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JUL 2 3 1990 1. Name of Property 2. Location ,not for publication city, town state Ohio zip code 45342 Xprivate public-State .structures _ objects listed in the National Register - State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this 5. National Park Service Certification other, (explain:) Date ot Acton Noncontributing district site public-local code building(s) Salem public-Federal Registration Form Total Classification NATIONAL historic name National Register of Historic Places entered in the National Register. National Park Service National Register. State or Federal agency and bureau removed from the National Register.
other names/site number Number of Resources within Property Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of contributing resources previously Signature of commenting or other official determined eligible for the National Ellerton National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forh in 36 CFR Pan 60. Name of related multiple property listing: See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the United States Department of the Interlor (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. Signature of certifying official 1,hereby, certify that this property is: Churches as Cultural Indicators of the Penn- In my opinion, the property Register. Soe continuation sheet. and areas of significance, enter only the calegories and subcategories listed in the instructions.
For additional space use continuation sheets -nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the Date Ohio Ellerton lutheran and German Reformed Church District street & number South Union Road Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical lutheran Church 1291 113 6, Function or Use Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) RELIGION, religious structure FUNERARY, cemetery 7. Description MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, Gothic 1. SALEM ELLERTON EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH This one-story, brick, cruciform church was constructed in the "Salem E. L. Church." on the right side of the church was built, but both sit on a poured stone foundation The Exterior: brick Architectural Classification windows. Revival walls (enter categories from instructions) Describe present and historic physical appearance.
The gable-front facade has three pointed arch stained glass windows in slate tops the tower.The tower has brick buttresses. paneled door with pointed arch stained glass transom which reads In the right front reentrant angle is a polygonal brick addition Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) trim which are set in corbelled brick panels.A tall spire sheathed with a pointed arch stained glass transom which reads "Salem E.I. The windows on the sides of the transepts are arranged like the Materials (enter categories from instructions) divides the lower part of the tower from the louvres with cutwork gable-front facade:the center window is taller than the flanking with brick drip molds with stone keystones and label stops.The is in the gable end, and the gable end has decorative wood paneling. with brick drip molds set into brick panels with brick corhelling.
tower reads "Salem Evan.Luth.Church,1887".A stone belt course roof See continuation sheet added. The door, located in a diagonal bay, is a wood paneled door gable-front facade. Church." Wood paneled double doors with pointed arch NO STYLE The left and right sides have pointed arch stained glass windows It is uncertain when this small addition and the vestibule projects out slightly from behind the addition. The door is a Above the doors are round United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed Church District, Ellerton, Montgomery Ohio watertable. The church has a multi-shaped slate roof. The date cartouche above the entrance reads "1938". windows on all four sides of the sanctuary, the church is unusually older stained glass, are memorial windows dedicated to their pastors 2. ELLERTON UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.
This one-story, brick, entrances, but they have been replaced with a single central Description display. Interior: Section number 7 Page National Register of Historic Places on the main gable-front facade.The side facades have retained Continuation Sheet concrete foundation. plaster surrounds and are delicately accented with stenciling. Round stained glass windows are in the front and rear gable ends of arch reredos with a recessed opening with drop tracery which contractor for the church in 1886-1887.The altar has a pointed On the rear is a sensitively designed brick education annex. rear gallery was reopened at this time to house the organ and the pads were added in 1969.
and the window on the east end displays a dove and a wood triune 1913-l914 at a time when many churches were adding or replacing pulpit, and baptismal font were given to the church in the 1920's the nave and fill the transepts. the nave. the interior was remodeled and "colonialized," however, the original NPS Form 10-000e and were crafted by C. D. Routzahn, a church member who was the and church members. Because there are stained glass These simple pointed arch windows have splayed The window over the altar displays the Lutheran symbol The church and the primary room sit on a cut stone foundation with provides space for a cross.
The sanctuary is cruciform in shape: pews flank the center aisle in was at this time that the entrance arrangement was changed.A 1938 well-lit by natural light.The stained glass windows, added in made by the American Seating Company.The altar rail and kneeling The alter is located in a pointed arch alcove.The The reredos was added in 1938 and was Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed Church District, Ellerton, Montgomery County, Ohio Section number _ their large multi-light rectangular windows, and the original 3. ELLERTON GERMAN REFORMED AND LUTHERAN CEMETERY Page Continuation Sheet nineteenth and twentieth centuries. but are representative of rural cemetery architecture of the building.
education annex was built onto the rear and on the right side of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service cemetery was established ca.l8l5 and contains headstones which date United States Department of the Interior A cemetery is located on the north side of the 1860 church and from l8l7 to the present time.Most stones are simple in detail, simple-gable front form has also remained intact..In 1956,the extends behind both of the churches.This early nineteenth century 1815- 1900 Ethnic:European Architect/Builder State significance of property, and justity criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. these early settlers was Jacob Getter from Ellerton, Maryland, who first church, a one-story log building, was constructed slightly to [X See continuation sheet 1860 Architecture 1817 century.
