Nomination for Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEC 2 0 1977 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM MAY 23 1978 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY.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 - VICINITY OF _ Clarence E. Miller PRESENT USE _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION - IN PROCESS _YES: UNRESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY The Welsh - American Heritage Museum, Inc. Ohio 45656 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. Jackson County Recorder, Jackson County Courthouse REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Ohio Historic Inventory, No. JAC-7-5 Feb.

8, 1977 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDSOhio Historic Preservation Office Ohio 43211 039 COUNTY DATE BOTH CODE LOCATION SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL OWNERSHIP TITLE STATE ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURE CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION OBJECT TRANSPORTATION UNOCCUPIED INDUSTRIAL HISTORIC SITE RECEIVED NAME MILITARY Jackson PARK PUBLIC PRIVATE STATUS COURTHOUSE. OTHER: 412 East Main Street Columbus _ENTERTAINMENT Welsh American Heritage Museum Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church XMUSEUM STRUCTURE _DISTRICT NE Corner, Main and Broadway Streets DATE ENTERED DATA SHEET XBUILDING(S) _RELIGIOUS _COMMERCIAL Ohio FOR NPS USE ONLY 412 East FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY -LOCAL 079 7 DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Situated on a tree shaded village lot, the Oak Hill Welsh surmounted by an ornate transom and smooth stone lintel. A Iull entablature, painted white and of wood, adorns the uppermost such as wide wooden floorboards, ornate Gothic pulpit, oaken pews with ALTERATIONS: The church originally had a tall pointed steeple STYLE: The building, though built in 1869, nevertheless shows CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS FAIR XGOOD XALTERED Greek Revival influence. Sunday school superintendent and visiting minister. wall surface on the sides,whereas a plain frieze decorates the wall The more narrow front and rear elevations are decorated with glass lights.All of the windows have smooth stone lintels and lugsills. The sides are divided into three bays by rectangular windows of double Congregational Church is a rectangular common bond brick building. pediment level gable ends with returns.

The building is one story. curved arms and ornate high backed chairs for the minister, song leader, The doorways The interior of the church retains much of its original appointments surface under the roofline on the front and rear of the building. inset tower is situated near the front of the building. To the rear of the building is a modern outdoor shelter with a tin on the bell tower.A white picket fence also enclosed a portion of the with a smooth plain stone lintel and wooden sill. with a new fence replacing the old one. CHECK ONE _UNALTERED doorways (one for each sex) with four panels in each door, which is church lot.By the original steeple and fence were gone XORIGINAL SITE " FIRST ADDITIONS: There have been no additions to the building. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH A. D. 1868 FOUNDED 1841" small corner pilasters separating rectangular louvered apertures. The DATE years.

ceiling plaster was replaced by modern large ceiling tiles in recent The facade is divided into two bays by two narrow rectangular modernistic industrial or office style of lighting fixture.The original It is probable that the complete restoration of the building upper rear wall surface is a small four light rectangular attic window It rests upon a foundation of cut coursed sandstone and has no basement. would include a duplication of the original steeple and chandeliers. are reached by five flagstone steps. On the upper facade wall surface The gabled tin roof is straddled by an octagonal bell tower with hung sash and four lights over four lights with a small border of colored under the vertex of the gable is a datestone inscribed chandeliers were removed between 1964 and 197l and replaced with a AREAS OF

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT Isaac Parry and Thomas Herbert STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The church building, one of the most imposing in the Village of which at first was from Cardiganshire, Wales, commenced in 1818 to furnaces of Jackson, Vinton, Gall1a and Meigs Counties in Southern Ohio, Which was part of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, & prinary iron producing established three iron furnaces, Jefferson, Cambria and Limestone, in 1841 under the leadership of Rev. John A. Davis, who had recently Congregtional Churches in Ohio.

The present church building, now the Welsh - American Heritage Museum Society, acquired the building and made ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION PERIOD AGRICULTURE Heritage 1900- ART CONSERVATION THEATER X1800-1899 EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE MILITARY Ethnic INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION _COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING heritage of Jackson County and Southern Ohio.Welsh immigration, Welsh Congregationalists established a congregation at Oak Hill in XRELIGION to Southern Ohio's Welsh heritage. Jackson County. community in Jackson County is noted in the Standard History of the such as the traditional singing and poetry recital.The held in the church were Gymanfa Ganu-the Welsh sing and Y Gymanfa- a three day meeting.The importance of the Welsh churches to to Welsh -1600-1699 Welshman was a member of some church...

There were l75 members in the Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church _PREHISTORIC of bricks from the Aetna Brick Yard by Isaac Parry and Thomas Herbert, -1500-1599 _1700-1799 it into a museum and meeting place where many of the old Welsh customs _ECONOMICS XOTHER (SPECIFY) -COMMERCE -1400-1499 -LAW at a cost of $5,000. They established their own churches, in which only the Welsh of being sold and torn down, when & group of interested people formed the Evan Evans, ordained in Wales. The church was the scene of Welsh activities Welsh language persisted well into the 20th Century. Other events settled their disputes in their church..i...Practically every sold to the Baptist Church. In 1971, the building was on the verge INVENTION The first minister in the new building was Rev. arrived from Wales.

The Welsh were active in the mines and iron Hanging Rock Iron Region,page 448, Welsh - American Heritage Museum, was completed in 1869 and was constructed

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Region of Ohio, Vol. I, circa 1910 (other identifying information torn " pamphlet, Welsh - American Heritage Museum, 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER 614 - 775 - 3961 Box CITY OR TOWN Ohio.

45661 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 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 * INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST DATE CODE NORTHING COUNTY TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION Piketon NATIONAL LOCAL Regional Preservationist UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING in Oak Hill. GPO 892.453 private paper, Jackson, Ohio: 1941. David L.

Brook South Central Ohio Preservation Society Jenkins, Robert,History of the Oak Hill Congregational Church from book) One city lot at the SW corner of route 279 and the road to the water plant DIRE 5:12-28 14,310.611601 Col OE THE: Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF MAY 2 3 1978 KEEPER Inventory CONTROL Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Maps HAER Send-back Re-submit HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up TECHNICAL Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 JacKson OTHER Working Number 12.20:77.2127 2.8.28 Negative at SCOPS Center, Piketon, Ohio View of facade and west side. Looking MAY 23 1978DEC 2 0 1977 No. 192 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church 412 East Main Street to the southeast.

Oak Hil1, Jackson County, Ohio 45656 Negative at SCOPS Center, Piketon, Ohio View of rear and east side. Looking to DEC 2 0 1977 No. 2g2 MAY 2 3 1978 Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 412 East Main Street .the northwest. Oak H111, Jackson County, Ohio 45656 Photo by David L. Brook, Jan. 22, 1977 DEC 2 0 1977 OAK HILL QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 19 MAY 2 3 1978 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS NATIONAL UNITED STATES RECEIVED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO STATE MAY 2 3 1978 Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6 East Millfleld vicinity Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, JI. Dr. Thomas E. Smith Honorable Ronald M.

Mott1 Director, The Ohio Historical Columbus, Ohio 43211 Mott/bjr 6/2/78 Location Georgetown Caledonia Jackson County Terra Vista Prehistoric District Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Cuyahoga County Seven Hills Society Marion County State Historic Preservation Officer Also Notified Honorable Clarence J. Brown Caledonia Bowstring Bridge Georgetown Historic District Honorable William H. Harsha Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Clarence E. Miller Gabel, Daniel, House Athens County Brown County Oak H111 OTHER NAMES: 3) date of entry: MAY 2 3 1978 412 E. Main St. CONGRESS. DISTRICT 10th (12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - deteriorated Oaltered Dexeellent Oruins - NOT INTACT-O Omoved -good Dunexposed -reconstructed SO UNKNOWN -6 -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 8 (B ACCESS - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono E AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 'first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE- 6 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION - 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE-3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 C ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - EDUCATION-10 O INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 )functions major alterations : S interior decorator: IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE CONDITION ASSOCIATION Jackson PERSONAL: CURRENTLY: vicinity of builder/contractor: EVENTS: artist: INSTITUTIONAL: XXSTATE artisan: historic events: ENGINEERING-11 ART-5 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 master builder: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Welsh American Heritage Museum NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP dates of initial construction: URBAN PLANWING-31 landscape architect/ garden designer: architectural style(s): LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR: county NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Doriginal site if state who prepared form?

SAVED? YES Dfeatures: GNPS REGION: Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church (10) FUNDED? OYES - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 date GROUP ETHNIC engineer: Dfair YES-Restricted YES-Unrestricted NOT APPLICABLE-8 arohiteot: