GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY FORM PREPARED BY Dec. 4, 1970 Post Office Box 4444 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law Nationa 1 Register. 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion - SEP 3 MAY 13 039 02.6 Degrees Kettering LATITUDE Seconds Minutes DATE LONGITUDE 4135.6 ORGANIZATION COUNTY Title STATE CORNER REGISTER ATTEST: CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds Kettering Museum and Historical Society NATIONAL Colonel Deeds Local Boss Ket Ohio MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (1961) Dodd Mead and Company evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the Myron R.
Brown NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: in the National Register and certify that it has been A Life of Charles F.Kettering - By Rosamond Young LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES David McKay Company, Inc., New York, N.Y. MAR 12 1971 STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES % acre Chief, Office of Archeology and Histonc Preservation APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: leeds Barn NATIONAL REGISTER Montglomery 2.5:71.18 9-3-71 5-4-71 MAK 12 1971 Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 2 5 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Deeds!
Barn AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 3 rd - VICINITY OF STATE ( PRESENT USE & MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL -WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR Interstate 71 and 17th Ave.
113 039 Montgomery COUNTY BOTH LOCATION DATE Kettering 9/21/76 Dayton CODE UNOCCUPIED OWNERSHIP OBJECT PRIVATE ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT HISTORIC SITE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT PARK CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Columbus SCIENTIFIC STRUCTURE AGRICULTURE RELIGIOUS NAME MILITARY STATUS OTHER: Ohio 35 Moraine Circle South Ohio Historical Society PUBLIC ACQUISITION Ohio Historic Inventory TITLE _TRANSPORTATION Montgomery County Recorders Office _ENTERTAINMENT 3600 Shroyer SURVEY RECORDS _EDUCATIONAL 451 West Third Street XBUILDING(S) XPUBLIC XIN PROCESS City Of Kettering DESCRIPTION X EXCELLENT DETERIORATED _ORIGINAL SITE LRUINS DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The Deeds' Barn is of wood frame construction of two stories, measuring 58 by 28 feet. and machine shop for its owners.
During that historic time, the second story hay loft became the machine shop and drafting room; the first floor, where a concrete slab was dormer with a set of large 8/8 double hung sash mullion windows. The rear of the returns. Flanking this central projection are hipped wall dormers, with the large right side of the barn. 319 Cental Avenue, Dayton, Ohio where it was threatened by demolition. In 1962, the concrete slab poured, a new roof put on covering the original wooden shingles, and at the corner of Kettering Boulevard and Stroop Road is adjacent to the Frigidaire Plant and on the grounds of the Kettering and Moraine Historical Society, an undistinguished like building built presumably around 1850 and tentively identified as the Peter Hetzel National Register quality).
The barn, at its current site, had a new concrete slab poured, the windows panes replaced in the original frames, and a new roof of simulated CONDITION UNEXPOSED FAIR CHECK ONE door and the surrounding 6/6 double hung sash windows have cornice caps.The eaves XUNALTERED The barn is currently maintained by the Kettering and Moraine Historical Society as an industrial museum. This door is in a second story gabled central projection having a raking cornice with 8/8 double hung sash mullion windows.A tall brick chimney is located on.the front structure hasa central set of stable doors under a central second story hay loft door. wood put on. - GOOD DATE 1962 & 1973 poured to replace the original wooden floor was a testing laboratory.
Currently, the The left and right sides have a hipped wall However, this new location proved to be a poor one; public Originally a carriage house, the building was used between 1908 and 1912 as a laboratory barn appears as it did during the period of its historical significance. The facade This barn has been moved twice. The original location of the barn was the alley at Kettering Museum and Historical Society moved it to its first new location in Prugh Park (Township 2, Range6,Section 17), Kettering. Here the structure had a replacement access was restricted, and the structure was subject to vandalism. In May 1973, the house was moved adjacent to the Deeds' Barn; it is felt that this structure is not moved without the appropriation notification procedures being followed. XMOVED are box cornice with an outsized frieze.T other minor repairs.
AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES est. 1890 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Deeds' Barn is significant in industrial history. The barn housed the experiments was an important advance in the development of the automobile. 1910 Cadillac, the partners formed the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Deeds and Kettering conceived the idea for an electric self-starter in July 1908.
Under the management and guidance of Deeds, Kettering used his inventive genuis to The system consisted of a battery, accumulator (condenser), voltage regulator system 1400-1499 1700-1799 1800-1899 EDUCATION LAW ART AGRICULTURE THEATER ARCHITECTURE RELIGION ECONOMICS PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY XINDUSTRY X1900- XENGINEERING _TRANSPORTATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS developement testing of subsequent inventions.
POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMERCE Gang,"formed the nucleus of this organization and participated in the manufacture and self-starter for automobiles.It is the original home of Dayton Engineering Labora- _CONSERVATION controlling relays to produce the spark for ignition.After the Cadillac Motor _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -1600-1699 and clutch mechanism.It was tested on a Cadillac car at the barn on February 16, 1911.The Cadillac Motor Company equipped their 1912 car with the DELc0 starter. which led to the invention and improvement of the electric ignition system and the -LITERATURE _SCULPTURE -1500-1599 Company signeda contract to buy 5,ooo ignition sets for installation in the _SCIENCE -MUSIC tories Company (DELCO).
XINVENTION The revoluntionary electric ignition system and self-starter Edward A.Deeds and Charles F.Kettering formed a partnership to design an improved Charles Kettering in the barn during 1908 and-1909 used a dry battery and coil with Society, 35 Moraine Circle South, Kettering Ohio 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION from Stroop Rd. along the Frigidaire lot line, east 375 ft. to the back of the museum buildin LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Mont. Co. Hist. Soc.
(Regional Office 5HA) April 3, 1979 STREET & NUMBER 7 North Main Street CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 513/228-6271 CODE DATE ORGANIZATION ZONE Dayton COUNTY LOCAL TELEPHONE NORTHING NATIONAL Teresa Stebbins Mrs.Richard Hunt.President of the Kettering and Moraine Historical STIPO UTM REFERENCES "Deeds Barn and the Self-Starter,"pamphlet issued by Carillon Park.
ZONE EASTING 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES CHIEF OF REGISTRATION The barn is located within the area of 250 ft.north FOR NPS USE ONLY STATE _ QUADRANGLE NAME then 125 ft. southeast to the driveway, south 125 ft. down the driveway to Stroop Rd., and west 500 ft. down the north side of the road to the southwest corner of the lot 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24,000 THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ATTEST: Dayton South Working Number /0. 25.79 , HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF THIS FORCT IS TO BE FILED WITH THE NATIONAL RECISTER NOMINATION.
INT: 580-78 KEEPER CONTROL OTHER TECHNICAL DATE DECREASE Maps INCREASE ADP TAX REFORM ACT BOUNDARY REVISION State notified State BRANCH CHIEF Photos_ CHIEF, BRANCH OF REGISTRATION Federal Register)5-80 Control Cards_ DATE /1.27.79 MOVE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Kettering, Ohio OCT 2 5 1979 Photo 1 1/79 South facade looking northwest Regional Office 5HA MoNtsomEny County DEC 1 3 1979 Teresa Stebbins Deeds' Barn Deeds' Barn Kettering, Ohio Photo 2 1/79 Regional Office 5HA DEC 1 3 1979 North end looking southwest Teresa Stebbins 1/79 West end looking southeast Teresa Stebbins Regional Office 5HA Deeds' Barn Kettering, Ohio WN WesT DATE - NOV- 1970 OCT 2 5 1979 Deed's Barn Montgomery County PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 290 Deed barn 1 3 1979 S Number 71-9-39-0010 Title: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: NEGATIVE FILED AT: 821 East Stroop Road, Kettering, Ohio 45429 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.
Front, eastern elevation Montgomery 039 NAME 113 Kettering COUNTY CODE NATIONAL PHOTO REFERENCE REGISTER STATE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM IDENTIFICATION Prugh Park - East end of olson Drive & North end of Tiffany Drive (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Ohio Mrs. Richard Hunt ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY MAR 12 1971 STREET AND NUMBER: Deeds Barn COMMON: RECEIVED 9.39,0010 'Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE STREET AND NUM BER: TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.
039 1965 113 Montgomery Kettering COUNTY STATE NAME REQUIREMENTS 1:24000 CODE PROPERTY MAP FORM COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER SCALE: AND/OR HISTORIC: Ohio MAP REFERENCE Deeds Barn NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Prugh Park - East end of olson Drive & North end of Tiffany Drive SOURCE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITY OR TOWN: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) U.S.G.S.Bellbrook Quad.,Ohio DAYTON SOUTH, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DAYTON SOUTH QUADRANGLE Deeds' Barn OHIO_MONTGOMRRY CO 16/738840/4397630 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UTM Reference: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEEDS BARN BELLBROOK QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES BELLBROOK, OHIO SPRING February 8, 1971 Dr. William J. Murtagh, Keeper 801 - 19th Street, N.W. Mr.
Frank Kunz Director National Park Service Sincerely, Historic Preservation DRP/eg Missing from my files is the letter from the Department of the request for same has been received by me. Interior certifying that Fort Hayes in Columbus, Franklin County, me with a copy of your original letter of certification as a National Register Daniel R. Porter ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus,ohio 4321l/telephone (614) 469-460 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Washington, D.c. 20006 Office of Archaeology and Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Interstate 7l and I7ch Avenue ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l/telephone (6141 469-466: February 8, 1971 Dr. William J. Murtagh, Keeper 801 - 19th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 for Deeds Barn, Kettering, Montgomery County, Ohio, on February 2, 1971 St. Clair Machine Building, 102 South St. Clair Grand Hotel, 2-6 South St.
Clair - Bondy Interiors, 32-46 South St. Clair Harbor and Bridges Building, Foot of Madison Daniel R. Porter - Director and signing. National Register National Park Service DRP/eg Sincerely, Historic Preservation Also transmitted to your office and pending are the following applications Thank you for your consideration of these matters. incomplete.We wish to reconsider them and respectfully request the return by the state Preservation Advisory Board knowledge of highway plans was of applications for: below have been determined to be scheduled for demolition by the Ohio Dear Dr. Murtagh: Office of Archaeology and for the National Register of Historic Places in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, transmitted October 20, 1970 and February 2, 1971.
The buildings as listed was mailed to you unsigned.Please return this application to me for Inadvertently an application to the National Register for Historic Places Department of Highways for a major urban highway project.Plans for this project are largely completed.When action was taken on these applications MAR 5 Mr. Daniel R. Porter Columbus, Ohio 43210 Dear Mr. Porter: to your office. Those are the forms for the Grand Hotel, St. Clafr no record ofhaving received the form for the Harbor and Bridges Director, Northeast Region w-cy/inc. SMarusin: cm 3/4/71 Enclosures Register Sincerely yours, you a xerox copy of the letter notifying Senator Young of Fort T-w-cy/inc. property form, which you wanted to sign.Unfortunately,we have Building, unless it was perhaps sent to our office under another Machine Building, and Bondy Interiors in Toledo; and the Deeds Barn HR-w-cy/inc.
The Ohio Historical Society As requested in your letter of February 8, ve are also sending form, please contact us. name.If that is the case, please let us know and we will check Keeper of the National our files again. BASIC FILE RETAINED IN HR Hayes' entry on the Register. If you need any further inforaation Director or want us to recheck the Harbor and Bridges Building nomination Enclosed are the Inventory-Nomination forns you requested returned the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432ll/ telephone (614) 469-4663 March 10, 1971 Dr. William J. Murtagh, Keeper 801-19th St., N.W. for the Deeds Barn, Kettering, Montgomery County, Ohio which Daniel R. Porter Director Sincerely, National Register REGISTER NATIONAL DRP/eg Historic Preservation you without my signature.
I am returning herewith the National Register application National Park Service Dear Bill: Office of Archaeology and Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue MAR 12 1971 Washington, D.C. 20006 form is now signed.I am sorry it was originally sent to September 30, 1976 Ms. Marguerite Mott, Control Unit National Register of Historic Places 18th & C Streets, N.W. Dear Ms. Mott: by NPS as stated, but the remainder of the district is owned by the Johnson's Island, Inc.; the form reflected only the private ownership. 143 River St., Madison, Ohio 44057. Phoenix Mills, Huron Co.: new owner - Ardin McClish, Rt. 1 Box 93, Mill Rd., N. Fairfield, Ohio 44855. Deeds Barn: threatened by demolition and deterioration; a private fund drive restored. New address: 35 Morain Circle South, Kettering, Montgomery Co.
Note also that the notifcation read Kirkland, not Kirtland; please change Ohio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 records. Register. Ohio Historic Preservation Office PROPERTIES MOVED PLEASE ADVISE. Washington, D.c. 20240 CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP OTHER CHANGES In order to update our records of National Register properties in Washington National Park Service Department of the Interior recently demolished properties which should be removed from the National saved the structure by moving it to public property as part of a museum J.C.Winan's Houme,Lake Co.:new owner -Mr. Mrs.William D. the new address is:SE corner Audubon G Michigan Avenue Lot 1031) NES complex.
Owned by the City of Kettering, the building has been completely Johnson's Island Civil War Prison & Fort, Ottawa Co.: the cemetery is owned Marguerite Mott - Page 2 REQUEST WITHDRAWAL We would like to withdraw our nomination for the Stein, Edward & Aileen, Silo, DEMOLISHED PROPERTIES Brown, John, Tannery, Portage Co. Demolished June 1976 Brunswick Town Hall, Medina Co. Demolished September 1976 Sayler House, Hamilton Co. Demolished June 1975 sheet to be added to Ohio City file.) Sincerely, Gretchen Klimoski National Register Program Manager Leonard Schlater House (part of the Ohio City Preservation District, Thank you for your attention to these details.We will try to update such examples of this type and that a further study is needed. changes at least every 6 months. Cuyahoga Co.). Demolished November 1975. (see enclosed continuation MAY 17 1977 Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Dr.
Sunith: According to National Register procedures, (36CFR 60.16(b) (4), fa property's historical integrity; and, the new setting and general at its new location must be sent along with the revised nomination. review board. Keeper of the National Register 0Q1 Reading File KBurns: md 139-35483 5-10-77 Sincerely yours, 880-w/cy inc environment,including evidence that the new site does not possess Charles A. Herrington (Sgd.) Since documentation was not subnitted by your office prior to this BASIC FILE RETAINED IN 880 been moved from it original location. It has come to our attention that Deeds Barn, Kettering.
Ohio,has the event that a structure ls moved, deletion from the National Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Montgomory note, hovever, that this property must be noainated on new forns for Director Regional Director-Midwest Region-w/cy inc H34-880 which should discuss the reasons for the move; the effect oa the historical significance that would be adversely affected by the ln- William J.Murtagh )hio Historic Preservation Office October 18, 1979 Mr. Charles Herrington, Acting Keeper 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20243 Dear Mr. Herrington: approved by the state review board and the owners have been informed of Boesel, Adolph, House Thomson, Peter G., Residence Adams, George W. House Rider, Adam, House Anderson, William M., House St.
Peters Church Ross County Hamilton County Pickaway Mahoning County Franklin County Herron Gymnasium Licking County Cuyahoga County Fairfield County NATIONAL Keystone Furnace Allen County Butler County Warner Theater Crawfis Institute Parmelee House Athens Governmental Buildings Muskingum County Seneca County Athens County Courthouse Center Medina County Knox County Michaels Farm Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Mill Road Bowstring Bridge Metropolitan Block National Register of Historic Plcees Hock-Hocking Wine Cellar Jackson County Lincoln School Otterbein Mausoleum Pennsylvania Railway Station Higby House Auglaize County Richland County Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Hruby Conservatory of Music Shepard Street School Department of the Interior RECEIVED Maltby, Henry, House Madam Fredin's Eden Park School our intent to nominate.
nio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 REGISTER Enclosed are 31 regular nominations and 2resubmissions.All have been Mr. Charles Herrington Page 2 Lee, Samuel, House Deed's Barn (listed property that David L. Brook DLB: cw enclosures Sincerely, Resubmissions Coshocton County Mason House Montgomery County Washington County Elmwood Place Union County Wayne County Home Stark County State Historic Preservation Officer Let me know if we can provide any additional information. was relocated) Waernicke-Hille House & Store Loew-Define Grocery Store & Home SEP 3 Kinsnan Township, Ohio Kettezing, Ohio Germantown, Chio Hon. Robert Taft, üxalso Notified State Liaison Officer Mr. Daniel R. Porter Hon. Charles W. Whalon, Jr.
Director, Northeast Region Location Name STATE Date Entered SAMarusin:mm ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Brownwood The Ohio Historical Society BASIC FILE RETAINED IN HR Montgonezy County Roberts Covered Bridge Preble County Tzumbull County Hon.William M.MoCalloch Daeds Barn Kinsman, Ohio vicinity of taton, Ohio Hon. J. wiiiiam Stanton Allen (Dr.Peter) House ORIO STATE OHIO Deeds' Barn Move approved December 4, 1979. Byers/bjr Location Montgomery County Name 12/12/79 Also Notified Date Entered For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER