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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 MAY 22 1978 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS CHRISTMAN, NICHOLAS, HOUSE AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE - YES: UNRESTRICTED OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS February, 1977 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 119 43701 039 OBJECT COUNTY Muskingum SITE CODE Zanesville TITLE DATE BOTH HISTORIC CATEGORY PARK MILITARY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE SCIENTIFIC Ohio Historic Inventory AGRICULTURE _UNOCCUPIED CLASSIFICATION Ohio Historical Center STRUCTURE STATE Columbus, _COMMERCIAL 10-Clarence Miller Muskingum County Court House Ohio _EDUCATIONAL PUBLIC ACQUISITION _ENTERTAINMENT RECEIVED JAN 31 1978 NAME STATUS XBUILDING(S) COURTHOUSE, Fourth and Main Streets _GOVERNMENT Edward J. Christman, Jr. _MUSEUM 532 Wayne Avenue DATE ENTERED _BEING CONSIDERED _INDUSTRIAL IN PROCESS FOR NPS USE ONLY XNO - RELIGIOUS X_PRIVATE LOCAL DATA SHEET 7 DESCRIPTION *EXCELLENT DETERIORATED X ORIGINAL SITE - MOVED DATE.
north side of the house, is a one-story structure, hip-roofed, with its own round-arched, set on plain lug sills and crowned with heavy carved lintels. Windows on the rear are much less ornate, flat-arched, with plain stone lintels. as that on the front and sides, is more sparcely placed. There are two secondary entrances to the home on the rear, one through the kitchen and another located The interior of the Christman House has been altered very little from the original, and those alterations that have been made reflect a sensitive their plaster cornices, and the entire interior is tied together with the handsome oak and chestnut woodwork which remains in its natural, unpainted state. city of Zanesville, along Marietta Road (now State Route 60).
Various trees adorn the property, including full-grown evergreens planted at the bay window buildings, a garage30'x14' near the northeast corner of the house, and a home. CONDITION XALTERED UNALTERED FAIR _UNEXPOSED colored glass transom and sidelights.Shielding this entranceway isa one-story A contemporary kitchen and bathroom facilities have been installed.
CHECK ONE is basically a two-and-a-half-story rectangular building,39'x35',with a pro- This lush Italianate brick residence is seton a limestone foundation.It This house is built into a terraced side hill on the southeast side of the frame storage building,16'x24',on a terrace just uphill to the rear of the front porch...The windows on the front and sides of the Christman home are near the center of the house.The building is covered by a slate hip roof, -RUINS -GOOD the projecting front bay, featuring a trabeated door with impressive etched There is a richly bracketed cornice; the brackerty on the rear, while as ornate jecting center bay in the middle of the front (west) and a one-story kitchen (not an addition), 16'x24' set on the north. The main entrance is through portico, repleat with gingerbread capping the support pillars.
On the west side with the projecting front bay having its own shallow central gable roof. DATE of the south wall there is a one-story bay window.The kitchen, located on the Two chimneys rise near the peaks of the north and south hips of the roof. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -RELIGION SCULPTURE *ARCHITECTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN COMMERCE _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE