Decorative drawing: a one-room schoolhouse with a bell cupola. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Poland Center School

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,567 words across 10 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 84003779, 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 1. Name and or common street & number -not for publication city, town -vicinity of state Ohio X public X unoccupied .agriculture X building(s) _ commercial -work in progress - private residence . religious in process X yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted _ other: vacant courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Registry of Deeds has this property been determined eligible?
- yes X no _ federal county - _ local depositary for survey records both museum transportation Location date government Category Accessible code entertainment educational park Youngstown 039 Ownership site structure object historic Status Poland received None being considered MAY41984 industrial private Inventory-Nomination Form district scientific Mahoning County Courthouse Type all entries-complete applicable sections Public Acquisition Present Use Poland Board of Education National Register of Historic Places 3. Classification date entered 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 5. Location of Legal Description See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Poland Center School military United States Department of the Interior 4. Owner of Property NPS Form 10-900 53 College Street For NPS use only title Ohio Ohio 44514 MAY county Mahoning (3-82) 7.
Description _ excellent X original site X good X altered _ moved Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

of Poland Township, Ohio at the intersection of US 224 and the Poland Center-Struthers a belfry, has its pediment on the front, west, side. showing some unmixed bits of lime. Each of the ten windows, one per bay, has 6 over 6 Neither the windows nor the original doorway have jamb trim. Above the front doorway, in the center of the west facade, is a truncated pilaster resting on a wooden The timber of the roof once supported a wooden shingle roof. A king brace, supported by The interior originally was one room with wood floor, plaster ceiling, plaster on brick renovation about 1920. The ceiling was dropped, the floor covered by a wooden floor on single room into two.
A vertical, beaded board wainscotting now lines all the interior The exterior brick work and stone work survive in good condition, excepting the windows Condition unexposed ruins fair Check one north across the Mahoning Valley. cut into windows spaces. bearing walls is common American bond of soft red brick with narrow, sandy mortar joints zoned commercial;two corners have one-story commercial buildings.The property abutting building has a semi-excavated basement. an unmolded wooden crown board.The pediments originally had flush board siding.
The Poland Center School is a one-room, rectangular building located at the very center walls.A brick shed addition covers the north two bays.A north and south doorway were Road.The structure is approximately 22"x 32",two bays wide on the front and three the middle gable pilasters and a fluted cast iron column in the middle of the school The Greek Revival detailing of the building is elegant in appearance yet extremely the south west corner has caved in from a bad water leak. shed addition on the morth side, covering two bays. The gable roof, never adorned with mostly made of pieces of square, unmolded wood. The building's entablature is composed of converted to doorways and repair of some brick work on the southwest corner pilaster. bays on the side. Each bay is divided by a brick Tuscan pilaster. There is a brick The site is open, grass covered, gently sloping to the south and west.
The 1 1/2 acre this site is residential and open. The site is high, so that one can see several miles date deteriorated unaltered room acts as a ridge support.There also is a secondary rafter brace framing.The The gable pediments are covered in asbestos sheeting.Part of the roof and floor in "base"that looks like the building's Tuscan capitals.The moldings of the capitals are 8.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Significance - architecture X education X 1800-1899 other (specify) c. 1858-59 struction work, for its early use of cast iron and for being the last surviving one- room school in Poland Township, Ohio. members nor the contractor are known, although the very fine brick and stone work, roof framing method, and effectiveness of proportion and detail attest to a highly skilled apart from its squat, more grossly proportioned and more clumsy detailed contemporaries 1 No specific records of renters survives.
1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 commerce communications archeology-historic invention economics theater industry engineering humanitarian conservation archeology-prehistoric Period transportation Builder/Architect exploration/settlement Unknown military science philosophy politics/government literature music prehistoric sculpture Specific dates law social/ in the surrounding townships. 1900- The one room school is significant for its fine architectural detail and skilled con- the appearance or character of the schoolhouse. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) part of the structural system in a rural building in 1858 must be considered particularly land transfer from Wright and Elmira Adair to the Board of Education of Poland, Ohio Areas of Significance-Check and justify below -agriculture the period in the educational development of Poland township.Its site still has the dated April 19,1858.It is the last one-room school house in Poland Township reflecting The building was used as a school continuously to 1915,after 1915 it was rented out The one-room Poland Center School dates from 1858or 1859,it was built soon after the -communityplanning landscape architecture progressive.
A truss system running the length of a building is very unusual in this The interior and through the simplest means of construction and economy of material sets this school religion art character of a rural school of the early twentieth century.Neither the building committee The crispness of overall proportion and achievement of bold detailing for various purposes to the Poland Township government and others.1 show the finest quality of regional craftsmanship.The use ofa cast iron column as 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Interview with Robert Zorn. April 21, 1982. 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 UT M References township on a square lot 255" on a side, at the south west corner of township lot 42, 11. Form Prepared By Rebecca M. Rogers Ohio 44514 X local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 State Historic Preservation Officer signature U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 code county Easting date organization Northing Zone Poland Attest: state national name/title 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Chief of Registration The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: city or town I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register National Register containing 1 1/2 acres. For NPS use only Robert Zorn, Triumph and Tradition, A History of Poland Schools. 1976, PP. 33-4 street & number 44 Audubon Road 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Nationat Park Service.
216/757-8986 6/1/82 telephone Verbal boundary description and justification Keeper of the National Register 5-31-84 The school is located at the very center of Poland Eurtored in the Poland Center -Struthers Road Poland OH 14514 To Poland Village LATER SHEP LATER POOR WAY, PARTITION location map US224 map not to scale Poland Center School (IRON COLUMN Mahoning County ADDITION WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - I sample -appeal - NR decision Reviewer's comments: Discipline Nomination returned for: - _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5.
Location of Legal Description Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description Check one _Jexcellent - unaltered L original site summary paragraph moved Category Accessible completeness dates REJECT Condition ruins fair Ownership yes resubmission request Reviewer alterations/integrity deteriorated Status unexposed RETURN MAY41984 Recom./Criteria Mahoning County Action: clarity boundary selection National Register Substantive Review: Working No. good Public Acquisition 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Poland Center School see continuation sheet 5-31-84 MAY ACCEPT OHIO Entered in the 8. Significance I summary paragraph relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.
Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Date Builder/Architect Signed context clarity national state title Quadrangle name UTM References local applicable criteria Phone Specific dates Photographs Maps Verbal boundary description and justification 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) completeness justification of areas checked Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio Poland, Ohio 44514 northeast 6/1/82 Poland Center School View: south elevation and facade, looking 44 Audubon Road Photographer: Rebecca Rogers Negatives: Poland, Ohio 44514 View: west facade, looking east 6/1/82 Poland Center School Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio Photographer: Rebecca Rogers Negatives: 44 Audubon Road Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio Poland, Ohio 44514 6/1/82 Photographer: Rebecca Rogers Poland Center School rear-east and north elevation 44 Audubon Road Negatives: 17 S36420 4541270 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CAMPBELL QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES CAMPBELL, OHIO-PA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY