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Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Christman, Nicholas, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,501 words across 10 pages, filed in 1978. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 78002159, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

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

Statement of significance

This house is öne of the best-preserved examples of Victorían Italianate residential tailor who came to Zanesville in 1854, two years after emigrating from his native home. wife, and eventually to his children Nicholas, Amanda, and Elizabeth. The house Apart from the general architectural significance of this house, it is also an important property in that, while Italianate architecture is fairly common in the commercial district of Zanesville, richly-apportioned Italianate residences like this have for the most part disappeared from the scene. Also, the fact that the 1700-1799 1400-1499 1873-1874 LAW construction.

ENGINEERING ART EDUCATION THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE 1900- BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC INVENTION LITERATURE AGRICULTURE XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT MUSIC X1800-1899 INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS _TRANSPORTATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PHILOSOPHY _CONSERVATION interior of this home has been little altered contributes to its overall importance J.Y. Smeltzer to the Zanesville and Muskingum County area. -1600-1699 _ECONOMICS -1500-1599 He retired in 1893,and the tailor business which he has started was taken over by his' was built ata cost of $2900, and has been in the Christman family since its _SCIENCE architecture in Zanesville. Nicholas Christman (1830-1902) was a Bavarian merchant sons Albert and Edward Christman. Following his death, the house passed onto his

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Obituary for Nicholas Christman, Daily Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), January 22, 1902. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 3.25 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Beginning at the northwest corner of the property, at the intersection of Wayne then 147' North Along Wayne Avenue to the place of beginning. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David L.

Taylor, Regional Historic Preservation Officer Ohio University-Zanesville 3 June, 1977 STREET & NUMBER 1425 Newark Road CITY OR TOWN Zanesville, Ohio 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS/NCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 43701 614-453-0762 ORGANIZATION CODE DATE NORTHING TELEPHONE REGISTER COUNTY ZONE ATTEST: ZONE EASTING LOCAL X [4.412.013.6,0 440 Muskinghan Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN 2 ELABORATE BRACKETS ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up MAY 2 2 1978 IN T:2106- 74 OTHER KEEPER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back Re-submit Maps 78002159 Review Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Working Number.31. 78. 23 45 3.7.78 ONE OF THE LAST TECHNICAL CONTROL Zanesville, Ohio PROPERTY OF THE REGISTER 3/77 Photo by David L.

Taylor, Rear of house, from NW NICHOLAS CHRISTMAN HOUSE Negative at Ohio University-Zanesville Negative Number:MUS-/2-3-JAN 311978 Zanesville, Ohio Photo by David L. Taylor, 3/77 one-story bay window Negative at Ohio University-Zanesville, South and East side of house, showing PROPERTY OF THE WATIONAL REGISTER NICHOLAS CHRISTMAN HOUSE JAN 311978 Negative Number: 24.3 Zanesville, Ohio Photo by David L. Taylor, 3/77 NICHOLAS CHRISTMAN HOUSE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Front elevation, from the NE Neg. at Ohio Univ.-Zanesville, Zanesvill Negative Number: MUS-12-3-3 ZANESVILLE WES ZANESVILLE WEST QUADRANGLE MAY 2 21978 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OF OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Martindale, Samuel, House Germantown Griswold, Peck, House Harris, Willlan B., House Garfield, Halsey, House Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr.

Honorable Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Honorable Thomas L. Ashley Columbus, Ohto 43211 Honorable Donald J. Pease House 5/31/78 Madison Location Mott Name STATE Lorain County Lake County Sheffield Date Entered Muskingum County Fairfield County Also Notified Zanesville Hanson House State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Englewood vicinity Maumee Honorable John W. Stanton Baltimore vicinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lucas County Montgomery County Honorable Clarence E. Miller Ladd's Tavern Rohr, David, Mansion and Carriage Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Director, The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Thomas N. Kindness Miller Farn MAY 2 21978 Christman, Nicholas, House Dr. Thomas Il.

Smith OTHER NAMES: 3) date of entry: ) county code: MAY 2 2 1978 city / town 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION Ohio U.-Zanesville - deteriorated Dexeellent 2C NOT INTACT-O Oreconstructed - Unknown -unexcavated - No Access -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain "first'C - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING -31 "oldest' O - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 () dates of initial construction: 3 functions major alterations : (8) architectural style(s): @master builder: ") interior decorator: SONATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE 119 PH0661708 county Muskingum ASSOCIATION Zanesville engineer: artist: artisan: ADMINISTRATOR PERSONAL: date 10th INSTITUTIONAL: STATE SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 builder/contractor: EVENTS: CURRENTLY: Daltered landscape architect/ garden designer: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: vicinity of Doriginal site 532 Wayne Ave.

Dunexposed NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET historic events: GNPS REGION: Mfeatures: Christman, Nicholas, House - FEDERAL 1 CONDITION 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 SAVED? COYES AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 - CONSERVATJON - 8 - ECONOMICS- 9 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT." 21 ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 GROUP PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 AGRICULTURE-3 NOT APPLICABLE-8 as it appears on federal register: Dmoved IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno Cunknown Oruins

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Zanesville city, in the words of 1882.

1882, Zanesville City

Hazlett Post, No. 81

was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C.

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