Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Dew House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,731 words across 13 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 78002006, 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. (9/77) UNITEDSTATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM OCT 3 1978 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 Nelsonville, Ohio - VICINITY OF 10th - Clarence Miller PRESENT USE PRIVATE X COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS XXYES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 009 Housing Courthouse LOCATION DATE CODE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL STATE ENTERTAINMENT HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE AGRICULTURE MILITARY SCIENTIFIC Ohio Dew House SITE NAME RELIGIOUS MUSEUM PARK PUBLIC DISTRICT STATUS Jackson Street XXBUILDING(S) Arthur and Elaine Savely Athens County Commissioners TITLE Athens County Courthouse _TRANSPORTATION Court and Washington Streets Public Square - UNOCCUPIED Athens, Ohio - INDUSTRIAL -OBJECT _FEDERAL STATE COUNTY _LOCAL DATA SHEET PH0681831 7 DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

to the north. The Ohio House, which occupied the site immediately prior to the Dew House, was con- corporated into the Dew House, built in 1878. A third story was added to the original regular, U-shaped building was created with an interior courtyard area. CONDITION EXCELLENT block and a three-story seven-bay extension was erected on the rear.In addition, a CHECK ONE RUINS UNALTERED The second story of the porch is supported by simple circular:steel posts and the roof two-story, four-bay block was attached to the northeastern side of the building.An ir- The first-story windows and double-door entrance in the original block have lintels GOOD basement.Differences in wall thickness seem to indicate that this building was in- The hipped roof with deck has a slate covering and a projecting cornice supported by hotel and commercial block have segmental arches with 2/2 sashes.
The Dew House is a three-story brick building with a two-story commercial block added XFAIR and railing extend from the roof of the porch across the facade of the hotel. structed in 1839, and consisted of a two-story masonry building with a full sandstone XALTERED _UNEXPOSED Sometime between 1907 and 1912,a two-story porch was added to the facade of the hotel. XORIGINAL SITE small brackets spaced between oversized paired brackets. narrow, vertical, tongue-and-groove siding. A simple, undecorated fire escape stairs by similar wooden posts.T decorated with a star and curvilinear pattern.The remainder of the windows in the AREAS OF

Statement of significance

The Dew House is an important manifestation of the economic, social, and political history Mineral City" of the entire three-county area. Both the Hocking Valley Canal, constructed in the 1830s, and the Hocking Valley Railroad, built in the 1870s, were designed to pro- the community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The mineral resources around Nelsonville, which was platted in 1818 by Daniel Nelson, were justify a larger-scale mining. Thomas Dew, a local farmer, envisioned the potential town in 1835. The two-story hotel, called the Ohio House, was constructed on these lots Nelsonville, came with the completion of the Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad in 1872. James Dew, a nephew of the original builder, recognized this and with a share of his requirements.
ART ARCHITECTURE PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT RELIGION 1900- TRANSPORTATION CONSERVATION XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURE SCIENCE LITERATURE 1600-1699 SCULPTURE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY XECONOMICS EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS _1400-1499 coincide with the economic and physical expansion of Nelsonville that accompanied the _1700-1799 Dew House.Most noteworthy were the speeches of William Howard Taft and his rival former- supposedly incorporated into the new three-story building. Dew rented the hotel out until The town population, in fact, increased over 200% in the decade between 1870 and 1880. President Theodore Roosevelt from the second story of the hotel porch during the 1912 in 1839.
The greatest stimulus for coal mining in the region and consequently, the growth of The Dew House was an important focus of social and political activities in Nelsonville welfare housing, and was ultimately closed in 1975 in lieu of complying with fire code growth of Nelsonville that the canal would bring and purchased several corner lots in primary race for the Republican nomination. trustee for York Township.
vide the transportation system for the extraction of this purportedly"inexhaustible until the completion of the canal in 1840 was the necessary transportation available to tant political figures came into town, it was the natural place for their speeches and _1500-1599 X.SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN The degeneration of the mining industry in southeastern Ohio led to a resultant decline mineral wealth."The construction of the Dew House in 1839 and its expansion in 1878 MILITARY - EDUCATION _THEATER May1882,when he and his son began to manage it directly.In 1881 Dew also becamea -LAW during the 19th and early 20th century. It was, for example, a recruiting office during rallies.
Presidents McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt and Harding all visited and spoke at the ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORICCOMMUNITY PLANNING INVENTION in Nelsonville and, in turn, the Dew House.The hotel became a rooming house, then of Nelsonville. The 1883 History of Hocking Valley identified Nelsonville as "the 9

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES March, 1978. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one QUADRANGLE NAME VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION measuring in total approximately150 ft. by 125 ft. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL V 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 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OF REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 614-466-1500 ORGANIZATION DATE NORTHING Nelsonville Columbus CODE COUNTY TELEPHONE 7/5/78 ATTEST: Ohio History of Hocking Valley, Ohio. Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1883. The nominated property consists of lots 24 and 25 of the original plat of Nelsonville, ZONE EASTING UTM REFERENCES Ohio Historic Preservation Office FOR NPS USE ONLY Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue David A. Simmons ZONE Nitschke Associates. Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AUG 1 1 1978 OCT 3 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Dew House, Athens County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE RECEIVED after the Athens County Commissioners developed plans for the renovation of the FOR NPS USE ONLY The Dew House was determined to be eligible for the National Register in May 1978, hotel using funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Photos - OK 8.14.78 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Federal Register Entry Re-submit . KEEPER OTHER TECHNICAL Review ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back HISTORIAN Maps 1978 State National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Ath ens HAER Working Number8. 1/. 7 8. 3 843 Entered OCT 3 INT:210 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.
7 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Property Photographer: Renate Deveau, March 1978 AUG 11 1978 Looking northeast Negatives: Athens County Community Development Office Dew House, Athens County, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DOE +2 q4 1978 Dew House, Athens County, Ohio AUG 11 1978 OCT 3 Looking east Negatives: Athens County Community Photographer: Renate Deveau, March 1978 Development Office PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DOE Dew House, Athens County, Ohio Photographer: Renate Deveau, March 1978 main block Negatives: Athens County Community Looking northwest showing the rear of the Development Office PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1978 AUG 11 1978 Dew House, Athens County, Ohio AUG 11 1978 Photographer: Renate Deveau, March 1978 Looking west showing the rear Negatives: Athens County Community Development Office PROPERTY OF THE MATIONAL REGISTER #494 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NELSONVILLE, OHIO NELSONVILLE QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OF OHIO Dew House, Athens County, Ohio UNITED STATES RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AUG 11 1978 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Control by USGS and USC&GS UTM Reference: 17/394 000/4368340 2 100 000 FEET 02 DIVISION: N.R ADDRESS: PHONE: TELEPHONE REPORT REPORT: OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION To/FROM: DATE: 8-943-5751 STAFF MEMBER: OCT 3 1978 Hamilton County Honorable Howard M.
Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Honorable Thomas A. Luken Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Clarence B. Miller Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr 10/6/78 Location Director Athens County Cincinnati Nelsonville STATE The Ohic Historical Society Also Notified State Historic Preservation Officer Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Dew House OHIO Hoffner Historic District 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: Hotel Dew CONGRESS. DISTRICT 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION C LOCAL - deteriorated Vfeatures: Dexcellent Omoved 9O NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed -reconstructed - Unknown Dunexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access SAVED?
-YES AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : C LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 CRECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 DARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 L ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 CEXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANMING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH - 27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS - 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 O MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 @architectural style(s): © landscape architeet / garden designer: ( Interior decorator: 009 CONDITION Midwest date ASSOCIATION Nelsonville Athens PERSONAL: STATE INSTITUTIONAL: EVENTS: ENGINEERING-11 CURRENTLY: FEDERAL builder/contractor: vicinity of COMMERCE-6 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Dew House historic events: major alterations: Ohio House master builder: Public Square WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: reviewers initials, NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ADMINISTRATOR: if state who prepared form?
NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Dunaltered Coriginal site as it appears on federal register: Bfunctions Ofair GNPS REGION: 5 LOCATION street & number city / town -good "first'O -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) 'only' D @artisan: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE 1978 ETHNIC GROUP engineer: dates of initial construction: artist: Cunknown IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno