Nomination for Harper, William Rainey, Log House

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEC 12 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM APR 6 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NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS * HISTORIC AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER - NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF DISTRICT X MUSEUM X BUILDING(S) X PRIVATE -COMMERCIAL -PARK STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE -IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED SCIENTIFIC - YES: UNRESTRICTED _OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 1/77 119 43762 Zanesville, DATE INDUSTRIAL CODE TITLE Columbus, New Concord CLASSIFICATION COUNTY LOCATION MILITARY Muskingum ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY AGRICULTURE OWNERSHIP Ohio PUBLIC Fourth and Main Streets STATE RECEIVED East Main Street PUBLIC ACQUISITION _BEING CONSIDERED Muskingum County Court House STATUS Ohio Historic Inventory Ohio Historical Center _TRANSPORTATION NAME DATE ENTERED _GOVERNMENT Muskingum College (John Anthony Brown, President) SURVEY RECORDS - UNOCCUPIED PRESENT USE COURTHOUSE. 10- Clarence Miller -_EDUCATIONAL _OBJECT DATA SHEET FOR NPS USE ONLY -BOTH SITE PARK William Rainey Harper Log House PH0369217 - RELIGIOUS _ENTERTAINMENT 7- DESCRIPTION X EXCELLENT _ORIGINAL SITE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

not within recent memory, and now faces north along the Main Street of the village of Muskingum College, A nineteenth-century store, now used by the College for oftices, southwest wall. CONDITION RUINS FAIR with the main entrance through the center bay. The main door itself stands out as an This building is a two-story, double pen house, traditional in style, of square-hewn CHECK ONE _UNALTERED of poplar logs, twelve logs high to the plate log, with logs measuring up to sixteen inches XALTERED _UNEXPOSED to 1918) _DETERIORATED sits flush against the Harper house's west wall; land to the east and south is owned by well-intentioned attempt at restoration.A small wooden back porch is built onto the -GOOD The house is set on a stone and brick foundation, and is a three-bay structure, 1ogs, covered with a gable roof, of slate. It was moved to its present site, although building.

with no fenestration on the gable ends. There is a large inset chimney in the west XMOVED anachronism, due to its design and transom.The windows are double hung, six-over-six, New Concord the National Road),across the street from the main entrance to the Village and is used as a public park. The house measures 28'x50',and is constructed AREAS OF

Statement of significance

1og architecture, a style once prevalent on the cultural landscape of southern Ohio, began regular classes at ten, and graduated in 1870 at the age of fourteen, giving a graduation from Yale, he married Ella Paul, daughter of Muskingum President David Paul, and afterward taught at the Masonic Academy at Macon Tennessee, at Denison Uinversity, and own innovations, many of which are standard academic procedure today: university extention, a university press, and emphasis on graduate study and research. He held the Presidency served as the New Concord branch of the John McIntire Library. Muskingum College the building serves as a house museum, containing a collection of memorabilia of one of Muskingum College's greatest graduates, and one of the nation's greatest educators.

1500-1599 1400-1499 X1800-1899 ART LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD THEATER RELIGION AGRICULTURE XARCHITECTURE XEDUCATION TRANSPORTATION MILITARY XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY _CONSERVATION INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS INVENTION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _1700-1799 erected.This significance notwithstanding, this particular log house's greatest -1600-1699 commencement address to his graduating class in Hebrew.He taught Hebrew at his alma mater The University of Chicago's Harper Memorial Library was built in his honor and was ded- icated in 1912.

and the one style most used by early settlers before more impressive dwellings could be - ENGINEERING -COMMERCE 8 SIGNIFICANCE acquired the property in 1918,and shortly thereafter began a restoration under the Harper's birthplace was for some time occupied by the Pittsburgh Produce Co.,and also _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This house stands out as a well-preserved example of early nineteenth century traditional _ECONOMICS Samuel Harper (?) -SCIENCE -MUSIC -1900- SPECIFIC DATES at Yale, and wrote extensively on Hehrew language and lietrature and education. With the support and freindship of John D. Rockefeller, Harper assumed the first presidency of the at Chicago for fifteen years, and died in the President's house on the Campus in 1906. significance arises from the fact that it is the birthplace of William Rainey Harper, direction of W.B. Morrow, a New Concord contractor.

Restoration costs were $1530. Today Ellen Rainey.He entered the preparatory program at Muskingum College at the.age of eight, Muskingum County.He was born in this-house in 1856,the son of Samel Harper and from 1872-1873,and received the Ph.D.degree from Yale at the age of eighteen.After

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, William Rainey Harper (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, O GEOGRAPHICAL DATA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David L. Taylor, Regional Historic Preservationist 23 February, 1977 STREET & NUMBER 1425 Newark Road CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservatión 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 1 HEREBY CERTIPY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 43701 DATE 614-453-0762 TELEPHONE CODE ORGANIZATION COUNTY NORTHING Zanesville 1928). Ohio ZONE EASTING Ohio University-Zanesville UTM REFERENCES 280 SHPO 14,412.710,8,0 ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre A17 43,7/3,0,0 KEEPER-OF-THENATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE REGISTER ZONE LOCAL DATE11-29-27 120 Muskingum Photos - 3.21. pl ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - APR 6 Re-submit . United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.

7 KEEPER OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered HAER Maps Send-back TECHNICAL Review Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF Working Number / 2.12. 77. 20 79 C. Wade CONTROL Accept 1978 OK12.13.77 2110178 2.7.28 HARPER, WILLIAM RAINEY, LOG HOUSE New Concord, Ohio APR 6 Photo by David L. Taylor, 10/77 Zanesville, Ohio DEC 12 197.7 - Negative No.

MUS-26-4-4 View of north elevation, showing proximity of Negative filed at Ohio University-Zanesville, commercial building to the west PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER mus kivgom County WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER LOG HOUSE 1/77 APR 6 1978 DEC 12 1977 Zanesville Campus PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Negative filed at Ohio University New Concord, Muskingum County, Ohio Photo by David L.Taylor 2g2 NEW CONCORD QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO HARPER, WILLIAM RAINEY, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 17/4427120/437280 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MUSKINGUM COLLEGE April 7, 1977 Ms. Judith Kitchen I-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43211 Dear Ms. Kitchen: John Anthony Brown President NATIONAL REGISTER Sincerely yours, RECEIVED an important landmark in this area. opportunity to comment on the nomination. courages us to further endorse the nomination.

I have examined the information you have provided which Historian & Administrator OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT This nomination was prepared by Mr.David Taylor with our added to the National Register of Historic Places. Ohio Historic Preservation Office nomination of the William Rainey Harper Log House to be knowledge and encouragement, as we consider the Harper Cabin landmark listed on the National Register, all of which en- I want to thank you for the above information and for the DEC 12 1977 JAB:ad I am in receipt of your letter of March 28th regarding the STATE OHIO APR 6 Cahoon, Wilbur, House Drake, Blam, House Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Director, The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Samuel L. Devine Hon. Clarence E.

Miller Columbus, Ohio 43211 1978 Lucas County Mott Name Maumee Date Entered Columbus Lorain County Also Notified 4/17/78 Avon Muskingum County Franklin County New Concord ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer Location Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Hon. Thomas L. Ashley Eckenrode and Breisach Houses Hon. Donald J. Pease OHIO Harper, William Rainey,Log House NAME as it appears on federal register: 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: APR 6 Harper, William Rainey, Log House 5 LOCATION street & number city / town X STATE E. Main St. 12 SOURCE Of NOMINATION - FEDERAL (B CONDITION - deteriorated Doriginal site Omoved 9O NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed Oreconstrueted - Unknown -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono @) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 first' D -COMMERCE -6 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2 functions @ architectural style(s): @master builder: @landscape architeot / garden designer: EVENTS : date IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 119 Muskingum ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 INSTITUTIONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 10th historic events: PERSONAL: major alterations: artist: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 CURRENTLY: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION LOCAL engineer: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: vicinity of ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP New Concord Dexcellent if state who prepared form?

Dunaltered Oruins OWNER SPRIVATE OSTATE MUNICIPAL COUNTY MULTIPLE [FEDERAL(agency name) 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT (ACCESS SAVED? DYES - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - EXPLORATION -12 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) ( interior decorator: @builder/contractor: areviewers initials) > C UNKNOWN -6 C LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 @architeot: ETHNIC GROUP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Dgood 3artisan: