Nomination for Ulyatt, Abraham, House

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JAN 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 27 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NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY.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 PUBLIC X.BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ENTERTAINMENT _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY Bessie E.

Birth 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION 1219 Ontario REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 035 COUNTY OBJECT DATE HISTORIC 3/76 Cuyahoga CODE BOTH ACCESSIBLE AGRICULTURE CATEGORY SITE DISTRICT MUSEUM STATE CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC PARK MILITARY STRUCTURE Cleveland RELIGIOUS RECEIVED Ohio Historic Inventory _COMMERCIAL NAME Valley View Columbus Bessie Birth House _UNOCCUPIED STATUS SURVEY RECORDS XBEING CONSIDERED _TRANSPORTATION TITLE Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Center _GOVERNMENT COURTHOUSE. DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY 6579 Canal Road -EDUCATIONAL XNO _INDUSTRIAL Ohio -OTHER: 039 DESCRIPTION _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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the present owner, the pilasters became loose and fell off Curiously, the top third of the rear (east) wall is made of the present owner claims, there once was a porch that extended original front door surround, as mentioned, has been replaced Inside, the Ulyatt House features a central hall plan with two 1978. CONDITION DETERIORATED EXCELLENT laid individually with mortar. FAIR The Abraham Ulyatt House is a one-and-one-half-story rectangular interior has been extensively remodeled. _UNALTERED plain ashlar sandstone and has a cut stone water table with to finish the house with wood in the least conspicuous place. Irregular stonework above the door and windows indicates that, The south elevation features a central door flanked by windows.

with an ashlar pattern to give the appearance of having been present red brick was used to fill the void and to close up five-bay facade with a central entrance.It has a wide, plain paired double-hung windows with 6/6 lights that are connected windows have been added and the original doors have been replaced. Four tie rods have been installed to stabilize the house.The The windows are double-hung, with 6/6 lights, and have dressed when a furnace with a central chimney was installed.Storm stone sills and lintels. The facade features tooled stone with margins:The entrance -UNEXPOSED a spring, traces of which still may be seen in the basement. CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE the full width of this wall. XGOOD The house has a Interview with Bessie E. Birth, Valley View, Ohio, 28 March DATE The windows are XALTERED divided by stone pilasters.

The interior end chimneys were removed in i942 The windows are set within round arch clapboard siding; one can only speculate that the builder had sandstone house in the Greek Revival style. covered with asphalt shingles.The house is constructed of Flanking the door are acroteria flanking a central gable. frieze and a gable roof with gable returns.The roof is The pilasters have been chiseled with brick. by a continuous lintel. -RUINS Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 2 7 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Abraham Ulyatt House, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 1 facing the Ohio and Erie Canal, still in an excellent state of CONTINUATION SHEET preservation at this point.The property is densely wooded.

The Ulyatt House is located in a section of Valley View that still has a rural character.It is built on a steep hillside DATE ENTERED FOR NPS USE ONLY AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS LITERATURE SCULPTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN PHILOSOPHY - 1900- _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

p. 463. 1500-1599 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC The ART PERIOD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE INVENTION XARCHITECTURE a person with considerable talent and imagination. SCIENCE The windows are recessed within round arches that contain voussoirs MUSIC the agricultural pursuits which engage a majority of the township intended eventually to construct an addition to the house. location on a hillside overlooking a well-preserved section of the _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT quite refined--even elegant--the rest of the house is rather crude. the rear wall is finished with clapboard siding instead of stone. The design of the facade is especially notable for its originality.

_CONSERVATION _COMMUNICATIONS -TRANSPORTATION The Abraham Ulyatt House is important as one of the few stone houses The stonework beneath the half-story windows in the south wall is X1800-1899 _ENGINEERING _PREHISTORIC _EDUCATION assembled the land on which he built the house in 1841 and 1842.The -1400-1499 _1600-1699 - RELIGION The Ulyatt House, built in 1849,is a good - MILITARY _INDUSTRY - 1700-1799 _COMMERCE -LAW have been covered (with stucco, for example), or the builder may have "History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Clevelandi D. W. Ensign, 1879), 1849 and projecting keystones.Pilasters dividing the windows are chiseled with an ashlar pattern to give the effect of individual stones laid of the property.

Ohio and Erie Canal contributes to the physical and historical integrity The rear and side walls suggest a rustic stone cabin.One-third of with mortar.s the chief industry of Independence is the quarrying of stone," Crisfield Johnson wrote in i879.1 shows that he built the house in 1849, the assessed value for Ulyatt's Almost nothing is known about Abraham Ulyatt.2 Deeds show that he The Ulyatt House is an anomaly, however, for while the facade is The Ulyatt name is variously spelled,"Ulyett"and "Uylett" (1860, 1870, 1880). Cleveland, Ohio. County Tax Duplicate (1848, 1849).

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA QUADRANGLE SCALE1 : 24000 TM REFERENCE 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION LOCAL X As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).1 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 TELEPHONE DATE 216/226-8236 CODE NATIONAL COUNTY STATE Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant The nominated property consists of the lot identified by Cuyahoga County NORTHING 451811580 126o Granger Avenue ZONE EASTING Ohio VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER permanent parcel number 573-6-6.tIt is approximately 170 by 150 feet CHIEF OF REGISTRATION ATTEST: FOR NPS USE ONLY 8 June 1978 CITY OR TOWN organization under contract with the Ohio Historic THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: DATE 2.26.29 ZONE Shaker Heights Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society QUADRANGLE NAME in size Form No.

10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED JAN 8 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 27 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Abraham Ulyatt House, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE in the 1860 census and, in 1862, there was a mortgage foreclosure 1976), p. 185. Atlas of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland, Ohio (Chicago: since that date.9 CONTINUATION SHEET Abraham Ulyatt had died or left Independence by this year. DATE ENTERED property was sold to Bessie E. Birth, who has resided in the house Ulyatt does not appear in the census records for that year, nor is and the deed was not recorded until 1943. FOR NPS USE ONLY and, in 1939,the house and a small portion of the original Ulyatt both east and west sides of the Ohio Canal. County Outside of Cleveland (n.p.:H.B.Stranahan & Co.,1903),p.

Geo.F.Cram & and Maps of Cuyahoga Simmons & Titus, 1874; reprint ed., Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, Inc., Thus County shows that George Duncan owned the property that year.The map shows that a barn had been built immediately south of the house. The 1870 tax map for Cuyahoga Photos - Inventory - FEB 27 1872 Re-submit _ KEEPER OTHER Entered HAER Maps Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST Review HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 2.26.79 Working Number 1, 8.

79.3 Possible subject dor a in the Cuyahoga Vallay CONTROL TECHNICAL State 2-23-79 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF LIMIT SPEED JAN 8 1979 Preservation Office, Ohio FEB 27 19 northeast Historical Society Facade and south elevation looking Abraham Ulyatt House Negative property of Ohio Historic Ulyatt House photo #1 of 4 Photo by Carol Poh Miller, March 1978 JAN 8 Valley View, Ohio Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society Facade looking northeast Abraham Ulyatt House Negative property of Ohio Historic Ulyatt House photo #2 of 4 Photo by Carol Poh Miller, March 1978 Preservation Office, Ohio FEB 27 1979 Facade detail Historical Society Negative property of Ohio Historic Abraham Ulyatt House Ulyatt House photo #3 of 4 JAN 8 1979 Photo by Carol Poh Miller, May 1978 Preservation Office, Ohio FEB 27 1979 Historical Society southeast Abraham Ulyatt House North and east elevations looking Ulyatt House photo #4 of 4 JAN 8 1979 Negative property of Ohio Historic SHAKER HEJGHTS OHI8= UNITED STATES SHAKER HEIGHTS QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY HEIGHTS CLEVELAND SHAKER ROAD CLASSIFICATION FEB 27 1979 Abraham Ulyatt House, Valley View, STATE OHIO FEB 27 1879 Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Honorable Jchn E. Glenn, Jr. Honorable Clarence E. Miller The Ohio Eistorical Society Honorable Chalmers P. Wylie Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Location Director Muskingum County Wesley Chapel Name Hillsboro vicinity Eubanks-Tytus House Date Entered Peairs Homestead Hilliard vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Zanesville vicinity Cuyahoga County Franklin County Also Notified For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Highland County Valley View Ulyatt, Abraham, House Honorable Willian H. Harsha Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Dr.Thomas H.Smith FEB 27 Ulyatt, Abraham, House - STATE 6579 Canal Rd.

12) SOURCE of NOMINATION D deteriorated Dexcellent Druins 9O NOT INTACT-O -good Dunexposed - Unknown -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 X No Access DAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain "first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE - 6 - LAW- 16 - RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY-13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2functions major alterations : @ architectural style(s): -landscape architect/ garden designer: S interior decorator: EVENTS : Cuyahoga CONDITION ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 FEDERAL Bessie Birth House INSTITUTIONAL: historic events: PERSONAL: artisan: ENTERTAINMENT-26 builder/contractor: Lake Central vicinity of CURRENTLY: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 if state who prepared form?

county code WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ADMINISTRATOR: master builder: Valley View NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP URBAN PLANWING-31 dates of initial construction: date. NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 7features: Coriginal site Omoved Oaltered SAVED? YES NPS REGION: 2 OTHER NAMES date of entry city / town CONGRESS. DISTRICT Oreconstructed - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT." 21) engineer: ETHNIC GROUP artist: LOCAL ADAPTIVE USE YES NO NAMES give role & date architeot: