Nomination for Ourant's School

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OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) FEB 1 5 1994 This form is for usein nominating orrequesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How 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 Ourant School , HAS-302-10 2. Location NFA O not for publication street & number. city or town - 8å vicinity 3. State/Federal Agency Certification J request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meetstheprocedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property N meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant - nationally statewide LX locally.

(L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) State of Federal agency and bureau Signature of certifying official/Title 4. National Park Service Certification I herebycertify that the property is: Date of Action - See continuation sheet. - determined eligible for the - other, (explain:) Harrison state Date REGISTER Cadiz Ohio NATIONAL RECEIVED Registration Form 2-7-94 National Register National Register of Historic Places historic name In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional Ourant Road National Park Service United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter onty categories and subcategories from the instructions.

Place additional other names/site numberOurant School is the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this Ix nomination lSignature of the Keeper 9 entered in the National Register. - removed from the National comments.) county Harrison Co., Ohio County and State 5. Classification (Do not include previousty listed resources in the count.) X private Ol building(s) - public-local - district O site - public-State - public-Federal - structure - - object Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use Current Functions 7.

Description Other: One-room Schoolhouse foundation sandstone metal Noncontributing other walls Materials wood Historic Functions Narrative Description Architectural Classification Number of contributing resources previously listed EDUCATION/school (Enter categories from instructions) Ownership of Property in the National Register Ourant's School VACANT/Not in use Name of Property Category of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) Number of Resources within Property . Total roof NPS Form 10-900- Ourant's School, Harrison County, Ohio Ourant's School, located in rural Nottingham Township, is a has a five-panel door with a two-light transom, but the transom elements include cornerboards, a plain box cornice with returns, Boomer no.4 stove manufactured in Massillon, and a pressed metal brick chimney above the ceiling over the stove.

somewhat deteriorated condition, is also of wood construction, is now covered by the full-width shed roof front porch.The vernacular style building rests on a dressed stone foundation and Continuation Sheet National Park Service Unlted States Department of the Interior National Register of Hlstorlc Places gabled shiplap siding that matches the The interior of Ourant's is essentially unchanged from its porch is not original to the was constructed at Sectlon number Page -- OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 The school bell and a raised teacher's platform and full-width blackboard, desks, a sometime in the 1930s. The only other alterations are the Page The Four suspended electric ceiling lights were probably added ceiling with eag-and-dart ornamentation,are all still present.

Section number - Ourant's School, Harrison Co., Ohio Page FRONT ELEVATION National Register of Historlc Places Contlnuatlon Sheet National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior Section No. 1, p. 3. SIDE ELEVATION Page National Park Service Section number Natlonal Register of Historic Places Ourant's School, Harrison Co., Ohio National Register of Historic Places SIDE ELEVATION Page Section number Continuation Sheet National Park Service United States Department of the Interior Ourant's School, Harrison Co., Ohio REAR ELEVATION Page Section number Natlonal Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet". Section 1, page 5 National Park Service United States Dopartment of tho Interior Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

for National Register listing.) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of K 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 information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - 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 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 XX State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - 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 -recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1873-1941 Education Architecture religious purposes. Architect/Builder Unknown Criteria Considerations Applicable National Register Criteria individual distinction. Bibilography our history.

Areas of Significance Property is: Cultural Affiliation B Property is associated with the lives of persons Significant Dates Ourant's School of a type, period, or method of construction or Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/ A significant in our past. Primary location of additional data: (Enter categories from instructions) D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, Period of Significance Name of repository: Harrison Co., Ohio (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Register Harrison Co., Ohio Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than one (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

Form Prepared By Jeffrey D. Brown/Regional Coordinator Ohio Historic Preservation Office _ date_ July 22, 1993 street & number _ _ telephone 216-438-0404 _ state Ohio 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. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPOor FPO.) - telephone Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.

470 et seq.) city or town Photographs Easting Canton Cadiz name Zone organization Northing Additional Documentation Additional items UTM References name/title Ourant school Memorial Association,Inc. Continuation Sheets Ourant's School County and State - date 201 3rd. Street NE Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. 38095 Deersville Ridge Road properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain 44702 OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Ourant's School, Harrison County, Ohio Ourant's School is significant, under Criteria A and C, for and social gathering place in Hattonia, and is today the only Harrison County's most distinctive representative of this once- sufficient little communities before the advent of automobiles REGISTER RECEIVED common building type. its association with the now-vanished community of Hattonia and Ourant's School is also significant as the only Harrison Natlonal Park Service only remnant of the"former center of Nottingham Township and modern roads which made them obsolete.

direct road to Ourant's Road)was under President Arthur,1884-1885,and later the owner and editor HEB 1 5 1994 NPS Form Section number - the community also boasted its own uniformed baseball team. office closed in 1903 and buildings were abandoned as owners moved away. "Throughout the Midwest, the typical than twenty-two by twenty-three feet. It had three, possibly Page Hattonia sports events. Ourant's School served during this era as Hattonia's primary survivor of Nottingham Township's seven one-room is General of the United States (Hatton became Postmaster-General Significant numbers of such in ohio and was established in named after Harrison County activities to which all paths actually led..."(The Cadiz NPS Form 10-000- OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor Natlonal Park Service Continuation Sheet Ourant's School, Harrison County, Ohio and interior integrity, still reflects the era when one-room Harrison County. development of improved transportation and all-weather roads, Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Section number _ rural electrification during the New Deal, electric lights as construction was preferred over much of Ohio, frame one-room rural children received their primary education in one-room Beginning in the 1880s, professional educators increasingly consolidation.

the one-room schools in Nottingham and other rural Nottingham Township's seven single- room schools were closed in the 1930s and early 1940s, Ourant's Page declining rural populations, and growing pressures for school intact one-room school surviving in Nottingham Township and Outdoor privies all of these defining elements with a high degree of integrity, Ourant's School exhibits While brick schools were both the primary educational institutions for rural in l94l;most of these buildings were subseguently either Throughout the 19th and early 20th of ohio's OMB Approve/ No. 1024-0018 Ourant's School, Harrison County, Ohio Harrison News-Herald, March 25, 1985. The Cadiz Republican, articles dated June 22, 1882; Dec. 6, "Our Harrison Heritage", Vol. VIII, No. 4, Winter 1990. Euckeve Farm News, Sept. 1983.

