Nomination for Gill--Luchsinger--Bahnsen House and Barn

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NºS Form 10-000 JUN 1 8 1992 and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space usa continuation sheets 1. Name of Property Jnot for publication street & number 426 E. 4th Street Jvicinity zip code county Ottawa 3. Classification Ownership of Property * building(s) x public-local _ sites _ structures _objects Name of related multiple property listing: 4. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this Mnomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the Signature of commenting or other official National Park Service Certification Intered In the 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Mentered in the National Register.

] determined eligible for the National ] determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) Date of Action 123 Noncontributing Date REGISTER district state private public-State public-Federal National Register. Total Registration Form historic name Port Clinton Ohio National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Number of Resources within Property other names/site number See continuation sheet. NATIONAL Category of Property removed from the National Register. National Park Service listed in the National Register Number of contributing resources previously This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.See instructions in Guidelines State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of certifying official city, town (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. OME No.

1024-0018 for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box orby entering Gill, Luchsinger- Bahnsen-House and Barn National Register of Historic Placesand meetsthe procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Register. - Soe continuation sheet. does not meet the National Register criteria.See continuation sheet. In my opinion, the property meets . Function or Use Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description located on a 100'x 200' residential lot in Port Clinton, ohio, the cross-shape, (3,4) is 2 1/2 stories in height and sits on a limestone bracketed eaves with a flat soffit and panelled frieze, which other Italianate Greek Revival Asphalt Describe present and historic physical appearance. siding with cornerboards.

Weather Board duplicates the design in the smaller frieze boards above the windows. See continuation sheet Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) The roof is covered with asphalt shingles, which probably replaced Architectural Classification All windows, except one, are one-over-one double hung sash and all have gabled roof is returned to suggest a pediment and has wide Each of the four elevations of the Gill house exhibit some variations lantern gable is supported by a single bracket and the lantern roof shed roof porch extends from the west side of the kitchen addition.

Oculus ventilating louvers with half circle entablature moldings bracketed entablature surrounds with decorative frieze molding.(5) The Materials (enter categories from instructions) The Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house and barn built in 1876,are Each of the four lantern windows has a shaped entablature surround with located on the corner lot of a residential street of late nineteenth (enter categories from instructions) and pendants are found in each of the four gable ends.(6) protrudes from the roof ridge of the south facing DOMESTIC/Single Dwelling features five wooden at each of the roof ridges and one at walls Port uiinton, unio, uttawa county a sawn ornamental relief design in the frieze. The peak of each foundation floor.

The west elevation has a single pane rectangular window in the The semi-rural environment in which the wooden shingles and is crowned with a cross-shaped lantern or cupola. and extends south from the rear of the house.(4) A small trellised has two, one-over-one double hung windows on the first and second roof or alterations.The two 4th Street elevation county seat of ottawa County. The Gill house exhibits both Greek Gill, juchsinger, Bahnsen House and Barn, Port Clinton, Ohio Ottawa County According to an earlier photograph, the brick porch (c1920) new floor, cupboards and appliances. A double tract sliding door, which faces a rear alley, forms the property.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places The south facing elevation includes the one story kitchen which second floor paired, one-over-one windows are the only ones found on National Park Service roof porch with brick supports fills the southeast ell of the east bracketed cornice with panelled frieze which matched that found in the remains and the rear brackets were removed when the new porch was United States Department of the Interior ventilating louvers and the date 1876 painted in the north facing OME Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Ieatures a recently added bay window at the rear. (8) A shallow hip vertical board and batten siding. (9) It features a lantern with lantern gable. (10) main entrance to the barn. two dutch doors.

(12) There are no other outbuildings currently on the replaced an earlier frame porch with square neoclassical columns and a Page The four woodwork in the parlor, living room and first floor bedroom. This entrance includes a door surround with pilaster east elevation. This south facing elevation also features The house also retains the original cut glass The barn has two one story shed roof additions. leads to the lantern. United States Department of the Interior - Page - and is therefore listed only once. 426 E. 4th Street With photographer, 422 E. Third Street, Port Clinton, Ohio north and east elevations, house and barn 4. north and west elevation, house 3. east elevation, house 5.

north elevation, house National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet camera facing sw east gable with brackets, house Photograph List Port clinton, Ottawa County, ohio National Park Service Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen House and Barn and the location of the negatives are the same unless otherwise noted Terry A. Wolfe Section number 7 Please note:The name of the of photographer Section number _ lantern, house 9. - north and east elevation, barn lantern, barn east elevation, barn south elevation, main entrance, barn Page National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet east and south elevation, house National Park Service camera facing se United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-000 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Architect/Builder Port Clinton. Meanwhile, Gill's Uncle Samuel, who at one time owned on which the house and barn are now sited. X See continuation sheet 1876 Architecture Historical Background century suburbs. Significant Person Unknown Period of Significance residence was the first house built south of the railroad tracks. Significant Dates Cultural Affiliation development that had already begun to obscure the delineation between Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) house represents a shift in stylistic influence from the classical to rural and urban areas and that would culminate in countless twentieth Constructed on an approximately forty acre farm in 1876,Gill's house and barn symbolize the late nineteenth century growth and form and plan adapted by many mid and late nineteenth century builders build the house and barn that are the subject of this nomination.

between village and country environments, the Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen Centitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Prior to that time the railroad had served as the southern boundary of family apparently prospered in the Port clinton them to the romantic, which had begun on the east coast in the 184o's and had adjacent to his nephew, registered a plat, known as Gill's addition, in State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Of local significance, the Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house and barn are nominated to the National Register under Criteria C. Under C, the for their prosperous cliental.

Further, the Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen statewide nationally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) house is an excellent example of the energetic design and conservative intact until sometime after 19oo, when the earlier plat was expanded Applicable National Register Criteria NPS Form 10-800 Magdalena Daubenberger in 1881 and they had three children. The 1930's (1910 Census records) . Continuation Sheet Architectural Significance nineteenth and early twentieth century American buildings that lie 447-482) National Park Service Section number between high style and traditional folk forms as mid-level elements that accommodate both client and community.

motifs and models available in popular architectural guides, but in an National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Architectural historian Catherine Bisher has described the vast body of horse and buggy to the family farmstead on Luchsinger Road.(Port Switzerland in 1855 and immigrated to the United States with his milking, raised their own pigs and chickens, and maintained a vineyard John Luchsinger purchased the property from Gill in 1898 and moved his Bisher argues that practical builders used the entire sequence of Both Gill and Luchsinger might be described as'gentlemen farmers of building forms or combinations of the only the Luchsingers' continued to live in the house until their deaths in the desired combination of appealing details brackets, spindle work, currently owned by the city of Port Clinton.

Gill, Lachsinger, Bahnsen House and Barn, Port Clinton, Ohio Ottawa County and small orchard. In fact, Luchsinger never completely severed his That is, they relied on basic cubic arches, trefoils, ocalus windows, etc.). (Bisher, Common Places, Pp. Page essentially conservative manner.

James Bahnsen (who had lived with Carrie's parents since their marriage until their deaths in 1978 and 1980.Their daughter, Eleanor Johnson, concepts as in finding workable synthesis of popular and traditional The Bahnsen's continued to live there (also known as Lena),their youngest daughter Carrie and her MAR 12 'S2 10:22 Gill-Luchsirger-Bahnsen House and Barn, Port Clinton, Ohio Ottawa County Section number _ Because of their prominence during this period, Greek Revival and Because of the houses 1876 date of construction, this specific However, in small towns and rural areas high style Greek synthesis of popular and traditional elements." (Bisher, Pp. 447-482) seem traditional or conventional, its overall appearance is energetic centers. country environments.

The transition Page National Park Service similarly designed barn remains as the fundamental agriculture nineteenth century architectural styles, Greek Revival and Italianate. Italianate style architectural elements dominated the contemporary Greek Revival style approximately two decades later.

pediment suggested by the return in the gabled roof, the windows with house demonstrates, common house forms could accommodate elements from The Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house is an excellent example of this picturesque Gothic and Italianate styles had of course, begun in the On the Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house,these elements include the combination of details appears to represent a somewhat tardy transition lantern give the two-and-one-half story house an appearance of National Register of Historic Places embellished with architectural details which reflect two major Continuation Sheet from the Greek Revival-to the Italianate style, which preceded the Revival characteristics continued to be built, along with more modern in decline, especially along the east coast and in large urban United States Department of the Interior available to the builder of the Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house.

structure of the period and a transplanted link between village and appearance of the property,making ita true local landmark,while the so-called "mid-level architecture, that represent a builders "workable And, it is these common houses, the bracketed, entablature surrounds, the bracketed eaves and the bracketed from classical architectural influences to the more romantic and Revival residences and common house forms with merely a few Greek By the 1850's and 1860's classically inspired architecture was builders guides and pattern books that probably would have been one or more architectural styles. MAR 10 '92 10:23 period.

