Form Prepared By Eric Johannesen, Preservation Officer street & number 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of his property within the state is: X local 216-721-5722 date Zone code county Easting Cleveland Northing telephone Kent national Ohio October 1980 organization Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Quadrangle scale 9. Major Bibliographical References Standing Rock Avenue, surrounded by cemetery parcels number 22 and 23, State Historic Preservation Officer signature UMT References 10. Geographical Data Map of Portage County,1857 (Western Reserve Historical Society).
name/title Less than one city or town GPO 938 835 1415/516 91610 Verbal boundary description and justification As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated The property consists of a parcel on 5/22 L Nomination _ Determination of Eligiblity _ On Nomination Form - Thematic Group Maps L T Local _ REJECT _ II. Evaluation of Nomination 1. Descriptive Statement Short Format _ Yes 3. Concepts/Integrity 4. Concepts/Criteria 5. Concepts/Boundaries 6. Contextual Evaluation General Comments (cont. on back if necessary): See Attached / National Park Service U.S.
Department of the Interior Good Comments Name Within: Reviewer/Date Adequate Site Multiple Resource Area Structure Nomination prepared by: Photos Federal Register Date 2. Significance Statement Poor 2nd Return State Staff Fed Nom or Request-Agency Keeper's Decision to Review I.Evaluation of Resource (cont.
on back if necessary) Object State Request for Review Check if Appropriate: Vother VBldg(s) RETURNZ Action: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Portage co State, County Ohio _ Location _ Category _ Ownership _ Status _ Present Use _ Owner of Property _ Location of Legal Description - Condition _ Original Site/Moved (w/date) - _ Areas of Significance _ Major Bibliographical References _ Geographical Data _ Form Prepared By _ Certification _ Level of Significance _ SHPO Signature _ Federal Signature / Substantive Review Problems (see reverse) Classification Significance Signed Photographs Period Maps Comments: Specific Dates Site Plan/Sketch Map Technical Review Representation in Existing Surveys Quad Name Federal Agency Not Adequate in Quality USGS Map Missing Historic District Map Description back of this form.Please return this form when the nomination is resubmitted.
Quad Scale Name of Property BenJauiw F. Hopkins Stone Building The above nomination is being returned to you because of problems in the areas checked below and/or on the UTM Verbal Boundary Description and/or Site Plan or Tax Map _ Description _ Alterations: _ Boundary Selection/Justification: . _ Geographical Data _ Acreage: LVBD: See coMMent below _ Certification: _ Photographs: - Inadequate Coverage: _Poorly Labeled/Not Keyed to Map Sketch tel: (202) 343-6401 Missing Comments Reviewer Other Significance Maps Boundary Lines Incomplete/Inaccurate: USGS Substantive Review Date Chief, Branch of Registration Location of Resource(s) VVBD: OCT 1 6 1981 Discrepancies dnr-lb Bell Grovenn date entered OV 25 1981 - See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1.
Name Hopkins, Benjamin F., Stone Building and/or common street & number city, town - vicinity of - state - public X unoccupied - agriculture _ museum - private _ commercial - structure - work in progress - educational - private residence - in process - yes: restricted . scientific -being considered - yes: unrestricted _ military X other: storage 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description - yes = depository for survey records Location 039 transportation government Category county both Accessible date Kent code Ravenna entertainment Portage site park religious object industrial district historic Status Ownership Ohio Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form Type all entries-complete applicable sections 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Board of Trustees, Standing Rock Cemetery Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Standing Rock Cemetery House 3.
Classification National Register of Historic Places Present Use not for publication has this property been determined elegible? United States Department of the Interior 136l North Mantua Street FHR-8-300 (11-78) title For HCRS use only xbuilding(s) Ohio 44240 _ federal received Standing Rock Cemetery 7. Description _ unaltered * original site X altered - moved date is a later addition, having a steel lintel. There is a stone water table course at the foundation. The gable roof, instead of rising to a ridge, has south end. blocks. Condition unexposed deteriorated ruins excellent fair on the south end is not symmetrical.There are three windows symmetrically Check one the first story have double-hung six-pane sash.Smaller windows in the This is a one-and-a-half story building of sandstone ashlar construction.
The building stands on a high basement used for storage which is accessible a flat deck running the length of the building.The rafters and joists suggest All wall openings have horizontal stone lintels and sills.The windows of There is a center door opening from the second floor, and wooden sockets with a return on the gable ends.Part of this cornice is missing on the casings, and the frames have a bold fluted pattern with plain corner sheltering the cellar entrance.On the west side there is a second shed The interior walls are plastered.There are random width board floors. through a wide door from a sloping bank on the east side. The door opening floor.The date of these porch additions is.not known.
There isa center chimney.The doors and windows have deep wooden Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance alteration.The eaves cornice consists ofa simple wide convex molding, On the east side there is a wooden shed roof supported on four posts and gable ends of the building have two-over-two sash.The sash seem tobe indicate a porch onto which the door opened. The stone is hand-hewn, bearing clear marks of the stonecutters' tools. placed, plus a door to the left of the center window, on the ground floor. X good that a gable ridge was planned, but the flat roof does not seem to be an original, but the glass has been replaced. The arrangement of the openings roof resting on a porch with cement block foundation and a concrete slab date 8.
Significance X 1800-1899 - industry other (specify) Specific dates 1822-1831; 1858 nized local landmark, although much about its origins is obscure. The hewn stone construction, the isolated location, and several of the physical that it was probably not planned as a dwelling, but its actual function They erected a sawmill, a glass factory, a tannery, a woolen factory, Standing Rock after "the rugged sentinel of the Cuyahoga River, " a large 1600-1699 1400-1499 commerce 1700-1799 communications conservation transportation theater 1500-1599 architecture invention art engineering humanitarian exploration/settlement Period science philosophy social/ education prehistoric 1900- law sculpture literature early nineteenth century manufacturing history of Kent.
_archeology-historic - politics/government military near the river.The internal evidence of the building's fabric indicates free-standing rock in the river.At the end of the nineteenth century the building was occupied by the sexton of the cemetery. music Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) an ashery, and several private dwellings before the firm dissolved in 183l. Kent (originally Franklin Mills) developed very early into an industrial features described are unusual in the City of Kent.Because Kent was radically transformed by the completion of the Atlantic & Great Western Areas of Significance-Check and justify below _economics The construction details and the interior woodwork of this stone building suggest that it was probably erected in the mid-1840s.
The property was Railway in 1864,and even more so by the phenomenal expansion of the Ohio min Hopkins stone building isa rare survival in an open setting of the -agriculture - archeology-prehistoric . landscape architecture - religion State Normal College (Kent State University) in the twentieth century, Benja- village because of the water power provided by the Cuyahoga River. This is not known. It stands on land owned by Benjamin F. Hopkins, who was a builder in the firm of Woodard, Hopkins and Ladd beginning in 1822. acquired for this new cemetery north of the city. The cemetery was named community planning Benjamin Hopkins stone building in the Standing Rock Cemetery is a recog- incorporated into the cemetery in 1858,the year after the first land was building ispresumed to have been built at this location in order to be 9.
Major Bibliographical References History of Portage County (Chicago, 1885), p. 434. 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - 1:24, 000 Quadrangle name - Quadrangle scale - and measuring 77 feet by 144.5 feet and containing .255 acre. -- state 11. Form Prepared By Eric Johannesen, Preservation Officer street & number 10825 East Boulevard . national 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated code county 216-721-5722 Easting date Zone Cleveland Kent Northing name/title telephone Ohio Keeper of the National Register Chief of Registration organization Western Reserve Historical Society List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries UMT References 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification State Historic Preservation Officer signature I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register October 1980 Map of Portage County,1857 (Western Reserve Historical Society). The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89 For HCRS use only Less than one city or town Xlocal CLL GPO 938 835 415/516 9160/ Verbal boundary description and justification Attest: The property consists of a parcel on UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 25 1981 DATE ENTERED INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER 8 Benjamin F.
Hopkins Stone Building Kent, Portage County, Ohio for the shape of the roof with its flat deck are presently unknown, this Likewise, the only other significant structure remaining from the early glass works, John Brown's tannery, a grist mill, a saw mill, and the extensive Kent railway car and machine shops, including a roundhouse, of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, all of which were standing in Finally, it is significant that the building stands in an open setting, even though it was later incorporated into the cemetery, which approximates FHR-8-300A PAGE reminder of the early manufacturing history of Kent. teenth century building and/or industrial practice.
CONTINUATION SHEET that of the mid-nineteenth century and conveys the feeling and association (11/78) The preferred building materials of the early nineteenth century in the the Kent Industrial District (NR).The mill which stood on the river bank are no more than a handful of buildings of stone construction prior to of the period of significance. manufacturing history of Kent is the 185l five-story brick cotton mill in building has the potential for yielding additional information on mid-nine- 1874,are gone. Thus the Hopkins building is an especially valuable FOR HCRS USE ONLY MAY 28 1981 at the end of Standing Rock Road beyond the existing building, to which RECEIVED village of Kent and Portage County were wood frame and brick.There UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED.
NOV 25 1981 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER uated by Mr. Charles Willits, a leading restoration architect in northern Ohio that the building was partly a residence and partly a builder's workshop, but it building. The entire south half of the house is virtually one room. It is divided not fluted like those of the other two rooms, indicating a more utilitarian of the flat section is made of yellow pine, which is not native to northern Ohio, box in the northeast corner is there, the north half of the second story does PAGE FHR-8-300A (continued) Benjamin Hopkins Stone Building The northeast room has a ceiling which is thirty inches higher than the The stairway is narrow and steep, with a left-hand turn at the bottom. The interior plan is unique.The main floor consists of three large rooms.
The primary significance of the Benjamin Hopkins stone building is its potential for yielding further information.The structure has been re-examined and eval- notches which suggest that this doorway may once have had sidelights. exposed, which was very unconventional practice. Because the raised ceiling (11/78) In the roof structure of the second story, the longitudinal purlins between the because its joists and posts are pegged and the lath and plaster are contempo- purpose.It does not appear to have been a kitchen, because there is no opening ofa second-story room.The construction of this raised ceiling is original, south room has a central chimney with a stovepipe opening but no fireplace. must be stressed that this is a tentative and conjectural conclusion.
ceiling of the other two rooms.On the second floor this appears as a raised The frames are supported by a single free-standing post on each side.This box occupying the northeast quarter of the house, but not usable as the floor into the chimney.The north door in this room is double-width and is reached FOR HCRS USE ONLY not appear to have been used as a finished room. rary with that in the rest of the house. with the same wide fluted casing that is used on the door and window frames. by a wide ramp whose stone foundation and sills appear to be from the early 19th century as well.
However, the upper part of the door frame contains floor was plaster-finished, but the diagonal bracing of the roof purlins is gable and the flat sections of the roof are clearly original.The roof sheathing In the northwest room of the first floor the door and window casings are What was presumably the principal doorway opens from the south facade of the suggesting that it may have been replaced later. The south half of the second UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINA TION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER ior timber construction, and the kinds of moldings used on the eaves fascia some twelve miles distant.
[The latter was dismantled in August, 1981, for Society at Bath, Summit County.] An anomaly is the fact that the lintels on cotton mill, the Atlantic & Great Western Railway shops, numerous commer- the physical evidence, the property was owned by a known builder and was setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It embodies However, it also embodies sufficient unexplained characteristics to make it PAGE FHR-8-300A Benjamin Hopkins Stone Building and the interior door and window casings.The stone construction is very reassembly at the Western Reserve Village of the Western Reserve Historical DATE ENTERED exception of the basement story of the five-story cotton mill.There are no cial blocks, and the Atlantic Flouring Mills in Ravenna, the county seat. described raise still more questions than have been answered. In addition to was taken from residential practice.
However, all of the construction features appears to have been of stone construction, but of brick and wood, with the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. (11/78) known existing plans of industrial buildings of this period in the locality. possibly associated with a mill which stood nearby on the bank of the river. There are photographic images of the industrial section of Kent on the river the way in which the ashlar stone is dressed and laid, the nature of the inter- a significant candidate for an intensive study by students of building methods, The conclusion that the building was erected in the 1840s is indicated by style, and social history. the north facade are made of a local conglomerate instead of the sandstone used throughout the house elsewhere.
The 1874 Portage County atlas contains lithographic views of the 1851 and the Day & Williams glass works ca.19oo. None of these structures NOV 25 1981 similar to that of the Jonathan Herrick house (1845)in Twinsburg (Nat.Reg.), The Benjamin Hopkins stone building possesses integrity of location, design, There is no question that the basic form of the Hopkins stone building FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y - NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER roof purlin ramp chimney PAGE FHR-8-300A Second Floor First Floor high ceiling post workshop(? Benjamin Hopkins Stone Building DATE ENTERED (11/78) not to scale UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NOV 251981 upper St.
Pats LOT SIZE : 77.0' x 144.5' NATIONAL (1361) NORTH MANTUA STREET NOV 25 1981 Addition NOTES REGISTER New Stone Building Block Add Tool House ROCK AVENUE - 255 acres OCT 1 6 1981 RECEIVED STANDING State, Count Determination of Eligiblity - Thematic Group _ State Request for Review Evaluation oi Resource (cont. on back if necessary) KACCEPT 11/25/81 Il. Evaluation of Nomination -I. Deseriptive Statement Sio:t Format - Yes 2. Significance Statement 3. Concepts/Integrity 4. Corcepts/Criteria 5. Concepts/Boundaries 6. Contextuel Evaluation See Attached _ U.S. Department of the Interior REJECT Photos Comments dnr-3 Maps Site Other Nomination Within: 2nd Return Nomination prepared by: Poor Multiple Resource Area Federel Register Date Keeper's Decision to Review Object State Staff Structure Bidg(s) On Nomination Form Check if Appropriate: General Comments (cont.
on back if Nationai Park Service Good Adequate 2.1.83 KENT, OHIO PICTURE TAKEN: 12/23/80 NOV 25 1981 STANDING ROCK CEMETERY DESCRIPTION: SOUTH AND WEST City of Kent SIDES OF BUILDING STANDING ROCK CEMETERY KENT, OHIO PICTURE TAKEN: 12/23/80 DESCRIPTION: WEST AND NORTH Photo: Gary S. Locke NOV 25 1981 City of Kent BENJAMIN F. HOPKINS SIDES OF BUILDING 281981 BENJAMIN F. HOPKINS HOUSE KENT, OHIO PICTURE TAKEN: 12/23/80 DESCRIPTION: EAST AND SOUTH Photo: Gary S. Locke STANDING ROCK CEMETERY NOV 25 1981 City of Kent KENT, OHIO PICTURE TAKEN: 12/23/80 Photo: Gary S. Locke NOV 25 1981 DESCRIPTION:EAST AND NORTH STANDING ROCK CEMETERY SIDES OF BUILDING City of Kent Hopkins, Benjamin, Stone Bldg. Kent, Portage County, Ohio 1980 ACH North ramp. Note foundation UCT 1 6 City of Kent Hopkins, Benjamin, Stone Bldg. Kent, Portage County, Ohio City of Kent. 1980 South facade.
Note second story Dutch door Kent, Portage County, Ohio OCT 1 6 1981 moldings South facade. Note eaves City of Kent. Hopkins, Benjamin, Stone Bldg. NOV 251981 1980 Hopkins, Benjamin, Stone Bldg. Kent, Portage County, Ohio Npte fluted fyarping of opening. 1980 Interior - Southwest corner. City of Kent. OCT 1 6 1901 NOV 25 1981 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES 17 470/390 East GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO-PORTAGE CO. KENT, OHIO Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) ROAD CLASSIFICATION 4556/980 North Stone Building N4107.5W8115/7.5 KENT QUADRANGLE CITY OF KENT KENT. OHIO 44240 AREA CODE 216 January 26, 1981 Dellas H. Harder I-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Dellas: Preservation Board meeting on March 13, 1981.
If you have any additional questions concerning this nomination, please feel free to contact me at (216) 678-8100, Ext. 222. Robert E. Jarzen, REJ: eom Enclosure file Planning Director State Historic Preservation Officer Sincerely, Places when you consider this nomination for final approval at the State favorable recommendation for listing on the National Register of Historic Register of Historic Places of the Benjamin F.Hopkins Stone Building Councilman Raymond Spain Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center which is located in Standing Rock Cemetery. Council on January 2l,198l supporting the nomination to the National 319 SOUTH WATER ST. PHONE 673.8100 The City hopes that the Benjamin F. Hopkins Stone Building receives a Enclosed please find a copy of Resolution No.
198l-5 passed by Kent City KEQUESTED BY: MOTION OF COUNCIL DRAFT 81-UU+ -DATE AUTHORIZED: 1/7/81 RESOLUTION NO. 1981- 5 WHICH IS LOCATED IN STANDING ROCK CEMETERY, IN THE CITY OF KENT, OHIO. WHEREAS, this Council believes the Benjamin F. Hopkins Stone Kent, Ohio, is a recognized local landmark of historical and architec- WHEREAS, this Council finds that said building is associated War Period; and WHEREAS, this Council believes that said building should be NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of SECTION 1. That this Council does hereby support the nomination to the Cemetery, Kent, Ohio. SECTION 2. That it is found and determined that all formal actions of SECTION 3.
That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from OF COUNCIL preservation; 1/14/81 concurring: ATTEST: APPROVED: PASSED: tural significance which is associated with the economic and industrial this Council concerning and relating to the adoption of this resolution mal action were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all deliberations preserved in accordance with the City of Kent's commitment to historic REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OF THE BENJAMIN F.HOPKINS STONE BUILDING with a distinctive and characteristic architecture of the pre-Civil of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such for- A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE NOMINATION TO THE NATIONAL development of Kent and with Benjamin F.
Hopkins, an historically signi- Building, which is located in Standing Rock Cemetery,in the City of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, of the CLERK OF COUNCIL Benjamin F.Hopkins Stone Building which is located in Standing Rock ficant Kent resident; and legal requirements including Chapter lo7 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Kent. and after the earliest date allowed by law. Kent, Portage County, Ohio, a majority of all members elected thereto National Register of Historic Places for the United States Department of MEMBER MAY 2 8 1981 September 28, 1981 Ms. Carol Shull, Acting Keeper Department of Interior W 434 Washington, D.C. 20243 Dear Ms. Shull: for more information. Hopkins Stone Buidling, Portage County Please let me know if we can answer any questions. W.
Ray Luce WRL/DS: jb Sincerely RECEIVED enclosure Ohio Historic Preservation Office State Historic Preservation Officer NATIONAL National Register of Historic Places Enclosed is one National Register nomination returned by your staff Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 TELE HONE CALL(ATTACHED) DATE ACTION TAKEN INITIALS THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE REC'D INFORMATIVE MATERIAL SENT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE (ATTACHED) STATE OHIO NOV 25 1981 Dr. W. Ray Luce For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Location Eady/mc 12/9/81 272-3504 Portage County Name Kent Date Entered Also Notified Honorable John Glenn Honorable John F. Seiberling ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Interstate 7l at i7th Avenue State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Howard M.
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