Decorative drawing: a one-room schoolhouse with a bell cupola. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Hughes School

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,713 words across 12 pages, filed in 1976. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 76001377, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED OGT 31 1975 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 PRESENT USE X PRIVATE _WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED *OTHER torage OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS CODE Butler Hamilton None Westchester DATE 039 GOVERNMENT HISTORIC ACCESSIBLE COUNTY COMMERCIAL LOCATION PARK XEDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TITLE ENTERTAINMENT TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT STATE CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE XUNOCCUPIED Same MUSEUM 017 OWNERSHIP INDUSTRIAL STATUS MILITARY STRUCTURE RELIGIOUS Tylersville Road Hughes School NAME Ohio Second and High Streets Court House 8th Dist.-Thomas N. Kindness 5994 Princeton Road _PUBLIC _BEING CONSIDERED DATA SHEET The Lakota Local School District DATE ENTERED -OBJECT X.BUILDING(S) -SITE JAN 2 Butler County Court House _BOTH 7 DESCRIPTION GOOD _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

windows are also slightly arched. Above the slit windows the header bricks are laid in vertical rows, creating a decorative boarder) either side öf the tower is a six över six double hung window with CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED RUINS UNALTERED building. CHECK ONE windows have stone sills and are slightly curved at the top with a committee to restore this structure with a copy of the original tower. The roof of the bell tower was supported by square wooden piers and A large, brick chimney occupies the blind bay on the west side of the The roof is gabled with an easy pitch. Hughes School is a rectangular, one room brick structure with a stone The brick is laid in common bond. it conforms to the shape of the arch of the entrance.A keystone has windows the header bricks are again used to form a decorative boarder.
Awide stone string course runs around the entire building between A band of brick also runs the length of the building under the eaves. XFAIR each side of the roof.It is the intention of the restoration the building has.been altered by the addition of a wood lean-to shed. been placed in the center of the brick arch and stone has also been used the brick and the stone foundation. Above the door the brick is laid so that shutters that are louvered at the top and paneled at the bottom. the double door with a slightly rounded light above the doors. The light to cap each end of the arch. Immediately above the keystone is an was pyramid shaped with small triangular dormers projecting from is divided into four panes. the windows the brick forms slightly projecting pilasters. The roof The sides of the building are divided into four bays by brick pilasters.
Above the a wooden railing enclosed the lower half of the tower. engraved stone that reads " Hughes.Sub-district No.4-1887 -". Header DATE. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Hughes School represents an exceptionally fine example of nineteenth Hughes Station located on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and 1500-1599 1600-1699 LAW 1400-1499 PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SCIENCE RELIGION ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE unknown BUILDER/ARCHITECT XEDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION PERIOD AGRICULTURE MILITARY ART _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE numerous in this locality and the owner was continuously menaced by them. SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _1700-1799 _CONSERVATION associated with some of the area's earliest history. five children.A neighbor of the Hughes family in Maryland had come to Indianapolis Railroad was named for the Joshua Hughes, sone of Elijah, who was he that he was soon controlling the business of the entire countryside.
Butler County some time previously and had purchased l6o acres of land owned the land the town was built on and was the towns first postmaster. preachers, and these traveling divines would come from loo miles around to _COMMUNICATIONS It was rule of his never to charge for any work that he did for the early Deciding to return to the more civilized east, he sold his property to the area's earliest settlers, the Hughes Family, and is therefore, THEATER In 1832,Nicholas Curtis gave the Hughes School property located in Butler _1900- X1800-1899 LITERATURE as a momento of early education in rural ohio. -MUSIC Elijah Hughes was 1887 INVENTION get their horses shod at the shop of this sturdy pioneer's smith". Hughes School stands as a monument to this early pioneer family.
School District No.4.Elijah Hughes was a school director of the district at that time and ismentioned in the As an example of "a little red school house", Hughes School can be seen Sarah Muchner in 1800 and they came to Butler County in the 1820's with

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Hughes Family Tree in the possession of Mrs. Dorothy Beeler, Hamilton, Ohio 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than 10 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION at the corner of said section and running east 43 feet and-then north 61 STATE _ L FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Margaret A.
Sambi May 2, 1975 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio with 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).T hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National: Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the E SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY 721-4506 TELEPHONE COUNTY CODE NORTHING ZONE None DATE ORGANIZATION Cincinnati LOCAL EASTING Miami Purchase Association Illustrations and Sketches of its representative men and Pioneers 8l2 Dayton Street west 43 feet then south to the place of beginning. the SW corner of Section 26, Third Township, Third Range and beginning Western Biographical Pub1ishing 486-491.
A History and Biographical Cyclopedia of Butler County, Ohio with LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Union Liberty Journal, Thursday, January 24, 1974, Vol. 2, No. 11. 14,316,26,79J West Chester Road and Maud Hughes Road.The school is located on the Hughes School is located on Princeton Road approximately.half way between Photos BRANCH CHIEF JAN 2 OTHER Inventory HAER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Send-back TECHNICAL Maps Review Property HISTORIAN National Register Write-up 12-8-75 Butler Federal Register Entry State REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 11.4.75 Working Number /0. 3]. 7 6. 1 92/ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 CONTROL 3-2-26 ACCEPT PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number HAMILTON OHIO NPS Number _ Loc. BUTLERCO OHIO COCKERHANA PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL Form No. 10-301a (Pev.
10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED AND/OR COMMON VICINITY OF CITY, TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT Lois Cockerham DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET east side of Hughes School Butler Hamilton 3/1/75 1976 Ohio IDENTIFICATION COUNTY LOCATION STATE NAME Residence of above RECEIVED0CT31 1975 SEE INSTRUCTIONSIN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS FOR NPS USE ONLY JAN 2 PHOTO No. 2 f3 BUTLER CO., OHIO Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED AND/OR COMMON CITY, TOWN XVICINITY OF HAMILTON OHIO PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC.
IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Facade of school facing on the south. 3/1/75 Hughes School Butler IDENTIFICATION COUNTY LOCATION HISTORIC NAME STATE Ohio SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS (Pev. 10-7+) OCT 31 1975 NEGATIVE FILED AT HUGHES SCHOOL, SOUTH FACADE TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH RECEIVED Residence of above WN21976 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM JAN 2 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON X VICINITY OF TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3.
UTM REFERENCES INT: 34 64 - 75 1966 Butler Hamilton COUNTY LOCATION STATE DATE SCALE HISTORIC SOURCE REQUIREMENTS 1:24000 NAME Ohio Hughes School RECEIVED MAP REFERENCE DATE ENTERED CITY.TOWN FOR NPS USE ONLY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TRENTON QUADRANGLE Hughes School 43 62 6/ TRENTON, OHIO OCT 31 1975 UNITED STATES Zone 16 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED STATE OHIO JAN 2 Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. INT: 2950-75 Location Name Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Regional Director, Midwest Region Hamilton vicinity Butler County Hughes School Hon. Robert Taft, Jx. Hon. Thomas N. Kindness State Historic Preservation officex Colunbua, Ohio 73211 1/20/76 1976 MMott/je Interstate 7l at I7th Avenue 2 OTHER NAMES: -COUNTY city / town 1CONGRESS.
DISTRICT 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION B CONDITION - deteriorated 2 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 90 NOT INTACT-O Dgeod Ounexposed -reconstructed - Unknown Ounexcavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Pno I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE-6 "first'O C LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 C LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O Ó AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 C SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24OTHER(SPECIFY) - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions edates of initial construction: a master builder: -landscape architeet / garden designer: ") interior decorator: Sartisan: 5builder/contractor: ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 date PERSONAL: Dexcellent major alterations: FEDERAL INSTITUTIONAL: STATE SETTLEMENT-29 CURRENTLY: ENGINEERING-11 EVENTS: artist: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: historic events: ARCHITECTURE-4 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP URBAN PLANNING-31 ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET architectural style(s): yicinity of NPS REGION: Coriginal site Dunaltered 1-2-76 Oruins Dfeatures: 017 3 date of entry: (B ACCESS -moved - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.-21 Elements ETHNIC GROUP engineer: NAMES fderal register: give role & date as it appears on XPRIVAHE ORGANIZATION SAVED?
DYES 1887