Nomination for Catawba Island Wine Company

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OMB NO. 1024-0018 EXP. 12/31/84 National Park Service MAR 2 1 1983 1. Name and/or common 2. Location street & number _ not for publication X vicinity of .county - district - public . unoccupied - agriculture - museum * building(s) * private X commercial - park . structure work in progress _ educational - private residence .site _ entertainment - object _ in process - yes: unrestricted .government _ industrial .military _ other: 4. Owner of Property Mr. Nate Buchantz 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc.

_ local Category both Accessible date Madison Street code transportation Ownership Status religious being considered Public Acquisition historic received December 1981 Mon Ami Restaurant & Historic Winery scientific Type all entries-complete applicable sections date entered Ottawa (7-81) Present Use Inventory-Nomination Form Catawba Island Wine Company Ohio National Register of Historic Places Ottawa County Courthouse 6. Representation in Existing Surveys United States Department of the Interior See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 3. Classification NPS Form 10-900 For NPS use only 3845 Wine Cellar Road X_state city, town Port clinton mie.

- yes _ federalX state Columbus Ohio Historical Center depository for survey records .ruins X altered of the Catawba Island Peninsula on a rise overlooking West Harbor, a narrow body of 11ke area featuring trees, flowers, shrubs, lawn furniture and wine-making equip- stone, quarried on location. In fact, the remains of a small lime kiln believed into a slight rise in land contour with the main cellar entry at grade, extending total of four vaults, two per floor, with the walls and arches constructed of the and segmental arches. Most windows are double-hung 8/8 sash, although a pair of long, narrow, round-arched, attic windows sit below the east side gable. Two out- Condition fair the The Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery is located at the southwestern tip the first floor while the upper floor was used for storage. Still wines were 7.

Description Still and sparkling wines are still stored in the winery cellars, which look native limestone. water which virtually separates the peninsula from the mainland.Although Catawba peninsula is mostly rural and the winery itself is situated in a rather secluded Check one serving as the main business entrance.Large shipping doors are also found on the from the east wall.

The double-arched configuration of the cellars provides for a Island has numerous residential and commercial developments along its ashlar.The rectangular building is divided into seven bays on the south and three The winery superstructure is likewise built of limestone, with the south, west side doors are found on the south side, with the canvas-canopied western entry located at either end of the building and the interior was finished in black pierced on the west by a stuccoed chimney and on the east by a stone chimney which and north walls of natural limestone rubble and the east wall of squared limestone Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance

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ing on Wine Cellar Road. It is located just east of the winery.A small, park- the lower cellar housed only sparkling wines and maintained a constant 50 degrees. Wine Company and like many wineries in the area, was constructed of native lime- ment sits between the winery and the road. shop, a special party room and the main dining room. Other rooms include offices The interior of the winery was reconstructed after a 1943 fire ghich gutted The Mon Ami winery was built between 1872 and 1873 for the Catawba Island and a small laboratory.The public rooms have been remodeled over the past two sits atop the east wall. -unexposed bays on the east and west, with the north face a virtually solid limestone wall, and two floors of cellars below.It measured 124'x 54'and was 65'high from the - excellent .

deteriorated _ unaltered X original site _moved date roads, West Catawba Road and East Catawba Road (State Route #53). The Betsy Mo- stored in the upper cellar, which held a constant temperature of 58 degrees, while the inside of the winery. Public rooms today include a wine tasting room, a gift John Cabin ( National Register ), a circa 1850 log cabin, is the only other build- good cabin. The completed four-story winery building included two stories above ground August 1982 used in the construction of the winery are located between the winery and the log today much as they did over 1o0 years ago.

The long, rectangular vaults are built bottom of the lower cellar to the peak of the gable roof.Stone fireplaces were NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior Gatawba Island Wine Company, Port Clinton vic., Ottawa County, Ohio Item number 7 Over the years, the exterior of the winery has undergone a number of altera- building include a one-story cement block press house on the north, a two and a the cellar entrance, and a two-story storage room adjacent to the kitchen. A number These additions help to facilitate the present wine production and use of the building as a restaurant. Despite the alterations to the window and door openings much of the overall fenestration pattern of the original winery is retained. The historic identity of the i original building and the additions.

Page Continuation sheet received years and now feature a series of three wine-related murals designed by artists Inventory-Nomination Form surface material remains.Much of the interior space configuration related to the production Sam Rose and Jerry Davenport. National Park Service date entered National Register of Historic Places winery isiretained through its physical appearance.The regional use of limestone asa partially infilled with stone, cement, stucco or wood and glass.Additions to the of wine remains in the storage areas. For NPS use only half-story frame storage zoom on the north, a one-story kitchen on the east above tions and additions.Several window and door openings have been either totally or 8.

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Significance Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - prehistoric - 1400-1499 .sculpture _ education . military - engineering - musIc _ industry - politics/government Specific dates 1872, 1937 Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) as California and New York, coupled with the destruction by rot, mildew and other remainder of the 19th century, Ohio continued as a leading wine producing state, toll, Ohio remains a leading state in wine production today. early 1860's, Ohio's wine-growing industry shifted across the state to the shores inated wine-growing in Ohio, and over the years, wineries from this area have won numerous awards in state, national and international competition. of their homes. Much of the region's annual grape crop, however, was sold to large outside wineries, located in cities such as Toledo, Cincinnati and St.

Louis, which began forming large co-operative wineries, and in addition to the Kelleys Island the co-operatives were soon overshadowed by large, privately-owned wineries, they growers, although the Ellithorpe, Neal and Laudy families, who were pioneer settlers 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 architecture archeology-historic humanitarian Period commerce literature agriculture science exploration/settlement bridging the gap between the early grape growers and small wine producers and the acquired excellent reputations for their Lake Erie Island wines.Area grape growers with the Kelleys Island Wine Company in 1866, wine-growers on the various islands islands, which for various climatological reasons proved an ideal location for conservation Wine Company, other co-operatives were founded on North Bass Island in 1871,on The Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery is significant as one of the oldest and although Prohibition and competition with California wines have taken their Catawba Island co-operative, the Catawba Island Wine Company, that constructed the diseases of the southern Ohio vineyards which had supported the wine industry led enjoyed a national and international reputation for its wines.The winery is of large, privately-owned wineries which later dominated wine production in the region.

and more prominent wineries in the Lake Erie Islands region, an area which once law sought to keep the fine reputation of Lake Erie Island wines at home.Beginning availability of large tracts of land suitable for grape growing in states such 186o's Ohio was the leading state in the nation in wine production.However, the 1900- the wine-growing industry in the United States, and during the 1850's and early _economics After the destruction of the southern Ohio vineyards in the late 1850's and social/ to the state's decline from the top spot by the mid 186o's.Yet throughout the - other (specify) X_1800-1899 _theater -transportation - invention - - philosophy _communications _art _ archeology-prehistoric - _ community planning Nicholas Longworth, a Cincinnati lawyer, is generally credited with founding grape growing.

From the mid 1860's to the present, this region has virtually dom- Builder/Architect George Loeb of Lake Erie. The reborn industry was centered in the region of the Lake Erie religion landscape architecture The wine-growing industry of Ohio's Lake Erie Islands region had its beginnings winery building which is today's Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery.Although soon tired of recieving what they felt were low prices for their grapes and further in the 1840's.In the industry's early years, many area grape growers produced their an important role in the development of the region's wine industry. played an important role in the development of the region's wine-growing industry, South Bass Island in 1871 and on the Catawba Island Peninsula in 1872.It was the 9.

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Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - Quadrangle scale - . state 11. Form Prepared By November 1982 street & number 229 Alice Street telephone (419) 734-2337 . local .national 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated 7Keeper of the National Register date county code Northing Easting organization Attest: 1:24,000 name/title See continuation sheet Zone State Historic Preservation Officer signature 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification UMT References Verbal boundary description and justification 2.41 acres List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Chief of Registration As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- For Nps use only Interview with Mrs. Betty Nissen, local historian, June 9, 1982; Interview with Mr. Archie Stinson, cellarmaster Mon Ami Winery, May 10, 1982; Interview with Mr.

Donald 11, Inly 1937: Ottawa County Record of Deeds I hereby certify that this property is Included in the National Register Quadrangle name Gypsum city or town Port Clinton Sandusky Register 8,August 1926;Sandusky Register 12,June 1937;Sandusky Register name/title Kyle Johannsen NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior of the Catawba Island Peninsula, are generally regarded as the principal founders. 1900's and 1926 is particularly vague, although it is known that the property was saw service as a speakeasy. These stories, however, are disputed by a local historian the company included William Post, winemaker, and Victor Von Baden and later W.E. Following a disasterous fire which gutted much of the interior, restaurant tac- 1lities were added on the ground floor in 1945, and in 1956 the restaurant/winery in the Sandusky area since 1880.

Mantey owned the restaurant/winery, retaining the Mon Ami name, until 1980 when it was purchased by Meier's Wine Cellars, Inc., the the leading wineries in Ohio, producing on average 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of wine a year- islands region, and is still one of the largest wineries in the state, specializing in wineries, only Mon Ami, the Lonz Winery of Middle Bass and the Engels & Krudwig Winery Continuation sheet received Inventory-Nomination Form Page served during those meetings. which continued operations into the present century.Little is known about the opera- some unsubstantiated stories that during Prohibition a room in the winery's cellars largest wine-making firm in the state.

Over much of this period, Mon Ami ranked among went into recievership in 1881.In 1885 the first Catawba Island Wine Company was the manufacture of domestic champagnes.During 1937 the company moved its equipment from Sandusky to Catawba where it employed fifty-five men in the production of up to succeeded by a second Catawba Island Wine Company, similarly formed by local investors, 1917 and 1926.Furthermore,according toa 1926 newspaper story, the winery had been the Engels & Krudwig Winery is already on the National Register of Historic Places had been founded in Sandusky shortly after the repeal of the 18th Amendment and was date entered tions of either of these companies and the history of the winery between the early and the Lonz Winery nomination is currently pending. and niece of Mr.Ellithorpe who stated that the cellar room was used only to hold National Register of Historic Places one of only a handful of wineries in the United States at that time specializing in National Park Service converted the upper floor into a putt-putt golf course.Ellithorpe owned the winery of Sandusky have buildings of both historical and architectural merit.Of these 1873 had a winery constructed along the southeast shore of the peninsula.The winery The Catawba Island Wine Campany was only in operation fora short time before it The new company was organized with a capital stock of $100,000 and between 1872 and Brackney, president.

vacant for a number of years prior to 1926. For NPS use only which was then known as the Wayside Tea, until 1937. It further has been suggested by the production of champagne, sherry and table wines. Moreover, of the seven active $20,786. With Its 130,000 gallon capacity, the Catawba Island Wine Company winery was 400,000 to 500,000 bottles of champagne, burgundy and still wines a year. Officers of special meetings by groups such as civic clubs and that no illegal beverages were was sold to Norman Mantey, whose family had been engaged in the wine-making business Today the Mon Ami winery is one of only seven commercially active wineries in the the largest winery on Catawba Island and one of the largest in the islands area.

In 1937 the Wayside Tea was acquired by the Mon Ami Champagne Company.Mon Ami transferred to a trustee in 1906 and later passed through a number of owners between (7-81) NPS Form 10-900-a EXP. 12/31/84 United States Department of the Interior Catawba Island Wine Company, Port Clinton vic., Ottawa County,Ohio T7N, R17E, Ottawa County, Ohio and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the centerline of West Catawba Road, where the same intersects Road, a distance of 30.00 feet to a point, thence easterly parallel with the southerly distance of 452 feet to a point; Page received Continuation sheet record.

date entered National Park Service Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places Thence northerly parallel with the centerline of West Catawba Road, Thence continuing easterly parallel with the southerly line of said 2.41 acres of land, but subject to all easements and restrictions of Item number OMB NO.1024-0018 a distance of 232.68 feet to a point; line of said Lot2,a distance of442.45 feet to a point at the principal place of Lot 2,a distance of 452 feet to a point; For NPS use only Being a parcel of land located in parts of Lot 2, in Section 26, Catawba Island Township, beginning for this description: Thence westerly parallel with the southerly line of said Lot 2,a the southerly line of said Lot 2, thence northerly along the centerline of West Catawba distance of 232.68 feet to the principal place of beginning and containing Substantive Review: Date Due: - RETURN Reviewer Recom.

/Criteria - technical corrections cited below Name Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7. Description dates resubmission alterations/integrity clarity Ottawa County completeness boundary selection 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Action: summary paragraph Working No. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: _substantive reasons discussed below Discipline Catawba Island Wine Company owner objection .Nomination returned for: REJECT. _see continuation sheet sample OHIO EVALUATION/ RETURN SHEET appeal ACCEPT. justification of exception - Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By -- loca: - Date - Signed checked context Maps clarity completeness Significance Other applicable criteria summary paragraph justification of areas 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Photographs the resource relating significance to relationship of integrity Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3- Kyle Johannsen +- October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio 6. Southeast shore of Catawba Island, shooting northwest 7. One from the Danbury Peninsula 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio 7. Two 6. West side of winery 3. Kyle Johannsen 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Gree, Ohio 6. East side of winery 7. Three 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3- Kyle Johannsen 4.

October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio 6. South side of winery 7- Four 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio 6. Northeast corner of winery 7. Five 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio 6. Northwest corner of winery 7. Six 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Green, Ohio 6. east end of lower (champagne) cellar 7. seven 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5.

Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Green, Ohio 6. west end of lower (champagne) cellar 7. eight 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. Kyle Johannsen 4. October 29, 1982 5. Center for Archival Collections - Bowling Green, Ohio 6. east end of upper (still wine) cellar 7. nine 1. Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery 1. Mon Ami Reataurant and Historic Winery 2. vicinity of Port Clinton, Ohio 3. not known 4. n.d. (circa 1926) 5. Center for Archival Collections - Bowling Green, Ohio 6. southeast corner of winery 7. ten GYPSUM QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GYPSUM, OHIO DERARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Wine Company Catawba Island 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Port Clinton vicinity, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 March 14, 1983 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 440 G.

Street, N.W. Farmers Branch of the State Bank of Ohio Commodore Apartment Building Oakland Cemetery Chapel and Clement, George S. Hruue St. Ann Roman Catholic Church Complex St. Mary Roman Catholic Church Stengel, John S., House Stormont, David, House Catawaba Island Wine Company W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer Sincerely, Enclosures Stark Butler Montgomery Erie Fulton County REGISTER Paulding Cuyahoga NATIONAL Lucas RECEIVED Ottawa Muskingum Ohio Historic Preservation Office WRL/DS:vb Department of Registration Superintendent's Residence and Office Riverview Apartments National Register of Historic Places Enclosed are fourteen new National Register nominations.All appropriate New Submissions Brown Spitzer Building Dear Carol: Paulding County Carnegie Library Mellett/Canton Daily News Building notification procedures have been followed for the submissions.

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