Form Prepared By date May 26, 1981 street & number 1037. Wetmore Road telephone: (614). 268-7128, Columbus. . 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national X local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer tor the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature code Northing Easting date organization Zone name/title Attest: county "The History of the Bryn Mawr Farm and Mansion,"manuscript by Dorothy B. Klauder National Register 10. Geographical Data Chief of Registration UMT References 9. Major Bibliographical References to starting point.
Keeper of the National Register less than one List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries road, then 2o0 feet north Verbal boundary description and justification Property is on west side of State Route 37,1 5/8 miles to southwest corner of property,then 250 feet east to southeast corner at intersection with "She's Still Lively,"by Anne Natalie Hansen;Columbus Dispatch Magazine,9/15/74 city or town For NPs use only Ohio 43224 Richard Sammons(revised by Daniel Prosser, Ohio State University) according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service, south of State Route 16.Beginning at.point at which criveway's north arm intersects northern Entered in th Original appear ance [866 FEB 2 3 1983 Fed. Reg. Date: - RETURN - REJECT Federal Agency: - Recom.
/ Criteria - Discipline - technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 7. Description summary paragraph completeness clarity Licking County dates alterations/integrity Working No. Action: resubmission Reviewer owner objection 6. Representation in Existing Surveys boundary selection 5. Location of Legal Description .Nomination returned for: Date Due: Bryn Mawr (Fassett's Folly) -see continuation sheet - NR decision _ altered OHIO IATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ruins justification of exception 11. Form Prepared By . loca' - Photographs completeness Signed context the resource clarity Other Date summary paragraph checked relationship of integrity relating significance to justification of areas 10. Geographical Data applicable criteria 8. Significance 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 9. Major Bibliographical References Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Maps Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to LICKING COUNTY, OHIO North elevation submitted by restaurant February 1980 Photographer unknown 3758 Lancaster Road S.W.,Granvil1 Bryn Mawr LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Facade (East elevation) submitted by Restaurant February 1980 Photographer unknown Bryn Mawr 3758 Lancaster Road S.W.,Granville LICKING COUNTY, OHIO February 80 submitted by restaurant South elevation Photographer unknown Bryn Mawr 3758 Lancaster Road S.W.,Granville submitted by restaurant LICKING COUNTY,OHIO Photographer unknown 3758 Lancaster Road S.W., Granvill Bryn Mawr February 80 West wing LICKING COUNTY, OHIO 3758 Lancaster Road, S.w.,Granvil Feb.
80 Photographer unknown submitted by restaurant Bryn Mawr Interiop detail LICKING COUNTY, OHIO 3758 Lancaster Road S.W., Granvill, Feb. 80 Interior Detail Photographer unknown submitted by restaurant Bryn Mawr LICKING COUNTY, OHIO 3758 Lancaster Road, S.W.. - Feb. 80 Granville Interior detail Photographer unknown submitted by restaurant Bryn Mawr LICKING COUNTY, OHIO 3758 Lancaster Road, S.W., , Feb. 80 Granville Interior detail submitted by restaurant Photographer unknown Bryn Mawr LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Bryn Mawr 3758 Lancaster Road, S.W., Granvi Feb. 80 Interior detail submitted by restaurant Photographer unknown LICKING COUNTY, OHIO Bryn Mawr Interior detail submitted by restaurant Photographer unknown 3758 Lancaster Road S.W., Granvill February 80 GRANVILLE, OHIO UNITED STATES GRANVILLE QUADRANGLE 1961 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 1t. 369990 4432570 - Bryn Mawr.
- 6° 05' 03" 84° 59' 02"' 10' 38" 85- 01 February 18, 1983 Ms. Carol Shull Department of the Interior 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 review board and all appropriate notification procedures have been followed. Bryn Mawr Ohio State. Reformatory Please let me know if we can provide any additional information. W. Ray Luce WRL: DS: dd Montgomery Sincerely, Hamilton Licking County Richland Name Duncarrick Summit Lakeside Encl. Guernsey Ottawa Holmes First Lutheran Church Delaware Building Cincinnati Tennis Club New Submissions: Bernheim House Enclosed are eight new submissions and two resubmissions returned by your staff Ohio Historic Preservation Office for more information.All the new nominations have been approved by the state State Historic Preservation Officer National Park Service Berwick Hotel Please.note that national significance has been checked for Lakeside.
Millersburg Historic District National Register of Historic Places Dear Ms. Shull: Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 this old house has seen many uses 375-acre tract on Rt. 37, the Lancaster road, two and a half miles south of Wider horizons beckoned and Fassett left Granville for Cleveland and Granville, is being returned to its former grandeur and name. After passing then New York City, but townsfolk felt he left his heart in Granville, and through a variety of owners, face-liftings and several uses, it is being after 10 years in New York he returned to the village in 1856. In that year restored to serve as a restaurant by its newest owners, David S..Klauder he was elected president of the Central Ohio Railroad (which later became and Charles F. Metzger of Granville. a part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad).
In 1832, Elias Fassett acquired part of the tract from John Hilbrant, and the remainder nine-years later from John Rathbone, a land speculator. Fassett had come out to Granville from Vermont in 1818, where he had been born at Bennington in 1797. He immediately entered into the business which Fassett could watch his trains go by. Perhaps it was this lookout that caused the house to be dubbed "Fassett's Folly" by his contemporaries. Applying his talents to finance and banking, he soon proved himself to be a shrewd Yankee. His marriage in 1823 to Jerusha, daughter of Jeremiah The estate then'passed to Francis Dunlevy, husband of his only Munson, son of the wealthiest member of the. Granville colony, surviving child, Amanda, and Bryn Mawr became known as the Dunlevy undoubtedly did much to aid in establishing his position.
Those who knew place, a name which stuck through a succession of owners. In 1930-1931, (Continued) business enterprises. By ANN NATALIE HANSEN built on a hill high above the railroad tracks which ran along the southern edge of his property. On the roof was a cupola providing a lookout from life of the village which had been founded by New Englanders in 1805. Here he died suddenly in 1863. SHE'S STILL LIVELY A GRAND OLD LADY is geting a new lease on life. The once him, however, attested to his superior ability in developing and perfecting magnificent mansion originally known as "Bryn Mawr," located on a It was at about this time that Bryn Mawr (Welsh for big hill'')was it successivély, was owned briefly by John H. Hislop, a relative of Lady to their original purpose, and for several years with the financial aid of and Dana C.Sykes, former U.S.
consul to Buenos Aires and later to Italy: finally forced to close the school and lease the property for use as a nursing unchanged with four main rooms, a solarium and a huge kitchen on the Depression was not a propitious time for such a venture, and it soon leads from the first floor to the third floor which is divided into several It was as such that 1 first remember it - as a first-grader there in rooms, but which may have been a ballroom in the early years of the 1933 My grandmother, Sylvania Cooley Schaus, who lived on the Lancaster road during the Civil War, often recalled the high style in which the Dunlevy family lived, and their fine horses and carriages traveling over the rutted road in Granville.
In the "thirties, the road was still rutted and At some later date a porch was added, and then during the ownership of impassable in the heavy snows of winter, making for times when none of Col. Joseph C. Campbell (1908-1927) the imposing two-story colonnaded entrance and the lovely veranda were added. The brick was painted pale From kindergarten through grade. 10, there were 21 boys and girls in yellow with white.trim. the school. Only girls were accepted as boarders, and 1 was one. The nuns After the nuns went back to Joliet, decay set in. The beautiful Ionic provided a thorough and individualized education. The first three grades capitals of the fluted columns rotted away as did the balustrades and wood were in one room with three students in each grade. Some grades had only floor of the veranda. Eventually the stone foundations of it were removed.
The lookout on the roof disappeared too, but the interior stairway leading down a steep slope and through a grape arbor, and in better weather, to it from the third floor remains. James N.Hendrix, recently head of food services at the University of chestnuts, or playing games on the balustraded veranda which ran across Wisconsin at Oshkosh, and for four years associated with catering at Denison University, returns to Granville as manager of Bryn Mawr. In ponies to ride, walks through the woods and farm chores to watch. At addition to a new life as a restaurant, plans for the future tentatively call night, many times, we would smell skunks and know they had gotten into With the return of prosperity during World War II, the nuns returned (The End) continued HOUSE the chicken coop again.
one student.During recess and noon hour in the winter there was sledding The exterior has had several face-liftings. Originally the brick craft items made by Licking County artisans. apparently was left unpainted, and there was no porch at the main entrance. It is said that Bob Hope once considered buying it for a country club. became instead a country boarding and day school for normal children. Tate whose husband gave the Tate Gallery in London to the British nation, they were able to carry on their work with retarded children.They were property was thus renamed Our Lady of Mercy School. The Great the day pupils from Newark and Granville could get there.
the front and along the side of the house.After school hours, there were Beads(groups ofwomen like the Children's Hospital Twigs) in Columbus, Ill.,with the intention ofestablishinga school for retarded children.The In 1931,Bryn Mawr was bought by the Franciscan Sisters of Joliet, ground floor, and six rooms upstairs. A beautiful ,wide, open stairway home until its purchase by Klauder and Metzger. swinging and running under the huge ancient trees, and gathering interior of the house has remained virtually It all goes to show you can't keep down a great old girl. Bryn Mawr in the late 19th century. Photographed before restoration began, home still held much of its former grandeur.
Stately columns of two-storied colonnaded entrance, added during first quarter of 20th century, remain, right is a view of the hallway in the period 1908 to 1927: though their lonic capitals have rotted away and the adjoining veranda is gone.Photograph on
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