Nomination for Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel

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received NOV 2 8 1979 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name Old Stone Chapel and/or common street & number - not for publication city, town - vicinity of State Ohio - county 3. Classification . district X public - unoccupied - agriculture . museum X building(s) - private _ structure . work in progress - religious _ object in process X yes: restricted - being considered - yes: unrestricted .transportation X other: storage Municipal Building, Second Street city, town Portsmouth 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Scioto County Recorder's Office, Scioto County Courthouse has this property been determined elegible?

- - yes date 11/22/75 _ federal X state 039 both Accessible government Category entertainment code commercial Status educational industrial Sixth site Ownership historic Scioto park Inventory-Nomination Form Public Acquisition congressional district scientific 6. Representation in Existing Surveys date entered National Register of Historic Places private residence For HCRS use only Present Use 2. Location Greenlawn Cemetery Ohio Historical Society Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service depository for survey records Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Type all entries-complete applicable sections FHR8300 (1178) Offnere St. United States Department of the Interior City of Portsmouth 6th and Court Sts. Owner of Property military state Ohio 45662 Ohio 45662 - local 145 43211 Portsmouth Columbus, 7.

Description _ excellent X original site X good X altered _moved date .fair The chapel, now used only for storage, lies on the main driveway into the cemetery, in and the shutters disposed of. A small round window, also covered with a wooden plain narrow stone surrounds the door, again repeating the window treatment. Corner covered the cellar area where vaults were used to contain bodies when inclement weather The small brick addition on the chapel's east side was added in the twentieth cen- tery, is considering removing the brick addition and restoring the original appearance of the chapel.

A brick driveway, the nearby Soldier's Circle with its cannon and statue, the wrought-iron gate and fence, and the carefully tended cemetery grounds with their fasci- nating nineteenth-century gravestones - these elements, while not included in the nomi- nation, combine to produce a beautiful historic setting for the chapel itself. ruins unexposed Condition prevented immediate burial. Check one shutter,lies above the entrance.All window surrounds are of plain smooth stone.The The chapel interior is quite plain.Its most interesting feature is the floor latter half of the nineteenth century as a chapel to serve the city-owned cemetery. their original paneled wooden shutters -the windows on the east side have been bricked Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

stone contrast handsomely with the rough texture and regular indentation of the exterior quoins are of smooth rectangular stone blocks; the water table, the narrow frieze and walls.The two low limestone steps at the entrance are worn down from age. the gable ends have short returns. The Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel is a small 28') building constructed in the _ unaltered coursed ashlar stone. The steeply-pitched gable roof is of plain rectangular slate, and The chapel has eight long, narrow Gothic-arched windows. Five of the windows have shape of the windows. The six-paneled double wooden doors match the window shutters; chapel's only door is centered on the facade and repeats, on a larger scale, the Gothic tury, and has served as a garage/storage area.

The addition is definitely a detraction from the pure Gothic lines of the chapel; the City of Portsmouth is aware of this fact, deteriorated raking cornice are also of smooth stone.These various decorative elements in smooth near the main entrance.The rectangular building is one story and has three bays across and having recently constructed a large storage facility on the other side of the ceme- which has three large stone slabs with iron rings embedded in the top.These slabs 8.

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Significance Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic - science .agriculture - sculpture _ architecture - social/ -philosophy _theater .transportation -other (specify) cà. 1883-1895 they are very different from the chapel in their scale, purity of line, and use of mate- From evidence gathered from photographs, cemetery records and City Council minutes, elaborate colored map of Greenlawn Cemetery done in 1873 makes no mention of the chapel. A reference in the Lot Record , dated 1883, is made to chapel grounds, but not to the how long the building was used as a chapel; it was learned, however, from a retired ceme- tery caretaker, that it was being used for tool storage as early as 1926. which now serves as both chapel and office.

The Old Stone Chapel is the only building 1600-1699 1700-1799 1400-1499 economics commerce communications conservation 1500-1599 politics/government humanitarian education Period engineering industry literature art music exploration/settlement 1900- X_1800-1899 left dating from the nineteenth century.Its listing on the National Register would law Specific dates Although other excellent examples of Gothic Revival architecture exist within the city Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) The Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel is being nominated on the basis of its architectural military it is believed that the chapel was constructed sometime after 1883 and before 1895.An Greenlawn Cemetery itself dates from 1829.It was first named Evergreen Cemetery; vey a mood which is appropriate to its cemetery setting. _invention - archeology-prehistoric community planning - landscape architecture - religion rials. The diminutive chapel, executed in austere stone, contrasts sharply with the two afore-mentioned large brick churches.: Its subdued lines and almost drab simplicity con- was constructed in 1900. It was located directly west of the chapel at the cemetery building itself. An 1895 map, however, clearly established the chapel at its present entrance; unfortunately it was replaced in the mid-1970's by a modern brick structure chapel was dedicated in 1879.

An attractive Queen Anne building, the caretaker's cottage, of Portsmouth-most notably All Saints Episcopal Church and St.Mary's Catholic Church- location on what were lots fourteen and fifteen of section sixteen.It is not known a rededication and name change occurred in 1873.The soldier's monument next to the perhaps provide the local incentive to save it from the fate of the caretaker's cottage.

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

Major Bibliographical References Evans, Nelson, History of Scioto County. 1903. Reprinted by Unigraphic, Inc. 1975. at office of cemetery superintendent, Harold Neal. Council minutes, City of Portsmouth. Located at office of Clerk of Council, Mun. Bldg. Interviews with Harold Neal, Superintendent, 6/19 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle name - Quadrangle scale 1:24000 _ state 11. Form Prepared By street & number 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification _ national 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 45701 county Northing code Easting Portsmouth organization date Zone local UMT References name/title Preservation Office 7/79 Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Southern Ohio Regional History/Architecture Attest: State Historic Preservation Officer signature Ohio University The evaluated significance of this property within the state js: Keeper of the National Register For HCRS use only 103 Carnegie Hall city or town telephone 594-6578 Athens, title Ohia Greenlawn Cemetery Records.

Lot Record, maps, illustrations, photographs. nbocated ACREAGE NOT VERIFED Acreage of nominated property less than one according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Chief, Dirision of Historic Preservation, GPO 938 835 Chiaf at-Registration 11-28-79 2827 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Review .

REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF Send-back - OTHER HAER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL TECHNICAL Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN Photos National Register Write-up Property 2-3-81 State Working Number Entered JAN3 1.3.79 United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry JAN 3 1980 May, 1979 Athens, Ohio NOV 2 8 1979 Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Negative held at SORHAPO, Ohio University, Taken by Lois Rock, RPO Photo #1/3 1980 Taken by Lois Rock, RPO May, 1979 Athens, Ohio Chapel facade & east addition, camera NOV 2 8 1979 facing northwest Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Negative held at SORHAPO, Ohio University, 31980 JAN 3 Taken by Lois Rock, RPO May, 1979 Athens, Ohio NOV 2 8 1979 southeast Negative held at SORHAPO, Ohio University, Photo #33 Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Chapel west side & rear, camera facing NOV 2 8 1979 PORTSMOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PORTSMOUTH, KY.OHIO (Old Stone chapel) JTM Reference: () State Route REGISTER NATIONAL 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) RECEIVED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES KENTUCKY-OHIO Ohio Historical Center 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 November 19, 1979 NOV 2 8 1979 Ms.

Carol Shull, Acting Keeper 440 G Street, N.W. All the new nominations have been approved by the state review board and the Parker, John P., House Bookwalter, Francis, House Eckis, Nicholas, House Miller, Daniel, House Seven Early Office Buildings of Central Square Hunter, James, Stone House St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Please let me know if we can provide any additional information. David L. Brook DLB: cw Resubmission enclosures Sincerely, Athens County Mahoning County Brown County Coshocton/Muskingum Counties Columbiana County Franklin County Harper-Cosgrave Block Coshocton County New submissions Weethee Historic District Adams-Gray House Marion County Ohio Historic Preservation Office Sharp Residence Bretz Farm State Historic Preservation Officer Muskingum County Enclosed are twelve new National Register submissions and one resubmission.

Scioto County National Register of Historic Places Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Clark County Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Dear Ms. Shull: owners informed of our intent to nominate. Washington, D. C. 20243 Bookwalter, Fraucis, House St. John Catholic Church Miller, Daniel, House Kumler, E1las, House Portsmouth STATE Name Location JAN Springfield Butler County Delphos Oxford Hamilton County West Lafayette vicinity Date Entered Also Notified Third Presbyterian Church Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel Coshocton County Cincinnati (Northminster Presbyterian Church) Clark County Hartville Hartville Hotel Showboat Majestic Allen County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Scioto County 1980 Hunter, James, Stone House St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Eckts, Nicholas, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Honorable Willis D. Gradison, Jr. Mr.

David Brook The Ohio Histortcal Society Honorable John M. Ashbrook Columbus, Ohio 43211 Honorable Douglas Applegate For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6 Location Name Guernsey County New Concord vicinity /14/80 Harper-Cosgrave Block Honorable Ralph Regula Zanesville East Fairfield Muskingum County Date Entered Also Notified Honorable Tennyson Guyer Adamsville vicinity Columbiana County Honorable Thomas N. Kindness State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Clarence E. Miller Stovertown vicinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Clarence J. Brown Harper, Samuel, Stone House STATE OHIO JAN31980