Nomination for Hirons-Brown House

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Form No.10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED DEC 12.1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER From intersection of Guernsey Rd. and State Route 138 _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT * VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) COMMERCIAL -WORK IN PROGRESS XPAIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _OBJECT -IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Gloria B. Turner STREET & NUMBER Route 1, Box 210 X VICINITY OF Buford Ohio 45154 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

Ohio 45133 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 Buford 071 DATE UNOCCUPIED TITLE CODE ACCESSIBLE CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE STATE SCIENTIFIC DISTRICT COUNTY HISTORIC GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE OWNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION NAME Sixth-Harsha CATEGORY MILITARY Hillsboro INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC SITE STATUS DATA SHEET Highland County Courthouse BEING CONSIDERED Hirons-Brown House Mount Orab _ENTERTAINMENT - EDUCATIONAL OTHER: COURTHOUSE, -RELIGIOUS RECEIVEDOCT 22 1976 -MUSEUM -BOTH Ohio Turner, Gloria B., House FEDERAL STATE COUNTY _LOCAL LOCATION PARK Highland Highland County Recorder XPRIVATE On north side of Guernsey Road,Clay Township. PH0369004 X ALTERED _MOVED DATE. The building is constructed of common bond brick with a foundation s11ding doors, each measuring eleven feet high and three feet five and one half inches wide.

The doors have twelve lights each with a lower the house. It was deeded to Clay Township in 1850. ALTERATIONS: The balustrade on the roof deck was removed at an Three of the windows on the west side of the house have been bricked CONDITION rooms. DETERIORATED UNALTERED DESCRIPTION X_GOOD _EXCELLENT right toward the opposite direction to serve the front second story _UNEXPOSED The interior woodwork, walls and stairs are in their original three bays by four two story pilasters on each side. brick kiln where the brick for the house was made is under the dam of double bracketed cornices. cond story twenty light door with a semi-circular arch and Gothic side- corner brick fireplace and chimney which were part of a two story first half of the twentieth century the original front slide easily on metal rollers with guides.

of prior occupants of the house is located across the road in front of XORIGINAL SITE Under the exterior roofline is a full wood entablature with boxed CHECK ONE frame building which formerly stood at the rear of the house.The _FAIR DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Turner House is a two story rectangle, forty-five by thirty-six hip root with & deck. The four sides of the house are each divided into Gothic sidelights. removal by the owner forpurposes of restoration. The other windows of the building are rectangular with double porch was removed or covered by the present one bay wide of stone in front and brick in the back. branches at a mid level landing with one case of stairs continuing wood panel.Storm doors have been added for insulation.The doors _RUINS hung sash and six lights over six.All of the wmdows have plain stone undetermined time many years ago.At one time in the AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -LITERATURE * X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION ENGINEERING _COMMERCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Buford, Ohio where the house was subsequently built. In addition to being LAW SIGNIFICANCE TRANSPORTATION PERIOD SCIENCE X1800-1899 ART INDUSTRY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE SCULPTURE MILITARY THEATER INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _COMMUNICATIONS XARCHITECTURE The house is a well-preserved late Greek Revival building with prominent landowners and farmers, members of the family operated stores and -1400-1499 The house is a fine, well preserved farm home of a successful early -1500-1599 was in the period of ownership by the Brown family which purchesed the -1600-1699 the post office in Buford prior to the Civil War. _PREHISTORIC area. - PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS -1700-1799 _RELIGION -1900- _MUSIC to White Oak Creek as an escape route.

settler and its refinements of design, its unusual features, make it a BUILDER/ARCHITECT Ezekiel Hirons lived in a log house until the present structure was built. A portion house from Ezekiel Hirons. Gothic detailing.The house is atypical of rural southwest Ohio architecture as it is built upon a much more grand scale than is usually found in the The family of Ezekiel Hirons came to Ohio from Kentucky in l8l2 to the mam stairway.The Browns purchased the farm in 1854. There is also a trap door under 9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Graphics, Piqua, Ohio: 1969, pp. 459 & 794. Elsie Johnson Ayres, Highland Pioneer Sketches and Fam1ly Genealogies, Interview with Gloria B. Turner, owner, 5/19/76 and review of extensive 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY One UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David Brook, Regional Preservationist July 26, 1976 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 378-3760 CODE NORTHING NATIONAL ORGANIZATION Piketon ZONE COUNTY DATE STATE research papers compiled by the owner. State Historic Preservation Officer ZONE EASTING DATE 10-8-76 Ohio TELEPHONNeu 513 114.32.715.8,0 Records of Auditor and Recorder, Highland County, Hillsboro, Ohio Carl Thompson, Historical Collections of Brown Co., Ohio, General Moore House, Box 6 Brook Task Force Member, SCOPS .

Ohio Preservation Society THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY ANO 773-3203 Hammer LOCAL ATTEST: South Central Rebecca Neu, Working Number 10.22.76.4350 Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up DEC 12 1976 Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 HAER OTHER KEEPER CONTROL Inventory ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN TECHNICAL Send-back Entered Review Re-submit Maps Property Hirons-Brown House State 11.30.76 IN T:2106-74 2-1-77 David Brook DEC 12 1976 OCT 22 NPS Number 1. Hirons- Brown House Feb. 9,1976 David Brook IPS Number DEC 12 1.

Hirons - Broun House PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hirons- Brown House SARDINIA OHIO UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY E.252160 OCT 22 1976 1961 ROAD CLASSIFICATION RECEIVED DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SARDINIA QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO Sardinia, Ohio Scale 1:24000 1, Hirons - Brown House Date Entered Chil1icothe vicinity Seven Ranges Terminus Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Delbert L. Latta Colurabus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Charles A. Vanik INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Akron Ashland Ross County Greenville Cleveland Heights Waterville Stark County Magnolia vicinity Lon.Thomas N.Kindness Name Ashland County Jail Hon. John F.

Seiberling Lucas County Sumnit County Director,The Ohio Historical Society Darke County Cuyahoga County Werner Company Building Also Notified State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Waterville Conmercial District Buford vicinity Anderson, Levi, House Fairmoumt Boulevard District Highland County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Hirons - Brown House DEO 12 1976 Darke County Courthouse, Sherrif's Hon. John il. Glenn, Jr. Hon. William Il. liarsha 12/15/76 Mott House and Jail DEC 12 1976 STREET & NUMBER VSW of Buford on Guernsey Rd. CITY. TOWN Highland - OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST - Substantially intact-3 - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 CONDITION - _ORIGINAL SITE _ Reconstructed YES, NAME: IF YES, NAME: ADAPTIVE USE: Saved ?

FUNCTION (S): (use vocabulary words) -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCI ECONOMICS 30 Lsocio/cultural _urban & commun _POLITICS GOVERNMENT -OTHER (SPECIFY) _INVENTION "first" YES "oldest"' YES NO 071 SOUTHEAST code DOE FEATURES: Yes-unrestricted planning ENVIRONS COUNTY STATE UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT MIDWEST SIGNIFICANCE: ARCHITECTURE Claims LOCATION: Hirons-Brown House 6th EDUCATION DATE: ENGINEERING FAIR -recreation PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN AGRICULTURE INITIALS: historic district? _TRANSPORTATION ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC UNALTERED DETERIORATED -entertainment No access WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? _COMMUNICATIONS _CONSERVATION _Unexcavated _PHILOSOPHY INDUSTRY _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ADMINISTRATOR(underline) -settlement -EXPLORATION LITERATURE -health _COMMERCE _MOVED _MUSIC 11.30,76 -ART Turner, Gloria B., House - sec.

CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: OTHER EXTERIOR N.ATLANTIC MILITARY PRIVATE Reviewer WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? OTHER NANES: Ohio -RUINS _Unkncwn (label role DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS : HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : LOCAL GOV"T FEDERAL AGENCY: FACADE PILASTERS, PAIRED BRACKETED CORNICE; ALTELATIONS. VNUSUALLY DETALED personal DATES: builder/contractor: OTHER artist/artisan: STATE PRIVATE NAMES: institutional landscape/garden designer: events engineer: ETHNIC GROUP: appropriate date) interior decorator: /architec/m.builder: Ezekiel Hirons COUNTY MUNICIPAL COMIMENTS:(include architectural information here) SIGNLEICA NCE:(maximum two sentences) DATE OF date or 1/4 of century):