Nomination for Fulton Farm

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Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 3 .21 MAR 4 1 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 8 1979 - INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Fulton - River Bend Farm AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE STRUCTURE - WORK IN PROGRESS X PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED -BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED _OTHER: 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY Frank F. Amann Ohio 45365 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 149 039 CODE DATE TITLE ACCESSIBLE 4th COUNTY CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Sidney ENTERTAINMENT HISTORIC OWNERSHIP OBJECT NAME INDUSTRIAL MILITARY STATE STATUS COMMERCIAL _GOVERNMENT Court House Square Ohio Historic Inventory XBUILDING(S) Shelby _TRANSPORTATION Shelby County Court House XSITE RECEIVED Columbus Amann Residence July, XAGRICULTURE EDUCATIONAL _MUSEUM COURTHOUSE, _SCIENTIFIC 80l South Brooklyn Avenue - UNOCCUPIED X.PRIVATE - RELIGIOUS _BOTH _PARK _PUBLIC _DISTRICT Ohio 43211 (Rev. 10-74) Ohio 7 DESCRIPTION DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Located to the leit rear, or northeast corner, is a one-story late nineteenth century has eight course brick walls and a slate a 2/2 fixed Gothic window. The six bay north facing has single light fixed windows, a CONDITION DATE MOVED UNALTERED XEXCELLENT XALTERED CHECK ONE board siding. Adjoining these two additions on the south side is another one-story enclosed summer porch; headers.Further east is a one-story porch addition, small in scale and built with wood. has two gables, each having paired Gothic traceried windows with 5/4 lights and limestone north gable has a finial and pendant, while the south gable has finial alone.The five bay _DETERIORATED XORIGINAL SITE - UNEXPOSED from the Fulton farm.At the rear of the original building isa small fruit cellar.

-FAIR -GOOD the porch is framed by plain Roman Doric wood colus and has triglyph-1ike decorations The wooden chicken house, dating from the nineteenth century, sits atop a cinderblock roof. with asphalt shingles, metal ridging, interior corbeled chirmeys, and decorative lightning in the entablature. spiral staircase; this woodwork was built from black walnut trees which were probably cut the gable is a door with a muntined Gothic transom and radiating headers. The carriage The gables in the half-story above have contrasting window treatments.The north facing narrow rectangular 4/lDHS windows with mullion and a limestone lintel with label.The The three bay east side has a similar entry door and1/1DHS windows.The four bay south -RUINS AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC X ARCHITECTURE _COMMERCE -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES ca. 1848-50 BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT Isaac T. Fulton STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Iarmer and active in the County. In October 1055 he hosted the Shelby County Agricultural County Agricultural Association. After Fulton's death (1865 or 1866) the homestead went In 1894 John Loughlin purchased the site as a country summer cottage. Loughlin was a on an assembly line set up. At the time, the plant was the most modern and largest pro- Despite the plant's modernity and loughlin's acclaimed managerial ability, the Mary Le Ley City' has ever done more to further its interests and bring prosperity to the city and its people...." 5 continuity. ART X1800-1899 EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD SCIENCE XAGRICULTURE LITERATURE THEATER 1700-1799 INVENTION MILITARY 1900- INDUSTRY 1500-1599 _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PREHISTORIC of its association with the agricultural and poultry industry.

The Fulton home is one of _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION outbuildings in this style is also significant for maintaining that architectural tury the site received national attention because the Mary L. Poultry Plant occupied the _COMMUNICATIONS Society's Fifth Annual Fair on his farm and five years later he became a trustee of the Fulton's choice of the Gothic Revival style for his house is noteworthy for this In 1896 Loughlin let a contract for the construction of his newest business enter- the most ornate pre-Civil War farmhouses extant in this county.At the turn of the cen- through the hands of John Duncan and Samuel Strahlem. _CONSERVATION _ENGINEERING -1600-1699 _1400-1499 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -ECONOMICS _SCULPTURE - RELIGION -MUSIC -LAW The Fulton farm,also know as River Bend, is a significant Shelby County site because daily.

The plant was so imaginative that the railroads ran nunerous sunmer exeursions bringing thousands of people from afar to visit the site.3 Fulton was a well-lmown local style never attained a real popularity in western Ohio. The construction of the later the structure behind Loughlin's Sidney castle, was completed. himself made the bricks for the house and outbuildings Poultry Plant failed.The wonderful plant...became a quicksand in which the entire prise, the Mary L.Poultry Plant,named after his wife.Occuoying the ground immediately

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Atlas and Directory of Shelby County, Ohio. American Atlas Company, Cleveland, Evansville, Indiana, 1973. See continuation sheet #1 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ UTM REFERENCES L4,416,2/1,0,0 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION As shown in the sketch map, this nomination begins at the Sidney corporation line at ration line, and then 375 feet west to Brooklyn Avenue. 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE James M.

Lindgren, Supervisor, Ohio Historic Inventory July 21, 1978 STREET & NUMBER , 113 North Ohio Avenue CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45365 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL X As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665),T 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 KEEPER-OF THE NATIONALREGISTER GPO 892-453 CODE STATE Farmhouse NORTHING ORGANIZATION COUNTY TELEPHONE DATE Carriage house Sidney, 513-492-1429 ZONE EASTING ATTEST: Shelby County River Corridor Project the bend of the Great Miami River. Proceed 225 feet north to the boundary of land owned 1949.

boundary of the nomination. Then proceed 225 feet south to a point again on the corpo- LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Hitchcock, A.B.C., hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the ZONE Ohio Bristol, Mrs.Samuel to Mr.and Mrs.Frank Amann, dated February 6, Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 8 1979 DATE ENTERED INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Fulton River Bend Farm, Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET #1 ITEM NUMBER Statement of Significance: Footnotes Mr. and Mrs. Frank Amann, dated February 6, 1949. Ohio, 1900, p.106.

Sidney Daily News, August 13, 1099 Item #9: Bibliography, continued Sidney Journal, July 5, 1895; May 1, 1896. Interviews with Mr. and Mrs.Frank Amann, July 5,12, 18, 1978. PAGE Atlas and Directory of Shelby County, Ohio, p.106. RECEIVED MAR 2 1 1979 (1) Letter from Mrs. Samuel (Aurelia) Bristol, granddaughter of Jane Fulton, to Robert O. Law Company, 1919, p.465. Hoover, John C., et.al.(eds.), Memoirs of the Miami Valley. Volume I-III, Chicago, Atlas and Directory of Shelby County, Ohio., American Atlas Company, BlO S. BROOKLYN AVE. MAR 2 1 1979 < 375 FEET SIDNEY CORPORATION LINE CULTIVATED LAND (A) FULTON FARM HOUSE (B) CARRIAGE HOUSE SMOKE HOUSE (D) CHICKEN HOUSE 810 RECEIVED LAND NATIONAL REGISTER GRAZING MIAMI LYN AVENUE BROOK- SITE OF COPELAND CORPORATION FULTON FARM (E) BARN RIVER -225 MARY L, POULTRY PLANT LINE BUILDING MAY81979 MAY Working Number.

21.29.642 Photos _ Aecept Inventory - MAY 8 1979 National Register Write-up Send-back - Federal Register Entry KEEPER OTHER CONTROL HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps Re-submit TECHNICAL Review HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 4.26.79 7900194.7 Entered MAY tchnigues ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN 4.24.79 UNIT CHIEF 6-5-79 Farm Sidney, Ohio July, 1978 Ohio Historical Society - Facing NE Photo 1, Bldg. A MAY 8 1979 MAR 2 1 1979 James Lindgren W.O.B.C. FultonARiver Bend Farm Shelly Counly Fulton/River Bend Farm July, 1978 MAR 2 1 1979 8 1979 MAY James Lindgren Facing SE Photo 2, Site Ohio Historical Society- W.O.B.C Sidney,Onio Shelly Courty Farm July, 1978 Ohio Historical Society - Bldg.

A MAR 2 1 1979 James Lindgren Facing South, Photo 3, MAR 2 1 1979 July, 1978 Ohio Historical Society - James Lindgren MAY 8 1979 Facing South, Photo 4, Bldg. MAR 2 1 1979 July, 1978 Ohio Historical Society - Facing NE, Photo 5, Bldg. C MAY 8 1979 James Lindgren Fulton River Bend Farm W.O.B.C. Sidney, Ohio Fum MAR 2 1 1979 July, 1978 Facing East, Photo 6, Bldg. D MAY 8 1979 Ohio Historical Society W.O.B.C. James Lindgren Fulton River Bend Farm MAR 2 1 1979 July, 1978 MAY 8 1979 James Lindgren Ohio Historical Society Fulton River Bend Farm Facing East, Photo 7, Bldg.E W.O.B.C, 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC SIDNEY, OHIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SIDNEY QUADRANGLE ROAD CLASSIFICATION STATE OF OHIO INDI/DUAL RES INITIALS DATE ACTION TAKEN RIC PLACES TACHED) THE NATIONAL REGIS. pictures of the house can be seen on page 7A.

dence to be named by the United States Department of the Interior to irs National Register of Historical Places.More Historic home for sale Isaac T.Fulton for his bride, is the only Shelby County resi- Fulton-River Bend Farm,804 S.Brooklyn Ave.,has been listed for sale with an area real estate agency.The home owned by Mr.and Mrs.Frank Amamr which was built around 1850 by APR 3 Mrs. Peggy F. Bergstrom Shelby County, Ohio. Carol D. Shull cc: Mr. David Brook, SHPO, Ohio FHR: S. Harrison:jrb:343-6401:3-31-80 436 information. Register Enclosure Sincerely, Acting Keeper of the National The Fulton Farm was entered in the National Register of We appreciate your interest in the National Register.

National Register nomination form which contains the requested If we can be of further assistance to you, please let us know Thank you for your letter of February 6,1980,requesting 4242 Rapallo Road copy of the history of the Fulton Farm (River Bend Farm), FILE COPY Dear Mrs. Bergstrom: Historic Places on May 8,1979.Enclosed isa copy of the Jacksonville, Florida 32210 Carol D. ShulI bcc: