Nomination for Kirtland, Jared P., 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 DEC 3 0 1875 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM MAY 1 3 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Kirtland, Jared P., House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 19 - Charles J. Carney _ VICINITY OF . PRESENT USE * COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS * YES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Frank Nardelli, Pyramid Land Company 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Youngstown 039 OBJECT TITLE DATE Poland GOVERNMENT STATE LOCATION CODE ACCESSIBLE Mahoning RELIGIOUS ENTERTAINMENT SCIENTIFIC DISTRICT PRIVATE PARK INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE Ohio NAME MUSEUM MILITARY CATEGORY RECEIVED OWNERSHIP STATUS 143 West McKinley Way DATE ENTERED DATA SHEET BEING CONSIDERED _EDUCATIONAL _TRANSPORTATION 120 Market Street _UNOCCUPIED BUILDING(S) -BOTH -SITE -OTHER: HISTORIC * * -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY - LOCAL COUNTY PUBLIC Mahoning County Courthouse _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

house is almost square. There is an excellent Doric entablature, a facade was refaced with vertical tongue-and-groove siding, a porch the turn of the century. The side elevation has only two bays. A modern story wing which may be older than the two-story part, but this is typical Greek pattern. The original staircase, which is said to have cooking fireplaces in both the basement and first floor, and these, inference that the wing may be earlier than the main Greek Revival CONDITION DESCRIPTION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS FAIR This is a large wooden frame house in the Greek Revival style. XGOOD The foundation is of coursed sandstone ashlar.The main block of the The pediment originally had a semi-elliptical fanlight which has been four bays, with six-over-six pane sash in the windows. The first story The cornice of this section is dentilled. remains in the east parlor.

It includes a handsome classical mantel- frieze with triglyphs, and flat mutule blocks beneath the cornices. On the interior, excellent original Greek Revival woodwork removed and is stored in the attic.The pediment was resurfaced was added across the front, and the front entrance was altered around house have monumental two-story Doric pilasters.The facade has - DETERIORATED _UNALTERED with composition shingle ofa scalloped pattern.The corners of the together with the different exterior cornice treatment, lead to the piece flanked by blind arches, and window and door moldings of a undocumented.There is a porch along the east side of the wing. CHECK ONE the west.To the rear (south)of the main house is a one-and-a-half -ORIGINAL SITE been curved, has been removed. In the south wing there are large side entrance with an overhanging roof and a stoop have been added on DATE. AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X800-1899 INDUSTRY -OTHER (SPECIFY) _INVENTION - SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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physician, scientist and naturalist, while he lived in Poland, Ohio, before accomplishments, that house in Lakewood, Ohio, has been razed. an agent of the Connecticut Land Company and the founder of Poland, the survey of Ohio, identifying the rich coal and iron deposits which ultimately spite of the alterations, it still conveys the fundamental spirit of the 1832-1837 1500-1599 ECONOMICS 1700-1799 COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ARCHITECTURE PERIOD RELIGION AGRICULTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY THEATER 1900- SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MUSIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION ENGINEERING ART _COMMUNICATIONS horticultural experiments.

of the Cleveland Medical College which became the Medical School of southeasternmost township of the Western Reserve of Ohio.Jared Kirtland a leading naturalist in the country.Louis Agassiz and John Audubon were period of his occupancy. _PHILOSOPHY attended the Yale Medical College and graduated from Philadelphia Medical Poland home is the only residence still associated with him, and in College.He settled in Poland in 1823 to practice medicine.During this time he served three terms in the Ohio Legislature.The best evidence Museum of Natural History.

At his home in Lakewood he developed extensive In 1837 Kirtland assisted Charles Whittlesey in the first geological 1837.While this is not the home associated with the period of his greatest _1600-1699 attracted the attention of the great scientific men of his day.' Kirtland's Jared P.Kirtland became Cleveland's most celebrated scientist and (Lakewood).He was a member of the faculty of Willoughby University east of Cleveland, and when it closed in 1843,he was one of the founders land Academy of Natural Science in 1845,which became the Cleveland _TRANSPORTATION This was the home of Jared P.Kirtland, the noted nineteenth century Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877) was the son of Turhand Kirtland, -LITERATURE respects to the house of his brother Billius (l830),which has been demolished.

-SCULPTURE vertebrates in the State of Ohio.Then in 1837 he moved to Rockport indicates that this house was probably built in 1832.It is similar in many - 1400-1499 during a zoological research project he identified and catalogued 585 Western Reserve University. He was also the first president of the Cleve- among his friends.According to Rose,"His research and discoveries XEDUCATION made the chief industry of the Mahoning Valley possible.The same year XSCIENCE

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1933), X, 438-439. 138, 154, 159, 191-192, 202, 415. 57-66, 73-74.

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 Eric Johannesen, Preservationist STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 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).I criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 888-445 COUNTY 216-721-5722 CODE ORGANIZATION DATE NORTHING EASTING ZONE TELEPHONE STATE Ohio Cleveland 12-19-75 Western Reserve Historical Society ATTEST: 10825 East Boulevard KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the July 1975 William G.

Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 63-64, H. Z. Williams, History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties (Cleveland, 1882), TITLE SAPO LOCAL Mahoning County Property Records. less than one 14.514112.801 12.26 US 224 New Lot for the Jared Potterkirt and House North House VACANT Poland, Ohio 200'= 1" PENNSYLUANIA LO Preseutsrte of Kintland (NOT CONSTRUCTER) MICHIGANDAVE GÓ'-(VOTCONSTRUCTED) AUDUBON SCOUILLE AYE 6O REGISTER RECEIVED NATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - MAY 1 31976 OTHER HAER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back 4-27-76 Re-submit Maps TECHNICAL Photos HISTORIAN Review BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 76001481 Working Number /2. 30. 75.

2 250 Cole Mahoning State United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASo No.7 3/18/76 -176 1.6.76 Maps Photos DATE State Working Hunber .26.7 ANTIQUES PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number 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 DEC 3 0 1975 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAY 1 31976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON _VICINITY OF COUNTY Mahoning CITY. TOWN Poland Historical Society DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO 1975 LOCATION Poland HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION RECEIVED NAME PHOTO CREDIT STATE Ohio Western RPoland Historical Society North facade, looking south.

PHOTO REFERENCE DATE ENTERED Kirtland, Jared P., House Date Entered may 13,1976 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Loc.Mt Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7 +) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR COMMON COUNTY Mahoning CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF JohPoland Historical Society DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET 1975 IDENTIFICATION Ohio Poland HISTORIC STATE LOCATION NAME West elevation, looking east. PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO.

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS FOR NPS USE ONLY Kirtland, Jared Poi House DEC 3 0 1975 TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH RECEIVED D /from across Audubon Rd Looking east .of lot-on AuDaBoN 8113/26 RiGHTOFWAY -The Looking Southeast along Michigan d the Kirtland Houselot west from east end of - & Looking south lot. ) House across the ROPERTY C- Kirtlaud House lot Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEC 3 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM MAY 1 3 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - ENCLOSE WITH MAP Kirtland, Jared P., House AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN -VICINITY OF U. S. G. S. Campbell Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3.

UTM REFERENCES 1970 Poland LOCATION DATE STATE Ohio HISTORIC SCALE SOURCE RECEIVED 1:24,000 REQUIREMENTS NAME MAP REFERENCE DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY U. S. G. S. Mahoning COUNTY CAMPBELL, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CAMPBELL QUADRANGLE - State Route 4541/280 North RECEIVED REGISTER (color code in error) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 17532/080 East Kirtland, Jared Kixkland, Jared P., House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Fon. John H. Glenn, Jx. Hon. Donald D. Clancy Bob. Charles J. Carney Hon. Chalmers P. Wylie Hon. Thomas N. Kindness Hon. Charles W. Nhalen, Jr.

INT: 2950-75 Location STATE 5/17/76 Dayton Name Director MMott/row Poland Germantown Madison County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Mahoning County Cincinnati State Historic Preservation Officer Spring Grove Cemetery Plain City vicinity Cary Village Site Woman's Christian Association Also Notified Montgomery County Hamilton County Regional Director, Midwest Region Gumckel's Town Plan Historic District Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue The Ohio Historical Society Dr.Thomas H. Smith AUG 2 7 1976 Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohdo 43211 reach us until August 13. Charles A. Herrington (Sgd.T bcc: Regional Director, Midwest Region w/c PR w/c FNP:COLE: sle:8-26-76 H34-PR the move acceptable. BASIC FILE RETAINED IN PR Sincerely yours, Director's Reading File William J. Murtagh Dear Dr.

Smith: Keeper of the National Register Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Director, The Ohio Historical Society July 21, 1976 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Department of the Interior 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Dr. Murtagh: for commercial purposes and has allowed a local organization to purchase Therefore, we are providing photographs of the new site and other The present site of the Kirtland House is a four lane, busy street. The neighboring properties are a car dealer, a restaurant, and apartments.

The new site, about 1 mile away, is more like the original locale of the house twelve acre lot of field and trees which will remain undeveloped during the the meantime, we request prompt consideration of our request that the new site State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society X.c: Eric Johannesen, Regional Preservation Officer Ohio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 Sincerely, Enclosures House. RECEIVED Ohio Historic Preservation Office Western Reserve Historical Society National Park Service National Register during and after the move.

The move has the approval of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory National Register of Historic Places present owner's lifetime and which his heirs have said they will not develop documentation in accordance with section 60.16 of the Department of the its own which would be adversely affected by the presence of the Kirtland for the Jared Kirtland House be approved and that the house remain on the wish to have the house remain on the National Register during and after the AUG 13 1976 The Jared P. Kirtland House in Mahoning County, Ohio must be moved from its Thomas H. Smith Interior's amended regulations for the National Register of Historic Places. farmhouse and barn.

The site itself is flat, surrounded by maple trees and The Board.Photographs of the house will be sent after the move is completed.In a row of pine trees.The site has no historical or archeological merit of REGISTER SEP 1 7 1976 Kirkland, Jared P., House Dr. Thomas H. Smith INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Director Name Poland Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OHIO The Ohio Historical Society Move approved 8/26/76. Also Notified Mahoning County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue July 20, 1977 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper 18th & C Streets, N.W. Dear Dr. Murtagh: It has come to our attention that there are several changes which we Johnson's Island Civil War Prison & Fort, Ottawa Co.: The cemetery is owned by NPS as stated, but the remainder of the district is owned by 143 River St., Madison, Ohio 44057.

Phoenix Mills, Huron Co.: new owner - Ardin McClish, Rt. 1 Box 93, Mill Rd., N. Fairfield, Ohio 44855. Davis, Anson, House, Franklin Co.: location should read Dublin vicinity. PROPERTIES MOVED Kirtland, Jared P., House, Mahoning Co. Move was authorized on Aug. 1976. The new address is: SE Corner Audubon & Michigan Avenue (city lot 1031). Note also that the notification read Kirkland, not Kirtland; please change hio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 records. National Register. Davis, Samuel, House, Franklin Co.: location should read Columbus vicinity.

National Park Service OTHER CHANGES: National Register of Historic Places CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP: and request that the necessary changes be made.There are four Ohio Historic Preservation Office requested be made in our National Register records in September of Roland of your staff and she suggested that we write to you again properties which have been demolished and should be removed from the Johnson's Island, Inc; the form reflected only the private ownership. Department of the Interior J.C.Winan's Home,Lake Co.:new owner- Mr.G Mrs William D.Smith, Washington, D.C. 20240 1976 which have not been taken care of.We have talked with Mrs. July 20, 1977 page DEMOLISHED PROPERTIES Brown, John, Tannery, Portage Co. Demolished June, 1976 Sayler House, Hamilton Co. Demolished June, 1975 another list of changes in the near future and will try to update Thomas H.

Smith Director, Ohio Historical Society Murtagh Sincerely, State Historic Preservation Officer and THS/g1k Leonard Schlater House (part of Ohio City Preservation District), our files every 6 months. Brunswick Town Hall, Medina Co.

Demolished September, 1976 Thank you for your attention to these details.We will be sending 3 dare of entry: - county code: / town (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL X LOCAL - deteriorated 17) features: 4 OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 Dexeellent Druins OC NOT INTACT-O *good Omoved - Unknown Ounexcavated O NOT APPLICABLE-8 - No Access E) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 'first'O - COMMERCE - LAW- 16 - RELIGION-22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 -EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE- 17 X) SCIENCE- 23 'oldest'O - AGRICULTURE -3 -O CONSERVATION - 8 X HEALTH - 27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 O MUSIC - 19 D SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 CART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 major alterations : ( architectural style(s): * landscape arohiteot / garden designer: «) interior decorator: - NAMES give role & date Academy of Science, and a founder of Cleveland Medical College.

_date. TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE House CONDITION ETHNIC 099 ASSOCIATION GROUP 4/11/78 Xaltered ENTERTAINMENT-26 historic events: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ENGINEERING-11 EVENTS: vicinity of (1793-1877) Greek Revival WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NPS REGION artist: master builder: Xoriginal site URBAN PLANWING-31 XSTATE Dunexposed NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Bfunctions Kirtland, first president of Cleveland Adademy of Natural Science (now Cleveland Museum of Natural History) 5-13-76 PERSONAl: Jared P.Kirtland, orig. owner?,noted 19th c.physician, scientist, naturalist SAVED?

YES 2 OTHER NAMES: Mahoning 3ADMINISTRATOR: 'only' D CURRENTLY: Store *artisan: @builder/contractor: D YES -Unrestricted - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 @edates of initial construction engineer: UNKNOWN-4 reviewers initials who cataloged state's vertebrates and conducted extensive horticultural experiments, first president of Cleveland Dfair ISPROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yes Ounaltered DNAMy as it appears on federal register: