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Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Myer House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 555 words across 4 pages, filed in 1979. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 79002689, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character 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.

The nomination, in full

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

OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY No. FRA-169-1 2. County Fra. 3. Location of Negatives 4. Present Name(s) Myer Residence 5. Other Name(s) 5. Specific Location 5927 5827 Rings Rd. 6. Thematic Category Owen - 19th C 7. City or Town Rural, Township & Vicinity Washington Twp. Sandy Corners U.C. 8. Site Plan with North Arrow NT Sandy Corners Rings St. John's 5927 Church 9. Coordinates UTM Z 17 290 000 E Lat. less than long. one 10. Bldg. Site or Object Building Site Structure Object 11. On National Register? Yes No X 12. Is It Eligible? Yes No X 13. Part of Estab. Hist. Dist.? No X 14. District Potentl? No X 15. Name of Established District 16. Thematic Category Owen - 19th C 17. Date(s) or Period C. 1850-60 18. Style or Design 19. Architect or Engineer 20. Contractor or Builder 21. Original Use, if apparent Residence 22.

Present Use Residence 23. Ownership Public Private X 24. Owner's Name & Address, if known G.R. Myer 5827 Rings Rd. Amlin (no one home) 25. Open to Public? Yes No X 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 28. No. of Stories 2 29. Basement? Yes No X 30. Foundation Material Cut stone 31. Wall Construction Brick 32. Roof Type & Material Gable/shake metal 33. No. of Bays Front 5 Side 2 34. Wall Treatment Plain 35. Plan Shape Reet / wrmg 36. Changes Additon X (Explain in #42) Altered Moved 37. Condition Interior Exterior Excellent 38. Preservation Underway? Yes No X 39. Endangered? Yes No X By What? has been sandblasted 40. Visible from Public Road? Yes X No 41. Distance from and Frontage on Road 50' X 300' 2.

Further Description of Important Features MCE - 6 pane pointed arch windows 2 in each gable they have stone sills other windows all have stone lintels + sills Brackets at eaves Prob. late addn. 1 1/2 - story single frame wing to rear (south) Badly done recent porch at rear. 3. History and Significance Early farmbuilding with farmland shell surrounding it 4. Description of Environment and Outbuildings farm outbuildings & fields 1. Sources of Information Observation 46. Prepared by SJB 47. Organization OHPO 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 3/23/75 Property Washington Township Multiple Resource Area State Ohio Working Number 9.19.78.4117 TECHNICAL Photos 105 Maps 4 (Inventory sheet; acreage), & (7.1) VBD are inadequately addressed. Return. (Verbal boundary description) extremely vague plan to attach a stone wall.

Hampton 2/27/79 Compliance w/Regr & Guidelines for nomination of this type is minimal, discussion/supporting areas of significant insufficient technical deficiencies numerous Accept Return, Publish Inventory sheets misplaced in NR office 2-27-79 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER Once survey sheets were found, all technical info was complied with. One of best prepared/compiled & organized MR nomina- tions to date. KBF 3/28/79 HAER Inventory ___ Review ___ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Technically very deficient! Keep in front of above! Return Hampton 2/28/79 Inventory sheets were misplaced in NR office Later found KBF BRANCH CHIEF Accept.

Franklin 3.28.79 KEEPER National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 4.1.99 Send-back _________ Re-submit ________ Entered APR 11 1979 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 INT 121006-74 JUL 78 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000655