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OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Seryice received AUG 2 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name Carkhuff, Stacy, G., House street & number city, town - vicinity of State - county - district - public -unoccupied - agriculture _museum X building(s) X private - commercial - structure - work in progress - in process X yes: restricted - government - yes: unrestricted - military X other: Office 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description Ohio 44308 has this property been determined eligible?
date July, 1978 Ohio 43211 039 both Location Category entertainment code 1984 yes Accessible educational Ownership Status industrial object site Akron Columbus historic park Public Acquisition religious Lowe Associates local being considered scientific private residence (3-82) National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Ohio Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use transportation not for publication 3. Classification 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Ohio44313 NPS Form 10-900 1225 West Market Street For NPS use only courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. _ federal X state 153 14th title Summit County Recorder's Office Ohio Historic Inventory X no 7. Description X excellent X unaltered X original site -moved The Stacy G.
Carkhuff house is a large two-story seventeen-room structure of irregular plan, designed in an almost severe Georgian Revival style in 1917 by the New York firm The entrance, or east, facade is directed to the side. A driveway passes directly by the glazed, slant-sided entry vestibule, which is supported by two limestone Tuscan roof of evenly-laid slate has three segmental-arched dormers, which are repeated on the work above a brick wainscot wall, is at the extreme right of the first floor. facade, which are enframed with a common architrave of brick, hinged louvred shutters The street, or south, front features a wide elliptical five-section bay window lighting circular drive, now expanded for additional parking. Condition unexposed ruins fair brick exedra.
off-black.The simple hanging gutter and downspouts are almost all original heavy copper Check one The other elevations are treated in sympathetic consideration of the entrance facade. which constitute the garden facade and form a sequestered area focusing on a stone-capped are seen the prominent slant-sided bay window of the dining room, and the over-scale Except for two sets of three closely spaced windows on the first floor of the entrance straight-arched window of the stair landing.Of the four chimneys, the only outside sill of soldier-course headers. much of which is executed in the Adamesque mode. four courses of running bond set off by a single course of alternating headers and left unpainted.Snow guards engirdle the lower roof of the house. flat roof deck is surmounted by a wrought-iron railing with center.cresting.
Wrought- paned double-hung windows have surrounds of one row of side-to-side headers bordered lot of two acres, it is chaste and restrained in both its exterior and interior Set back and extending to the right is a service wing of slightly subordinate height columns with corresponding piers and fronts a deeply recessed entry-door alcove.The The brownish-red tapestry brick of the entire house is laid in mixed garden-wall bond, by a single raised row of stretchers laid end to end.A label mould of stretchers rooms to the right, with living quarters above under a low slate roof. The only ancillary building, it is situated at the lot's back corner and was originally fronted by a composition of this elevation is that of a horizontal rectangle with center entrance A four-stall garage of matching brick in a plain, undefined style has garden and work date deteriorated stretchers.
Outside corners are treated with simple raised-brick pilasters.A continuous and symmetrically placed outsize windows on the two storys.The low-pitch ridged hip projects beyond this architrave.A brick wainscot panel is set below the brick lug Diocletian arches with graceful interior wrought-metal overwork.On the west elevation of Alexander B.Trowbridge & Frederick L.Ackerman.Set back on a well-landscaped city the drawing room.A solarium at the far left has French windows set in large glazed are found at all single windows. Exterior trim is painted light ivory with the shutters other elevations.Wall chimneys of bold profile are at each end of the main block. OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 Carkhuff, Stacy, G., House, Akron, Summit County, Ohio Item number of large dimension, with high ceilings and generous window areas: entry vestibule; playroom and several finished storage rooms are in the attic, and a spacious game room Trowbridge & Ackerman, who had earlier set up a branch office in Akron while conmissioned All workwork, except for the drawing room completely panelled in walnut, was of antique tiles in varying beige colorings, while the vestibule has small green Spanish tiles. behind simple metal grilles, some with marble-slab tops, except for the decorative wrought metal work in the vestibule.
The walls of the entrance hall are sectioned by fluted Tuscan pilasters, with the ceiling treatment is also given to the panelling of the drawing room, but it is tempered by one placed in the frieze under its shelf, and there are flanking windows of very deep with graceful wrought metal work in a vertical corolitic pattern. In the breakfast room a black marble baseboard skirts the beige marble floor, with its border of widely-spaced mosaic squares in black, beiges, and golds set off from the Adam brothers, the ceiling mould and frieze are painted with motifs of birds, flowers, fruits, andurns in muted oranges, green, turquoise, gold, and beige. room.
(3-82) Page received Continuation sheet Inventory-Nomination Form chandeliers in the major rooms are entirely in keeping with their individual settings; National Register of Historic Places National Park Service of the Carkhuff house were stringently supervised over the course of better than a year. On the second floor are five bedrooms and three baths.The master suite has a sitting date entered The principal rooms of the Carkhuff house are treated in a restrained, somewhat spar and a pair of six-light chandeliers with Tiffany glass shades. The delicately proportioned mantel of the morning room has a panel of green jasperware A pantry and other service rooms are adjacent.
NPS Form 10-900-a room with fireplace; solarium; morning room with fireplace; dining room; and unusually room and large dressing room.There are fireplaces in the master bedroom and one other with fireplace is in the basement. United States Department of the Interior plaster in a rinceau design.The solarium has four outsize glazed Diocletian arches Most of the floors are of varnished oak.The solarium and game room have large square Far NPS use only those in the entrance hall, drawing room, and dining room are crystal. Typical Adam- wall of glass-doored bookcases, the dramatic elliptical sweep of the large bay window, reveal, with seats under. This room's cornice has on ehe ceiling a wide band of moulded chamber. Four servant's rooms, a workroom, and a bath are in the service wing. The Hayden Company of New York City were the original decorators, working through to design the Harvey S.
Firestone, Sr. estate nearby. The construction and decorating enamel finish. The simply-designed hardware throughout is heavy antique brass. style plaster work sets off the fixtures in the drawing room, morning room, and dining enframing large-paned doors. The sidelights and the semi-circle of the arch are overlaid The body of the floor bya linear chevron design.Continuing in this Pompeian style of the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior Carkhuff, Stacy, G., House, Akron, Summit County, Ohio Item number 7 known Alling S. DeForrest of Rochester, New York, who laid out Akron's Firestone Park, a prototype company-housing development.
Continuation sheet Page received (3-82) National Park Service Inventory-Nomination Form date entered National Register of Historic Places For NPS use only Note: The original landscape architect for the Carkhuff property was nationally -archeology-historic X architecture X 1900- X industry other (specify) Statement of Significance