Published by the Ohio Farm Published by the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Page Bibliography Bureau Federation. Natlonal Park Service United States Department of the Interior Sectlon number . 1883; Dec. 4, 1884; Jan. 12, 1888; June 28, 1888; Aug. 2, Published by the Harrison County Chapter of the Ohio Geneological Society. Continuatlon Sheet Continuation Sheet Ourant's School, Harrison Co., Ohio the Ourant School Memorial Association, Inc., dated 1989 and Page Verbal Boundary Description Natlonal Park Service United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Hlstoric Places Sectlon number _ 10 The boundary of the nominated property conforms to the legal County. NPS Form10-900- OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 description contained in the attached copy of a warranty deed to The boundary includes the entire parcel of real estate that has Bcundary Justification recorded in Volume 229,page 498,Deed Records of Harrison Ourant's School, Harrison Co., OH WARRANTY DEED KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That Rainbow Land Associates, Inc, an Ohio corporation, hereinafter referred to as Grantor, in consideration of Ourant School Memorial Association, Inc., an Ohio not-for-profit corporation, whose TAX MAILING ADDRESS is c/o: Mr.

Willis Dowdle, 38095 Deersville Ridge Road, Cadiz, Ohio 43907, hereinafter referred to as Grantee, the receipt CONVEY unto the said Grantees, its successors and assigns, the following described real estate: Situated in the Township of Nottingham, County of Harrison, and State of Being a part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 12 of Township 11, Range 6,and being also a part of a 158acre tract heretofore conveyed to Rainbow Land Associates, Inc., in Deed Volume 227, Page 666, and being more fully described as follows: Commencing at a stone monument found at the Southeast corner of Section 12; thence with the South line of said section North 86° 41 min. 11 sec. West, 148.50 feet to an iron pin set at the Southwest corner of an 81 perch tract heretofore conveyed to John Poulson and Others, Board of section line North 86° 41 min. 11 sec.

West, 52.20 feet to an iron pin set; thence leaving said section line North 9° 23 min. 35 sec. East, 161.11 feet to an iron pin set; thence South 79° 14 min. 33 sec. East, 90.79 feet to a point on the North line of the aforesaid 81 perch tract; thence with the bounds of said tract the following two (2) courses: North 86 41 min. 11 sec. West, 50.79 feet to an iron pin set; thence South 04° 53 min. 49 sec. or less; Bearings herein are oriented to the Magnetic Meridian; All iron pins set are 5/8 inch by 30 inch with yellow plastic caps stamped "Pyle Survey #6533". Survey and description by John P. Pyle, Registered Surveyor #6533 in March, 1989. This instrument is executed and delivered by the grantor herein for the sole purpose of correcting an error in the description of a certain Continuation Sheet Ohio.

(By Corporation) Natlonal Register of Historic Places National Park Service the sum of Ten Dollars($10.00) and other valuable considerations to it paid by Education in Deed Book 0, Page 783,and being also the true place of beginning of the tract herein described; thence continuing with said West, 148.50 feet to the Placa of Seginning containing 0.170 acres more of which is hereby acknowledged, does hereby GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL AND Page County,Ohio. Section number 1 0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: | PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N RECOM.

/CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N RETURN DATE DISCIPLINE 2/15/94 REVIEWER 4/01/94 PERIOD: PDIL: OTHER: 3/17/94 NAME: NATIONAL: DATE RECEIVED: MULTIPLE DATE OF PENDING LIST: APPEAL: N NOMINATOR: STATE ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT ACCEPT 3/01/94 REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: _count STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION GEOGRAPHICAL DATA boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION -_presentation - Phone SIGNIFICANCE DESCRIPTION FUNCTION current acreage CLASSIFICATION BIBLIOGRAPHY completeness sketch maps materials photographs historic clarity other Period resource type Builder/Architect descriptive text architectural classification Date applicable criteria summary paragraph Signed justification of areas checked verbal boundary description relating significance to the resource justification of exception Specific dates OTHER COMMENTS relationship of integrity to significance Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) UTMS Areas of significance--Check and justify below USGS maps Phato by V.D.

Brown, 7-1993 View of frant y southiside facades HARRISON CO OHIO nog. at O.H.P.O. 1993 Photo # 4 of 4. Z5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEERSVILLE, OHIO DEERSVILLE QUADRANGLE CONSERVANCY OHIO- HARRISON CO STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DISTRICT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 FEB 1 5 1994 Fax: 297-2546 February 8, 1994 Carol Shull, Chief of Registration SINCE 1885 National Register of Historic Places National Park Service P. O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Enclosed please find eleven (11) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. NEW SUBMISSION St.

Clairsville Historic District Warsaw Hotel Globe Iron Works Building Crist Tavern Annex Stoddart Block Ourant's School John and Carrie Yager House Ohio SR51 Bridge Over the Wesley Temple A.M.E. Zion Church If you have questions or comments about these documents, contact this office. W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer SOCIETY COUNTY Ottawa 614/297-2470 Harrison Sincerely, Coshocton Cuyahoga enclosures Summit Butler Delaware HISTORICAL Lake Belmont REGISTER Franklin RECEIVED Portage River Viall Lodge Dear Ms. Shull: Hughes Manor