Nomination for Georgetown Public School

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 8-86) DEC 2 4 1990- and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Georgetown Public School Location street & number 307 West Grant Avenue city, town Jvicinity zip code 45121 Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property LX private X building(s) Ipublic-Federal Name,9f related multiple property listing: listed in the National Register - State/Federal Agency Certification 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: -tional Regietes determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) code 015 site Date state object public-local public-State structure REGISTER Registration Form Noncontributing Total NATIONAL National Register.

12-14-90 historic name Number of contributing resources previously removed from the National Register. Georgetown National Park Service See continuation sheet. National Register of Historic Places Signature of certifying official determined eligible for the National State or Federal agency and bureau Number of Resources within Property United States Department of the Interior Lentered in the National Register. district Signature of commenting or other official National Registerof HistoricPlaces and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.

not for publication As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966,as amended, I hereby certify that this This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.See instructions in Guidelines Date of Action Sntered in the 22/5 the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, In my opinion, the property Register. See continuation sheet. Ohio 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Education: school Recreation and culture 7. Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) foundation - walls - other - Describe present and historic physical appearance.

The Georgetown Public School in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio is a 2-1/2 story, common bond brick structure composed of a main rectangular section with two subordinate triangular lot in a predominantly residential area two blocks west of the Georgetown the addition of a bathroom in the cloakroom of a first story classroom, and c. 1950 changes to the basement for a large cafeteria and bathroom additions. The common bond brick building features brick quoins on the corners, rock-faced brick Gibbs surrounds on the first story rectangular windows, and large radiating brick which is 2/2 on the first and second story windows and 6/6 in the basement window sash. with glass panels in the upper half. The building is basically symmetrical on the north and south sides, which both have lead up to these entrances, which have multi-panel wood doors with large transoms above.

The interior plan is composed of a central hallway with two staircases leading from railings with chamfered newel posts on the corners. A large flat skylight with multiple panes of glass, possibly a later addition, is located in the center of the stairhall ceiling.

* See continuation sheet stone roof Architectural Classification brick Richardsonian Romanesque commercial district.The building's integrity is remarkably intact.Later iron fire Commerce/trade:specialty store (enter categories from instructions) second story windows on all sides of the building.All windows have the original sash, asphalt shingle Second Renaissance Revival trances are also located in the recessed sections of the east and west sides.Stone steps escapes are the only exterior change;the interior changes consist of a lowered ceiling doors on the east side are connected by a central iron fire escape.Two double-door en- center of the main roof has a square paneled base with an octagonal steeple with trefoil roof have paired window openings with 6/6 wooden sash.Exterior doors are paneled wood arches over the round-arched second story windows.A brick beltcourse connects the The roof has wide overhanging eaves with single wood brackets.The cupola in the the north and south sides of the square hall area.The stairways have beaded board closed arched openings atop it.Two small hip-roofed dormers in the east and west ends of the section which is two bays deep.

wings on the north and south sides which form an overall cruciform plan.The saddleback and west ends of the roof contain a single hip-roofed dormer. The building rests on a in a second story classroom, subdivision of another second story classroom into two rooms, a central projecting wing. Both are eleven bays wide, including the three bay projecting the center, instead of windows, which have large two-pane transoms above. The second story in groups of three on both the first and second stories.The east side has four doors in The east and west sides are also similar and are six bays wide.The bays are arranged NPS Form 10-900 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 GEorgetown Public School, Georgetwon, Ohio, Brown County Six classrooms are grouped around the hall on both stories. transoms above. The original radiators, blackboards, and wood floors are present in most of the rooms.

Most of the rooms have newer flourescent lighting fixtures, although some have had their c. 1930 domed hanging fixtures restored, which had been stored in ment contains a c. 1950 cafeteria, small utility areas, and bathrooms. Photographic information: Georgetown Public School 306 W. Grant Avenue Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio The above name and address are the same for all fifteen of the following photographs. Cincinnati, Ohio 45210 The photographer for all photographs is Rita Walsh.

All photographs were taken in June Photo #1 View of southeast corner, photographer facing northwest Photo #2 View of south facade, photographer facing north View of west facade, photographer facing east Photo #4 View of Cherry Street, photographer facing east Photo #5 View of north facade, photographer facing south Photo #6 View of northeast corner, photographer facing southwest Photo #7 View of Grant Avenue streetscape, photographer facing southwest 1990. Continuation Sheet (continued) Miami Purchase Association United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Entrances to the classrooms have single four-panel wood doors with two-pane The location of the original negatives for the photographs is: 1225 Elm Street Photo #3 Section number - - Page .

the basement until recently.The classrooms have long narrow cloakrooms.The base- NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Georgetwon Public School, Georgetwon, Ohio, Brown County Photo #8 View of east facade, photographer facing southwest Photo #9 View of stairway in center hall, first floor, photographer facing southwest Photo #10 View of southwest classroom, first floor, photographer facing southeast Photo #11 View of northeast classroom, first floor, photographer facing northwest Photo #12 View of center hall, second floor, photographer facing southeast View of northwest classroom cloakroom, second floor, photographer facing north Photo #14 View of south classroom,second floor, photographer facing northwest Photo #15 View of northeast classroom, second floor, photographer facing northeast Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Photo #13 (8-86) Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Eletcher Bros.

Co, Cincinnati, OH (builder) The Georgetown Public School in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio is significant under it represents a period in Georgetown's educational history when a single building housed all of the public school grades in a central location, a typical practice in small towns school building in Georgetown, the county seat of Brown County. The Georgetown Public The Georgetown Public School was constructed in 1898 to replace an earlier school on the site which was destroyed by a fire in 1897. This earlier school, built in 1856, mar, intermediate, and primary. An enumeration of the school children in Georgetown in June 1899 counted 460 students from ages 6 to 21 years old.

The school rooms were also rented out for other educational endeavors in the community, including German classes and While the Georgetown Public School is the earliest public school in the village, there Georgetown's educational history. Both two-room brick schoolhouses, the Grant Schoolhouse now owned by the Ohio Historical Society and a school building included in the Georgetown serve all of the village's population. Lx See continuation sheet 1898-1921 Normal training. Architecture Education Significant Dates Architect/Builder Significant Person are two school buildings remaining in the village which represent an earlier phase in Cultural Affiliation example of an institutional building in Georgetown from the turn of the century.

School is significant under Criterion C because it is an architecturally significant of Georgetown's school children, who were grouped in four categories -high school, gram- 8. Statement of Significance

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Period of Significance 1988.It presently houses several small businesses and community activities. tended school.In 1899,the new 12-room school building was opened and served all grades 1880.After 1891,this earlier building was also where Georgetown's black children first at- had five rooms and served the elementary grades aswell as three years of high school after In 1921,a new two-story high school was built across the street from the 1898 school [x locally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Samuel Hannaford å Sons, Cincinnati, OH (arch.) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.

Historic District (NR 1978) were built in the 1820s as subscription schools and did not nationally because of overcrowding.The Georgetown Public School was used for elementary grades until was built across the street to the south.The structure is the oldest and most imposing public school grades from the time of its construction until 1921,when a new high school NPS Form 10-800-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service GEorgetown Public School, Georgetwon, Ohio, Brown County structed to serve all of the public school grades. Only two such school buildings still in a central location serve all of the public school grades in the late 19th century. The only other example is the 1880 Italianate style Higginsport School, which is also in of them built around the same time as the Georgetown school.

The rest of Brown County's The GeorgetownPublic School is one offour turn-of-the-century institutional (Rte. 125). All three of these buildings are included within the boundaries of the The Public Building, constructed to house the police station, mayor's office, and other the commercial/courthouse center. All three of these institutional buildings are three stories in height and of brick seen in the large round-arched second story windows and decorative cast iron storefront first story and large cornice with central pediment. is the overhanging wood eaves with exposed rafter tails similar to bungalows from a later The Georgetown Public School is one of thirty known educational buildings designed a thematic National Register nomination in 1980. classrooms. unchanged. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior and cornice.The F.G A.M.

Building is a severe example of Classical Revival,its Section number - Page _ 2 The Georgetown Public School was the village's first and only school building con- exist in Brown County, although it was common for small towns to have a single building plain rectangular block relieved by a simple cornice and projecting pedimented entrance porch. The Public Building is Second Renaissance Revival in style, with a rusticated The Georgetown Public School is the most sophisticated and imaginative stylistically of the four institutional buildings. The exterior exhibits a combination of fashionable stylistic elements from the 1890s, seen in the Richardsonian Romanesque style arched win- dows in the second story, the first story Gibbs surround windows indicative of the Colonial Revival style, and the fanciful central cupola with trefoil arches. An unusual feature period.

On both the interior and the exterior, the building's original design is remarkably were skilled designers in the popular styles of the time and receivedmany important public and private commissions. Fifty-five Cincinnati area buildings by the firm were listed in The Georgetown Public School is similar in its massing, size and some stylistic de- tails to Cincinnati schools built in the 1890s, although these were not designed by Hannaford & Sons. The Georgetown school's interior design is typical of late 19th century schools in its spacious hallways, double stairwells, generously-sized classrooms with two walls older public school buildings date from the 1910s and 1920s. the 1902 F. & A. M. Building on Main Street, and the 1907 Public Building on State Street part of a row of commercial buildings in blocks which face the Brown County Courthouse.

(8-86) construction.The Fraternity Hall has Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne styling, of hundreds of structures in Ohio and neighboring states.Samuel Hannaford and his firm his architectural practice in Cincinnati in 1858 and joined ina partnership with two of 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Brown County to Date: Historical, Biographical Souvenir, The News Democrat, pub. (1912) History of Brown County, Brown County Historical Society, compilers (c. 1968) offices, P.O. Drawer 299, Georgetown, Ohio 45121 Ohio Historic Inventory forms for Brown County public school buildings, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio Samuel Hannaford/Samuel Hannaford & Sons National Register thematic nomination, Stephen C. Gordon and Elisabeth Tuttle (1980) Walter A. Langsam, compiler, Cincinnati, Ohio Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested previously listed in the National Register recorded by Historic American Buildings 4Other 1225 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45210 10.

Geographical Data Approximately one acre Verbal Boundary Description their numbering, to wit: One hundred fifty three (153), One hundred fifty four (154), The lots which contain the building and its adjacent parking lot and green space is 11. Form Prepared By Rita Walsh/Architectural Historian organization _ .

telephone street & number - city or town - 10/90 Zone date Cincinnati University state Ohio Northing Boundary Justification Miami Purchase Association Acreage of property UTM References Local government previously determined eligible by the National Register recorded by Historic American Engineering designated a National Historic Landmark Specify repository: Federal agency See continuation sheet Other State agency Zone Easting State historic preservation office 1225 Elm Street (513) 721-4506 Atlas of Brown County, Ohio, Lake, Griffiths, and Stevenson (1875) Georgetown Exempted Village Board of Education Minutes, 1898-1915, Board of Education Computer list of buildings designed by Samuel Hannaford/Samuel Hannaford & Sons, Survey # Record #_ Situated, lying and being in the Village of Georgetown, Town of Pleasant, in the County of Brown, State of Ohio, and in that part of said Village laid out by Thomas _ zip code - 45210 Jennings and known and designated on the recorded plat of said addition to said town, name/title L4305700 SITE PLAN NO SCALE GEREETONN, BROWN COLINTY, OHIO 163 160 155 153 GEORHETOWN PHIBLIC SCHOOL 162 154 - PLAN SHOWN INDICATES PROPOSED DESGN SINK GEORGETOWN PUBUC SCHOOL - PLAN SHOWN INDICATES PROPOSED DESIGN 1205 GØRGETOWN, BROWN COUNTY, OHO 1204 CLAOCFOM BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN - PLAN SHOWN INDICATES PROPOSED DESIGN GEORHETOWN, BROWN COUNTY , OH10 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 12/24/90 1/25/91 DATE 2/07/91 REVIEWER MULTIPLE RETURN DISCIPLINE RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: DATE Entered in the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Registes REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N Georgetown Public School PROPERTY ACCEPT STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _architectural classification _descriptive text _summary paragraph _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of areas checked _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification _sketch maps USGS maps - -presentation current FUNCTION DESCRIPTION materials historic context Period Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY photographs CLASSIFICATION SIGNIFICANCE Date Specific dates Phone _completeness ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _count Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to justification of exception _resource type OTHER COMMENTS Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Signed Statement of Significance one paragraph) UTMs PHOTO #/ GEORGETOWN PUBLIL SCHOOL GEORGETONN, BROWN COLNTY, OHT PHOTO #2 GEORLETOWN, BROWN COLINTY, OHIO PHOTO +3 GEORGETOWN, BROWN COLINTY, OHIO PHOTO #4 GEORGETOWN PUBLIL SCHOOL JCPenney Catarg Merchant GEORGETOWN PUBUC SCHOOL GEORGETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOL GEORGETOWN, BROWN COLNTY, OH PHOTO #7 GEURLETOWN PLIBLC SCHOOL GEORETOWN PUBLC SCHOOL GEDRHETONN, BROWN COUNTY, OHO PHOTO#9 GEORGETONN PLIBLC SCHOOL PHOTO#13 GEORGETONN, BROWN COLNTY, OHHO PHOTO #15 GEORGETONN PUBLIC GCHOOL HIGGINSPORT.

OHIO-KY HIGGINSPORT QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES STATE OF OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 17/247760/4305685 38*52'30" U S Rout Education and Retirement, Columbus, Ohio 43266-0604 Economic Development Highways and Transportation Cooper Sny&er RECEIVED NOV 2 6 1990 14th District November 23, 1990 Mr. Jeff Winstel Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Re: Georgetown Public School, 307 West Grant Avenue, Georgetown Brown County, Ohio CS/ja Mr. and Mrs. John Ruthven, 7471 Dr. Faul Road, Georgetown Dr. and Mrs. John Donohoo, West Blair Avenue, Georgetown Mr. and Mrs. Henry McKinley, 1255 South Main, Georgetown Mr. Les Kautz, 851 S. R. 125, Hamersville, OHio 45130 614/466-8082 Statehouse Committees: Rules Chairman favorable consideration.

Dear Manager Winstel: National Register Manager great pride in maintaining historic integrity. State Senator Ohio Senate site for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.I know I am familiar with the site.It is a classic structure and deserves Ohio Historic Preservation Office Iampleased to learn that you are giving consideration to the referenced 1982 Velma Avenue Sinoerely, that you've worked in the past with the principles involved and they take DEC 2 4 1990 Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 (614) 297-2470 December 18, 1990 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Historic District and the Latty, Judge Alexander, House nominations, these Latty, Judge Alexander, House Simmons, Edwin H.

House SOCIETY HISTORICAL Brown Sandusky Defiance NATIONAL REGISTER Butler Preble County Georgetown School National Register of Historic Places New Submissions National Park Service Ohio Historic Preservation Office Dear Carol: be accepted because of this. German Village Historic District McKinley Memorial Parkway Department of the Interior Lange Hotel SINCE 1885 Soldiers Memorial Parkway and Enclosed are six National Register nominations.All the appropriate photographs were taken prior to the October 1988.1 am requesting that they In regard to the use of labels on the photographs of the German Village Ms. Carol Shull December 18, 1990 Page 2 Rathbun, Levi, House W. Ray Luce WRL/ Jw:dh Champaign Enclosures demolition. Sincerely, nrohp/trans.rev Mechanicsburg MRA State Historic Preservation officer Please contact me if you have any questions.

Iam also requesting that the following property be delisted due to its recent