Nomination for Barnett-Criss House

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Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEP 19 1978 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 C "CITY. TOWN PRESENT USE X PRIVATE STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE ENTERTAINMENT IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED YES: UNRESTRICTED -TRANSPORTATION : OWNER OF PROPERTY John and Ruth Jacobs R. R. 6 OH 43725 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 059 039 Guernsey BOTH DATE 2/78 Cambridge CODE LOCATION OBJECT STATE MILITARY TITLE HISTORIC ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Court Square _EDUCATIONAL SITE RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION INDUSTRIAL RECEIVED Barnett-Criss House COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE DISTRICT PARK OTHER: STATUS Ohio Historical Center Guernsey County Court House NAME PH0684643 Ohio XBUILDING(S) Ohio Historic Inventory DATE ENTERED PUBLIC ACQUISITION COURTHOUSE, Columbus, Ohio VICINITY OF _BEING CONSIDERED -UNOCCUPIED -SCIENTIFIC _PUBLIC _MUSEUM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Rev. 10-74) FEDERAL *STATE COUNTYLOCAL CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ( : 7 DESCRIPTION X ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Barnett-Criss House is a I-shaped wood frame dwelling, 2 1/2 stories in height, and the second story level of the projecting center bay on the front, directly above the The interior of the Barnett-Criss House is in a very fine state of repair, with virtually distinctive characteristic of the interior is the magnificent natural woodwork, all of which is intact and well-preserved.

A handsome open balustrade, all walnut, adorns the stairway in the front hall, and features sawn decorative brackets, turned balusters, an mantlepieces are of walnut and chestnut, and feature round-arched openings with paneled CONDITION UNEXPOSED XEXCELLENT UNALTERED DETERIORATED XALTERED CHECK ONE main doorway.At attic height there are small bullet windows providing light for the handsome open frame porch, decorated with sawn scrollwork extends across the area with transoms, and are four-panel in form, with walnut and chestnut inserts. at each corner and smaller brackets under the leaves of the projecting center bay.

three-bay facade, with a projecting full height gable-roof center entrance bay.A Historic photos indicate the presence of rows of small consoles between the larger in the process.Fenestration is accomplished through the use of double-hung sash, Bathrooms have been sensitively added in part of the pantry and in a large walk-in closet House is capped with a metal gable roof, with the roof of the northern section inter- and west bays and feature some paneled decorative elements.At the northeast angle of north gable ends. located at the intersection of these roofs; it is no longer in place, although a -GOOD -FAIR the "T" was originally located an open frame side porch; this porch was long ago arched frames, with restrained ornamentation.

A set of double windows is located at There are two of these in the east and west gables, one in the projecting The cornice is brac eted, with pairs of large brackets resting on a sandstone foundation. Oriented toward the South, the house features a double doorway, with etched glass panels. One-story bay windows spring from the east alteration made to the exterior of the house. The northwest angle of the "T" apparently garage was appended to this pantry section and one door and one window were closed off one-over-one lights. The windows themselves are flat-topped, but are set in segmental- secting the main roof at its center. Originally a small stylized widow's walk was brick inset chimneys rise from the roofline: one at each of the east, west, and and west on the first and second floors, and there is one main room on each of the floors located in the upstairs hall.

There is a fireplace in each of the main rooms. The most width and uniform boards, is intact and unpainted.The interior doors are trabeated, The enclosing of this porch was the most radical burled walnut spandrels and central cartouches.All of the original flooring, of random- enclosed and now serves as a sunroom. all of the original ornamentation intact.It is built on a basic six-room plan with a attic area. house feature a partial return. of the northward-projecting section.As noted above,an original pantry,8'x16' is intact roughly corresponding to the center bay.The entrance is distinguished by a trabeated central hallway; two rooms 14'x 18' flank the 6'foot wide central hallway to the east -RUINS Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONALPARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7- Description Township, in the western part of Guernsey County, less than 50 feet north of the making a large cut in the hillside, and now the present Route 40 runs approximately A large stand of mature blue spruce, apparently planted during the tenancy of the GPO 892 455 PAGE partially shielding it from view. The Barnett-Criss House sits on 3.58 acres atop Best Hill in rural Westland 1882 engraving indicates the presence of a large wood frame bank barn, which is said to have stood on the south side of the National Road, east of the house.

FOR NPS USE ONLY Another outbuilding, perhaps a tenant's house or a smokehouse, stood near the Criss family, is located along the edge of the old road in front of the house, SEP 19 1978 DEC 8 RECEIVED green trees dot the landscape and are used in some cases as property line indicators. 2-story gable roof concrete block garage sits beside the house to the east.Ever- AREAS OF

Statement of significance

birth until the Civil War, when he enlisted in Company B of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Moving to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after the war, he remained in Pennsylvania country house, he apparently sent to Pittsburgh for a father and son team of contractors, John and Charles Halstead, who built the house, fashioned its fine interior ornamental trim, and, according to local traditional history, even made some of the furnishings for Unfortunately, the cost of the house (rumored to be in the neighborhood of $12,000) was apparently too much for Barnett's financial situation to bear, for in 1890 he was less pretentious dwelling about one-half mile to the south, within view of the Criss out of the Criss family the house has had various owners, all of whom 1400-1499 1600-1699 passing PHILOSOPHY COMMERCE ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION AGRICULTURE ART LAW ECONOMICS SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC CONSERVATION RELIGION MILITARY SCULPTURE INDUSTRY 1900- EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1700-1799 extremely fine condition.

SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN the house. MUSIC The Barnett-Criss House is an outstanding example of rural Italianate domestic archi- _COMMUNICATIONS the house is far more ornate than most of its contemporaries found along this highway.

have apparently been sensitive to the house's character, and it remains today in LITERATURE - TRANSPORTATION until returning to Guernsey County in the mid-l87Os.When he decided to build this fine -1500-1599 New Concord about four miles to the west and lived there until he was able to recoup was a prominent Westland Township farmer who lived in this area from the time of his his loses.He tried to buy back his former home but to no avail.He built a smaller, tecture in Southeastern Ohio.Built along the National Road U.S.Route 40), _PREHISTORIC It was built for 0liver and his wife Maggie (1834-1916).Barnett BUILDER/ARCHITECT John & Charles Halstead House, and lived there until his death in 1905.The Criss family retained possession - INVENTION

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio), July 10, 1963 (untitled article dealing with The Household Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio (Chicago: C.O. Owen, 1895), 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTYapproximately one VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION T.R. 410 to the place of beginning. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE 18 March, 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Zanesville, Ohio 43701 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL X 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ORGANIZATION CODE DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING COUNTY STATE ATTEST: 614-453-0762 Ohio University-Zanesville David Taylor, Regional Historic Preservation Officer UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING 1425 Newark Rd. GPO 892-453 intersection of a row of mature evergreen trees and T.R.4l0,then 175'north to a row of P.509. Located in the 2nd quarter of Westland Township, with 527' frontage on the National Road trees; then west 578' ito a property line; then 375' south to T.R. 410, then least along (now Township Rd. 410).

Beginning at the Southeast corner of the property, at the ZONE The Household Guide and Instructor (Cleveland:T.F.Williams,1882),P.549. 14,412.717,801 Photos - DEC 8 Send-back - Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Inventory OTHER Entered KEEPER TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Re-submit Review HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up State 12-1.78 Working Number9, 19. 78. 4/13 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Maps CONTROL Property 1978 DEC 8 Zanesville, Ohio SEP 1 9 1978 history, showing original build- Ohio University-Zanesville, Copy of photo from 1882 county er and his family Photo by David L. Taylor, 3/78 1978 BARNETT-CRISS HOUSE Negative No. GUE-6-5-4, filed at vicinity Cambridge, Ohio Photo copied by David Taylor, 3/78 Negative No.

GUE-6-5-1, filed at Zanesville, Ohio Ohio University-Zanesville, elevation (S), prior to plant- ing of blue spruce along road. current owner, showing main Copy of post card in posession of vicinity Cambridge, Ohio 8 BARNETT-CRISS HOUSE EP 19 1978 1978 DEC 8 Zanesville, Ohio SEP 19 1978 1978 Ohio University-Zanesville, BARNETT-CRISS HOUSE Negative No. GUE-6-4-4, filed at SW, showing bay window, open Photo by David L. Taylor, 3/78 View of main elevation (S), from front porch, & addition to W vicinity Cambridge, Ohio Zanesville, Ohio SEP 1 9 1978 1978 Rear view, showing enclosed E vicinity Cambridge, Ohio porch, from the NE; W addition Ohio University-Zanesville, Photo by David L. Taylor, 3/78 also seen Negative No.

GUE-6-4-l, filed at BARNETT-CRISS HOUSE" DEC 8 SEP 19 1978 NEW CONCORD QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) NEW CONCORD OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Miltche11, Randolph, House Henry, Robert W., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John E. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Tennyson Guyer Honorable Charles A. Vanik Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr 1978 STATE Botkins Director Barnett-Criss House Name Akron Honorable Douglas Applegate Cincinnati Date Entered The Chio Historical Society Alliance vicinity Also Notified New Reading Shelby House Honorable John F. Seiberling State Historic Preservation Officer Summit County Honorable Charles J. Carney Guernsey County Mahoning County CHIO Alliance Clay Product Company Cambridge vicinity Clifton Avenue Historic District Perry County Quaker Oats Cereal Factory Honorable Thomas A.

Luken Hamilton County Cuyahoga County Shelby County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Clarence E. Miller Parma Heights Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue DEC 8 Location 3) date of entry: 4 county coder SW of Cambridge off U.S.

22/40 - LOCAL - deteriorated Dexeellent Omoved NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated WO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access * AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : C LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - RECREATION -28 EOCLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 "first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE -6 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 CEXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH - 27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D C ART-5 D EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 funotions major alterations : @architeotural style(s): )master bullder: ©landscape architect/ garden designer: ") interlor decorator: Sartisan: builder/contractor: reviewers initials .date.

IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 1978 059 Guernsey ASSOCIATION Midwest Cambridge INSTITUTIONAL: ENGINEERING-11 ENTERTAINMENT-26 EVENTS: Barnett-Criss House CURRENTLY: PERSONAL: STATE FEDERAL SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION historic events: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET as it appears on federal register: URBAN PLANWING-31 ADMINISTRATOR: SAVED?YES Doriginal site OTHER NAMES: Daltered SOURCE Of NOMINATION GNPS REGION: DEC 8 city / town CONGRESS. DISTRICT 50 UNKNOWN-6 Oreconstrueted Sarohiteot: CONDITION ETHNIC GROUP engineer: artist: dates of initial construction: if state who prepared form? Oruins give role & date Dfeatures: Dfair IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno