MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Families by Benjamin F. Vanmeter, John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky. 1901; History of Hardy County of the Borderland by Commander Alvin Edward Moore, Mclaine Printing Co., Parsons, W. Va 1963. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE March 22, 1978 Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 TELEPHONE CODE NORTHING COUNTY STATE DATE ATTEST: (614) 49of William A. Thompson subdivision of Chiilicothe as recorded in less than one Chil1icothe City Directory,1858-9,P.92;Auditor's Tax Duplicates 1847-5 This house is located on a lot fronting on the West side Chi11icothe Business Directory,1855-6,p.17,72; The Lewis Company, 1894, pp. 165, 287; Genealogies and Sketches of Old 413/55 7,610) of Church Street, 147 feet, nine inches extending back equal width Vol. 2, Page 50; in Record of Plats, Ross County, Ohio. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES As the designated State Historic Preservation.
Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).1 THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 774-2121 EASTING ZONE Portrait and Biographical Record of the Scioto Valley, Ohio, Chicago: Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back 12.15, 78 Re-submit 2.6.79 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 OTHER HAER KEEPER Inventory ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps HISTORIAN Review CONTROL BRANCH CHIEF Property TECHNICAL State National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 12.6.78 Working Numberg, 11. 78. 38 2 7 8.15.28 Ohis Geographical Data -- Acreage: on the National Register staff, telephone Thank you for your attention to the above items. Description: Certification: Bibliography: Date: IS RESUBMITTED.
Photographic Coverage: clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATI The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office fc Chief, Branch of Registration Verbal Boundary Description: Map Coverage: 343-6401 Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AUG 1 1 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 21 1979 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 Chillicothe, Ohio - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE -WORK IN PROGRESS X PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED SCIENTIFIC OWNER OF PROPERTY Mrs. Joseph I.
Vanmeter Ohio 45601 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS March, 1978 DEPOSITORY FOR Ohio Historical Society, I-71 & 17th Avenue Ohio 43211 039 CODE COUNTY DATE UNOCCUPIED LOCATION TITLE SITE STATE CLASSIFICATION GOVERNMENT RELIGIOUS CATEGORY HISTORIC Columbus AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP RECEIVED MILITARY PUBLIC STRUCTURE 141 STATUS Ohio Historic Inventory MUSEUM 178 Church Street NAME _ENTERTAINMENT _COMMERCIAL DATE ENTERED COURTHOUSE. _TRANSPORTATION XBUILDING(S) 6th Harsha Vanmeter Church Street House _BEING CONSIDERED SURVEY RECORDS - EDUCATIONAL Corner of Paint and Main Streets Recorder's office, Ross County Courthouse FOR NPS USE ONLY XNO XPRIVATE -OTHER: -OBJECT Ohio -PARK -BOTH Ross (Rev. 10-74) DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE DETERIORATED XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. FAIR by wm. H. Thompson, a farmer.
a-six-panel door with side lights and transoms. -A stone water table extends around the front and both sides of the house. Windows are 6/6 gabled wing, probably a later addition, reputed to have been a milk house, extends beyond that. Stone walkways surround the house. Wings mentioned above have been added onto the center block. The roof is a partial basement, originally a fruit cellar. This house is shown in a lithograph of 1856. The house The parlor furniture in the house today, is the same furniture the American Revolution, and were brought by the Vanmeters from Virginia. CONDITION EXCELLENT UNALTERED The original stone stoop in front has been extended with which have been described as Early French Regency.
The Vanmeter Church Street House is a two and one-half story three-part entablature and roof to.form a small open porch, sheltering wood across the facade and an elaborate open wrought iron porch has A one and two story brick wing with shed roofs and parapets, across the top forming a very simple entablature. These are the same dining room chairs in Clinden - UNEXPOSED The plan shape of the Vanmeter Church Street House is irregular north and south sides of the Ionic.columns supporting a carriage house which is large enough to stable six horses.An iron To the rear of the house is a double brick privy anda RUINS been added, probably not long after the house was built. The front door has sidelights and a transon.
The two side entrances, on the depicted in that lithograph is almost the same as it appears today, DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Greek Revival residence. It is brick stretcher bond built in 1848 except a white lean-to in the rear has been removed. which the Vanmeters purchased for the house when they moved in in l856. There are two Early Regency type chairs in the ballroom which pre-date XGOOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONS -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE excellent example of Greek Revival architecture set within a fine was born in Hardy County, Virginia, in 1798. He was educated at Princeton, and at the law school of Judge Gould, at Litchfield, John Marshall Vanmeter, John I.
Vanmeter's son, inherited 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 ECONOMICS ART X1800-1899 EDUCATION RELIGION BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD CONSERVATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC POLITICS/GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURE MILITARY THEATER INDUSTRY LITERATURE SCIENCE XARCHITECTURE XLAW INVENTION MUSIC _ENGINEERING _PREHISTORIC the daughter of Jospeh and Mary Harness, who were among the earliest _COMMERCE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN remains in the Vanmeter family. The Vanmeter Church Street House is significant as an and has remained in the Vanmeter family ever since.John I.Vanmeter -1500-1599 1840; and in 1842,he was elected to Congress. lower house of the Ohio Legislature in 1836 and to the Ohio Senate in _1900- _COMMUNITY PLANNING H. Thompson, a farmer. settlers of the Scioto Valley, Ohio. In 1854, Mary Harness Vanmeter grouping of 19th century residential properties.
The Vanmeters were the Court of Common Pleas of Ross County in 1881. The house still ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Connecticut. the property from his father. It was purchased by John I.Vanmeter in 1856 become Ross County, he married Mary Harness in 1826.Mary Harness was and began practice in Chillicothe in 1857.He was appointed Judge of elected to the legislature of virginia.After coming to what was to died and John I.Vanmeter moved to Chillicothe.He was elected to the The Vanmeter Church Street House was built in 1848 by William He was graduated from Harvard Law School of ohio. Chillicothe Business Directory, 1855-6, P. 17,72; MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION with the front 169.8 feet to an alley.
Being part of out lots48 & LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE L 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME /TITLE Deborah Douglas Barrington March 22, 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 892-453 CODE ORGANIZATION COUNTY NORTHING DATE TELEPHONE 774-2121 ATTEST (614) Edward Moore, McLaine Printing Co., Parsons, W. Va 1963.
Portrait and Biographical Record of the Scioto Valley, Ohio, Chicago: South Central Ohio Preservation Society less than one THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE EASTING 49of William A.Thompson subdivision of Chiilicothe as recorded in 15 West Second Street Families by Benjamin P.Morton & 19ol; History of Hardy County of the Borderland by Commander Alvin This house is located on a lot fronting on the West side The Lewis Company,1894,pp.165, 287;Genealogies and Sketches of 01d of Church inches extending back equal width Chi1licothe City Tax Duplicates 1847-5 50,in Record of 2.2129 ZONE LOCAL Y Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FEB 21 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Vanmeter Church Street House, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio 8 PAGE 2 CONTINUATION SHEET A distinctive type of Greek Revival townhouse developed in Chillicothe in the years Greek Revival houses of the greatest dignity, usually with low-pitched roofs, simple is among the best examples of this styling in Chillicothe with its exceptional Ionic utilizing naturalistic forms and antefixae has benn identified on a number of Greek Revival homes in southern and central Ohio, and may have come from a single, although as yet unidentified, source.
The Vanmeter Church Street House remains as a singular and significant example of significant homes in the vicinity, the nomination of the district in the downtown resulted in such unfortunate misunderstanding of the National Register program that it is not presently possible to nominate another district in the community. It is intended that the placement of this home on the National Register will have a positive effect on the promotion of the program in Chillicothe. * Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America (London: Oxford University Press, 1944), p. 281. Architecture 54 (October 1926), p. 300. ** Thomas E. O'Donnell,"Ornamental Iron Work in Early Ohio Architecture," FOR NPS USE ONLY ITEM NUMBER prior to the Civil War. These buildings were described by Talbot Hamlin as "brick combined in several cases with what Hamlin termed a more "eastern" appearance with side porches.
It is also unique among the Greek Revival homes in the city for its fine cast iron porch on the facade. Ornamental iron work of very similar design the "Chillicothe" Greek Revival homes. While there are other architecturally (Kev. 10-74) Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service KEEPER OTHER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Re-submit Maps Send-back Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State Ohi.
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN FEB 2 1 1979 Photos Z OK 2.9.29 #1o Vanmeter Church street House Chillicothe, Ohio March, 1978 FEB 2 1 1979 AUG 1 1 1978 Photographer Deborah Douglas Barrington, Negatives: 15 West Second Street *2 /Vanmeter Church Street House Chillicothe, Ohio March, 1978 FEB 21 1979 - AUG 11 1978 Photographer Deborah Douglas Barrington, Side view: North elevation Negatives: 15 West Second Street Chillicothe, Ohio Ilarch, 1978 AUG 11 1978 FEB 2 1 1979 Photographer Deborah Douglas Barrington, Vanmeter Church Street House Negatives: 15 West Second Street March, 1978 FEB 2 1 1979 AUG 11 1978 Photographer Deborah Douglas Barrington, Rear view: West elevation #4 OWanmeter Church Street House 1830 Chillicothe, Ohio March, 1978 Photographer Vanmeter Church Street House East elevation Deborah Douglas Barrington, Negatives: 15 West Second St.
door and gate, showing porch 178 Church Street Front view: FEB March, 1978 FEB 21 1979 AUG 11 1978 South elevation Photographer,Deborah Barrington Side view of iron work on porch Negatives: 15 West Second St. Chillicothe, Ohio Chillicothe, ohio March, 1978 Double privy, rear of lot, AUG 1 1 1978 FEB 2 1 1979 Photographer Deborah Douglas Barrington, Southeast elevation Negatives: 15 West Second St. Vanmeter Church Street House CHILLICOTHE EAST, OHIO CHILLICOTHE EAST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-ROSS CO. STATE OF OHIO ROAD CLASSIFICATION UNITED STATE$ RECEIVED UTM Reference STATE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VANMETER CHURCH STREET HOUSE Northing 4355760 Chillicothe,ohio Easting 328765-30 SCIOTO PHONE: DIVISION: REPORT: TELEPHONE REPORT OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION DATE: 12. G.7 STATE OHIO FEB 2 1 1979 Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Dr.
Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 NR Byers/bjr 2/26/79 Location Director Name Zanesville Muskingum County The Ohio Historical Society Vanmeter Church Street House Chillicothe Date Entered Ross County Blocksom-Rolls House Also Notified For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable Clarence E. Miller Honorable John H. Glenn State Historic Preservation Officer Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable William H. Harsha ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: - STATE Church St. 11)CONGRESS.
DISTRICT (12)SOURCE Of NOMINATION ( CONDITION - deteriorated 17) features: Dexcellent Omoved 9D NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated EO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 X No Access ) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : @CLAIMS: explain -RECREATION -28 ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - ARCHEOLOGY -historic- 1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL-30 'only' D C ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 major alterations : 3 architectural style(s): S interior decorator: @artisan: EVENTS : date 141 Midwest Chillicothe ASSOCIATION ETHNIC GROUP ENGINEERING-11 FEDERAL ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: vicinity of SETTLEMENT-29 landscape architect/garden designer: historic events: CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: LOCAL COMMERCE-6 ADMINISTRATOR: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 master builder: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET URBAN PLANNING-31 Vanmeter Church Street House NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP SAVED?
YES if state who prepared form? Ross Daltered IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?yesno of entry: as it appears on federal register: Doriginal site GNPS REGION: 5 LOCATION, street & number Oreconstructed - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) Sreviewers initials IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 Sarohiteot: functions engineer: builder/contractor: artist: dates of initial construction: Oruins city/ town Ofair Oaltered
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