Nomination for Hoffman House

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAY 2 2 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 2 9 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Hoffman, John, Residence- AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 17th: John Ashbrook PRESENT USE DISTRICT X MUSEUM -COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE WORK IN PROGRESS SITE X YES: RESTRICTED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 44827 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Historic Preservation Office, Heidelberg College 033 039 DATE CODE February TITLE Crestline BOTH OWNERSHIP Crawford AGRICULTURE EDUCATIONAL HISTORIC COUNTY ACCESSIBLE RECEIVED GOVERNMENT RELIGIOUS CATEGORY ENTERTAINMENT STATE CLASSIFICATION PARK SCIENTIFIC MILITARY OBJECT COURTHOUSE.

INDUSTRIAL Tiffin Crestline Shunk Museum NAME STATUS Crestline Historical Society (preferred) OTHER: FOR NPS USE ONLY PUBLIC ACQUISITION Ohio Historic Inventory UNOCCUPIED 1l2 East Mansfield Street PRIVATE RESIDENCE _TRANSPORTATION DATE ENTERED XBUILDING(S) _BEING CONSIDERED X_PRIVATE 2ll Thoman Street PUBLIC LIN PROCESS Ohio H 0669512 REGISTRY OF DEEDS.ETC. Bucyrus, Ohio 1l820 _FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY _LOCAL Crawford County Court House X EXCELLENT X_ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The main entrance, no longer in use, is in the center of the main (west) facade; There are three interior chimneys (brick) on the main house, two with corbelling There are two outbuildings on the property, an old smokehouse and a two-story CONDITION 7DESCRIPTION addition with wood columns supporting the flat porch roof.The easternmost addition entire building is of wood frame construction with shiplap siding used on the main CHECK ONE This is essentially an L-shaped building in the Italianate style with the main the door is shuttered and has a carved shaped lintel.A flat-roofed wooden porch runs building and both shiplap and weatherboard on the additions.Endboards are also used.

Carefully-crafted wooden eave brackets are used for decoration on all four sides The interior has been arranged as museum rooms with four rooms in the main notable interior feature is the wood fireplace on the first floor. along the west side with wood pillars and pilasters supporting the carved brackets and XUNALTERED The windows are all one-over-one double-hung sash with wood sills, decorated along the top. porch roof.A row of dentils decorates the roof. rectangular with weatherboard siding and has two bays;windows have simple wood surrounds decorated shaped lintel and transom. shaped lintels matching those over the doors, and shutters; the windows have slip sills.

of the house and on the monitor on the hipped shingled roof,individual brackets project _DETERIORATED story additions are each one room.Many of the windows have been boarded up.but the this may originally have been a separate building since both the siding & endboard square part (front) as the base and several additions along the east side.There are has a door on the south side. on the porch. two side bays on the main part of the house with three others on the additions.The -UNEXPOSED -GOOD _FAIR shape of an ogee curve, and an egg-shaped pendant hangs from each at the point of the house, including an entry hall, on the first floor and four on the second. The one- barn.

connecting the first addition to a square addition with shiplap siding and endboards; south side of this addition are double-hung two-over-two with wood surrounds.There There are at least three one-story additions on the east side along the north treatment match the main house.It is also now used as the museum's kitchen and may simple wood moulded architraves for the doors and windows are still in place.The only from paneled friezes to support the broadly overhanging eaves.Each bracket is in the is also a chimney in this section.There is a porch on the south side of the westernmost and shutters.There is then a wide)section with shiplap siding A side door on the-south-side is now used as the main entrance;it also has a have been the summer kitchen for the house.One window on the north and one on the of the main house, even on the relatively obscure rear the main block the east end of the property.There isa one-story shed roof Side -RUINS -AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _ 1500-1599 AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS X ARCHITECTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS _OTHER (SPECIFY) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

This building is being nominated, as a locally-significant example of Italianate the original north-south streets in Crestline when the town was laid out in 1852, and Crawford County, and to promote the teaching of local history, further the establishment Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Officer, eligible for the National Register in August 1976. 1400-1499 1700-1799 ART X1800-1899 EDUCATION LAW PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE THEATER SCIENCE INDUSTRY MILITARY INVENTION TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1900- The building's precise history is difficult to trace.Information from the Crawford County Recorder's office indicates that the land upon which the house stands have been one of those houses.

-ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION Thoman sold the property in 187l to John Hoffman for $2000.The property the society to maintain a museum of four rooms on the second floor of the Town Hall. Thoman laid out part of his 8o acres in house lots and built houses on them.This could _ENGINEERING at about this time, since a purchase price of $35o indicates that it is unlikely a house of this quality would have been standing. PHILOSOPHY a fine example of this style. _RELIGION John Adam Thoman had a store in Livingston (now the north part of Crestline)and architecture.The house dates from about l860 and has been nearly.unchanged for over Small history museums in the state. was sold by John A.Thoman to E.Kiney in 1855 for $ll6o.Thoman bought the land back in 1862 ata sheriff's sale for $350,and it may have been Thoman who built the house -1600-1699 -MUSIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING c.

1860 SPECIFIC DATES a century, retaining all its significant architectural elements and thus serving as the Railroad Room, Crawford-Indian Room, Victorian Parlor, Founder's Room, and the the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Mayor of Crestline. This memorandum was a consequence of a highway project which proposed the realignment of a state route ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC The ten rooms in the museum today include This house was restored and conditioned for museum purposes by a building committee philanthropist John Q.

Shunk presented the Crestline Historical Society with the house citizens "to preserve objects and documents relating to the history of Crestline and The museum is being nominated as part of a Memorandum of Agreement between the ofa museun to house records and articles." Mayor Albert Sonner originally permitted passed to Frances Mayer,et.al.,in l925;Mayer was Hoffman's daughter.Bucyrus The Crestline Historical Society was organized in l947 by a group of Crestline owmed 80 acres of land just west of Livingston's 80 acres.Thoman Street was one of

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY under l acre VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Barbara Howe, Regional Preservation Officer CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST GPO 892-453 ORGANIZATION TELEPHONE DATE CODE NORTHING COUNTY STATE LOCAL 419-448-2804 March 1978 Determination of Eligibility for National Register compiled by Jeff Darbee.

and on the south by the south property line for the lot. ZONE EASTING UTM REFERENCES SHPO by the south curb line of the alley, on the east by the west curb line of the alley, STREET & NUMBER As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I REGISTER THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: Tiffin, ZONE 11/78 [V7612/0 Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED NOV 2 9 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM PAGE Sketl map barn outhoure Hoffman House Photos _ Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF NOV 2 9 1978 Re-submit - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 TECHNICAL OTHER Entered HAER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL Send-back Maps HISTORIAN Review Property National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State BRANCH CHIEF Working Number 5. 22. 78.

3149 2-6-79 11.2.78 ARCHITÉCTURAL HISTORIAN Accept INT :2106- 74 5.23.78 CRESTLINE HISTORICAL MUSEUM NOV 2 9 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio MAY 2 2 1978 northeast Crestline Shunk Museum West and south sides of building; camera pointing Barb Howe February 1978 Photo number Crestline, Ohio Crestline, Ohio NOV 2 9 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio MAY 2 2 1978 southeast North and west sides of building; camera pointing Crestline Shunk Museum February 1978 Photo number Barb Howe NOV 2 9 1978 Heidellberg College, Tiffin, Ohio MAY 2 2 1978 Crestline Shunk Museum Photo number February 1978 Barb Howe East and north sides of building, north side of barn; camera pointing west Crestline, Ohio Crestline, Ohio MAY 2 2 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio North side of Ist floor northwest corner room; NOV 2 9 1978 Photo number Barb Howe camera pointing north Parlor fireplace of Crestline Shunk Museum April 1978 MAY 2 2 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio northeast Photo number Shunk Museum North and east sides of summer kitchen of Crestline April 1978 North and east sides of room; camera pointing Barb Howe MAY 2 2 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio northeast First floor northeast corner display room of Crestline Shunk Museum Photo number Barb Howe North and east sides of room; camera pointing April 1978 STOP Crestline, Ohio NOV 2 9 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio MAY 2 2 1978 southwest Crestline Shunk Museum Barb Howe Photo number February 1978 East and north sides of barn; camera pointing CRESTLINE QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MAY 22 1978 NOV 2 9 1978 Breckenridge, Justin, House Honorable John H.

Glenn, JI. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Donald J. Pease Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Toledo Crestline Director Newark Rodrick Bridge Coshocton vicinity 12/8/78 Name Grafton vicinity STATE Licking County Byers/bjr Also Notified Crawford County Medina County Date Entered Lorain County Westfield Center Muskingum County Calvary Reformed Church The Ohio Historical Society Honorable John M. Ashbrook State Historic Preservation Officer Lucan County Coshocton County Hoffman House Shunk Museum) Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Philo II Archeological District Honorable Thomas L. Ashley Universalist Church of Westfield Center First Church of Christ, Scientist Honorable Clarence E. Miller ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Shield's Block Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue MAY 22 1978 1522 K Street N.W. Washington, D.C.

20005 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WHEREAS, the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Officer, has determined that this undertaking as proposed would have an. Crestline, Ohio, properties included in the National Register of Historic WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 470f, as amended, 90 Stat. 1320), the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, has requested WHEREAS, pursuant to the Procedures of the Advisory Council on the undertaking to consider feasible and prudent alternatives to avoid or It is mutually agreed that implementation of the undertaking, in implementing project CRA-61-7.13.

This scheme is detailed but is not limited to, the following provisions: Tbe Council is an independent unit of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government charged by the Act of October 15, 1966 to advise the President and Congress in the field of Historic Preservation. and, Stipulations THEREFORE, REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED Historic Preservation accordance with the following stipulations will satisfactorily mitigate any adverse effect on the above-mentioned properties.

Transportation, in consultation with the Ohio State Historic Preservation the Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer have consulted and reviewed adverse effect upon the Crestline City Hall and the Heckler Farmhouse, prepared by the Federal Highway Administration, and includes, determined on the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to be eligible satisfactorily mitigate the adverse effect; now, Advisory Council on Places, as well as the First Methodist Church, the Crestline Shunk Museum, and the Conservative Baptist Church, Crestline properties that have been Council on Historic Preservation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the comments of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and, Historic Preservation (36 C.F.R Part 800),representatives of the Advisory for inclusion in the National Register; and, Transportation, proposes to construct a highway designated as CRA-6l-7.13; on pp.57-59 of the preliminary case report of March 2l,1977, 1.It is agreed that "Scheme C"will be utilize in Crestline City Hall, et.

al. The proposed pavement widening in front of the The Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer will nominate the Deputy Executive Director Advisory Council on Historic Preservation U.S. Department of Transportation properties. Federal Highway Administration Conservative Baptist Church to the National Register within 120 by this project. trees of a variety satisfactory for street planting. days of the ratification of this Memorandum.

width allowing for a four lane pavement in order to retain the tree lawns and minimize the impact on these The sidewalk at the Crestline City Hall will be adjusted MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Sodding will be used in all developed areas disturbed First Methodist Church, the Crestline Shunk Museum and the implemented in order to minimize the effects of the Whenever possible, the removal of existing vegetation b.The replacement of existing trees in the downtown historical properties will be reduced to the minimum portion of the project will be accomplished with ornamental project on the Heckler Farmhouse. will be avoided. The landscape scheme detailed on the plan sheets attached to this Memorandum (attachment A) will be so that it will fit the new curbline. Page Two Crestline City Hall, et. al.

Concur: Federal Highway Administration Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Page Three Ohio Department of Transportation (date) MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT 9-16-77 Chairman Mayor, City of Crestline S.R. 61 PLANT 4' 0.C. 2 STY. BR RES i432.39° TEMP NOV 2 9 1978 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: NOV 2 9 1978 city / town X STATE - FEDERAL - LOCAL - deteriorated Doriginal site 17) features: 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 Oruins 9O NOT INTACT-O -good Ounexposed Oreconstructed - Unknown Dunexcavated NOT APPLICABLE : 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Oyes Ono AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : D LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 CLAIMS: explain C POLITICS / GOVT." 21 -RECREATION -28 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 C LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING -31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH- 27 C 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 : 6 architectural style(s): ®landscape architeet/ garden designer: @bullder/contractor: reviewers initials _date IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE PH0669512 Crestline Crawford ASSOCIATION CONDITION INSTITUTIONAL: ENGINEERING-11 PERSONAL: historic events: EVENTS: CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: vicinity of COMMERCE-6 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET REGION: artisan: ADMINISTRATOR: Dexcellent county code: ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 master builder: PRIVATE ORGANIZATIOberg dates of initial construction: 211 Thoman St.

Daltered SAVED? YES SOURCE Of NOMINATION Omoved Ounknown YES - Unrestricted "first' O C SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -24 D OTHER (SPECIFY) Hoffman engineer: interior decorator: artist: House Shunk Museum) as it appears on federal register: Ofair