Nomination for Columbiana County Infirmary

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 REV.

(9/77) 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT * VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) -WORK IN PROGRESS - PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS *YES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED *OTHER: vacant OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 029 039 None CODE DATE LOCATION COUNTY Lisbon Courthouse BOTH GOVERNMENT STATE OCCUPIED RELIGIOUS CATEGORY HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT OWNERSHIP NAME PRIVATE MILITARY Columbiana STATUS DATE ENTERED STRUCTURE Columbiana County Commissioners Market Street County Home Road Columbiana County Infirmary TITLE Columbiana County Home _TRANSPORTATION 18th Douglas Applegate _DISTRICT XPUBLIC PH0674 192 Ohio - EDUCATIONAL _SCIENTIFIC -COMMERCIAL - INDUSTRIAL _OBJECT FOR NPS USE ONLY - PARK JUN 20 1979 4443 REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

County Courthouse -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL AGRICULTURE -MUSEUM RECEIVED MAY 7979 DESCRIPTION -MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Columbiana County Infirmary is a complex of four brick buildings, three of A county road is at the base of the elevation and a fourth building, the power house, is located across the road from this grouping. The northernmost building surrounding the courtyard, the superintendent's house, was probably built about 1845 although the county histories and commissioners journals are unclear as to the exact date of construction. It is a 21/2 story brick has a gable slate roof and a 6 bay facade measuring 52 feet and 3 bay side elevations measuring 32 feet. The windows are 6/6 double hung sash throughout and have stone lug Tevel on the eastern elevation and there are doorways at the first floor Tevel at the rear and western side elevation. Tirst level in stone and the upper two in brick.

It has a gabled slate roof and a single simple, open two-story veranda and is regularly pierced with 6/6 double hung windows a full cut stone basement. It has a gabled slate roof with two mental ventilator shafts wooden porch."The side elevations have been stuccoed although portions of this covering have fallen off. Across the road from the insane building is a functionally designed two-story The boundaries are drawn to include only these four structures and a small stone CONDITION DETERIORATED UNALTERED EXCELLENT XALTERED GOOD _UNEXPOSED connected with the county dog kennel that have adversely affected its integrity.

CHECK ONE the grounds but are too recent to meet the criteria nor do they have architectural which flank three sides of a grassy rectangular courtyard on the side of a slight eleva- XORIGINAL SITE complex but is visually unrelated and has been surrounded with contemporary structures The southernmost building around the courtyard is "the insane building"or women's building laid in common bond upon a cut stone foundation and full basement.The house with plain stone sills and lintels. end of the boiler.The boiler is still operable to heat the complex with steam. X.FAIR The main building or men's dormitory as it is now known forms the western side of dormitory built in 1873.

It is a 60' by 40' two-story brick building constructed on a concrete block foundation extends across the facade and covers the main entrance re- significance.The original turn-of-the-century barn exists to the west of the nominated asphalt shingle covered hipped roof.A 45 foot square smokestack is at the southern sills and flat lintels. A single story wooden porch supported with square columns and boiler built in 1880.It has regularly spaced segmental arched 2/2 windows and a underground storage building adjacent to the main building.Other buildings are on the courtyard.Built in186l,itisa T-shaped three-story masonry building with the _RUINS AREAS OF

Statement of significance

erected in the 19th century. population. As a consequence, in 1829 they purchased a 200 acre farm several miles west supervised the cultivation of hay, wheat,-and all the vegetables utilized at the Infirmary.

The 1905 county history noted with pleasure that the population of the Infirmary had de- 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS EDUCATION PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC THEATER XARCHITECTURE LITERATURE RELIGION MILITARY INDUSTRY _TRANSPORTATION industry and prosperity throughout the county." 1600-1699 _COMMUNICATIONS buildings illustrate the utilitarian vernacular forms common to institutional structures Since the organization of the earliest counties in the state the county governments grouping.The steam heating plant across the road from the insane building was constructed included the renovation of the superintendent's house and the construction of the insane ings surrounding a grassy courtyard constitutes anattractive and impressive 19th century wider scope"was developed to care for the "infirm and unfortunate"of the county.This - CONSERVATION in the construction of"poor houses"and infirmaries.Few counties in the state labor to be the most therapeutic environment for the county's indigent and mentally ill of the century,a Mr.

and Mrs.E.R. Riddle served as the superintendent and matron.They -SCIENCE X.SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN forms the western side of the complex was constructed and an additional 133 acres was creased between 1880 and 1905 which was attributed to the"enhanced conditions of health, -1900- -MUSIC -LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING While they are not constructed in any identifiable architectural style, these and reportedly made anattractive contrast to the large white frame barn to the rear of the ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC grouping. have the excellent complex at the Columbiana County Infirmary.These four masonry build- - INVENTION The Columbiana County Commissioners,like.many others in the state, considered farm The population of the Infirmary was generally over 1o0 and included a majority of in 1880. indigents anda far smaller percentage of"insane,"epileptic,"and"idiotic."At the turn

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Biographical Publishing Company, 1905. O GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY Approximately one and 1/2 QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Beginning at the point where the eastern edge of the Infirmary LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE David A. Simmons STREET & NUMBER I 71 & 17th Avenue CITY OR TOWN Col umbus 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION LOCAL X 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 CHIEF OF REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 CODE COUNTY 3/79 TELEPHONE Lisbon DATE ORGANIZATION STATE NORTHING 614-466-1500 Ohio Ohio Historic Preservation Office ZONE EASTING the eastern edge of the drive around the Superintendent's House to the place of beginning southwest across County Home Road to the Infirmary driveway approximately 40Q':then follow 150'; then go northeast150 feet to a stream; then go southeast along the stream 100'; then go ATTEST History of Columbiana County, Ohio. Philadelphia: D.W Ensign & Co., 1879.

A[1,7/ 15/114|41810 6 -20-29 THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 41511318810 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, Columbiana County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET a = Underground Building ca.

1845 County HomeRoad (C.R.412) 1880 House 1873 Insane Driveway Boiler FHR-8-300A PAGE Parking Main Building Superintendent's DATE ENTERED (11/78) SITE MAP ITEM NUMBER FOR HCRS USE ONLY (Not to scale) 1861 RECEIVED MAY 7 19/2 Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back - 7-3-79 Re-submit _ KEEPER OTHER HAER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST Maps TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 6.19-29 7-3-79 Columbiana County, Ohio Photographer: David Simmons, 3/79 MAY 7 1979 JUN 20 1979 Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of underground storage facility from north Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, Columbiana County, Ohio Photographer: David Simmons, 3/79 JUN 20 1979 MAY 7 1979 Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of complex from north with boiler on left Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, Columbiana County, Ohio Photographer: David Simmons, 3/79 MAY 7 JUN 2 0 1979 View of western or rear elevation of Main Bldg Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Offcie Columbiana County, Ohio Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, View taken from north of Infirmary complex Negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Ofice Photographer: David Simmons, 3/79 445 MAY 7 1979 JUN 20 1979 Photographer: David Simmons, 3/79 JUN 2 0 1979 Columbiana County, Ohio and Insane Building View taken from northeast showing Main Building Columbiana County Infirmary, Lisbon Vicinity, Negatives: Ohio Histroic Preservation Office MAY 7 1979 STATE OF OHIO UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) LISBON QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Infirmary ROAD CLASSIFICATION Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological, Survey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LISBON, OHIO N 20 1979 Willfams, Abner, Log House - St.

James Episcopal Church Lay, Samuel, House Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Delbert L. Latta Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Boardman Location Director STATE Name Lisbon vicinity Gantz Homestead Noble County Date Entered Grove City vicinity Lashley vicinity Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historic Preservation Officer Aiso Notified Honorable Tennyson Guyer Mahoning County Columbiana County Honorable Lyle Williams Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Franklin County Cuyahoga County The Chio Historical Society Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Olmsted Falls Columbiana County Infirmary ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 6/25/79 Honorable Douglas Applegate Honorable Chalmers P. Wylie OHIO Honorable William H.

Harsha ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Tanglewood Location Fostoria Tiffin STATE Rombach Place Doan House Date Entered Putnam County OHIO Wilmington Fort Ball-Railroad Area Historic District Chillicothe County Name Seneca County Clinton County Also Notified Leipsic For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-640l. Leipsic City Hall Cory, Ambrose, House