Nomination for Graham, William, House

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OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 1. Name Graham, William House Graham - Reynolds House and/or common street & number _ not for publication city, town - vicinity of Ohio code - state county lood 3. Classification .district . unoccupied _ agriculture _ museum X building(s) X private - park _ structure _ work in progress X private residence X yes: restricted - government . scientific - yes: unrestricted _ military . other: Michael Tho. & Kathleen M. Reynolds 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. - yes X no depository for survey records 039 None code Category educational Accessible both transportation date entertainment site commercial Status Ownership industrial religious historic object title being considered Public Acquisition Inventory-Nomination Form (3-82) Road Location public Bowling Green date entered Type all entries-complete applicable sections 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms NPS Form 10-900 Present Use National Park Service in process Wayne 4. Owner of Property 7056 Jerry City Road United States Department of the Interior Wood County Courthouse Square Wood County Courthouse has this property been determined eligible? local 7. Description X excellent .altered - original site Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The William Graham house was built in 1852 by Henry Tyson. The house is located at the end of a long drive on the north side of the Jerry City Road, 3.4 miles east of Jerry house sits atop a small natural mound, a remnant of a prehistoric beach ridge, which The configuration of the house, except for later additions to the east end, is essentially According to Henry Glassie, the noted folklorist and student of Germanic folk house-types, exterior of their houses while retaining the old-world/traditional interior they found more functional to their simple life style. The house is a rectangular wood framed structure with a gabled roof and situated on a foundation came from the immediate area.

The form is symmetrical with balanced and and two doors, with the doors located in the center and the windows located to the out- two interior chimneys, one remains the other being temporarily removed due to a deter- iorating support member. Across the entire first story front is a porch, a part of the each of the posts was removed during the late 1800's. The entire structure, including the porch, is covered by the original clapboard siding, presently painted yellow witn a white trim and is anchored by the original square/rectangular headed nails, and on covered by contemporary asphalt shingles and retains its original dimensions, moldings and frieze board. is a simple plank attached to the wall at chair back height, and on the second floor an on each floor, and located at the center point of each gable-end wall was a fireplace. Only two fire places exist presently.

These are on the west end of the house and are not the originals. Additional minor changes are: The windows, originally were nine over six on the first story and six over six on the second, and were replaced by the present double hung variety in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. The attic windows are moved Condition ruins unexposed deteriorated Check one are four windows, two on each story, symmetrically.arranged, with two smaller attic with Germanic graups and represents a synthesis of Georgian and Germanic elements. the southeast quarter of section 36,Portage Township,Wood County,Ohio.The Deleware Valley of southeastern Pennsylvania of the then popular Georgian mode for the foundation of undressed cut limestone.

The wood for the house and limestone for the are four evenly spaced windows aligned directly above the four openings on the first windows on the second story which were originally six over six. In each gable end there windows, grouped as a pair, near the gable peaks. Also located at the gable ends were aspects. It has a four room, two room deep configuration without a central hall, but and have plain wood moldings and unadorned doors. In addition, on the first floor there for hooks to hang clothing and other items on. rises approximately 10-15 feet above the surrounding lake plain. the style represents a deliberated adaptation, acceptance, by the Germanic people of the side of the doors and all separated by equal spaces.

On the second story front there The interior room arrangement throughout the house is typical of the style in all identical plank is attached to the walls at a greater height and serves as an anchor good fair The house contains no closets. Finally, unaltered from its original design.The architectural style isa folk-type associated the inside of the west wall on the first story there is brick nogging.The roof is aligned openings of equal numbers on each story.The first story front has two windows, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 National Park Service Graham, William, House Wayne, Wood County, Ohio Continuation sheet 1 Item number 7 Page 1 alterations to the structure's configuration are the additions which have been attached to the eastern end of the house beginning in 1885 and ending ca. 1933.

The first was added in 1885 as a kitchen by a William Dunlop for the owner at that (the 1885 kitchen became a dining room). Finally, a porch, which was part of the use as a bathroom and storage area. The present setting of the house can be best characterized as ruralagricultural. The original owners, as their descendants are, were farmers and there are numerous the driveway, which is not included in the nomination. Overall the setting is typical of agricultural complexes in this area.

received (3-82) Inventory-Nomination Form date entered United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places time, J.W.Fry.The second addition included and above-ground cellar of vitrified the existing structures are significant and do not merit inclusion and are not tile and a larger wood frame kitchen added in 1900 by George Baker for J.W.Fry For NPS use only included in the nomination. Likewise, there is a brick ranch house ca. 1960, occupied by the father of the present owner, located east of the house and across 1900 addition, was enclosed for R.K. Reynolds, grandfather of the current owner, for Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric _ archeology-historic .literature . social/ - music - philosophy _ theater - politics/government other (specify) Criterion C Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) The William Graham house is significant because: it is a well preserved nineteenth example of the several houses attributed to Henry Tyson, a Pennsylvania German Mennonite who came to Wood County in 1847; and finally, a building of this particular style of architecture in Wood County in 1852 represents the westward spread of a unique folk trait, associated with the Pennsylvania Germans, into Northwest Ohio. These facts establish the house as an important artifact for furthering the study of a particular pattern of folk culture and its contribution to the larger cultural patterns of nineteenth century Wood County and Northwest Ohio.

folk culture patterns as a sunthesis of "Georgian (stylistic elements) with earlier, folk features - old Rhineland peasant interiors stuffed into stylish eighteenth form is seen as a result of the beginning of an English dominated popular culture Influencing the existing Germanic cultural patterns, reflecting a synthesis of styles The primary elements of the style are; a two room deep with, internal gable-end chimney, low pitched root, door and window arrangement that tries to appear symmetrical, the absence of a central hall and stairs with boxed in stairway curled into a corner instead, a three or tour room plan, and frequently two front doors, all of which are Columbianan County, Ohio.

He was born in the area of Germantown, Pennsylvania and had to a Cornelius Tyson who came to the Germantown area in 1683, participating in orig- between family, building houses and operating a sawmill located approximately one-half the congregation of a small Mennonite religious community that existed for only a relatively short time, but which has been documented in published works based on infor- Graham to build this house in 1852. The 1700-1799 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 commerce education transportation communications humanitarian art engineering industry conservation invention Period Builder/Architect sculpture Xarchitecture exploration/settlement agriculture law Henry Tyson 1900- Specific dates mile east of the William Graham house.His family, and most of his neighbors, made up 8.

Significance X1800-1899 craftsmen associated with the building trades and Henry Tyson continued in this family mation within the archives of the present Mennonite Church organization. nogging and porch(s) both of which are present in_the William Graham house. military tradition in carpentry before coming to Ohio.In Wood County, Tyson divided his time moved with his family to Knox Township in the 1840's.His family traces its ancestory _economics be built by Pennsylvania Germans into the nineteenth century.Its development asa The William Graham House is the best documented structure to be attributed to Henry The architectural style of the house is what Henry Glassie describes in his book on from the old and the new in architecture and other building traits. -science -archeology-prehistoric _landscape architecture.

_ religion by the Pennsylvania Germans, or Pennsylvania Dutch as they are popularly referred to, for farm houses throughout the Deleware Valley of the Mid-Atlantic Region. dominance occurred during the later half of the eighteenth century, and continued to century example of a particular Germanic-folk architecture; it is the best surviving Henry Tyson, the builder of the house came to Northwest Ohio in 1847 from Knox Township, 1852 -communityplanning century shells."Glassie's research has established that this style was widely used 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Confrence, John C. Wienger 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - Quadrangle name _Jerry City _ state 11. Form Prepared By Ronald L. Burdick, Regional Coordinator street & number city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated 2.39 date county code Northing organization Attest: Easting national Zone local Chief of Registration Verbal boundary description and justification UTM References Bowling Green Genevie A. Kerr Tyson, Tyson Family Historian- Interview see continuation sheet List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries State Historic Preservation Officer signature 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Northwest Regional Office Extinct Mennonite Churches in Wood County, John Umble Bowling Green State University I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Keeper of the National Register name/title Center for Archival Collections Hational Register For NPs use only Onio Historic Preservation Officer - April 30, 1983 state Ohio 43403 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 Dntered in the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Item number 8 are done so primarily on the basic of their similarity in architectural style, and their architectural integrity.