Continuation Sheet Page similar structure, which appears to have been constructed by the same National Park Service The Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen house is Port Clinton's best surviving the setback and prominent lantern which sets the nominated property builder, is located on nearby Adams Street.However, this house lacks apart from the cities remaining dwellings from the same or earlier United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Gill-Luchsinger-Bahnsen Bouse and Barn, Port Clinton,,Ohio Ottawa County Section number 8 example of "mid-level" architecture exhibiting apparent. Greek Revival and Italianate style, builders guide and pattern book motifs.A

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

Major Bibliographical References Tax Rescrds, Eleanor Johnson Port Ciinton Herald, July 4, 1976 1880 Cersus, Port Clinton, P. 34, Dist. 68 Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, Ohio, H.T. Goodman, LL.D. 1990 Atlas, Ottawa County, Ohio, H.H. Hardesty, 1874. Society, 1985. Primary location of additional data: * State historic preservation office Survey - Other Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record i 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property _ The nominated property is located on Block 21, City Lots 1-2, and is 100' x 200' 11. Form Prepared By _ date street & number Center for Archival Collections, BGSU city or town Bowling Green _ zip code 43403 property.

University Zone Northing Boundary Justification Federal agency state Other State agency Local govemment The boundary includes the remaining property historically associated with the Verbal Boundary Description previcusty listed in the National Register previousty determined eligible by the National Register Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/ A Zone Easting in size. designated a National Historic Landmark The History of Ottawa County, Ohio and its Families, Ottawa County Genealogical January 1992 organization Ohio Historic Preservation Office has been requested recorded by Historic American Buildings See continuation sheet UTM References preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) 100 ftx 200 ft (less than one acre) name/title Glenn A.

Harper, Regional Coordinator 419-372-2411 telephone Onio Gill, Luchsinger, Bahnsen House Port Clinton, Ottawa County - Side Walk By: Terry A. Wolfe Contributing Barn Empty Lot House Alley Drive way Lot 100'x200' E 4th St.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: 7/16/92 DATE DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N Entered in tha ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: 6/18/92 DATE MULTIPLE REVIEWER DISCIPLINE RECOM./CRITERIA 8/02/92 OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: APPEAL: N REJECT 6/30/92 RETURN DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _architectural classification _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION - Phone current presentation FUNCTION materials context SIGNIFICANCE DESCRIPTION historic Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY Date CLASSIFICATION descriptive text justification of areas checked Specific dates _count OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Signed Statement of Significance one paragraph) UTMs Period photographs Areas of Significance--Check and justify below USGS maps _sketch maps Ottowa Co.OH Gill - Luchsinger- Bahnsen House and Barn Otfowa Co.

OH OHtowa Co. oH Gill - Luchsinger-Bahnsen House and Birn OHowa Co.OH Gill- Luchsinger - Bahnsen House and Barn G.ll- Luchsinger-Bahusen House and Barn Otfowa Co. oH O Howa Co OH Gill- Luchsinger - Bahnsen House aud Barn Offown Co. Gill-Luehsinger - Bahnsen House aud Barn Gll- luchsinges-Bahusen House and Barn OHowa Co G.ll. Luchsinger- Bahnsen House and Barn DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PORT CLINTON, OHIO PORT CLINTON QUADRANGLE 4596830 OHIO OTTAWA CO. STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES JUN 1 8 1992 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 614/297-2411 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Please contact me if you have any questions. W.

Ray Luce Enclosures Lorain Barn County SOCIETY Sincerely 614/297-2470 REGISTER NATIONAL Ottawa HISTORICAL Department of the Interior Lorain YMCA Building State Historic Preservation Officer National Register of Historic Places Ohio Historic Preservation Office Johnson Steel Street Railway National Park Service New Submissions Ohio Historical Center Enclosed are three (3) new National Register nominations.All the appropriate Gill-Luchsinger-Bohnsen House & SINCE 1885 Company General Office notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.