Major Bibliographical References 2. A Standard History of Springfield & Clark County, Ohio, by Benjamin 3. THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL, March, 1910, p.9 due south 150', then due east 102.3', then due north 150', thea west 101.3* List all states-and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries - state date Sept. 5, 1979 street & number 300 W. Main St. city or town Springfield Llocal according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature 1 hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register code Northing date Easting name/title Zone county national Chief of Registration Attest: to the beginning point. 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Quadrangle name Springfield UMT References Keeper of the National Register For HCRS use only Verbal boundary description and justification beginning at a point on the south side 10. Geographical Data The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 11. Form Prepared By UTM NOT VERIFIED Acreage of nominated property ± 1 acre SHPO As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the.National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), 1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated ACREAGE NOT VERIFErangle scale : 1:24,000 513-324-0657 telephone organization Clark County Historical Society Prince,1922;pp.122-25 2/15/80 Vol. IV, no.4,April, inaccuracies) 2-27-80 605 Photos - Re-submit 6.//.
80 TECHNICAL OTHER Inventory KEEPER HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps CONTROL Review HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry State Working Number 3.27.80 National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back 5,1380 Property -Clark STATE Obio UTM Reference(s) : on the National Register staff, telephone 202- 343 -6401 Description: Certification: Date: Bibliography: Photographic Coverage: Map Coverage: IS RESUBMITTED. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION Verbal Boundary Description: Thank you for your attention to the above items.
Geographical Data -- Acreage: conection Chief, Branch of Registration United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Other: received FEB 2 7 1980 street & number - not for publication city, town - vicinity of congressional district 7th, C.J.Brown _ state .county - code 45506 - district - public - unoccupied - agriculture _ museum X building(s) - park - structure _ both - work in progress X private residence .entertainment . religious _ in process - yes: unrestricted _scientific _ being considered - military - other: 4. Owner of Property 5.
Location of Legal Description -yes _federal _ local 023 Location code Accessible Category government educational transportation site date 1.Name NONE industrial Public Acquisition commercial Ownership Status Clark object title Inventory-Nomination Form Present Use Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Type all entries-complete applicable sections 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 3. Classification depository for survey records See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms has this property been determined elegible? National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Emma Ester (Nelson) Atchison FHR-8-300 (11-78) For HCRS use only 31 N. Limestone St. & private Ohio date entered 1425 Innisfallen Avenue 7.
Description - excellent _ unaltered Z original site X good X altered _moved Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance complex is a two story frame structure in a "T" shape, with semi-detached floor and a doublet on the Second. It is crowned with a gable, of floor of the tower on two sides, thus connecting with both of the wings. in the March, 1910 issue of THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL magazine. This is a itself agree perfectly with an Italianate hipped roof, or a mansard. Condition ruins deteriorated date is a row of modest priced cottages of relatively modern construction. Behind the tower and connecting perpendicular to the north-south Several hundred feet to the east is a Semi-modern industrial-type quiet, largely residential street.
is truthful is impossible to ascertain; the proportions of the tower This porch has two, flat arches on each side, carrying the entablature wing is the east-west wing. This side is fitted with a two-story bay No other structures from the Innisfallen Greenhouses Complex remain.The nearest The only known early view of this house is in an advertisement automobile garage. On the opposite or north side of Innisfallen Ave. birdseye view of the entire complex, of which only a small part is the a two story Section with two windows having shallow hoods on the first side, facing Innisfallen Avenue Southern Avenue) features Check one building to the east is a recent warehouse owned by International Harvestor Co.,while no major activity is centered there. Innisfallen Avenue itself is a supported an thin, scroll cut brackets.
the front doorway to the house at the first floor and windows aboe this long ago and a brick balustrade now Serves as a support for the columns. and roof.Apparently the bases of the wooden columns rotted away housing is to the south and north. the tower roof is drawn as a mansard, rather than hipped. whether this be virtually the same as it is today. The only major difference is that on the other two floors. The low, hipped roof of the tower is 6 acres, all in mowed grass, lying between Innisfallen Ave. and State - fair The C. A. Reeser House at the site of the Innisfallen Greenhouse approximately 10' but attached is a three story campanile tower, with building used by the truck division of International Harvester, although to the west is a cement block garage known locally as "Nelson Garage." Residential unexposed house. When considerably magnified, this woodcut shows the house to level.
The gable above is plain. A standard, vernacular Italianate porch surrounds the first of Semi-octagonal shape, having windows on three sides on each floor which the upper half is filled in Eastlake style with a lacy cut-out design and center brace. On the east side of this Section, set back 8. Significance Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation - science _ agriculture .economics - architecture _ art X 1800-1899 X commerce _ 1900- _ communications - industry other (specify) Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) In 1877, Charles A. Reeser established what is considered the of mail-order purchasing from one Festus Campbell, a black man of Pittstlela, Massachusetts, in the late 1860's. After Campbell's business failure, Reeser migrated to Springfield, where he opened his own brother, Rev. Geo. F.
Reeser, at the site of the building under consid- Italianate residence. 6. Thereafter, Reeser and the numerous other market. Although the Reesers sold the firm in 1894 to George H. Mellen, output of Innisfallen, Reeser 1400-1499 1700-1799 roof. 1600-1699 1500-1599 transportation philosophy engineering humanitarian Period politics/government theater education exploration/settlement built and surviving in Springfield.Constructed in a transitional music invention sculpture literature the filled front gable with cut-out decoration and sharply pitched social/ Springfield and Set the pattern for similar firms throughout the United Builder/Architect unknown greenhousemen who followed him dominated the American rose-growing Specific dates Additional significance is derived from the structure being one military the firm name continued and so did its dominance in the industry.
law was immediately successful. By 1880 the company was in such a flourishing first successful mail-order nursery business in Springfield, Ohio. condition that he was able to construct new greenhouses and an was the founder of the industry in (Note:Innisfallen was the name given to his firm by Reaser.) of only a handful of asymmetrical talianate houses with campanile, The only readily available statistics, published in 1919 by the Spring- in the City and that in 1918,these had produced 9,637,000 rose -archeology-prehistoric _ community planning Reeser is supposed to have learned the nursery business and concept Reeser specialized in propagating roses and his business Ileld Chamber of Commerce, indicate that there were then 33 greenhouses plants.
Although the firm of Good & Reese eventually exceeded the _ landscape architecture 1880 religion greenhouse and mail-order business on a 4 acre tract owned by his 3. THE HOUSFHOLD JOURNAL, March, 1910, p.9 10. Geographical Data of Innisfallen Ave.,33' east of the intersection with Rebert Pike, running . state -county 11. Form Prepared By date Sept. 5, 1979 street & number 300 W. Main St. 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification State Historic Preservation Officer signature 1 hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Easting code Northing Zone date national The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: UMT References city or town Springfield to the beginning point. organization Clark County Historical Society 9.
Major Bibliographical References List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Quadrangle name Springfield name/title Keeper of the National Register UTM NOT VERIFIED Verbal boundary description and justification beginning at a point on the south right of way Chief of Registration according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. For HCRS use only due south 150',then due east 102.3',then due north 150',then west 101.3' Acreage of nominated property ± 1 acre 2/15/80 Vlocal SHPO Vol. IV, no. 4, April, 1908, pp. 327-30. (some inaccuracies) Prince, 1922; pp.
122-25 [44 211|8170 GPO 938 835 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665),1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated Working Number 2. 2 7. 80. 605 Photos - Inventory - Entered JUN 20 1980 KEEPER OTHER HAER CONTROL Maps Send-back TECHNICAL Re-submit Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF 2.3.81 6.17.80 C. A., Reeser, House, Innisfallen Greenhouses Springfield, Clark County, Ohio G. H. Berkhofer, photog- September, 1979 neg.: 112 Church St., S. Charleston, Ohio sidewalk, looking southwest. photograph no.
1/4 FEB 2 7 1980 JUN 20 1980 view of the Reeser House from northeast, from Springfield, Clark County, Ohio G. H. Berkhofer, photog. September, 1979 neg.: 112 Church St., S. Charleston, Ohio slightly closer than no. 1. photograph no. 2/4 FEB 2 7 1980 JUN 20 view of the Reeser House from the north-northwest, C.A,Reeser, House, Innisfallen Greenhouses C. A., Reeser, House, Innisfallen Greenhouses G. H. Berkhofer, photog. September, 1979 neg.: 112 Church St., S. Charleston, Ohio photograph no. 3/4 FEB 2 7 1980 view of the front (north) side of the Reeser House. Springfield, Clark County, Ohio JUN 2 0.1980 C. A., Reeser, House, Innisfallen Greenhouses Springfield, Clark County, Ohio G. H. Berkhofer, photog. September, 1979 neg.: 112 Church St., S. Charleston, Ohio the Reeser House, looking south-southeast. photograph no.
4/4 FEB 2 7 1980 JUN 20 view of part of the front and west sides of FEB 27 1580 > SPRINGFIELD. OF UNITED STATES SPRINGFIELD QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Zone 17, 257650 x 4421870 NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) ROAD CLASSIFICATION SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 150,000 ORDERS MAIL AND EXPRESS BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR 1910 CATALOGUE FEB 2 7 1980 1877 1894 ESTABLISHED INCORPORATED REGISTER NATIONAL THE INNISFALLEN GREENHOUSES PLANTS SHIPPED BY FILLED LAST YEAR RECEIVED C. A. Reeser House, Innisfallen Greenhouses Springfield, Clark County, Ohio in THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL, MARCH, 1910, P. 9 JUN 2 0. 1980 A woodcut view of the entire greenhouses else long vanished.
arrow on margin indicates Reeser House; all complex, part of an advertisement appearing BLL WFA 05 0(1604) (1-018368A 086)PD 03/26/80 1603 ICS IPMWGWC WSH 025 01 03-26 035 9P EST ICS IPMWF 08 5133247312 TDBN SPRINGFIELD OH 66 03-26 0211PEST HERITAGE, CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE, U S DEPI OF INTERIOR PRESENT SOUTH CURB LINE OF INNISFALLEN AVENUE, FENCE RUNNING DUE SF-1201 (RS-69) ROBERT MCKIE, CITY ENGINEER - CITY OF SPRINGFIELD SPR INGFIELD OH 455 02 1509 EST Telegram NNNN ICS IPMBNGZ CSP 4-041136S086 03/26/80 SOUTH 135 FEET FENCE DUE EAST 102.3 FEET FENCE DUE NORTH135 FEET 76 EAST HIGH ST CITY OF SPRINGFIELD CLARK COUNTY OHIO 1425 INNISFALLEN AVENUE western union WASHINGTON DC 20243 EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF REBERT PIKE AND 25 FEET SOUTH OF THE FENCE DUE WEST1O1.3 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING 1980 MAR 26 PM 4:27 PMS SARAH OLDHAM ACT ING CHIEF NATIONAL REGISTER RPT DLY MGM, DLR BLL REQUESTS BOUNDARY CLARIFICATION TO READ BEGINNING AT A POINT 33 FEET B-446990 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 JUN 1 1 1980 Ms.
Carol Shull W 434 Washington, D.C. 20243 Dear Ms. Shull: for additional information. David L. Brook enclosure REGISTER RECEIVED Acting Keeper National Register of Historic Places Sincerely, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service State Historic Preservation Officer Department of Interior Please let me know if we can provide any additional material. Enclosed is the Reeser House, Clark County which was returned by your staff NATIONAL JUN 20 1980 Reeser, C. A., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Mr. David Brook Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/mjd Location Springfield Date Entered Name STATE Also Notified Clark County OHTO The Ohio Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer 7/2/80 Honorable John H. Glenn For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Clarence J. Brown Interstate 7lat l7th Avenue
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