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Decorative drawing: a small railway station beside the track, with a signal post. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,369 words across 15 pages, filed in 1992. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 92001078, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines 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 historic name Conneaut light Station Keeper's Dwelling other names/site number N/A 2. Location street & number 1059 Harbor Street I/ mot for publication code OH zip code 44030 . Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property [X private X building(s) _ sites _ structures _objects Number of contributing resources greviously listed in the National Register - 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this National Register ofHistoric Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official Ohio Historic Preservation Office State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certity that this property is: Entered In the entered in the National Register. . See continuation sheet. -determined eligible for the National Register. - See continuation sheet. Idetermined not eligible for the removed from the National Register.

other, (explain:) Date of Action Conneaut Date district state REGISTER NATIONAL Total public-State Nongontributing public-Federal public-local Contributing National Register of Historic Places Registration Form National Register. county Ashtabula city, town NPS Form 10-900 the requested information.If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, I/Ayicinity Xnomination LJrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the In my opinion, the property Jdoes not meet the National Register criteria. 007 7-15-92 Ohio 1078 (Rev. 8-86) Mational Reglstes Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling, Ashtabula Co., ( 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7.

Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) foundation brick walls - The Describe present and historic physical appearance. The Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling is a large to each is a small square veranda with hipped roof and simple brackets. while on the opposite side of unpaved Harbor Street are several modest wood-frame houses. The evolution of the property over time is well documented by Coast Guard a single frame dwelling, there was a barn, privy, woodhouse, well, and 6th- Board report. A bathroom was installed in 1900. In 1905 the original dwelling was almost doubled in size with the addition original dwelling, with intersecting gable roofs, clapboard siding, shed concrete decks and steps, and plain posts, balusters, and brackets.

[X See continuation sheet dwelling asphalt wood Architectural Classification LATE VICTORIAN VACANT/NOT IN USE DOMESTIC: single and multiple other, of six rooms (parlor, dining room, kitchen, and three bedrooms), was basement, clapboard-sided building distinguished by steep intersecting room, dining room, kitchen, and three bedrooms), was erected in 1873; the The double dwelling, vacant and in disrepair, is located on a half-acre lot on a bluff overlooking Conneaut Harbor. property is surrounded by a cellar (brick above ground, stone below) were placed under the dwelling. story addition featured a bay window with recessed panels above and below Plans for the 1905 addition show, at the front entrance to each unit, a small square veranda; records.

roof gable roofs pierced by shed dormers.Irregular in plan, the building gives Each unit dwellings:the in plan with seven features double-hung,2/2 windows with plain trim.At the front entrance NPS Form 10-900e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Conneaut light Station Keeper's Dwelling Section number 7 Page _1 Ashtabula County, Ohio outbulldings were painted red with green trim, and the half-acre property was enclosed by a picket fence. Sometime before 1934, an enclosed porch or vestibule with shed roof was were removed, and replacement windows, smaller in size and having 1/1 No nineteenth-century outbuildings survive. At the rear of the property and gable roof probably dating to the mid-twentieth century, and one in plan, with a hipped roof. roofline.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places contributing resource, a one-story, yellow-brick control house that once the wood shed and barn; and a garden (30 x 1o0 feet).The dwelling and then included a wood shed (12 x 16 feet) and small barn (16 x 22 feet), front doors, around the house to the rear doors, and from the rear door to white. One of three original interior chimneys has been removed above the West Breakwater Light. The control house, erected in 1936, is rectangular original roofs (probably slate)were replaced with asphalt shingles.The both with gable from the street to the Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

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) Period of Significance Significant Dates 1873, 1905 Cultural Affiliation Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. For nearly a century, the Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling served project and asphalt parking lot now abut the property to the south, while the property, however.) Federal Government erected numerous beacons to guide ships safely into the Ohio, as well as a frequent stopping place for lake steamers. After 1892, (outbound) traffic. In 1870, the U.S.