Social History Religion Montgomery County by the Pennsylvania Germans in the early Significant Person Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Salem Church or Salem Bear Creek Church. early founding date of these congregations are clear indications of Period of Significance Most of these settlers were from Pennsylvania, Maryland and In 1857,the two congregations decided to build a new church. The Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Ellerton United Church In the early years.of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania of Christ Reformed) represent the settlement of southwest town, the Post office was renamed Ellerton.
Significant Dates built by a local contractor in the last quarter of the nineteenth -statewide Xlocally Applicable National Register Criteria 120 perches of land was given to these congregations by William Germans began to move into the area now known as Jefferson Township. Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) nationally In 1815,the Lutheran congregation was organized by the Reverend John Casper Dill and the German Reformed congregation was organized the Pennsylvania German settlement of the area.The Lutheran church is also important as an excellent example of a Gothic Revival church by trustees of the Lutheran and German Reformed churches for the purchased land and sold lots for a village which came to be known as Virginia, and many were of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths.
Accordingly, on June 14, 1858 an agreement was drawn up and signed 1886-97 United States Department of the Interlor which is still occupied by the Ellerton Church of Christ, represents 1850-1860. Although it has been greatly altered, its simple to 1860. Its proximity to the lutheran church and its location next there is a definite resemblance in the pointed arch windows, the and the church was dedicated October 2, 1887. through the use of embellished pews, stained glass windows, and National Register of Historic Places the amicable relations which existed between many denominations and and the increasing emphasis on liturgical development which continued This Gothic Revival church represents the growing historical Continuation Sheet rectangular while the Ellerton church is one-story and cruciform), contributing building in this small historic district.
concept of the union church had become less acceptable.Its discouraged the planned merger of the two denominations in America. National Park Service become pastor of the Ellerton congregation after the parish during the 1860's construction of St.Jacob's he the plan is quite different Miamisburg church is 2-story and On August 17,1886,the Lutherans obtained articles of incorporation failure of the Prussian Reformed/Lutheran union of 18i7which Ellerton Lutheran and GErman Reformed CHurch District, Ellerton, Montgomery County, Ohio Section number - of the Lutherans and Reformed, however, it was also due to the Albrecht, who had been pastor of the Miamisburg-Ellerton parish, had square tower, and graceful slate-covered spire. Albrecht died on January 22, 1887 before the building was completed. furniture in the 1920's.
The cornerstone was laid October 30, 1886, constructed on land purchased in 1877 and 1886 from George Miller, division. Page The contractor gable-front form represents a church type which was common from 1830 The enrichment of the sanctuary resulting decline of interdenominational cooperation. It was he who was pastor of the Miamisburg congregation from the Secretary of State under the name of The Evangelical especially between the Reformed and Lutherans in the years before deciding factor that caused the Lutheran congregation to effect the to the early nineteenth century cemetery makes it a valuable dissolution of the joint church ownership and to build their own consciousness of most of the "mainline"denominations after 1830-l840 In 1883,the Miamisburg-Ellerton parish was perhaps the well into the twentieth century.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number - liturgical appointments. Alterations and additions also illustrate Germans in the early nineteenth century, the cemetery has the For example, it may answer questions about what families came birth, offer a valuable source of demographic information about this associationwith historic events. of Ellerton, are valuable cultural indicators of the Pennsylvania congregations. Page Continuation Sheet churches represent the settlement of these townships by Pennsylvania office/education annex reflects the increasing emphasis on education groups such as the Brethren who were more visible in other parts of Since the group we know as the Pennsylvania Germans were National Register of Historic Places potential to yield further information about this settlement group.
