Nomination for Blair, Herbert S., House

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1. Name Blair, Herbert S., House street & number - not for publication city, town - vicinity of - district - public _ unoccupied _ museum x building(s) X private X commercial - park _ structure - work in progress _ educational - private residence . site _ religious - yes: restricted . object _ in process .government . being considered - yes: unrestricted - military - other: 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description has this property been determined elegible?

- - yes -x no _ county - _ local 033 039 Location both Accessible Category code entertainment Tiffin transportation Ownership Status Bucyrus agriculture historic industrial date entered scientific August 1979 Benjamin Anslow Inventory-Nomination Form Type all entries-complete applicable sections depository for survey records Heidelberg College Historic Preservation Office Public Acquisition congressional district 4th-Tennyson Guyer Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 112 East Mansfield Street 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 212 South Lane Street 3. Classification 1090 Mary Ann Lane See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms National Register of Historic Places Present Use United States Department of the Interior For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) X_state Ohio courthouse, registry of deeds, etc.

- federal x state _ received FEB 12 date county Crawford Ohio Historic Inventory Crawford County Courthouse Ben Anslow Advertising Agency title and/or common 7. Description X excellent X original site x altered - moved date _ fair Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

Located in a residential neighborhood east of the central business district, the In addition to the main house, a fifteen-feet wide by twenty-feet long shed with is likely of the same period as the house. A concrete block garage, built in 1960, is located Interior Wood Trim Company, a local firm which designed the interiors of such notable Condition unexposed ruins unaltered Check one and stained glass.The second-story level is supported by purlins and features windows The interior displays wood carved doors, staircases and fireplaces done by the Roehr stained glass transom looking out the south facade.The front parlor features a carved buildings as the Philadelphia Mint and Annapolis Naval Academy.The front entrance displays house has one interior brick chimney with terra cotta panels. The west facade is two bays wide.The left side of the facade features a three-story entrance.

The original base and posts of the portico have been replaced with a limestone beautiful double doors with wooden panels.Beyond a small foyer with a tile floor are a gabled projection. The first-floor level windows have multiple light transoms of leaded Herbert S.Blair House isa two-story irregularly-shaped building with a rock-faced forty feet from the house. been alteredby remodeling of the kitchen by the Priebes. featuringa second-story single sash window and decorative panels.

structure is 3l feet wide by 50 feet long and has an asphalt shingled hip roof.The -deteriorated An open porch with lattice- like base extends from the east facade.This rear facade has cherry wood.The second-floor landing ishighlighted by a single sash window with a - good aslar stone foundation and horizontal wood siding construction.T second pair of double doors with etched glass panels.The stairway is ornately carved in walnut fireplace with a mirror. The fireplace is highlighted by decorative tiles. This Queen Anne style purlins and features a small window with square lights around its border and decorative with the upper sashs bordered by small square lights.The attic gable is supported by panels.The right side of the west facade features an ornate gabled portico over the windows with upper sashs bordered by small square lights and stained glass transoms.

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Significance Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning - archeology-historic . sculpture X architecture . music .commerce - 1900- _ industry other (specify) has the highly decorative gables, ornate window treatment with stained glass and varying of Herbert S. Blair, a manufacturer of husking gloves, husking pins and other specialties, incorporators of the Swan Rubber Company, started in Bucyrus in 1927. Mr. Priebe came to 1890 1600-1699 1500-1599 1700-1799 transportation 1400-1499 communications art theater humanitarian conservation philosophy Builder/Architect engineering Period science invention agriculture exploration/settlement social/ literature Specific dates education law Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Bucyrus to take over the duties of treasurer of the firm and later became secretary and property from the widowed Mrs.Priebe in 1979 and converted it to accommodate his advertising The Herbert S. Blair House is an excellent local example of the Queen Anne style window patterns, different wall treatments (shingles in the gables and varying widths of politics/government in architecture because of its excellent craftsmanship and detailing.Built in 1890,it X1800-1899 clapboards),and massing (projecting bays and uneven roof lines) of the Queen Anne style, _economics military .landscape architecture Blair house was sold to Ethel Sterling, who sold it to John Q. Pfouts, a mailman, in purchasing agent, retiring from the industry in the 1950s.

