Nomination for Clester, Joseph, House

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FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior received OCT 1 4 1980 date entered Nu See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Joseph Clester House and/or common Kenneth & Patricia Light House street & number _ not for publication city, town -X vicinity of congressional district 10 - county - _ state .district - public - unoccupied - agriculture X building(s) X private - park . structure _ work in progress _ educational - private residence . site . in process - yes: unrestricted - government _ industrial _ military 4. Owner of Property Ohio 45701 has this property been determined elegible? - yes - _ no _ federal - local depository for survey records both 039 code transportation museum Accessible date Category entertainment commercial Location Athens Status Ownership religious historic other: object Public Acquisition 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Chauncey scientific Sugar Creek Inventory-Nomination Form Court Street 3. Classification Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places For HCRS use only Type all entries-complete applicable sections Recorder's Office 5. Location of Legal Description Present Use 1. Name title Kenneth & Patricia Light _being considered Athens County Road #111 Vic Ohio X excellent X unaltered X original site _moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

struction is different, being of light frame while the older section is mortise and interior plaster is original, lime mixed with animal hair. Most of the interior (photos #8 and #9); they share a common chimney. All original outbuildings have disappeared, including a barn and summer kitchen. Condition unexposed ruins fair in agriculture. Check one The floor joists of the first floor, main section, are of round logs, many still 7. Description batten siding taken from a demolished building in the area. The back parlor and the kitchen have fireplaces with identical mantels of poplar steeply pitched gable roof of slate.The house has returns and pilasters at the corners. tenon construction with large timbers (photo # ).The building is L-shaped with a the entrance door has square pillars and entablature (photo #).

exhibits the same external detailing as the first part #3),although the con- is the family cemetery which was also used by other local families. Recent buildings include a gazebo(1978) and a shed board and deteriorated The house sits on a small hill on a tree shaded lot.Just down from the property The area is rural farmland although the present owners are not themselves engaged Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic - science - agriculture - sculpture _ social/ _ commerce - transportation Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) The Joseph Clester House is significant as an example of a New England-Western New Italianate, Gothic and Romanesque Revival. The Clester House is the only house of its type known to exist in Dover Township. It is important not just for this reason but as an example of the rapid mobility of folk housing types from one region to another to still a third within a relatively short Assoc., 1905, Athens, Ohio. 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 Builder/Architect communications military invention conservation politics/government theater engineering industry humanitarian literature music Pillsbury, Richard and Andrew Kardos,^A Field Guide to the Architecture of the North- other (specify) law Specific dates 1900- 8. Significance eastern United States.Geography Publications at Dartmouth, No. 8, n.d., n.p.

X_1800-1899 housing types are generally of the Pennsylvania or Southern "I"variety or English cottage His son, Samuel, was the father of C.P. Clester whom the 1905 Atlas of Athens County _economics period of time. _education -archeology-prehistoric - community planning landscape architecture - religion X architecture - art York folk structure known as an "upright and wing" or "Lazy I" in an area where folk and then carried to upstate New York by the migration streams coming from New England. In upstate New York they took on their "High style" Greek Revival detailing. From New lork state, the type, with its Greek Revival dressing, was carried to Pennsylvania reported as having lived in the house for over 51 years. 2 Ibid. Bush, Fred W., The Centennial Atlas of Athens County, Ohio. The Centennial Atlas most other housing types common to this area.

Detailing in this region leans toward the Joseph Clester migrated to Athens County, Ohio in the late 1830's from Pennsylvania. 1600-1699 philosophy and west to the Great Lake states (the Western Reserve in Ohio).2 exploration/settlement Period 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References 1. 1850 Census of the United States, Microfilms, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle name Jacksonville See enclosed plat map _ state 11. Form Prepared By Room 103, Carnegie Hall 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification X local _ national State Historic Preservation Officer signature GPO 938 835 county code Northing Zone date name/title organization Attest: Keeper of the National Register History/Architecture Preservation Officedate 2/80 Chief of Registration Verbal boundary description and justification UMT References Southern Ohio Regional ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED Easting Susan Hartzband, Regional Preservation Officer List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 9/15/80 The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- For HCRS use only street & number telephone (614) 594-6578 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and fertify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Regreation Service.

