Nomination for Powell, Andrew, Homestead

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service date entered DEC | 9 1986 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries-complete applicable sections Powel1, Andrew, Homestead street & number 9821 County Road 313 - not for publication city, town * vicinity of Findlay, OH State Dhia _ district - unoccupied - agriculture - museum * building(s) * private - park - work in progress * private residence _ religious - in process N/A being considered - yes: unrestricted . industrial 4. Owner of Property courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Hancock County Courthouse has this property been determined eligible? - yes Ohio Historic Preservation Office Col umbus 2. Location Category code Ownership both entertainment Accessible date government 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys educational structure commercial site Status historic Inventory-Nomination Form scientific military National Register of Historic Places Present Use Public Acquisition 5. Location of Legal Description 3. Classification X.yes:restricted (3-82) Ohio Greg Powell county Hancock For NPS use only depository for survey records South Main Street NPS Form 10-900 1. Name street & number9821 County Road 313 and or common Brick House or Brick Mansion .transportation _ other: Ohio Historic Inventory . federal county local object title X excellent _ deteriorated - original site - good _ ruins .moved date The Andrew Powell Homestead is a fine example of the modest Italianate by fire in 1901.

walls of the 1871 two-story house that was gutted by a 19Øl November The fire gutted the house and damaged part of the upper story that remained but instead of the full two stories height it was rebuilt to of the house at the time using brick from the upper stories. reconstructed within them. The front facade is one room wide and contains a central door flanked by porch posts, a simple spindle balustrade and a shed roof is found on the A vertical, board sided, shed roofed, attached carriage barn was added in (south) elevation contains a fenestration pattern similar the the front Condition 7.

Description unaltered Check one This one and one-half story English bond brick house was built within the elevation (west) also has a projecting pavillion with a door and stoop -unexposed with deep cornice returns and dentils decorating the roof gables and flanked by two doors that display decorations that echo the front facade. elevation with the addition of a porch with a shed roof.The remaining The one and one-half story house has a gently pitched, cross gable roof -fair is a 19Ø2 recontruction of the 1871-72 house that was partially destroyed directly above the door. The windows and the door display modest arched tin window hoods with drip decorations and each has decorative tin sills which were salvaged after the fire. The east elevation contains a barn is an overhead door which was installed in the 194Ø's.

The rear porch on the north, two windows on the west and a window on the south. projecting pavillion with two windows on the first story and one in the date Findlay. fire. eaves. 1871-72. The roof is fiberglass shingles except for the east porch which is The bricks were fired across the road from the house during remained standing after the fire and were salvaged and the house was The first floor walls and part of the second floor walls OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only Item number 17 Continuation sheet The interior of the house retains the original 1902 woodwork, doors and livingroom, parlor, library, three bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, and reconstruction in 1902 and were remodeled in 1953. The second floor is one large room that was also remodeled in 1953.

The outbuildings on the site include a brick bake oven, outhouse and a DESCRIPTION Page fruit. Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places received (3-82) date entered The brick outbuildings were built in the l870's along with the original NPS Form 10-900-8 many of the doors have transomes and all the windows have wooden sills. bake bread. The oven to the north has wooden drawers that held the drying Each of the gables tops rectangular ovens that were used to dry fruit and The first floor plan is similar to the l870's house plan and consists of a Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - literature - music X_ 1800-1899 . exploration/settlement - philosophy X. 1900- .industry - politics/government Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) associated with Andrew Powell who was a locally significant farmer; investor in the 1880-9Ø's Findlay oil and gas boom; and a religious leader (Criteria A and B) . Powel1 house is an noteworthy example because some of the original house was destroyed by fire and then reconstructed to a smaller scale, with salvaged materials, to resemble that partially destroyed building. A 1901 fire gutted the interior and brought down the roof and part of the second within the walls of the 1872 house with bricks that had been salvaged from version of the original two-story structure retaining much of the original salvaged and reused. was used for drying fruit apples from the farm orchard and then was used 1600-1699 commerce communications 1700-1799 1400-1499 8.

Significance engineering theater transportation prehistoric humanitarian social/ -.architecture .military .economics has a twin gable roof connected by a shed section that coversa central had built from bricks that were fired in kilns across the road from the November of l9ol.It gains significance because there are several extant -conservation ---archeology-historic outbuildings that are unusual to this area (Criteria C)and because it is - other (specify) This one and one half story house is a l9o2 reconstruction of the original ..invention .sculpture ...education law . science .art ...archeology-prehistoric - community planning .landscape architecture.. religion X_ agriculture 1871-72, 1902 Andrew Powell 1871-72 Andrew Powell home, which was partially destroyed by a fire in Andrew Powell nearly died trying to save the house which he farm site. In the fire. examples of 1870's farm life.

These include a bake/drying oven, outhouse storage area. structure of this type in the area. The bake/dry oven was used by The heat from the bricks produced enough heat to bake or dry items. building that stands to the rear of the house. 1500-1599 Period Builder/Architect Specific dates 1871-72, 1902 and pig house.The most unusual of these is the bake/drying oven which story walls.A Each of the gables is over one of which starting a fire:in.the bottom of each:retangular section.After the fire By the spring of 1902 he had completed a one.and one half story See continuation sheet # 4 Acreage of nominated property -1 Quadrangle name Findlay Quadrangle scale - 1:24000 UT M References Vol. 46 Pg 296 at the Hancock County Recorder's Office- A part of the north half of the - state Diana D.

Moran (with assistance from Greg Powell) Bowling Green State University July, 1986 street & number Bowling Green, OH (419) 372-2411 The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature Chief of Registration 11.

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

Form Prepared By 063 organization county code date 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Northing telephone name/title national Ohio Attest: 9. Major Bibliographical References Verbal boundary description and justification local Zone Easting 10. Geographical Data city or town List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Center for Archival Collections NWRO Ohio Historic Preservation Office For Nps use only hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Hancock Keeper of the National Register NPS Form 10.900-a OMB NO.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places date entered Powel1, Andrew, House, Findlay, vic., Hancock County, Ohio Item number $t 8 that included wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, and hay; and raised sheep, During the Findlay oil and gas boom Andrew Powell became involved in the founding of the West Park Window Glass Company and the Union Glass Company production was greatly reduced until his son, Ellsworth, took over the Ellsworth made the farm productive again, adding over one hundred The farm is no longer a working farm. farming. Page SIGNIFICANCE received Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet (3-82) sheep, cattle and hogs; and growing corn, oats and potatoes. introduced the Langstroth method of bee keeping to Hancock county.

consolidated were forced to reduce production because they were at the end who had created the moveable comb house near Company, established in 1889,was the twelfth glass company to be 1ocated in Findlay. At this time Findlay was second only to Pittsburgh in overall failed, as did many others, because of the reduced flow of gas. which was above average for that time, through the Depression by raising Ellsworth was active in the rural community serving as an Ohio Farmer 1964; and the current owner, Marion's son Greg, recieved title in 1984. Upon Sarah's death the property was inherited by her children by a and fifty acres to the farm. He was able to retain this acreage of 22Ø, 1918.

When sheriffs auction.At the auction, that took place on the couthouse Andrews third wife, Sarah, purchased the house and 73 arces of farm land companies were forced to use oil during the day and gas at night; and by Institute speaker and as a member of the Hancock County School board for in the West Park subdivision of Findlay. live in the house with his son, James, until his death in l9l6. glass production.By 189l West Park Window Glass and Union Glass The West Park Window Glass United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet Item number In 1878 the Powell family held their first family reunion to honor the decentants of Andrew Powell.

SIGNIFICANCE received (3-82) Inventory-Nomination Form Page in Hancock County and in Ohio; and also represent the life of individuals date entered memorial to their church was constructed one mile west of ancestors of Philip arrived in America in 1685.In 1883,asa NPS Form 10.900-8 supervise the construction of the church which is still an active and The land, the house and the outbuildings represent an example of farm life land and the lives of those in the area. was dedicated as a United Brethen Church.An annual family reunion of the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places date entered Powel1, Andrew, House, Findlay, vic., Hancock County, Ohio Item number # 9 Continuation sheet Beardsley, D.

B.; History of Hancock County, Republic Printing Company, Moore, Jessie Powell; A Brief History of the Philip Powell Family and Preface to the Peter Powell Descendants, 1936. Powel1, Homer.; History of the Andrew Powell Family, Adrian, Michigan, Powel1, Rev. John; Memorial History of Philip Powell of Mifflin County, Pa Oman, David; Hancock County Commissiner, interview, 1986. Smith, Don; Findlay Pattern Glass, Fostoria: The Gray Printing Company , 197Ø, and interview, 1986. (Findlay, OH.) 1886. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1952. (3-82) 1881. Inventory-Nomination Form Brown, History of Hancock County; Chicago: The Warner, Beers and Company, received NPS Form 10-900-a and his Descendants and Others, Dayton, OH 188Ø (Library of Congress). OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only Continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description-Continuation Township one f-, Range ten (10) east, commencing at a point in the center Ohio Deed Records, running thence south 38 1/2 east along the east line of a tract conveyed in 1918 by June Powell to Ellsworth D. Powell, as described in Volumn 151, page 83 of said Deed Records; thence southwesterly parallel with said. road; thence northwesterly parallel with said first line; and thence northeasterly along the center of said road to the place of beginning, te distances being sufficient to include the house Findlay and Lima State Road, at the corner of the present fence; thence southwesterly parallel with the right of way line of said Findaly and Lima * Incorrect Vol.

number, It should read Vol 141, page 164 Page Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places date entered received NPS Form 10-900-a Powel1, Andrew, House, Findlay, vic., Hancock County, Ohio Item number #/0 ot the Findlay and Lima Road, which is 574 feet northeasterly from the northeast corner of a tract of land conveyed to Ellsworth D. Powell by Nhich tract is more particularly described as follows: southeasterly alon said fence 188 feet 5 inches to a steel post; thence Road 220 feet to a steel post; thence northwesterly parallel with said way 220 feet, more or less to the place of beginning.

Commencing at a steel post on the east line of the right of way of said first line 188 feet 5 inches to a stake on the east line of the right of Ezra 0.Yates by deed recorded in Volumn 141*,Page 164,Hancock (3-82) 8600 3449 WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Powell, Andrew, Homestead Working No. _ Fed. Reg. Date: Action: - - _ RETURN nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - Jappeal J sample J request XNR decision Reviewer's comments: - 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 J excellent - unaltered _J original site J moved Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph - boundary selection Accessible resubmission Category Date Status completeness REJECT Ownership ruins Discipline clarity deteriorated alterations/integrity unexposed Condition Hancock County Substantive Review: good NOV/41986 986 yes fair Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) - summary paragraph - completeness J applicable criteria - justification of areas checked Jrelating significance to the resource I context - relationship of integrity to significance -justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 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 - Date - L Photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to _ Phone: - Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Signed Builder/Architect title state national clarity local Specific dates 8. Significance GPO 918-450 Maps Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period Hancock County, Ohio Ink Drawing: G. A.

Eberhart Homes tead 1ooking Southwest- Includes 2nd wife #1 of 17 Photographs 1875 Caroline Powell's picture Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Front Facade and East side elevation Andrew Powell Homestead 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio Ink Drawing: G. A. Eberhart Barn and part of farm looking Southwest - # 2 of 17 Photographs 1875 Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell includes Andrew Powell's Picture Andrew Powell Homestead 9821 County Road 313, 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Summer, 1878 looking Southeast.

Andrew Powell's # 3 of 17 Photographs Homestead Family in Picture Hancock County, Ohio Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Front Facade and West side elevation Andrew Powell Homestead 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, # 4 of 17 Photographs Homestead east Andrew Powell Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Close up view of Front Facade looking South Hancock County, Ohio Nov. 1901 Photographer: Unknown 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio Nov. 1901 # 5 of 17 Photographs Homestead East side elevation looking Northwest Andrew Powell Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Summer, 1903 Southwest.

1903 Reunion at the Re- #6 of 17 Photographs Homestead Andrew Powell Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Hancock County, Ohio East side elevation of Porch looking built Home Photographer: 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Summer, 1909 west.

1909 Reunion at the Andrew Powell #7 of 17 Photographs Homestead East side elevation of Porch looking South- Hancock County, Ohio Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Andrew Powell Homestead Summer, 1934 # 8 of 17 Photographs Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Andrew Powell Homestead Hancock County, Ohio 1934 Andrew Powell Reunion East side elevation looking West 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio April 3, 1986 Homestead Andrew Powell Homestead Front Facade looking South Negative on file at the Andrew Powell #9 of 17 Photographs Photographer: Eric Von Renterghem April 3, 1986 # 10 of 17 Photographs Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Front Facade looking South Andrew Powell Homestead Hancock County, Ohio 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Photographer: Eric Von Renterghem Hancock County, Ohio April 3, 1986 # 11 of 17 Photographs Homestead Andrew Powell Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell East side elevation looking Southwest Photographer: Eric Von Renterghem 9821 County Road 313, Hancock County, Ohio Photographer, Eric Von Renterghem April 3, 1986 # 12 of 17 Photographs Homestead Andrew Powell Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell East side elevation looking West 9821 County Road 313, 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio April 3, 1986 # 13 of 17 Photographs Homestead Southeast Andrew Powell Homestead West side elevation and Bake-Oven looking Photographer, Eric Von Renterghem Negative on file at the Andrew Powell 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio Photographer, Eric Von Renterghem April 3, 1986 Andrew Powell Homestead Rear View looking North Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Homestead #1lof 17 Photographs Hancock County, Ohio April 3, 1986 #15 of 17 Photographs Homestead looking Northeast Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Rear view and accessory buildings Andrew Powell Homestead Photographer: Eric Von Renterghem 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, 9821 County Road 313, Findlay, April 3, 1986 #16 of 17 Photographs Homestead Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Andrew Powell Homestead Bake-Oven looking West Hancock County, Ohio 9821 County Road 313, Findlay April 3, 1986 Home stead # 17 of 17 Photographs Brick Outhouse looking Southeast Negative on file at the Andrew Powell Andrew Powell Homestead Hancock County, Ohio UNITED STATES FINDLAY QUADRANGLE FINDLAY, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-HANCOCK CO 1960 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY N4100W8337.5/7.5 279