Nomination for Knapp, William, House

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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 MAR 1 9 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE STRUCTURE BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS X PRIVATE RESIDENCE -RELIGIOUS - YES: UNRESTRICTED SCIENTIFIC X BEING CONSIDERED OTHER: 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 861 E. 232nd Street 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

1219 Ontario REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 035 039 CODE DATE HISTORIC 4/76 Cuyahoga DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL GOVERNMENT COUNTY MILITARY RECEIVED COMMERCIAL ACCESSIBLE STATE Euclid Cleveland CLASSIFICATION Columbus NAME PARK OWNERSHIP XNO CATEGORY PUBLIC ACQUISITION Cuyahoga County Administration Building Thomas D. Moriarity ENTERTAINMENT Ohio Historic Inventory STATUS _OBJECT 7101 Canal Road TITLE XPRIVATE Valley View Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Center DATA SHEET SURVEY RECORDS XBUILDING(S) COURTHOUSE. DATE ENTERED - UNOCCUPIED _IN PROCESS Ohio -SITE _PUBLIC -MUSEUM AGRICULTURE William H. Knapp House PH0694452 FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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CONDITION MOVED DATE XDETERIORATED DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE UNALTERED house has an ashlar sandstone foundation and there is a basement. state of preservation at this portion of the canal XALTERED The main block is rectangular, three bays wide by five bays and north elevations, asphalt shingles on the east and south is flanked by two pairs of windows, although one of the windows of the original main block and a one-story ell added later. The original clapboard siding of the house has been obscured The Knapp House is situated on a hillside and commands an in bad condition and there are no gutters. of the Knapp House. at the rear. The front entrance is on the left side and is reached by a _EXCELLENT long,and is situated with its gable end facing the road.The neglect.Damage by water is a major problem, since the roof is plain frieze and gable returns. There is a central chimney.

XORIGINAL SITE The William H. Knapp House is a modest, one-and-one-half-story by later coverings: wide-width aluminum siding on the west excellent view of the Ohio and Erie Canal, still in a remarkable _UNEXPOSED _GOOD is a National Historic Landmark.) Across Canal Road is the entablature and pilasters. interior inspection was not permitted by the tenant, although the tenant did indicate that the house has been substantially altered inside.The house is suffering severe damage due to in the Greek Revival style.A huge willow tree frames the front and stylein the center of the north wall.The latter entrance The main block features a flight of three ashlar steps.There is a door of the same size - RUINS AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION LAW ECONOMICS SCULPTURE X ARCHITECTURE XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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In 1811, at the age of three, Deborah Ledyard Wightman (1808-1880) brother-in-law, John G. Wightman, dated December 21, 1828, indicates moved to Milan, Ohio, for in a draft of a letter written about 1860 Cleveland, 1796-1840, 2 vols. (n.p.: Evangelical Publishing House, 1914), 2: 136. History 1836 ART 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SCIENCE MILITARY X1800-1899 BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE RELIGION XEDUCATION Correspondence in the manuscript files of the Western Reserve XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT and on the Milan Canal in Erie County before settling in Independence _PREHISTORIC - INVENTION This modest frame house in the Greek Revival style was built in reputation for generously sharing her home with anyone in need of emigrated with her parents from Groton, Connecticut, to Cleveland.

sentative of the kind of houses built by early settlers in the Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, The Pioneer Families of Cuyahoga Valley. Historical Society indicates that William Herman Knapp _COMMERCE _PHILOSOPHY 1836 for William H. and Deborah Wightman Knapp, early settlers in Deborah, and Deborah's sister Harriet (then just three years old) -1600-1699 the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal near Coshocton, Ohio, -1500-1599 _LITERATURE -1700-1799 - - 1900- _COMMUNITY PLANNING township clerk, assessor, and postmaster. Between 1839 and 1845, he served as His wife, Deborah, earned a local in 1833. Knapp held numerous public offices, including those of Canal opposite the river from Coshocton, Ohio.

Knapp, his wife ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC that Knapp then was working on fifteen miles of the Ohio and Erie The family settled on ten acres of land on Broadway near Woodland Independence township. Knapp was a civil engineer who worked on Surveyor for Cuyahoga County. He taught school in the township for about five years. D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME - VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE 8 May 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL X NATIONAL - 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 DATE 12/8/98 GPO 921-803 CODE ORGANIZATION DATE COUNTY Northfield ZONE STATE Cleveland NORTHING 2167226-8236 1260 Granger Avenue Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant under contract with the Ohio Historic Knapp Papers. eastern edge of Canal Road 1o meters north of the intersection of Hillside UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING Preservation Office.

Ohio Historical Society 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES ATTEST: FOR NPS USE ONLY 14518.010.60 Johnson, Crisfield. QUADRANGLE SCALE LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES KEEPEROE THE NATIONAL REGSTE hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the OM CHIEF OF REGISTRATION 1:24000 TELEPHONE 80 meters in size, described as follows:Beginning at a point on the Ohio IHEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JAN 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 1 9 1979 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM time, for in 1833 he and his wife settled in Independence township, Gleeson children, William, Sardis, and Charles; and John, Oliver, from "School District No. 2" to "Wm. H.

Knapp"; D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879), pp. 213, 461, 462, 464. William H. Knapp House, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET personal property for Independence township. We the Undersigned in consideration of a School to RECEIVED DATE ENTERED roster shows that by 1839 this number had grown to forty-two. Among the pupils were the Knapp children, Herman and Cornelia; the construction_of the Milan Canal on the Huron River and I believe proportion for the time that said school shall keep. be taught by Wm. H. Knapp do hereby promise and agree Construction of the Milan Canal began in 1832 and was completed in But William H.

Knapp is perhaps best remembered as an early--possibly served as one of the first postmasters of Independence, keeping is a certificate dated 1835 qualifying Knapp as an "instructor of of Cuyahoga County; he served a three-year term and, in 1842,was herecalls:"I was Chief Engineer and superintenden7 of the schollar sic/ affixed to our names or in that FOR NPS USE ONLY a half a cord_of wood per Quarter for each and every Common Schools." A petition dated December 14,183(5?) states: (Hev. 10-74) ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 1 Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. clerk, the first of many public offices he would hold. He also The petition bore the names of twenty-six "schollars."An attendance Among the Knapp papers and Mahitable Frazee--all children of early and prominent settlers office in his home as was the custom until a permanent office could the first--school teacher in Independence.

Thus Knapp must have left the project after only a short south of Cleveland.In 1834,William Knapp was elected township performed7 very satisfactorily to the directors of the company in Independence, Knapp apparently taught school in his own home Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED JAN 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 4Knapp Papers, Container 11. Unigraphic, Inc., 1976), p. 189. 54.00 William H. Knapp House, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio PAGE subpoenaed as an expert witness in the resolution of property the house has undergone numerous alterations, it retains its essential The clergy who officiated said that her celestial When Deborah Wightman Knapp died, the text chosen civil engineer and conducted land surveys throughout the county.

for 3 month service as teacher of said JAN 81979 years of his acquaintance with her, he had not known 3.004 a time when some otherwise homeless creature was not having a home with "Aunty Knapp."7 name appears in the tax duplicate for the first time this year. to the claim of one local history that the majority of early land DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY school at 18 dollars pr month After 1840,William Knapp returned to his original profession of for her funeral was,"And they shall be given a new have enjoyed a local reputation in her own right: for use of room 6 weeks @ name might aptly be "Burden-Bearer," for, in over forty Independence, Ohio (n.p., 1960), p. 11. OD. J. Lake, Atlas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Philadelphia: disputes. A genealogy of the Wightman family suggests that Deborah Knapp may Tax records show that the Knapp House was built in 1836.

The Knapp The Independence Business Directory in the 1874 Cuyahoga of their 1ives; Deborah died in 1880,William in 1888.Although Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 1 9 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER 8 parallel with Canal Road for 60 meters; then proceed northwest PAGE William H. Knapp House, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer. Road; then proceed north along the eastern edge of Canal Road to Hillside Road for 8o meters; then proceed southwest on a line Road and Canal Road, proceed southeast on a line parallel with The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, the point of origin. Item Number 1o -- continued a line parallel with Hillside Road to the eastern edge of Canal FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED JAN 8 DATE ENTERED (Hev. 10-74) 1796-1840. 2 vols.

n.p.: Evangelical Publishing House, 1914. Greek Revival features, and is important as one of the oldest 1979 in an early insurance policy no longer exist. TECHNICAL of plan for prevenvation. Inventory - MAR 1 9 1979 HAER OTHER Entered KEEPER Re-submit Maps Send-back Property Review HISTORIAN CONTROL Photos United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State Working Number/. 8. 79.6 0 ARCHEOLOGIST BRANCH CHIEF NOR|HFIELD QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC Boston Heights SCALE 124000 NORTHFIELD, OHIO Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey What do you 1836 TELEPHONE REPORT ADDRESS : PHONE: DIVISION: DATE: REPORT: OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION To/FROM: MAR 19 1979 Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Location Director Cuyahoga County STATE Name 3/20/79 The Ohio Historical Society Also Notified Date Entered For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable Ronald M. Mottl State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Valley View Knapp, William H., House Interstate 7lat 17th Avenue 3 date of entry: -COUNTY ! Valley View SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - deteriorated Ooriginal site Dexeellent Oruins 9O NOT INTACT-O -reconstructed - Unknown -unexcavated -O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 X No Access SAVED?

-YES EI AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 -oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY -13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 2functions 3 interior decorator: @builder/contractor: EVENTS : IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE CONDITION ASSOCIATION Cuyahoga artist: ENTERTAINMENT-26 HEALTH-27 STATE INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: ENGINEERING-11 major alterations: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: YES-Unrestricted CURRENTLY: COMMERCE-6 historic events: LOCAL PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 vicinity of architectural style(s): landscape architect/garden designer: master builder: URBAN PLANNING-31 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP BACCESS Lake Central ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET NPS REGION: date.

Dunexposed dates of initial construction: Daltered 710l Canal Rd. Tfeatures: 3 OTHER NAMES: MAR 1 9 1979 5O UNKNOWN -6 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Ono 'first'O 'only' O ETHNIC GROUP engineer: artisan: reviewers initials as it appears on federal register: Dmoved Dgood