Nomination for Herrington, John, House and Herrington Bethel Church

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United States Department of the Interior received DEC 7 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common street & number city, town - vicinity of State - county 3. Classification - district - public _ unoccupied - agriculture _ museum X building(s) X private . commercial - park _ structure _ both work in progress _ educational X private residence . site .entertainment X religious _ object X yes: restricted .government - scientific . industrial . transportation .military _ other: 4. Owner of Property Mr. Russell J. Paradise and 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. has this property been determined elegible?

- - yes , 1981 _ local 039 019 Location date code Category Accessible September Columbus Status Ownership Courthouse Square being considered title Herrington Homestead date entered Ohio Histroic Inventory DEC71982 Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Carroll County Courthouse Type all entries-complete applicable sections Carroll Ohio Present Use National Register of Historic Places Mechanicstown,Ohio Trustees, Bethel Methodist Church 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys in process For HCRS use only N/A not for publication _ federal X state depository for survey records X no 44651 43211 FHR-8-300 (11-78) X unaltered X original site X good _moved date .fair - unexposed residence and the Herrington Bethel Church, both of which were built on Herrington land The residence (1840) is a two-story, five-bay Federal structure with two entries, one of which is central, one of which opens into the structure from the far right-hand bay. With the exception of two in the attic story, the windows throughout are double- a grain crib - and overlooks a pond and the valley of Still Fork Creek.

quarry, the building features two double-leaved entries, four-bay side elevations, an Condition ruins Check one a site on Herrington property northeast of the structure and features brush hammered The principal structures of the John Herrington property are two -- the Herrington hung with l/l sashes.A single story porch with a brick foundation extends across all cemetery in which are buried the original Herringtons and their descendents. 7. Description asbestos shingled gable roof and cupola.A tile block addition extends from the south- bays of the present front elevation;the rear former front)elevation is infilled in the 1840's. X excellent = - _ deteriorated Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

gable-end returns.The site includes two associated farm structures --a bank barn and dressing with chiseled margins. the residence.A simple structure of coursed squared sandstone from the Herrington portion, windows and porch are not recent alterations, and judging from the evidence, with clapboard where a two-story recessed gallery was earlier featured.The infilled probably date from the turn of the century.The sandstone of the facade was quarried on The roof is slate with a heavy entablature and brief The Herrington Bethel Church sits at the top of a hill 500 feet northwest of -prehistoric _ landscape architecture_X religion _ archeology-historic _ conservation .law - science _ economics - sculpture - education - social/ - music X 1800-1899 _ theater _ 1900- _ communications _ invention - other (specify) Specific dates 1840, 1843 Ohio by early settlers and local craftsmen.

Taken together, the house and the church himself, minister and farmer. extended to within a few miles of the Herrington property, northeast Carroll County does residence, the stonework of the church is said to have been done by a local Black mason farm for $1,000.00 from Frederick Woods in 1819. to have yielded 80 converts, including one of his sons. Possibly as a result of his having seen the light at this Revival, Herrington is said to have decided that worshiping in a log structue (which was, by the 1840's, dilapidated) techniques, as well, perhaps, as a certain type of antic religious consciousness. Herrington lived until 1862, a hardy soul who, at 100, walked to Augusta, three miles from his home, to vote and be photographed.

"A fighter [writes a descendent] but not 1Mona Herrington, "Remembrances" (recorded, 1981) The two structures are being nominated together due to their close historical association with John Herrington as well as their geographic oximity and similarity in building design 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 commerce humanitarian engineering Period military agriculture literature From his arrival in the region, Herrington conducted prayer services and Methodist Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) and materials. Unlike more northerly counties in Ohio whose predominance of frame and brick struc- also represent the association of frontier protestantism with rural settlement and stand of the types of antebellum stone architecture built in this region of east central The present structure may thus represent the development of more self-conscious building The John Herrington house and the Herrington Bethel Church are significant examples While no records remain to identify the mason who so.expertly dressed the stone of the suggests he may have been responsible for both. as a monument to the earlier embodiment of this association in the person of Herrington the sturdiness of Ohio pioneers. 8.

