Major Bibliographical References Quadrangle scale - _ state 11. Form Prepared By Nancy Recchie / Regional Preservation Officer (614) 221-0227 street & number The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: . national _ local I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register county code date organization Easting Northing telephone Zone Columbus name/title 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 22 North Front Street Columbus Landmarks Foundation 10.
Geographical Data Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries UMT References Ohio 1:24,000 State Historic Preservation Officer signature Chief of Registration Keeper ot the National Register Location of House-.31 miles north on private lane intersecting Newark-Granville Acreage of nominated property See Continuation sheet #9 For HCRS use only city or town Road (C R 539) 1.6 miles east of public square in Granville As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer/fonthe National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- according tothe criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Quadrangle name - 6/80 Newark Attest: SHPO received FEB 1 0 198 Item number #9 History of Granville by Henry Bushnell, 1889 Pp.
59, 99, 192: re Joseph Linnell Columbus Monthly, May 1977: "The Saga of Sallie Jones Sexton" pp. 69-79: a biographical sketch by Besta Marsh News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, September 24, 1976: "The Damned Good Fight style (erroneous information). The Advocate, Newark, Ohio: undated columns by Minnie Hite Moody Dr. Alfred Follett family "I Didn't Go to the Sale" re J. S. Jones family and its way of life Dennison: The Story of an Ohio College by G. Wallace Chessman, 1957 1915 Masonic Directory, Center Star Lodge No.
11: see Exhibits Horace King, Granville historian and completed Granville inventory 1931 Continuation sheet Page Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service his land purchases date entered quotes Sallie Jones Sexton re origin of Bryn Du and its architectural United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Dennison University:1831-1931,a Centennial History by Francis W. Shepardson, Street and contradictory) p.10: description of site of Fort Hill -topographical features For HCRS use only "The Republican Party"re Joseph Linnell house and farm on Centerville pp.27,37,41, 59, 60:accounts of Joseph Linnell as first settler; p.154:notice of Linnel1's death at age 79-Jan.21,1834 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas of Granville Township FHR-8-300 (11-78) Granville: The Story of an Ohio Village by William T.
Utter, 1956 is Over" by Joan Brown (Family Page Feature) "Change Comes to Centerville Street" re purchase of Fort Hill and the - FHR-8-300 (11-78) date entered Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Bryn Du Farm National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Continuation sheet along this road to the intersection with County Rd.539;go east along the For HCRS use only County Rd. to the point of beginning. and Township Rd.126;go north along TownshipRd.126 for 1251';go west 308.43'; Beginning at a point on the northwest corner of the intersection of County Rd. Dear Nancy: involved; and 3. The Case of Reconstruction.
and one and a half miles wide and, in this area, there are five fortified as "Fort Hill" to Granville's first settlers, and it is less than two-thirds thenas Centerville Street, now Newark Road which is CR 539 on the highway 2 Granville businessman, and in 1865 he built an imposing Italian Villa Over the years this property passed into the hands of the Cole family, Jones had risen from rather obscure beginnings in Washington Courthouse, this building was quarried from the stone mound near the crest of the hill National Register of Historic Places. construction of an excellent Donald Ross l8-hole golf course, and retained effigy concept second only to The Great Serpent Mound in Adams County.The of Licking County. mansion is located on the south slope of the largest mound which was know Here are a few of my observations re the proposal of Bryn Du for nomination.
the remainder of the land as a large cattle and dairy farm.
January 18,1980 ofa mile from The Alligator to the west.The Alligator Mound is now on Iam using the criteria for elibility as they are outlined on page 12 of the the house became known as "KcCune's Villa"and it is so identified in the Samuel Thrall, a first settler, purchased this land for $300.00 at the Within a year the the descendants of Granville's first settlers, his 30 years of residence in and at the time of his death at the age of 72 his wealth was estimated in mounds from 200 feet to 900 feet in diameter, and The Alligator Mound, an the Burkham family, and in 1905 to John Sutphin Jones who began at once to The This immense farm land had a north boundary averaging about a mile from Newark Road.Jones acquired this land shortly after and built his house near the road known ship.The mansion is the northeast corner of a rectangle two miles long refurbish the house and to extend the land holdings.During the years from as "paternalistic",and many of his contributions were written off as the the millions of dollars.
His interest in the village was described by some him a holding of about one and a half miles east to west. gave a large section of the west portion beginning at Clear Run for the The site of Bryn Du is most unique in the topography of Granville Tow- the Granville community produced a mighty impact on the ways of the village Although John S.Jones was regarded as a "newcomer"and a parvenu by lithograph of the place found on page 42of the 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas and about 20o yards to the north of the building site.
are more important than money, his rather ostentatious show of wealth family centered upon Sallie Jones Sexton, his eldest daughter and heir, of a city (Naples, Florida), marks him as a rather historic figure in The consideration of the architectural aspect of Bryn Da Mansion origin as an Italian Villa Style, modified by the casual accretions of of the Georgian-Federal complex.
It is quite possible, from a design symmetrical Georgian form are basically the same, the only difference in the hundred, of 90 parts aberration, eight parts indifference, one part millinery establishment." is common enough in the Georgian and Federal mansions throughout the From a second point of view, one could consider the present mansion being the stylistic veneer.It was just about the time of this building If the redical modification of the original villa could disqualify that Louis Henry Sullivan commented that"American architecture is composed in the original villa that could easily be expanded and modified without filled at any architectural department store, or select architectural reveals no distortions or unhappy compromises with the villa that render as one of complete architectural integrity, and original Georgian-Federal the present building less than a good example of Georgian-Federal Revival.
These are weighty points relative to its place in the history of Granville. the Granville frame of reference. poverty, and one part Little Lord Fauntleroy.You can have the prescription the informed eye can easily trace the masses of the original villa form. of Georgian Revival homes in America. Federal complex by Frank L. Packard, one of Ohio's most skillful archi- has aged to a darker tone than the stonework additions of 1905-l908,and And as a building now more than 70 years old, it could qualify as a more than "skin treatment";that the symmetrical villa form and the The Columbus Monthly (May l977) biographical sketch of the Jones structure not less than 5o years old. and his posture as "landed gentry" were often regarded with contempt.
from railroad brakeman to owner of mines, director of banks and founder the Burkham family, and finally transformed and enlarged into a Georgian- Federal complex it now is, originating in 1905-1908 as an entirely new architectural entity? It is fortunate that Packard found a basic form The central three-story, four column portico with flanking wings violating the basic form of a three-story central bay with two-story It is also important to consider the fact that the redesign of the villa that the villa existed in a basic structure quite appropriate as the core wings. raises a moot question.
Revival style of the early 2oth century.It was a fortitous circumstance historic building"one might give weight to such favorable criteria as Are we to regard its integrity in terms of its it for nomination to National Register because it is a "reconstructed had he started from scratch.A study of the plan and detail of the house Robbins Hunter, Jr. who moved it to his aunt's property in a residential This is far more than I meant to write, but it seems that the old Prof is Best regards, integrity disappeared when it was moved again to an isolated site of no responsibility for proposing Brym Du for nomination I would have no reason the first move to a residential property, and any vestige of cultural now at Clear Run on Newark Road just beyond the village limits.It vas "too full of his subject" and he gets carried away by a hot typewriter.
Hunter moved it to the bottom land of Clear Run valley where it now stands. I am aware that comparisons of this sort do not necessarily make a good Elk's Lodge Hall on North Third Street.When it was endangered by threat originally built in the Newark business district just north of the present to remodel into a residence!It is now on National Register. Perhaps I am now begging the question but the criteria limiting the selection point, but I cannot escape the fact that the exception in this case was part of west Newark. She objected to having it on her place so, in 1932, I think now I should go fishing, or sail a boat.
because I came to Granville in 1933 and Robbins Hunter offered it to me There is no question that the building lost its environmental integrity in for nomination do invite exceptions when they are so broad.If I had the "OnE PURCHASE No 3: Green circle: fort Hill Farm - McCune Green triangle: Joseph Linnell farm on Lancaster Road No. 4: Lithograph of "McCune's Villa" p. 24 1866 Beers & Soule FEB 1 O 1982 260 RECEIVED REGISTER Atlas of Licking Co. Central east portion of 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas of Granville Township "Fort Hill" or Chestnut Girove Mrs.M.A.Thomns -T.J. Babinson Spring Dal NATIONAL J.Jones Yard Ashley G.B.Johnson Munson Hill Side G.oburt HLinnell Welch Hin tem. FT.Tones Green circle: Fort Hill Farm - McCune No. 4: Lithograph pf "Fort Hill" or "McCune's Villa" p. 24 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas of Licking Co.
260 Green triangle: Joseph Linnell farm on Lancaster Road PURCHASE Central east portion of 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas of Granville Towmship Hill Side Fort 1. liose A. Main House F: Gardener's Building H. Dairy Barn I. Tenant House M. Feed Lot Operation The proposed boundaries include buildings: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,&J NATIONAL REGISTER Apartment ROAD RECEIVED Other buildings: NEWARK- GRANVILLE D. Laundry +Apartment 24000 12000 GRANVILLE~KESSLER GODWIN.BOHM.NBBJ UniO nisturic rreservation Umce Columbus, Ohio 43211 4. Present Name(s) BRYN DU (Welsh: "dark, or black hill") 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 2 - 3 29. Basement? Yes IX 17. Date(s) or Period 1865 & 1908 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town Style or Design Stone 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 32.
Roof Type & Material Contractor or Builder Side 4 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape T 23. Ownership Public Road? 36. Changes Addition Z Private X Altered & 9. Coordinates in #42) Moved O 24. Owner's Name & Address, if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference William M. Wright et al 10513 Croton, Johnstown OH 25. Open to 38. Preservation Structure O Object ( 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? By What? 11. On National 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and 1656 X 4140 feet adding immense Georgian-Federal 4-column, 3-story portico to central tower of villa. Each wing extended 20 ft, and windows altered to the 1865 villa into a 52-room mansion. Prepared by 4 Horace king 47. Organization 49. Revision Date(s) Date County 12/79 Front Register?
Exterior Site Zone good Eligible? Residence Easting Underway? Northing Granville Licking Ohio Historical Center Building Potent'? Interior Frontage on Road Numerous newspaper accounts re Jones family 537 Jones Road H King "Fort Hill Farm" and ornamental plaster ceiling in Adam manner McIntire) 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Jones acquired a vast acreage in the vicinity and operated (Explain OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY a large dairy farm in the south portion.He turned the north portion into an l8-hole Examination of stone work reveals outline of 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas of Licking Co.and 1875 L.H.Everts Atlas Granville: The Story of an Ohio Village by William T.Utter (1956) Villa" original villa. 1. No. Architect or Engineer gable-hip: slate (Henry D. Wright, Chas Hunter) 33. No. of Bays BRYN DU 15.
Name of Established District Purchased in 1905 by J. S. Jones, wealthy mine operator, who spent three years remodelling farm equipment and grain storage, all on south slope overlooking Raccoon Creek valley. No D Lat. 40°04'02" Long. Georgian-Federal Cune Donald Ross golf course.Many outbuildings serving tenants, guests- and barns for cattle, 42.Further Description of Important Features Original Italian Villa remodelled by Photo with elliptical fan and side lights.Living roon in.Georgian detail 45. Sources of Information History of Granville by Henry Bushnell (1890) Hill one of a dozen in the Granville area. Farm' Newark Rd 539) 117l Substantive Review: National Park Service RETURN_ - REJECT Date 3/11/82 - see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: , Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7.
Description -summary paragraph Location alterations/integrity Name maps Action: clarity nomination by person or local government _substantive reasons discussed below resubmission completeness 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Federal Agency: photos. owner objection Working No.S United States Department of the Interior Date Due: Discipline_Q.Hia. EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET State, County: OH, Licking Mtechnical corrections cited below - original site - unaltered sample comments: appeal NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ruins X. Significance justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References 11. Form Prepared By checked context completeness Other Maps Photographs the resource summary paragraph 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification relating significance to X10.
Geographical Data national Phone: 202 272 -3504 clarity relationship of integrity Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common 2. Location street & number - vicinity of city, town code 089 state Ohio - county _district - unoccupied X agriculture . museum X building(s) X private _ commercial - structure work in progress _ site _ object _ in process - yes: restricted - government _ scientific _ transportation -yes x no _ other: 10513 Croton Road 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc.
- local depository for survey records Ohio Historic Preservation Office I-71 and 17th Avenue 039 both entertainment Accessible Category code date educational 12/79 Licking religious Newark Ownership industrial being considered Columbus historic congressional district Johnstown Status 17th public date entered park Licking County Courthouse Courthouse Square William Wright Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Public Acquisition National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form title military Renotification/8o Amendments Present Use 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 3. Classification not for publication Type all entries-complete applicable sections Bryn Du Farm Ohio Historic Inventory For HCRS use only has this property been determined elegible? 4.
Owner of Property United States Department of the Interior received FEB 10 1982 537 Jones Road Mc Cune's Villa Ohio FHR-8-300 (11-78) X private residence .federalx state - 7. Description X excellent X original site X altered _ moved date the main house, power house, garage, laundry, gardener's cottage, dairy barn, near vicinity of the village of Granville. 1865 in the Italian Villa style. The light buff sandstone of the original and Ohio's most important architects of the period. and symmetrical two story flanking wings of the Italian Villa with the addition The central entrance has an elliptical fanlight and side lights, and the windows plan was not altered but an ornamental plaster ceiling in an Adam manner was a hipped roof and dormers. The laundry is two stories in height and square in plan. It is also constructed The power house, garage and laundry all feature multiple pane windows.
9 over 9 windows. The stone chimney rises out of the center of the roofline. include combination of horizontal and board and batten siding and three cupolas to the architectural significance of this extraordinary complex. Condition ruins unexposed fair Check one The dairy and horse barns are enormous wood frame structures.Interesting features Bryn Du Farm is an enormous estate which encompasses eight buildings including: installed in the living room. roofline is broken by dormers.A large stone chimney is located on the south side additions of 1905-o8 were constructed of the same sandstone as the original. Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The gardener's cottage is a small stone one story structure with a slate covered of the building.
_ deteriorated The original portion was constructed in The house was extensively remodeled in 1905-08 by Frank Packard, one of Columbus' which are double hung 9/6 are typical of the Georgian Revival style. The interior The garage is similar in design to the power house. It is constructed of stone with unaltered decorating the ridgeline of the gable roofs.The numerous outbuildings contribute structure was quarried from a stone mound on the property. and horse barn.The impressive complex islocated in Granville Township in the The power house is a stone 1y story structure which is square in plan.The hipped of stone with a hip roof.A stone chimney is located in the center of the roofline. The main house is a 52 room mansion. 8.
Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric _ conservation _ economics X 1900- Specific dates 1865; 1905-08 have been skillfully handled by Frank Packard who was an important ohio architect. Second, the house was remodeled and the complex expanded by John S. Jones, who rose from a railroad brakeman to an owner of mines, director of banks, the founder of the city of Naples, Florida and an extremely important Granville citizen. The Villa to a Georgian Revival mansion is a tribute to the expertise of Frank Packard. In 1865 he built the imposing sandstone villa which was sold within a year to Jonas McCune.
