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received NOV 2 8 1979 date entered/AN 3 1980 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common 2. Location street & number city, town . county 3. Classification - district - unoccupied _ museum X building(s) X private _commercial - park - work in progress _ educational X private residence _ site - entertainment _ religious _ object - in process X yes: restricted - government . being considered - yes: unrestricted .transportation .military 4. Owner of Property X vicinity of OH 43802 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. OH 43701 has this property been determined elegible?
- - yesx no depository for survey records 1979 both Accessible code Category date Ownership structure Status industrial other: Minnie Prouty Public Acquisition Adamsville public scientific Columbus Inventory-Nomination Form Type all entries-complete applicable sections Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service not for publication Present Use Xagriculture Ohio Ohio Historic Preservation Office Muskingum County Court House Zanesville Mercer Road Fourth and Main Sts United States Department of the Interior Xstate National Register of Historic Places For HCRS use only 6. Representation in Existing Surveys FHR8300 (11-78) _ federalX state Muskingum local _excellent _ unaltered X original site x good X altered - fair in recent years, it was partially enclosed, with only the right side left open.
ment is a huge cooking fireplace which, though intact, has been obscured by the placement toward the house, is a large barnyard fenced in sandstone which was also cut from the Condition ruins deteriorated 7. Description Directly associated with the house is a series of outbuildings located up the hill Check one has been somewhat altered with the addition of a bathroom and the above-mentioned enclosing local quarry.Other outbuildings include cribs and sheds of undefined date and usage. The James Hunter House is a 1l-story structure built entirely of vermiculated sand- -unexposed is the doorway to the right,a single trabeated door with a 4-leglit fixed transom.The of a furnace directly in front of it. date of the and the builder's name Boal) are carved into the -moved stone quarried from a nearby site.
It is a rectangular structure, built somewhat into buildings, and the rear overlooking broad bottom land. The facade is pierced by two win- floor; 2 windows directly beneath, in the basement, one of which retains the original sash; frame porch, supported by four battered 9 foot high stone pillars, 15' at the base and a side hill, with the facade facing up the hill toward the associated agricultural out- tapering to 9' at the top. This porch was once entirely open, and featured a balustrade; date foundation.
The most distinctive feature of the base- year 1827,indicating that the barn actually predates the house.At the rear of the barn, to the second story which contains two rooms.T lintel of this door.Each gable end has single-hung windows on either side of the chim- Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Into one of the foundation stones is scratched the initials "J.H."and the in the early 1950s from the original 6/6 configuration) on the first 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - archeology-historic . science - agriculture - sculpture . social/ - music X 1800-1899 .theater - politics/government .transportation .other (specify) example of the work of a local master mason, Archibald Boal (1799-1862). Boal was County, c. 10 miles to the east.
He lived the latter part of hise life in Monroe Taken within the context of local architecture, the Hunter house is unusual in its quarters of the century would have been built on the 2/2 scheme of the I-house, a Houses). This house, however, is obviously adapted to its hillside location, where the taller, more vertical I-house would have been visually, and perhaps structurally 1400-1499 1600-1699 1500-1599 commerce 1700-1799 communications economics conservation invention pursuits. Period humanitarian literature prehistoric law 1900- impractical.
military The James Hunter Stone House is nominated for its architectural significance as an Specific dates 1835 -engineering building stone houses.It is one of the two stone houses in this quarter of Highland lists him with six family members, five of whom were employed in agricultural _education was poor and though there were ample outcroppings of native craftsmen stonemason and traveled this area in the 1ate 1830's and early'40's executing and Statement of Significance