Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for University Hall-Gray's Chapel

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,021 words across 11 pages, filed in 1985. 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 85000638, 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.

Ohio Historical Society Columbus, Ohio 43211 4. Present Name(s) . County 5. Other Name(s) - Location of Negative: 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes U 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material . City or Town 18. Style or Design 31. Wall Construction . Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 4ABLE ISHIN4LE No. of Bays Side - 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape KEZTAN4ULAK 23. Ownership 36. Changes - Addition O Private M Altered O in #42) Moved C 37. Condition DELAWARE, OHIO Long.83° 03' 57 25. Open to Preservation Site O Structure - Building 0 Object - Endangered? 1. On National 27. Other Surveys in Which Included District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? Potent'!? 5. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and FRONTA4E-ITO' 2. Further Description of Important Features 3.
History and Significance 5. Sources of 'Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1893 Front UTM Underway? Register? Coordinates Eligible? Public Road? .Specific Location none Frontage on Road if known UNVERSITY PELAWARE unknown 24. Owner's Name & Address, DHIO WEALEYAN UNIVERSITY By What? KESTRLTED FIVE DEL-3-7 Interior 40O 1121174 UNIVERSITY HALL - LRAY'S ZHAPEL Sandusky St. 21. Original Use, if apparent 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 1. Part of Estab. Yes O THE WEST ENTRANLE. IN THIS AREA IS LOLATED A LAR4E,LARVED, WOOD FRAAED LILASS OF SUORUER LOLOURS 4. Description of Environment and Qutbulldings VOL. 27,NO.2. P-I J.W. YOST No O BRADFORD 4REEN UNIVERSITY, 1893 , P.6$7 HALL OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY STONE If Rural,Township & Vicinity SLOLUA designed by J. W.
Yost, an important collegiate architect, who designed Ohio State University's Orton Hall, among other President James W. Bashford, a period typified by increased student enrollment, an enlarged faculty, a broadened curriculum, honor of his father, a pioneer Methodist preacher in Ohio. to continue to function as the focus of college life at Ohio Acreage: Less than one acre. Wesleyan. Ohio Wesleyan University Thematic Nomination imposing college buildings in the United States and the finest OHI Continuation Sheet The building, constructed in 1893,is significant for its Governor William McKinley and ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes. University Hall was built to serve as Ohio Wesleyan's UNIVERSITY HALL liberal arts education at Ohio Wesleyan University. also representative of the academic stature which Ohio Wesleyan University Hall meets National Register Criteria A and C.
building to date by Yost. constructed as part of the late l9th century expansion program of Recent renovation of the building and Gray Chapel have enabled it characteristics of the style include the monumental tower, gables In addition to offices and lecture rooms, University Hall Executed in limestone, University Hall is an excellent featured the 2500-seat Gray by David S.Gray in significant college and institutional buildings. Dominant primary administration building and lecture hall. It was and a new emphasis on classroom lecture.Its construction was architecture and for its contribution to the development of had attained at this time.Present at the dedication were Ohio OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Delaware County. OHIO Nomination/Type of Review 1. Austin Hall 2. Edwards Gynmasium/Pfeiffer National Register - 3. Ohio Wesleyan University 4. Sanborn Hall 5.
Shelby Field 5. Slocum Hall :. Stuyvesant Hall 8. University Hall-Gray's Natatorium Continuation sheet Attest Inventory-Nomination Form State Item number Date/Signature National Park Service Page Keeper National Register of Historic Places Thematic Group Student Observatory Entered in the Ohio Wesleyan University Thematic Resources Multiple Resource Area United States Department of the Interior NPS Form10-900-a Batered In dnr-11 Name 3-82 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 - REJECT owner objection Federal Agency: -appeal -request LJ NR decision Reviewer's comments: Reviewer _ _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: . _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1.
Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description Check one - unaltered -original site -excellent - moved Iunexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

summary paragraph boundary selection resubmission Accessible FEB Status completeness Ownership Category Date yes Recom./Criteria ruins RETURN fair alterations/integrity Condition deteriorated 61985 University TR) Delaware County Action: Working No. Substantive Review: University Hall-Gray's Chapel (Ohio Wesleyan Discipline clarity Lsample ACCEPT Entered n the 3/23/85 good - completeness - relationship of integrity to

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

significance - justification of exception - other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name 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 Signed - Date . - Phone: Builder/Architect 8. Significance clarity title context state Maps Photographs summary paragraph national applicable criteria Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) UTM References Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Specific dates justification of areas checked Verbal boundary description and justification Questions concerning this nomination maybe directed to relating significance to the resource _local Photo #10 Columbus, Ohio May, 1984 looking northeast Delaware, Ohio University Hall, OWU Thematic Photo by J. Williams 391 Library Park South Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, Ohio May, 1984 Columbus,Ohio Photo by J. Williams main entrance, west facade 391 Library Park South Jniversity Hall, OWU Thematic Ohio Wesleyan University University Hall, OWU Thematic Photo by J. Williams Columbus, Ohio looking south Ohio Wesleyan University May, 1984 Delaware, Ohio Photo #12 391 Library Park south Columbus, Ohio looking northeast Delaware, ohio Photo #13 Photo by J.
Williams University Hall, OWU Thematic 391 Library Park South 1984 Ohio Wesleyan University Photo #14 Columbus, ohio May, 1984 Photo by J. Williams Ohio Wesleyan University Gray Chapel interior detail Delaware, Ohio University Hall, OWU Thematic 391 Library Park South 64000639 Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: for this property Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet