Nomination for Jacobs, Felix A., House

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 4 1986 date entered See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Jacobs, Felix A., House The Huckleberry House, Huck House and or common street & number - not for publication Col umbus city, town vicinity of X state - district _ public _ unoccupied - museum X building(s) X private - park - work in progress - private residence _ religious - in process X yes: restricted _ scientific - yes: unrestricted X other:crisis shelter 4. Owner of Property Huckleberry House Incorporated 410 South High Street has this property been determined eligible? - yes - county 2. Location both Accessible code entertainment Category commercial transportation government site Inventory-Nomination Form Ownership 3.

Classification structure educational historic Status industrial local object 6. Representation in Existing Surveys agriculture 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Franklin County Administration Building depository for survey records Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office 039 National Register of Historic Places being considered (3-82) Ohio received NOV Public Acquisition military Present Use Type all entries-complete applicable sections 1. Name For NPS use only 1421 Hamlet Street federal county Franklin & altered X original site _ moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

round tower. The tower is nineteen feet in diameter, rising three full stories to be house to the northwest of the house, and a small round brick building of indeterminate use The foundation is of rockfaced coursed block with a cut stone water table. Also of cut stone are the sills and lintels of the first, second and third floor windows. the house and three columns made of rockfaced block bases, brick shafts, and simple wooden sided and houses the small kitchen: An exterior steel fire escape is above the kitchen material. The main gable runs east-west with a gable symmetrically placed towards the south. the east and west gables are round portal openings originally used for ventilation.

woodwork, four fairly ornate fireplace mantels with built-in mirrors and floor tiling at unexposed Condition deteriorated excellent fair is a wide overhang exposing tongue-and-groove siding underneath with purlins and brackets south side is restricted to the first floor with diamond patterned shingles above it.In Check one 7. Description The original doors and windows of the carriage house all had cut stone sills and The east and south sides of the carriage house are most decorative with brick corbelling, 1966 and 1976. Presently the house is used as a crisis counseling center for troubled youths. addition and provides exits from the upper two floors.The roof overhang was cut to allow the same gray brick of the house, except the west side which is made of a courser red brick.

supporting the main gables of the house.The ceilings of the porch and the porte-cochere On the north side of the house is a porte-cochere that has a hipped roof, supported by The house is irregularly shaped in its overall plan.The two-and-one-half storied second floor is used as sleeping quarters. to have been built soon after the house was built.It is constructed of the same stone on the flat portion of the hipped roof.The railing is in view but not the a.c. unit. The Felix A.Jacobs house and its outbuildings sit upon a corner terrace lot and and East Eighth Avenue intersection.

The interior details on the first floor have remained fairly intact.The pocket front hall and the side entry leading to the basement or to the stairs.The front hall side residence is of excellent brick wall construction of running bond brick with a corbeled- house and the round building are all detached and sit on the northwest corner of the Hamlet _ruins X altered header belt course around the perimeter of the house between the second and third floors. entry has an impressive stone stairway leading up to the door that is now covered by clap- the exit door to be put into the third floor dormer. A door also replaced a second floor X good also have tongue-and-groove siding. The porch purlins radiate outward from the tower and are lintels. Some of the original doors and windows on the south side have been bricked in or and a lighter colored recessed brick on the second floor.

The clapboard siding on the board siding. block and brick but is missing the cut stone water table.The other addition is clapboard Prior to the current owners the house had been divided into eleven apartments between Two additions have been built onto the west side of the house.One seems by appearance The first and third floors function as counseling rooms,public spaces,and offices.The which is situated nearby. The residence and outbuildings were built between 1905 and 1910 There are four chimneys, two on both sides of the main gable.All sides are constructed of NPS Form 10-000-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Felix A.

Jacobs House, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio Item number 7 The front door has been replaced by a fire door, but the glass sidelights and transom Speculation as to the use of this building has included a privy, a well shed, and a The rest of the lot to the north of the house has been paved to serve as a parking parking lot, when the house is viewed from the corner it seems unchanged from when it Page (3-82) received date entered Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places their bases are all noteworthy.The main staircase bannister is missing some of the and mantel.Hardware for the heating and return air system is original in most cases. tool shed--its current use. served asa private residence.

floors are heated by the original double furnace and to gas)in the surface immediately before the front door is inlaid with black and white tiles. United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only decorative rounded ends exposed. exterior brick is the same gray brick of the house with an interior coarser red brick. basement.Many of the original doors have been replaced by code-required fire doors. The round outbuilding has a conical asphalt roof in bad repair.The purlins have The roof sits upon wooden supports that resemble a short stud wall that is not covered.

windows still remain.The front entrance is beneath a gable supported by two concrete The wall construction is of two wythes of brick.The spindles.The dining room containsia wall of built-in cupboards surrounding a fireplace Areas of Significance - Check and justify below community planning .musIc exploration settlement X 1900- X. politics government Specific dates c. 1905-1910 Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Criteria B and C three levels. At the time the house was built, it was a showplace of the most up-to-date methods furnace and boiler operated the conventional steam radiators on the upper two floors would enter the bottom of cabinets housing the steam pipes and exit as hot air at the top. in Canada, India, Argentina, Australia, Siberia, and Africa. Mine cars from this firm were used in Alaska. Jacobs also has to his credit the title of inventor, for he had patents on wood able to buy the land once part of the vast holdings of the Neil Family, and build the house for his brother, sister, and himself. and the first municipal electric light plant was put into operation by him.

commerce 1500-1599 1700-1799 1800-1899 1400-1499 economics communications education conservation invention transportation archeology-prehistoric engineering humanitarian literature theater Period science barrows, horse-drawn scrapers, and other essential earth-moving equipment used the world other (specify) law prehistoric archeology-historic 1600-1699 sculpture Xarchitecture York and London as well.Kilbourne and Jacobs equipment was used in construction projects 8. Significance military social/ in heating, electrical and telephone equipment.

A private electrical phone system--not Felix Jacobs was also vice-president of the Kilbourne and Jacobs Manufacturing -agriculture term on city council and as Director of Public Improvements.During his term (1897-98) -philosophy The Felix A.Jacobs House is significant for its architecture and Jacobs' role in of"safe" drinking water, during his political term as the Director of Public Improvements. small and built for decoration in the 1890s.This large tower has a room on each of its X-industry landscape architecture over at the turn-of-the-century.

Locally, the city of Columbus owes much to this man since he was largely responsible for building the Jacobs Conduit, the city's first source Company, which was described in an 1883 company catalogue as "the largest maker of By 1890 the company had offices in New The city owes much gratitude to Jacobs for the work he completed while serving a finalty was build after legal delays.

In the meantime, however, to relieve the city of Architecturally, the house's 19-foot diameter corner tower is significant and contributes 1883 to be "the strongest and lightest running wheel known, it will not shrink in any a water famine threat, he had constructed an iron conduit supplied by artesian wells, art religion Builder/Architect unknown facturing Company, an enormously successful enterprise producing wrought steel wheel- climate and the tire cannot come off." Due to the success of the company, Jacobs was and under his direction, plans were completed for the water storage dam (Griggs Dam) that while the first floor was warm-air heated by heat exchangers in the basement.Cold air earth-moving implements in the United States." Architecture Columbus, Columbus, 1976. Columbus Citizen-Journal, 5 March 1976.

Quadrangle scale 1:24 000 UT M References - state (revised 3/86 by Bryan Knedler, intern OHPO) telephone 1-614-291-3086 Col umbus 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 State Historic Preservation Officer signature For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Chief of Registration U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 11.

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

Form Prepared By code county 9. Major Bibliographical References date Northing national Attest: title starting point. 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification organization The Ohio State University Acreage of nominated property List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 10. Geographical Data Zone Easting Keeper of the National Register city or town name/title Lonnie J. Hovey along alley 170 feet to its intersection with East 8th Avenue.Then135 feet back to the less than l acre Xlocal 14,412.81860 From corner of Hamlet and East 8th Avenue, move according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. street & number 16 E. Norwich # 5 Zone Verbal boundary description and justification Arter, Bill. Columbus Vignettes, vol. II., Columbus, 1967.

WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Subetantive Heview Jacobs, Felix A., House Working No. _ Fed. Reg. Date: 2 Date Due: _ 12 |19/86 nomination by person or local government _appeal -sample # NR decision Reviewer _ Discipline - - see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - _ technical corrections cited below _ substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7.

Description _ deteriorated J unaltered -original site _ moved Category resubmission completeness Ownership Status Accessible request yes excellent fair REJECT ruins clarity RETURN unexposed dates alterations/integrity Action: boundary selection Public Acquisition Check one Substantive Review: 86003434 Franklin County Reviewer's comments: 6. Representation in Existing Surveys owner objection summary paragraph Federal Agency: Has this property been determined eligible? Present Use Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance Condition Recom./Criteria 4 1986 J good OHIO ACCEPT summary paragraph relating significance to the resource J justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By _national Date context completeness eriod Signed title Builder/Architect Maps state clarity Photographs UTM References Specific dates State Historic Preservation Officer signature applicable criteria relationship of integrity to significance justification of areas checked Quadrangle name local The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Areas of Significance-Check and justify below 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Verbal boundary description and justification Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) ynificance - Phone: GPO 918-450 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus May, 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus Looking west along north side of East Eighth Ave., Jacobs' House Franklin County, Ohio Felix A. Jacobs' House Negatives on file at The Ohio south facade to right of photo. #1 of 18 photographs 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May, 1985 Negatives on file at The Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Historic Jacobs! House east facade at left Preservation Office, Columbus #2 of 18 Photographs Felix A. Jacobs' House Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Looking north along Hamlet Street Felix A.

Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey May, 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus Negatives on file at The Ohio North and East facades of House; note carriage house at right. Historical Society, Ohio Historic #3 of 18 Photographs ONE WAY Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus South and East facades of the Negatives on file at The Ohio #4 of 18 photographs. 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus Negatives on file at The Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey South and West facades of House, South facade of carriage house seen at left in photo. #5 of 18 photographs Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J.

Hovey May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negatives on file at The Ohio #6 of 18 photographs West (rear) facade of Felix A. Felix A. Jacobs' House Jacobs' House. 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus Exterior underside of front porch Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negatives on file at The Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey #7 of 18 photographs Felix A. Kacobs' House Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus #8 of 18 photographs Negatives on file at TheOhio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Front (east) entrance details of gable, columns and steps. 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus cochere.

Negatives on file at The Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Historic #9 of 18 photographs Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Felix A, Jacobs' House North elevation with porte- 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus One of four mantels, a detail on Historical Society, Ohio Historic through a double door from the the first floor interior, as seen Negatives on file at The Ohio #10 of 18 photographs Felix A. Jacobs' House Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey "round room." 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus #11 of 18 photographs Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negatives on file at The Ohio A typical 6- paneled door used as floor. Photo 10 shows doors open. Franklin County, Ohio Felix A. Jacobs' House from the "round room' on the first the original doors. These are Felix A.

Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negatives on file at The Ohio room." #12 of 18 photographs Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Preservation Office, Columbus seen in the second floor "round The original steam radiator as Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus A typical pocket door as seen from Historic Society, Ohio Historic Negatives on file at The Ohio the first floor parlor. #13 of 18 photographs 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus Negatives on file at The Ohio Built-in original cupboards in the first floor dining room. See #14 of 18 photographs photo 15 to see rest of same wall Felix A.

Jacobs' House Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Preservation Office, Columbus Fireplace mantle, tiled floor Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negative on file at The Ohio Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 #15 of 18 photographs of same wall. and cupboards in the first floor Felix A. Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Historical Society, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus carriage house. Negative on file at The Ohio North and east facades of the Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey #16 of 18 photographs 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus Franklin County, Ohio May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus carriage house South and west facades of the #17 of 18 photographs Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Negatives on file at The Ohio Felix A. Jacobs' House Historical Society, Ohio Historic Felix A.

Jacobs' House 1421 Hamlet Street, Columbus May 1985 Preservation Office, Columbus house. Round outbuilding located to the north and east of the carriage #18 of 18 photographs Photographer: Lonnie J. Hovey Historical Society, Ohio Historic Negative on file at The Ohio Franklin County, Ohio SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS, OHIO 1.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION OHIO-FRANKLIN CO. N2952.5W6300/7.5 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 October 30, 1986 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 1100 L Street, N.W. New Submiss ions East Broad St. Multiple Resource Area Jacobs, Felix A., House Powell, Andrew, Homestead W.

Ray Luce NOV 4 1986 614/466-1500 County SOCIETY Hancock HISTORICAL Enclosures State Historic Preservation Office appropriate notification procedures have been fol lowed for these new Dear Carol: National Park Service Ohio Historic Preservation Office Franklin Department of the Interior Please contact me if you have any questions. National Register of Historic Places WRL:bp