Nomination for Fitz Randolph-Rogers House

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Form No.10-300 (Rev.10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED SEP 2 8 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FEB 8 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Fitz Randolph-Watson Home AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT X VICINITY OF PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE MUSEUM _WORK IN PROGRESS X PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED -BEING CONSIDERED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 45012 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE Butler County Courthouse - Office of the Recorder REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 OBJECT CODE TITLE Butler DATE CATEGORY RELIGIOUS LOCATION COUNTY Hamilton CLASSIFICATION GOVERNMENT PARK ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT HISTORIC SCIENTIFIC DISTRICT OWNERSHIP STATE 017 Courthouse Square EDUCATIONAL MILITARY NAME David Watson Ohio XPRIVATE STATUS DATE ENTERED DATA SHEET 5467 Liberty-Fairfield Rd. _TRANSPORTATION _INDUSTRIAL -COMMERCIAL 8th - Thomas Kindness YBUILDING(S) - UNOCCUPIED - STRUCTURE _PUBLIC FOR NPS USE ONLY -OTHER: -BOTH -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL XNO X EXCELLENT MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Exterior: The Fitz Randolph-Watson home is an example of a Greek revival, southern which support a simple, but molded, entablature. Cut stone was used for steps with oak in 1931. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED RUINS UNALTERED XALTERED FAIR story facade.It is flanked on either side by two undecorated square columns windows that originally contained four panes.A summer kitchen with a brick the upper stories have ash floors and the lower has flagstones that were covered a stone pier this supported an enclosed wooden porch across the end of the upper time.The brick and stone for these additions were taken from outbuildings on connecting wall was initially built at the southern end of the house.Along with The woodwork on the main floor has very wide fluting and large corner blocks.

rear and a stone wine cellar and coal cellar at the northern end at the same XORIGINAL SITE Interior:Each of the floors is divided into four rooms by a central hallway CHECK ONE the farm. -GOOD DESCRIPTION The brick walls of Ohio home. Built into the side of a natural slope, the front facade is one-and-a DATE story.In 193l the porch was replaced with a brick addition for bathrooms and the lower section was enclosed as a garage.A two-story veranda was added at the leading to the entrance and the 1intels for the 6/6 windows.The wide entablature boards at the cornice on both front and rear facades are pierced by three small a half story while the rear is a full two-an-a-half stories. AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - 1600-1699 X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC X_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Elizabeth Rogers, an important portrayal of political and social life in south- Greek revival style, built into a hillside. for the social historian with illustrations of the cultural, educational, and social 1931 when the prosperous Hamilton physician, Henry Lee Good, bought it. Under his 1840-1844 INVENTION COMMUNICATIONS CONSERVATION LAW PERIOD EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION XXARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING 1800-1899 MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT THEATER ECONOMICS SCULPTURE LITERATURE _PHILOSOPHY garage were added.

-1400-1499 The home was constructed over a four-year period for Benjamin Fitz Randolph.He -1500-1599 _COMMERCE "Country Life During the Civil War,' in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical The Fitz Randolph-Watson home was the scene of the writing of the diary of Sarah -PREHISTORIC -SCIENCE -1700-1799 was a farmer of Liberty Township and operated a tannery. -1900- In 1860 the farm was sold to the widow Lydia Rogers. Her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, direction the wooden side porch was removed and the stone wine cellar, veranda, and life of rural Ohioans in the 1860s. The home was owned by the Rogers family until western Ohio during the Civil War.The building is also an unusual example of the Democrat"or "Copperhead who supported Clement L.Vallandigham.It also has value 9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Butler County Records, Butler County Courthouse, Hamilton, Ohio. Recorder & Auditor Office: and Philosophical Society of Ohio, IX, July 1951, Pp. 171-196. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 1/5 mile west of Liberty-Fairfield Road off of a dead-end local road which is 1/5mile north of South Verity Parkway. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David A. Simmons STREET & NUMBER 1982 Velma Avenue 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 DATE Sept. 21, 1977 FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS/PROPERTY/IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 888-445 11.75 COUNTY TELEPHONE DATE NORTHING ORGANIZATION LOCAL CODE SHPO Columbus UTM REFERENCES State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio 100 Ohio Historic Preservation Office The nomination includes less than one acres surrounding the house which is ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the (614) 466-8727 4316611201 ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY ZONE ATTEST less than one Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF FEB 8 OTHER Inventory TECHNICAL KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Send-back CONTROL Re-submit HISTORIAN Property Review State National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Working Number. 28. 77.

1569 Butler REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 1.2778 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 1978 Ohio 211/28 Hamilton -e FEB 8 1978 SEP 2 8 1977 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER looking north across west side Fitz Randolph-Watson House, Negative: Miami Purchase Assoc Photo: Fred Mitchell 1976 Photo: Fred Mitchell, 1976 1ooking south at northside FEB 8 SEP 2 8 1977 Negative: Miami Purchase Ass. Hamilton 1 Date: 5/76 Fitz Randolph-Watson House, FROPERTY OF Negative: OHS FEB 8 1978 SEP 2 8 1977 Hamilton walls Fitz Randolph-Watson House rear, showing north and west Photo: David Simmons, 1977 Fitz Randolph-Watson Home Butle Co., ohio Photo: David Simmons, 1977 SEP 2 8 1977 FEB 8 Hamilton Fitz Randolph-Watson House PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER Negative: OHS Facade (east) Facade (east) side of house.

1978 SEP 28 1977 UNITED STATES TRENTON QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TRENTON, OHIO UTM Zone 16 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR N OHIO - BUTLER CO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 28' 44° FEB 8 N 4366 120 FEB 8 Butler County Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Hon. John H. Glenn, Jz. Hon. Thomas N. Kindness 880 Location Mott/js STATE Name 2/22/78 Date Entered Perry County Hildreth Covered Bridge Also Notified Hamilton vicinity Washington County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Marietta vicinity Regional Director, Midwest Region Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Fitz Randolph-Rogers Bouse State Historic Preservation Officer New Reading vicinity Director, The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Clarence E. Miller De. Thomas E. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240 AUG 18 1980 Honorable James W.

Moorman This provides our litigation report for Zimmermaa, et National Register, National Park Service, Department of Department of Justice led to this action except with respect to historic Assistant Attorney General pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of The Department was not involved in the circumstances that 1977 and through the Heritage Conservation and Recreation stated in the Complaint that the listing of the house on listed property only) are summarized as follows: "National Historic Site" Interior (acting through the National Park Service until Land and Natural Resources Division property in question is the so-called "Fitz-Randolph lawsuit was not acquired for highway purposes.

the National Register caused abandonment of a local property in the National Register (which attach to the through the act of designating an adjacent property a (Ephraim) House" located at 430 South Randolphville Road, UNITED STATES In any allegation that listing a property in Jersey on August 2,1976,the property was listed in the Dear Mr.

Moorman: Piscataway, New Jersey, a house erected in 1825 and the March 9,1973.We gather from the facts Fitz-RANddlph Hous Service currently) lists property in the National Register remaining in a essentially unaltered condition on a Secretary of the Interior has taken Plaintiffs' property highway project so that the property at issue in the Upon nomination by the State of New National Register of Historic Places by the Keeper of the only relevant federal legal consequences of listing a 1966, as amended,16 U.S.C.470 et seg.(the "Act").The V. Township of Piscataway: et al.U.S.D.C., D.N.J., C.A. Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. 1653 (E): forbids the actions, and the tax implications discussed above, there thereto.

undertakings on federally assisted undertakings on federal assistance is involved as described above.As in the National Register receive special consideration in properties) for federal or federally-assisted highway using historic sites (including National Register limitations on the actions of state or local governments purposes unless no prudent and feasible alternative to their destruction is apt to be avoided where practicable.

Aside from these two federal planning reguirements which of adjacent property owners insofar as federal law is property, and not those properties that may be adjacent are applicable only to federal or federally-assisted provisions would only be applicable to the listed undertakings, to consult with the Advisory Council on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the stated, we are not aware of the facts of this action the federal planning process, and, as a policy matter, are no federal requirements whatsoever which dictate toa However, we are certain that the action of the Section 106.Section 106 of the Act,16 U.S.C.470f, such use exists. Tax Reform Act of 1976. This provision provides Likewise, of course, listing of a property agencies are concerned. Whether or not their activities properties and disincentives for their destruction.

with respect to National Register properties unless certain tax advantages for the continued use of listed The procedures for this process reguires federal agencies to consider the effects of their on the National Register in no way limits the legal rights insofar as other federal agencies or state and local Department of Transportation,in pertinent could be construed as a "taking"is beyond our knowledge. National Register, and, before implementing such Section of the Department of (Sgd.) David A. Watts Director, HCRS vne s o lago Enclosures imaginable facts. Interior for failure to state a claim upon which relief Your cooperation is appreciated.

Conservation and Wildlife may be of further assistance, please call Lars Hanslin of Department of the Interior in listing a property on the an adjacent property by the Department under any set of Accordingly, we would recommend that a motion be made to Sincerely, this office (343-7957).

Acting Associate Solicitor dismiss this action as against the Secretary of the may be granted.We enclose for your reference a copy of National Register could not be construed as a"taking" of THE NAT' NIL ACGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INITIALS TELEPHONE CALL (ATTACHED) DATE ACTION TAKEN INF TIVE MATEAL SENT INDIV DU'L SSPUNSE (ATTACHED) DATE REC'D AUG 2 O 1980 NAME as it appears on federal register: OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: FEB city / town SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated Oaltered 17 features: Dexeellent 90 NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed Oreconstrueted 5C UNKNOWN -6 -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 'first'O C LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-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 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 3 funetions major alterations : 3) interior decorator: @artisan: @builder/contractor: EVENTS : 38 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP _date.

IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE PH0505153 Hamilton Butler CONDITION ENGINEERING-11 ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 FEDERAL historic events: 1978 engineer: INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: PERSONAL: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 dates of initial construction: LOCAL artist: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: reviewers initials landscape architect/garden designer: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ADMINISTRATOR: county code: architectural style(s): 5467 Liberty-Fairfield Rd vicinity of URBAN PLANMING-31 if state who prepared form? Coriginal site GNPS REGION: GSTATE Oruins OWNER *PRIVATE OSTATE MUNICIPAL OCOUNTY OMULTIPLE OFEDERAL(agency name) SO UNKNOWN -6 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Ono @CLAIMS: explain -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE -6 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) (II)CONGRESS.

DISTRICT 8th - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOYT." 21 ETHNIC GROUP master builder: ADAPTIVE USE YES NO SAVED?YES Dgood Ofair Omoved