Nomination for New Lyme Institute

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER - NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT X VICINITY OF 1l - J. William Stanton PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 007 LOCATION Andover Jefferson COUNTY TITLE DATE Ashtabula CLASSIFICATION CODE ACCESSIBLE STATE DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM HISTORIC Ohio _ENTERTAINMENT RECEIVED CATEGORY OWNERSHIP NAME SCIENTIFIC Ashtabula County Courthouse RELIGIOUS XBUILDING(S) South New Lyme West Jefferson Street STATUS PRIVATE New Lyme Institute New Lyme Deming School XUNOCCUPIED COURTHOUSE. DATA SHEET DATE ENTERED _GOVERNMENT _BEING CONSIDERED State Route 6 _STRUCTURE 929 Brownville Road - EDUCATIONAL FOR NPS USE ONLY _COMMERCIAL _OBJECT - MILITARY - INDUSTRIAL _PARK _BOTH XoTHER:vacant Pymatuning Valley School District DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

istics. They are basically utilitarian twentieth century school buildings with plain rooms and corridors. The building is located on the wooded bank of Lebanon Creek nineteenth century feeling and association of the building, in spite of the alterations. CONDITION UNEXPOSED auditorium. RUINS UNALTERED DESCRIPTION and then a square stage. Above this was a belfry and a pyramidal FAIR has been enlarged into a large continuous three-part window. The traves.The entrance bay second-story window has a segmental arch.

XALTERED XGOOD This is a two-story rectangular brick building with elements of in an ideal wooded setting, which contributes greatly to the _DETERIORATED the Victorian Italianate style, and two modern dependent wings.There a similar belfry removed from the east end.The roof is hipped and iron cresting at the summit.The eaves have widely spaced wooden The window pattern of the rear (north) elevation has been altered. interior is largely unaltered, with high ceilings, original partitions, XORIGINAL SITE staircase and woodwork. On the second floor there is a large in 1957.

Neither of these has distinguishing architectural character- CHECK ONE brackets.The windows have straight stone lintels and dropped archi- corridor, there is a two-story brick wing with a hipped roof added roof which were removed in the early twentieth century.There was Four of the windows have been made into fire exit doors, and one _EXCELLENT isa square entrance bay projecting from the south facade.It stands built in 1878-1879.The entrance tower has a short mansard roof - MOVED to the west of the center, the second of five bays. There is a clearly marked vertical joint between the third and fourth bays, indicating that the building was expanded shortly after the original section was covered with tin batten roofing. There is handsome ornamental in 1938. On the east there is a plain one-story brick wing added Linked to the original building on the west by a one-story AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Although considerably altered, this building holds an important The institute was founded in 1878 under the name of Northern The first president was Jacob Tuckerman, a native of Connecticut who had come to Ohio in 1836, studied at Kingsville Academy and at Oberlin, and served as superintendant of the Ashtabula County the attendance reached 300 students, and the Institute flourished 1879-1923 COMMERCE 1400-1499 LAW SIGNIFICANCE 1500-1599 ENGINEERING PERIOD RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT ART EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1700-1799 ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE MILITARY INVENTION LITERATURE MUSIC trustees as a community building.

PREHISTORIC XEDUCATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT 1900- _ECONOMICS for the Ohio State Normal College which was finally located at Kent, Deming saw the possibility of an institute supplying the great need Schools and principal of Orwell Academy.During his administration was called Deming School.It became a part ofa consolidated school _TRANSPORTATION under his presidency, which lasted until 1897. northeastern Ohio, and especially in the local history of the township. funds toward the building were donated by Judge William S.Deming, _COMMUNICATIONS several years.It is about to be acquired by the Lyme Township INDUSTRY lasted until 1923, when the building became a public school and The school was incorporated as the New Lyme Institute in 1883.

_CONSERVATION When the State Legislature was seeking a location in 1910 Ohio Collegiate and Business Institute.The land and $3,ooo in matching the New Lyme Institute was one of the candidates.The Institute - PHILOSOPHY -1600-1699 _THEATER _COMMUNITY PLANNING district in 1961. More recently the building has stood vacant for New Lyme's most important citizen at the time. Aged 65, Judge ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC for preparatory education. The building was first opened in 1879.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ashtabula County Historical Society Bulletin, XII, No. 3, September 1965. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER 10825 East Boulevard CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY GCERER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 216-721-5722 CODE TELEPHONE DATE Ohio Cleveland ORGANIZATION NORTHING COUNTY June 1975 Western Reserve Historical Society Moina Large, History of Ashtabula County (Topeka-Indianapolis, 1924), Eric Johannesen, Preservationist ZONE EASTING ATTEST ZONE 14.610.312.5,0 Photos - OR 11.4:75 Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Federal Register Entry OTHER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF Maps Re-submit Property Review State Ashtabule 12-30-75 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASo No.7 National Register Write-up Entered JAN1 12-12-75 INT:21 1976 3-2-?6 1-1 - 76 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER SOUTH FACADE NPS Numoer Loc Title: NEW LYME TNSTITUTE Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7+) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JAN 1 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN -VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET South facade, looking northwest Ohio LOCATION Ashtabula IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC COUNTY STATE South New Lyme November 1974 NAME PHOTO CREDIT New Lyme Deming School E. Johannesen New Lyme Institute Western Reserve Historical Society DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO. RECEIVE0CT31 1975 (NEW LYME DEMING SCHOOL) Loc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER OHIO NORTH ELEVATION Achtahula Co Title: NEW LYME INSTITUTE HPS Numder Heo Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7 +) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OCT 31 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JAN 1 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN -VICINITY OF South New Lyme PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO North elevation, looking south LOCATION Ohio Ashtabula IDENTIFICATION RECEIVED COUNTY HISTORIC STATE NAME New Lyme Deming School PHOTO CREDIT Western Reserve Historical Society November 1974 New Lyme Institute E. Johannesen VIEW FROM SOUTH PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Loc. 1-1-7 Asktahula Co Title: 1-1 - 76 NPS Number (NEWLYME DEMING SCHOCL) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER OHIO NEWLYME INSTITUTE Title: Loc. Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7 +) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JAN 1 DATE ENTERED AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN -VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Hall at left demolished. 1905 Ohio LOCATION Ashtabula 1976 IDENTIFICATION COUNTY HISTORIC STATE South New Lyme New Lyme Institute View of Institute buildings from the west. (l905) NAME PHOTO CREDIT New Lyme Deming School Ashtabula County Atlas (1905), 89. PHOTO NO DATE OF PHOTO RECEIVED0CT 31 1975 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Form No.

10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 31 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM JAN 1 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN South New Lyme X VICINITY OF MAP REFERENCE U. S. G.S. Orwell Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES 'NT: 34 64 - 75 LOCATION REQUIREMENTS Ashtabula COUNTY DATE HISTORIC SCALE Ohio SOURCE NAME STATE New Lyme Deming School 1:24,000 New Lyme Institute (Rev.

10-74) OCT 31 1975 ORWELL QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES STATE OF OHIO 17 518/040 East DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) W6% 7 New Lyme Institute 4603/250 North GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORWELL, OHIO State Route STATE OHIO Sheffield Township Georgetown vicinity Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Hon. J. William Stanton Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue Columbus, Chio 73221 Hon. Charles A..

Mosher INT: 2950-75 MOTT Location 1/16/76 Ashtabula County Name House and Cheese Factory Date Entered All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Regional Director, Midwest Region South New Lyme vicinity Bellville Also Notified Lorain County Richland County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, Warren County Moar Hound and village Brown County Eagleville vicinity The Thorpson Farm State Historic Preservation Officer Director,The Ohlo Historical Society Peck, L. W., House Hon. willian H. Harsha Fon, John M. Ashbrool: New Lyme Institute Church OHIO 2 OTHER NAMES: 8 date of entry: 4 county code: city / town X STATE South Nen Lym 11) CONGRESS.

DISTRICT (12 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL E LOCAL - deteriorated 17) features: Oruins Omoved OD NOT INTACT-O &good Dunexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated 2G NOT APPLICABLE -7 @CLAIMS: explain _ AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 "first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW- 16 - RELIGION-22 -ARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE - 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 C ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY-20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3functions 2 architectural style(s): landscape architect / garden designer: EVENTS : IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED.

NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE date ASSOCIATION ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 GROUP PERSONAL: SETTLEMENT-29 ENTERTAINMENT-26 CURRENTLY: ADMINISTRATOR: COMMERCE-6 CONDITION PRIVATE ORGANIZATION 1-1-76 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ART-5 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Koriginal site URBAN PLANWING-31 Dexcellent vicinity of SAVED?YES @engineer: NPS REGION: NOT IN USE IST. 007 ACCESS X EDUCATION ag master builder: 31) interior decorator: @artisan: 3g builder/contractor: years as a public school. NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET PETO. Institute Dunaltered ted 19 ADAPTIVE USE UNKNOWN-4 reviewers initials. Xaltered YES UNKNOWN-5