Acreage of nominated property - state Ohio 45701 Athens Ohio University 1:24,000 city or town 41351891510] United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service The Joseph Clester House is significant as an example of a New England- structure further distinguishes it from most other housing types common to They developed from the combination of gable front houses with one-story New York the houses took on their "high style" Greek Revival detailing. From Joseph Clester and his two brothers migrated to Athens County, Ohio in the late 1830's from Pennsylvania. His brother, Samuel, was the father of C. P. Clester whome the 1905 Atlas of Athens County reported as having lived in the The Clester house is the only one of its type known to exist in Dover Township. It is important not just forthis reason but also as an example of relatively short period of time.

Atlas Assoc., 1905, Athens, Ohio. 10. Geographical Data. Acreage of nominated property. 2.05 acres. National Register of Historic Places 3Bush, Fred W., The Centennial Atlas of Athens County, Ohio. The Centennial Page Romanesque Revival. house for over 51 years.3 "Upright and wing" houses as a folk type appear to have originated in New Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet Joseph Clester House western New York folk structure referred to by cultural geographers as an England and were then carried by migration streams to upstate New York. Item number "upright and wing"or "Lazy T"structural type.This house occurs in an area For HCRS use only cottages.Originally either the wing was added to the gable front or vice FHR-8-300 (11-78) receive00T 14 1980 8, 10 versa. By 1840 in New England the house was built as a single unit. In upstate Northeastern United States.

Geography Publications at Dartmouth, no. 8, n.d., n.p.

New York state the type, with its Greek Revival dressing, was carried to Penn- the rapid mobility of folk housing types from one region to another within a where folk housing types are generally of the Pennsylvania or Southern "I" this area.Detailing in the region leans toward the Italianate, Gothic and date entered Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up OTHER HAER KEEPER CONTROL Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps Review Re-submit United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service State Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF HISTORIAN Working Number Due SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) Feb., 1980 SORHAPO, OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS OCT 1 4 1980 NOV 2 6 1980 North JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND Photo # SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) July, 1979 NOV 2 6 East JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND Photo # 2/§ OCT 1 4 1980 JOSEPH, CLESTER, HOUSE July, 1979 Nor thwest Photo # 3/9 OCT 1 4 1980 NOV 26 SUSAN HARTZBAND SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) Feb., 1980 Interior JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND Photo # OCT 1 4 1980 SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) Feb., 1980 North, Detail Photo # 5/9 OCT 1 4 1980 JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE July, 1979 West, detail OCT 1 4 1980 SUSAN HARTZBAND SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) Photo # 6/9 July, 1979 OCT 1 4 1980 Interior JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) SORHAPO, OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS Photo # 8 9 Interior JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND OCT 1 4 1980 July, 1979 0861 SUGAR CREEK, OHIO (VIC.) July, 1979 SORHAPO, OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS OCT 1 4 1980 Interior JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE SUSAN HARTZBAND Photo # GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JACKSONVILLE QUADRANGLE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES JACKSONVILLE, OHI OCT 1 4 1980 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ROAD CLASSIFICATION SCALE 1:24 000 CLESTER HOUSE SEC.

7 Approx. Scale I"= 400' or 6 Chains 15.0 Ac SUGAR CREEK, VIC. 20 0AC Paul E. E Donna M. Brown DOVER IWNSP., ATHENS COUNTY, 170 52 196 197 197 198 SEC. 12 267-444 235-31 JOSEPH CLESTER HOUSE ATHENS COUNTY AUDITOR TAX PLAT Dover Twp. TIO-R14 SEC. 8 John Mount MacDonald 25.58 Ac 89.86 AC. 328- 861 Patricia A. Eiselt 262-118÷ 322-125 189:56 Ac .05 AC 61.05Ac Ohio OCT 1 4 1980 NOV 26 285-337 325 340-555 323-283 Revised PLAT MAP Barbara Anne Sorrell Boud -483 322 Athens County Jackson County Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. Dellas H. Harder Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location STATE Name Honorable Thomas L.

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