Ben Anslow acquired the religion who operated a shop located on the southeast corner of the public square.In 1917,the Quadrangle name Bucyrus UMT References A12 333730 Being Inlot #266 and 12 feet in width off the north side of Inlot #277. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries . state street & number city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature date 3.17.80 Chief of Registration GPO 938 835 county code Northing Easting 10.

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

Geographical Data Tiffin organization date Zone 9. Major Bibliographical References national Ohio 11. Form Prepared By August 1979 UTM NOT VERIFIED 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Heidelberg College Verbal boundary description and justification Keeper of the National Register For HCRS use only [4519000] Quadrangle scale Barbara Powers / Student I hereby certity that this property is included in the National Register History of Crawford County. Baskin and Battey, Historical Publishers. 1881. 1:24000 Attest: Acreage of nominated property less than 1l acre ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED name/title X local LLL 2-12-80 449 Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF 2-3- 8 Re-submit .

OTHER TECHNICAL KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Send-back Maps HISTORIAN Review ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Working Number Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 3.1780 Photos _ accept MAR 24 Bucyrus, Ohio (Crawford County) Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, OH FEB 12 1980 Lenny Sipe Herbert S.

Blair House West side of building; camera facing east August 1979 Photo number 1 Blair, Herbert S., House, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio Photo: Benjamin Anslow, 1090 Mary Ann Lane Bucyrus, Ohio Negative: Above MAR 2 4 1980 FEB 1 2 1980 Exterior view of western facade Negative: Above MAR 2 4 1980 FEB 12 1980 window Blair, Herbert S., House, Bucyrus, Crawford Photo: Benjamin Anslow, 1090 Mary Ann Lane, Bucyrus, Ohio View of decorative sash in lower story County, Ohio County, OHio Bucyrus, Ohio MAR 2 4 Negative: Same as above FEB 12 Blair, Herbert S., House, Bucyrus, Crawford Photo: Benjamin Anslow, 1090 Mary Ann Lane, Cherry stairway in front hallway County, Ohio Bucyrus, Ohio FEB 1 2 1980 View of mahogony mantel in downstairs fireplac Blair, Herbert S., House, Bucyrus, Crawford Photo: Benjamin Anslow, 1090 Mary Ann Lane, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES BUCYRUS QUADRANGLE BUCYRUS, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) | FEB 121980 ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-CRAWFORD CO.

ADVERTISING -SALES PROMOTION March 15, 1980 Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 Tel. (419) 562-9026 Carol D. Shull Dept. of the Interior, Pension Bldg. Dear Ms. Shull: Bucyrus, Ohio in the National Register of Historic Places. best prints, but we are enclosing some additional views that might help 1884 by Herbert Blair, I am almost certain we are only the 4th family dairy, and torn down in the early '50's. We hope your records show the house has etched glass front doors, a cherry Incidentally, with the coming of electricity, the owners at that time had wall-to-wall. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service ben anslow, jr.

House and other Washington structures),two hand-painted stained glass four strikingly beautiful glass chandeliers installed, and they still to you some of the excellent pictures we supplied them of the interior and exterior of the house, showing first and most important the basic Acting Keeper of the National Register You have asked us to respond to your letter of Feb.20,1980,regarding 212 South Lane Street suited to the reduced noise level we were trying to create for my adver- staircase the old Roehr Mill that supplied woodwork for the White main rooms downstairs it had been painted, so we reluctantly painted hang here intact.This is rather the house want is quite unique. 440 G Street N.W. beauty of the structure, but also some of the things we did from a re- windows ... no, make that three. very lovely stained glass windows.

Our letter to the Ohio Historical Society on this subject, of which we do not have a copy, we are enclosing one. We also hope they passed along is natural, and we had it refinished before moving in. In the other two tising agency. Again reluctantly, we carpeted the entire downstairs ticularly charming (but not signed, alas!). There are aleo four other to have ownership. husking gloves.His brother Elias built a beautiful brick Victorian The woodwork in the front hall and living room, as well as in the foyer, Mr.Blair was involved with his father and brother I am also told the stone foundation home right next door to this.In the late'30'sitwas converted toa Two are right above my desk and are par- the possible listing of the HERBERT S. BLAIR HOUSE,2l2 S.Lane St. in tell the story of this fine house.

and I feel quite sure isin the finest shape of any of them.Built in tion in letter copy attached) - decision, please contact me. Ben Anslow, Jr- P.S. Incidentally, I have discussed this house and the Blair family with BA/cm of these plans include application for federal grants to accomplish kettle shop is now on the National Register, actually was a competitor Listing in the National Register would certainly be the icing on the of the Blairs, in the hardware business, or at least his father and grand- Apparently, according to Bob Picking, their pig ring business was built on tape, if possible. We have collected a number of antiques over the years, and those that will note from our letter to the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, none have an open house for the community, to show off our prize.

very often removed for auction)were left descrip- in the heritage of Bucyrus. If there is any information I could supply to aid you in your Sincerely remembers the background of both quite well.Mr.Picking, whose copper are appropriate for a Victorian house are slowly being moved down here business men should say disreputable!) are hilarious, to say the least. through a complete auction of the contents following vacating by the from our home in the south end of town.Late this summer we hope to INDIVIDUAL NESPONSE (ATTACHED) INFORMATIVE MATEIL SENT TELEPHONE CALL (ATTACHED) INITIALS ('combed"varnish) oak Hand pain ted stamed Stair we ll Oot. 28, 1979 Mr. David A. Simmons Ohio Historic Preservation Office I-71 & 17th Ave- Dear Mr. Simmons: Lent condition. One, in the living room, is walnut, and the one ix finishing of woodwork, we did very little to the house itself.

To be structure. Historian and Manager Incidentally.I should comment on the excellent condition of the house point.I think even the small publicity given its nomination thus far NATIONAL REGISTER PROGRAM more because of the Bucyrus community than we are from a personal stand- various themes from Greek mythology. The press of business since we moved into our offices here has preven- Ohio Historical Center truthful, we are excited about the prospect of the house being registered I an not sure whether Ms.Howe told you that the woodwork in this home very proud.We had this refinished prior to moving in. the woodwork supplied to a number of fine homes in this section of the be interesting to discover the background of them. They depict,I think, itself.Except for the complete repainting: papering.

carpeting and re- we have left.I cry when I think of some of the fine old properties I am enclosing pictures of each. Our apologies for the late answer to your letter of 0ct.2,in for the indide and outaide.We also have plans to renovate the small country the way to Washington, D.C.,I think.). as usefuli) as this house. They are extremely ornate, with no two alike, and it would fireplace. I might also comment regarding the tiles used around the dining room to Barb Howe's comments, except to point out that there are two fire- the dining room is a well-preserved example of the combed grain"paint- We are also enclosing a picture of the cherry staircase, of which we are ing technique used at that time.I am assuming the actual wood is oak. places in the home, not one. and both in what I consider to be excel You might be interested to know, Mr. Sinmons, that wehhave no plans tact me.

Sincerely. Ben Anslow, Jr. BA/cm If there is any further information you feel a need for,please con- be selected for the Natinnal Register. There are also three hand-painted stained glass windows in the struc- a striking round "porthole" type window, 22 inches across, that features whatsoever to apply for federal grants for use on the house, should it ture, as well as four other quite beautiful stained glass windows and STATE OHIO Blair, Herbert S., House Dana, Marcus, House Chesney, Dr. John, House Beer, Judge Thomas, House Deming, Col. Simeon, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. GJenn Honorable Willis D. Gradison Mr. David Brook Columbus, Chio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

Byers/bjr Location Bucyrus Brandt vicinity Hamilton County Name 3/27/80 Fostoria Crawford County Cincinnati Palace Theatre Date Entered Miami County Hancock County State Historic Preservation Officer MAR241980 Also Notified Honorable Tennyson Guyer Watertown vicinity The Ohio Historical Society ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Clarence E. Miller Staley Farm Washington County Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue