Nomination for Renner, George J., Jr., House

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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FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Renner, George J., Jr:, House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE -BUILDING(S) - STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS _ YES: UNRESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY - Wilbur J.

Ross 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR Youngstown 039 DATE LOCATION OBJECT CODE HISTORIC COUNTY TITLE UNOCCUPIED Mahoning BOTH GOVERNMENT MILITARY EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY NAME OWNERSHIP CLASSIFICATION STATE PARK Ohio Kingston Lane ENTERTAINMENT SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE SITE RELIGIOUS INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM Mahoning County Courthouse PRIVATE STATUS DATE ENTERED COURTHOUSE. 277 Park Avenue 120 Market Street SURVEY RECORDS DATA SHEET FOR NPS USE ONLY -COMMERCIAL -OTHER: OCT 8 1976 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 19 - Charles J. Carney 099 PUBLIC DESCRIPTION X EXCELLENT DETERIORATED GOOD LRUINS X ALTERED _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

and eaves brackets. The roofs, gabled over the house and hipped over the portico, are tiled. There are two square, bulky dormers There are two massive chimneys, on the east and the south, which The south elevation has an irregular functional outline unlike a small back porch, again with double and triple Ionic columns. The main entrance, beneath a semi-elliptical balcony, leads CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED FAIR rise perfectly straight from the ground to the summit above the roof a symmetrically placed marble stairway leads to a divided landing solid stone railings. The portico has only three wide bays, emphasized CHECK ONE entablature and the steep pediment are massive and have both dentils On the west elevation there is a wide porte-cochere carried on columns.

This is a very large mansion of masonry construction in the tall keystones.The corners of the house are quoined.On the east north facade is a monumental two-story portico the entire width of elevation there is a semi-circular bay.The rusticated foundation and almost an Oriental aspect. In the west corner of the ell there is academic Georgian Revival style.It is basically a large square block where there is a large stained-glass window.The living rooms of three columns.A rather unusual feature is the use of full-round columns the house.The veranda is approached by wide stone steps between next to the house in addition to pilasters.The cornices of both the the house have been divided into a number of small apartments.

the classical facade.The massing of the steep tile roofs on the by double Ionic columns.The central pedimented bay has clusters of XORIGINAL SITE The flat stone window.lintels in the.red brick wall also have smooth sill course are carried around the bay at the same level. toa vestibule with glass doors,and then into a center hall.Here over the portico. DATE house, the ell and an additional rectangular bay on the ell have with a short ell at the southeast corner.The main feature of the AREAS OF

Statement of significance

largest brewery in the city, and symbolizes the cultural aspirations a rich manufacturer at the turn of the century. center, with a population of 45,000. George J. Renner, Jr., was the 1907 1400-1499 1800-1899 1700-1799 INVENTION ECONOMICS TRANSPORTATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION ENGINEERING THEATER PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT RELIGION AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY PREHISTORIC ART BUILDER/ARCHITECT LITERATURE MILITARY 1900- SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MUSIC _COMMUNICATIONS _PHILOSOPHY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This is one of the most elaborate residences in Youngstown, Ohio, his own business in Wooster in 1880,and four years later he established SPECIFIC DATES the informal plan features are still those of late Victorian living.

proprietor of the City Brewery.His father had arrived in the United the year that Renner built his palatial Georgian Revival house.While _CONSERVATION By 19oo Youngstown was already an important iron and steel 100,000 barrels of beer per year, and employed sixty people in 1907, -1600-1699 -1500-1599 as the height of this style was reached a decade earlier.Some of _COMMERCE and Mansfield, Ohio. George, Jr., was born in 1856 and educated in Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He located LAW it is an excellent example of the type, it is basically conservative, States in 1848 and operated brewing businesses in Cincinnati, Akron

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Mahoning County, Ohio (Chicago, 1907), 501-502 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Eric Johannesen, Preservationist STREET & NUMBER 10825 - East Boulevard - TELEPHONE CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATIGN OFFICER SIGNATURE S.H. P.O. FOR NPS USE ONLY KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 216-721-5722 NORTHING DATE ORGANIZATION CODE COUNTY Cleveland ZONE Ohio EASTING August 1975 Thomas W.

Sanderson,Twentieth Century History of Youngstown and Western Reserve Historical Society ATTEST hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the less than one THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I HE NATIONAL REGISTER LOCAL Renner, George J., Jr., House Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF OCT 8 1976 OTHER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Inventory Entered Maps Re-submit Send-back CONTROL Review HISTORIAN Property TECHNICAL National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Ohio State KEEPER 76001483 12-7-26 IN T:2106- 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 5,7.76 10.4.76 Mahaning Accepr APR 2 3 1976 Form No.

10-301a (Pev. 10-7+) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FÖRMS Renner, George Jo, Jr., House AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN Youngstown _VICINITY OF DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT Wester n Reserve Historical Society DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET North facade, looking southeast 1975 LOCATION HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION RECEIVED OCT81976 NAME PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO NO FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE Ohio E. Johannes en TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH Ohio PHOTO CREDIT APR 2 3 1976 Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM OCT 8 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Renner, George J., Jr., House AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN Youngstown VICINITY OF STATE ohio E. Johannesen DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET East elevation and north facade, looking southwest 1975 HISTORIC LOCATION IDENTIFICATION RECEIVED Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO CREDIT NAME PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO NO. FOR NPS USE ONLY APR 2 3 1976 PEORrOTV OF THE NATIONAL REGISTT? Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7 +) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 2 3 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Renner, George J., Jr., House AND/OR COMMON _VICINITY OF COUNTY Mahoning PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO E. Johannesen NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET 1975 IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC LOCATION Weste rn Reserve Historical Society RECEIVED PHOTO CREDIT NAME STATE Ohio PHOTO NO South and west elevations, looking Northeast DATE ENTERED OCT81976 Form No.

10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - ENCLOSE WITH MAP Renner, George J., Jr., House AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF COUNTY Mahoning STATE Ohio U. S. G.S. Youngstown Quadrangle 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES INT: 34 64 - 75 Youngstown 1970 DATE LOCATION RECEIVED HISTORIC SOURCE SCALE REQUIREMENTS NAME MAP REFERENCE DATE ENTERED APR 2 31975 0CT81976 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) George Jo, Jr., 4551/170 North DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR YOUNGSTOWN QUADRANGLE 17 529/410 East YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO UNITED STATES NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY N4100 - W8037.5/ 7.5 REGISTEN Kenner, George J., Jr., House White, Walter C., Estate Mayfteld Heights vicinity Hon.

John H. Glenn, Jr. DE. Thomas H. Snith Hon. Clarence E. Miller Regional Director, Midwest Region INT: 2950-75 880 10/15/76 Location STATE Date Entered MMot/row Canal Winchester vicinity Washington County Fairfield County Name Dart vicinity Warnke Covered Bridge Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Ohio Historical Society Mahoning County Geauga County Youmgstown Lewisburg vicinity Loucks Covered Bridge Preble County Hune Covered Bridge Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Director Hon. Thomas N. Kindness Hon. Charles J. Carney OCT 8 Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 43211 State Historie Preservation Officer INITIALS: MJL VICINITY OF -code OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) ADMINISTRATOR (underline) FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : X Substantially intact-3 - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 -Interioz, exterior, environs not intact-0 CONDITION - Reconstructed "only" YES IF YES, NAME: Saved ?

FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) now- house _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -socío/cultural _urban & commun _OTHER (SPECIFY) INVENTION "oldest? YES LOCATION INTERIOR MIDWEST Claims EXCELLENT Yes-unrestricted 099 ART "first" ARCHITECTURE then-house ECONOMICS PRIVATE AGRICULTURE DOE planning POLITICS/GOVERNMENT FEATURES: UNALTERED STATE TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE: LITERATURE UNEXPOSED -entertainment ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION _COMMUNICATIONS -recreation EXTERIOR MUSIC historic district? -settlement ENVIRONS DETERIORATED WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? MILITARY ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

No access .ENGINEERING -health ADAPTIVE USE: _CONSERVATION -EXPLORATION -Unexcavated _PHILOSOPHY -RUINS _COMMERCE BORIGINAL SITE REGION: (CIRCLE) _GOOD _MOVED _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCE OTHER NANES: NPS N.ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST COUNTY OTHER PACIFIC NORTHWEST Reviewer NR Data _Unkncwn XALTERED INDUSTRY DATE OE CONSTRUCTION (Specific date or 1/4 of century) : 19,07 DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S): FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) SIGNIFICANCE (maximum two sentences) builder/contractor: MUNICIPAL engineer: COUNTY OTHER artist/artisan: architect/m.builder: events NAMES: landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: institutional ETHNIC GROUP: appropriate date) PRIVATE DATES: (label role ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) STATE LOCAL GOV"T