Nomination for Great Western Schoolhouse

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 19 1379 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 X VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X PUBLIC X BUILDING(S) _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ENTERTAINMENT _IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED SCIENTIFIC -BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

Recorder's Office - Belmont County Courthouse 6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 43950 039 013 NAME OBJECT CODE BOTH DATE TITLE ACCESSIBLE LOCATION COUNTY HISTORIC PARK CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE STRUCTURE Belmont OWNERSHIP CATEGORY 18th--Douglas Applegate PRIVATE RECEIVED STATE STATUS _DISTRICT OTHER: Ohio XUNOCCUPIED Ohio University _MILITARY _EDUCATIONAL Great Western Schoolhouse _COMMERCIAL DATE ENTERED _GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION X_MUSEUM COURTHOUSE. _INDUSTRIAL State Route 40 FOR NPS USE ONLY -RELIGIOUS PH0677 32 9 Athens, Ohio 45701 7 DESCRIPTION X_UNALTERED MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

and a small rectangular belfry with hipped roof and louvered vents at the front edge of the There is a narrow entablature board with slight returns on the gable ends just CONDITION DETERIORATED RUINS EXCELLENT CHECK ONE The interior single room has tongue-in-groove wooden flooring and a similar vertical XORIGINAL SITE board wainscoating.There is an elaborate tin ceiling and cornice trim. chicken wire mesh as a deterent to vandals.

The central doorway and flanking windows beneath the eaves of the main roof.All the window openings are within round arches and of the rolling lands of the Belmont County Branch Campus of Ohio University.It isa one-story one-room brick building with a rough sandstone foundation topped by a decor- feature 9/9 wooden sashes and flat stone lug sills.The openings are covered with a ative chiselled and hammered stone belt course.It has a gable roof with slate covering The Great Western Schoolhouse is located on the Old National Road and is now a part -UNEXPOSED are set within round blind arches: X_GOOD _FAIR AREAS OF

Statement of significance

established by Simon Lentz, a German stonemason. A small village was platted across the road from the Lentz hotel which included the old school land. It was, according to The 1870s saw a large number of brick schoolhouses constructed in the country. The 1880 History, in fact, recorded that Richland Township alone had 18 "substantial brick school buildings" and that 16 of them had been constructed in the 1870s. The Great 1400-1499 1870 1500-1599 today. 1600-1699 INVENTION COMMERCE PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT PREHISTORIC THEATER SCIENCE AGRICULTURE PHILOSOPHY TRANSPORTATION MILITARY ENGINEERING XARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY ART _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS Club. LITERATURE The original log schoolhouse for this school district in Richland Township was _ECONOMICS built in 1835 directly south across the National Road from the current brick building.

_CONSERVATION legend, named the Great Western after a ship whose captain was visiting the hotel. museum through the efforts of the Belmont County Chapter of the National Trail Questors Western is the only one to remain today and is almost completely intact. The Great Western Schoolhouse is architecturally a unique and well designed one- -1700-1799 Just to the west and north of the road from this early school was a brick hotel the proposed settlement.The Great Western Schoolhouse was built on this 1and in 1870. The building continued as a classroom until 1952 when it was used by a coon hunters education system of the county.

-RELIGION Lentz donated some land adjacent to his hotel in 1868 to build a new schoolhouse for -MUSIC - 1900- The settlement, however, never developed and no evidence of the original plat remains Eventually,it was abandoned.It was restored and reopened to the public as a

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES The Historical Publishing Company, 1880. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY approximately one UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION from the center line of U.S. 40, and is identified on the plat of Section 27 of Richland LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES I FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE David A.

Simmons August 8, 1978 (614) 466-1500 STREET & NUMBER I-71 and 17th Avenue CITY OR TOWN 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL X 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 TITLE Director, Ohio Historical Society FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 NORTHING TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION CODE COUNTY DATE STATE ATTEST: ZONE EASTING Ohio Historic Preservation Office The schoolhouse is located on a square plot of land measuring 258.55 feet to a side running Atlas of Belmont County, Ohio. Philadelphia: H.C. Mead & Co., 1888. Columbus, Ohio 43211 ZONE Township as parcel 6 in the county engineer's office.

14,413.516,3.01 Photos - Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF 7 1979 Federal Register Entry HAER KEEPER OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps Send-back Re-submit MAY Review HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior- Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service CONTROL National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 425- TECHNICAL State MAR 1 9 1979 MAY 7 1979 View of southwestern corner of building Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Vicinity, Belmont County, Ohio Great Western Schoolhouse, St. Clairsville Photo #1of4 Photo: David Simmons, 6/78 Great Western Schoolhouse, ST. Clairsville Photo # 2 of4 Negatives: Ohio HIstoric Preservation Office View of northwestern corner of building. Vicinity, Belmont County, Ohio Photo: David Simmons, 6/78 MAR 19 1979 MAY Great Western Schoolhouse, St.

Clairsville Photo # 3of4 MAR 19 1979 MAY 7 View of foundation at sw corner of building Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Vicinity, Belmont County, Ohio Photo: David Simmons, 6/78 MAR 1 9 1979 7 1979 Vicinity, Belmont County, Ohio MAY Photo: David Simmons, 6/78 Great Western Schoolhouse, St. Clairsville Negatives:Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of interior lookingnorthwest Photo #4 sf4 ST. CLAIRSVILLE QUADRANGLE ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO STATE OF OHIO UTM Reference OHIO - BELMONT CO. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE Great Western MAR 1 9 1979 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAY 7 1979 Friedlander, Abraham J., House St. Clairsville vicinity Beecher, Lucas, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, JI. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Thomas A. Luken Honorable Charles A.

Vanik Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Byers/bjr Director Name Central School Martins Ferry Sandusky Great Western Schoolhouse Cincinnati Peninsula vicinity Peebles vicinity Lima Memorial Hall Adams County State Historic Preservation Officer Belmont County The Ohio Historical Society STATE OHIO Allen County Honorable Douglas Applegate Date Entered Also Notified Erie County Wickerham Inn ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Tennyson Guyer Honorable William H. Harsha Honorable Donald J. Pease Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Location Sumnit County Welton, Allen, House 5/9/79 Hamilton County Lima