Nomination for McCracken-Scott House

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Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUL 1 8 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DEC 9 0 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS McCRACKEN-SCOTT HOUSE AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X PRIVATE -WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Red Brick Manor, Inc., c/o Mr. Richard Baker 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS; ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Columbus, OH 059 039 1977 43725 43211 CODE DATE UNOCCUPIED BOTH COUNTY TITLE STATE LOCATION HISTORIC CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE PARK ENTERTAINMENT MILITARY CLASSIFICATION RECEIVED PUBLIC COURTHOUSE. STATUS NAME STRUCTURE Cambridge, OH XCOMMERCIAL Ohio Historic Inventory SITE Court Square OTHER: XBUILDING(S) PUBLIC ACQUISITION DEPOSITORY FOR Ohio Historical Center DATE ENTERED 819 Steubenville Avenue 18-Douglas Applegate _RELIGIOUS -Guernsey _BEING CONSIDERED SURVEY RECORDS _EDUCATIONAL Ohio _GOVERNMENT _MUSEUM -SCIENTIFIC Guernsey County Court House -DISTRICT -OBJECT _FEDERAL X STATE COUNTY -LOCAL (Rev. 10-74) X ORIGINAL SITE GOOD X ALTERED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The nominated house is basically an I-house with a 2-story ell extending north The masonry walls were laid in common bond, and, according to a journal discovered recently, 59,500 common bricks, manufactüred at a cost of $178.50, were used in the bay on the south side, and features something of a Greek Revival entrance, with sandstone steps, rather badly worn, lead to the doorway from the sidewalk. Other entrances, secondary in function, are located on the west and north sides of the moved at one point, and the original nine-over-nine-light window sash were replaced various wood frame additions and porches were added to the rear of the house, in the a shed-roof addition of wood frame construction was made to the east side of the the gable end of the northward-projecting ell. The box cornice is unadorned.

rooms, with the plan consisting of two rooms over two plus the central hallway in the The McCracken-Scott House is located in the heart of the city of Cambridge, on UNEXPOSED offices. CONDITION UNALTERED DATE MOVED FAIR DETERIORATED for client parking. 7DESCRIPTION XEXCELLENT newel post.,The house is floored with random-width tongue-in-groove hardwood boards. course of the present adaptive re-use and rehabilitation of the structure.Also, and is set on a sandstone foundation with a smooth-dressed cut stone water table. _RUINS Side and rear windows do not feature the corner-blocked lintels.Over the The original interior of the McCracken-Scott House seems to have contained six CHECK ONE sills and on the south side are capped with stone lintels trimmed with corner blocks.

ceiling-lowering was done in the present rehabilitation of the house for use as law There are inset gable-end chimneys at both the east and west gables and in main section of the house, and one room over one in the ell. Much of the interior woodwork is of walnut, including a handsome balustrade rising from the kentral hàllway, complete with a pearl button inset in the cap of the Most ceilings are 14 feet in height, complete with crown mouldings; a minimum of of the house, between the sidewalk and the street. There are no extant outbuildings, and much of the area behind the house (to the north) will be used by the present owners from the west rear of the building. It is built of brick, four courses in thickness, house's construction. Only minimal spalling has occurred. The brick has been a trabeated paneled door flanked by multi-lighted transom and sidelights.

Three with single-pane double-hung sash. The windows are set on slightly extended lug angle of the ell. Some alteration of these sections has been undertaken in the main part of the house. The structure is roofed with slate, which covers the gable External louvered shutters were re- There is a massive stone AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE X RELIGION SCIENCE SCULPTURE X ARCHITECTURE X1 800-1899 -TRANSPORTATION OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The nominated property is one of only three examples of settlement architecture example of midwest Greek Revival-influenced traditional architecture, and was built for one of the town's most influencial early civic leaders, William McCracken (1787- A native Pennsylvanian, McCracken came to Cambridge in 1809 and became the built around 1830. During McCracken's 63-year stay in Cambridge, he became one he organized the Associate Church, which continues in existence today as the First of prime significance to the early history of Cambridge. ECONOMICS ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD EDUCATION THEATER INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT LITERATURE INDUSTRY 1872).

_COMMUNICATIONS William McCracken _ENGINEERING _COMMERCE of the most well-respected and influencial citizens of the growing town.In 1822 -1600-1699 -1500-1599 _CONSERVATION -1400-1499 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN - 1700-1799 -1900- - MUSIC use as law offices, the McCracken-Scott House has not been radically altered, and remains group which organized Cambridge's first library. The property passed to Alexander McCracken in 1841. He apparently fell on hard times, as the house and lot were sold in 1869 to pay his creditors. iIn 1873 Elza Scott X.EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT United Presbyterian Church of Cambridge.Prior to the formal establishment of the including that of county commissioner from 1819 to 1828.In 1832 he was partofa - - PHILOSOPHY - LAW 9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES "Cambridge Landmark Now Law Offices," The Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio, January McCracken, William, Daily Journal, 1830-1835, Guernsey County Historical Society 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 14,4/3,016, 4,0) VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Located in the city of Cambridge, the nominated property consists of Lot 120 uf the east and north by unnamed alleys, and on the west by Lot 121. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY 10 January, 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 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 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 CODE DATE TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION COUNTY NORTHING NAME/TITLE Ohio University-Zanesville ZONE EASTING UTM REFERENCES 614-453-0762 David L. Taylor, Regional Historic Preservation Officer 1425 Newark Road hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the 12.20.78 Wolfe, William G. Stories of Guernsey County (Cambridge, Ohio: by the author, 1943). ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre Original Plat of the City. Bounded on the south by Steubenville Avenue, on the Zanesville, OH 43762 ATTEST Inventory - Send-back _ 2 0 1978 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 OTHER KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit HAER Maps TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Photos CONTROL Review National Register Write-up ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry Working Number).18 .78. 36 33 10.5.78 11.22.7 State Ohio UNIT CHIEF IN T:2106 - 74 Property McCracken- Scatt Hause 2.6.>9 Cambridge, Ohio Photo taken of old photo, 1978 DeSe1m, DeSelm, & Baker, 819 with original 6/6 light windows - (c. 1880) DEC 2 0 1978 and shutters intact. Ohio43725 Negative in posession of owners, Photo shows main elevation (S), Steubenville Avenue, Cambridge, MeCracken-Scott HousgUL 1 8 1978 Ohio McCRACKEN-scott: HOUSE DEC 2 0 1978 Ca, bridge, ohio Photo by David L. Taylor, 1/78 Negative # GUE-5-5-3, filed at Ohio University-Zanesville, Zanesville, OH View of main facade w/ side addition, JUL 1 8 1978 from south -MCCRACKEN-SCOTT HOUSE Cambridge, Ohio Photo by David I.

Taylor, 1/78 University-Zanesville, Zanesville, o. DEG 2 0 1978 View of front doorway, from South JUL 1 8 1978 Negative # GUE-5-4-4, filed at Ohio JUL 1 8 1978 Cambridge, Ohio Photo by David L. Taylor, 1/78 Zanesville, Ohio DEC 2 0 1978 View of rear, showing additions (from Ohio University-Zanesville, MCCRACKEN-SCOTT HOUSE Negative # GUE-5-4-1, filed at 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CAMBRIDGE QUADRANGLE DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A RECEIVED ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas E. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Waverly Location STATE Director Name Cambridge Pike County Also Notified Guernsey County McCracken-Scott House Honorable Douglas Applegate State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable William H. Harsha Waverly Canal District DEC 2 0 1978 Date Entered 2 OTHER NAMES: city / town X STATE GNPS REGION: (II) CONGRESS. DISTRICT 18th (12) SOURCE OF NOMINATION - FEDERAL David L. - deteriorated Oaltered Oruins Omoved 2C NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown 5O UNKNOWN -6 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Oyes Ono -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE -6 - LAW- 16 -RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - MILITARY - 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 3functions major alterations : *arohitectural style(s): landscape architect/ garden designer: _date.

IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE Taylor Guernsey Cambridge CONDITION ENGINEERING-11 ASSOCIATION McCracken-Scott House ENTERTAINMENT-26 HEALTH-27 INSTITUTIONAL: builder/contractor: PERSONAL: EVENTS: artist: CURRENTLY: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 interior decorator: county code: vicinity of NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ADMINISTRATOR: ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 historic events: SAVED?YES 819 Steubenville Ave. NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET reviewers initials, URBAN PLANNING-31 Dexcellent Dexcavated Coriginal site Ogood - LOCAL 17)features: ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 2) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 'only' D 3artisan: Oreconstrueted GROUP ETHNIC engineer: master builder: BACCESS dates of initial construction: as it appears on federal register: Ofair DEC 2 6 1978 Washington, D.C.

20515 Thank you for your letter of December 12, 1978, concerning the cc: Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 bcc: Director's Reading File Chief, OAHP / Associate Director, Connally GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO FHR-CL Sincerely, FHR-Lumpkin H32-NR The Ohio Historical Society Director Enclosure Chris Therral Delaporte the National Register of Historic Places. House of Representatives material will further explain the National Register program. We appreciate your interest in historic preservation. FHR:B Frandsen:1w:343-6401:12-21-78 entered in the National Register on December 20,1978.The enclosed Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue We are pleased to inform you that the McCracken-Scott House was Honorable Douglas Applegate MEG MAGUIRE Dear Mr. Applegate: BASIC FILE RETAINED IN NR 12/21/78 HuP 12.2278 REPLY TOR DIR SIC. DEC.

DATE: SIGNED: DESIGNATION: RFRD: 12/19/78 BUREAU OF OUTDOOR RECREATION ACK'D: DATE REPLY DUE: 12/12/78 HON: 18TH DISTRICT, OHIO PUBLIC WORKS AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS ST. CLAIRSVILLE 614-695-4600 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES December 12, 1978 Dr. William J. Murtagh This structure was built between 1828 and 1841 regards, I remain Yours truly, 202-225-6265 information. COMMITTEES TRANSPORTATION DA/mm principals involved in the McCracken-Scott home have for listing on the National Register of Historic Places HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBER OF CONGRESS STEUBENVILLE 614-283-3716 received no further indication from you office since DOUGLAS APPLEGATE Heritage Conservation & Restoration Keeper of the National Record NEW PHILADELPHIA 216-343-9112 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Department of the Interior I have recently been advised that a nomination DISTRICT OFFICES.

was filed in July by the owners of the McCracken-Scott July 26 as to the status or decision made in regard to House in Cambridge, ohio. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 However, the S well as the owners of the house in question. Washington, D.C. 20240 I would greatly appreciate best wishes for a very Happy Holiday Season/and my best this particular structure. as any indicator as to when the owners and prineipals being advised as to the status of the nomination LONGWORTH HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING Society as to it's historical value. BOR Mail Control No. Pon 709