Over the years the property was held by the Cole and later the Birkham to Cherry Valley Road on the east, giving him a holding of approximately 1½ miles construction of an 18 hole golf course and retained the remainder of the land as a large dairy and cattle farm. The remaining lands from the Jones farm provide an impressive visual setting for the 1600-1699 invention transportation communications theater science Period 1500-1599 humanitarian agriculture music literature education 1700-1799art which furnishes an attractive grassy backdrop for the farm.The nominated property sculpture law Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) other (specify) interested in its preservation.
boundaries are drawn to include these important visual elements of the farm's politics/government The main house is an outstanding example of Georgian Revival architecture in the lane crossing level pastureland.The farm complex is at the base of a major ridge The estate was sold at a public sale in 1976.The present owners are extremely -engineering Granville area and the additional outbuildings make this estate one of the most from 1908-1920,Jones purchased lands from Jones Road to Clear Run in the west and of the complex is an excellent interpretation of early 2oth century tastes which families until it was purchased by John Sutphin Jones in 19o5.During the years social/ military - archeology-prehistoric - community planning _ religion - archeology-historic . architecture - philosophy The Bryn Du Farm complex is significant for two reasons.
First, the present form impressive in Central Ohio. The materials, the sensitive adaptation of an Italian Builder/Architect 1908 remodeling: Frank Packard 1400-1499 commerce art industry exploration/settlement landscape architecture property remained in the Jones family until recently. significant buildings. As shown by the USGS map, access to the farm is through a long X1800-1899 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Approximately 50 - state 11.
Form Prepared By Nancy Recchie / Regional Preservation Officer Columbus Landmarks Foundation (614) 221-0227 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer fon the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- date 4.22.82 county date code organization 6/80 Easting Northing telephone Zone Columbus name/title UMT References Keeper of the National Register 1:24,000 Chief of Registration Ohio Quadrangle scale city or town State Historic Preservation Officer signature I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification See Continuation sheet #9 The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: UTM NOT VERIFIED ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED national For HCRS use only SHPO 22 North Front Street street & number GPO 938 835 414 3,6 21410 Newark Attest: Quadrangle name X.local 665),I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register ard certify that it has been evaluated [3|7301 81 0 Item number #9 History of Granville by Henry Bushnell, 1889 Granville: The Story of an Ohio Village by William T. Utter, 1956 pp. 69-79: a biographical sketch by Besta Marsh News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, September 24, 1976: "The Damned Good Fight is Over' by Joan Brown (Family Page Feature) quotes Sallie Jones Sexton re origin of Bryn Du and its architectural style (erroneous information).
The Advocate, Newark, Ohio: undated columns by Minnie Hite Moody Dr. Alfred Follett family Street (confused and contradictory) "I Didn't Go to the Sale" re J. S. Jones family and its way of life 1915 Masonic Directory, Center Star Lodge No. 11: see Exhibits Horace King, Granville historian and completed Granville inventory Page National Register of Historic Places Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service date entered Inventory-Nomination Form Dennison University: 1831-1931,a Centennial History by Francis W. Shepardson, Continuation sheet his land purchases Columbus Monthly, May 1977: The Saga of Sallie Jones Sexton United States Department of the Interior received FEB 1 0 1982 p.
10: description of site of Fort Hill - topographical features "Change Comes to Centerville Street' re purchase of Fort Hill and the FHR-8-300 (11-78) p.154:notice of Linnel1's death at age 79-Jan.21,1834 Dennison:The Story of an ohio College by G.Wallace Chessman,1957 pp. 27, 37,41,59,60:accounts of Joseph Linnell as first settler; 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas (N.Y.) of Granville Township For HCRS use only pp.59,99,192:re Joseph Linne11 SOURCES: BRYN DU HOUSE & ESTATE in Granville Township, Ohio "The Republican Party" re Joseph Linnell house and farm on Centerville 1931 received FEB 1 0 1982 Inventory-Nomination Form date entered National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet County Rd. to the point of beginning. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service along this road to the intersection with County Rd.
539; go east along the United States Department of the Interior Bryn Du Farm For HCRS use only and Township Rd.126;go north along TownshipRd.126 for 1251';go west 308.43'; FHR-8-300 (11-78) Item number Verbal Boundary Page Page Beginning at a point on the northwest corner of the intersection of County Rd.539 EXTENT OF PROPERTY GRANVILLE~KESSLER GODWIN.BOHM.NBBJ NOMINATED PROPERTY Disposal FEB 1 0 1982 REGISTER RECEIVED NATIONAL FEB 1 0 1982 B. Garage + Apartment E. Horse Barn F: Gardener's Building I. Tenant House M. Feed Lot Operation The proposed boundaries include buildings: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H, &J REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED Apartment ROAD JONES NEWARK- GRANVILLE D. Laundry + Apartment H. Dairy Barn on historic register: A. Main House Other buildings: Buildinqs to be included Unio nistric rreservation umce Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. .
Present Name(s) BRYN DU (Welsh: "dark, or black hill") 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 2 - 3 29. Basement? 17. Date(s) or Period 1865 & 1908 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town Style or Design 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder Side 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape T 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition X Private X Altered & 9. Coordinates in #42) ( Moved C 24. Owner's Name & Address, Lat. 40°04'02" Long. if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference William M. Wright et al 37 2750 10513 Croton, Johnstown OH Yes IX Preservation Structure O Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab.
Yes O District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 15. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and 1656 X 4140 feet adding immense Georgian-Federal 4-column, 3-story portico to central Purchased in 1905 by J. S. Jones, wealthy mine operator, who spent three years remodelling Prepared by 47. Organization . Date 49. Revision Date(s) good stone Licking County Register? Easting Exterior Residence Northing Farm Zone Front Horace King Georgian-Federal Underway? Site Eligible? Numerous newspaper accounts re Jones family 12/79 Ohio Historical Center Interior Frontage on Road (Explain Potent'? and ornamental plaster ceiling in Adam manner (Federal-Sam McIntire) H King conform to new style.Entrance altered from simple arch to Federal 537 Jones Road Donald Ross golf course.
Many outbuildings serving tenants, guests - and barns for cattle, one of a dozen in the Granville area.T with elliptical fan and side lights.Living room in Georgian detail 44.Description of Environment and Outbuildings Jones acquired a vast acreage in the vicinity and operated Public Road? original villa. Examination of older (darker) exterior stone work reveals outline of Building the 1865 villa into a 52-room mansion. Frank L. Packard (CR 539) 443 8 25. Open to tower of villa. Each wing extended 20 ft, and windows altered to (Henry D. Wright, farm equipment and grain storage, all on south slope overlooking Raccoon Creek valley.
Cune BRYN Present Newark Rd Name(s) OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY "Fort Hill Farm" Chas Hunter) gable-hip: slate Photo a large dairy farm in the south portion.He turned the north portion into an l8-hole 45.Sources of Information History of Granville by Henry Bushnell 43.History and Significance Site of house is ancient mound (Indian fort),about 1000 feet in diameter There isa stone outcrop that served asa quarry for Granville:The Story of an Ohio Village by William T.Utter (1956) "McCune's Villa" 82°29'32 FEB 1 0 1982 NATIONAL REGISTER RECEIVED Substantive Review: National Park Service Fed. Reg. Date: 2/.83 Federal Agency: - RETURN -see continuation sheet 2. Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7.
Description - original site .ruins - unexposed dates resubmission Name REJECT alterations/integrity completeness clarity summary paragraph Action: boundary selection owner objection 3. Classification nomination by person or local government NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES _substantive reasons discussed below Date Due: United States Department of the Interior deteriorated good EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Check one - technical corrections cited below Condition . altered sample appeal comments: moved Review: photos Status .Nomination returned for: excellent Public Acquioitien 2.1.83 Aecessible fair justification of exception 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification - Date - Signed completeness clarity context checked Photographs Maps Other summary paragraph justification of areas applicable criteria Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to the resource 9. Major Bibliographical References 8. Significance Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet 10. Geographical Data - state _ netional ( relating significance to local LICKING COUNTY, OHIO WORTHINGTON, OHIO 43083 Johnstown, Ohio FEB 1 0 1982 winter, 1980 Photographed By William Wright OHIO PHOTO FEATURES BRYN DU FARM 10513 Croton Rd. 14O E. NEW ENGLAND AVENUE aerial photograph with boundarfes LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1982 Garage 537 Jones Rd. William Wright BRYN DU FARM Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd.
NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1982 537 Jones Rd. Facade of main house William Wright BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio Main House 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 Facade, main house FEB 1 0 1982 William Wright 537 Jones Rd. BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1982 Living Room 537 Jones Rd. William Wright BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1982 Library William Wright 537 Jones Rd. BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1982 Power House 537 Jones Rd. William Wright BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 0 1962 ground 537 Jones Rd.
Laundry Building and Horse Barn in back- William Wright BRYN DU FARM ent Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 O 1982 William Wright Gardener's cottage 537 Jones Rd. BRYN DU FARM LICKING COUNTY, OHIO LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Granville, Ohio 10513 Croton Rd. NW Johnstown, Ohio Summer, 1979 FEB 1 O 1982 William Wright Dairy Barn 537 Jones Rd. BRYN DU FARM A. 17 372740 4436 220 C. 17 372660 4435640 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEWARK QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC B. 17 373080 4436240 D. 17 372990 4435520 UNITED STATES NEWARK, OHIO January 18, 1980 FEB 1 0 1982 involved; and 3. The Case of Reconstruction.
and one and a half miles wide and, in this area, there are five fortified mounds from 200 feet to 900 feet in diameter, and The Alligator Mound, an "Fort Hill" to Granville's first settlers, and it is less than two-thirds Samuel Thrall, a first settler, purchased this land for $300.00 at the acquired this land shortly after and built his house near the road known thenas Centerville Street, now Newark Road which is CR 539 on the highway a Granville businessman, and in 1865 he built an imposing Italian Villa the Bunkham family, and in 1905 to John Sutphin Jones who began at once to the west, and from Jones Road to Cherry Valley Road to the east, giving construction of an excellent Donald Ross 18-hole golf course, and retained the descendants of Granville's first settlers, his 30 years of residence in REGISTER RECEIVED this building was quarried from the stone mound near the crest of the hill land had a north boundary averaging about a mile from Newark Road.Jones The mansion is the northeast corner of a rectangle two miles long of Licking County.
National Register of Historic Places. the Granville community produced a mighty impact on the ways of the village. effigy concept second only to The Great Serpent Mound in Adams County.The mansion is located on the south slope of the largest mound which was known reflection of his supercharged ego.In a community where "family lines" the remainder of the land as a large cattle and dairy farm.
as "paternalistic",and many of his contributions were written off as the Here are a few of my observations re the proposal of Bryn Du far nomination ofa mile from The Alligator to the west.The Alligator Mound is now on Dear Nancy: I am using the criteria for elibility as they are outlined on page l2 pf the and at the time of his death at the age of 72 his wealth was estimated in gave a large section of the west portion beginning at Clear Run for the Although John S.Jones was regarded as a"newcomer"and a parvenu by the house became known as "McCune's Villa" and it is so identified in the lithograph of the place found on page 42 of the 1866 Beers & Soule Atlas Ohio Historic Inventory Mannâl, section 12. There would seem to be several 1.
The site of Bryn Du is most unique in the topography of Granville Town- house and the 325 acre farm passed into the hands of Jonas MeCune, and NATIONAL Jones had risen from rather obscure beginnings in Washington Courthouse, Over the years this property passed into the hands of the Cole refurbish the house and to extend the land holdings.During the years from the millions of dollars.His interest in the village was described by some Style home on the south slope of Fort Hill.The light buff sandstone for map of the township.About 186o this land was purchased by Henry D.
Wright, 1908 through 1920,Jones purchased lands from Jones Road to Clear Run to Within a year the and about 2oo yards to the north of the building site.h family centered upon Sallie Jones Sexton, his eldest daughter and heir, from railroad brakeman to owner of mines, director of banks and founder of a city (Naples, Florida), marks him as a rather historic figure in The consideration of the architectural aspect of Bryn Da Mansion origin as an Italian Villa Style, modified by the casual accretions of the Burkham family, and finally transformed and enlarged into a Georgian- tects? Or, are we to regard its integrity as the impressive Georgian- as one of complete architectural integrity, and original Georgian-Federal of the Georgian-Federal complex.
It is quite possible, from a design standpoint, that Packard would have produced pretty much the same core And as a building now more than 70 years old, it could qualify as a in the hundred, of 90 parts aberration, eight parts indifference, one part poverty, and one part Little Lord Fauntleroy. You can have the prescription filled at any architectural department store, or select architectural millinery establishment." is common enough in the Georgian and Federal mansions throughout the that Louis Henry Sullivan commented that "American architecture is composed, If the radical modification of the original villa could disqualify being the stylistic veneer.It was just about the time of this building of Georgian Revival homes in America. the Granville frame of reference. the present building less than a good example of Georgian-Federal Revival.
historic building" one might give weight to such favorable criteria as symmetrical Georgian form are basically the same, the only difference These are weighty points relative to its place in the history of Granville. that the villa existed in a basic structure quite appropriate as the core in the original villa that could easily be expanded and modified without had he started from scratch.A study of the plan and detail of the house the informed eye can easily trace the masses of the original villa form. architectural entity?It is fortunate that Packard found a basic form It is also important to consider the fact that the redesign of the villa From a second point of view, one could consider the present mansion structure not less than 50 years old.
The Columbus Monthly(May1977)biographical sketch of the Jones country, and its 1905-l908 date finds it well established in the period has aged to a darker tone than the stonework additions of1905-1908,and are more important than money, his rather ostentatious show of wealth is the best record to date. The saga of John Sutphin Jones, who rose Federal complex it now is, originating in 1905-1908 as an entirely new wings.The central three-story, four column portico with flanking wings violating the basic form of a three-story central bay with two-story reveals no distortions or unhappy compromises with the villa that render Federal complex by Frank L.Packard, one of Ohio's most skillful archi- raises a moot question.
did not conceal or obliterate its original form.T more than "skin treatment";that the symmetrical villa form and the Are we to regard its integrity in terms of its it for nomination to National Register because it is a "reconstructed This brings us to the conclusion that the "style" factor here is no The stonework of 1865 Dr. Stanbery Office Building, a Federal Style building of 1830 which is Robbins Hunter, Jr. who moved it to his aunt's property in a residential the first move to a residential property, and any vestige of cultural point, but I cannot escape the fact that the exception in this case was This is far more than I meant to write, but it seems that the old Prof is I think now I should go fishing, or sail a boat.
Best regards, Perhaps I am now begging the question but the criteria limiting the selection I am aware that comparisons of this sort do not necessarily make a good now at Clear Run on Newark Road just beyond the village limits.It was There is no question that the building lost its environmental integrity in because I came to Granville in l933 and Robbins Hunter offered it to me integrity disappeared when it was moved again to an isolated site of no of demolition it was purchased by E.Wilson Heisey.In 1928 he sold it to Elk's Lodge Hall on North Third Street.When it was endangered by threat to refuse it.I have in mind one exception that puzzled me because I had for nomination do invite exceptions when they are so broad.If I had the prepared the inventory, and I would not have proposed it.This is the originally built in the Newark business district just north of the present responsibility for proposing Brym Du for nomination I would have no reason to remodel into a residence!It is now on National Register.
part of west Newark.She objected to having it on her place so, in 1932, Ohio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 Ms. Carol Shull, Acting Keeper National Register of Historic Places FEB 1 0 1982 National Park Service 18th and C Streets, NW Dear Ms. Schull: originally submitted in 1980 and returned for renotification in keeping nominations and of the provisions of the amended National Historic information and this has been included with the resubmission. The have chosen to object to the listing. St.
Joseph Roman Catholic Church Tiedmann, Hannes, House Dove1, J.H., Farm Herr, Christian S., House McCreary-Burnworth House Bryn Du Mooney, William C., House Brown, Smauel, House Johnston-Crossland House Landmark Tavern McCorkle, Almon G., House Morrow Logan Monroe Lorain Erie Fairfield Licking Coshocton Ashland Cuyahoga Name Franklin Jackson Stark REGISTER Muskingum NATIONAL County Belmont Trumbull RECEIVED Clark Massillon Cemetery Building New Rankin Building Hotel Breakers Finney-Darrah House Ohio Historic Preservation Office Pickaway Crittenden Farm Renick Farm Chalfant Church Union Church Lakefork School Keystone Furnace Vicary House Piatt Castles McCully Log House February 4, 1982 West View Washington, D.C. 20240 Enclosed are twenty-seven National Register resubmissions. All were with the 1980 amendments.
All owners have been notified of the pending owners of one property (First United Methodist Church, Van Wert County) Canal Winchester Methodist Church February 4, 1982 A nomination for the First United Methodist Church, Van Wert, Van Wert County, is also enclosed. The Board of Trustees has asked that this church not be listed on the National Register. A notarized statement to that effect is included with the nomination materials. Please let me know if you have any questions. State Historic Preservation WRL/DS : jb FEB 1 0 1982 enclosures Sincerely, RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER Carol Shull Officer page 2 APRIL 22, 1982 Honorable John M. Ashbrook Honorable Donald J. Pease Dr. W. Ray Luce Honorable Howard M.
Metzenbaum Columbus, Ohio 43211 Midwest Regional Office, NPS For further information, please call the National Register at (202) 272-3504 Notified Location Sandusky Name Licking County STATE Ashland County Crittenden Farm Date Entered Erie County Granville vicinity Hotel Breakers ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Savannah vicinity The Ohio Historical Society McCune's Villa State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable John Glenn Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue OHIO 38 Is there good news in Columbus? by Robert Tenenbaum Believe it or not, TV news in Columbus is getting better. The three stations have all added new news directors, new anchorpersons, new sets, new equipment, new staff... and, most importantly, bigger budgets.
48 The old hotels: Now there are two by James Scarff One by one, the grand old hotels in the city have given way to parking lots and new, modern motor inns. With the closing of the Fort Hayes this spring, only two now remain: the Neil House, big, solid, and well-situated; and the Southern, struggling but still there. Why is this bus smiling? by Rena Wish Cohen Because it doesn't know any better, silly. COTA bailed out the troubled system it took over in 1973, but it's still struggling-on a bare-bones budget-to lure Columbusites away from the almighty automobile The Saga of Sallie Jones Sexton by Betsa Marsh When heiress Sallie Jones Sexton finally sold her beloved Bryn Du, her horse trophies, her mother's wedding silver, her Chippendale and her Royal Doulton to pay off enormous debts, and then moved to Virginia, Granville lost one of its most memorable personalities.
81 Politics: Dan's dilemma by Kris Kridel Food & Drink: All about co-ops by Jon Christensen Travelogues, sans muu-muus FEB 1 0 1982 Cincinnati's big three by Vivian Witkind and Jack Davis 5 Upfront 7 Letters 12 Around Columbus 23 Columbus Calendar 102 Columbits 115 Bargain Bits 117 Restaurant Guide 120 New York Times Magazine Crossword All photography, unless otherwise cred- ited, is by Jeffrey A. Rycus. Photographed at Bichsel Photographic Ililustrators. 873 Columbus DEPARTMENTS Cover: Photography: REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED MONTHLY Columbus Monthly 106 Restaurants: The Movies: RIDETHE May. 1977 Volume 3. Number 5 beautiful Bryn Du estate, the Granville Inn, astronomical debts of_Sallie all are part of the legend of the Granville coal 1920: The young Duchess of Lick- ing County dismounts, pets her pony's neck and hands the reins to a farm hand.
She races her dog to the stable door, heading up the gravel curve, past the barn, past through the tall French patio doors and into the dining room. A horri- dog and heads for the door, while a frazzled governess sweeps up the girl and heads for the bathroom. Sarah Follett Jones is home for 1976: The aging Duchess of Licking County slams the door to the empty horse trailer and follows the Great Dane up the gravel path. They walk past the darkened barn, past the silent guest house, past the peeling pool, through the tall French patio They are greeted only by the acrid smells of must and mildew. Sallie Jones Sexton is home for the last Her corporations crumbling, her lands auctioned off, her mansion duchy has been shrinking for nearly a decade.
But the Duchess of Lick- ing County remains a firm believer in the divine right of kings and in Midwest royalty she was born and Midwest royalty she will die. What Richard Nixon brought to. the Im- perial Presidency, Sallie Jones Sex- ton has brought to her Bryn Du world of horses, theatre and lavish living. Like Nixon, Sexton has a Jekyll-and-Hyde temperament, a brothel vocabulary and a penchant for blaming failures on other peo- ple. Unlike Nixon, she was never U. S. President-presumably a The dinner. time. tycoon's daughter. By Betsa Marsh her unchallengeable dominion: Columbus Monthly Jones Sexton During her Granville years, Sal duchess is just too busy. Sallie Jones Sexton's Granville Fine show horses, and sheriff's sales.. lie Jones Sexton was an outspoken Playhouse on the Green, and holdings sold at court order, doors and into the dining rooms.
fied housekeeper sweeps up the 'aga home of its antique furniture, Ori- entalrugs, paintings, crystal, china counter Sallie's debts, a total that worst of her financial crisis. " Sallie said as she marched from room to room, supervising a price tag there. She is a big woman, dressed in a man's white shirt and trousers, white anklets and loaters. neck shaven. When she steps out- side for a walk to the stables, she tosses on a suede jacket and a straw through the enormous living room, where her mother once offered her Rachmaninoff, where Heifetz and Stern played the violin and Patrice the dining room, where Presidents Tait, Harding and Coolidge once dined, and the library, where Lil- Sallie and her new husband, James Sexton Jr., posed with his father, James Sr., and her sister, Alice Virginia, on their wedding day at Bryn Du. once relaxed over coffee.
It was the same gracious Bryn eccentric in a tiny hamlet of con- started a new life in the blue- strained gentility; she was second- blood setting of Middleburg, Va. Sallie inherited the Welsh chutz- 1915. One local correspondent de- glistens off the Porsches at Denison millionaire father, coal tycoon John Mt. Parnassus. Where God smiles anything from a village benefactor vantages, Bryn Du Farm has been downon the finer elements of Welsh to a robber baron by Granville resi- transformed by the magic of fault- dents, J. S. is acknowledged by from bucolic Granville, Mass. everyone to have been a self-made into one of the most beautiful and kept the history ofhis early years Remodeled, refurnished and thor- horses, actors, dancers, musicians murky, the Washington Court oughly equipped with its own heat- and ultimately attorneys.
She was ing, electric lighting and water in the 1890s as a freight conductor works system, nothing seems to on the Toledo and Ohio Central across thecontinent with her stable railroad and died its most promi- and organizing shows at her Bryn nent citizen in 1927. It was his Sun- day Creek Coal Company, his inn Sallie's half sister had one mile of gant manager of Playhouse on the and golf course, his farm, his 52- table space cleared for her wedding Green north of Worthington, a gifts, and where Sallie started her now-closed tent theatre where Sal- own brief marriage to James Sex- lie brought New York talent to the ton in 1937. It was a home rich in grass roots, literally, of the Mid- Sallie shared the fabulous estate memories and history, the only west.
She was the beleaguered busi- with a half sister and a younger nesswoman who was forced to sell sister, Alice Virginia, after their known. And now it was the home her companies, her property, her mother's death in 1930. Sallie, "I love Bryn Du," she said, "but an astonomical debt. But above Bryn Mawr, graduated cum laude I'll be damned if I'll go to my grave in 1934 and returned to take over the farm and home she loved and as a magnificent house, and it has lived in for her 64 years. too much today to run it the way is the Duchess, who, at 64, has left it should be run. Maintenance is so Sallie said in late September. It hat. House native came to Granville "This is a magnificent place and holiday season. generation nouveau riche in a sang.
She checks the progress in I've had a marvelous time here, Bryn Du was the home where society and their hallowed lineage high and you can't get good ser- your eyelashes with a curse. She scribed the mansion during that mores. Granville, where the sun Jones Sexton's adventures with Steinways to Paderewski and she was leaving forever. University and the Mercedes on ideal country homes in the state. charm a cobra and the next singe worrying about it. This was built Munsel and Leontyne Price once studying history and English at all she is an amazing personality, a woman who one moment can her Granville domain in ruin and Du to which her parents invited that Sallie eventually inherited in every restful detail." home Sallie Jones Sexton had ever was the afternoon before the pri- Du Farms. She was the extrava- "In addition to the natural ad- to be run that way.
It just costs lian Gish and Katherine Cornell friends for a New Year's party in ran as high as $1.6 million at the "I grew up here, and it's my vate estate sale that emptied her and even her family's personal china display here, Her graying hair is cropped and her village of old money and older trophies.The three-day sale Sutphin Jones. Characterized as Hardly the setting for Sallie pah that sustains her from her inspecting a When she returns she roams all their Granville and Newark man. Although he purposefully brought in another $250,000 to be lacking to render it complete room mansion and his millions home and her treasures to cover less taste and unlimited means the area's grande dame of horse vants, they break or drop every- for, and all I could do at the end today's economy in a socialistic - thing they touch. And they steal..
of the day was fall into bed and country like we live in now. This God, your servants even steal is the day of the split level houses - Bryn Du ran more smoothly small enough for the woman to do polish the silver right, to do the while Sallie's parents were alive the cleaning herself with a colored china or clean the brass. You just and the family had a staff of six: woman coming in once a week can't run a place like this with third-rate people. "It just got to the place that I'd afford to do anything anymore. done it all my life and life was too Elegant living is gone, and I don't short to keep this up. I got up in en days of the 1920s. think the decline is going to stop. the morning facing miserable prob- lems that there seemed no solutions its day, and it's too large for the theatre projects. Look at the and slides a cake pan into the oven.
In the dining room the housekeeper arranges the china while a and greenery. Bryn Du Farm is ready for dinner. 1976: The kitchen echoes with the steps of moving ually, the pair decided on a tag sale. Each piece carried a green perforated tag, and a buyer had piece Indian Tree Copeland china is neatly stacked only to tear off the bottom of the tag, pay the - Robinson explained. W spent $12,000 promoting this sale, and we expect tables, her Oriental rugs draped over her mother's Steinway pianos and her beloved James Reynolds boards, Sallie Jones Sexton is emptying her man- home to strangers, to three September days of had stood in line all night outside the mansion's muddy feet and prying eyes, to raise the $250,000 so I went into a back room and lots of the things and will follow her after the sale. first-come, first-served.
But everything that was Overpriced or not, most of the Bryn Du furnish- ings and finery sold. Most of the Hepplewhite and Chippendale, nearly all of the Royal Doulton and Tiffany. Even the $100 goblets, the $800 horse figurines, the $125 pot-bellied stove, the $5 a basketball court of a room with floor-to-ceiling fireplaces where the goals would be. Most of the engraving has worn off. There are 1909 and 1911 The few items that didn't sell, including the horse trophies awarded to John Jones, and Sallie's own Bryn Du Farm Challenge Trophy, a large tabriz prayer rug, were sent to an auction gallery silver tray with a $750 price tag Robinson said "we anticipated $250,000 from the ver, a 196-piece set emblazoned with the House "The silver is just extraordinary," Mansfield silver and said it was the best he's seen in his 32 years.
Much of it was foreign, and Sallie traveled the world collecting. She's an authority on silver. Columbus Monthly : 71 sleep." interested in buying, one we've handled was a shopping center sale." sale, and it was in that range. the modern suburban houses she disdains. There room for prospective buyers." price and the treasure was his. The admission charge was dropped quickly after The auctioneers were also charging a $5 admis- Charles Robinson conducted the sale for Sallie sale was not all it was represented to be.Many in there were sold, too.It was supposed to be Robinson was more open about the scale of the of Orange crest, be sold as a set. Her price? thousands of people.
We have to preserve some The fifth person in the door told a television someone found untouched in an upstairs linen Her family's trophies lined up on make-shift the cut glass vases is a green auction tag.Bryn $35,000 wedding silver and a $15,000 antique Because of the enormous number of items and McCready's son Dick and Mansfield attorney items she will take with her to Virginia.Some auctioneer Robert McCready said of Sallie's col- antique dealers and buyers complained that the society's decline since those gold- horse paintings propped up against the base the time it would take to auction each individ men and auctioneers.In the dining room the 96 What she has left for sale would fill several of stuffed walrus toy and the 100or so blankets especially in the number of items. The only bigger we've never seen anything like this. things.
You can't get people to sion and selling her treasures. She has opened her "I hesitate to say it's the biggest sale that's candelabra was appraised at $3,700. And my Sallie demands that her mother's wedding sil- maid bringsin cut glass vases of fresh flowers auction business for more than 100 years. But "This house has just outgrown Look at the great orchestras and I'm taking the good English furniture and the are 10 tables of silver alone in the living room, trophies I couldn't stand to part with.And my a rip-off. The first piece I saw was already sold "This is the age of mediocrity," ever been held,but it has tobe among the biggest, Du Farm is ready for sale. door for the 1l am sale. a housekeeper, a butler, a house- man/valet, two maids and a laun- she continued. "People just can't 1920: The cook ambidextrously bastes the roast around a price tag of $700.
The only greenery near of the bigger pieces are already tagged "Sold overpriced. Steuben glass, simply because it took me so Ber." he said, and my tamily has been in the lection. "A jeweler friend of mine appraised the A mansion emptied, treasures sold she estimates her belongings will bring. in New York. Although he would not be specific, sion fee"to discourage people who are not really friend appraises at 60 per cent of the retail value." interviewer on the first day of the sale,"It was damned long to collect it." She has already moved many of the personal "This is the age of mediocrity,' she continued. you're whipped, it's over. But 1 put Elegant living is gone, and I don't think the decline Sallie's damn good fight began was past 60 when Sallie was born, and he told my mother he was too circus. All you've got left are a few said.
"Then he proceeded to raise trained bears, aerialists and a few trained elephants. The only major been sold for $190,000. Sallie Her father would hang around the paper you have left in New York is stables and Sallie was always with the Times. When you started losing him. She picked up bad language the Herald Tribune and the Tele- - The Sunday Creek Coal Com- there, and Mr. Jones would let her gram, it was a sad omen. pany, which Sallie took over in get away with anything. She had 1959, is now being dissolved. nurses and governesses, but they never got to first base with her. She owners in the state. went to public school in Granville, And still sheis in debt.
Convicted summer, Sallie was sentenced to - Bryn Du, the 172-year-old home What did make her popular with that became the Jones mansion her schoolmates, according to told the court she has paid $1.57 Richard Howe, the curator of the with Sallie's half of the 600-acre million of her $1.6 million debt. Granville Museum, was Sallie shar- It is characteristic of the fighter mansion, outbuildings and land in Sallie that she chose to battle out of debt rather than declare reared by the farm hands, and $785,000. Her sister, Alice Vir- that's where she learned to cuss. ginia, retains her 300 acres. "I've kept it together by goddamn - The Granville Inn and Golf they must have been pretty good Course, which J. S. built in a and her other concerns. "But you teachers. The teachers who had . and there is Tarpy's 1805 Kingsdaie Center / 457-4901 1924 Brice Rd.
/ Reynoldsburg / 864-3040 now: bankruptcy. BEVERAGES AND DELICATESSEN knells for a grandeur she now Columbus attorney Robert Zitko ters. The tolling is unmistakable took over active management limosine while the other children of passing five bad checks last but driving up in a chauffeured fines. At her recent sentencing, People just can't afford to do anything anymore. Sallie as near a boy as possible. development pact with the vil- up a damned good fight." misses, she might have listened and historian Minnie Hite Moody years ago for the sound in the is going to stop. can fight just so long and after If Sallie heard those as death learned out on the farm. She was empire J. S. Jones left his daugh- It was one of the largest land one year probation and $700 in there are places that sell wine.
And if you've ever heard Sallie, old to raise a son," Granville author lage of Granville in 1924, has in 1905, has been sold, along Tarpys popular." VALLEY walked would not make you that you're whipped. And when in 1951. Bryn Du's main house, circa 1965. resses walked out in March [1976] because they hadn't been paid in legendary. One Granville resident stopped in the Inn one night and in?' But it was only Sallie cussing ployees were still at Bryn Du. She at the help. relied heavily on a few, including Sallie's problems with her em- Herbert Simeral, a Granville dep- aty sheriff who was also book around Granville, but most observ- ers say the cussing episodes were showed up," one former employee "and Sallie was never there to run it. She would always get someone could keep her in line. But Herb's missy & jr.
clothes from Scotland or England to run been dead for 15 or 20 years now." it, because she was busy with her Simeral's daughter, Mary Graham, remembers as a little girl mon-sat 10-6 charge of everything, the menus, 2472 E. Main the help, everything. The help such a large farm and home. "Farm assumed the operation of the farm sive, too, and the fuel bills were ville Inn and Golf Course to the so high. Sallie was a smart woman, care of her father's coal company well educated, and asked my father associate, Chester Cooke. Accord- for his advice on matters. But he was very intelligent, too, and could death in 1951 did she actively take see money problems coming in the over the inn and course. The money problems came with of money in the inn for years," an a vengeance in the late 1960s and unsympathetic Howe said.
There '70s, overpowering a woman who were leaks in the plumbing, tears would much rather judge jumpers priced below cerns of a restaurant, farm and "And with the inn, like every- coal company. Sallie Jones Sexton thing else, she seemed to talk her- never paid the coal bills, and some- business world that demands more times the place was cold. And she than cursory attention to its stocks until the man had her money in his The one great passion of her life hand, so she'd go scrape it up some place. Finally the cooks and wait- at the age of two and, after selling 235-1955 Handbags namebrands canvas leathers signature stone building. "heard someone cussing like crazy. and ledgers. He was her general manager for regular retail 231-5441 drapes of the once magnificent the farm and her finances,and Columbus Monthly horses.
The manager would be in in the carpeting and holes in the nesses had been easier for Sallie Managing her father's busi- while his close associates and em- hearing the problems of running or produce Shakespeare than be and mansion. She left the Gran- is horses. She got her first pony sance interests and talents in a bogged down in the mundane con- self out of paying her bills. She her in class had their hands full." Sallie's temper and tongue are ing to Sallie, only upon Cooke's silos Sallie put in were all expen today he'd probably turn Sallie the shape she's gotten herself into. "Her father died only three years didn't like to see her too much." ployees are also legend in and "She didn't put a nickel's worth found herself a woman of Renais- over his knee and paddle her for Off Courtesy Granville Sentinel I thought, 'What is this,is thefleet Countionn keeper to the tamily.
the 1930s and '40s," she said. "The months." quipped. help was quite expensive even in couldnt get her meat delivered Sallie was only 22 when she her mother's Steinways, her fath- Sallie might have kept her own er's trophies and her own childhood fees low, but very few shows recip- furniture, still managed to take rocated. It takes money to own and alike will tell you, and it's an excep- Middleburg, the exclusive horse tional stable in an exceptional year For your home or office that will break even. The joy really Kennedy once owned a horse farm. is in the trophies, the ribbons and Over 4000 samples from 30 mills the job well done, not in the mone- two long-time friends and room- Similarly, Sallie and Bryn Du stables rarely broke even on their ventures.
She was quoted in Ohio Horseman last fall as saying, "] won over $1.200 at the Ohio State One room or an entire home Fair this year and still lost $250.... It was worse in Toronto. Even after Our own expert installers War home on 27 acres, complete $1,000. And when we took Excali- bur and Loom to Florida, we lost our shirts there, too and another were going to make A former hired rider for Sallie remembers the 1971 equestrian sea- have to go outside to turn around son. Eric Johnson, who was 17 at Mon. - Fri. - 9-5:30 But it does have a 14-stall horse the time, rode the Michigan, Ken- barn, and that's what I'm really Thursday - 9-9 Saturday - 9-4:30 Johnson recalled. "Everything had tion, Sallie still rides and shows 1090 West Fifth lot of pressure on you to win. If you bur and Loom Ahead. After her won, you were the greatest.
If you to Toronto, Florida and New York other people and believe me, I never for horse shows, then back to Mid- wanted to be on the receiving end dleburg for the winter. Since she began her riding career young, Sallie has spent much of her time working with beginners Bryn Du, the stable was almost he said. "Even if you isolate the Sallie said recently from Virginia. she didn't break even because those three show horses didn't pay for has a responsibility to the kids to the rest of the horses at home. And work with them." One young person who remem- bers Sallie's help is Joan Promen, Johnson itemized a list ot ex penses for a typical show, all at 1971 prices. "Entry fees would be McGuire were really good teachers. $100 to $300 per horse per division. I was in 4-H, and when I was about Then you had a stall at $25 or $50 per horse, plus grain and hay.
You and she'd give clinics for the kids horses at $10 to $15 per day plus expenses. Then you had to pay the at Bryn Du. rider, plus motels for both the were just super," Promen contin- riders and the barn manager. We'd Le Cafe "They were moderate size, maybe take a week off in between door hunt course. It was very nice Were known for our Crêpes... September, and then indoors for Pat Hitesman, a rider and October and November. No, you trainer, got his start at Bryn Du. where you could bring along green or selling them, where the real your belt. I thought Bryn Du was Although 1971 was a successful one of the best shows in the sum- season, Johnson left Bryn Du as mer. She kept her entry fees low and had many before him. "Sallie went through a number of riders," he Columbus Monthly Dunscombe.
294-3345 Since 1909 COMPETITIVE PRICES KA.Menendian interested in." country where Jack and Jackie American Horse Show Associa- and Canadian circuits for Sallie. "Sallie pioneered the small shows, show winnings we were still out A registered judge with the horses from her other expenses, tary awards. "I think anyone who's successful her champions, especially Excali "Betty bought this little bitty now an instructor and trainer at don't make money showing horses. from the start in June through Sallie lives there now with her with three show rings and an out- "Her horse shows at Bryn Du tion clubs in Licking County for never tried to rip anybody off." house and I'm furnishing it with Guernsey cattle clubs and equita- with pond and ducks.) 14 or 15 Sallie was judging. She Paris afler Dark? other fine selections!
During Johnson's short stay at five horses to her new home in WALL-TO-WALL CARPET mates, Betty McGuire and Jane during the sale at Bryn Du. (Little "She was difficult to work for, estate sale last fall, she traveled out between us. and their mounts. "I had 4-H full, with eight or nine horses. "We had three on the road all season," had to have one groom for three Filet Mignon Bearnaisen Ell even sounds romantic! Evnings meally are special at go out for two-week stints, then horses and get some mileage under Sunday ti 6:00 didn't... well, I heard her yell at Til 11:30 451-6834 horse money is." And Sallie wasn't into breeding leftovers from here, Sallie said 1971 was a successful year for into a bedroom. The guests will "It's really very small," she con- said.
"One season was the longest Sallie's mercurial temperament was just as difficult during theatri- Theatre is her second love, and she directed Playhouse on the Green, a tent theatre north of Co- lumbus, for 11 years with the same domineering force she showed in Joseph Weaver, who originated the theatre in 1954, remembers Sallie's takeover of the Playhouse the original stockholders in Play. and W. C. Harrison took over the I wasn't at the general stockhold- ers meeting, but apparently Sallie Someone said if you think you can do better, do it. And lo and behold Sallie took over as self-appointed season. As anyone associated with you, the management certainly did "When I had the Playhouse," Weaver said, "wedidn't make much money but we were always in the black.
After Sallie's first year, we It was my understanding that dur- make money, but she was always last few years." nately, after Sallie took over, we She had very elaborate, expensive - Bentwood box office to support it. She kept - Windsors the prices too low, and had to sub- sidize the considerable losses out - Bamboo of her own pocket." - Jenny Lind She was willing to take the losses on the Playhouse for her love of good theatrical productions. Her 30% off casts were all imported from New York, with fill-in parts awarded to Finish and upholstered make-up, costumes and props were, to your specifications "I loved that theatre," Sallie Sales Showroom 1799 West Fifth Avenue marvelous productions. We didn't shod construction. We tried to 239-0909 846-4119 change. the stables. of columbus could buy.
active in the management in any Rockers Special have any slipshod scenery or slip- producer/manager for the 1962 way. But we changed managers, never saw a financial statement. productions and didn't have the had more bad years than good. like the way things were managed. ing her years the theatre didn't Sexton owned, the best money cal seasons as during equestrian. anyone stayed with her." able to absorb her losses until the "We had good years and we had was complaining that she didn't five years as manager she was not *Not available at About Faces if she didn't try. "Ne still custom care! Green, "and I think we did some house, HERITAGE Playhouse for the 1961 season. Playhouse on the Green will tell like everything else Sallie Jones local personalities. The scenery, said of the Playhouse on the now who wants me to invest in a fall.
"I don't think I will because I don't particularly like the play. I haven't been active in Broadway for several years. wound up my theatre activity. As with anything. I think you should SANDPIPER Modular Furniture the dinner theatres here. a first-rate production slide down to a fifth-rate one? I think it's bet- the same format. Sallie would come ter to close altogether, and that's out and introduce the show, tell Open doily & Sat. 10-5: Sun 12-5 Many of Sallie's businesses were you the story and invite you back. She was sort of her own MC, and she crumbling by 1973. "Sallie's prob- functional furnishings lems look as if they were inten- said. "She just refused to pay her bills. In the past few years she had a good trade at the inn, and what she did with the money well just have to wait and see. I don't think or they would have found it by pretty maternity clothes through Granville.
Most of the villagers, never enamored of the Duchess, were overjoyed at her plight. Some oldtimers said they had seen it coming for years, some white dots on brown newcomers said they couldnt un- Sallie in September, 1976, just before caught up with her, a few claimed the big sale at Bryn Du. she was as much a victim as a strong sort of individual, and she was good for the theatre business. "Columbus is a very tough town village's prevailing attitude. "but developed after Sallie had grown up. She could be very friendly when know how successful the Playhouse she wanted your signature on her was financially. But Sallie tried liquor petition, but she created very hard, and she should be recog- nized for trying to do something For years Sallie tried to convince for her community.
Granville residents to approve a several Broadway productions but compete with restaurants in neigh- was never a major money force, boring wet communities. The ordi- according to other theatre people in town. Deeds said her name was late" to save her failing Granville was never a major backer. for our summer booklet mother who caused the hard feel- " said Howe, who has lived Lane Ave. Center - Arlington - nice conversation piece, but it Baxter Jones] was a very gracious woman, inviting the Granville Mu- Tom Tarpy Center- East sic Club ladies to Bryn Du for the money or had anything to do with Worthington Square Center- the actual production. tinued any of that. She was away still asked to contribute to theatri- from Granville most of the time. cal projects. "There's a person right She has some supporters in Gran- Columbus Monthly 77 486-9281 888-3723 861-2558 area.
known in the theatre business in One Columbusite who appreci- bring first-rate theatre into the cause it was the springboard to some claimed hubris had finally nance was finally passed in 1974, Sallie's financial problems spread liquor ordinance so her inn could Call or write "My interest is in running a Rumors flourished after news of and really a grand lady.I think ated her efforts is Danny Deeds, afternoon. But Sallie never con- Even with her debts, Sallie is "Her shows ran about a month," on Sallie Jones Sexton's affairs; theatre and I think Playhouse it's in any bank in this country, her playhouse was important be- bus put money into plays as an- "And it certainly wasn't her "I think the animosity toward was very good at it. She is a very "A lot of people here in Colum- do it right or not at all.Why let what we did in 1973." 601 N. High St.
228-3463 through all that money in one life- father so much," Howe said of the for theatre," Deeds said from his own experience here, "and I don't New York, "but I would say she suntoom iivng room. Or your anywhere room Mod 3-13 $30 some hard feelings." museum curator Howe Sallie was also involved with time. Everybody had an opinion Sallie was not there against her Dreations is one of the giants of our Enjoy Headquarters HIGH QUALITY FAST PRINTING NOW, ...NOT LATER! For Italic "Sallie is very independent," she said, "and she had fairly competent help when she took over the family business. But these specialists No matter what your printing needs, see us moved or died, and she was alone. first. You'll be glad you did! TELECOPY SERVICE and maybe did not keep the eye on FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY "But I am completely on her 138 North High St. (at Long) side," shecontinued.
"I think Gran- ville has been terribly mean to her, 1205 Grandview Avenue because she's a very friendly person Columbus. Ohio 43212 naturally. It's simply a case of the haves versus the have-nots. There are 20 to 30 certified millionaires in Licking County, and that cer- tainly doesn't overwhelm me. But some people are jealous of that a child, because she had a govern- ess, a music teacher and always FINE IMPORTED CARS had a pretty pony. She has a few SPECIALIZING IN VOLVO'S loyal friends and people who admire her, but I am overwhelmed by the number of people who thought she KEN GOODMAN got just what she deserved. JERRY GOODMAN counted Moody's theory that jeal- 4237 NORTH HIGH ST. - SALES/SERVICE - 268-7703 ousy prompted the hatred some Granville residents feel toward Sallie: "No, I have to honestly say Granville people toward her.
I've always enjoyed salle very much, and I haven't heard her express one bit of bitterness toward Granville." Perhaps Moody has not checked with Sallie recently. In a January interview, after her bad check sen- tencing and her move to Virginia, Order early for Mother's Day May 1-7 tire state of Ohio. "Columbus Monthly? I don't Columbus, and I have no connec- tion at all in Ohio. No one cares about me there, except as some- thing to talk about." said, "I've only been here a month. 2385 East Main Street County-wide delivery since 1905 Betsa Marsh is a contributing edi- tor of Columbus Monthly. Columbus Monthly 228-3618 237-8653 Connell's Flowers Remember Mom. the women in your life? sympathetic Minnie Hite Moody you sent flowers to finds with the heiress's conduct. much money. absences from Granville and her sting that acquaintances of the and Columbus is done with me.
When was the last time Handwriting Duchess will remember well, she ville, however. Sallie's prolonged businesses are the only faults a cause I'm done with Columbus her bitterness extended to the en- future life in Virginia? With the "People were jealous of her as Then perhaps a comment on her it she should have. she did it all herself." mayor of Middleburg yet." She has been away a great deal, "but she has much less resentment It's a little difficult forme tobe "She's had a hard time being see any pointin an interview be- big-minded about it," Moody said 486-9608 imports One of her local critics dis- Nothing could drag me back to toward others than I've seen in wheels art supply,inc. FEB 1 0 1982 REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED
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