Nomination for Domestic Arts Hall And Flower Hall

From the form

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 11 - J. William Stanton _ VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X UNOCCUPIED X BUILDING(S) *EDUCATIONAL -WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE - IN PROCESS _YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Contact: Robert R. Fenwick Ohio 44024 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 055 039 Burton Chardon DATE COUNTY CODE LOCATION Geauga ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT MILITARY CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC STATE RELIGIOUS SITE DISTRICT Public Square County Courthouse MUSEUM Ohio INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE NAME CATEGORY North Cheshire Street STRUCTURE OTHER: STATUS COURTHOUSE. TITLE Geauga County Commisioners Geauga County Courthouse XENTERTAINMENT BEING CONSIDERED _COMMERCIAL PUBLIC ACQUISITION _TRANSPORTATION DATE ENTERED Geauga County Fair Grounds 12140 Taylor-Wells Road Geauga County Fair Board _OBJECT FOR NPS USE ONLY -PARK _BOTH JUL 17 1979 AUG 2 4 1979 -PUBLIC -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL RECEIVED DESCRIPTION XORIGINAL SITE GOOD _MOVED DATE_ DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The hall to the north, or Domestic Arts Hall, measures 110 feet by 37 sides, forming a cruciform plan. At the intersection of the wings there On the interior, the studding and rafters are rough-sawed white pine The corner rafters are curved, but it has not been determined whether the north and south sides, which were originally windows but are CONDITION UNEXPOSED corner. DETERIORATED FAIR UNALTERED XEXCELLENT siding. rafters.The only alteration to the Domestic Arts Hall is the provision CHECK ONE the main hall.The walls are sheathed with vertical board and batten clerestory windows on each side of the tower and smaller windows in center pole extending from the ground to the very peak of the roof. of the tower roof are ornamented with small brackets.There are three This is a group of two large exhibition halls of wood frame construction.

same as that of the Domestic Arts Hall.The main roof is supported by 32-foot trusses with tension bolts acting as queen posts. roof.There are three dormers on the west end and once each on of toilet facilities in an added room with a shed roof at the southwest has a gable roof with two slopes.The west end has a steep hipped from the purlin plate to a point about five feet up on the corner Domestic Arts Hall and measures 80 feet by 48 feet.The east end and a full 2" by 6". The roof boards are 1" by 6" laid 2" apart, but The second building, or Flower Hall, stands 30 feet south of the they were sawed that way or were spliced. There are angle braces RUINS The original roof was no doubt of wood shingles. and wings have gable roofs;the tower has a flaring hip roof.The eaves the 2 spaces are now filled in because of the asphalt shingle roof. The tower has a XALTERED AREAS OF

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _CONSERVATION ECONOMICS SCULPTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X1800-1899 -COMMUNICATIONS _OTHER (SPECIFY) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

uous county fair in Ohio, and the local belief that it may be the oldest of a genre of buildings which is diminishing in Ohio. the Mississippi in the 1820s, based on the model of the Berkshire County Fair, Massachusetts, in 1810. The Geauga County Agricultural and second floor was used as a dance hall. The Domestic Arts Hall, approximately the same dimenions as the original hall and apparently a replacement or a rebuilding of it, appears year for the entertainment and instruction of the local farmers, the American agricultural history, and of State significance in Ohio.

1889-1890 1400-1499 1700-1799 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ENGINEERING 1900- BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT XARCHITECTURE TRANSPORTATION RELIGION EDUCATION THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY XAGRICULTURE INVENTION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC their associations with the county agricultural society, the oldest contin- continuous fair in the United States.They are also excellent representatives This is the building now known as Flower Hall. Both buildings have been _PHILOSOPHY Manufacturing Society was organized on February 10,1823 in Chardon, used continuously since their erection. LITERATURE years the fairs were held alternately in Chardon and Burton.In 1853 SPECIFIC DATES As representative structures for an event which was an important educ- _SCIENCE _1600-1699 _1500-1599 In 1889 the Premium List of the fair advertised new building throughout.

ational force in the agricultural the climax of the _COMMERCE west end of the old hall and thirty feet south of the southern wing. _INDUSTRY to be from that date.In 1890,the Society resolved that a new hall be -MUSIC built and that the west end of the new hall be built in line with the tural Society, and in 1856 the first large permanent exhibition building was acquired.The society was reorganized as the Geauga County Agricul- the county seat.The first fair was held on October 23,1823.For many The two exhibition halls of the Geauga County Fair are significant for the fair moved permanently to Burton and a fair ground of twenty acres

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Pioneer History of Geauga County (Burton, 1880), 31-33. Manuscript, J. C. Wells (1898), Geauga County Historical Society. Geauga County Fair List of Premiums (Burton, 1889), 2.

10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA QUADRANGLE NAME - QUADRANGLE SCALE 14,519 ,114,9,01 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Eric Johannesen, Preservation Officer STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL - NATIONAL - 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 KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 COUNTY Burton CODE ORGANIZATION NORTHING Cleveland TELEPHONE 216-721-5722 STATE ZONE ATTEST: Western Reserve Historical Society Ohio 1:24,000 March 1979 UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING 10825 East Boulevard Lila Perl, America Goes to the Fair (New York,1974).

CHIEF-OF-RECISTRATION Atlas of Lake and Geauga Counties (l874). DATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Robert R. Fenwick, President, Geauga County Fair Board As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I I HEREBY CERTIFY, THAT THIS PROPERTY INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER containing the two exhibition halls and comprising approximately0.65 acre.

The property consists of that portion of the Geauga County Fair Grounds less than one Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN KEEPER OTHER Inventory ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Re-submit Maps Send-back CONTROL TECHNICAL Review Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF State AUG 2 4 1979 Entered HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Working Number.17. 24. / 214 Date: 1979 west. Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall, Geauga County Fair, Burton, Geauga County, Ohio View of both buildings taken from the south Photo: Robert Fenwick, 12l40 Taylor-Wells Rd., Jul.17 1979 Chardon, Ohio 44024 TARTS County Fair, Burton, Geauga County, Ohio Negatives: Same JUL 17 1979 Date: 1979 Burton, Ohio AUG 2 4 1979 west.

Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall, Geauga Photo: Robert Fenwick, 12140 Taylor-Wells Rd., View of Domestic Arts Building taken from the Chardon, Ohio 44024 Flower Hall County Fair, Burton, Geauga County, Ohio Negatives: same JUL 17 1979 View of Flower Hall taken from the west Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall, Geauga Photo: Robert Fenwick, 12140 Taylor-Wells Rd., AUG 2 4 1979 Date: 1979 Burton, Ohio OHIO_GRALGA CO 459/490 North DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BURTON QUADRANGLE Domestic Arts Hall GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AUG 2 4 1979 Ohio UNITED STATES and Flower Hall, ROAD CLASSIFICATION BURTON, OHIO Geauga County Fair March 17, 1979 Mr. Eric Johannesen 10825 East Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Dear Mr. Johannesen: In our telephone conversation, you asked document, according to Mr. B. J. Shanower, former and Mrs.

Margaret Ford, long associated with that organization, is somewhere in the Geauga County However, in 1974, the ladies Auxiliary of the Geauga County Fair Board had pine, according to Ture Johnson, Ohio State Forester, which would indicate diagram below. The three dormers on the west end and one each on the north 1823 44021 Geauga The Great REGISTER RECEIVED (continued) recognized as Historical Places. for several things in regard to our application and it was from this source that I got the information.The Domestic Arts roof was no doubt wood shingle. that the lumber may have come from Pennsylvania.Studding and rafters are Historical Society files but could not be located. County Fair exact wording but a different composition.

NATIONAL' president of the Geauga County Historical Society, were built was taken from a hand written manuscript B.Flower Hall:A unique part of this construction is explained in the Hall is mentioned on page 9-the last paragraph-and the Flower Hall on Burton, Ohio to a point about 5'up on the corner rafters. JUL 1 7 1979 located on the Geauga County Fair Grounds, to be 1. Resource information: The dates these buildings the ground to the very peak of the roof. The upper section, or second story, is approximately 26° x 24° and a unique feature is that the rafters at the P.O.

Box 402 a limited number of copies prepared by Geauga Campus of Kent State University four corners are not straight but curved.We could not determine whether they 2.Inside construction:Both of these buildings are constructed from white but the 2" is now filled in because of the asphalt shingle roof.The original for the Domestic Arts Hall and the Flower Hall, JUL 17 1879 2. Sketch of layout - enclosed 3. Slides of buildings: - enclosed please feel free to call me. Sotect Fenwrck encl: 2 NATIONAL REGISTER RECEIVED Robert Fenwick Sincerely, and south sides were originally windows as were the ones on the eastern Geauga County Fair Board I hope this gives you the needed information.If I can be of further help, these are now boarded up. Mr. Eric Johannesen Page 2 RF/b1 Purl JUL 17 1879 DOMESTIC ARTS FLOWER HALL GEAUGA CO.

FAIR GROUNOS BURTON, DHID FARM PRODUCE ANTIQUES (1890) (1856) SCHDOLS July 11, 1979 Charles Herrington, Acting Keeper 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20243 Dear Mr. Herrington: Danalds, Samuel, House Nicholson, James, House Pickands, Jay M., House H. A. Higgins Building Ohio Valley Clay Company Coulby, Harry, Mansion Lawrence, William, House Pretzinger, Rudolph, House Tanner, William C., House St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Thomas H.

Smith State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society THS : cw Resubmission REGISTER NATIONAL Ohio Historic Preservation Office Muskingum County Franklin County Logan County Champaign County Cuyahoga County Jefferson County New Submissions RECEIVED Greene County Lake County Urbana College Montgomery County Enclosed are seventeen new nominations and one resubmission.All new East Second Street District Phillis Wheatley Association Erie County Baughman Memorial Park Scioto County Sincerely, Heritage Conservation & Recreation Service nominations have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Geauga County Wood County Advisory Board and the owners are aware of our intent to nominate.

East Cleveland District #9 School Domestic Arts Hall & Flower Hall IndiaN Hills Site Francis, Joseph, Iron Surf Boat Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 National Register of Historic Places CHARDON, OHIO KIRK W. HALLIDAY, County Administrator KEITH A. DOUGLASS, Clerk EXT. 161 &162 163 August 1, 1979 U.S. Department of Interior Washington, D.C. 20243 Dear Mr. Murtagh, Should you have further questions or need clarification, please do not DATE REC D CDV: CF 285-2222 44024 designation. TELEPHONE Intergovernmental Programs COURTHOUSE ANNEX Hertage Conservation and Recreation Service received by your office we do have multi-jurisdictioned support hesitate to contact me. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS for the project.

219 MAIN STREET As indicated by these endorsments of which should have been William Murtagh Thank you for your letter received by uson July 24,1979.Both the Geauqa Co 7/31/79 JAMES F. PATTERSON Geauga County Commissioners and the Village of Burtonghave endorsed this Datid Vaughan COUNTY OF GEAUGA DATE ACTION TAKEN AUG 2 4 1979 Lawrence, William, House Wheatley, Phillis, Association Burton Location Lisbon Bratenahl Name Cleveland OHIO Bellefontaine Cuyahoga County STATE Columbiana County Geauga County Logan County Lisbon Historic District Date Entered Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Pickands, Jay M., House ALG 2 A 1079 Nicho1son, James, House Pretzinger, Rudolph, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Honorable Willis D. Gradison, Jr.

Dayton Location Director Lakewood Name Wickliffe OHIO For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Cuyahoga County STATE Date Entered Honorable Louis Stokes Lake County Montgomery County The Ohio Historical Society Cincinnati Hamilton County Portsmouth St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Columbia-Tusculum Multiple Resource Area Honorable Clarence Miller Honorable J. William Stanton Scioto County Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Honorable Charles A. Vanik State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Tony P. Hall Honorable Clarence J. Brown Coulby, Harry, Mansion ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate7lat 17th Avenue Also Notified Byers/bjr 8/30/79