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Decorative drawing: a small cottage with a picket fence and a garden. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Principal's Cottage

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 968 words across 10 pages, filed in 1980. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 80003014, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on 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.

SEP 3 0 1991 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2411 September 26, 1991 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 associated with the Worthington Multiple Resource Area, Franklin County, Ohio. 1816, 1830, 1811, 1819 1817/ 1816 1811-12/ 1814 1827/ 1837 1868, 1880/ 1855, 1860 Richard W. Evans House 8C-3013 Jonathan Park House 1855/ 1860 S0- 3:1 Ladd Mattoon House/ 1820/ 1837-40 Mattoon, Woodrow House 1838/ 1818 1818 SOCIETY REGISTER HISTORICAL 3-1443 NATIONAL no change Worthington Manufacturing Co. National Park Service Ohio Historic Preservation Office Listed Name/ New Name Orange Johnson House/ Ohio Historical Center 614/297-2470 criteria application and areas of significance. Dear Carol: Aurora Buttles House been submitted.

This information does not effect the listed boundaries, Old Construction Date/ New Date SINCE 1885 This request is being made in light of new information that has recently National Register of Historic Places Buttles,-Johnson House Department of the Interior 80-3DZOJ.R. Topping House/ 80-3007Sidney Brown House/ OHIO Boarding House, I am writing to request name and date changes for seventeen.(17) nominations Ms. Carol Shull Page 2 September 26, 1991 Worthington Public Green/ 1829/ 1808 listed date "eclectic"/1854, 1867, 1889 c. 1860/ 1869 80-3C 2/Hiram, Wilcox House/ 1850/ 1867 Gilbert, Wilcox House 80-30L/ Potter Wright House c. 1835/ 1818 80-300lc Bishop Noble House/ c. 1850, 1885/ 1857-9, 1883 W.

Ray Luce WRL/ jw: bms nrohp/trans.rev Principal's Cottage Worthington Public Square no change 80-3ou Cyrus Fay House/ Lucy Hart House Hotel Central State Historic Preservation Officer Sincerely, Kilbourn Commercial Building Lewis Noble House Sign of the Sun/ C.1845/ 1820,1871 If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact me. 80-3010 NPS Form 10-900e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Kilbourne House -name 9. President's House, Worthington 5. Worthington Manufacturing Company 17. Wright, Potter, House Section number Page National Register of Historic Places OHIO Worthington MRA National Park Service Continuation Sheet 80003024 1.

Bishop-Noble House NOBCE, LEWIS, HONSE - 80003008 Scott, Travis, House - GILBERT House PUBAK SQUARG Boardinghouse 80003006 NAME : DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 11/14/91 9/30/91 DATE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: President's House, Worthington Female Seminary REFERENCE NUMBER: 80003014 SLR DRAFT: N PROPERTY RETURN NATIONAL: ACCEPT _resource type _current _architectural classification Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps -presentation Signed .

FUNCTION materials DESCRIPTION photographs Period context Builder/Architect historic BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE Phone Date CLASSIFICATION descriptive text Specific dates Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to OTHER COMMENTS Areas of Significance--Check and justify below STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION USGS maps _count UTMS _justification of areas checked FEB 27 1980 OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) Bird Song 2. County 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives President's House, Worthington Female Seminary 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories Architecture/19th C Basement? Yes X 17. Date(s) or Period 1845 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 31. Wall Construction. 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20.

Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays Side 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition O Private C Altered B 9. Coordinates in #42) 24. Owner's Name & Address, Moved y if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference Charles R. Lee 25. Open to Preservation Site O Structure O No O Building 2 Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes D 14. District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 15. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and 42. Further Description of Important Features Main original block, features steep, pointed roofline and bargeboard. Side wing added later during 19th century and has steep-roofed dor- More recent single story porch extends across facade.

Ori- ginally located on east side of High Street just south of the Wor- thington Female Seminary. Moved in 1963 when Seminary demolished to prevent destruction. 43. History and Significance authorized Methodist female seminary in Ohio, established 1838. This house was built for Serepta Marsh, the president of the institution. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization Frank Corbin, Walking Tour of Worthington Franklin County Courthouse/Deeds and Records 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) Worthington 10-79 Limestone Front Zone Franklin Easting Frame 11/74 gable/shingle Underway? Register? Residence Northing fair Potent'? Exterior Neglect FRA-6-3 Eligible? Long. Lat.

Gothic Revival Ohio Historical Center Interior (Explain Ohio Historic Preservation Office Architecture 694 Darrell Brown Frontage on Road Significant for.its distinctive Gothic characteristicsof vertical-siding and steep gabled Public Road? Worthington Library files on City History 38 Short Street 35. Plan Shape u-shape Vertical wood siding Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - CONTROL OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back HAER TECHNICAL Re-submit Maps Review HISTORIAN Working Number National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 4.16.80 2.3.8 2-27-80 612 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BIRD SONG County, Ohio Photo: David Simmons #21.

President's House APR 1 7 1980 FEB 27 1980 View of facade looking west Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Worthington Multiple Resource Area, Franklin Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000658 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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