Nomination for Gummer House

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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 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FEB 17 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS HISTORIC AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) X PRIVATE STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS *YES: RESTRICTED - BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED XOTHER: CLUE OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 45403 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

Montgomery County Recorder's Office Ohio 45402 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 Montgomery OBJECT COUNTY DATE LOCATION TITLE CODE STATE 113 OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE SCIENTIFIC Dayton CATEGORY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION GOVERNMENT MILITARY Huffman Avenue AGRICULTURE ENTERTAINMENT PUBLIC STATUS INDUSTRIAL NAME RELIGIOUS Beta Sigma Phi Sorority COURTHOUSE. SURVEY RECORDS DATE ENTERED -EDUCATIONAL -COMMERCIAL - UNOCCUPIED _PARK -BOTH -MUSEUM Gummer, Susan and Charles, -FEDERAL STATE COUNTYLOCAL House Third--Charles Whalen 451 West Third Street PH0506044 Ohio 7 DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED GOOD _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

CONDITION UNEXPOSED FAIR The interior architecture is unusually well-preserved. UNALTERED by enclosing the left two bays of the porch with semi-circular kitchen and bath. XALTERED columned arcade of semi-circular transomed French doors leading doorway leading onto a rustic balustraded balcony. circular arches that spring from cast capitals on smooth columns. structure of four stories rising above the facade elevation. upstairs bath is complete in an unusual degree with imported of the low pitched red tile hip roof project over the center bay left the elevation is three stories giving the left bay of the The original wrought iron rail has unfortunately been replaced by the main rooms of the first floor are imported materials.The The high foundation is concrete with a soldier course of CHECK ONE built, period Frigidaire refrigerator.

the rear wall behind the center bay is a hipped roof towerlike porch gives access to the flat patio roof behind the parapet.At four car garage with red tile roof. stories are 8/8 double hung sash with lug sills. On the left of the foyer is a dining room and to the right The foyer and dining room (left bay) have original chandeliers and X_ORIGINAL SITE -RUINS X.EXCELLENT The woodwork, bookcases, and paneling in bedrooms, two baths, and nurse's quarters. The third floor is an gave access to the tower bedroom. The apartment was complete with Straight DATE The right two on the porch has an adjoining dining room.A small stairway semi-circular transomed French doorway.The windows of the upper The center two windows are reduced in scale some furnishings. The doorway enters a storm porch formed a concrete block grill. transomed French doors. smooth three bay facade a vertical orientation.

The second floor has three from the foyer is the main staircase. an immense parlor divided at the south end by an arcade. on the upper level. bays are two story with parapet and pent roof. The left bay of the ground floor has a The yard is surrounded by a retaining wall.A large parking The west facade has straight steps to the porch.There is a The wide eaves Form No. 1p-300a (Rev 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 20 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 17 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Gummer, Susan and Charles, House CONTINUATION SHEET The neighborhood was mixed with upper and upper middle class the highly stratified suburbs of later years. homes adjacent to middle class single family dwellings that has FOR NPS USE ONLY The area clearly predates mature blue collar neighborhoods. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

by architect Lewis Printz, a well-known, local architect, from the "Villa Ammerberg" in Oberammergau, Germany- 1913 1600-1699 1400-1499 refugees. INVENTION 1700-1799 LAW RELIGION AGRICULTURE PERIOD EDUCATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION SCIENCE THEATER ART MILITARY SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE _ENGINEERING _TRANSPORTATION The excellent Spanish Revival house is the best in its style _1800-1899 _COMMUNICATIONS SPECIFIC DATES The sorority was made heir to the house by Mrs. Gummer. _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The Gummer House was built as a wedding gift from Mr. Henry -1500-1599 -PHILOSOPHY Charles Gummer was owner -ECONOMICS disasterous flood of 19l3,it served as a hostel for some fifteen - INDUSTRY - COMMERCE X1900- -COMMUNITY PLANNING ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC movement in America by two years. Burkhardt to his daughter Susan Gummer. The design is reportedly taken

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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 less than one acre UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION One city lot at 1428 Huffman Ave., Dayton, Ohio LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER The Old Court House, P. O. Box 461 CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - 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 DATESept.

21, 1976 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Polut B. Rettig GPO 888-445 ZONE ORGANIZATION DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING Dayton CODE COUNTY STATE EASTING Files of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority TITLE State Historic Preservation Officer Conversations with Mrs. Gummer, since deceased, by sorority members. 513/228-6271- FORM PREPARED BY 2-9.78 Loren S. Gannon, Jr., Preservation Officer LOCAL Montgomery County Historical Society ATTEST Working Number10.20.77.1682 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Review - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF INT: 2106 - 74 OTHER KEEPER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit Maps TECHNICAL Photos HISTORIAN State National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry Montgomery CONTROL 131-78 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 12.7.7 .4.78 Photo: Loren Gannon, Oct.

76 FEB 17 1978 Montgomery Co., Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Gummer, Susan G Charles, House Negative: Mont. CO. Hist. Soc. Foyer G Main FEB 17 1978 Facade from northwest PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Negative: Mont. Co. Hist. Soc. Montgomery Co., Ohio Photo: Loren Gannon Gummer, Susan Photo: Loren Gannon, Oct. FEB 17 Montgomery Co., Ohio Negative: Mont. Co. Hist. Soc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Gummer, Susan 7 Charles, House Gummer, Susan & Charles, House Photo: Loren Gannon, Oct. OCT 2 0 1977 FEB 17 1978 Negative: Mont. Co. Hist. Soc. Parlor, south end Montgomery Co., Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Gummer, Susan & Charles, House Photo: Loren Gannon, Oct. 76 Montgomery Co., Ohio Negative: Mont. Co. Hist. Soc. AL REGISTER Upstairs PROPERE. OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Photo: Loren Gannon, Oct.

76 OCT 2 0 1977 FEB 17 1978 Facade from north PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Montgomery Co., Ohio Gummer, Susan G Charles, House Negative: Mont. Co. Hist. Soc. 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) *BCT 201977 UNITED STATES DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE DAYTON NORTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEB 17 1978 OHIO -MONTOOMERY CO REGISTER DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Gummer, Susan and STATE OEIO Warder Public Library Miami County Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Howard N. Metzenbaum Hon. Clarence J. Brown Eon. Samuel L. Devise Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Hon. Clarence E. Miller Regional Director, Midwest Region 880 Dayton Mott 2/24/78 Franklin County Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Kettering Muakingun County Clark County New Carlisle vicinity Hon.

Tennyson Guyer Location Farm Buildings Hontgonary County McDannald Homestead Name Kettering, Charles F., House Springfleld Guvmer House Interstate 7l ac 17th Avanue Columbus vicinity Zanesville State Historic Preservatlon Officer 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry FEB 17 X)STATE 12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated Daltered 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 Oruins Omoved OO NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown 5O UNKNOWN-6 -unexcavated - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 - RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain "first'O - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY -historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE - 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH - 27 C MILITARY - 18 D ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 major alterations : @artisan: @bullder/contractor: EVENTS : _date. IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE Montgomery Dayton CONDITION 113 ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 PH0506044 FEDERAL PERSONAL: Dexcellent INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: historic events: 1428 Huffman Ave.

WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION Gummer House LOCAL landscape architect/ garden designer: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP architectural style(s): Bfunctions if state who prepared form? ADMINISTRATOR: URBAN PLANNING-31 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET NAME as it appears on federal register: county code: Doriginal site SAVED? YES GNPS REGION: city / town LO NOT APPLICABLE - 8 -ARCHEOLOGY -prehistoric -2 @)dates of initial construction: S1 interior decorator: 3rd ETHNIC engineer: GROUP COMMERCE-6 artist: give role & date master builder: reviewers initials. Dfeatures: LOCATION street & number