Nomination for Welton, Allen, House

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 2 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Allen Welton House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE _DISTRICT X PRIVATE STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED X BEING CONSIDERED OWNER OF PROPERTY Harry R. and Nancy Weld Harpham 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION 72 S.

High Street 6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Akron DATE 153 BOTH COUNTY Peninsula 4/76 HISTORIC OBJECT CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP RECEIVED STATE TRANSPORTATION CLASSIFICATION RELIGIOUS Columbus NAME SCIENTIFIC PARK PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AGRICULTURE EDUCATIONAL CODE MAY PH0677809 MILITARY Summit STATUS COURTHOUSE. INDUSTRIAL Ohio Historic Inventory BUILDING(S) TITLE 2485 Major Road - UNOCCUPIED DATE ENTERED XPRIVATE RESIDENCE Boston Township -COMMERCIAL -GOVERNMENT FOR NPS USE ONLY MUSEUM -SITE Ohio _OTHER: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOÇAL SURVEY RECORDS Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Center 7 1979 LOCATION 321n 7 DESCRIPTION DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

changes were designed by Firestone & Cassidy, Architects, of Akron. room, workshop, garage, breakfast room, and an enclosed porch on the about forty years old, stands near the road adjacent to the driveway. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DATE MOVED UNALTERED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED FAIR XGOOD original main block. the same board and batten siding and architrave window trim as the Remodeling of the original Welton House included new floors and The latter is not included with this nomination. CHECK ONE door frame has a flattened Gothic arch molding. margins, are original.

The Allen Welton House is a modest one-and-one-half-story wood frame stone foundation and vertical siding, and a privy.A milk house, XORIGINAL SITE In 1950,the Welton House was remodeled inside and a long one-and- to the road and is intersected by a double lancet window with the front stoop apparently is a replacement, although it is the same Mead & Moffett, 1874), p. 101. with 6/6 lights, and have architrave trim and shutters. The front first floor, and a bedroom in the half-story. The addition features XALTERED 1978.Information about the alterations to the house is based on this interview; an interior inspection was not permitted.

shows that the house originally had two interior end chimneys; now The Welton House is situated on a semi-rural road.It is surrounded house in the Gothic Revival style.The original part of the house size as the original one.The porch steps, of tooled stone with horizontal flush siding under the porch. Windows are -RUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, 1881), p. 907. p. 536. 4Doyle, Centennial History of Summit County, P. 894. 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 History EDUCATION INVENTION ART ENGINEERING PREHISTORIC LAW COMMUNICATIONS BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC THEATER SIGNIFICANCE INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION MILITARY SCULPTURE LITERATURE ARCHITECTURE .1900- _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE The Allen Welton House is a modest farmhouse in the Gothic Revival disaster,"according to a story recounted in the Centennial History large addition at the rear, the Welton House retains its architectural 185o, for his name does not appear in the census records for that X800-1899 that appeared in the Summit County atlas of 1874. -PHILOSOPHY Pub1ishing Company,1908),pp.893-894.

-SCIENCE -CONSERVATION Allen Welton was born in Vermont on July 18,1809.As a young man he worked as a store clerk, and later went to New York State, where he _ECONOMICS Welton had acquired a wood yard, and "on one In New York, Welton married Sarah George, William, John, and Ellen. Francis must have died prior to William B. Doyle, ed. and comp., Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Biographical was variously employed. the township, one of which was on the Welton farmstead.Despite a township from New York State.He operated two cheese factories in integrity; it appears nearly identical to an illustration of the house of Summit County.

"One of his first enterprises proved a Welton had emigrated to Ohio.3 style.It was built about 1854 for Allen Welton,"one of the pioneer dairymen of the Western Reserve."i Welton had emigrated to Boston They had five children: Francis (who died at an early age),

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES & Moffett, 1874. Publishing Compnay, 1908. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME - QUADRANGLE SCALE VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society 5 June 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS LOCAL NATIONAL - 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST GPO 921-803 NORTHING Peninsula DATE ORGANIZATION CODE COUNTY 1:24000 Cleveland 1260 Granger Avenue UTM REFERENCES Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant The nominated property consists of a rectangular lot approximately 120 CHIEF OF REGISTRATION ZONE EASTING under contract with the Ohio Historic Doyle, William B., ed. and comp: by 150 meters in size, described as follows: Beginning at a point on Combination Atlas Map of Summit County. Philadelphia: Tackabury, Mead L4,516H16,90 216/226-8236 TELEPHONE Chicago: Biographical Centennial History of Summit County Ohio and Representative Citizens. Major Road 80 meters west of the intersection of Major and Oak Hill Roads, Ohio Form No. 10-300a (Hev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 2 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 7 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Welton, Allen, House, Peninsula Vicinity, Summit County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 1846.5 He cleared and cultivated the land and, by 1852, he had Welton had built a barn valued at $200, but the present Welton House Allen Welton was married a second time, to Louisa A. Thompson, in cheese at home, the industry soon growing to such proportions that he built a cheese factory, which was Allen Welton died on April 3, 1878. Louisa Welton continued living on Building Annex, 72 S. High Street, Akron, Ohio; and Map of Summit Surveyor, Cuyahoga Falls (Philadelphia: Matthews & Taintor, 1856). Doyle, Centennial History of Summit County, P. 894.

PAGE RECEIVED He served as county commissioner and township trustee, and was active He was a man of many practical ideas and began making Here Welton purchased 125 acres from Z.Tomlinson and W.Warner in Allen Welton was a prominent dairyman and farmer in Boston township. Welton was a member and leader of the Ohio Dairymen's Association. DATE ENTERED the first one in Summit County, and later operated another Boston Township Tax Map in the Summit County FOR NPS USE ONLY County, however, indicating that the Welton House was constructed sometime between these years.o Cora, Emma, Hattie, and Iva.? in the church. He founded the Congregational Sunday school. ® factory at Bath, which his son Frank helped him to conduct. had not yet been built.The house appears on the 1856 map of Summit At one time he milked forty cows. According to one local 1852.

Louisa, the daughter of Mills and Catherine Thompson, was born Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 2 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 7 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Welton, Allen, House, Peninsula Vicinity, Summit County, Ohio Their daughter, Cora Welton, married Walter Hunt; Ohio, 10 April 1978. & Battey, Historical Publishers, 1881. RECEIVED CONTINUATION SHEET DATE ENTERED about 1945.9 proceed due north for a distance of 150 meters; then proceed due east the family farm. edge of Major Road to the point of origin. Item Number 9 -- continued on a line parallel with Major Road for a distance of i20 meters; then FOR NPS USE ONLY ITEM NUMBER 8 Perrin, William Henry, ed.

PAGE proceed due south to Major Road; then proceed west along the northern Photos - Send-back - OTHER HAER KEEPER Inventory ARCHEOLOGIST Entered CONTROL Re-submit MAY71979 Review Property National Register Write-up 79000314 HISTORIAN Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF TECHNICAL MAY State United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 4.26-79 MAR 2 1 1979 Boston Township, vic. Peninsula, Ohio Photo by Carol Poh Miller, April 1978 Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society Allen Welton House Facade looking north Negative property of ohio Historic Welton House photo #1 of 5 MAR 2 1 1979 Boston Township, vic.

Peninsula, Ohio Photo by Carol Poh Miller, April 1978 Preservation Office, Ohio Welton House photo #2 of 5 7 1979 Historical Society MAY Facade detail Allen Welton House Negative property of Ohio Historic MAR 2 1 1979 Boston Township, vic. Peninsula, Ohio Preservation Office, Ohio southwest Historical Society Allen Welton House East and north elevations looking Negative property of Ohio Historic Photo by Carol Poh Miller, April 1978 7 1979 Welton House photo #3 of 5MAY MAR 2 1 1979 Boston Township, vic. Peninsula, Ohio Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society southeast West and north elevations looking Allen Welton House Negative property of Ohio Historic Photo by Carol Poh Miller, April 1978 Welton House photo #4of BAY 7 1979 MAR 21 1979 Boston Township, vic.

Peninsula, Ohio Photo by carol Poh Miller, April 1978 Historical Society elevations looking southeast Allen Welton Barn, west and north Allen Welton House Preservation Office, Ohio summot caunty Negative property of Ohio Historic DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENINSULA QUADRANGLE PENINSULA, OHIO 17/451090/4564600 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UTM REFERENCE: OHIO-SUMMIT CO. MAY 7: 1979 Friedlander, Abraham J., House St. Clairsville vicinity Welton, Allen, House Beecher, Lucas, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Thomas A. Luken Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Honorable Donald J. Pease For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

Location Sandusky Byers/bjr Director Name Peninsula vicinity Central School Wickerham Inn 5/9/79 Peebles vicinity Cincinnati The Ohio Historical Society Lima Memorial Hall Also Notified Honorable Tennyson Guyer State Historic Preservation Officer Adams County Allen County Erie County Great Western Schoolhouse Lima Martins Ferry Honorable William H. Harsha Honorable Douglas Applegate STATE OHIO Belmont County Date Entered Honorable Charles A. Vanik ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Summit County Hamilton County MAY