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Decorative drawing: a brick factory with a tall chimney and rows of windows. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Factory Site

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,213 words across 19 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 80003183, 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.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

7. Description X excellent -x original site X altered _ moved date - fair line, from raw clay storage to final shipping, is located on this site, as it has been pre-date the existence of the pottery itself, when the site was owned by the Oval Ware and pottery are also continued today, including jiggering and casting, as well as the more modern C. W. Ransbottom House (1904), 291 Washington Street, Roseville, Ohio. This residence was built as a wood frame residential structure, but was sheathed with a buffed brick veneer in 1937 by a local bricklayer, Noel Allen. The facade features Frank M. Ransbottom House (1905), 289 Washington Street, Roseville, Ohio Like its immediate neighbor, this house also is a wood frame building covered with a brick veneer, done at the same time.

A bay window with a gable roof and cornice with a partial The original open back porch was replaced with a brick porch, partially enclosed. Edward Ransbottom House (1912), 99 Main Street, Roseville, Ohio summer kitchen, and an open trellace. Condition ruins machine forming technique. consists of a series of interconnected industrial buildings, mostly of brick construction. Check one This dwelling is constructed of ironspot brick trimmed with smooth concrete and smooth- using hand methods which date from the early twentieth century.Early methods of forming Factory site: nomination) show a V-shaped complex of attached one- and two-story industrial buildings. along the front.Unaltered is a hip dormer with attenuated pilasters above the front porch.

a one-story open porch with a rounded corner vaguely reminiscent of the Colonial Revival There are also several small unatta ched structures, including the former straw house, from the beginning of the company over seventy years ago.Early photos (included with the office building one-story brick edifice with a Neo-Classical Revival -unexposed _unaltered Brick Co. These early kilns are periodic kilns, while later kilns, installed during the early 1930s, are of the continuous type. The pottery is also decorated on this site, movement. Also seen on the facade is a hipped gable dormer with an oval window of village of Ironspot (formerly Beem City), on the east bank of Moxahala Creek. The site stained glass; other stained glass fixed sash is also found on the first story. deteriorated known.

The Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Co.occupies a 5-acre site in the unincorporated The only.non-industrial-appearing structure within the factory complex is the housed within the complex range from the glaze-mixing operation to kilns to packing and duced by the Ludowici Co.,in nearby New Lexington.Brick outbuildings include a garage, first story and an enclosed second.A cantilevered bay on the south elevation projects from Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

flavor resulting from its small Doric portico at the entrance.The industrial artifacts Over the years, various additions have been made inside the angle of the v," resulting Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY: INDUSTRIAL & RESIDENTIAL RESOURCES Muskingum County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER Factory: Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Co. Roseville, OH 43777 C. W. Ransbottom House : Roseville, OH * Mort Ransbottom House: Francis C. Thompson Roseville and Ironspot, then northwest c. 960' to the east bank to a point; then east c. 440' to the west side of the above- of Roseville, bounded on the east by Washington St., on the north by an unnamed alley, on the south by the property of the village of Roseville, bounded on the north by the C. W.

Ransbottom property, on the east by Washington St., on the west by a 43777 PAGE Ownership Main Street Frank Ransbottom House: Mildred Lucas plant and its associated indistrial structures. RECEIVED 291 Washington Street Verbal Boundary Description Ronald Delbert c/o Alfred Ransbottom private residential lot;and on the south by Fifth Street. Factory: Beginning at a point on the west side of the county road between CONTINUATION SHEET #2 152 North Main Street Peter G Amy Ransbottom Petratsis FOR NPS USE ONLY mentioned county road;then north along said road c.120' to DATE ENTERED Frank M.Ransbottom House:Part of Lot 8,Brown's Addition to the of Moxahala Creek;then southwest along Moxahala Creek c.1000' C.W.Ransbottom House:Part of Lot 9,Brown's Addition to the village to a point;then east c.640'to a point;then northeast c.300' MAR 1 L 1980 (Kev.

10-74) Photos - Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF Entered _MAR | / 1980 - Send-back - Re-submit _ United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service KEEPER OTHER TECHNICAL HAER CONTROL Maps Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 2-3-81 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Ironspot& Roseville, Muskingum Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 Neg #MUS-53-4-4, filed at Ohio JAN 2 9 1980 County, Ohio. Resources University-Zanesville. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Office building (c. 1912) ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Neg #MUS-53-3-3, filed at Ohio Resources University-Zanesville. County, Ohio. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Kiln loaded with greenware. Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 JAN 29 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 JAN 2 9 1980 County, Ohio.

Resources University-Zanesville. Glazing stoneware prior to firing. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Ironspot g Roseville, Muskingum Neg #MUS-53-2-2, filed at Ohio MAR I1 1980 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY: INDUS- TRIAL & RESIDENTIAL RESOURCES Photo by D. Taylor, 7/79; Neg. filer JAN 2 9 1980 Resources General view of factory, from E Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Muskingum County, Ohio at Ohio U.-Zanesville, # MAR I11980 JAN 2 9 1980 MAR 11 1980 Resources University-Zanesville. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic County, Ohio. Dipping greenware into glaze. ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Photo by David1L. Taylor, 1979 Neg #MUS-53-2-3, filed at Ohio ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 Neg #MUS-53-4-2, filed at Ohio JAN C Y 1980 Resources University-Zanesville. Glaze-mixing operation. County, Ohio.

Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Neg #MUS-53-2-5, filed at Ohio JAN 2 9 1980 Jiggering. Resources University-Zanesville. County, Ohio. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Neg #MUS-53-2-1, filed at Ohio Resources University-Zanesville. Pouring area, where slip is Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 County, Ohio. MAR I11980 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY JAN 2 9 1980 Resources Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum University-Zanesville. Kiln, exterior. Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic County, Ohio. Photo by David L. Taylor, 1979 Neg #MUS-53-3-1, filed at Ohio by David Taylor Zanesville, Ohio View of plant prior to 1912, from foreground.

Negative filed at Ohio University, SOURCES Photo from historic photo, copied Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic the west, with Moxahala Creek in Muskingum County, Ohio ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY CO: INDUSTRIAL G RESIDENTIAL RE- Neg. # JAN 2 9 1980 MAR 11 198 THE LARGEST AND MOST MODERN STONEWARE PLANT IN OPERATION ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY: IN- company c. 1920 Zanesville, Ohio JAN 2 9 1980 Resources promotional book published by the Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic Negative filed at Ohio University, Negative # Moxahala Creek in foreground G Muskingum County, Ohio Photo copied by David Taylor, from View of plant from west, with DUSTRIAL G RESIDENTIAL RESOURCES office (c. 1912) in center. MAR111980 ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY Photo copied by D. Taylor, 1979 Resources University-Zanesville. Ironspot G Roseville, Muskingum Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Thematic County, OH.

Neg #MUS-56-3-4, filed at Ohio Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000645 for this property Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet