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Decorative drawing: a large timber barn with a gambrel roof. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Sells, Benjamin, Barn #2

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 605 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 79003134, 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 1. No. 2. County Franklin 3. Location of Negatives OHS 4. Present Name(s) Sells, Benjamin, Barn #2 5. Other Name(s) 6. Specific Location 4586 Hayden Run Road 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity Dublin Vic. Washington Twp. 8. Site Plan with North Arrow [map sketch] 9. Coordinates Lat. Long. U.T.M. Reference Zone Easting Northing 10. Structure Building S Object 11. On National Register? Yes No 12. Is It Eligible? Yes No 13. Part of Estab. Hist. Dist.? Yes No 14. District Potent'l? Yes No 15. Name of Established District 16. Thematic Category 17-3 Agriculture 17. Date(s) or Period Ca. 1850 18. Style or Design 19. Architect or Engineer 20. Contractor or Builder 21. Original Use, if apparent barn 22. Present Use barn 23. Ownership Public Private 24.

Owner's Name & Address, if known Dr. & Mrs. Frank Dawson 4586 Hayden Dublin, Ohio 25. Open to Public? Yes No 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Dublin Historical Society 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 28. No. of Stories 1 29. Basement? Yes No 30. Foundation Material Coursed fieldstone 31. Wall Construction stave/rect. frame 32. Roof Type & Material (gable, metal, standing seam) Metal, standing seam 33. No. of Bays Front Side 34. Wall Treatment Vertical plank 35. Plan Shape & Roof Plan rectanqular 36. Changes Addition Altered Moved (explain in #42) 37. Condition Interior good Exterior good 38. Preservation Yes Otherwise? 39. Endangered? Yes No By What? 40. Visible from Public Road? Yes No 41. Distance from and Frontage on Road 320' - none 42. Further Description of Important Features rectangular, door east & west ends.

Foundation dry stone wall, all pegged construction. Hand hewn beams, lowered opening in east gable end. Painted drop ad. Trade side - horizontal lath strips, giving an unusually finished appearance. 43. History and Significance One of two barns in the complex of the Benjamin Sells Homestead which were original. Benjamin Sells, with his father & three brothers, were the earliest settlers of Washington Township. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings farm setting, slightly hilly terrain. 45. Sources of Information Personal records of owner Dublin Historical Society records Inventory of the County Archives of Ohio, No. 28 Works Administration, 1942 46. Prepared by G. Kinnaley 47. Organization Ouel. 605 48. Date 9/26/78 49.

Revision Date(s) #2 Property Washington Township Multiple Resource Area State Ohio Working Number 9.19.78.4117 TECHNICAL Photos 105 Maps 4 CONTROL OK- 9.21.78 HISTORIAN Reinventory sheets, acreage, VTA, VBD are inadequately addressed. Points to return. Overall totally inadequate & limited body of description of historic & non wall. 28.2.79 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN compliance & Regs & Guidelines for nomination of this type is minimal, discussion & supporting areas of significance insufficient, technical deficiencies numerous RETURN, Franklin 2-2-79 Inventory sheets misplaced in NR office. ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER Once survey sheets were found all technical info was complied with. One of the best prepared, compiled, & organized NR nomina- tions to date.

LBF 3/28/79 HAER Inventory _____ Review _____ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Technically very deficient! Referred back to above. Return Franklin 2.28.79 Inventory sheets were misplaced in NR office. & later found LBF Thus" BRANCH CHIEF Accept Franklin 3.28.79 KEEPER National Register Write-up ________ Federal Register Entry 7.1.79 Send-back _______ Re-submit _______ Entered APR 1 1, 1979 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 INT 72106-74 APR 77 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000655