Nomination for Golden Lamb

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Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JAN 1 2 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED 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NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS HISTORIC AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY.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 8 - Kindness PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE X BUILDING(S) *PRIVATE _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS X_YES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED -OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY Robert H. Jones/ Golden Lamb Trust 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

320 East Silver Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Department of the Interior 039 CODE 165 Cincinnati OBJECT LOCATION Lebanon Warren BOTH TITLE DATE CLASSIFICATION STATE EDUCATIONAL COUNTY CATEGORY OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT DATA SHEET Ohio (Rev. 10-74) XMUSEUM MILITARY NAME COURTHOUSE. STRUCTURE XCOMMERCIAL STATUS _TRANSPORTATION _RELIGIOUS Ohio & Pennsylvania Hotel at the Sign of the Golden Lamb (1827) _SCIENTIFIC Historic American Buildings Survey Washington Warren County Courthouse 4331 Rossplain Road - UNOCCUPIED _PUBLIC 27-31 South Broadway Golden Lamb (preferred name) FOR NPS USE ONLY -GOVERNMENT PH036941/ - INDUSTRIAL _PARK Ohio 45236 _SITE 1936 DESCRIPTION X EXCELLENT X ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

cornice is intact, though the door itself is new. North of this door is another southern 6 bays of the first 3 stories is a porch, divided into 5 sections by this portion of the building is bracketed and paneled. The ends of this The 2 story section, built in 1826 by Henry Share, matches that of the first with 6/6 light, shuttered windows and a doorway with a small porch. the men who were building the Little Miami R.R. On the interior, today, is a lobby, four public dining rooms, the kitchen, a There are five private dining rooms on the 2nd floor and 19 guest rooms with baths on the 2nds, 3rd, and 4th floors.

The 4th floor also has 3 museum-type CONDITION The Golden Lamb consists of a 4-story, L-shaped structure facing South Broadway, UNALTERED large sign hanging from a decorative bracket from the porch.The cornice of columns.The upper floors of the porch have a decorative railing.There is a rooms, two of which house Shaker displays. original section consisted of two stories,6 bays across.Today there are The original 2-story structure gained a 3rd story ca. 1846. A 3~story, 4-bay wing a 2-story section behind and,west of this, a new, one-story section. The For many years the building was painted white with two iron balconies serving CHECK ONE _DETERIORATED _UNEXPOSED as firescapes.The windows had tin decorative 1intels.In the 1930's the doors in the 3rd bay from the south end leading out to firescapes.Across the -GOOD the original tavern.

The original pilasteres, fanlit, doorway with a deep those of the facade, but have shutters. The south end has two large interior Some are the original 6/6 light, others have been replaced with 2/2 lights. doorway, which originally went upstairs, and a storefront window. The remaining end chimneys. The upper floors of the west side have regularly placed windows. XALTERED 4 bays to the north have two storefront doors and display windows.The ten bays along Broadway.The first story of the southernmost 6 bays represents accessible thru a doorway on the south side.The cornice is plain.There is a building was sandblasted and the prgch added.In 1964 the one-story addition was entire first floor is used as restaurant.Remaining facade windows are 2/2 light made at the rear to accomodate a tavern and a gift shop in the basement. -RUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

The Golden Lamb is recognized as the oldest inn in continuous use in the state of Ohio and remains an outstanding architecural focal point for the town of Lebanon. It is political rallies, celebrations, and entertainment. "keep a house of Public Entertainment. In 1815 Icabod Corwin built the fine brick hostel to replace the old log tavern of Jonas Seaman's. Benjamin Rue, who was in Ancient, came to manage the new inn in 1818. The Golden Lamb was immediately town of Lebanon has no stage and few public buildings, the tavern became the town's amuse the people of the town and county.

There is no known record of the time when the tavern was first called "The Golden Lamb" but a notice in the Western Star as early as 1827 advertised that good accomodations were available at "The Ohio and Pennsylvania Hotel at the Sign of Share and his wife became the proprietors of the hotel, operating it together until Calvin Bradley leased the hotel in 1839, bought the building in 1841 and operated Dickens stopped at the hotel with his wife and records his visit in his American The hotel was then known as the Lebanon House and a succession of proprietors and hotel keepers managed it. Stubbs' son, Albert, became manager and was associated an attorney and one of America's most controversial politicians, killed himself accidentally, in his room at the Golden Lamb.

Vallandigham was in town to defend the final address to the jury the next day using as a defense the theory that 1700-1799 Notes. COMMERCE EDUCATION ART RELIGION SIGNIFICANCE LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD THEATER AGRICULTURE MILITARY XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT TRANSPORTATION XARCHITECTURE X1800-1899 _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SPECIFIC DATES 1815 Icabod Corwin ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION 1600-1699 _COMMUNICATIONS _PREHISTORIC _ENGINEERING LITERATURE _PHILOSOPHY a man charged with murder and was demonstrating to his friends his plan to deliver -SCULPTURE Mr.Share's death in 1830.Mary Share continued the operation for seven years. Issac Stubbs repossessed the building in 1843 and he and his heirs owned it until - 1400-1499 it was more familiar to the public as The Lebanon House. -1500-1599 the Revolutionary War and who had built the stone Crossed Keys Tavern(NR) near Ft.

-ECONOMICS - INDUSTRY -MUSIC _1900- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING intimately tied to the history of the town and was and is a major meeting place for popular, particularly as a meeting area for men of law and politics. Since the it as "The Bradley House" until 1843. It was during his ownership that Charles with the hotel for thirty-six years. For awhile he called it the Stubbs House, but Columbus, and Cincinnati with connecting lines to Dayton and Lancaster. Henry Clay and On December 23, 1803 the Warren County Court granted a license to Jonas Seaman to his family were frequent visitors as they journeyed back and forth between their home INVENTION The inn was for many years a stagecoach stop for coaches traveling between Sandusky, 9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Oxford Press, Oxford, Ohio, 1958. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1 acre VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Bounded on the east by South Broadway, on the south by West Main Street, on the west by Sycamore Street and on the north by property liens in the city of Lebanon. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Betty A.

Cleveland STREET & NUMBER Box 223 South Broadway (513) 932-1817 CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45036 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).1 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY KEEPER OFT GPU 892-453 ORGANIZATION CODE Lebanon 8/1/77 TELEPHONE NORTHING COUNTY DATE Warren County Historical Society UTM REFERENCES ATTEST: ZONE EASTING SHPO Phillips, Hazel Spencer.. The Golden Lamb, an authentic history of Ohio's oldest inn. DATE Sept. 18,1927 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hazel Spencer Phillips and the Civic Trust of Lebanon, Ohio, 1969.

hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the ZONE Phillips, Hazel Spencer, Traditional Architecture - Warren County, Ohio. DATE1.11-78 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JAN 1 3 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED The Golden Lamb, Warren Co., Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER the victim could have killed himself with a gunshot. Before the Civil War Vallandigham was the leader of Southern sympathizers known as the Peace Democrats or Copperheads. Governor of New York, other guests were General William Henry Harriston, Henry Clay, Governor Ethan Allen. Brown, and Governor Jeremiah Morrow. Several Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S.

Grant, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley. Guest rooms of the hotel bear the names of these and many other distinguished guests. Furnishing of the hotel are authentic and two rooms on the fourth floor of the hotel have been set aside as display rooms of original Shaker furniture and accessories. The furnishings are from the old Shaker communities of Whitewater and Union artifacts, many from the Shaker community near Lebanon called Union Village. The Golden Lamb is recognized by the Shaker Museum Foundation, Inc. as one of the finest private collections of Shaker furniture and artifacts in the midwest. The Golden Lamb was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936.

It is presently leased to Lee and Michael Comisar, restauranteurs of PAGE The largest gathering of distinguished men came for a dinner to honon DeWitt FOR NPS USE ONLY Clinton in July 1825. In addition to Clinton, "Father of Canals and the Village in Ohio, Cantebury Village and Hancock Village in New Hampshire, and Mt. CIncinnati, Ohio. U.S. Presidents have been visitors also.They include William Henry Harrison, Lebanon Village in New York.Throughout the restaurant are other Shaker Photos _ Inventory - National Register Write-up JAN 1 2 1978 OTHER KEEPER HAER Maps Property ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN Entered Review Re-submit Send-back Warren TECHNICAL State REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF 1-9-78 Needs date ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN SERVES AS AN ARCHITELTURAL FOLAL POINT pOR THE TOWN OF LEBANON. INT:2106- 74 Working Number 1 2. 12. 77.

<2 1 00 Holden Lamb "GOLDEN LAMB" operating as a hotel in Ohio Here J.Q.Adams, Henry Clay Chas.Dickens and many other NOW A MODERN HOTEL And the oldest Inn still Famous since 18l5 as the famous men have stayed. DEC 12 1977 JAN 1 2 1978 Ohio (also has negatives) camera pointed west THE GOLDEN LAMB PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER August 1977 Front entrance, facing east..e John Evers, Photographer Genntown,Ohio DEC 1 2 1977 LEBANON, OHIO JAN 1 2 1973 Front entrance, showing detail and August 1977 fanlight and historical markers WARREN COUNTY Camera pointed west PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER THE GOLDEN LAMB John Evers, Photographer DEC 12 1977 JAN 1 2 1978 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER " the east THE GOLDEN LAMB August 1977 WARREN COUNTY LEBANON, OHIO Front facade, facing S.

Broadway to John Evers, Photographer DEC 12 1977 LEBANON, OHIO JAN 12 1978 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER | Front of building and part of south THE GOLDEN LAMB WARREN COUNTY (also has negatives) August 1977 gable roof - Camera pointed northwest Genntown, Ohio side showing 1826 addition with step- John Evers, Photographer SOLDEN LANB DEC 12 1977 LEBANON, OHIO Ohio (also has negatives) JAN 1 2 1978 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER " John Evers,Photographer tion housing Black Horse Tavern and gift shop...Camera pointed northeast THE GOLDEN LAMB August 1977 WARREN COUNTY Southwest exposure showing l96l addi- Genntown, Ohio DEC 12 1977 LEBANON, OHIO Ohio (also has negatives) JAN 12 1978 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ' showing loading dock and 196l addition August 1977 WARREN COUNTY John Evers, Photographer West exposure of building (rear) THE GOLDEN LAMB Genntown, Ohio Photot Camera pointed east LEBANON, OHIC UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LEBANON QUADRANGLE OHIO-WARREN CO DEC 12 1977 GOLDEN LAMB THE LEBANON HOUSE, INC.

CINCINNATI, OHIO 45236 August 8, 1977 U. S. Department of The Interior National Register of Historic Places Much to our amazement, we discovered recently that the Golden Lamb and I've enclosed a booklet not only for your information but also not only gone by but look even more lengthy in the distance, we are will be presented to the State Society in September. enlightenment or advice for us. Joan J. Portman (Mrs. William C.) Sincerely, Dr. William Murtag is not on the National Register of Historic Places.This building Register, would there be any possibility that this pre-dated document Purchase Association in Cincinnati (and the Warren County Historical I will call you Tuesday morning, August l6th, to see if you have any 4331 ROSSPLAIN ROAD National Park Service in 1933.We would be very much interested in knowing the exact year.

and business belongs to our family (now leased to Lebanon Properties), Although we have been working through proper channels to get on the Association in Lebanon)as the intermediaries to the Ohio Historical sending in a separate application to Miami Purchase this month that Dear Sir: father (Robert H.Jones) just about the time the survey was started might enable us to automatically be on the Register?.(I say this 8795 Indian Hill Road 8.16-77 Washington, D. C. Society en route to your office. Since, however, the area to be Cincinnati, Ohio to inquire about the document (on page 40B) from the Department of while looking at all the forms.) We have been working via the Miami included in Lebanon becomes increasingly larger and the months have 20240 45243 Mr.

Charles Herrington Interior.Somehow, I had always assumed this citation put us on the Lucy Ainslie has given me your names in hopes that you might help. 20240 Joan J. Portman National Park Service Waive aay notification needed by you on this subject Sincerely. As owners of The Colden Lamb,we are aware of the Washington, D. C. the National Register. U.s. Department ef The Interior August 25, 1977 Thank you very much for your prompt consideration. and hope this will expedite our being recognized by Issues involved in the Tax Reform Act of '76.We Dear Sir! December 28, 1977 Dr. William J. Murtagh Keeper of The National Register U. S. Department of The Interior Dear Dr. Murtagh: Your letter of December 16 has been received by The Golden to you in August and enclosed in our request for the Joan Jones Portman Robert H. Jones Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 given. Sincerely, Lamb Trust.

Golden Lamb Trust National Park Service from you very soon. 433l Rossplain Road Washington, D. C. Enclosed is a copy of the waiver that was sent nomination and would appreciate any attention it might be 20240 National Register. DATE ACTION TAKEN INITIALS THE NATINAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE RECD JAN 3 1978. SENT STATE ORIO JAN 12 1978 Mott/js 880 1/16/78 Location Lebanon Name Also Notified Golden Lamb ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Warren County Regional Director, Midwest Region Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Thomas N. Kindness Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: 6 LOCATION street & number city / town 27-31 S. Broadway SOURCE of NOMINATION 1 features: EO NOT INTACT-O EO UNKNOWN-4 Ounexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access SAVED? -YES PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono @ AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -ENGINEERING -11 -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain 'first'O - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY - historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest'O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 C MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL -30 'only' 0 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 2 functions major alterations : ) architectural style(s): -landseape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: 3 builder/contractor: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 165 CONDITION ASSOCIATION ETHNIC Warren GROUP FEDERAL historic events: PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: artist: EVENTS: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION LOCAL SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 artisan: Golden Lamb NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of master builder: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Ddeteriorated Dexcellent ADMINISTRATOR: if state who prepared form?

URBAN PLANWING-31 dates of initial construction: reviewers initials. Unknown NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET as it appears on federal register: Dunexposed Doriginal site date. Omoved XXSTATE Oaltered CNPS REGION: -reconstructed -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 ONO 1CONGRESS. DISTRICT 8th @arohiteot: engineer: NAMES COMMERCE-6 Mx Lebanon SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) give role & date Dgood Oruins 2.of the Golden Lamb;Bradley House;Stubbs House;Lebanon House.