Additionally, the William Granam House may have been the only one built by Henry Tyson for someone who was not a member of his family or wno was not time and owned a large amount of land and was by area standards of that time a wealthy In his definition of what constitutes a folk pattern, Glassie emphasizes the idea that a folk style is one that is maintained and used long after a new, or popular, style(s) have become established. This presistencei5 due to the groups preference for what to them nas become traditional, and accepted as that which is the correct way to do it, or culture, In Small Things Forgotten, describes it as a kind of mind set.

The structures dicator of these person's inner feelings, their ideas of what is or is not suitable Taking the above definitions into account, the William Graham house is an important example of this folk style which developed in the Deleware Valley of southeastern elementsstudy of folk traditionsof nineteenth century Northwest Ohio. During the process of researching this nomination, the owner of the property and the of other similiar house types and buildings by Tyson, however, many of the houses have been demolished or severely altered, rendering the Graham house the best documented man.

Page received Inventory-Nomination Form date entered Continuation sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places A comprehensive survey is needed to reveal other Tyson buildings as well as assessing United States Department of the Interior approximately three to five other houses that have been tentatively tied to Henry Tyson, example of this particular house type in the area. family associations.Unlike the William Graham House,none of these have escaped the his overall contribution to the area in comparison to other presently unknown builders. For NPS use only house form)to them. Graham, William, House Wayne, Wood County, Ohio in this case to build it. James Deetz in his short primer on the study of material form preparer drove throughout Wood County to find other similiar examples of this a Mennonite.

Graham was of Scotch-Irish descent who settled in the area about the same Germanic-Georgian house type. This research and windshield survey revealed locations (3-82) passage of time without major alterations,which have irreversably diminisned their of the time,(Greek Revival) establishes both Tyson and the Graham House as important are built without the benefit of plans,and become in a sense....a sensitive in- National Park Service Continuation sheet 3 Item number 10 more particularly described as follows: the South Section line a distance of One Hundred Seventy-five feet (175') to Section line a distance of One Hundred Seventy-five feet (175') to the point of beginning, containing in all 2.386 acres, more or less, subject to all received Wayne, Wood County, Ohio Page legal highways.

Inventory-Nomination Form (7-81) date entered National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Situated in the Southeast Quarter of Section Number Thirty-six (36),Town Four a distance of Seven hundred seventy-two feet to the point of beginning; For NPS use only NPS Form 10-900-a South Section line of said Section; thence easterly on and along the South Graham, William, House Section thirty-six (36),thence westerly on and along the South Section line a point;thence southerly at right angles to the South Section line a distance Five Hundred Ninety-four feet to a point;thence westerly parallel to of Five Hundred Ninety-four feet toa point;said point being on the Thence northerly at right angles to the South Section line a distance of (4) North, Range Bleven (11) East, in Portage Township, Wood County, Ohio, and WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Graham, William, House Fed.

Reg. Date: Date Due: 3/1/84 nomination by person or local government National Register . owner objection -appeal -sample J request - NR decision Reviewer's comments: _ see continuation sheet _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7.

Description J unaltered - original site summary paragraph yes moved Accessible resubmission completeness ruins Category Status fair alterations/integrity REJECT Reviewer Recom./Criteria Date excellent unexposed OHIO RETURN Action: clarity Ownership boundary selection Substantive Review: Discipline Public Acquisition Wood County Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Federal Agency: Nomination returned for: Present Use Condition deteriorated Check one Eztered in the Working No._ good 8. Significance J justification of areas checked I relationship of integrity to significance J 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: _national State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect context Signed completeness state title local Phone clarity Specific dates UTM References Quadrangle name Photographs applicable criteria summary paragraph 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Maps Verbal boundary description and justification relating significance to the resource Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JERRY CITY QUADRANGLE JERRY CITY, OHIO UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION