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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DEC 2 9 1979 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS WILLIAM RITTER HOUSE AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X UNOCCUPIED X_BUILDING(S) STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS X_YES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Marjorie W. Jacobsen 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Ohio Dept. of Transportation, RIC-13-14.22 July 12, 1976 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Ohio Dept.
of Transportation 039 139 CODE DATE CLASSIFICATION Richland COUNTY Mansfield STATE BOTH OWNERSHIP Columbus CATEGORY NAME ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE PARK DISTRICT MILITARY Ohio STATUS RELIGIOUS XPRIVATE OTHER: 17th-John Ashbrook _ENTERTAINMENT _EDUCATIONAL Recorder's Office; Richland Co. Administration Building 363 Ruth Avenue _TRANSPORTATION COURTHOUSE. 50 Park Avenue East _GOVERNMENT 18l South Main Street _OBJECT _PUBLIC PH0687669 -FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY _LOCAL TITLE DESCRIPTION XORIGINAL SITE The William Ritter House at 181 South Main, Mansfield, is a two and a half story brick a narrow entablature board with dentil work. At the northwest corner is a three story tower set at an angle. The third story, of wood construction, has scalloped horizontal siding, a projecting cornice, a Palladian UNEXPOSED CONDITION DATE UNALTERED porch.
MOVED DETERIORATED decorated with naturalistic carvings. XALTERED scalloped shingles.Each gable is topped by a ball finial.The entire structure has within a two story recessed bay and is under a small pent roof.Directly above it is cherry was used.There are three gas fireplaces on the first floor and one on the second. ashlar lintels and sills.The large stain glass window with a semi-circular arch row of turned dowels in the entablature.A circular stain-glass window is adjacent in common bond.The roof is hipped with several offset gables, and is covered with porch that has a hipped roof supported by Ionic columns.The entablature of the porch is a main feature of the south elevation.It lights the stairway.
building of irregular plan.The foundation is rock-faced ashlar and the walls are laid GOOD window, and oval windows.It has a hipped roof with iron cresting.The first floor was torn down with the lumber being used for the smaller automobile garage. The description above is derived from material written by David Simmons and prepared XFAIR the enclosing of that space with brick for a new bathroom.This occurred in 1961. The interior features golden oak woodwork except in the parlor and front bedroom where the gable roof.The rear projecting bay on the south elevation has a full pediment CHECK ONE to a narrow doorway to the porch.A rear entrance is reached through a small wooden that has scalloped siding and twin windows with a fanlight.
The house has five stain glass windows; three beveled and leaded glass doors; and an has a row of wooden dowels which run through a curvilinear string of wooden balls. EXCELLENT The only outside alteration was the removal of the latticework on the back porch and The remainder of the windows are tall and narrow and have simple flat rock-faced LRUINS DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE