Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Gayer, Jacob M., House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,016 words across 21 pages, filed in 1984. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 84003442, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 National Park Service received SEP 2 0 1984 Gayer, Jacob M., House 2. Location street & number _ not for publication city, town - vicinity of state Ohio _ county - _ unoccupied _ museum x building(s) X private _ commercial -park - work in progress - private residence _ religious in process - yes: unrestricted - scientific X being considered _ transportation 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. 175 S. Main Street has this property been determined eligible? _ yes - _ federal _ local depository for survey records both government date Category Ownership site Accessible Akron educational entertainment structure code other: Status district historic industrial object public agriculture Ohio Public Acquisition military Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places Present Use 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys 3. Classification Akron Public Library Richard J. Slanczka Courthouse Annex Recorders Office 406 Sumner Street Type all entries-complete applicable sections For NPS use only March 1980 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms United States Department of the Interior date entered 0CT 1 8 1984 NPS Form 10-900 1.
Name OH 44308 (3-82) X excellent X original site X altered _ moved date Representing a transition from the Italianate to the Eastlake mode, the Gayer residence a high mode and while more ambitious than most workingmen's houses of its period, it contains features considered unique in it's time, Both the interior and exterior Occupying a corner lot, the long south front facing onto the side street is treated as the Further enrichment is provided via archaded friezes of spindlework with acorn pendants overhanging the angeled sides of the bay window. cherry and walnut, the dining room'swainscoating of alternating boards are of cherry his father and his grandfather, appreciated fine wood and used it liberally in building machine routed and, except for finishing, most other components of the house were made Condition fair unexposed 7.
Description Elaborate interior woodwork in choice hardwoods remains unpainted and complete in the The elements of these porches are identical.Both have ornately turned post and balusters. other gable ends are interupted a quarter of the way up with siding.The siding corresponds Check one The roof cornice is made up of a series of cymarecta and reversed moldings.Originally narrow and unadorned except for a cyma molding, runs below the roof's deep eaves.The This gable end and the other three on this dwelling are distinguished by vertical siding. interior of the Gayer house. The two pair of arch double doors are made of contrasting the second story this element is terminated in the attic by a projection of the gables end, Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

to a saw-toothed band that occurs just below the molding containing these gabled ends. is a surviving example of the once commonplace.It is a vernacular interpretation of framed at it's corners.The front is delineated by a central projection with a three possess an exceptional integrity to its original condition. The front parlour on the east front has a slate mantle piece dramatically marblizedin in a diaper pattern and even the original screen is still found here. by the previous owner. and fret sawn spandrels and brackets. with the aid of machines. - unaltered covered with imbricated slates, the gabled roof was covered over with asphalt shingles two features that make this house highly significant. Mr.
Gayer, a carpenter, like deteriorated and oak.The pedimented entablatures of the back parlour from butternut all attest to The south gable end is separated from the wall by a plain frieze.A similar frieze, The focus of this principle facade is a three sided bay window.Rising from the first to 8.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Criteria B &C century working class housing in Akron, Ohio. Built by and lived in by the prolific local carpenter, Jacob Gayer, this two story, gable roof, wood sided building is typical in plan of detail and variety of materials noted in its ornate porch, variety of hardwoods used in the interior woodwork and elaborate faux marble mantle. wars, and the Great Depression that transformed its single family dwellings into rooming independently and in the employ of others, the Gayer family played a leading role in resulting in an L-shaped plan, By the 1870s their houses received an increasing level 1600-1699 1500-1599 1872 1700-1799 commerce transportation 1400-1499 economics communications engineering industry invention field.
humanitarian education military philosophy Period science exploration/settlement theater prehistoric music literature Specific dates sculpture law social/ their houses consisted of a rectangular central block with an attached kitchen wing The post Civil War industrialization of Akron transformed this area into one of Akron's 1886until 1888,and then again in 1890-93 and 1897-1899,"Gayer Brothers"carpenters are -conservation -x_architecture _1900- -agriculture -. archeology-prehistoric -community planning four laborer neighborhoods. According to the family history, the Gayer family erected west side, is an area of more prevasive poverty than here. Like south central Akron, it family to Akron at the close of the Civil War, and while family tradition maintains that houses, this section is today largely a student community.
Increasingly, it is threatened Gotleib Gayer, a German imigrant to Pennsylvania in the 1830's. Gotleib Gayer moved his a firm "Gayer Brothers" existed as early as 1868, the tax records don't seem to bare this 1876 and 1877 Jacob is listed in the employ of the carpenters, Snyder and Blood. From listed, though not always in the trade section, In 1888, there are thirty-one carpenters which have been altered to varying degrees, the Jacob Gayer house is an intact example of of ornamentation, Jacob Gayer retired from carpentry in 1899.
art religion landscape architecture their enterprise.The Jacob Gayer house represents a part of the past of workingmen who some 300 houses here.Two of these neighborhoods no longer exist,the other,on the near exists in a much altered and diminished form.A victim of "rubber booms"during the world by the expansion plans of the nearby University of Akron.In the early l960's the The style typical of Summit County, Ohio; Akron Map and Atlas Co.; 1891 Akron Beacon Journal October 9, 1928 Quadrangle name - Quadrangle scale 1:24, 000 UT M References South half of Lot 12 and the easterly 25.75 feet of the south half of Lot l1, in _ state 11.

The rest of the file

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

Form Prepared By street & number 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 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 code county Sumner organization Northing date Attest: Zone national National Register Akron West Ohio Verbal boundary description and justification name/title 9. Major Bibliographical References State Historic Preservation Officer signature Easting 10. Geographical Data Michael Adams and Richard Slanczka Acreage of nominated property less than one List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Chief of Registration 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification the Rentschler and Schoeninger addition as recorded in Plat Book 2,page 4,January 8,1867 city or town Xlocal For NPS use only 45 416 71110 Entered in the SHPO Gayer, Jacob M., House SW. PORCH FIREPIACE Akron, Summit County, Ohio LIVING DIN KitchEN STUDY S.E. PORCH ROom TORREY STREET STREET sumner WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Gayer, Jacob M., House SEP 2 0 1984 Fed. Reg. Date: nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - J sample J request -appeal Nomination returned for: . _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description -excellent I unaltered -original site J moved J summary paragraph - boundary selection Category resubmission ruins yes REJECT completeness Discipline Date Ownership unexposed alterations/integrity Status Accessible deteriorated Reviewer RETURN Recom./Criteria clarity Substantive Review: National Register Condition Working No. see continuation sheet Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance NR decision Check one Has this property been determined eligible? Summit County Present Use Reviewer's comments: Eatered in theAction: fair 10-18-84 314.86 Specific dates -summary paragraph relating significance to the resource Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - - Photographs context completeness Builder/Architect Signed title national clarity Maps applicable criteria relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to justification of areas checked Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 8. Significance _state Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet _local Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - Phone: Period September 12, 1983 Akron, Ohio 44304 Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio facade and the south west porch.
Akron, Summit County, Ohio Facing north east, a view of the west Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street 406 Sumner Street Gayer, Jacob M. House Akron, Ohio 44304 Interior view of the arched doorway molding. Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio 406 Sumner Street September 12, 1983 Akron, Summit County, Ohio September 12, 1983 Akron, Ohio 44304 Interior view of a typical window. Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Summit Ohio Gayer, Jacob M., House 406 Sumner Street Akron, Ohio 44304 Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Interior view of the fireplace. Akron, Summit County, Ohio September 12, 1983 Gayer, Jacob M., House 406 Sumner Street 406 Photographs by R.
Slanczka & Lumie're Studio September 12, 1983 Akron, Ohio 44304 Akron, Summit County, Ohio Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Facing west, a view of the south east porch. Gayer, Jacob M., House 406 Sumner Street TORREY SI Akron, Summit County, Ohio September 12, 1983 Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Akron, Ohio 44304 Gayer, Jacob M., House 406 Sumner Street east half of the south facade. Facing north, the view of the central and Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio north facades. Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Akron, Summit County, Ohio Facing west, the view of the east and September 12, 1983 Gayer, Jacob l., House 406 Sumner Street Akron, Summit County, Ohio September 12, 1933 Facing northwest and viewing the bay Photographs by R.
Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street window on the south facade. Akron, Ohio Gayer, Jacob M., House 406 Sumner Street Akron, Ohio 44304 Akron, Summit County, Ohio Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street facade and southeast corner. Facing northwest, the view of the south September 1983 406 Sumner Street September 12, 1983 Akron, Ohio 44304 east porch. Facing north, a detail of the south Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Akron, Summit County, Ohio Gayer, Jacob M. , House 406 Sumner Street September 12, 1983 and it's contrasting woods. Photographs by R.
Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Interior view of the double arched door 406 Sumner Street Akron, Summit County, Ohio Gayer, Jacob M., House Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street Facing north, a detail of the south September 12, 1983 Akron, Ohio 44304 Akron, Summit County, Ohio east porch. Photographs by R. Slanczka & Lumie're Studio Negatives located at 406 Sumner Street 406 Sumner Street Gayer, Jacob M. House AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AKRON WEST, OHIO UNITED STATES OHIO-SUMMIT CO N4100 - W8130/ /.5 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY House