Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for St. James Episcopal Church

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,493 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 79001892, 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. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JUN 2 0 1979 INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS James Episcopal Church AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER Boardman Township Park _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT = VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT X PUBLIC X MUSEUM .COMMERCIAL X PARK - WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET & NUMBER Ohio 44512 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 099 039 Boardman UNOCCUPIED OBJECT BOTH LOCATION DATE CODE INDUSTRIAL ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT HISTORIC OWNERSHIP COUNTY STATE Mahoning CATEGORY AGRICULTURE SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION SITE MILITARY NAME TRANSPORTATION PRIVATE XEDUCATIONAL STATUS Mahoning County Courthouse Youngstown 120 Market Street 375 Boardman-Poland Road TITLE OTHER: XBUILDING(S) DATE ENTERED SURVEY RECORDS Old St. James Meeting House COURTHOUSE, Boardman Township Park FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio -STRUCTURE RECEIVED MAY 7 1979 19-Charles J. Carney -ENTERTAINMENT -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL X_RELIGIOUS PH06 74311 7 DESCRIPTION _ORIGINAL SITE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

form plan, each wing extending beyond the main body of the building six feet and 15 feet wide, containing the chancel. The facade includes a projection 16 feet wide and 4 feet 6 inches deep, which forms part of the narthex or vestibule. This front bay is topped by a pediment which repeats the roof gable, molding, belfry, and its base has a concave curve. The top is approximately 74 feet above the ground and is topped by a metal cross nearly 4 feet tall. The chancel is elevated two steps above the floor of the nave, beyond which is setting. CONDITION DETERIORATED XALTERED FAIR XEXCELLENT Victorian fretwork trim at the eaves and roof peaks of the wings.The open the arched ceiling.
CHECK ONE belfry was constructed later than the large square tower base, and the pre- and has a composition of three slender arched windows similar to those in the flat ceiling over the side aisles.Clustered columns support the base of doors is a semi-circular transom light with mullions making two pointed arches.Above the transom is a small pediment on brackets.
chancel.The belfry consists of eight square columns.The four corner ones and trim details, and which forms the base for the front portion of the bell approximates the feeling and association of the original 19th century have small Ionic capitals.The steeple extends 28 feet 4 inches above the In 188l the cruciform wings on each side at the rear were added.There is sent steeple was probably added in the l88l remodeling.The stained glass St.James Church is a small wood-frame church building, approximately 60 feet by 4o feet, including small projecting wings near the back which give a cruci- original.The ceiling over the nave is a continuous barrel a windows, including three on each side wall, were installed.
_UNEXPOSED with a center aisle leading from the narrow side aisles.A In 1972 the church was moved approximately 3/4 mile to a new setting in and being 14 feet 9 inches wide.There is a small apse one foot 6 inches deep -UNALTERED -GOOD Boardman Township Park. The new location is a natural hillside which RUINS XMOVED steeple is roofed with slate.The entrance has double doors.Above the the altar area. Over the altar is a leaded window of victorian stained glass, tower.The tower has two square stages.The lower one is ornamented by quoins consisting of three tall slender round-arched openings.It is inscribed as a memorial to Elijah and Mary Ann Boardman.The interior trim and pews are all DATE1-11-72 AREAS OF

Statement of significance

man, a Revolutionary soldier, United States Senator from Connecticut, and a member of was brought from the Episcopal Church in New Milford, Connecticut.
The New Milford Church, erected in 1837 and enlarged in 1860, had just been taken down in 1880 in citizens of Boardman, the Boardman Historical Society, the Boardman Rotary and others and historical importance, it has been relocated in a suitable setting, and it is the 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 X1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SCIENCE ECONOMICS EDUCATION PERIOD ENGINEERING THEATER AGRICULTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY INDUSTRY SCULPTURE PREHISTORIC ART LITERATURE _COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE surviving structure most importantly associated with the early history of Boardman and St.James Episcopal Church was among the earliest Episcopal Churches in Ohio.The St.James Episcopal Church derives its primary significance from architectural distinction the commercial strip development.
The church is still a center of community activity in a natural setting separated from of the Connecticut Western Reserve.It is a significant work of architecture from two _PHILOSOPHY -CONSERVATION SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN tion was overseen by his son Henry Mason Boardman.The church was consecrated in In 1972 St.James Church was threatened by the construction of a shopping mall.The in Gambier in 1829. Boardman as early as 1807.St.James Church was organized in 1809,and this building -TRANSPORTATION August,1828,by Bishop Philander Chase, the first Episcopal in Ohio.The first pastor the Episcopal Church in Ohio. order to build a new one. In 188l,St.James Church was remodeled ata cost of $3,000.When the chancel was re- -1900- -LAW building was erected by the family of Elijah Boardman, one of the original landholders INVENTION building in the township of Boardman.
was begun in l827.Land and money toward its construction were given by Elijah Board-

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Boardman (Youngstown, 1884), 11, 13. History of St. Johns Episcopal Church, Youngstown, Ohio (1898), p. 19. (Hartford, 1882), 166, 474, 476. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA (New Haven, 1849) . ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY one QUADRANGLE SCALE VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Township Park, fronting on US 224 in Great Lot 25 of the 3rd Division of Boardman STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE Genevieve Novicky, Boardman Township Clerk Eric Johannesen, Preservation Officer STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio 44106 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 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 GPO 921-803 216-721-5722 COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE CODE TELEPHONE TITLE Township.
NORTHING ZONE Cleveland Western Reserve Historical Society September 1978 UTM REFERENCES ZONE EASTING John Frederick of the Life and Character of Mrs.Mary Ann Boardman John of St.Johns Church,Youngstown, Ohio and The property consists of a parcel 100 x 534 feetof the 88.08 acres of Boardman LOCAL_X Samuel Orcutt, History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut AL1,7/ L5|2,9/42,0 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES KEEP ER QF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE 6.19.78 ATTEST: 10825 East Blvd. Photos - Accept Inventory - Re-submit - OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Maps Send-back CONTROL Review HISTORIAN 7-3-79 United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Working Number5. 7. 79.
953 JUN 20 1979 Entered National Register Write-up County, Ohio Photographer: Genevieve Novicky, January 1979 728 Golfview Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44512 MAY 7 1979 JUN 2 O 1979 Negatives: St. James Episcopal Church, Boardman, Mahoning View of southern elevation St. James Episcopal Church, Boardman, Mahoning County, Ohio Photographer: Genevieve Novicky, October 1978 728 Golfview Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44512 MAY 7 1979 JUN 2 0 1979 Negatives: View looking southwest taken from gazebo constructed in 1976 242 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO YOUNGSTOWN QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 529/420 East OHIO - MAHONING CO Boardman NATIONAL Mahoning County GEOLOGICAL SURVEY N4100w8037.5/7 Williams, Abner, Log House Lay, Samuel, House Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Chalmers P.
Wylle For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Director Location Mahoning County STATE OHIO Columbiana County Name Honorable Douglas Applegate Lashley vicinity Franklin County Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Cuyahoga County Gantz Homestead Honorable Lyle Williams Aiso Notified St. James Episcopal Church Honorable Tennyson Guyer Columbfana County Infirmary Noble County State Historic Preservation Officer Date Entered Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Honorable Delbert L. Latta Grove City vicinity Lisbon vicinity Honorable William H. Harsha ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Olnsted Falls Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue The Chio Historical Society Colunbus, Ohio 43211 UN 20 1979 6/25/79 Boardman Cory, Ambrose, House For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.
Fostoria Tanglewood Tiffin Location STATE Name Seneca County Putnam County Rombach Place Chillicothe County Wilmington Fort Ball-Railroad Area Historic District Leipsic Also Notified Doan House Date Entered Clinton County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Leipsic City Hall ..N 20 1970