Nomination for Fledderjohann, H. E., House, Doctor's Office and Summer Kitchen

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NOV 0 8 1993 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in Haw to Complete the entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property historic name _ Fledder Johann, H.E. House, Doctor's Office, and Summer Kitchen other names/site number - 2. Location street & number 107 E. German Street N/A O not for publication city or town N/A O vicinity . code_Ol1 zip code 45871 As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this EJ nomination meets does not meet the National Register criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office-SHPO 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: On Signature of the Keeper Date of Action M entered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the - removed from the National LI other, (explain:) REGISTER RECEIVED state Date NATIONAL National Register 11-3-93 State/Federal Agency Certification comments.) Registration Form Ohio State or Federal agency and bureau National Register of Historic Places New Knoxville National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional -request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of - nationally statewide K] locally. (L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ([ See continuation sheet for additional 1388 Fledderjohann, H.E. House Name of Property 5.

Classification (Check as many boxes as apply) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) XI private XI building(s) - public-local U district - public-State _ sites - public-Federal U structure - object Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed 6. Function or Use 7.

Description walls _ brick, aluminum (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Noncontributing Narrative Description roof other slate asphalt Historic Functions Materials Italianate Total wood Domestic/Secondary Structure Domestic/Single Dwelling Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Vacant Recreation and Culture/Museum Current Functions Health Care/Clinic Queen Anne foundation_limestone County and State in the National Register Number of Resources within Property Category of Property Ownership of Property Auglaize Ohio (Check only one box) United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer - Kitchen; Auglaize Co., OH The Dr. H.E.

Fledderjohann house, doctor's office, and surmer kitchen are located on a residential street near the center of New Knoxville, Auglaize County, ohio, a primarily rural county in the West-Central part of the state. one-and-a-half story, balloon frame building is a gabled ell (5) with its main The Fledder johann house sits on a brick foundation now covered with concrete. veranda with its sawn ornamental columns and fretwork; and small gable roof entrance porches with ornamental brackets at the rear and basement entrances (7). Two ridge chimeys, evident in an earlier photograph, have been House Continuation Sheet dismantled and wood exterior storm windows have been installed.

National Register of Historic Places that it was basically cross-shaped until the construction of a one-story flat with aluminum siding in 1950 several other original details remain.They one-and-a-half story building sits on a limestone foundation and dressed stone identified by its neo-Colonial balustrade and octagon window which was demolished several years ago.Historic photographs (l,2) show the entrance and funeral door sheltered by a veranda and facing the intersection panel front door with its paired round arch windows and oval transom;the The main alteration was the installation of new hardwood flooring in 1989.

The house was built in about 1879.The primary identifying feature of this The most significant and unusual of the three remaining buildings on the property is the doctor's office in 1888,the brick t-shaped The original woodwork and doors have been maintained the remaining buildings as they appear today. Though the original clapboard lintels were covered Doctor's Office Section number - - Page - The nominated property includes all but one of the original buildings, a barn of German and Mill Streets. However, additional views of the house reveal include the 4/4 double hung windows; an oval window in the font gable; the two NPS Form10-000- United States Department of the Interlor H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer Kitchen; Auglaize Co., OH on all other elevations, have plain lug sills.

The main feature of the facade elevations have segmental arches, 1/1 windows with brick course segmental arch was replaced in 1988, using old slate from the roof of a demolished barn, cut chimney protrudes from the rear of the facade gable near the center of the The interior of the doctor's office remains unaltered, but is in need of major and window hardware (12,13,14). covered with novelty siding and comner boards. Entrance to the summer kitchen and a brick chimney protrudes from the roof ridge (15). building. Continuation Sheet Summer Kitchen restoration work to repair cracked plaster and damaged floor boards.

all four elevations of the property and single diamond shaped windows are rear elevation has a single segmental arch door surround with a four panel National Park Service National Register of Historic Places watertable.The two bay facade includes a pointed arch window and door Sidewalks lead fram German Street to the main entrance and from the rear door to match the original cammon lap and hexagonal design.A large brick ridge The one story summer kitchen is a rectangular, gable roof frame building is through a four paneled door.A single 4/4 double hung window is located on and wood door to the rear of the house NPS Form 10-000d is a sawn ornamental, trussed projecting eave with pendant.

