Nomination for Snow, Russ and Holland, Houses

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See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common - not for publication city, town - vicinity of _ state - 3. Classification .district - public _ unoccupied - museum X building(s) X private - park . structure . both work in progress .site _ religious .in process - yes: unrestricted _ scientific .transportation X no - other: 4. Owner of Property street & number 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Cuyahoga County Administration Building 9/77 - 4/80 _ federal _ Category Accessible Brecksville government commercial date educational Ownership industrial Columbus historic Cleveland Status code being considered entertainment title date entered agriculture 2. Location Public Acquisition 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Inventory-Nomination Form Ohio Historic Inventory congressional district 23 Type all entries-complete applicable sections Jerome J.& Irene T.Haus/Charles H.& Marcia R.Snow has this property been determined elegible? Present Use National Register of Historic Places code 035 Ohio United States Department of the Interior military For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) 1219 Ontario X private residence 12911 Snowville Road/13114 Snowville Road .local 1 Russ and Holland, Snow Houses yes county object Cuyahoga _excellent - deteriorated _ unaltered X original site X good X altered - moved - fair two bays deep, with a central entrance and inside end chimneys.

The had double-hung windows with 2/2 lights, a clay tile roof, and a small family room, caretaker's room, and two-car garage of wood frame include black walnut woodwork; a large built-in storage cabinet, also stone fireplace and chimney, was moved from its original location on Condition unexposed date ruins covered with asphalt shingles. 7. Description The Russ Snow House is a substantial brick structure in a transitional developed with newer single-family houses. Miller Road in Brecksville about 1930. was removed and new double-hung windows with 6/6 lights were installed. with its gingerbread trim, probably was added sometime in the 1880s.

The Russ and Holland Snow Houses are located on a wooded, rural section of Snowville Road at the western edge of the Cuyahoga Valley National floor has been enlarged with the addition of two shed-roof dormers at The windows are fitted with louvered wooden shutters painted black.In Check one shiplap siding and a silo made of structural clay tile, probably was the gable ends there are two small, narrow windows with plain stone Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

the rear of the house. has double-hung windows, 6/6 lights, with sandstone sills and lintels. construction was added in place of the wooden kitchen wing, and contains a living room, dining room, kitchen, and bath on the first Outbuildings on the property include a large gable-roof bank barn, a The log cabin, which has a sills but no lintels. The front porch The house at this date with their original mantelpieces. Federal-Greek Revival style. The house was remodeled in 1928.A sun porch and terrace of brick road, the Holland Snow House on the south side.The houses stand reputedly housed a summer kitchen and woodshed. The front entrance features sidelights and a of black walnut; and two fireplaces, in the living and dining rooms, The original main block of the house The two-story house is five bays wide by construction were added at the rear of the house.

transom capped with a heavy horizontal lintel in the Greek Revival mode. built in the late nineteenth century. ashlar stone foundation,and there is a basement.The gable roof is one-story wood frame wing on the right side of the house; this Russ and Holland Snow Houses, Brecksville, Ohio Item number of the house, from which a door on the left side of the main block basement and the ground around it was graded, making it into a bank Page received date entered Inventory-Nomination Form It has a one-and-one-half-story main block with gable end Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service the house, there is a recessed porch with flush siding in the ell.

Continuation sheet The Holland Snow House is a modest wood frame house with an L-shaped National Register of Historic Places was a small recessed porch with flush siding in the ell at the front facade, features a gabled hood whose sides consist of a lattice-work and wooden shutters.Both the main block and the ell have a central It has vertical siding painted red and a coursed ashlar with vertical wood siding and a corrugated metal roof. The house has been altered over the years, although its present shutters, which now are nailed on. appearance closely resembles a photograph taken about 1880.The ell originally accommodated a kitchen, pantry, and woodshed.There The principal entrance, at the left side of the main block's three-bay United States Department of the Interior Inside, the ell has been remodeled to accommodate a modern kitchen chestnut, and woodwork of tulip poplar and pine.

For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) a parlor, living room, and two small bedrooms. Upstairs, there are In the early twentieth century, it was raised onto a new The garage, built in 1928, is a simple gable-roof structure foundation. This small porch was closed up sometime plan. trellis. The interior of the main There is another front entrance in the ell.At the back of the house. opened directly to the parlor. in the early19oos;its flush siding was reutilized as part of the Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric _ archeology-historic _ conservation _ economics - sculpture _ education X social/ _engineering .music _ 1800-1899 _ exploration/settlement . - philosophy _ industry - politics/government _ invention Statement of

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(in one paragraph) together with their several outbuildings, illustrate Brecksville's Russ A. Snow (1789-1875) was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, although Holland, and Orpha P. ville Township and who urged Russ to pay him a visit. While staying in Brecksville, Russ Snow purchased a piece of land "on speculation" for his family, who arrived on October 19, 1835, after a four-week County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio (Chicago: The Lewis Brecksville Public Library, Brecksville, Ohio. 1700-1799 1400-1499 commerce History transportation theater humanitarian Period National Register. science military literature 1900- law 8. Significance of the Snow family have been active in civic affairs, in Brecksville's other (specify) political life, and in social and humanitarian causes.

Both houses, Specific dates 1845;1864 been born while they were in New Hampshire, added two sons and another - communications Pub1ishing Company,1894),p.419. - archeology-prehistoric - community planning X agriculture X architecture .art association with one of Brecksville's pioneer families. Members 1817 until 1821. He moved his family to Atkinson, Maine, the following The Snows, to whom two daughters (Charlotte and Jane) had Builder/Architect Unknown 1600-1699 1500-1599 The Russ and Holland Snow Houses are significant for their long History of the Family of Beniamin Snow The Russ Snow House is important Ruth Hibbard in 1815,then served in the New Hampshire militia from heritage as a farming community. the reminiscences of one family member. He sent 9.

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Major Bibliographical References Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio. Chicago: The Tewis Publishing Company, 1894. 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle scale 1:24000 -_ state 11. Form Prepared By 29. January 1981 street & number city or town 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ 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 State Historic Preservation Officer signature county Easting code Northing Society Zone date name/title Cleveland Heights Attest: telephone216/321-3940 Xlocal organizationPreservation Office, Ohio Historicaldate Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Quadrangle name Northfield UMT References Chief of Registration 2940 Somerton Road Keeper of the National Register Ohio under contract with the Ohio Historic For HCRS use only Acreage of nominated property 3 14,5/70L1,4,0 GPO 938 835 145179969 feet at the rear of the lot),and No.6o5-27-2,measuring approximately SHPO Russ and Holland Snow Houses, Brecksville, Ohio Item number in 1875.

Snow, the family patriarch, laid out Snow Road (later changed to and sheep and some other live stock. "6 Holland Snow (1827-1894), who had come to Ohio at the age of eight, Page Continuation sheet received Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service The Snows stand out as one of Brecksville's prominent families.Russ date entered in the original family home with his wife and their four children. National Register of Historic Places and Owen both married and brought their wives to live in the family The household was considerably enlarged in 1851,when sons Holland United States Department of the Interior According to the family genealogy, he taught school in Richfield and the present Holland Snow Barn, included in this nomination).

Brecksviile towmships, and "thereafter his whole life was spent as a Hibbard Snow had died in 1858.)Owen Snow remained journey by carriage. in size and form like the one built in Maine, except that...it 1860s, the two young families had grown so large that a new wood frame "Brick House"(as it had come affectionately to be into For HCRS use only home. Holland married Mary Jane Lockhart, of Richfield, Ohio, and Russ Snow Owen married Frances Fay Eaton, of Brecksville Township. By the was taught in his barn.S Russ's son, Owen Snow (1823-1905), was a Memorial Record, pp. 419-420. following year.4 The first school in the district reputedly was educated in the Brecksville district schools and in Brooklyn village.

writes that "The first school in this district was taught by Louisa "highly esteemed citizen of the farming community" of Brecksville; in The Snow family occupied a log house already standing on the land, house was built on Snow property a short distance to the the "Snowville" to avoid confusion with another road of the same name) in also moved to the "other House" and resided there until his death FHR-8-300 (11-78) Russ and Holland Snow Houses, Brecksville, Ohio Item number 8 Page 3 Owen and Frances Snow's sixth-born child, Minabel Snow (1864-1947), New York: The World Publishing Company, 1950), p. 419. 31-September 1, 1935 (privately printed pamphlet).

received Continuation sheet Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and witnessed a pageant commemorating the history of the Snows.They Children's Free Medical and Surgical Dispensary in Cleveland's Haymarket settlement upon this farm of Russ Snow and his wife Ruth Hibbard." Another famous cousin, watercolorist Frank N. Wilcox, painted scenes National Register of Historic Places date entered In her early years as a physician, she practiced at the Women's and United States Department of the Interior with the establishment of Cleveland's West Side branch of the Y.W.C.A.

The "Brick House" served as the ancestral home for the entire Snow district; this was the forerunner of Woman's Hospital.10 Cleveland woman physician who during her years as director of Sterling When Walter S.and Minnie Bartlett Lister granddaughter of Owen Snow) attended 0berlin College and received her medical degree in 1899. and served as a township trustee from 1864 to 1872.8 and as one of the founders of the West Side Community Council in 1915. For HCRS use only FHR-8-300 (11-78) Memorial Record, P. 423. They property to commemorate the 1ooth anniversary of the purchase and farmer of Brecksviile township." He farmed about two hundred acres Item number 8 Page 4 1971, Jerome and Irene Haus, the present occupants, purchased the the American Bicentennial. After Holland Snow's death in 1894, his son, Harry, resided in the Gates Press, 1935), pp. 57-58. Ohio, 8 May 1980.

Historical Association, 1961. Cleveland: By the Author, 1907. Continuation sheet received date entered Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service houses and their outbuildings. and it was recognized as one of Brecksville's historic houses during National Register of Historic Places Russ and Holland Snow Houses, Brecksville, Ohio For HCRS use only United States Department of the Interior Item Number 1o -- continued "Other House" with his wife, Alice Noble. Wilcox, Owen N., comp. History of the Family of Benjamin Snow. married Orpha MeCreery. Their son, Charles Holland Snow, resides in 14Memory Book: Russ Snow Centennial, 1835-1935 (Cleveland: The A Reminiscent History of Brecksville. Brecksville, O.: The Brecksville property. The house has been featured on local home and garden tours, the house today.

They had five children, the house until 1949,when they sold it to George E.Darmstatter. be reproduced; that the brick and stone in the building were of FHR-8-300 (11-78) Snow, Russ and Holland, Houses, Cuyahoga Fed. Reg. Date: - RETURN Reviewer _ Recom. / Criteria - Discipline Name 2. Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description - - deteriorated - originai site - ruins .unexposed resubmission Date REJECT completeness clarity moved owner objection Condition see continuation sheet Action: excellent Ownership Substantive Review: _substantive reasons discussed below alterations/integrity 3. Classification United States Department of the Interior Federal Agency: National Park Service nomination by person or local government Working No.

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES unaltered County, OHIO, Category Status Present Use Accessible good Public Acquisition EVALUATION / RETURN SHEE: - technical corrections cited below appeal sample Nomination returned for: ArC 8. Significance Specific dates -justification of areas Checked justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification -state - Date - clarity Signed context completeness Maps Other Photographs summary paragraph relating significance to applicable criteria the resource relationship of integrity 10.

Geographical Data UMT Reterences Cuadrangle name Statement of Significance (in ene paragraph) State Historic Preservation Officer signature Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to local netional Brecksville, Ohio Photo #1 of 6 Russ Snow House Neg. property of Ohio Historic Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, March 1980 Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Facade,looking north Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Facade and west elevation, looking Photo #2 of 6 northeast Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, March 1980 Neg. property of Ohio Historic Russ Snow House Brecksville, Ohio North and east elevations, looking Photo #3 of 6 southwest Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Russ Snow House Neg.

property of Ohio Historic March 1980 Brecksville, Ohio Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio May 1980 Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Photo #4 of 6 southeast North and west elevations, looking Russ Snow House Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Brecksville, Ohio Neg. property of Ohio Historic Snowville Road, Brecksville, Ohio Photo #5 of 6 Russ Snow House Brecksville, Ohio Russ Snow House, c. 1900 Neg. property of Marcia Snow, 13114 Photocopy by Berni Rich, Score Photographers, May 1980. May 1980 Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Photo #6 of 6 Russ Snow House Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Brecksville, Ohio Barn, looking east Neg. property of Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Facade and east elevation, looking Photo #1 of 5 southwest Holland Snow House Neg.

property of Ohio Historic March 1980 Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Brecksville, Ohio Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio South and east elevations, looking Photo #2 of 5 northwest Holland Snow House Neg. property of Ohio Historic March 1980 Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Brecksville, Ohio Photographers, May 1980 Snowville Road, Brecksville, Ohio Photo #3 of 5 wife, Mary Lockhart Snow. Also Holland Snow House Harry Ward and Ida May. seen are two of their children, graph shows Holland Snow with his Photocopy by Berni Rich, Score Brecksville, Ohio Neg. property of Marcia Snow, 13114 March 1980 Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Photo #4 of 5 Holland Snow House Neg. property of Ohio Historic Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, Barn, looking south Brecksville, Ohio Brecksville, Ohio Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Photo #5 of 5 Smokehouse, looking southwest Neg.

property of Ohio Historica Holland Snow House March 1980 Photograph by Carol Poh Miller, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NORTHFIELD QUADRANGLE NORTHFIELD, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Russ and Holland Snow Houses 17/450250/4570140(Russ Snow Ms. Carol Shull Department of the Interior 440 G Street, NIV review: the Krumm House, Franklin County; the Miller House, Franklin County; the Wright House, Hamilton County; and the Ropes Building and Wright House during the ERTA. Part 1 certification process which was approved by the state review board but I have questioned its basic Miller, Orlando, House AUG 1 6 1982 Ratterman, Bernard, House form. Cuyahoga Hamilton Resubmission Portage Name Grace Church Churches Franklin Sincere NATIONAL Clermont New Submissions Stark August 10, 1982 Enclosed are ten new National Register nominations and one resbumission.

Chief of Registration YWCA Diver House and Storebuilding Ropes Building Ohio Historic Preservation Office County Roas-Ihhardt Farm and Winery Wright House Washington, D.C. 20240 National Register of Historic Places Snow Houses eligibility on a signed continuation sheet that is enclosed with the we feel have been addressed in the nomination form.The Miller House We are recommending that four of the nominations receive a substantive Krumm House First Reformed G First Lutheran Dear Ms. Shull: Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 All the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the Please let me know if you have any other questions.