Nomination for Stanford, George, Farm

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Form No. 10-306 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR FEDERAL PROPERTIES SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER 6093 Stanford Road _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT X VICINITY OF Peninsula PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) - WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN PROCESS _ YES: UNRESTRICTED REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS: (If applicable) U.S.

Department of the Interior National Park Service, Midwest Region - VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 153 5/80 DATE HISTORIC LOCATION GOVERNMENT COUNTY CODE TITLE COMMERCIAL ACCESSIBLE Akron AGRICULTURE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY CLASSIFICATION ENTERTAINMENT STATE OWNERSHIP RELIGIOUS SCIENTIFIC MILITARY XUNOCCUPIED TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM Omaha NAME STATUS COURTHOUSE. PRIVATE XPUBLIC 72 South High Street Columbus PUBLIC ACQUISITION Nebraska 68102 Ohio Historic Inventory Boston Township 1709 Jackson Street DATE ENTERED _DISTRICT -BEING CONSIDERED -STRUCTURE -OBJECT FOR NPS USE ONLY X.PARK Ohio -OTHER: -BOTH -SITE Penin sula vic, RECEIVED JAN 15 1982 Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

Surmit County Building Annex Summit SURVEY RECORDS XNO 7 DESCRIPTION ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. The George Stanford Farm is located on a rural section of Stanford Road, just north of the small village of Boston. It enjoys a conmanding view to the west of the Cuyahoga River and the adjacent Ohio and Erie Canal (see Illustration Nos. 1 and 2). The farm currently consists of a house, a barn, and several outbuildings, all included in the List of Classified Structures (LCS) for the is five bays long by three bays wide, and features a central entrance, clapboard siding with cornerboards, box cornice, and a low-pitched gable roof with gable slightly recessed central entrance is flanked by two full width, chamfered up) and carry a shallow, three-part entablature, above which is a seven-light metal awnings cover most of the windowson the west,south, and east elevations.

The main block of the structure has a central hall plan with a formal single- of this hallway is a single, large parlor, including a marble fireplace with an Eastlake-style mantelpiece. To the south of this hallway is a smaller parlor with an anteroom recently converted to a full bathroom. The south parlor basement walls are brick. CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED UNALTERED FAIR CHECK ONE the main north-south roof ridge.

GOOD returns.There are two chimmeys, symmetrically situated at third points along at the approximate midpoint of the north elevation.Interior load-bearing includesa large ornamental plaster ceiling medallion.The original fireplace has both an exterior and an interior access.The exterior access is located the Greek Revival style.The rectangular main block (see Illustration No.3) is a basement,full except for an apparently-unexcavated (perhaps back-filled) Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area as National Park Service Management The main entryway(see Illustration No.4) features a one-bay entrance porch The George Stanford House(HS-442) is a substantial, two story structure in three-part entablature with modillions and a triangular pediment.The broad, Category B (Should Be Preserved) historic structures.

of the main Illustration No.5).The whole in this room has been removed. supported by chamfered, square columns on pedestals. The porch features a An asymmetrically-situated, one and one-half story ell projects from the east is of braced frame construction and rests on an ashlar stone foundation. 12- by 14-foot section under the north half of the ell kitchen. The basement DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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fixed transom. The historic six-over-six shuttered windows survive. Nonhistoric run stair connecting the lower and upper stairhalls. Opposite the main entry There pilasters.Two half-width chamfered pilasters frame sidelights (now boarded is a doorway leading to the south L-shaped porch.To the north -RUINS Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET connecting the front stairhall of the main block to the rear kitchen. the front stairhall of the main block to the rear stairhall of the ell. Two storage rooms and an unfinished space over the kitchen all open off the rear stairhall which connects the second level of the ell to the kitchen below. The main block of the house has a full attic. The ell has a partial attic.

The house, as it presently exists, is essentiallly the same as it was in 1874 porch, the replacment of the east kitchen porch, and the recent addition of structures on the site include a Springhouse, HS-442A (see Illustration No. 6); a Garage, HS-442B, not as old as the house; a larbe Barn, HS-443 (see HS-444 (see Illustration No. 8); a brick Smoke House, HS-445 (see Illustration 150 feet north of the house. no longer extant, that was located east of the house at the approximate location of the existing Barn (HS-443). Historic fencing, gates, walks, drives, and features. the dining room and overhanging the south dining room porch below) which connects nonhistoric kitchen porch.

(see Illustration No.10).Exterior changes include the glazing of the south porch extends the full length of the south elevation of the dining room, The first level of the ell includes a large dining room connecting the north FOR NPS USE ONLY The house is the central structure of the surviving farmstead.Other extant The second level of the main block contains four bedrooms and a storage room, Illustration No.7),also of more recent vintage than the house; a Corn Crib, An exterior door opens from the unfinished attic space to the roof of the Apparent in the 1874 depiction of the site (see Illustration No.10) isa stable, parlor of the main block to the kitchen at the west of the structure ITEM NUMBER (circa 1930-40) Caretaker's Cottage is located across the creek, approximately RECEIVED JAN 15 1982 all opening off the front stairhall.

The ell contains a large bedroom (above Landscaping, evident in the 1874 illustration, have been succeeded by more recent PAGE metal awnings. No. 9); and a more recent, glazed tile Chicken Coop, HS-446.A nonhistoric AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE - CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ECONOMICS -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC X1800-1899 COMMERCE OTHER (SPECIEVI STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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with a prominent Boston Township family. James Stanford, who Several years later, James Stanford joined a surveying party to remainder of their lives."1 According to one account, it was James Stanford who suggested the name of Boston Township, "and its acceptance happily ended a disputed question. "< Polly Stanford died in 1814, James in 1827. Their son, George, 1900 ENGINEERING History 1700-1799 EDUCATION CONSERVATION PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ART SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT THEATER LAW 1400-1499 TRANSPORTATION MILITARY SCULPTURE PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE _COMMUNICATIONS The George Stanford House is significant for its long association XAGRICULTURE LITERATURE agricultural heritage and preserve intact a fine nineteenth-century INDUSTRY large Greek Revival farmhouse, perhaps upon his marriage to Catherine Cuyahoga River. farm in the Cuyahoga Valley.

INVENTION -1500-1599 with his family in March 1806,"taking 169 acres upon the west bank George Stanford, and grandson, George C.Stanford, both served .SCIENCE settled the property in 1806,was a member of the party that .RELIGION -1600-1699 Pub1ishing Company,1908),p.854. George Stanford (1800-1883) was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, SPECIFIC DATES C. 1830 surveyed the township and reputedly suggested its name. His son, for many years in various township oflices.

Architecturally, the County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Biographical outbuildings and rural environment illustrate Boston Towmship's EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT house is a fine example of the Greek Revival style.Its associated Here they resided for the the family moved to Ohio and settled in Warren County) is in error; the Stanford Farm is located on the east bank of the to James and Polly Stanford.James had emigrated from of the Cuyahoga River, near Boston.

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Mead & Moffett, 1874. Publishing Company, 1908 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 3 UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 110 by 140 meters in size, described as follows: Beginning at a point 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant 5 January 1981 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 CERTIFICATION OF NOMINATION STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER RECOMMENDATION NONE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE Historic Preservation Officer has been allowed 90days in which to present the nomination to the State Review Board and to evaluate its significance.

The evaluated level of significance is FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE SIGNATURE Assistant Director, FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DIRECTOR/OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORICPRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CODE 216/321-3940 DATE COUNTY NORTHING YES Cleveland Heights STATE ATTEST: 2940 Somerton Road along Stanford Road to the point of origin. due south ona line parallel to Stanford Road for a distance of 110 ZONE EASTING House, proceed due east for a distance of.140 meters; then proceed Doyle, William B., ed. and comp.

ORGANIZATION under contract with the Ohio Historic LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Centennial History of Summit County UTM NOT VERIFIED Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society meters; then proceed due west to Stanford Road; then proceed north on Stanford Road 25 meters north of the north wall of the Stanford 2.17.82 14,516,88,0.0 ources Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED George Stanford House, Boston Township, Ohio about 1830. County (Akron, O.: Beacon Job Department, 1892), p. 655. Item Number 9 -- continued Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, 1881. Chicago: CONTINUATION SHEET Area.Both the house and outbuildings currently stand vacant.

Like his father, George C.Stanford resided on the family farm Subsequent occupants of the Stanford House have included the Perkins W., and Clayton J. as a "model farmer, sterling citizen and a consistent member of 5George C.Stanford served as justice of the assumed the family farm upon his father's death in1883. FOR NPS USE ONLY Mead & Moffett,1874),pp.98-99. George Stanford served in various township offices, including that five sheep. "5 township assessor and, from 1875 to 1885, Boston postmaster. Perrin, William Henry, ed. RECEIVED JAN 1 5 1982 ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 2 History of Summit County.

married Eliza Wetmore in 1869,and they had three children: Ellen, had eight children, although only George C., born in 1839,survived "devoted principally to wheat and hay--and kept cattle.In 1908, Federal Register Date 32 Multiple Resource A: a - Thematic Group - Object _ On Nomination Form: Photos 8 State Request for Review - REJECT Lother IL. Evaluation of Nomination 1. Descriptive Statement Significance Statement 4. Concepts/Criteria 6. Contextual Evaluation National Park Ser vice Comments Within: Good Name Site District 5. Concepts/Boundaries State Staff Reviewer/Date Nomination Poor 3. Concepts/integrity See Attached Adequate Maps 2nd Return L Evaluation of Resource (cont. on back if necessary) Check if Appropriate: Nomination prepered by: Actien: General Comments (cont.

on back if necessary: Structure Fed Nom or Request-Agency N.PS Working Number, - Keeper's Decision to Review Short Formet Determination of Eligiblity Bldg(s) Farm U.S. Depertment of the Interior Local United States Department of the Interior National Park Service State, County The above nomination is being returned to you because of problems in the areas checked below and/or on the back of this form. Please return this form when the nomination is resubmitted.

_ Location _ Classification _ Category _ Ownership - Present Use _ Owner of Property _ Location of Legal Description _ Representation in Existing Surveys _ Areas of Significance _ Specific Dates _ Major Bibliographical References _ Geographical Data - Verbal Boundary Description and/or Site Plan or Tax Map _ Certification _ Federal Signature - Photographs _ Not Adequate in Quality _ Comments: _ Substantive Review Problems (see reverse) Missing Significance Condition Acreage Maps Signed Status Period Technical Review Description Original Site/Moved (w/date) . Historic District Map Level of Significance Federal Agency Name of Property Quad Scale Form Prepared By Quad Name SHPO Signature Site Plan/Sketch Map USGS Map UTM _ Description - Alterations: .

- Boundary Selection/ Justification: _ Significance _ Too Weak or General: - Poorly Related to Resource: _ Confusing/Incomplete: _ Context: - Integrity: _ Period of Significance Unclear: _ Exception(s) to Criteria not Justified: - Bibliography: _ Geographical Data _ Acreage: _ VBD: _ Certification: - Photographs: - Inadequate Coverage: - Poorly Labeled/Not Keyed to Map _ Comments Chief, Branch of Registration tel: (202) 343-6401 Missing Other Reviewer Date Maps Substantive Review Incomplete/Inaccurate: Discrepancies Boundary Lines USGS Location of Resource(s) _ Sketch Office, Columbus, Ohio JAN 1 5 1982 Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, March, 1980 Facade and south elevation, looking northeast 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio HS-442; George Stanford House Illustration 3 GEORGE STANFORD FARM TRESPASSING PROPERTY Illustration 4 GEORGE STANFORD FARM Entrance detail, looking east Office, Columbus, Ohio JAN 1 5 1982 Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, March, 1980 HS-442; George Stanford House Illustration 5 GEORGE STANFORD FARM HS-442; George Stanford House East elevation Office, Columbus, Ohio Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, March, 1980 JAN151982_ JAN 1 5 1982 1981 Negative property of National Park Service, Photographed by Eddie A.

Mallory, September, Looking northwest 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio HS-442A; Springhouse Cuyahoga Valley NRA HS-443; Barn Office, Columbus, Ohio Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, Marhc, 1980 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio Looking southeast Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation HS-444; Corn Crib 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio Looking west Office, Columbus, Ohio JAN 1 5 1982 Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, March, 1980 Illustration 8GEORGE STANFORD FARM Illustration 9 GEORGE STANFORD FARM HS-445 ; Smoke House 6093 Stanford Road, Boston Township, Ohio Looking north Office, Columbus, Ohio JAN 1 5 1982 Negative property of Ohio Historic Preservation Photographed by Carol Poh Miller, March, 1980 RES. OF GEO. STANFORD.

BOSTON TP OHIO taken from Summit County Atlas, 1874 (page 99) JAN 1 5 1982 Historical photograph, George Stanford House, Illiatration 10 GEORGE STANFORD FARM Area Map (USGS) Boston Township, Ohio UTM Reference 17 453350 4568800 George Stanford Farm complex Illustration 1 GEORGE STANFORD FARM NORTHFIELD QUADRANGLE NORTHFIELD, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 25 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 17/453350 4568900 UNITED STATES Revised in cooperation with State of Ohio agencies ROAD CLASSIFICATION PHOTOREVISED 1979 UTM Reference: Site Map (sketch, not to scale) Boston Township, Ohio JAN 15 1982 GEORGE FARM RECEIVED STANFORDROAD George Stanford Farm complex NOT TO SCALE HS445 HS.443 HS442.A Illustration 2 GEORGE STANFORD FARM ROAD NATIONAL REGISTER 1709 JACKSON STREET IN REPLY REFER TO: OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68102-2571 H32 (MWR-PCR) Regional Director, Midwest Region Form for the George Stanford Farm, Cuyahoga Valley.

The nomination was submitted to the Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer, who recommended Superintendent, Cuyahoga Valley w/c enc. State Coordinator, Ohio (Superintendent, Mound City Group) w/c enc. Chief, Midwest Archeological Center w/c enc. Memorandum Enclosure Cuyahoga Valley Subject: RECEIVED From: Manager, Denver Service Center National Register for a final determination. the property for inclusion on the National Register.We concur with this National Register nomination form for.the George Stanford Farm, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE . Receied 1/5/82 Associate Director, Management and Operations, WASO JAN 15 1982 Attention: Assistant Manager, Midwest/Rocky Mountain Team w/c enc. Attention: Chief, Legislative Compliance Division w/c enc.

Enclosed is the National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination MIDWEST REGION evaluation.Please forward the nomination form to the Keeper of the WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240 . JAN 8 1982 From: Federal Preservation Officer, National Park Service compliance with Executive Order No. 11593. Enclosure Memorandum REGISTER RECEIVED NATIONAL United States Department of the Interior submitted for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in Acting Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, National Recreation Area, Midwest Region of the National Park Service, H30(565) IN REPLY REFER TO: Subject:Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places Enclosed is the nomination George Stanford Farm,"from Cuyahoga Valley National Park Service From: ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STATE OHIO ) Stanford, George, Farm Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Dr. W.

Ray Luce Honorable Dennis E. Eckart Mr. G. Ray Arnett Columbus, Ohio 43211 Mr. F. Ross Holland, NPS Midwest Regional Office, NPS For further information, please call the National Register at (202) 272-3504 Location Name Peninsula vicinity Summit County Assistant Secretary for Fish and The Ohio Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer Department of the Interior Honorable John Glenn Wildlife and Parks Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue FEB. 17, 1982 Notified Date Entered