Significance named Frank Dunmore, and the fact that the structures were built at about the same time class meetings in his home until 1825 when a log building was constructed on the hilltop Areas of Significance-Check and justify below feature a number of stone structues, most of which are of a lesser quality than these. site of the present church.An 184l Revival conducted in this early structure is said Herrington was born in Pennsylvania in 1759 and served as a drummer boy in the - art - archeology-prehistoric community planning X architecture . exploration/settlement - - philosophy Revolutionary War under Washington. Builder/Architect Frank Dunmore (Church) tures is probably due to the topographical disturbances caused by the glacier that of Indians) spurred him to migrate to Ohio in 1816 where he purchased his Carroll County was sinful.

Thereupon, he set fire to the building and watched it burn from his own porch. 1600-1699 transportation Herrington and the stone structues he built reflect The death of his parents (reportedly at the hands 9.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References Recollections of the First Herrington Family Reunion, August 30, 1919. 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 L449,96,0,01 - i seeralso continuation sheet -- state 11. Form Prepared By street & number Ohio 44702 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification _ local _ national As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated P Keeper of the National Register date Canton Northing county code Zone Attest: telephone (216) 454-5651 ext.

264 name/title Quadrangle name Minerva Verbal boundary description and justification Chief of Registration UMT References For HCRS use only State Historic Preservation Officer signature Zone Easting city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries "100th Anniversary of Bethel Methodist (Herrington Bethel) Church" The Rural Methodist Vol. 1, No. 2. (Mechanicstown: September, 1923) S.E. quarter of Section 35, Augusta Township, Carro11 County, Ohio September, 1923) according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.

GP O 938 835 Acreage of nominated property less than one (house); less than 3 (church) I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register 498920 51l County Office Building NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only Item number 10 point located on the 1060 contour line on U.S.G.S. map; then 800- feet due west Co. Rd. 14; then northeast along south side of Co. Rd. 14 for to point of beginning. Page (3-82) received Inventory-Nomination Form Boundary Descriptions Herrington, John House -- Carroll Co., Ohio Continuation sheet Herrington, John House: National Park Service National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Herrington Bethel Church: Beginning at a point 60 feet east of Co.Rd. 10 located on dirt road running ft.southwest along north side of dirt road to point of beginning.

Beginning at a point along the south side of Co. Rd. 14 20Qo ft. southeast from dale entered parallel with Co.Rd.14 toa point;then 200 feet due north toa point 1ocated on the intersection of Co.Rd.10and Co.Rd.14;proceed 200 ft.due south toa road;then 200 ft.due south toa point along north side of dirt road;then 150+ EVALUATION / RETURN SHEE United States Herrington, John, House and Herrington Bethel Church Fed. Reg. Date: - REJECT- Federal Agency:- Recom. /Criteria Discipline Date Due:- -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below Name Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legai Description 7. Description clarity Carroll County completeness resubmission summary paragraph alterations/integrity RETURN 6. Representation in Existing Surveys boundary selection 3.

Classification nomination by person or local government Action: .Nomination returned for: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES _see continuation sheet Substantive Review: SHEE appeal owner objection Reviewer Roviewer's - Significanc Clarity justification of exception - Other Major Bibliographical References 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification - Photographs - Date - checked Signed context relating significance to the resource justification of areas summary paragraph completeness applicable criteria 10. Geographical Data Maps Phone: 202 272-3504 relationship of integrity Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Herrington, John House Ohio Date: 1981 Photo: M. Reeb Augusta Twp., Carroll, Herrington, John House Ohio Date: 1981 Photo: M. Reeb Photo: M. Reeb Augusta Twp., Carroll, Ohio Herrington Bethel Ch. Date: 1981 Photo: M.

Reeb Augusta Twp., Carroll, Herrington Bethel Ch. Ohio Date: 1981 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC reference: Ohio Historic Preservation Office December 1, 1982 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Breese, Griffith, Farm Athens B&O Train Depot Herrington, John House and Herrington Bethel Church Kettering, William Property Sprague, Jonathon, House Hull, Patrick House St. Matthews Protestant Episcopal Church Please let me know if you have any questions. W. Ray Luce) WRL: BP:dd Morgan Washington Madison Hamilton County Erie Franklin Athens REGISTER Licking Encl.

Stark Delaware NATIONAL RECEIVED Muskingum Cisler Terrace Swetland Residence Summit Carroll Delaware Public Library Department of Registration Akron Public Library Allen National Register of Historic Places Dear Carol: Enclosed are fourteen new National Register nominations and three resubmissions. Second Presbyterian Church State Historic Preservation Officer New Submissions Withrow High School Sandusky Multiple Resource West Side Planing Mill All the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new Center Inn Rock Hollow School DEC 7 Sincerely