Nomination for Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory

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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 JAN 1 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED 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 - VICINITY OF STATE Ohio PRESENT USE DISTRICT X.BUILDING(S) PRIVATE PARK STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. 308 Second Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 CODE BOTH Elyria LOCATION DATE OBJECT ACCESSIBLE TITLE RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION MILITARY CATEGORY NAME MUSEUM OWNERSHIP _COMMERCIAL Ohio AGRICULTURE STATUS COURTHOUSE.

DATA SHEET _TRANSPORTATION 126 Second Street East River Road Lorain County Courthouse _UNOCCUPIED Lorain County Metropolitan Park District XNO French Creek Reservation _ENTERTAINMENT _EDUCATIONAL -SCIENTIFIC - INDUSTRIAL - GOVERNMENT FOR NPS USE ONLY _OTHER: -SITE RECEIVEPOV 5 1975 COUNTYLorain _FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL Lora 093 Sheffield Township XPRIVATE RESIDENCE CHECK ONE SEXCELLENT . DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

in the late Federal idiom, and the second a frame building formerly lintels and sills. The end walls are blank, except for one window in There is a cellar with a dirt floor under the entire house, where joists of unpeeled logs may be seen. Immediately behind the house (west) stands a frame structure. ation of random rubble stone, with a lower level which can be entered interior, which is one large room, is completely finished with CONDITION space. UNEXPOSED DESCRIPTION MOVED DETERIORATED UNALTERED preserved and maintained. The great majority of the original rooms, construction was added probably in the 1880s. Its window openings This is a group of two buildings, one a two-story brick residence FAIR As cheese-making was an important and specialized activity, it required carved wooden mantelpieces, with a sunburst pattern and delicate fluting.

XORIGINAL SITE its own buildings and equipment. The exterior is covered with vertical partitions and woodwork are intact.There is a central hall and stair. (west) of the house. Behind the original wing another block of brick original plaster on lath.Some of the plaster is deteriorated.At have segmental arches.At the southwest corner its cellar foundation siding, and the gable roof is shingled.

The structure has a high found- and two end chimneys.The windows have plain horizontal sandstone from the south end.The grade level changes so that the main floor of random rubble stone is exposed above ground.The interior is well is entered by only two steps on the east elevation.The main floor certain whether it is original.There is a T-shaped wing to the rear In each of the main front rooms there are first-class Adam style is a simple two-column stoop in front of the entrance, but it is not a center entrance, a plain box cornice with gable returns but no frieze, the north wall which was inserted in the late nineteenth century. There pieces of equipment. A trapdoor provides access to an attic storage XALTERED -GOOD _RUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

in its own right, because very few of the large number of buildings Jabez Burrell and Capt. John Day of Sheffield, Massachusetts. In 1816 of the marriage of Jabez' son, Robbins Burrell, and 1833, the death Another son, Jabez, Jr., was one of the nine original incorporators of Oberlin College, fifteen miles southwest of Sheffield, in 1834. In permit the operation of its famous manual labor program. One branch 1600-1699 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ECONOMICS LAW AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION THEATER COMMERCE SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE ART MILITARY SCIENCE MUSIC LITERATURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION XINDUSTRY The exact dates of construction and operation of the cheese factory owned by the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District.

1836 Oberlin opened three branches to handle overflow students and -1500-1599 1900- was located at Sheffield, and Robbins Burrell "devoted his fine farm was justice of the Peace.The exact date of construction of the house the township for nearly 150 years, and it was closely associated with _COMMUNICATIONS house in its location.The dependent cheese factory.building is significant Day and Burrell built the township's first sawmill, and in 18l9 Burrell of Jabez Burrell. are not documented.Robbins Burrell died in 1877.The house is still This house hasbelongedto the family of the original proprietor of _INVENTION -1400-1499 the beginnings of Oberlin College.It isa very early two-story brick The entire township of Sheffield was purchased in1815 by Capt. RELIGION and house to the enterprise."It only lasted one year. X1800-1899 SPECIFIC DATES ca.

1828 occupied by the last members of the Burrell family, although it is XEDUCATION Burrel brought his wife and eight children to Sheffield. The next year erected for this important Ohio industry are still in existence. is difficult to document.It was built some time between 1825,the date

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES W. W. Williams, History of Lorain County (Philadelphia, 1879), 171, 178, 250-254. 76-77, 295. & New York, 1916), 148. Interview, Doris Burrell, June 2, 1975.

10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - LOCAL A 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 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE DATEOCt, 30,1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY 216-721-5722 ORGANIZATION TELEPHONE CODE NORTHING DATE COUNTY Two Ohio Cleveland STATE Western Reserve Historical Society ZONE EASTING June 1975 James H.Fairchild, Oberlin:The Colony and the College (Oberlin,1883), criteria and procedures set fort pr the Nationaf Park Service.

GPO 888-445 10825 East Boulevard THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE G. Frederick Wright, A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio (Chicago Burrel1, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory Photos - Inventory - Entered JAN 1 Federal Register Entry Re-submit . INT:2106- 74 OTHER Lorain HAER Property TECHNICAL CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back HISTORIAN Review Maps 12-19-75 BRANCH CHIEF Accept National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 76001471 State Q 12-31-75 Working Number /l.5. 75. 1956 Hwanse 3-2-76 Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc 11176 Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7*) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JAN 1 Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO E.

Johannesen NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET East facade of house, looking west, with factory at extreme right. Lorain LOCATION COUNTY HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION Ohio STATE PHOTO CREDIT Western Reserve Historical Society Sheffield Township NAME DATE ENTERED June 1975 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS PHOTO NO. FOR NPS USE ONLY NOV 5 RECEIVED NPS Number _ Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7*) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 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 DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET South elevation of house, looking northeast.

Lorain Ohio COUNTY HISTORIC LOCATION STATE 1976 IDENTIFICATION PHOTO CREDIT Sheffield Township Western Reserve Historical Society Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory PHOTO REFERENCE E. Johannesen June 1975 NAME DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO. FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED NOV 5 NPS Number 1| 76 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JAN SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory AND/OR COMMON - VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO E. Johannesen NEGATIVE FILED AT PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT.

GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Lorain COUNTY Ohio Western Reserve Historical Society LOCATION HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION STATE NAME Sheffield Township South and east elevations of cheese factory, looking northwest. PHOTO CREDIT DATE ENTERED June 1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NOV 5 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM IDATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION CITY, TOWN VICINITY OF MAP REFERENCE U. S. G. S. 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3.

UTM REFERENCES INT: 34 64 - 75 1970 Lorain REQUIREMENTS Ohio DATE HISTORIC COUNTY SOURCE SCALE STATE RECEIVED Avon Quadrangle NAME Sheffield Township 4589/630 North Burrell, Jabez STATE OIIO South New Lyme vicinity Feck, L. H., House Burrel1, Jabez and Robbins, Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Ion. Robert Taft, Jr. Dr. Thonae H. Snith Hon. John M. Ashhrool: Kon. J. William Stanton Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue Columbus, Chio 73211 INT: 2950-75 1/16/76 Location Name Date Entered Ashtabula County Richland County MOTT Sheffield Towmship All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Also Notified Regional Director,Midwest Region Hon.Charles A.Mosher Eagleville vicinity Warren County Lorain County Bellville ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Brow County House and Cheese Factory Moar Mound and village Georgetom vicinity The Thompson Fara Hon.william H.

Harsha Stato Historic Pzeservation Officer New Lyme Institute Church 2 OTHER NAMES: 4county code: city / town @ADMINISTRATOR : 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION X LOCAL D deteriorated Xal tered 17) features: Oruins EO NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown 5X UNKNOWN-6 -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 X No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

DyesXno @ AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 SCLAIMS: explain C ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 * SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - LITERATURE - 17 C SCIENCE - 23 DURBAN PLANMING -31 'oldest' O XAGRICULT - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 * INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 X EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: House, factory @8 architectural style(s): S) interior decorator: @ artist: IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 4/10/78 CONDITION ASSOCIATION FEDERAL Xexcellent builder/contractor: INSTITUTIONAL: historic events: STATE ENGINEERING-11 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Xoriginal site NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP SAVED?YES vieinity of Jabez Burrell Jr.,one of 9 orig.incorporaters of Oberlin College Bfunctions as it appears on federal register: Midwest Dfair GNPS REGION: VLorain if state who prepared form?

B ACCESS 'first'O -EXPLORATION - 12 CURRENTLY: House, Not in use Dengineer: 1 landseape architect / garden designer: Robbins Burrell, owned property when used as part of Oberlin manual labor program in 1836 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - COMMERCE-6 - ARCHEOLOGY-/ Nstoric-1 ETHNIC date GROUP reviewers initials YES-Restricted YES-Unrestricted NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET master builder: Dmoved Burrell Burrell Jr.; cheese factory operation dates are unknowm. NAMES give role & date Bartisan: 3eate of entry: XINO