The East and West Significant interior features include a coved plastered ceiling, original wood surround with brick course pointed arch lintels capped with stone. The two light door has a sawn ornamental relief design. The facade window, and those located in the two gable ends.A standing seam metal roof covers the building lintels.The gables of all three elevations have oculus windows Section number 7Page Fledderjohann, H.E. House Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack 1886 - 1940 - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Fledderjohann, Dr. H.E. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 X State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey J recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Bibilography Register Auglaize Architect/Builder Health/Medicine Property is: Unknown religious purposes. Criteria Considerations Significant Person individual distinction. Period of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation Significant Dates County and State our history.

Areas of Significance significant in our past. B Property is associated with the lives of persons of a type, period, or method of construction or (Enter categories from instructions) Primary location of additional data: Name of repository: A owned by a religious institution or used for for National Register listing.) A Property is associated with events that have made CFR 67) has been requested (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property NPS Form 10-000-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer - Kitchen; Auglaize Co., OH The Dr. H.E. Fledder johann house, doctor's office, and summer kitchen are nominated under Criterion B, as the properties most clearly associated with Dr. Henry E.

Fledder johann, a leading physician in New Knoxville from 1886 to delivered the babies of many families in New Knoxville, coupled with his reputation as a 'track shot, straight talker, and a character" who continued practice, has earned a significant place for him in local history. In addition, his 52 year practice is representative of the methods by which nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period when the family doctor was revolutionized and many deadly diseases were brought under control. Historical Background Ladbergen, Germany (formerly Prussia) in 1836, to clear the land for the friends followed them to the settlement. During this period, the Miami and Erie Canal was being constructed, and many German inmigrants arrived in the helping to build the canal, while others prospered from the new markets and commercial enterprises it generated. Dr.

Fledderjohann was born in Washington Township in 1855. He attended New Bremen High School, then taught for two years. He continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1886. He opened his own Introduction Continuation Sheet settlement of New Knoxville.In succeeding years, scores of family and Fledderjohann's standing as a physician who treated the illnesses and National Register of Historic Places STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE National Park Service medical care was dispensed in small towms and rural areas during the late lengthy that it spanned the years during which the practice of medicine was practice in New Knoxville in 1888 after practicing in St. Marys for two years.

to use his horse and buggy to make house calls throughout his years of 1940.It was in these buildings that he lived and practiced for over fifty Dr.Fledderjohann's father was one of four immigrants who came to Ohio fram years and where he continued to live until his death in 1950.Dr. Section number 8 - Page area from Cincinnati via this transportation corridor.Some obtained jobs OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor Kitchen; Auglaize Co., QL During the years of his practice, smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and was gradually abandoned. In a 1949 interview, the doctor recalled epidemics of smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and flu. He told of using near his kerosene lamps. While urban doctors increasingly turned to specialization and gave up house calls, Dr. Fledderjohann, like many other Like may doctors of the time, Dr.

Fledder johann also sold his own "patent" invention. Dr. Fledderjohann was known for having his own internal poison ivy were so widely recognized in the local conmunity that during World War I, some soldiers wrote to him requesting his poison ivy medication. Dr. Fledder johann practiced homeopathic medicine; that is, he believed that drugs normally of the legacy of Dr.

Fledder johann's life and work as a prominent small town Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places medicine as well as treatments for cold symptams and goitre.His medicines small town doctors, continued in general practice and made rounds of house was gradually supplemented with laboratory testing.The practice of bleeding other deadly diseases were brought under control.Diagnosis by observation harmful if taken in large amounts could be used beneficially in very small chloroform as an anesthetic because ether was explosive and could not be used important asset in the large ethnic German cammunity. medicines, which were actually proprietary medicines of the doctor's own ability to heal. National Park Service The summer kitchen are the most visible evidence physician.

More importantly, they symbolize a simpler, slower pace of life, a regarded member of the community, respected both for his education and his NPS Forme 10-000-e time when the small tow general practitioner was both a neighbor and a highly H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer calls.His ability to speak high and low German as well as English was an NPS Form 10-000e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer - Kitchen; Auglaize Co., OH Gottfried, Herbert, and Jennings, Jan, American Vernacular Design, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Jackle,John, The American Small Town, Iwentieth Century Place Images, Archon Books, 1982. Kay, Andrew, Living Biographies, 1949. Malmsheimer, Richard, Doctors Only, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. McMurray, Wiliam S., ed., History of Auglaize County, Ohio, Vol.

2, Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Company, 1923. New Knoxville Our Times Sesquecentennial, Chelsea, Mi.: Bookcrafters, 1986. Novotny, Ann and Smith, Carther, eds., Images of Healing, Macmillan Publishing Campany, Inc., 1980. Starr, Paul, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1982. BIBLIOGRAPHY National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet National Park Service Unlted States Department of the Interior Section number 9 (8-00) Eledderjohann, H.E. House Name of Property 10. Geographical Data (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) J See continuation sheet (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By street & number_Department of History - state Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Complete thisitem at the request of SHPO or FPO.) 107 E. German St. street & number - telephone - Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

45435 acre name Dayton Easting Photographs Zone Additional Documentation Maps Continuation Sheets UTM References Wright State University Verbal Boundary Description Additional items Boundary Justification County and State Acreage of Property Property Owner Northing A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. New Knoxville Auglaize Ohio New Knoxville Historical Society (Explain why the boundaries were selected ona continuation sheet.) city or town (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Glenn Harper, Regional Coordinator, Janet Peterson, Intern, WSU - telephone (513) 873-2815 of this formto the Chief,Administrative Services Division, National Park Service,P.O. Box 37127, Washington,DC 20013-7127; and the Office of - zip code - instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 02-03-93 name/title MPS Form 10-000 United States Department of the Interlor Kitchen; Auglaize Co., OH The nominated property consists of lots 59 and 60 in New Knoxville. The German and Mill Streets. The doctor's office is on lot 60 which adjoins lot 59 on the West. The boundaries for the nominated property follow the city lots' boundaries as Continuation Sheet BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION originally platted. National Register of Historic Places National Park Service VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION residence and summer kitchen are located on lot 59 at the intersection of OMB Approvel Na 1024-0018 II. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctors Office, & Summer Section number 10: Page H.E. Fledderjohann, House, Doctor's Office and Summer Kitchen 107 E.

German Street New Knoxville, Auglaize County, Ohio 45871 B-Doctor's Office LEGEND A-House ALLEY C-Summer Kitchen UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Fledderjohann, H. E., House, Doctor's Office and Summer Kitc DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: COMMENT WAIVER: N RECOM.

/ CRITERIA MULTIPLE REVIEWER RETURN REJECT PROPERTY DISCIPLINE 11/08/93 12/10/93 DATE 12/23/93 OTHER: NAME: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: ACCEPT PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Entered in the Mattonal Register DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Auglaize REASONS FOR REVIEW: hen STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION - _architectural classification _descriptive text _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria -justification of areas checked _relating significance to the resource _context _relationship of integrity to significance _acreage _verbal boundary description FUNCTION DESCRIPTION historic materials count BIBLIOGRAPHY CLASSIFICATION Period Specific dates SIGNIFICANCE Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed Builder/Architect boundary justification Date Phone OTHER COMMENTS ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA resource type -presentation _current Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) UTMS _photographs sketch maps USGS maps DR HEFUEDDERJOtANN PRO PERTy NEW KnOXVILLE, AUGLAIZE CO, OH PROPERTY DR HE FLEDDER JOHANN PRUPERTY DR H.E, FLEDDERJOHANN DR H.E.

FLEDDER JOHANN NEW KNOXVILLE, AUGLAIZE CO, PROPERTy NEW KNOXVILLE, AUBLAIZE CO, OH 9 DR H.E. FLEDDERJOHANN PROPERTY PROPERTy UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW KNOXVILLE, OHIO NEW KNOXVILLE QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL/SURVEY Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2411 November 4, 1993 SINCE 1885 NOV O 8 1993 P. O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 NEW SUBMISSION H. E. Fledderjohann House, Doctor's Office, and Summer Kitchen New Richmond Water Works and Electric If you have questions or comments about these documents, contact this office. W.

Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer Washington COUNTY SOCIETY Montgomery 614/297-2470 Sincerely, Clermont RECEIVED OHIO Portage REGISTER enclosures Station HISTORICAL procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Insco Apartments Building Luman Nelson House Enclosed please find six(6) new National Register nominations.All appropriate notification John Kaiser House United Brethren Publishing House Carol Shull, Chief of Registration Auglaize National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Dear Ms. Shull: NATIONAL