Lighthouse Board reported that the Conneaut light station the Government purchased a half-acre site on a bluff overlooking Conneaut (* = also known as Pittsburgh, Shanago, & Lake Erie RR) * See continuation sheet 1873-1939 TRANSPORTATION ARCHITECTURE Architect/Builder "is without a keeper's dwelling, and as one is essential to the proper Ashtabula County,Ohio with completion of the Pittsburgh,Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad*connecting shipping point for forest products from the interior of Conneaut Harbor was the site of an immense coal -nationally Lstatewide Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) dwelling is typical of the plain but handsome accommodations erected in the late nineteenth century to house keepers employed by the U.S. Lighthouse harbors of Lake Erie.

In the nineteenth century, Conneaut was an important purchase of a site and the erection of a convenient frame dwelling." appearance. Conneaut with the Pittsburgh furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, received the dwelling was completed in 1873. is occupied by a sewage treatment latter is not visible from NPS Form 10-900e OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Ashtabula County, Ohio In 1885, owing to deterioration of the pier, the beacon marking Conneaut beacon was relocated to the outer end of the newly extended west pier, and 1905, the dwelling was enlarged and remodeled to accommodate an assistant of the U.S.

Light-House Engineer, Tenth District, Buffalo, New York, under dwelling, now doubled in size, consisted of seven rooms plus bath (occupied February 1909 by the Department of Commerce and Labor described concrete railroad yards below the bluff. exhibiting a fixed white light from the pierhead of the west pier, formed by small boat nearly one-half mile to the light, where a derrick hoisted the boat to the beacon. Breakwater Light has been nominated separately to the National Register.) yellow-brick control house (still extant) located behind the lightkeeper's the dwelling.

After 1939, when the Bureau of Lightouses was abolished, the keeper's Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling the half-acre lighthouse reservation then consisted of a barn, privy, outbuildings noted;the character of the surroundings consisted of Harbor West Breakwater Light was powered by electricity transmitted from range light with a rear beacon to aid vessels entering the harbor. In 1906,the light marking Conneaut Harbor was reconfigured.A new beacon, survey map of the same date, in addition to the li-story frame dwelling, woodhouse, and well; the detached beacon was located on the north side of the elevated walk to the lantern was substantially rebuilt. Over the years, the dwelling was successively improved and enlarged to enhance the comfort and safety of the keeper (see "7. Description"). In keeper and his family.

Plans for the addition were prepared by the Office Engineers and engineer for the lighthouse district. The lightkeeper's walks connecting the dwelling to a wood shed and a small barn, the only service the new front range light, the keepers walked three-eighths of a The present light tower, which replaced still another pierhead beacon completed in 1920,was erected in 1935-36 following Government-sponsored construction of new breakwater extensions.(The Conneaut Harbor West Section number 8 "scattered dwellings"to the rear of the ore docks and Placed in commission at the opening of navigation in 1936,the new Conneaut by the keeper and his and six rooms plus bath (occupied by an OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Continuation Sheet Ashtabula County, Ohio dwelling continued to be occupied by United States Coast Guard personnel, who tended the Conneaut Harbor West Breakwater Light until it was automatec Today the lightkeeper's dwelling stands vacant and in disrepair. Conneaut Harbor Light Station Keepers' Dwelling is significant under Stations on the Great Lakes, 1819-1939." as the original t-shape form are typical features of light keepers dwellings in Ohio. The Conneaut's role as a shipping point for area agricultural products, iron ore, and coal. The Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling is a good representative of history of light- lighthouse activity in the state. construction in 1873 to 1939, the year that the Bureau of Lighthouses ceased to control the operation of lighthouses on Lake Erie.

Page National Register of Historic Places The period of significance of the nominated property extends from the original date of Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling The frame construction,1-1/2 story height, steep gable roof and clapboard siding as well Criteria A and C for its association with the associated historic contexts Section number 8 NPS Form 10-000-e of "Transportation and Commerce on Lake Erie, 1818-1936" and "Light presence of a keeper's and assistant keeper's dwellings attests to the importance of houses on Lake Erie in Ohio and of the architecture of facilities constructed to support Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling, Ashtabula Co., 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Cleveland, Ohio. and Its Predecessors, 1789-1939. Previous documentation on file (NPS): Lpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested State historic preservation office previously listed in the National Register Other State agency X Federal agency designated a National Historic Landmark ] Local government Jrecorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Irecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository Record # Nat'1 Archives & Records Admin. 10. Geographical Data UTM References Verbal Boundary Description Ashtabula County permanent parcel #12-20300-01100, as described in Ashtabula County Deeds Vol. 786, pp. 18-19. Boundary Justification 11.

Form Prepared By Carol Poh Miller/Historical Consultant- under contract with date _8/27/91 street & number 17903 Rosecliff Road _telephone_216/692-0747 city or town - _ state_OH _ zip code 44119 University Easting Northing Acreage of property 0.5 Other organization Ohio Historic Preservation Office See continuation sheet United States Coast Guard Ninth District, The boundary describes the original parcel purchased by the United States Drawing and photograph files. previously determined eligible by the National Register to serve as the site of the Conneaut light station keeper's dwelling. Coast Guard. Record Group 26. Records of the Bureau of Lighthouses Zone of America in 1871 recorded in Ashtabula County Deeds Book 82,P.596) name/title 46451980] NPS Form 10-900e OMB Approvel No.

1021-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 1) Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling Ashtabula County, Ohio 2) Conneaut, Ohio 3) Carol Poh Miller photograph 4) June 1990 ) Ohio Historic Preservation Office NOTE: THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS THE SAME FOR PHOTOS #2-51 7) #1 of 5 7) #2 of 5 7) #4 of 5 7) #5 of 5 foreground. northeast. looking northwest.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places 6)Looking north toward Lake Erie.Condominium garage and parking lot in and light station control and elevations of keeper's residence(1873),looking 6)Facade and south elevation of assistant keeper's residence (1905), PHOTOGRAPHS-CONNEAUT LIGHT STATION KEEPER'S DWELLING 7) #3 of 5 Section number Photos Page UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE OTHER : N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: COMMENT WAIVER: N Sntered in the V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 8/19/92 9/05/92 DATE 7/22/92 RETURN DISCIPLINE REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL: APPEAL: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REJECT PROPERTY NOMINATION REQUESTED ACTION: Conneaut Light Station Keeper's Dwelling REASONS FOR REVIEW: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: _count _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _current _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _photographs _presentation - Phone FUNCTION DESCRIPTION materials historic Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY context other Period SIGNIFICANCE Signed CLASSIFICATION Date architectural classification descriptive text OTHER COMMENTS Specific dates Areas of Significance--Check and justify below relationship of integrity to significance UTMs Statement of Significance one paragraph) _sketch maps USGS maps _justification of areas checked Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relating significance to the resource CONNEHUT, ASHTABULA Co., Off CONUEAUT, ASHTABULA Co., OH CONNETUT, ASHTABULA CO., OH #4 0F 5 CONNEAUT, ASHTABULA Co., OH Light Stations of Ohio Multiple Property Submission X Photographs USGS Map 92001078 Keeper's Dwelling Ashtabula, Ohio Nomination Form Property Name The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Multiple Property Name Reference Number Conneaut Light Station Missing Core Documentation County, State CONNEAUT HARBOR LIGHT STATION, OHo.

PLATE -DESIGN FOR ADDITION & REMODELING KEEPER'S DWELLING -FIRST FLOOR PLAN -SECOND FLOOR PLAN- CONNEACT. O. 04-37L CONNEAUT. O.D 7 FRONT ELEVATION RHL T04, 548 CONNEAUT HARBOR LIGHT STATION,OHIO. CONNEAUT HARBOR LIGHT STATION, OHIO. RHL T04, 549 - DESIGN FOR ADDITION & REMODELING KEEPERS DWELLING PLATE CONNEAUT QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CONNEAUT, OHIO-PA. OHIO-PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF HICHWAYS