Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Congregational Church Of Austinburg

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,421 words across 12 pages, filed in 1978. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 78002001, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DEC 2 2 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Congregational Church of Austinburg - AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER O H Route 307, near intersection _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 1l - J. William Stanton PRESENT USE - _UNOCCUPIED BUILDING(S) *PRIVATE _WORK IN PROGRESS EDUCATIONAL PRIVATE RESIDENCE X RELIGIOUS IN PROCESS X YES: RESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 Jefferson Austinburg DATE OBJECT LOCATION CODE Ashtabula TITLE COUNTY ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE SITE STATE COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMENT STRUCTURE TRANSPORTATION NAME Ohio BOTH Ashtabula County Courthouse Board of Trustees STATUS PARK DISTRICT PUBLIC OTHER: First United Church of Christ of Austinburg West Jefferson Street PUBLIC ACQUISITION _GOVERNMENT DATE ENTERED COURTHOUSE, OWNERSHIP 07707 MILITARY _SCIENTIFIC Route 45 - INDUSTRIAL FOR NPS USE ONLY --MUSEUM Route 1 _FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL The First United Church of Christ, Austinburg X EXCELLENT XORIGINAL SITE GOOD _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

pointed arches follows the eaves line, the facade gable, and CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION RUINS UNALTERED FAIR affect the integrity of the main structure. virtually unaltered. The original tracker-action organ has been projects from the back of the church. consists of three lancets and a large roundel. This is a brick church building in the Gothic revival style. The basic structure of the building is unaltered.Minor alterations include a chimney added to the east side of the A church annex was added in 1932 to the southwest of the of open tracery. The body of the church has five bays articulated with engaged buttresses and lancet windows.A corbel table with CHECK ONE X ALTERED corner, with a broach spire. A smaller buttressed tower at the DATE northwest corner has a pyramidal roof with an octagonal lantern The facade window contain the original Victorian art glass.
building. It is connected by an unobtrusive link and does not There is a large square buttressed entrance tower at the northeast the tops of the towers.An apse-like choir without windows restored and remains in the original position.The original pews in AREAS OF

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE - CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE X ARCHITECTURE XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC X1800-1899 POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Western Reserve of Ohio. after the church in Norfolk, Connecticut, was built in 1824. In 1874 American artist Wallace Nutting, he designed the present church family memorials, were designed by Betsy Cowles, a nationally-known War Gothic architecture and allied arts, its associations in the 1877 1500-1599 PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY region. TRANSPORTATION RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MILITARY AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION EDUCATION LITERATURE _ENGINEERING well-preserved example of the mid-nineteenth century Gothic revival The Congregational Church is a significant structure in the The First Congregational Church of Austinburg is an excellent and _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT important early educational institution located in Austinburg.
_COMMERCE community, and its place in the history of the Western Reserve _COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCE October of 180l the Congregational Church was organized.The first erected in 1877.The building was dedicated on September 27,1877, donated by teachers and students of the Grand River Academy, an style.It is the third building of the oldest church in the Connecticut _ECONOMICS The first permanent settlers arrived in Austinburg in l8oo.In log structure was erected in 18l0,and a frame building patterned the Rev.John K. Nutting became the pastor. A cousin of the noted _1700-1799 -1600-1699 - INVENTION -1400-1499 INDUSTRY _THEATER having cost $17,000.The stained glass windows,)many of them _1900- educator, abolitionist, and suffragist. The large facade window was LAW community of Austinburg because of its characteristic post-Civil

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES E. Cowles Memorial Edition, 1956). collection of Margaret Tichnor, Austinburg, Ohio). 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Eric Johanne sen 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 1978 216-721-5722 ORGANIZATION COUNTY TELEPHONE DATE CODE ZONE NORTHING LOCAL The Western Reserve Historical Society ATTEST: UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING 10825 East Boulevard Correspondence between Miss Betsy Cowles and John K.Nutting (Private 1.37 Acres Clevelandtout Handbook of the First Congregational Church, Austinburg, Ohio (Howard Williams Brothers, History of Ashtabula County, Ohio (Philadelphia, 1878) LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Mrs.
Willard (Marian) Huffman, Austinburg, Ohio hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the Ohio 12.20.28 Photos _ Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Re-submit - IN T:2106- 74 TECHNICA OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Send-back Maps HISTORIAN Review BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Federal Register Entry 828.78 2.679 Working . 26. 78.
342/ 0K 6.28.28 -DEC 22 1978 Entered 445 1978 Austinburg Ashtabula photo & negs: Richard Stoner, Congregational Church of Ohio View looking Southwest DEC 2 2 1978 JUN 2 6 1978 JUN 2 6 1978 Facade, looking South 1978 Ashtabula Austinburg photo & negs: Richard Stoner, Congregational Church of Ohio 1978 Austinburg Ashtabula Ohio Congregational Church of photo & negs: Richard Stoner, JUN 2 6 1978 West elevation, looking East 3.
JUN 2 6 1978 Austinburg Ashtabula Ohio photo & negs: Richard Stoner, South elevation, looking North Congregational Church of GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ASHTABULA SOUTH QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 17 511/940 Bast DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO 17 4624/180 North ASHTABULA SOUTH, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ROAD CLASSIFICATION OHIO-ASHTABULA CO JUN 2 6 1978 TELEPHONE REPORT REPORT: PHONE: ADDRESS: OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION DATE: /2.20.78 DIVISION: WR. STATE OHIO DEC 2 2 1978 Akey, James, Farm Old Lawrence County Jail Stone, Valerius C., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Columbus, Ohio 43211 Honorable Willis D. Gradison, Jr. Byers/bjr 1/18/79 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.
Location Resource Austinburg Director Burlington Cincinnati Name Lawrence County Strongsville vicinity Hamilton County Wayne County Honorable Ralph Regula Wyatt's Tavern-Fort Morrow Site Ashtabula County Cuyahoga County Marion County Honorable J. William Stanton Date Entered Congregational Church of Austinburg The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Clarence J. Brown Honorable Thomas A. Luken Honorable Clarence E. Miller Gas Street Lamps of Cincinnati Multiple State Historic Preservation Officer Dravo Gravel Site Also Notified Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: DEC 2 2 1978 city / town X)STATE OH 307 12)SOURCE OF NOMINATION - deteriorated Oaltered Doriginal site 17) Leatures: OO NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Ounexeavated -O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access SAVED? YES IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono EI) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -RECREATION -28 BCLAIMS: explain -POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE - 6 - LAW - 16 CARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O -AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH - 27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 ECONOMICS - 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 major alterations : @ master builder: 1landscape architeet / garden designer: ") interior decorator: EVENTS : -date.
IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE CONDITION Austinburg Marian Huffman county engineer: ASSOCIATION Ashtabula SETTLEMENT-29 PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 ENGINEERING-11 FEDERAL Congregational Church of Austinburg historic events: builder/contractor: INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION vicinity of Dfair artisan: artist: First United Church of Christ SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ADMINISTRATOR: Dexcellent LOCAL Bfunctions dates of initial construction: Dunexposed NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP RELIGION-22 Barchitectural style(s): NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET as it appears on federal register: Omoved Oruins GNPS REGION: -good Oreconstructed "first'D 'only' D Jreviewers initials. ETHNIC GROUP SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) URBAN PLANWING-31 9ADAPTIVE USE YES NO