Nomination for Kokosing House

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OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 FEB 19 1985 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name street & number N/A vicinity of city, town - state - county - - unoccupied - agriculture _ museum -* building(s) X private .park - structure work in progress X private residence _ site _religious _ in process X yes: restricted - scientific - yes: unrestricted - other: 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Mt.

Vernon Ohio 43050 - federal depository for survey records 083 039 code government both Category None date yes N/Anot for publication commercial Ownership Gambier transportation educational industrial entertainment title Status district historic military object local being considered Knox Accessible public Public Acquisition National Park Service (3-82) Ohio Inventory-Nomination Form Kokosing House date entered Present Use 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Type all entries-complete applicable sections Knox County Courthouse National Register of Historic Places 2. Location Galbraith Miller Crump and Joan Lee Crump 3. Classification 106 East High Street has this property been determined eligible? and/or common 221 Kokosing Drive United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only NPS Form 10-900 7.

Description X excellent X unaltered X original site - good _ ruins - moved date : fair Is of no particular architectural style, though its clustered chimneys and decorated presence of at least some round headed windows show the influence of Italinate, while for the quoins, stringcourses dividing the stories and window framing, all of cut stone. semi-circular arched windows on north and west facades, a stone tower and side door study, with floor to ceiling bookshelves, and recessed niches enclosed in the walls that third floor hallways, and provides a clear two-floor open space for light and airiness.

unexposed Condition with overhanging canopy and balcony on the western facade, are other features highlighting Check one the exterior of the house.One surprising feature is the oval window in the southeast xerox of house taken from an early photo in Kenyon College archives).This alteration is the only known change of significance that the house has undergone since its completion in out the house, the windows may be shuttered with shutters recessed in the panelling. 1864.The interior of the house is in good repair.

Among its features is an oak pannelled replacing the original wooden walkway that circled the front half of the Kokosing House is a two-story L-shaped building with a T-shaped gable roof on a heavily the steeply pitched roof and bargeboards of the north and south gable ends have a Gothic _ deteriorated locally quarried rough faced sandstone and covered with a roof of purple slate, the house Steep gables, tall, carved stone chimneys, a polygonal bay window on the western facade, still bear, in some cases, the diocesan labels applied to them by one the bishpos to live all open and usable; each fire- oak, mahogony, rose, etc.

Above the hallway on the second floor, a balustrade protects the corner of the house, piercing the diagonal wall that bevels off that corner of the main floor level,a feature that is found in at least one other home designed by Tinsley (Victor- place on the ground floor has a mantelpiece hand carved from a different type of wood: A narrow circular staircase connects the second and third floors.In most of the rooms Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

in the house.The eight fireplaces in the house are ian Architect,1953,p.1l7).The house has an Italianate back porch and a large front Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric _ archeology-historic . agriculture . sculpture X education - social/ - politics/government .transportation - other (specify) Builder/Architect William Tinsley Criteria B and C Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell, third Episcopal Bishop of Ohio and an ardent fund William Tinsley, an accomplished Irish architect, emigrated to America in 1851 settling contractor for Ascension Hall, as well as Trinity Church in Columbus and the courthouse First Bishop of Ohio, founded Kenyon College. raising funds primarily for the building of Ascension Hall. The college chapel, Church of the Holy Spirit, was built in 1871 with funds donated by Bishop Beddell's former parishners of the New York Church of the Ascension.

The Bishop and his wife lived in Kokosing House for almost twenty-five years, where "it was their delight to entertain college people, village people, and students in simple, then 25 acres in extent, along with a fund to defray taxes and costs of upkeep. The house was intended to be the residence of the president of the college, but this idea 1700-1799 1400-1499 1500-1599 economics communications Period invention literature engineering industry humanitarian The science military music Specific dates 1900- Kokosing House and was instrumental in the college's initial development and growth by 8.

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Significance characterized by steep gables, pointed and round arched windows and tracery.The law Tinsley's architectural practice did not flourish in conservative Cincinnati.Upon receiving the commission to design the North Western Christian University in Indiana he religious and education center for the Episcopal Church in Ohio.In 1824 Philander Chase, Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) representative example. College, including the entire contents of the house, and everything else on the residential work of Indiana architect William Tinsley and for its association with raiser and supporter of Kenyon College in Gambier. Ascension Hall provided the material for Kokosing House.William Fish was charged with Kokosing because he wished to prove to his friends in the East that a fine house could be fireplace in the entry hall of the house bears the name Kokosing," the initials of the Tinsley states in his recollections that he built a house in Gambier for Bishop Bedell and Kokosing was designed for Bishop Bedell in 1864.Between 1830-1880,Gambier was the Bishop and the date 1864. - archeology-prehistoric . community planning _ architecture . commerce relocated in Indianapolis.

Tinsley's work is a good example of Victorian Gothic Revival Gothic Revival Style including Ascension Hall, Kenyon College (NR: 12-6-75) although his but very agreeable fashion." In July, 1891, Bishop Bedell presented the house to Kenyon conservation 1864 1600-1699 exploration/settlement art lists it among his work done during the Civil War.The same quarry used in building Kokosing House is architecturally and historically significant as an example of the majority of Tinsleys designs were for educational buildings executed in the collegiate X_1800-1899 Bedell served on the Board of Trustees of Kenyon College during the period he lived at 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References George Franklin Smythe, Kenyon College, Its First Century, Yale U. Press, 1924 Pp. 234-35; Smythe, A History of the Diocese of Ohio until the Year 1918, 1931, pp.358-414, esp. 378-79; J.D. Forbes, Victorian Architect: The Life and Work of William Tinsley, Indiana U. Press, PP. 91, 117. 10. Geographical Data Vernon Quadrangle 11. Form Prepared By street & number _ national . local 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 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

code county date Easting Northing organization telephone Zone 1:24000 Attest: 1.4082 acres State Historic Preservation Officer signature Quadrangle scale name/title Verbal boundary description and justification Quadrangle name Chief of Registration List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries UTM References 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: See attached description from the mortgage deed. Acreage of nominated property Entered in tha city or town Astate National Register For NPs use only Galbraith M, Crump, owner NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior Item number 8 Page 2 visiting dignitaries, including the writer Robert Penn Warren, who wrote the film script College in 1971 by its present owners, Professor and Mrs.

Galbraith M. Crump. received Inventory-Nomination Form National Park Service date entered was finally put aside because of the distance of the house from the campus.Kokosing of All the King's Men while staying in the house.The house was purchased from the National Register of Historic Places For NPS use only to support the area's cultural fabric even down to the present day. Among those who have (3-82) lived in the house since 1935 have been a number of prominent members of the faculty and Significance WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET JAN 29 1985 Fed. Reg. Date: Federal Agency: _ Lsample J request -appeal LNR decision Discipline _ _ 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 Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description J excellent -unaltered - original site -moved boundary selection resubmission Category yes Date Ownership alterations/integrity Condition Status completeness REJECT Recom./Criteria Accessible deteriorated Reviewer fair unexposed RETURN ruins clarity Knox County Action: see continuation sheet Working No. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Substantive Review: Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance owner objection Nomination returned for: summary paragraph Present Use Reviewer's comments: Kokosing House nomination by person or local government NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Check one Entered in tha National Register good ACCEPT 8. Significance summary paragraph Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By State Historic Preservation Officer signature Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed Date Builder/Architect context completeness title national Maps applicable criteria Photographs clarity UTM References local relating significance to the resource _state justification of exception Specific dates 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification relationship of integrity to significance justification of areas checked Verbal boundary description and justification Quadrangle name Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet - Phone: - Gambier, Knox County, Ohio Kokosing House November 1984 Photographer: Barbara Powers 221 Kokosing Dr.

view: facade (east) facing west View 3: Interior detail, mantle Kokosing House Gambier, Knox County, Ohio 221 Kokosing Drive View 4: Window detail Kokosing House Gambier, Knox County, Ohio 221 Kokosing Drive view: NE corner, facing southwest Kokosing House November 1984 Gambier, Knox County, Ohio 221 Kokosing Dr. Gambier, Knox County, Ohio view: west elevation, facing east November 1984 Kokosing House 221 Kokosing Dr. view: south elevation, facing north Kokosing House 221 Kokosing Dr. November 1984 Gambier, Knox County, Ohio Gambier, Knox County, Ohio Kokosing House taken from Kenyon College archives Southern facade of Kokosing House as it appeared in the l880s. OHIO - KNOX CO UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MT. VERNON QUADRANGLE MT.

VERNON, OHIO SESH DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey N4022.5W8222.5/7.5 STATE OF OHIO SCALE 1:24 000 40-30-30 DCT 16 1984 13 October 1984 Columbus, Ohio 43211 If we are the sole owners and we object, our property will Gambier, Knox County, Ohio 43022 - Crump MARCELLA J. LAHMON Director date. Sincerely, listing and notify you that we request that our property We hereby waive our right to object to the proposed Joan Lee Crump listed in the National Register at the earliest possible 22l Kokosing Drive Dear Sir: be listed.

The Ohio Historical Society of listing a property in the National Register of Historic Kokosing House This will confirm that we are fully aware of the effects Preservation Act, we are entitled to object to the proposed not be listed.If there are multiple owmers of this property listing of our property by a notarized, written statement. Following is the address of our property: and a majority of the owners property will not Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Gambier, Ohio 43022 Places. We recognize that, under the National Historic. Galbraith M.Crump 16 1984 VILLAGE OF GAMBIER GAMBIER, OHIO 43022 13 October 1984 Gambier, Knox County, Ohio 43022 Mayor Director Dear Sir: Sincerely, within my jurisdiction. Kokosing House Richard Baer The Ohio Historical Society Following is the proposed listing: listing a property in the National Register of Historic Places.

I hereby waive my right to comment on the proposed listing. I recognize that, under the National Historic Preservation Act, 22l Kokosing Drive Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Iam entitled to comment on the proposed listing of property This will confirm that Iam fully aware of the effects of 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 January 11, 1985 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief SINCE 1885 1100 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

20240 Kenton Courthouse Square Historic District, Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio Kokosing House, Gambier, Knox County, Ohio includes letters from the property State Historic Preservation Officer JAN 29 1985 614/466-1500 Enclosures Crawford SOCIETY County Sincerely, Kokosing House New Submissions Smith-Davis House Hancock HISTORICAL Historic District Warren Knox Findlay Downtown National Park Service Ohio Historic Preservation Office Dear Carol: Bucyrus Commercial Historic Places National Register of Enclosed are two new National Register nominations and two resubmissions. followed for the new submissions.Please note that the nomination for the and do everything possible to expedite the nomination. WRL/BP:vb owners and the City of Gambier indicating an expeditious review of the property.

We would therefore ask that you waive the comment periods at the federal level nomination.All of the appropriate notification procedures have been Department of the Interior (Lebanon MRA) Also enclosed is a continuation sheet to be added to the file for the Please contact me if you have any questions. W. Ray Luce OHIO Kokosing House, Gambier, Knox County, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That GALBRAITH M. CRUMP AND JOAN LEE CRUMP, husband and wife - Dollars signs forever, the following real estate situated in the State of Ohio, County of Knox Gambier , and bounded and described as follows: of Kokosing Allotment within the Village of Gambier as the plat of said Allotment is of south side of same - reference Grantor's source of title in Knox County Deed Records, Volume Starting for reference at an old pipe marker at the center point of the 50 feet radius turn- thence S.

11°-05'-26 W., 50.00 feet to the beginning point of the parcel here described - way line of aforesaid Kokosing Drive - with the 36.83 feet long arc of a 50.00 feet radius S. 6°-10'-14" W., 276.34 feet to a point marking the southwest corner of said strip - the same bearing N.89°-51'W. 15.08 feet from the southwest corner of Lot 7 of aforementioned Kokosing Allotment; thence S. 9°-49'-08"W., 120.74 feetto a pipe marker set three feet north by Thomas B. Underwood, Surveyor Ohio Certificate Number 5605. and all the rents, issues and profits which may raise or be had therefrom, unto the said Grantee, its successors and assigns lawful claim or claims and demands whatsoever, except those hereinabove set forth. rate and on the terms named in said note, said principal sum and interest is payable TWO HUMDRED THIRTY TWO AND .......

thereafter until the whole amount, including inter- est, is fully paid. Ohio Survey and description certified correct by the Underwood Engineering Company within the Village of Gambier-situated adjacent to aforesaid Kokosing Allotment on the 1.The Grantor will keep all improvements now existing or hereafter erected on the above-described premises insured in side of said drive with the following courses and distances -a series of chords each around at the southwesterly termination of Kokosing Drive in the aforesaid Kokosing Allotment; Mortgagee, the receiptof which is hereby acknowledged do way of record.

And Whereas the Grantor further covenants and agrees that: E.,35.33feet;and N.44°-33'-03E.54.18feet toa pipe marker;thence continuing along thence continuing along said right-of-way line S.79°-42'-30"E.,13.31 feet to a point mark- Kokosing Allotment on the west side of the same - being a part of Lot 2i in College Township ing the northwest corner of a strip of land 15.00 feet in width conveyed to Paul M.Titus N.36°-49'-07"E.,59.86 feet to the place of beginning-containing 1.4082 acres total,1.3761 the right(south)sideof said drive-N.53°-58'-14"E.,134.92feet toa pipe marker-and Part of the first quarter of Township 6,Range 12U.S.Military Lands in the Village curve to the1eft-the same having a.chord bearing N.79°-59'-11"E.,36.01 feet to a point THIRTY THOUSAND AND 0O/10O--- of Gambier and in the Township of College as follows: (1) a part of Lot 16 (Park Area) G, page 540; (3) a part of lands owned by Grantor adjacent to the Village of Gambier and said of the curb running along the north side of a private drive; thence running along the right of the above-described premises, in fee simple and has good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and for above ain promissory note of even date, which is made a part of this instrument as if fuily rewritten herein, the principal sum oi and a like amount on the .10!

... day of each ....month.... companies approved by the Grantee against loss by fire and such other hazards, casualties and contingencies and in such from which point a pipe marker bears N. 36°-49'-07" E., 2.66 feet; thence along the right-of- by deed recorded in Volume 272, page 22; thence following the westerly boundary of said strip, meridian used for survey and description.

Conveyance subject to all easements and rights-of- said total parcel being more particularly bounded and described as follows: any;zoning ordinances,if any;taxes and assessments not yet overdue,if any;and that Grantor will warrant and defend terminating in a pipe marker set three feet right of aforesaid curb along drive:N.4g°-39'- right-the same having a chord bearing N.79°-35'-13"E.35.36 feet toapoint of tangency; record in Plat Book 3A at page 212,Knox County part of 1ands owned by Grantor 09"W.,65.30 feet;N.59°-18'-15"W.,35.78 feet;N.63°-01'-30"W.,60.50 feet;N.52°-47' 52"W.,48.75 feet;N.43°-00'-00"W.42.76feet;N.30°-54'-18"W.39.69 feet;N.11°-18'-42"