Nomination for Macomb, Mary Worthington, House

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED DEC 9* 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED APR 2 6 1976 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY.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 PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS - PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION - IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED - BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Not known to be in existing surveys DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 141 BOTH LOCATION TITLE CODE ACCESSIBLE DATE STATE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY COUNTY SCIENTIFIC NAME HISTORIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL OWNERSHIP CLASSIFICATION Chillicothe STATUS AGRICULTURE XUNOCCUPIED OTHER: MILITARY XPRIVATE _TRANSPORTATION _STRUCTURE _GOVERNMENT _INDUSTRIAL 490 South Paint Street Cellar Lumber Co., dba Chillicothe Lumber Co. XCOMMERCIAL Ohio _PARK _DISTRICT Ross Old Stone House _OBJECT. _MUSEUM -SITE Sixth - Ohio REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

Ross County Recorder's Office, Ross County Courthouse FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL PUBLIC Corner of Paint and Main Streets 7 DESCRIPTION DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

All of the windows have radiating sawn stone lintels with Keystones and CONDITION DATE EXCELLENT DETERIORATED REGISTER XALTERED 1975 UNALTERED RECEIVED design. NATIONAL XORIGINAL SITE also flanks the fireplaces on the second floor. fireplace in the south room are floor to ceiling cabinets of pre-Victorian house, twenty (20) by forty-nine (49) feet, has a rectangular plan with The Mary Worthington Macomb House now stands on a 5.3l acre parcel GOOD hallway is flanked by rooms of equal size.Dignified pre-Victorian The structural integrity of the original exterior is not affected by the The main entrance facing eastward is centered in the front facade:. Structurally the house is only altered by a one story metal leanto CHECK ONE (35) acre tract bordered by Paint Creek, when sold to Governor Thomas cornice with plain fascia and return. straddle the ridge on either end of the house.

-UNEXPOSED The eave trim is _RUINS MOVED has a transom light and plain wooden sides. Situated near Paint Creek, the Mary Worthington Macomb House 1s characterized by a plain boxed cornice. The raking trim consists of a The main door is headed by a radiating wooden lintel. The door also shed, which could easily be dismantled without injury to the house. of land, in a lumber yard. The house was situated upon a thirty-five The The second floor plan follows that of the ground floor. A central XFAIR Floor to ceiling cabinetry sawn stone slipsills. Two single stack chimneys flush with the gables, structures are no longer in evidence. shed which runs the length of the back and north side of the building. a two story building of broken course cut sandstone construction. house were listed with the Mary Worthington Macomb House in Ross County mantles are found in the second floor rooms.

the house on Paint Creek.

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PREHISTORIC SCIENCE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

during that time! owned prior to 1797 by the Virginian, Nathanial Massie, who founded Territory in 1800 and the capital of Ohio in 1803. 1600-1699 THEATER PHILOSOPHY BUILDER/ARCHITECT XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1700-1799 PERIOD SCULPTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC MILITARY XARCHITECTURE ART X1800-1899 TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE XCOMMERCE and appurtenances" to Governor Worthington. LITERATURE home of Thomas Worthington, Ohio's first Senator and sixth Governor. The significance of the Mary Worthington Macomb House is threefold. LAW INDUSTRY buildings of consequence in Chillicothe, former capital of the Northwest Territory and first capital of Ohio. the house is a rare example of architecture common to the earliest James Emmitt who bought the property in the mid 18oo's stated in Hector Sandford and Nathan Gregg purchased the property Feb. 15, l18l3.

_COMMUNICATIONS _ENGINEERING Gazette of February 29,1866 reported that the house was standing and - CONSERVATION _EDUCATION The land upon which the Mary Worthington Macomb House stands-was to the infancy of industry and commerce in Ohio and the Midwest.Third, -1500-1599 - 1400-1499 _ECONOMICS occupied by Hector Sandford in l8ll. increase from 2,250.00 paid by Sandford and Nathan Greg8,February15,1813 -1900- RELIGION COMMUNITY PLANNING Ohio and the Old Northwest Territory. Second, the house is tied directly It is not known precisely when the house was constructed. Sandford had emigrated to the Scioto Valley in 1799 and was one of the First, the house has historic associations with the early settlers of prices as recorded in the earliest deeds pertinent to the house show an INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC thirty-five acre tract to John McCoy, a pioneer merchant and pork packer.

The Scioto the same tract of land. This indicates that the edifice was constructed first ministers in Chillicothe. performed the carpentry and cabinety work in the building of Adena, the Third, On September 10,1813,Sandford and Gregg sold the property ina Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVEDEC 9 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES APR 2 6 1976 DATE ENTERED INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET own cotton factory elsewhere in Chillicothe. of particular national impórtance when he sold provisions to the American expeditions such as the one of Colonel Henry Atkinson in 1819-20 to ex- in the Old Stone House.

Ross County, Ohio Chillicothe Macomb, Mary Worthington, House By virtue of its ownership by Hector Sandford, John McCoy, Thomas On February l, l844 the house with sixteen acres was sold to Sandusky and Wesson were entrepreneurs during the period when Chillicothe was Worthington and subsequent owners, the.house became closely associated with the infancy of industrial development in Ohio and the Midwest. provisions to the Army:posts of the Southwest such as Fort Smith and to the time he built his cloth mill, Worthington had 405 cattle driven to s son-in-law, In 1817, while in New York, Worthington induced a number of engineer of the U.S. Navy. He served in the Navy from 1849 to 1889. ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 2 cotton, flax and wool.

The first manager of the mill was Hector Sandford, In 1820 after leaving the Worthington interests, Sandford built his immigrants from the Rhineland to go to Chillicothe where they were em- the East Coast to isolated outposts on the Red and Arkansas River in the U. S. ironclad ship to enter a foreign port. He may well have been born cloth mill on Paint Creek, near the house. was part of a trading and commercial system which had.ramifications from Southwest.

Worthington's business enterprises, which included loans from John Jacob Thomas Worthington's industrial and commercial activities ranged across Ohio from Tennessee where they had been purchased from the Chickasaw He often journied to New Orleans to sell his goods which stones from Baltimore and Pennsylvania for use in his grist mills.About ployed on his farms and in his mills.Thomas Worthington's business was The mill was equipped to weave Thus the Old Stone House During the time the Old Stone House was occupied by his mill managers army in the Northwest during the War of 18l2.In later yearshe supplied Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM APR 2 6 1976 Macomb, Mary Worthington, House CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 Alexander Frazier, who purchased the property in 1849 was also a pork Macomb House has remained entact, making it a tangible reminder of post PAGE Chillicothe second only to Cincinnati as the nation's pork packing center.Both men Thomas Worthington. packer as well as a manufacturer of whiskey, soap, starch and candles. DATE ENTERED Mary Worthington Macomb House is similar to Revolutionary America and the settlement of the Midwest. Ross County, Ohio This house goes by the historic name the Mary Worthington Macomb House because of the Bank of Chillicothe.

DEC 9 1975 Wallace amassed a large fortune and became a director Ohio's first capitol building and Governor Worthington's home, Adena. capitol, or the Morris Brothers who were masons at Adena. There is a she and her husband, David, lived there and managed the nearby mills for her father, RECEIVED were pork packers. marked similarity in the interior wood trim and exterior trim of the Old April 14, 1973, P. 4 LO

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY One VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 1 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE February 21, 1975 STREET & NUMBER 145 North High Street, Apt. 2 CITY OR TOWN 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL - NATIONAL - 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 inthe National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the DATE Oct. 9, 1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 773-3203 NORTHING CODE DATE COUNTY TELEPHONE Chillicothe ORGANIZATION pp.

23-28, 188, 211, 214-219 State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio UTM REFERENCES Ross County National Register Task Force ZONE EASTING Newspaper Article from the Chillicothe Leader Gazette,July 25,1896 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Finley and Putnam,Pioneer Records of Ross County (Cincinnati,187l)PP 142 &2 Advertisement from the Chillicothe Supporter, October 6, 1819 Thomas Worthington, (Ohio State University Press), 1958 criteria and procedures setforth by the National Park-Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE ISINCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Kalfs, Barbara LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES One ATTEST: Sears Alfred Byron, David L. Brook, member 4.23.76 Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEC 9 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED APR 2 6 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE David L. Brook NEGATIVE FILED AT PHOTO NO 1 DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO 2 NAME LOCATION COUNTY IDENTIFICATION Chillicothe HISTORIC STATE RECEIVED Ohio Looking Northeast toward rear of house. PHOTO CREDIT Home of David L. Brook, Chillicothe, Ohio Old Stone House Macomb, Mary Worthington, House Ross TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH DATE OF PHOTO Nov. 16, 1974 DATE OF PHOTO Lonkine Southwest, toward front of houge Form No.

10-301 FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVEDDEC 9 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM APR 2 6 1976 IDATE ENTERED TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF MAP REFERENCE DATE 1961 Photo revised 1971 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES 1:24000 LOCATION REQUIREMENTS HISTORIC COUNTY STATE NAME Chillicothe SOURCE SCALE Ohio Ross Old Stone House (Rev. 10-74 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS DATE Macomb, Mary Worthington, House USGs 7.5' Series, Chillicothe East Quadrangle Gravel Puid BM 643 Worthington Seb, BM 628 Macomb, Mary Worthington F UTM 17 329305 4354160 VWCHI) House 613 Water YOUCTANGEE 610 Radio Lower c WEST) FRANKFOR 435 PARK RIVER CHILLICOTHE Sewage High Seh.

Send-back 2.24.76 Re-submit - KEEPER OTHER Inventory HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL Review HISTORIAN Maps 4-22-76 BRANCH CHIEF State National Register Write-up Accept Federal Register Entry Cole REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Working Number1,9. 75. 21 24 6-1-26 Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN APR 2 61976 IN T:2106- 74 ARCHEOLOGIST Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 4.23.7 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 AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT X PRIVATE *COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY Cellar Lumber Co., dba Chillicothe Lumber Co.

5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 141 LOCATION CLASSIFICATION DATE CODE ACCESSIBLE COUNTY TITLE AGRICULTURE CATEGORY OWNERSHIP HISTORIC TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRIAL STATE PUBLIC Chillicothe PARK NAME RELIGIOUS RECEIVED STATUS Corner of Paint and Main Streets _GOVERNMENT XBUILDING(S) Ross 490 South Paint Street Not known to be in existing surveys XUNOCCUPIED _ENTERTAINMENT DATA SHEET JUN 18 1976 - EDUCATIONAL DATE ENTERED Ohio -SCIENTIFIC MILITARY Old Stone House _OBJECT FOR NPS USE ONLY - MUSEUM -BOTH _SITE Macomb, Mary Worthington, House Sixth - Ohio -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL William Harsha COURTHOUSE. XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE a two story building of broken course cut sandstone construction.

The house, twenty (20) by forty-nine (49) feet, has a rectangular plan with shed, which could easily be dismantled without injury to the house. Worthington, November 1, 1815. In 1845 a slaughter house and a frame design. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION XALTERED UNALTERED XFAIR The main entrance facing eastward is centered in the front facade flanked by single rooms, which are of equal size with fireplaces centered The structural integrity of the original exterior is not affected by the All of the windows have radiating sawn stone lintels with Keystones and house were listed with the Mary Worthington Macomb House in Ross County The Mary Worthington Macomb House now stands on a 5.3l acre parcel CHECK ONE hallway is flanked by rooms of equal size.Dignified pre-Victorian shed which runs the length of the back and north side of the building.

also flanks the fireplaces on the second floor. cornice with plain fascia and return. structures are no longer in evidence. acre tract bordered by Paint Creek, when sold to Governor Thomas .EXCELLENT -GOOD Situated near Paint Creek, the Mary Worthington Macomb House is wings on either side. There is a partial basement under the north wing. mantles are found in the second floor rooms. Floor to ceiling cabinetry of land, in a lumber yard. The house was situated upon a thirty-five RUINS The second floor plan follows that of the ground floor.A central the house on Paint Creek.

characterized bya plain boxed cornice.The raking trim consists ofa sawm stone slipsills.Two single stack chimneys flush with the gables, Structurally the house is only altered by a one story metal leanto The eave trim is Tax Records.Prior to 1820,Thomas Worthington's cloth mill stood near The mill was destroyed by fire and in 1896 straddle the ridge on either end of the house. Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Macomb, Mary Worthington, House Ross County, Ohio By virtue of its ownership by Hector Sandford, John MeCoy, Thomas David, the son of David and Mary Worthington Macomb, became chief in the Old Stone House. Southwest.

RECEIVED Chillicothe Thomas Worthington's industrial and commercial activities ranged across Worthington and subsequent owners, the house became closely associated CONTINUATION SHEET of particular national importance when he sold provisions to the American Worthington's business enterprises, which included loans from John Jacob DATE ENTERED was part of a trading and commercial system which had ramifications from own cotton factory elsewhere in Chillicothe. the East Coast to isolated outposts on the Red and Arkansas River in the In l82o after leaving the Worthington interests, Sandford built his immigrants from the Rhineland to go to Chillicothe where they were em- army in the Northwest during the War of l8l2.In later years he supplied with the infancy of industrial development in Ohio and the Midwest.

JUN 1 8 1976 FOR NPS USE ONLY expeditions such as the one of Colonel Henry Atkinson in l8l9-20 to ex- the time he built his cloth had 405 cattle driven to On February l,1844 the house with sixteen acres was sold to Sandusky ITEM NUMBER 8 8 PAGE 2 In 1817, while in New York, Worthington induced a number of Astor, were extensive. In 1810 Worthington established a ropewalk and the growing nation. The cotton for the mill came from Tennessee, Kentucky Indians.

were shipped on his own flatboats.Governor Worthington purchased mill ployed on his farms and in his mills.Thomas Worthington's business was Wallace and Sanders Wesson by the executors of Thomas Worthington.Wallace stones from Baltimore and Pennsylvania for use in his grist mills.About Macomb Junior had a distinguished Civil War record and was upon the first He often journied to New Orleans to sell his goods which U.S.ironclad ship to enter a foreign port.He may well have been born Thus the Old Stone House During the time the Old Stone House was occupied by his mill provisions to the Army posts of the Southwest such as Fort Smith and to and New Orleans. engineer of the U.s.Navy.He served in the Navy from 1849 to 1889. Form No. 10-300a (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 Macomb, Mary Worthington, House Ross County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET of the Bank of Chillicothe. capitol, or the Morris Brothers who were masons at Adena. There is a she and her husband, David, lived there and managed the nearby mills for her father, Chillicothe RECEIVED JUN 1 8 1976 Thomas Worthington. second only to Cincinnati as the nation's pork packing center.Both men Revolutionary America and the settlement of the Midwest. Macomb House has remained it a tangible reminder of post marked similarity in the interior wood trim and exterior trim of the Old ITEM NUMBER 8 Alexander Frazier, who purchased the property in 1849 was also & pork packer as well as a manufacturer of whiskey, soap, starch and candles.

Ohio's first capitol building and Governor Worthington's home, Adena. is likely that it was the work of Major William Rutledge who built the Stone House and Adena. PAGE Architecturally, the Mary Worthington Macomb House is similar to The architectural character of the Mary Worthington AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - 1500-1599 AGRICULTURE - 1600-1699 SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE First, the house has historic associations with the early settlers of increase from $2,250.00 paid by Sandford and Nathan Gregg, February 15,1813, Territory in 1800 and the capital of Ohio in 1803. home of Thomas Worthington, Ohio's first Senator and sixth Governor. thirty-five acre tract to John MoCoy, a pioneer merchant and pork packer.

PERIOD 1400-1499 SIGNIFICANCE LAW CONSERVATION XARCHITECTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE MILITARY ART XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SCIENCE XCOMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC and appurtenances" to Governor Worthington. POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The land upon which the Mary Worthington Macomb House stands.was _PHILOSOPHY The significance of the Mary Worthington Macomb House is threefold. ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _RELIGION _COMMUNICATIONS _PREHISTORIC Hector Sandford and Nathan Gregg purchased the property Feb.15,1813. buildings of consequence in Chillicothe, former capital of the Northwest - ENGINEERING during that time.

- EDUCATION INVENTION the house is a rare example of architecture common to the earliest X1800-1899 James Emmitt who bought the property in the mid 18oo's stated in -ECONOMICS Gazette of February 29,1866 reported that the house was standing and Territory and first capital of Ohio. _1700-1799 owmed prior tol797 by the Virginian,Nathanial Massie,who founded -SCULPTURE against the Indians in1774.Hector Sandford was one of three men who On September 10,1813,Sandford and Gregg sold the property ina Sandford had emigrated to the Scioto Valley in l799 and was one of the - INDUSTRY -MUSIC -1900- His father, Angus Sandford, an English immigrant, was an officer with Lord Dunmore in his Ohio expedition first ministers in Chillicothe.

to the infancy of industry and commerce in Ohio and the Midwest.Third, Chillicothe in l796.Chillicothebecame the capital of the Northwest occupied by Hector Sandford in l8ll. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Advertisement from the Chillfcothe Supporter, October 6, 1819 Kalis, Barbara, April 14, 1973, P. 4 Finley and Putnam, Pioneer Records of Ross County (Cincinnati, 1871)PP 142 &203 pp. 23-28, 188, 211, 214-219 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIESOVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES I FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David L.

Brook, member STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL 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 State Historic Preservation Officer DATE Oct. 9, 1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY APR 2 6 1976 KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 773-3203 DATE CODE NORTHING TELEPHONE COUNTY ORGANIZATION EASTING One STATE Chillicothe Ohio Ross County National Register Task Force Newspaper Article from the Chillicothe Leader Gazette,July 25,1896 14,315.4160 Thomas Worthington, (Ohio State University Press), 1958 February 21, 1975 145 North High Street, Apt.

2 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I ATTEST: Sears Alfred Byron, Recd arig. 6/18/76 Ref# 16001525 CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Re-submit _ Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back MAPS National Register Write-up Federal Register entry BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW HISTORIAN Ross WORKING NUMBER /2, 9. 15 2 Macomb, Mary Worthington, House THOMAS MILLER HOUSE - Front Elevation PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CHILLICOTHE EAST QUADRANGLE Mount Eyes UNITED STATES CHILLICOTHE EAST, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OF OHIO DEC 9 - December 4, 1975 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Department of the Interior Dr. J.C. Winans House, Lake County; St.

Luke's Episcopal Church, Licking County; Mary Worthington Macomb House, Ross County; Ox- ford Female Institute, Butler County; Jones-Cutler House, Pike Mott requested these nominations be Xeroxed and forwarded to Thomas H. Smith Director, Ohio Historical Society Sincerely, enclosures: REGISTER Dear Dr. Murtagh: Enclosed you will find Xerox copies of the National Register hio Historic Preservation Office NATIONAL RECEIVED your office for further processing until the misplaced nomin- National Register of Historic Places THS : jp County and Colerain Works Archaeological District, Hamilton National Park Service Washington, D.C. 20240 State Historic Preservation Officer ations are found or replaced with new originals. 18th G C Streets, N.W.

forwarded to Washington on October 9th with five other nomin- 1975 nominations for: Rock Mill Covered Bridge, Fairfield County; ations.All of which have misplaced in your office. Marguerite Winans, Dr. J. C., House Dunlap Vicinity St. Luke's Episcopal Church Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. Clarence B. Miller Hon. J. Will1am Stanton Interstate /1 at 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Regional Director, Midwest Region INT: 2950-75 CPR :MMott: cam:4/26/76 Location Jasper STATE Name Madison Butler County Oxford State Historic Preservation Officer Lake County Colerain Works Archeological District Date Entered Chillicothe Jones-Cutler House Rock Mill Vicinity Also Notified Licking County Rock Mill Covered Bridge Director, The Ohio Historical Society ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hon. John M. Ashbrook Hon. Donald D. Clancy Hon. William H. Harsha Oxford Female Inatitute Fairfield County Hon.

Thonas N. Kindness Ross County Granville Hamilton County Maconb, Mary Worthington, House OHTO June 10, 1976 f Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Transmitted herewith are eight (8) completed National Register forms. of these forms were thought to have been sent to your office on October 9th, 1975 copies were subsequently mailed as temporary replacements and, at this date, all of the properties have been placed on the Register. for reasons unknown, sent them to our archives where they were dutifully steps to see that this type of error does not happen again. Please accept these original nominations, photographs, and maps as replacements for the Xerox copies you presently have.

Thomas H: Smith State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society Colerain Works Archaeological District, Hamilton Co. Jones-Cutler House, Pike Co. Oxford Female Institute, Butler Co. / Macomb, Mary Worthington, House, Ross Co. St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Licking Co. .Dr. J.C. Winan's House, Lake Co. Rock Mill Covered Bridge, Fairfield Co. Brunswick. Town Hall and School, Medina Co. Sincerely, REGISTER enclosures: NATIONAL RECEIVED hio Historic Preservation Office National Park Service along with a letter of transmittal and three emergency nominations. Your The nominations, it turns out, were never sent to your office.

Our mailroom, THS/g1k cataloged.We regret the inconvenience this has caused you and have taken 4 county code: Old Stone House(sec) Macomb, Mary Worthington, House 7) features: Omoved OONOT INTACT - O - Unknown SO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - LAW - 16 - LITERATURE - 17 J SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANWING-31 - MILITARY - 18 - MUSIC - 19 U SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30| 'only' D - ART-5 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 3 funetions artist 141 Midwest 4-26-76 ETHNIC ASSOCIATION GROUP ADMINISTRATOR /town INSTITUTIONAL: vicinity of REGISTER WRITE-UP architectural style(s) SETTLEMENT-29 CONDITION Coriginal site Dunexposed Rose Ross Dunexcavated L490 S.Paint St. FEDERAL EDUCATION-10 STATE Dexcellent NPS REGION ONaltered Chil tcothe 2OTHER NAMES 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION *air IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Oyes -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain RELIGION- 22 - ECONOMICS-9 J INDUSTRY- 13| - TRANSPORTATION - 25 Bartisan: @bullder/contractor: LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 NATIONAL Ohio ARCHITECTURE-4 CURRENTLY: landscape architect/garden designer: UNKNOWN-5 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: UNKNOWN-6 SAVED?YES NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET UNKNOWN-4 of entry: NAMES give role & date 6th C ONOT