Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for First Presbyterian Church

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,743 words across 17 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 78003115, 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 RECEIVED DEC 12 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER - NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 19 - Charles Carney - VICINITY OF STATE ( PRESENT USE X DISTRICT -MUSEUM BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE X.RELIGIOUS -IN PROCESS &YES: RESTRICTED -BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.
High Street, Nw REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 1936 44481 Warren DATE Washington LOCATION OBJECT UNOCCUPIED COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT XGOVERNMENT SITE HISTORIC ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY OWNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION EDUCATIONAL PARK CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE PRIVATE Ohio STRUCTURE NAME STATUS Mahoning Avenue Historic District COURTHOUSE. DATE ENTERED District of Columbia Trumbull County Courthouse OTHER: PUBLIC ACQUISITION Library of Congress -SCIENTIFIC X.COMMERCIAL FOR NPS USE ONLY - INDUSTRIAL DATA SHEET - MILITARY 241 -391 Mahoning Avenue, NAME Multiple Public and Private (See Continuation Sheet) XFEDERAL STATE _COUNTY LOCAL 039 CODE TITLE Historic American Building Survey PUBLIC (44483) XNO 155 7 DESCRIPTION ZORIGINAL SITE X GOOD _MOVED DATE. UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Kinsman House, a two-story Greek Revival brick mansion, has a double-height Ionic portico, a full entablature, and brick pilasters dividing each bay. The was replaced in the Victorian mode, is full-height on the lower level with a bay Victorian style, with some original partitions removed, the main staircase relocated, frame, mortise-and-tenon Greek Revival structure with a Doric-columned portico. on the various extensions. The shuttered windows, with 6x6 and 6x9 lights, all have is mostly intact. The Adams House is a five bay, brick Federal style structure. It has a shallow hip towers flanking a central, round-arched entrance and rose window.
With their broach CONDITION EXCELLENT FAIR XALTERED shuttered double-hung window has a deep architrave which is repeated in the pro- The Mahoning Avenue Historic District is a block-long section of street with one and pilasters.Although the house has been altered to accommodate a double garage, characteristics are ornate cornice brackets, paneled friezes, ornamental window hoodmolds, and a single-story porch supported by delicate fluted Corinthian columns. front entrance has four Bohemian glass transom lights, and is flanked by sidelights The Perkins House is a two-story brick Victorian Italianate residence.Its major original flush weatherboarding. Inside, only the main hall running the width of CHECK ONE Minimal alterations to the High Victorian interior have been made.
side.The Victorianized parapet has a wide cornice and ornate frieze brackets.Each a firescape, and five apartments, the exterior and interior architectural detail accentuated architraves which are found on the ceiling-height interior frames.The window on the side wing.Inside, the house has been extensively altered in the The Harriet Taylor Upton House is a simplified wooden Greek Revival structure with windows.The fenestration is evenly spaced with stone lintels and sills.The central, pedimented central entrance has a transom and sidelights. The fenestration, which remains unchanged.The original staircase to the second floor has been relocated the square dwelling, with its finely-detailed woodwork and barrel-vaulted ceiling, spires, the one tower doubles the height of the other.
The round-arched form is re- sidelighted entrance has wooden pilasters and opens onto a front porch which has a and other major changes made.Original painted frescoes remain in the first and - DETERIORATED The Smith House, a two-story frame Federal style residence, has five bays on each roof, four symmetrically placed brick chimneys, and a wide entablature with frieze brick oven and cooking fireplace in the basement. central gable and Tuscan columns.The interior Federal detail is intact, as is the jecting hood over the central entrance.Aluminum siding has been added over the to the Victorian Italianate and the Queen Anne. a two-story wing attached to the rear.It has a shallow hip roof that is repeated -UNALTERED and all of the rooms have been paneled.
_RUINS a two and a half-story central section, a one-story front porch and side wing, and The First Presbyterian Church, built in the Romanesque Revival style, has two front The Kinsman Law and Land Office next door, is a single-story second floor halls. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

residence until the 1930's, when Hiram College acquired it for extension classes. owner. For some time, the house has served as the Warren City Hall. Harriet, married George W. Upton and in the 1890's was elected national treasurer of the National Women's Suffragist Association, a position she held for the next ART ECONOMICS INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE COMMUNICATIONS PHILOSOPHY BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE PERIOD THEATER 1900- TRANSPORTATION XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE office annex. MILITARY INDUSTRY XARCHITECTURE SCIENCE LITERATURE The Mahoning Avenue Historic District is a residential street of outstanding l9th XRELIGION for the initial nomination did not recognize their historical significance or being extended to include the structures on the eastern side of Mahoning Avenue, _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT two terms each.
gift.Kinsman was a land speculator in partnership with his father-in-law, operating Leicester King, Warren merchant, state senator, and vice-presidential candidate fifteen years.The house became the the National Women's Suffragist Headquarters Perkins Kinsman. Her father, General Simon Perkins, provided the land for a wedding X1800-1899 their contribution to the district's visual cohesiveness. _CONSERVATION The Kinsman House was built in 1832 for newly-married Frederick Kinsman and Alice William McKinley came here to cultivate the political and financial support of its Republican Party.Charles W. Smith was a lawyer who moved to Warren in 1850.He The Perkins House, designed as the residence of Henry B.
Perkins, was an important The Smith House was built in l828 by master builder Isaac Ladd as the home of location of nationally important political activities.The western half of the political and social center in Ohio.Many prominent 19th Century political figures -1600-1699 in 1847 on the Barnburner-Liberty Party ticket.In 1880,Senator Roscoe Conkling a delegate and presidential elector in 1864 and 1868. The house served as the family -1500-1599 district is already listed on the National Register (l97l).Its boundaries are -ENGINEERING Attorney Ezra B.Taylor moved into the house in the early 1870's.In 1877,Taylor - 1700-1799 from the small office building he built in the 1830's next to his house.He served -1400-1499 became a judge and was elected in 1880 to the U.S. Senate to succeed his friend The Harriet Taylor Upton House was built in the early 1860'sby Henry Perkins.
-MUSIC X.LAW and Mahoning Railroad. Prominent in Republican political circles, Kinsman was also such as U.S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and SPECIFIC DATES 1820's - 1890's was elected as the county's prosecuting attorney and then the city's mayor for James A.Garfield who went on to become the President.Senator Taylor's daughter, Century structures which was the center of Warren's social life as well as the as an associate county judge and as a founder and director of the Cleveland of New York and Ulysses S.Grant campaigned on the grounds of the house for the

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Upton, H.I., History of Trumbull County, Ohio, Chicago, 1909. Williams, H.Z.&Bros., History of Irumbull and Mahoning Counties, Cleveland, 1882. Butler, M.M., Pictorial History of the Western Reserve, 1796-1860, Cleveland, 1960. Frary, I.T., Early Homes of Ohio, Garrett & Massie, Inc., Richmond, Va., 1936. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY - VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES . STATE 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE Daniel R.
Porter - former director - Ohio Historical Society ( Ist nomination) Tom Fisher - regional preservationist STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). T criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE S HPO GPO 892,453 44106 721-5722 DATE COUNTY NATIONAL CODE ORGANIZATION TELEPHONE Western Reserve Historical Society Ohio Cleveland, ATTEST: Street on the east.
The district extends along the property lines of the structures that face Mahoning UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the 10825 East Blvd. 22 acres FOR NPS USE ONLY June 1977 14,516.418,8,0f KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NORTHING ZONE Avenue between High Street and Perkins Drive on the west and High Street and Monroe 14,516.512,0,01 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED DEC 12 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED 12 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM peated in the nave windows, the tripartite fenestration in the towers, and in the small, round windows in the attic level of the side elevations. Similar Romanesque The Asael Adams House was built in the 1840's.
Adams, who was born in Connecticut from 1813 until his death in 1852. Among other activities, he was responsible for dedicated, having been built at a cost of $52,000. A Sunday school was added four Upton, Adams). activities. PAGE structures show signs of neglect. The Mahoning Avenue Historic District is distinctive for the stylistic variety of its relatively few structures.Recent demolitions and commercial growth threaten years later. The congregation, whose activities included the organization of Warren's the district from both ends, making its architectural quality that much more precious. the main church. The other houses in the district represent variations on the Queen Anne style with Warren's once prominent position in America's political life. The First Presbyterian Church was incorporated in 1845 after separating from the Opera House and several local companies.
their corner towers, shingled surfaces, bay windows, and deep porches. Two of the Congregational Church of Christ of Warren. The site was purchased in 1830 and their the construction of Warren's oldest mercantile building.
His son, Whittlesey Adams, FOR NPS USE ONLY Cleveland-Pittsburgh route from 1812 to 1813,and settled in Warren as a merchant and from 1903-l910, her father's office the one-story wing was the center of their YM/YWCA in l87l, was comprised of many Mahoning Avenue residents Kinsman, was aleading fire insurance agent in Warren as well asa director of the Warren brick arcaded corbel tables in each gable.The circular shape is also repeated in ITEM NUMBER 8 CONTINUATION SHEET detail can be found in the gabled, brick structure that is attached at an angle to The district offers both a history of l9th Century architecture and a reminder of first building completed two years later.In 1876,the present structure was in 1786,taught school in Cleveland in 1805,served as a mail carrier on the Form No. 10-300a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEC 12.1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM (1) Harriet Taylor Upton House (4) Kinsman House & Office (5) First Presbyterian Church PAGE Smith House RECEIVED CONTINUATION SHEET on National Register Properties added to district Properties already listed Perkins House Adams House DATE ENTERED in new nominations ITEM NUMBER Mahoning Avenue DEC 2 0 1977 Photos ARCHEOLOGIST THIS FORM IS TO BE FILED WITH THE NATIONAL RECISTER NOMINATION.
KEEPER OTHER CONTROL DATE INCREASE ATTEST: DECREASE TECHNICAL MOVE ADP Federal Register Control Cards BRANCH CHIEF BOUNDARY REVISION State notified ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER INT: 580-78 Maps Mahoning HISTORIAN CHIEF,BRANCH OF REGISTRATION DEC 12 1977 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Western Reserve Historical S. Two houses - looking east Warren, Trumbullg Ohio Harpiet Taylor Upton House #1 f3 Mahoning Ave. District Four houses - looking east Eric Johannesen Mahoning Ave. District Western Reserve Hist. Soc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER March 1977 Ashael Adams House Warren, Trumbull Ohio DEC 12 1977 Warren, Trumbull ) Ohio Church and School - looking DEC 12 1977 Eric Johannesen Western Reserve Hist. Soc.
March 1977 First Presbyterian Church #3g3 PROPERTY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS Mahoning Avenue District SCORE WARREN QUADRANGLE MEANDER CREEK RESERVOIR WARREN, OHIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION STATE OF OHIO Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey DEC 12 1977 November 29, 1977 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Department of the Interior DEC 12 1977 18th & C Streets, N.W. Dear Dr.
Murtagh: ADDITION TO EXISTING NATIONAL REGISTER LISTING: Mahoning Avenue Historic District, Trumbull County Georgetown Historic District, Brown County Crawford-Tilden Apartments, Cuyahoga County March, George, House, Cuyahoga County Stager-Beckwith House, Cuyahoga County Superior Street Viaduct, Cuyahoga County Starr-Truscott Residence, Erie County Drake, Elam, Residence, Franklin County Rentz, Sebastian, House, Hamilton County Mentor Avenue District, Lake County Cahoon, Wilbur, House, Lorain County Breisach-Eckenrode Houses, Lucas County Griswold, Peck, House, Lucas County The Hanson House, Lucas County Reed, Henry, Jr., House, Lucas County Pomeroy Historic District, Meigs County RECEIVED REGISTER NATIONAL NEW SUBMISSIONS EMERGENCY NOMINATION National Park Service Dhio Historic Preservation Office Since that time a more comprehensive survey and new guidelines for historic program for reconstruction of the roof and tower and that they will realize informed of our intent to register.
National Register of Historic Places districts has warranted a larger district. Preservation Advisory Board and owers of subject properties have been the importance of the structure to their downtown. though a feasibility study has determined that it is sound.It is hoped that In June 18,1977a fire partially destroyed the county courthouse which is Washington, D.C. 20240 in the center of the district. The courthouse is in danger of being razed, by listing the county commissioners will take advantage of the grants-in-aid nomination forms.All have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site The original district nomination was accepted to the Register in 197l. Transmitted herewith are twenty-five (25) completed National Register MAHONING AVENUE, WARREN, OHIO Rev. W. Terry Schoener 256 Mahoning Avenue, N. W. DEC 12 1977 Warren, Ohio 44483 Mr. Westley P. Hackett Mr. Ralph J.
Phelps, et al Ontario, Canada Mr. Clifton W. Anderson, Jr) Mr. Richard F. Stoerkel P.O. Box 5216 Poland, Ohio 44514 Mr. John and Bernice Abbott/ Mr. Ralph & Lucinda C. Leard' Mr. Robert & Nancy McCord / Olive P. Siegfried/ Mr. William and Veronica Calderwood / REGISTER NATIONAL The First Presbyterian Church RECEIVED (Mailing Address) 328 Mahoning Avenue Box 32 Thessalon 2230 East Market Street 444 High Street U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (August 1971) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FROM (Name) GPO 897-848 TELEPHONE REPORT WASO-166 TIME OF CALL DATE 1. CALL O To: 3. SUBJECT. PROJECT NO., ETC. 4. DETAILS OF DISCUSSION OFFICE TITLE NAME OF PERSON PLACING/RECEIVING CALL ADDREss (Tol.No.ilneeded) JUN 2 1978 STATE OHIO boundary increase was approved May 22, 1978. Dr. Thomas H.
Smith Director, The Ohio Historical Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Mott/bjr 6/1/78 Name Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Mahoning Avenue Historic District Mahoning Avenue Historie District Also Notified Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Trumbull County Society Warren 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: 5 LOCATION street & number city / town * STATE Mahoning Ave. between Perkins Dr. and (over) 12SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated Dexcellent Oruins ED NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed Oreconstructed - Unknown ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 8 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE-ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic- 1 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE-3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH -27 C MILITARY - 18 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 -J SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 CART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2) functions major alterations : ( architectural style(s): () interior decorator: @builder/contractor: 3) date of 155 CONDITION Warren ASSOCIATION FEDERAL INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: EVENTS: historic events: CURRENTLY: Mahoning Avenue Historic District artist: COMMERCE-6 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ENGINEERING-11 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 vicinity of ADMINISTRATOR: landscape architect/garden designer: UNKNOWN-4 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: LOCAL NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP master builder: Dexcavated URBAN PLANNING-31 if state who prepared form?
Dfeatures: Coriginal site as it appears on federal register: Daltered BNPS REGION: Omoved 5C UNKNOWN-6 'first'O - COMMUNICATIONS-7 CEXPLORATION - 12 'only' D Sartisan: TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE @arohiteet: ETHNIC GROUP ACCESS reviewers initials Trumbull engineer: BOUNDARY CHANGE NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET CONGRESS.DISTRICT19th Ofair SAVED? DYES 5. High St. 9. contains some HABS