexcavated Dunaltered 6-20-75 Oruins NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 2 OTHER NAMES: Park West Rd North Bloomfield 17 features: IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes®no DLANOSCAPE ARCH.- 15 C POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 *first' D 'only' D @artist: @artisan: ETHNIC GROUP Dfair vicinity of