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

Nomination for Edwards, John Stark, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,601 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 78002199, 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 MAR 1 5 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Edwards, John Stark, House AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 309 South Street, S. E. _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 19th - Charles Carney _ VICINITY OF STATUS - PRESENT USE DISTRICT PUBLIC X.MUSEUM STRUCTURE WORK IN PROGRESS -EDUCATIONAL - _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION XYES: RESTRICTED _IN PROCESS _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Washington D. C.
44483 039 155 Trumbull TITLE DATE COUNTY CATEGORY Warren SITE HISTORIC CODE AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE PARK TRANSPORTATION GOVERNMENT STATE OWNERSHIP RELIGIOUS Trumbull County Courthouse INDUSTRIAL RECEIVED Ohio ENTERTAINMENT Historic American Building Survey SCIENTIFIC NAME MILITARY XBUILDING(S) COURTHOUSE. XPRIVATE DATE ENTERED Trumbull County Historical Society DATA SHEET _COMMERCIAL Library of Congress JUL 171978 FOR NPS USE ONLY OTHER: - UNOCCUPIED 160 High Street, N.W. _OBJECT _BOTH PH 0664677 XFEDERALSTATE _COUNTY LOCAL DESCRIPTION _ORIGINAL SITE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

floor has two rooms on either side of the stairway, with closets under the eaves. The entrance consists of a paneled door, two Tuscan pilasters, a full entabla- floor, and three 12x12 windows asymmetrically located on the lower floor. The CONDITION ashlar. XEXCELLENT DETERIORATED XALTERED FAIR with two front rooms and two bedrooms and a kitchen at the rear.The upper setting.The basement is used as an historical museum and the first floor entablature.The facade windows repeat the projecting architrave detail with fans, two smaller double-hung windows symmetrically placed on the second CHECK ONE ture with a projecting cornice and wide frieze, and two narrow five-lighted windows that serve as sidelights even though they are located outside of the wall surface has narrow siding and corner boards, with a foundation of coursed and Iddings families.
broad lawn and extensive plantings retains the quality of the house's original original foundation stones were marked and relaid. The new site, with its The facade has a central entrance flanked by four l2xl2 double-hung windows. The only changes have been the addition of a small lavatory on the lower floor an ogee molding. Above these lower openings are narrow three-lighted windows the structure with pavement. Relocated three city blocks to the east, the and a kitchen and bathroom on the upper floor.The house was moved from house was placed in its original orientation on a new basement.
All of the The John Stark Edwards House is a story and a half, post and beam structure, its original site when a road was widened and a new parking lot surrounded has been restored to the period of 1800 -1840 with furniture from the Edwards with two end chimneys and a narrow cornice.In the gables are quarter circle -UNALTERED -UNEXPOSED -RUINS -GOOD DATE 1966 48 feet long and 33 feet wide. The lower floor consists of a central stairhall set within a board and batten frieze. The broad gable roof is steeply pitched XMOVED AREAS OF

Statement of significance

John Stark Edwards, the grandson of New England's Jonathan Edwards, came to The house, built in 1807, was sold upon John Stark Edwards' death in 1813 to Trump of Fame". His daughter, Laura, married Dr. Warren Iddings and raised a family that resided in the house until 1938. In that year, the Trumbull County Historical Society incorporated and purchased setting would be maintained. 1807 1800-1899 1700-1799 1400-1499 EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT ART PERIOD SCULPTURE AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE SCIENCE THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LITERATURE MILITARY INDUSTRY COMMERCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT INVENTION RELIGION XARCHITECTURE _ENGINEERING The John Stark Edwards House has been the residence of several important figures MUSIC parking lot demanded that the house be moved.This was done carefully under and the first elected representative to Congress from the Western Reserve.
Trumbull County after graduating from Yale to become the Western Reserve's The house is architecturally significant as an example of the late Colonial verna- cular in Northeast Ohio where the predominant styles are Federal and Greek Colonial vernacular in Ohio. - CONSERVATION _PHILOSOPHY _COMMUNICATIONS the supervision of an architect so that the historic orientation and immediate first resident lawyer. He also became the first Recorder of Trumbull County in the history of the Western Reserve and remains an unusual example of the late landmark in the region. -1600-1699 _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN the house from the Iddings family. It was dedicated as a museum on June 29,1938 -1500-1599 by Governor Davey.In 1966,the widening of a street and the construction ofa Thomas D.
Webb, the founder of the Western Reserve's first newspaper,"The ment of the Western Reserve, makes the John Stark Edwards House a major _ECONOMICS -1900- - LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: Revival. This fact, along with its connections with the early history and develop- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Upton, Harriet Taylor, History of Trumbull County, Lewis Pub. Co., 1909, Pg. 86, 112, 147, 195, 370, 514, 551. Williams, H.Z., History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, 1882, Pg. 182a. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_app. 1/3 acre UTM REFERENCES Warren L4,5/6,4|5,5,0l VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The site is located in the south parts of Lots #14, 15, & 16. It fronts 82.42 feet line of South Street, S.E. for 190.74 feet. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY Mrs. Aubrey Sparks, Sec'y: Trumbull County Historical Society STREET & NUMBER 309 South Street, S. E.
CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL X 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 NAME / TITLE GPO 892.453 Warren DATE ORGANIZATION COUNTY CODE TELEPHONE NORTHING Ohio Trumbull County Historical Society brochure. Trumbull County Historical Society September 1977 36216-394-4653 on the west line of Vine Avenue, S.E.,and extends westerly along the north ZONE EASTING FOR NPS USE ONLY NAME/TITLE Tom Fisher, Regional Preservationist: Western Reserve Historical Soc. 3.
8,78 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ZONE ATTEST: Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN demolition Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF JUL 17 1978 Send-back _ Re-submit - TECHNICAL OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered HAER Maps HISTORIAN Review KEEPER Federal Register Entry Property 4.21.78 National Register Write-up Working Number State 3.15.78.2669 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 3.15.28 Ohio Trumbull Edwards, John Starke, House CONTROL INT:2106-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.7 5.5-78 acrept BUILT IN 1807 OLDEST HOME IN HOUSE WARREN Mrs. Aubrey Sparks Sept. 1977 MAR 1 5 1978 JUL 17 1978 Looking Northwest Warren, Trumbull, Ohio John Stark Edwards House South and East Elevations PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Trumbull Co. Historical Soc.
JUL 17 1978 Looking Northeast John Stark Edwards House Warren, Trumbull, Ohio West Elevation Trumbull Historical Soc. Mrs. Aubrey Sparks Sept. 1977 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER MAR 15 1978 4 WARREN 15' QUADRANGLE 17-515/370-4564/550 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS SCALE 1:24 000 Light-duty L U. S. Route WARREN. OHIO MAR 15 1978 ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES MEANDER CREEK RESERVOIR STATE OF OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OHIO JUL 17 1978 Edwards, John Stark, House DI. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Warren Location Clark County Also Notified South Charleston Muskingum County Honorable Tennyson Guyer Twin Arch Stone Culvert Date Entered Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum South Charleston Historic District ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Clarence E. Miller State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Charles J.
Carney Troy vicinity Honorable Clarence J. Brown Director, The Ohio Historical Society Zanesville YWCA Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Trumbull County Miami County Naine 2 OTHER NAMES: Iddings Huuse -HAss 3) date of entry: )county code: Edwards, John Stark, House city / town XO STATE 309 South St., SE (I1)CONGRESS. DISTRICT 19th 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - LOCAL - PRIVATE ORGANIZATION - deteriorated 17) Leatures: Dexcellent EC NOT INTACT-O Omoved Dunexposed S O UNKNOWN-6 Dunexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono 21) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : CLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING -11 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 -URBAN PLANMING -31 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 C MILITARY- 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY- 13 C MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 major alterations : 26 architectural style(s): S interior decorator: IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 155 CONDITION PH0664677 Warren ASSOCIATION INSTITUTIONAL: engineer: EVENTS: PERSONAL: builder/contractor: CURRENTLY: historic events: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 vicinity of Trumbull County Historical Society COMMERCE-6 artist: ADMINISTRATOR: JUL171978 master builder: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Daltered SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) Dgood Bfunctions SAVED?
YES Bartisan: Coriginal site date. BNPS REGION: "first'O landscape architect / garden designer: Ireviewers initials. Oreconstrueted Ounknown SNAMES give role & date ETHNIC GROUP UNKNOWN-4 Trumbull dates of initial construction: architeot: