Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Wickerham Inn

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,437 words across 10 pages, filed in 1979. 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 79001778, 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 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FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 1 1/2 miles north on S.R. 41 -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _ VICINITY OF STATE ( PRESENT USE WORK IN PROGRESS XPRIVATE RESIDENCE LIN PROCESS X-YES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
West Union, Ohio REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS October, 1978 DEPOSITORY FOR Columbus, Ohio CODE DATE LOCATION TITLE BOTH CLASSIFICATION OBJECT SITE 001 ACCESSIBLE COUNTY 43211 PUBLIC CATEGORY HISTORIC GOVERNMENT RELIGIOUS TRANSPORTATION ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE STRUCTURE Main Street Adams INDUSTRIAL EDUCATIONAL PARK Court House MILITARY 039 NAME BUILDING(S) STATUS Wickerham Inn XPRIVATE PUBLIC ACQUISITION OTHER: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historic Inventory DATE ENTERED 238 High Street SURVEY RECORDS Virginia R. Webb Harsha 6th - UNOCCUPIED FOR NPS USE ONLY -COMMERCIAL Peebles, ohio - MUSEUM _FEDERAL X-STATE COUNTY LOCAL MAR 1 9 1919 Adams County Recorders Office RECEIVED PH067766s Ohio 3.19 7 DESCRIPTION XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE_ DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Wickerham Inn is a brick structure, rectangular with windows are rectangular, the center wináow is rounded with leaded panes. parts of it have been replaced, no doubt,at various periods.. The windows CONDITION EXCELLENT UNALTERED CHECK ONE FAIR The Flemish bond Wickerham Inn has a bracketed cornice XGOOD _UNEXPOSED floor and metal roof. The frame addition itself sets on an ashlar foundation, _DETERIORATED shaped open frame porch on the south side of this addition with a concrete Influence with chimneys on either end .A frame addition was placed on The frame addition to the rear of the brick section isa of the inn are 2/2,1/l and 3/i on various sides of the structure.The the rear of the inn c. 1890; the brick section is two stories. of cut stone and there is an open one bay porch with ballustrade in the door. The front door has picture frame molding with two glass panes.
The gable roof is now covered with asphalt shingles.The foundation is one story with three bays on the side and one in the rear.It comprises windows on the front of the structure have voussoirs as well as the front with a center dormer.The dormer has a frame facade with a rounded sun- three bays on the front and two bays on the side.It is of Federal _RUINS AREAS OF

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - -1500-1599 SCULPTURE X ARCHITECTURE -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _MUSIC - _PHILOSOPHY _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES year, 1801. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Wickerham Inn is significant because it is one of the a Revolutionary War veteran, moved from Washington County, Pennsy1- buried the headless skeleton, presumably that of the long-missing LAW ECONOMICS ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION SIGNIFICANCE THEATER MILITARY INVENTION LITERATURE INDUSTRY Peter Wickerham stagecoach driver. _COMMUNICATIONS _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _1700-1799 The strangest occurrence in this home was in 1804 different farms. construction of his brick home which was completed the following Underground Railroad during the Civil War years. X_1800-1899 and much of that original plaster still remains.
John Hunt Morgan slept here when Morgan's Raiders passed through his upstairs room.During the night noises that sounded like a fight -1600-1699 digging up the cellar floor, when they found a crypt in which was revealed the furniture in disarray, bloo stains on the floor and walls -EDUCATION The house was used as a family home and public inn until _CONSERVATION portion of Zanes Trace in 1797-98.In 1800,Wickerham began _COMMERCE -1400-1499 behind the old inn.his event covered 2,500 acres and took in 17 the current owner is a Wickerham descendant.The property has been altered through In September,1957,the home was used as a communications The Inn has remained in the Wickerham family since its construction and vania to northern Kentucky to Adams County,Ohio,and settled ona was used as a township voting house on November 3,l804,when Thomas -RELIGION of July 15,l863,Confederate soldiers under the command of General -1900- -COMMUNITY PLANNING SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC new stagecoach driver was laying over for the night and retired to The next morning an investigation World's Plowing Match and Conservation Exposition which was held just the driver had been decapitated and his head thrown in a nearby pond.
headquarters by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) for the fifth This was the first home in Adams County to use plaster, Jefferson was elected to his second term as president. On the night

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Columbus Sunday Dispatch, June 18, 1922 edition (front page); Illustrat- ed Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio, J.A. Caldwell, 1880.
À History of Adams County, Ohio, by Evans and Stivers, 1900 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one Quadrangle: Peebles, Ohio UTM REFERENCES Scale: 1:24000 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Beginning at the northeast corner of the intersection of SR 41 and Franklin Township Road 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Deborah Douglas Barrington, Regional Preservationist 10HA STREET & NUMBER (614) 774-2121 CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 COUNTY none ORGANIZATION CODE DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING STATE ZONE October, ZONE EASTING Adams County, Ohio-Home of Serpent Mound by Stephen Kelley,1974; 15 West Second Street FOR NPS USE ONLY 125, proceed north approximately 150 feet; then proceed east 100 feet; then proceed south feet to T.R. 125; then go west to the place of beginning. Chillicothe, Ohio THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: South Central Ohio Preservation Society Director 45601 REGISTER LOCAL ATTEST: (614) Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Wickerham Inn, Peebles Vicinity, Adams County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET the years, and it represents the changing architectural tastes of the Wickerham Wickerham, who ran a general store in nearby Peebles, owned the house. The RECEIVED FOR NPS USE ONLY openings and sunburst medallion.This was probably added while Peter Noah turn-of-the-century dormer in the front elevation of the roof with its Palladian of the mid-19th century architectural styles;but perhaps most intriguing is the (Hev. 10-74) MAR 19 1979 personality characteristic may help to explain the unusual design of the dormer.
county history published in 1900 related that Peter had "a very happy disposition, and without seeming to do so, is always seeking to make others happy.' This Photos . ARCHÉOLOGIST Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF Send-back - TECHNICAL CONTROL KEEPER Maps HAER Re-submit HISTORIAN Review OTHER Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Entered MAY 425.79 Working Number3. 19. 29.
6/ 7 1979 Property United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service State Adams County Peebles, Ohio March, 1978 MAY 7 1979 MAR 1 9 1979 Stephen Kelley, Photographer Wickerham Inn with side or southwest elevation Negatives:S View: northwest or front elevation Seaman, Ohio Adamo County Peebles, Ohio March, 1978 Negatives: Seaman, Ohio View: northeast or side elevation MAR 1 9 1979 elevation Wickerham Inn with rear portion or southeast Stephen Kelley, Photographer MAY 7.
1979 Negatives: Seaman, Ohio MAR 1 9 1979 MAY Wickerham Inn March, 1978 Stephen Kelley, Photographer southeast or rear elevation View:southwest or side with Ohio View: Northing UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) PEEBLES QUADRANGLE STATE FOREST 4316000 292560 Easting GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED STATE OF OHIO Peebles, Adams County, Ohio WICKRAM MAY 7 1979 Friedlander, Abraham J., House Hamilton County St. Clairsville vicinity Welton, Allen, House Beecher, Lucas, House Erie County Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.
Location Sandusky Byers/bjr Lima Wickerham Inn Central School Martins Ferry Director Name Honorable Tennyson Guyer Peninsula vicinity Cincinnati Peebles vicinity 5/9/79 Also Notified State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Douglas Applegate Lima Memorial Hall Date Entered Great Western Schoolhouse STATE OHIO ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Charles A. Vanik Adams County The Ohio Historical Society Summit County Allen County Honorable Donald J. Pease Honorable Thomas A. Luken Belmont County Honorable William H. Harsha Dr. Thomas H. Smith Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue