Form Prepared By street & number The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: X local 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 44906 county date code Northing Zone Mansfield name/title telephone Quadrangle scale Ohio Easting 1:24,000 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Verbal boundary description and justification 1660 University Drive Quadrangle name November 1980 contains a residence and several outbuildings,and is bordered on two sides by those streets List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries State Historic Preservation Officer signature Attest: city or town Chief of Registration UMT References according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. 9. Major Bibliographical References I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register (419) 755-4011 National about 4 10. Geographical Data For HCRS use only History of Morrow County, Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1911, pages 256-257.
NIA The Ohio State University Mansfield Campu&ate organization Trimble, John F.,Trimble families of America.Parsons,W.Va.:McLean Printing Co.,1974. Keeper of the National Register Entered In fha Trimble, James S., House Working No Fed. Reg. Date - RETURN Recom. /Criteria. Reviewer - Discipline Date Due: _substantive reasons discussed balow Name Location - unaltered .unexposed REJECT alterations/integrity clarity completeness Entered in the summary paragraph 7. Description nomination by person or local government 3. Classification Morrow County boundary selection 6. Representation in Existing Surveys owner objection Action: resubmission ruins 5. Location of Legal Description 4. Owner of Property soe continuation sheet National Park Sorvics - sample - technical corrections cited below _ aitered EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Federal Agoncy: _ .
moved appeal National Regie NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES .Nomination returned for: Catogery Chock one justification of exception Acreage of nominated property UMT References 11. Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is _ loca! - Date _ context Signed completeness checked Other Maps clarity applicable criteria Photographs relating significance to the resource 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification summary paragraph justification of areas relationship of integrity 8. Significance 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Builder Architect Verbal boundary description and justification State Historic Preservation Officer signature Quedrangle name Speclfic dates Mount Gielad, Ohio front, looking west JSTH-4 Steven McQuillin Ohio State University Mansfield Campus Joseph S. Trimble House December 1980 James S.
Trimble House Mount Gilead, Ohio December 1980 JSTH-3 Steven McQuillin Ohio State University Mansfield Campus side of house, looking northeast James S. Trimble House Mount Gilead, Ohio December 1980 rear of house, looking east JSTH-2 Steven McQuillin Ohio State University Mansfield Campus Mount Gilead, Ohio view of barn, looking southeast JSTH-1 Ohio State University Mansfield Campus Steven McQuillin December 1980 James S. Trimble House UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MOUNT GILEAD QUADRANGLE OCT 1 8 1982 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF OHIO MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO October 8, 1982 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief Department of Registration 440 G. Street, N.W. Enclosed are thirteen new National Register nominations and two resubmissions.
All the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new Nichols, Eli, Farm Allen Memorial Medical Library Wade Park Historic District Columbus Transfer Company Warehouse Grinnell Mill Historic District Grandstand and Race track Celina Main Street Historic District Trimble, James S., House Fairmont Avenue Historic District Jefferson Avenue Historic District Canal Fulton Historic District Please let me know if you have any other questions. W. Ray Luce State Historlc Preservation Officer X.c: Regional Coordinators (5) Cuyahoga Lorain Meigs County Morrow Coshocton Franklin Stark Mercer Enclosures Greene Hamilton Muskingum Sincerely RECEIVED Dear Carol: WRL/BP:vb Meigs County Fairground New Submissions Blair House Bauer Apartments Historic Places National Register of Pine Meer Ohio Historic Preservation Office Antlers Hotel Washington, D.C.
20240 -CT NATIONAL Ohio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 REGISTER By Ron Simon ment with brick floors. An unsupported stairway in The News Journal the front area climbs from the ground floor to the market these days and reportedly darn few buyers. with large closets and storage rooms. may draw statewide attention. The Haynes House is Mrs. Eileen Gladden of 706 Westview, whose hus- up for sale. band, Robert, is a member of the Haynes House Com- mittee, became interested in the big house at 187 Iberia St. and began digging into its history, using a Morrow County history book written in 1911. type; "Beautiful Old Historic Mansion on 5.6 acres in Mt.
Gilead, Ohio." Below that is a picture of the two- According to that volume, the house was built in story home with its pillared front porch and widow's The home, which was built in either 1851 or 1853 Knox, Licking and Crawford counties; a prison in Co- Jumbus, schools at Crestline and Cardington and busi- by William Miller, the same man who built the old Richland County Courthouse, is owned by the Presby- contractor, apparently, for the first Neil House in terian Church. And the church would like to sell it. The house on Iberia Street was built for James S. pants, the John Haynes family about four years ago Trimble, a local businessman whose specialties were dry goods, produce, grain and banking. no fault of his own, but through his misfourtune in the will be opening bids. That's when the church will find failure of other merchants and dealers," failed.
The out just how much interest there could be in a house year was 1878. with 13 rooms including five bedrooms and with What happened to his home?-Mrs. Gladden says the eight wood-burning fireplaces. that Trimble died in 1889 in Mt. Gilead and that in showed interest last year. For a time some society the late 1800s a family named Levering held posses- members tried to convince the membership that the sion, followed by the Cook family from 1900 to Haynes House would be a perfect headquarters for A John and Lucille Hays briefly owned the proper- and other factors led to a withdrawal of that interest, ty in 1929,the year of the stock market crash, and according to some members. then it was purchased by Grace Hayes in August of that year. Her son, John, became the owner of the The Haynes Mansion at 187 Iberia St. is one of Mt.
Gilead's oldest homes and is up for sale by its owner, property in 1958, and he died four years ago, leaving ings. There is a sun porch, a 755-foot square basem- the Presbyterian Church. (Photo by Jim Bikar) it all to the Presbyterian Church. Columbus. Presbyterian Church to open bids Saturday walk. roughly 1929.
Saturday the Haynes House Committee of the church garage and a carriage house.The place is jammed ness blocks in Mt.Gilead and Cardington.He was the obtained the right to sell through the courts.This The advertisements that have run in the classified County Courthouse included courthouses in Morrow, But there is one house in this county-seat town that high cupola or widow's walk.There is a three-car It might be quite costly to heat a house that con- 1853 by Miller whose works besides the Richland MT.GILEAD-There are plenty of houses on the with a request the house never be sold.The church The house was left to the church by its last occu- pages of newspapers around the state say it in large According to the history book, Trimble, "through history has nothing to say on the matter.It does say tains 5,730 square feet of floor space and high ceil- ,e ot ueraul.
The Morrow County Historical Society briefly the society and its museum.But costs for operation Historical mansion is $14.00 Per Year In Morrow County up for sale to bidders Morrow County's finest historical man- pany were stabled at the property for a sion is for sale and it could prove to be a great bargain for the purchaser. became owner. For a short period in 1929, the old home is generally in very good con- dition and a few major repairs and a lot of work by a handy new owner could work In August of 1929, Grace Haynes of The Presbyterian Church in Mt. Gilead returned to her native Morrow County to "Haynes" home on 5.6 acres at 187 Iberia Mrs. Haynes' son, John became owner of Street in Mt. Gilead until May 15 at 12:30 the property in 1958. He retired from his Chicago brokerage business and returned Built in 1853, the structure is sound and here to live.
He died four years ago and left the property to the church. William Miller was builder of the man- sion which is a fine example of early mansion has 13 high ceiling rooms, five Italiante architecture featuring a central bedrooms, two baths, eight fireplaces of cupola, large brackets and massive hood enclosed sun porch, a 755 square foot base- The building rests on a foundation of cut ment with brick floors, an unsupported sandstone with a projecting water table of stairway in front from the ground floor to a stone. Brick work is laid up in American or third floor cupola, back stairs to servants' common bond with distinctive ornaments quarters, a three car garage - carriage applied in wood and stone. The central por- house, and many large closets and storage tion of the house is a tall, square structure, three bays wide on each side. A one-story It's almost unbelievable.
It would be a porch extends across the front of the house and features a bracketed slightly pitched time to do their own remodeling. Or the hip roof supported by four columns. These home could make, with some remodeling, a restaurant in the pattern of many of the now being used for that purpose. The Morrow County history of 1911 says original. An unusual tin ceiling is on the that the home was built in 1853by James S. Trimble. Trimble for many years prior to The window openings are long slender crowned by projecting cornices supported After 1852, he had a warehouse on the trance is a double wide door, a large win- railroad at Edison. He also bought grain in dow of this same width is directly above on Richwood and about the same time added the second floor.
Massive brackets, spaced a private bank to his business ventures in singly and connected by a taenia molding The history states that "In April of 1878, The seamed metal hip roof is crowned by a through no fault of his own, but through his large square central cupola which features two pairs of round headed windows on chants and dealers, Mr. Trimble failed in Mr. Trimble's dry goods business was roofline from each corner of the house. On located on South Main Street probably at the south side is a projecting one story or near the location of the present Dollar semi-octagonal bay topped by a bracketed cornice. Exterior split shutters are on each erected burned to the ground.
The site was later occupied by the dry goods store of Extending from the rear is a plain two White and Brainerd, later to be known as - story wing which is large and narrow and shorter in height than the main structure For many years, the history continues and the home of Mr. Trimble on Iberia this wing. A one story wing extends out Street was the best in Mt. Gilead. Mr. from the north side of the two story wing Trimble was born in Mt. Vernon in 1818 and died in Mt. Gilead in 1889. Inside, the building has a large central business failure, the home's ownerships hallway containing a main stairway that were unknown for several years until the extends all the way to the cupola. It is a Levering family came in possession in the walnut. The woodwork in the house is sim- Ruth Levering, Louisa J. Levering and Revival style. It is painted white. The home in the late 1800's.
basement extends under the main struc- Mark Cook was the owner from 1900 to ture and features a brick herringbone pat- 1911 when his brother, Perry Cook became owner. (Mark and Perry Cook were both William Miller in 1850 took the contract members of the board of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Co. and were part- and in 1855 took the contract for the Knox owners of the Morrow County Telephone and Crawford County Courthouses. He had Company. Horses of the telephone com- contracts for the prison in Columbus, the dington, the Richland, Erie and Licking County Courthouses, the VanHorn block in Mt. Gilead, the Beatty-Chase block in Car- dington and many other local buildings. in excellent condition considering its 129 House in Columbus. moldings over window and door openings. strip, support the overhanging cornice.
square brick columns with stone Doric Presbyterian Church and the first Neil energetic businessmen in the dry goods Although unlived in for several years, restored homes throughout the country for the first Morrow County Courthouse wings appear tobe original. He built schools at Crestline and Car- live in the property with her sisters. railing are early 2oth century alterations capitals and a brick and stone baluster by large robust consoles. The front en- each side and ornate paired brackets. fine opportunity for a large family with misfortune in the failure of other mer- A one story porch is on the south side of Later Belle Cook, Perry's widow, Chicago purchased the property and later years With 5,730 square feet of floor space, the The White House Store. After Mr. Trimble's ownership and ple and massive, recalling the Greek tern floor. miracles. and produce business. Lucille Hays.
cantilevered structure constructed of six over six double hung sash and are Robert Levering all were owners of the Four large chimneys rise above the is taking bids for the purchase of the
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