Pennsylvania Germans, unlike the members of the more separatist represented by Salem Lutheran, which reflected the growing These two sit side-by-side in the tiny rural village the American population after 1870 as well as the emphasis on It was gradually replaced by the Gothic Revival style church, period after World War II. stone datesto 1817 and the cemetery is filled with headstones north side of the Church of established ca.l815 and is Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed Church District, Ellerton, Montgomery County, Ohio The cemetery, which lies behind both of these churches and on the It is eligible history of yielding, or potential to yield, information important in century, the headstones, which often supply information on places of population group.
document the change in church forms which occurred in the nineteenth the the mainstream culture of the Pennsylvania history or prehistory." liturgical emphasis and the increasing wealth of American carved church furniture clearly illustrates the growing wealth of scattered over much of the eastern seaboard by the early nineteenth The earliest While the Lutheran and German Reformed which began in the early twentieth century and peaked in the baby boom said to be the oldest cemetery in Jefferson Township. Allbeck, Willard. Ohio: The Antioch Press, 1966. W. H. Beers and Company, 1882. Publishing Company, 1909. -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Jrecorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # X Other Record #. Salem Ellerton Lutheran Church 10.
Geographical Data Acreage of property 6 acres 330 feet to a point on Union Road and then south - See continuation sheet 560 feet to 11. Form Prepared By organization . December 1, 1989 state _ Ohia Zone Local government University Consultant date Federal agency historic integrity.
Boundary Justification See continuation sheet has been requested designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Engineering State historic preservation office previously listed in the National Register Previous documentation on file (NPS): Verbal Boundary Description E The boundary includes the two churches and the property which connects the two upright stone placed in a fence line;then along the fence line in a north-northwesterly churches and the cemetery which is located behind both churches and on the north Miamisburg, Ohio Quadrangle UTM References side of the Ellerton Church of Christ.Property held for cemetery expansion was Primary location of additional data: post in a northeasterly direction for 29l feet to a concrete filled steel pipe set Specify repository: Ellerton United Church of Christ direction for 30 feet to a concrete post set into the fence line;then from that concrete Other State agency 9.
Major Bibllographical Roferencos name/title - Germantown -_ zip code 45327 into the fence line; then from the concrete filled steel post in a north-northeasterly previously determined eligible by the National Register excluded.The boundary includes only that property which has maintained its city ortown Zone Easting direction for 3i5 feet to a concrete post set at a fence corner; from the conrete post east to the point of beginning. Beginning at a point on Union Road;then 6l2 feet west to an Northing United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed Church District, Ellerton, Montgomery County, Ohio 1. Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed Church Historic District 2. Ellerton, Ohio 4. Photographed September 1989 5. Negatives held by Claudia Watson Church. Looking northwest. northwest. sanctuary.
Photo Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church. the southwest corner of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran The following photographs are for: Looking southwest. the north side of the Ellerton United Church of Christ Looking northeast. Photo l3: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church. Showing north side of Detail of front gable Photo 16:Ellerton United Church of Christ Reformed). Section number Photos ri Page 1 3. Photographer: Photo 3: Photo 4: Back and south facades. Photo 5: Photo 6: and tower. looking southwest. Photo 8: Photo 9: (German Reformed Church). Looking west. Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church and Ellerton United Looking west. Claudia Watson Photo 10: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church.Detail of entrance on Photo l8: Elierton German Reformed and Lutheran Cemetery. the north side of the United Church of Christ.
Detail of south View on Ellerton Lutheran and German Reformed CHurch District, Ellerton, Montgomery County, Ohio Section number Phatos Page 2 in context. Looking north. northwest. the type of birthplace documentation which appears on National Park Service Continuation Sheet surrounding rural landscape. National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interlor District. Showing churches and cemetery in relation to Christ. other original headstones.
District.View showing the churches and cemetery in the This is a replacement stone which clearly shows the cemetery located northwest of the United Church of to the north of the United Church of Christ.Looking Real Estate County Scale 1" = 395 3672 German Reformed Church Ipo:t of Montgomery County, Ohio Real Estate Atlas German Reformed Church District Ellerton Lutheran and PHOTO KEy NPS Form 10-900-e Section number - Montgomery County, OHIO 2. Jacob's Church 3. Salem Bear Creek Church, Continuation Sheet COVER Date Listed Page National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Pennsylvania German Churches of Ohio MPS OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 1.
Emmanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church_ Hational Regiate: Salem Eyangelical Lutheran Church Substaatlye Review Suhstantive Raviow EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N PDIL: Y SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : REJECT DISCIPLINE 9/06/90 7/23/90 8/23/90 DATE RETURN PERIOD: NATIONAL: OTHER: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE RECEIVED: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: RECOM.
/CRITERIA ACLAT REFERENCE NUMBER: 90001291 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 8/07/90 REVIEWER ACCEPT DATE OF PENDING LIST: _resource type _architectural classification _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of areas checked _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other _verbal boundary description _boundary justification - Phone materials acreage FUNCTION DESCRIPTION count context historic Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE descriptive text Period CLASSIFICATION Date Specific dates Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Areas of Significance--Check and justify below OTHER COMMENTS Signed Statement of Significance