Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Layman, Christopher C., Law Office

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 3,064 words across 28 pages, filed in 1986. 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 86001062, 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.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 1. Name Layman, Christopher, C., Law Office and or common street & number -not for publication city, town - vicinity of code 039 . county - 3. Classification .unoccupied - agriculture _ museum X building(s) - private _ structure .both - work in progress _ educational - private residence . entertainment - religious . object _ in process X yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted . industrial - transportation - other: 4. Owner of Property Thomas M. Shuster _ vicinity ofOttawa County Ohio 43449 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. - yes date May. 1986 _ local Col umbus Location Category government Accessible Fremont Ownership Woodville historic Public Acquisition district site received being considered Ohio Inventory-Nomination Form title 210 Finke Road military Sandusky date entered scientific 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys National Park Service Oak Harbor, National Register of Historic Places Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use code 143 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Park Ave. United States Department of the Interior Xcommercial Sandusky County Courthouse Ohio Historic Inventory Form has this property been determined eligible? 212 West First Street For NPS use only X_state 1 7 1986 _ federal_X state - public Expires 10-31-87 Status (3-82) .excellent *unaltered X original site The Christopher C. Layman Law Office is a free standing one story common bond brick structure resident lawyer, the building retains most of its original historic character and is the only extant free standing office building in the Village.
The rectangular brick building stands on a foundation of rough cut Sandusky sandstone that This cornice displays a band of stretcher bricks which protrude to create a banding effect, above which are several rows of evenly spaced protruding headers, topped by a band of corbelled bricks. A central doorway flanked by one over one windows completes the front facade. Each of the windows display arched brick lentils with a sandstone keystone, and corner blocks, a narrow, sandstone sill and wooden frame decorated with an, incised design. The entryway is decorated in the same manner as the windows. The door is framed with a large wooden transom door was installed in 1983. An original wooden canopy overhang with saw toothed edges spans the full stoop porch. the front facade. The east side contains a window that mirrorsthe placement and details of the window on the west facade.
Near the rear of the east facade there is a door which is shuttered and decorated with the same details as found on the window. The rear of the building contains two symmetrically placed one over one, shuttered windows decorated with the same sandstone lentils and sills that are found on the rest of the building. The original interior contained two rooms; a front room which was used as a waiting room and took up two thirds of the space and a rear room that was used by Mr. Layman as his private front room in half. The front part was then used as the patients' waiting room and the back was lowered by three feet. as an office for his law practice ever since.
When he purchased the building he replaced the roof and shutters and removed the partition in the rear that had been used to create the dark front room is used as a waiting room, the center room is used by the secretary and as a library and the back room is used as the private office of Mr. Shuster. The interior retains much of the original historic character. Original wood molding is found on the two entrances, all the windows and the one original interior doorway. Bullseye medallions are found in the corners of the door frames but are not visible on the window frames because tive paneling and the rear exterior door contains a wooden door with five horizontal panels. The rear office still has its original wainscotting. The only other building on the site is a small wooden structure with a shed roof that stands to the rear of the office building.
This building is original to the site and was used by Condition moved 7. Description Check one fair x-rays and a lavatory were added.During this renovation the ceiling in the entire building office in which received clients.In 1933,Dr.Egger purchased the property and divided the Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

and wooden side panels which in.1933 replaced.the original wooden double doors.A metal storm tains a stone with the date of construction (1890) and is topped with a decorative cornice. The west (side) facade contains a single centrally located shuttered window capped by an arched brick lentil, a sandstone keystone, corner blocks and sill that match those found on part became the doctor's office with a small room on the west for storage of medical supplies. of the dropped ceiling. The doorway between the secretary and the lawyer's office has decora- X good which stands one block off the main street on the northeast corner of First and Cherry Streets in the Village of Woodville, Ohio. Constructed in 1890 for Mr. Layman, the village's first the entire front facade and creates a roof over the four huge grey sandstone slabs that form room.
He completely partitioned off the lavatory and added air conditioning. Currently the Layman as a coal shed. It is currently used for storage. ruins deteriorated the street but is obstructed from view bya large brick false front.The false front con- Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below -archeology-historic _ conservation _economics X architecture -education . music - 1800-1899 . exploration/settlement - - philosophy - politics/government _ invention The Christopher C. Layman Law Office is significant as an example of modest Italinate architecture and because of its association with Christopher C. Layman, who was the first resident lawyer in the Village of Woodville. Ohio. Christopher Layman received his early education at public schools in Webster Township, Bowling Green and Perrysburg.
On August 18, 1861, he enlisted in the Army of Termessee and Iought as a soldier in the Civil War until he was discharged on July 15, 1065. Mr. Layman attended the University of Michigan School of Law and was graduated at its Iwenty-third was there admitted to the Michigan Bar and then went to Columbus, Ohio and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1882. He practiced law for two years in Wood County and in 1884 took up residence in Woodville becoming the first resident lawyer in the village. In that same year he secured the incorporation of the Village of Woodville and in 1886 he was in- During his time as a lawyer in Woodville, he also was a justice of the peace and an agent for several insurance companies, which was a business carried on by his wife Layman married Enma Robbins, of Sidney, Ohio, in 1901. They had no children. Layman died on June 8, 1922. As .
a result of his will, the law office was given to the Woodville Central- ized School District along with the contents of the building. The books, papers and furniture were to remain in the building until a suitable library was built by the school and at that time the building was to be sold and the money received to be an irreducible principal to be loaned on good security and the interest received from the loan used for the upkeep of the new library and for the purchase of new books. 1600-1699 1890 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 communications engineering military transportation commerce humanitarian literature Period theater industry prehistoric sculpture Specific dates social/ 8.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) after his death. -agriculture Annual Commencement on March 29,1882.After graduation he went to Lansing,Michigan and - other(specify) -1900- -science Criterion B and C _ landscape architecture.. Mr. Layman (originiallyspelled Lehman) was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland on May 5, 1845. he came toohio with his parents, Johnn, a carpenter/farmer, and Magdalena Jacobs Lehmann They settled near Luckey on 80 acres of land in Webster Township, Wood County fluential in the organization of the Woodville School District. In 1890 he built the law medicine here until 1964. The building remained vacant for two years when in 1966 it was Builder/Architect art unknown In 1933,upon the death of Emma Layman,Dr.Egger purchased the office.He practiced ... religion X_law 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Sandusky County Courthouse, Fremont, Ohio: Record of Deeds - Volume 51, page 169; Volume Page 262; Volume 268, Page 368. 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property less then one UT M References (/1) extending from First Street to the alley in the rear of said lot, in the Village -_ state 11. Form Prepared By October 28, 1985 street & number 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register organization county date code Zone Woodville, Northing name/title 1:24000 national Attest: Quadrangle scale State Historic Preservation Officer signature Chief of Registration List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Zone Easting The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: city or town Ohio43469 212 West First St.
Verbal boundary description and justification :The West one-half () of Lot Number Seventy-one 75,Page 219;Volume137,Page 574;Volume 138,Page 525;Volume 266, Xlocal Quadrangle name - GPO 911-399 .(419) 849-2111 Elmore telephone Ohio Keeper of the National Register As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. 186 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior CHISTOPHER C. LAYMAN LAN OFFICE, Woodville, Sandusky County, Ohio Item number 9 topographer and publisher, Fremont, Ohio, 1898. Copy of Michigan School of Law 23d Annual Commencement program, March 29, 1882. County, Ohio Probate Court Records. Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1909.
(3-82) Page National Park Service Inventory-Nomination Form Major Bibliographical References continued: Continuation sheet The County of Sandusky, Ohio, an Imperial Atlas and Art Folio by William H. Hopple, received National Register of Historic Places Estate of Emma Alice Robbins Layman, deceased May 26,1933,Estate #1373l, Sandusky Far NPS use only date entered NPS Form 10.900-a Expires 10-31-87 Iwentieth Century History of Sandusky County and Representative Citizens, edited and complied by Basil Meek, published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Layman, Christopher C., Law Office APR 17 Working No. _ Fed. Reg.
Date 2/3/82 Date Due: - _ RETURN nomination by person or local government _ REJECT - owner objection -appeal L NR decision Reviewer - Nomination returned for: _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 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7.
Description J excellent -unaltered -original site - moved request Accessible yes Category resubmission alterations/integrity fair completeness ruins Ownership deteriorated dates Sandusky County Status Recom./Criteria sample unexposed clarity Discipline Condition boundary selection Action: good summary paragraph Reviewer's comments: Check one Substantive Review: Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance see continuation sheet Present Use ('R" June 1984) Federal Agency: National Rogister 8. Significance J summary paragraph relationship of integrity to significance J justification of exception J Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 11.
Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature _ Photographs Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Date Builder/Architect Signed state completeness context national Maps applicable criteria clarity UTM References justification of areas checked local Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relating significance to the resource 10. Geographical Data 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Quadrangle name Verbal boundary description and justification Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Specific dates Acreage of nominated property title Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period Winter, 1984 Photo 1 of 17 Nancy E. Haley - photographer Front facade - photographer facing North The Christopher C.
Layman Law Office Ohio Historical Preservation Office 212 West First Street GRAVES SHUSTER Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio Winter, 1984 Photo 2 of 17 Ohio Historical Preservation Office Front facade - photographer facing North 212 West First Street The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Nancy E. Haley - photographer Nancy E. Haley - photographer September, 1984 Front and west side facade - photographer Photo 3 of 17 facing Northeast The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Ohio Historical Preservation Office 212 West First Street Nancy E. Haley - photographer Winter, 1984 West facade with overhang - photographer Photo 4 of 17 facing East Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C. Layman Law Office 2l2 West First Street Nancy E. Haley - photographer West facade with overhang - photographer Photo 5 of 17 Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C.
Layman Law Office September, 1984 facing East 212 West First Street Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio Winter, 1984 West facade - photographer facing East Photo 6 of 17 Ohio Historical Preservation Office Nancy E. Haley - photographer The Christopher C. Layman Law Office 212 West First Street Rear and West facade - photographer facing Photo 7 of 17 September, 1984 Southeast 212 West First Street Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C. Layman Law Offide Nancy E. Haley - photographer Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio Nancy E. Haley - photographer Winter, 1984 Rear facade - photographer facing South Photo 8 of 17 The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Ohio Historical Presevation Office 212 West First Street Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio East facade - photographer facing West The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Ohio Historical Preservation Office Nancy E.
Haley - photographer Winter, 1984 212 West First Street Photo 9 of 17 Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Nancy E. Haley - photographer Winter, 1984 Photo 10 of 17 East facade with overhang - photographer 212 West First Street Ohio Historical Preservation Office facing West Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Sandusky - Nancy E. Haley - Photographer Front Room - photographer facing East Photo 11 of 17 Woodville Ohio Ohio Historical Preservation Office September, 1985 212 West First Street Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio September, 1985 Front room - photographer facing West Photo 12 of 17 Nancy E. Haley - photographer 212 West First Street The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Woodville - Sandusky Photo 13 of 17 Ohio Nancy E.
Haley - photographer Ohio Historical Preservation Office Middle room - photographer facing Northeast 212 West First Street September, 1985 212 West First Street Nancy E. Haley - photographer September, 1985 Photo 14 of 17 Ohio Historical Preservation Office Back room - photographer facing West The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Woodville - Sandusky - Ohio Nancy E. Haley - photographer September, 1985 Photo 15 of 17 212 West First Street Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C. Layman Law Office Back room - photographer facing East Woodville - Sandusky Ohio - Sandusky Nancy E. Haley - photographer Back room - photographer facing South Photo 16 of 17 Woodville Ohio September, 1985 Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C.
Layman Law Office 212 West First Street September, 1985 Back door - photographer facing East Photo 17 of 17 Ohio Historical Preservation Office The Christopher C. Layman Law Office 212 West First Street Nancy E. Haley - photographer UTM: 17 302840 4591480 ELMORE QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES ELMORE, OHIO STATE OF OHIO ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS RECEIVED JAN 2 8 2523 County Road 39 Vice-Chairman: Highways and Fremont, Ohio 43420 Highway Safety (419) 332-1765 Agriculture and Natural Resources January 24, 1986 Economic Affairs and Federal Seneca County (part) Transportation and Urban Affairs Columbus Office: (614) 466-8020 Dr. W. Ray Luce Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211 Dear Dr. Luce: I am writing to express my support for the nomination of the Christopher C.
Layman Law Office in Woodville, Ohio, to the National I have corresponded with Mr. Thomas Shuster, owner of the property, and he is very enthusiastic about this idea. It would be particularly appropriate to designate the Layman building in 1986 because this is the year the village of Woodville celebrates its Places would be a focal point of this booklet as well as the entire cele- Woodville are demonstrating this by preparing to honor and celebrate the NOT PRINTED AT STATE EXPENSE cc: Mr. Thomas Shuster, Esq. 43215 Education consideration. bration. Relations DW/ME/tam COMMITTEES: Sincerely, State Representative Sandusky County, 85th House District DWIGHT WISE Columbus Christopher C.Layman Law Office represents an ideal selection for this significance would be a tremendous addition to this effort and the Register of Historic Places.
A community can take great pride in its heritage.The citizens of tennial activities, one of which is the printing of a historical brochure history of their town.A building recognized as having national historic outlining information about generations of families and homes in the I hope you will feel as I do on this matter and I thank you for your 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 April 2, 1986 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Park Service Department of the Interior 1100 L Street, N.W. note that we have received letters walving their right to comment from the New Submiss ions Barr Hotel (amendment to Lima Multiple Col umb iana St.
Philip's Episcopal Church Layman, Christopher C., Law Office 614/466-1500 SOCIETY Sandusky County Perry Cuyahoga HISTORICAL Sincerely, Detroit-Warren Building Enclosures Pickaway Heights-Rockefeller Building State Historic Preservation Office Resource Area) St.Joseph's Catholic Church Enclosed are seven new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate Allen National Register of Historic Places Church of the Ascension Dear Carol: Ohio Historic Preservation Office give a substantive revlew to St.Joseph's Catholic Church. Please contact me if you have any questions. WRL:bp APR171986 Washington, D.C. 20240 Please do everything possible to expedite the listing of these two nominations. Please W.Ray Luce notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.F