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Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) Criteria A & C 5. Other Name(s) St. James Convent 6. Specific Location 28. No. of Stories 2 Basement? Yes N 1 contributing building 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity Quarry cut coursed ashlar Wyoming, Ohio 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 21. Original Use, if apparent St Jomes Chureh 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use Painted - brick 35. Plan Shape T + additions 23. Ownership 36. Changes Private 8 Altered 8 24. Owner's Name & Address, Moved - 37. Condition ati, c/o st. James Parish 4 4 5 25. Open to 38. Preservation, Structure O Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National Wyoming Hist. Preservation Comm. By What? 13. Part of Estab. Yes O 14.
District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? E. Fey and B. Sherman March, 1982 15. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and veranda, like the door surround, is a turn-of-the-century re-creation It has a stone foundation, balustrade with turned balusters, the 43. History and Significance The house is significant for its architectural style as a well preserved early Victorian pharmacy in Wyoming. He was the first Postmaster (1872-77). He was developer of two sub- 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Located behind St. James Church, it is cut off from the hustle and bustle of Springfield West Hill Lane with a north-south line ten meters in front of the house to a north-south 46. Prepared by L. Gannon 47. Organization Wyoming Historical Society Archives John Diehl local historian, President Cincinnati Historical Society 48. Date 49.
Revision Date(s) August, 1985 614/466-1500 Underway? Easting Hamilton Register? Zone Front Convent Side SOCIETY Site Residence Eligible? Brick Charles Northing Wyoming Historic HISTORICAL Williams Directory Landmarks Renaissance (Explain Hip slate Frontage on Road Thematic Category Resources #2 Public Road? Plan with North Arrow Springfield Pike, Wyoming, 45215 Charles Woodruff House Unknown OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY 411 Springfield Pike 9.u.T.M.Reference Cincinnati East 27. Other Surveys in Which Included in #42) 3. Location of Negatiyes 17. Date(s) or Period 33. No. of Bays Addition B The windows are rectangular with 6/6 double hung sash, stone lintels The approach is off quiet West Hill Lane. The boundary is a rectangle starting on Sincinnatl Historical Society Archives 42. Further Description of Important Features (Continue on reverse if necessary) Italianate residence.
Charles Woodruff was significant historically as an early entrepren- House c.1855 OHIO Interior tical transom, molded spandral panels, side lights and Ionic half Potent'l? Spriasfield Pike 42. (continued) chimneys with chimney pots. The rear wing in lesser scale has had the porch framed in. The evidently added very early adding three bays to the right side with 6/6 windows on the second hung sash windows, an entrance porch with paired chamfered and molded pillars and a doorway of the century - pies what was the front lawn to Springfield Pike. line ten meters behind the house, north to to an east-west line ten meters north of the house approximately a meter from the street.
A rectangle 240' x 156' approximately .75 acres in Charles and William Schuberth, important builder-developers, lived in the house at the turn Wyoming Commercial Center for many years and, unfortunately, only recently demolished.He columns and cornices with modillions.The building cornice has an architraval molding eyebrow was a trustee of the Wyoming Baptist Church and a generous civic leader. size. principal addition is a brick rectangular block extending north from the rear wing.It was story and a matching cornice.The first floor was altered with a box bay with 2/2 double division in Wyoming during the 1880's.He built the Woodruff Block across from the station, construction.An odd garage has been added onto the rear.
The house is used as a convent for St.James of the Valley Roman Catholic Church which occu- with transom and french doors.On the south side isa frame addition of twentieth century NPS Form 10-900-8 The small addition to the south side and rear are unfortunate, but are 1 contributing building They Page Inventory-Nomination Form National Park Service the Woodruff Block across from the railroad station, Wyoming's commercial National Register of Historic Places Charles Woodruff is significant historically as an early entrepreneur Springfield Pike. was obviously made shortly after construction of the original house and is The house significantly represents its original period of construction as center for many years and, unfortunately, only recently demolished.H responsible for the door and porch alteration. well preserved Victorian Italianate in style. teration of the turn of the century.
Catholic Church, which now occupies the house's front yard facing on United States Department of the Interior of Wyoming residentsby the striking colonial revival doorway and porch al- Charles and William Schuberth lived here from-1910 to 1934. The house became in 1 934 a convent for St.James of the Valley Roman (1858) EX.. 12/31/34 He* was Lockland. Woodruff moved from Cincinnati in 1858 and was president of the were important builder-developers among those responsible for the devel- a Victorian Italianate and the continuing architectural progressiveness (7-81) Wyoming was settled as a mill a trustee of the Wyoming Baptist Church and a generous civic leader.He who helped develop Wyoming as a village. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Page 2af 2 Nomination/Type of Review I1. Retszch, W.C., House 12. Riddle-Friend House 13.
Rychen, John, House 14. Sawyer, Louis, House 15. Stearns, Edward R., House 16. Stearns, William, House 17. Tangeman, John, House 18. Village Historic District 19. Woodruff, Charles, House Date/Signature State Name Inventory-Nomination Form Attest Item number National Park Service DOE/OWNER OBJECTION Thematic Group Keeper National Register of Historic Places Wyoming Multiple Resource Area Enter Multiple Resource Area Ohio Entered in the Continuation sheet (3-82) National. Register Exp. 10-31-84 fKeeper WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Woodruff, Charles, House (Wyoming MRA) Fed. Reg.
Date:- Date Due: _ - RETURN nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: _ Reviewer _ _ see continuation sheet _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 _J unaltered L original site I moved summary paragraph boundary selection Condition ruins resubmission request Category Ownership completeness dates REJECT fair alterations/integrity unexposed Discipline Status appeal clarity Recom./Criteria OHIO deteriorated Hamilton County sample Substantive Review: Working No.
Nomination returned for: Reviewer's comments: Accessible Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance NR decision yes Present Use National Register Check one E6001651 Intexed in the Action: ACCEPT 8-25--86 good 8. Significance L summary paragraph J justification of areas checked J relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance - justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By State Historic Preservation Officer signature GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Date Builder/Architect Signed context title state national Phone: Maps applicable criteria local clarity UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification Specific dates completeness 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Statement of Significance