Nomination for Woodland Cemetery Gateway, Chapel And Office

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUN 2 6 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 3 0 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 118 Woodland Avenue - NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION X YES: RESTRICTED _IN PROCESS -BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY Woodland Cemetery Inc. Ohio 45409 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

Montgomery County Recorders Office 451 West Third Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 1 June 1968 DEPOSITORY FOR Montgomery 039 LOCATION CLASSIFICATION DATE CODE STATE OWNERSHIP COUNTY DISTRICT ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC CATEGORY INDUSTRIAL NAME AGRICULTURE SCIENTIFIC PUBLIC RECEIVED 113 RELIGIOUS STATUS Ohio _ENTERTAINMENT _TRANSPORTATION PARK Third- Charles Whalen Montgomery County Landmarks Committee Report _EDUCATIONAL Dayton,Ohio XPRIVATE _STRUCTURE - UNOCCUPIED _OBJECT -GOVERNMENT - MILITARY -COMMERCIAL XOTHERCemetery - MUSEUM _BOTH SITE Gateway, Chapel and Office of Woodland Cemetery ] SURVEY RECORDS 45402 Montgomery County Historical Society TITLE FEDERAL STATE XCOUNTY LOCAL DESCRIPTION <EXCELLENT X_ORIGINAL SITE LRUINS GOOD _MOVED DATE_ DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Gateway, Chapel and Office of Woodland Cemetery The Richardsonian Romanesque chapel and office sit on each side of the wrought situated on the south side of the gateway, has its gable and entrance facing to the The chapel facade has a central round-arched doorway with moulded margins supported on decorated imposts. Double wood doors have centre-pointed tracery arcaded belfry, corbelled table cornice, and multi-faceted roof with moulded ball A triple-arch mullion window is in the parapet gable which also has a beltcourse and fanciful mosaic of polychrome triangles and what appears to be a sunburst design. with the main door which gives access to a vestibule. A transomed ribbon window of five casements with Tiffany-style art glass, paired Byzantine columns and sunburst at the terminals. The tower replaces the vestibule door ón the left side. window.

A semi-circular window is in the chancel position behind the altar. This The office has post and lintel substituted for the arches of the chapel. The sash with rockface transom bars and beltcourse at lintel, transom, bar and sill. The gable has a quadruple mullion window banded with belts and having a sunburst cornice with dentiled frieze. A wing in lesser scale to the rear carries out the CONDITION buildings. FAIR UNALTERED CHECK ONE east.Building construction is load-bearing masonry of coursed gray limestone with iron gateway.To the west is a mature residential neighborhood of mixed-quality _UNEXPOSED _DETERIORATED mosaic in the peak.The right side has a polygonal bay facing the chapel.across The chapel isa T-shaped building facing south on a red sandstone foundation. theme even to the dentiled cornice. red sandstone trim.

An interesting feature of the buildings are the copper gutters connect with the buildings. The walls, are interrupted by wrought iron pedestrian gates. The wrought iron gates repeat the sunburst pattern found in mosaics on the the roadway. There is also a door in this north wall. On the sides are rockface The gate is supported by piers with stone caps flanked by crow-stepped walls that lights. To the left is an octagonal tower with Romanesque stairway windows, an finial. On the right resting on a beltcourse is a pair if eight-light casement The trancept of the chapel is a block addition. Each end has a triple mullion DATE windows with joined Romanesque arches resting on a Byzantine freestanding column. XALTERED and decorated downspouts.The roofs are shingle tile with decorative flashing ridge.

door in the right bay has a simple sandstone surround.Windows are 1/1 double hung There is a bulkhead basement entrance to the rear.The rectangular office building, AREAS OF

Statement of significance

in works of this style of architecture. The excellent arts and crafts style art glass window, a pastoral scene, in the 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 ART LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PHILOSOPHY CONSERVATION 1800-1899 AGRICULTURE 1900- COMMUNICATIONS PERIOD INDUSTRY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INVENTION MILITARY PREHISTORIC _TRANSPORTATION SIGNIFICANCE hilltop site. THEATER _SCULPTURE _ECONOMICS XARCHITECTURE Woodland Cemetery is one of the oldest, possibly third-oldest, park cemeteries _SCIENCE _EDUCATION _COMMERCE _ENGINEERING - LITERATURE The firm of Burns and Peters, architects of note in Dayton'in the second half of the ninetteenth century, completed the complex in February 1889.The addition to the chapel dates from likely done by the same firm.

- RELIGION Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, landscaped the naturally beautiful wooded The gateway, chapel and office of Woodland Cemetery are Dayton's best north wall was ordered from Heinegke and Bowen of New York (Tiffany Studios) in growing Dayton. Promoted by civic-minded John Van Cleve, the first forty acres of BUILDER/ARCHITECT Burns and Peters remaining examples of Richardsonian Romanesque.Dayton is amazingly deficient in the United States.T the cemetery opened its gates on June 7,1843. Mr.A.Strauch, superintendent of

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA QUADRANGLE NAME - Dayton South QUADRANGLE SCALE - UTM REFERENCES to the place of beginning. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES - COUNTY FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL * 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 GPO 921-803 513-228-6271 NORTHING TELEPHONE CODE DATE Dayton ORGANIZATION Montgomery County Historical Society December 1977 ZONE EASTING Woodland Cemetery Minutes Loren S. Gannon, Jr. STATE X P.O. Box 461 The Old Courthouse , KEEPER OF THE MATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1 acre then 200 feet south; then 200 feet west to the cemetery property line; then 200 feet north ZONE -30.78 Gateway, Chapel and Office of Woodland Cemetery Photos _ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF NOV 3 0 1978 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 KEEPER TECHNICAL HAER Inventory CONTROL Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit HISTORIAN Maps Send-back Review Property BRANCH CHIEF State Federal Register Entry Working Number6. 26,78.

3422 National Register Write-up 11.20.78 11.27.7 OTHER 8.28.78 2-6-79 DK6.29.78 IN T GATEWAY, ChaPEL AND OFFICE OF WOODLAND CEMETERY Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio JUN 2 6 1978 December 1977 #1 Complex viewed from west to east NOV 3 0 197 Loren Gannon Region 5HA GATEWAY, CHAPEL AND OFFICE OF WOODLAND CEMEMTERY Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio December 1977 Loren Gannon Region 5HA JUN 2 6 1978 GATEWAY, CHAPEL AND OFFICE OF WOODLAND CEMETERY Region 5HA Loren Gannon December 1977 Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio #3 Chapel from southeast GATEWAY, CHAPEL AND OFFICE OF WOODLAND CEMETERY Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County - Region 5HA Office from the northeast JUN 2 6 1978 NOV 3 0 1978 ~ Loren Gannon December 1977 CEMETERY WOODLAND GATEWAY, CHAPEL AND OFFICE OF WOODLAND CEMETERY Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio NOV 3 0 1978 December 1977 Loren Gannon Region 5HA DAYTON SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 16/741700/4402820 UNITED STATES DAYTON SOUTH Stanbery, Edwin, Office Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Dr. Thomas H. Smith - Honorable Tennyson Guyer Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dayton Location Shelby STATE Name Celina Wooster Director Lorain County Mercer County Coshocton County OHIO Also Notified Granville vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Ralph Regula Christ Episcopal Church Licking County Oberlin Dayton Daily News Building West Lafayette vicinity Honorable Charles W. Whalen Date Entered Riley, Calvin E., House Honorable John M. Ashbrook Montgomery County Most Pure Heart of Mary Church Wayne County Honorable Donald J. Pease Wooster Public Square Historic District Richland County Woodland Cemetery Gateway, Chapel, and Office ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Ferguson, Andrew, House NOV 3 0 1978 The Ohio Historical Society Interstat 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr.

Byers/bjr 12/14/78 NOV 3 0 1978 Woodland Cemetery Gateway, Chapel, and Office INPS REGION: SOURCE of NOMINATION Loren S. Gannon, Jr. - deteriorated 9O NOT INTACT-O Ogood Ounexposed - Unknown SO UNKNOWN-6 Ounexcavated Z0 NOT APPLICABLE - 7 - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION-22 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE- 17 C SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE-3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH -27 C MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3functions @dates of initial construction: major alterations : @ architectural style(s): landscape architect / garden designer: ®artisan: _date.

IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE Montgomery Dayton CONDITION ASSOCIATION 113 artist: PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: historic events: EVENTS: XSTATE SETTLEMENT-29 CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Doriginal site NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ART-5 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET vicinity of 118 Woodland Ave. ADMINISTRATOR: URBAN PLANNING-31 builder/contractor: ENGINEERING -11 master builder: Dexcellent SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT- Dunaltered Dfeatures: county code: Oruins Cmoved SAVED? YES 2 OTHER NAMES: -YES -Unrestricted -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE -6 )interior decorator: CONGRESS. DISTRICT ORGANIZATION Oreconstructed - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 @architeet: 3rd ETHNIC ACCESS GROUP city/town engineer: reviewers initials Ofair