Nomination for Science Hill School

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NPS Form10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) RECEIVED 4° JUN 2 3 1994 1. Name of Property historic name - other names/site number - 2. Location street & number _ - not for publication Ki vicinity - county - state Ohio 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, 1 hereby certify that this & nomination -request for determination of eligibilitymeets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ([] See continuation sheet for additional Signature of certifying official/Title 4. National Park Service Certification - See continuation sheet.

determined not eligible for the - other, (explain:) STA-1926-7 comments.) Alliance code Stark Date National Register National Park Service entered in the National Register. Science Hill School National Register of Historic Places zip code 44601 Entered in the Registration Form removed from the National United States Department of the Interior State of Federal agency and bureau Date of Action Register. city or town I hereby certify that the property is: 1l8l0 Beeson Street entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets -does not meet the National Register criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant Ohio architectural classification, materials,and areas of significance,enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions.Place additional 6-16/94 776 Stark County, OLL 5. Classification (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) X private _ buildings - public-local - district - public-State _ sites Structure - object 6. Function or Use RECREATION & CULTURE/ Museum 7.

Description Other: One Room School other _ Noncontributing Narrative Description roof Total public-Federal walls Architectural Classification asphalt Materials Historic Functions County and State Current Functions Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register Name of related multiple property listing Name ofProperty wood Category of Property Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Enter categories from instructions) EDUCATION/ School (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) foundation stone (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) NPSForm 10-000d OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 Stark County, Ohio - stands on a tooled sandstone block foundation, and the walls are bench, two bookcases, beaded wood wainscoting and ceiling, plain unknown, but apparently very early) and the construction of a National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Continuation Sheet Science Hill School is a typical rectangular plan, one-room Science Hill School close duplicate of the original. enclosing of two rear windows with matching shiplap siding (date United States Department of the Interlor newer external brick chimney on the west side. The only notable alterations to the building are the Outbuildinas located to the east of the school include the The interior of the Science Hill School is almost entirely demarcated on the south and west sides by a white rail fence.

siding and a gable two privies constructed in 1992 oriainal l0xl2 foot coal shed, a wood structure with vertical roof disolays ornamental millwork and a turned a Sectlon number _ located in a rural setting west of the city of Alliance. It bay east side facade has 9/1 double-hung wood sash, but the west wooden flagpole rises from the gable peak in front of the belfry. original, with 28 student desks, a teacher's desk, a recitation their recent date, the privies are counted as non-contributing The entire school property is window surrounds, and chalkboard. The potbellied stove is a Page buildings.A hand water pump in the front yard dates from the Because of which are near duplicates in design of the originals. The belfry on the front-gable from the two-bay front facade. Stark County, Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and ca. 1870 - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A ownedby a religious institution or used for X B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years.

- preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency - Federal agency ] Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other - recorded by Historic American Engineering 1884 Bibilography Architecture Education Register Architect/Builder Significant Dates Unknown religious purposes. Property is: Name of repository: Science Hill School Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations significant in our past.

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

Major Bibliographical References Areas of Significance for National Register listing.) Significant Person Period of Significance our history. recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Narrative Statement of Significance Cultural Affiliation A Property is associated with events that have made previously listed in the National Register (Enter categories from instructions) Primary location of additional data: County and State a significant contribution to the broad pattems of information important in prehistory or history. distinguishable entity whose components lack B Property is associated with the lives of persons previously determined eligible by the National individual distinction.

Record # G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance CFR 67) has been requested (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A NPS Form 10-000 Stark Co., Ohio under Criteria A and C, for its association with rural education centuries, Ohio's rural counties were dotted with one-room However, improved roads and transportation, and changing settings, led to the closing of nearly all one-room schools in school education, the foundation upon which the Midwest's public school system had been founded, came to an end" (Ibid.:44), and often stylistically undistinguished, most such schools conformed "Throughout the Midwest, the in Ohio and Indiana, significant numbers of such schools were and after rural electrification during the 1930s, electric lights of integrity, and in addition, still retains nearly all of its type, the most complete example of its type in Stark County, and survive in Stark County, but with the single exception of a use as residences or farm buildings, and none of them still chalkhoard, liahts, and bell.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service philosophies of education that increasingly disparaged one-room Science Hill School Science Hill School is nominated to the National Register Science Hill School is also significant as a notable example in Lexington Township, and as a significant and intact example of a one-room school in Stark County. education of its citizens. schools in favor of larger consolidated schools in more urban School exhibits all of these defining elements with a high degree From the early nineteenth through the early twentieth the county of the major role one-room schools once played in the blackboard behind the teacher's desk at the front of the room, United States Department of the Interlor fairly closely to a standard plan.

is the only intact wood frame one-room school in the county.A more than195,000 one-room schools,"nearly half of them in the OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number _ "On the eve of World War I, the nation had Midwest, and Ohio alone had more than 10,000 (Fuller:32). the 1920s and 1930s. "In the aftermath of World War II, one-room Science Hill School, constructed ca. 1870 and moved to its of a once-common building type, the one-room school. brick (Ibid.:32). oriainal fittinas. preserve so much of their original fittings, including desks, most of the buildings were either razed or converted for other single classroom. Page Science Hill Outdoor privies as replacements for the older kerosene lamps. number of former one-room schools constructed of brick still It is an outstanding example of this building remained as long as the schools were in operation.

it was the last one-room school in Stark Country to close its OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor Stark County, Ohio history is thus related to its present site, and the site's rural Science Hill School Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service The Science Hill School was originally located about l/2 character is identical to the original. NP8 Form 10-000- Section number - Page school was moved to its present site.Nearly all of the school's mile to the west when it was built ca.1870,but in 1884 the NPS Form 10-000-e OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number - Stark County, Ohio Wm. J. Kauffman, Ohio Map & Atlas Co., Canton, Ohio, 1897. Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio. L.H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia, 1875. "Everybody's Business: The Midwestern One-Room School" Nancy Whitaker, Alliance Review, Jan. 22, 1993.

Bibliography Page Columbus. Science Hill Historical Society. Continuation Sheet Various documents and school records in possession of the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Science Hill School United States Department of the Interlor "Maybe it wasn't a century ago, but it sure felt like it" Atlas of Stark County, ohio. Wayne E. Fuller, Timeline, Vol. 10(5):32-47, Sept.- Oct. 1993. Published by the Ohio Historical Society, 10. Geographical Data - See continuation sheet (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By street & number 201 3rd. Street NE city or town - - state - _ zip code 44601 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).

date Easting Canton Zone Alliance organization Photographs Maps Continuation Sheets Additional Documentation Additional items Boundary Justification Property Owner Science Hill Historical Society Science Hill School County and State Verbal Boundary Description Ohio Historic Preservation Office UTM References Representative black and white photographs of the property. Stark County, Ohio Northing Name of Property (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) street &number c/o Marilyn Snode, 11005 McCallum Ave NEtelephone 216-823-2528 (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) Jeffrey D.

Brown/Regional Coordinator - telephone_216-438-0404 Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimatedto average 18.1hours per response including time for reviewing of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127;and the Office of instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect name Ohio name/title additional UTMreferences ona continuation sheet.) NPS Form OMB Approvel Ne. 1034-0018 United States Department of the Interior Stark County, Ohio intersection of Beeson Street and MoCallum Avenue, in the quarter-section twenty-nine (29) in township nineteen (19) of Steubenville, Ohio, thence west sixteen (16) rods to a stake, Subdistrict #7, lot #19.

Boundary Justification historically been associated with the nominated building. Verbal Boundary Description Science Hill School Boundary includes the legally described property that has The nominated property-lies at the southwest corner of the Continuation Sheet beginning containing three-fourths of an acre, more or less." National Park Service follows:"Beginning at the northeast corner of the southwest National Register of Historic Places range in the district of lands offered for sale at thence south eight rods toa stake,thence east sixteen rods to a north eight rods to the place of Section number .

township of Lexington, Stark County, Ohio; and is described as Page 1 UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT / SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.

/ CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N MULTIPLE DATE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER 8/07/94 6/23/94 OTHER: 7/22/94 PERIOD: NAME: Entered in the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: SLR DRAFT: N RETURN PROPERTY REJECT ACCEPT NATIONAL: Science Hill School REASONS FOR REVIEW: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION CLASSIFICATION FUNCTION DESCRIPTION current SIGNIFICANCE count presentation acreage context BIBLIOGRAPHY materials completeness clarity resource type Period Builder/Architect descriptive text Date historic photographs relating significance to the resource applicable criteria Specific dates Signed verbal boundary description architectural classification Phone boundary justification GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to summary paragraph USGS maps justification of exception justification of areas checked relationship of integrity to significance Areas of Significance--check and justify below UTMS sketch maps Statement of Significance one paragraph) OTHER OTHER COMMENTS Neg.

at OH. PO. Nog. at OHPO SOENCE HLL Ngy at OHPO Nog at O.H. P.O. LIMAVILLE QUADRANGLE LIMAVILLE, OHIO UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 40081-H2-TF-024 Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2546 June 16, 1994 Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places National Park Service P. O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: been followed for these new submissions. NEW SUBMISSION Uniopolis Town Hall Bradford Shoe Company Building John Miller House Liggett-Freedlander House If you have questions or comments about these documents, contact this office. W.

Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION SOCIETY COUNTY 614/297-2470 Tuscarawas Wayne enclosures Sincerely, Stark Butler HISTORICAL Hamilton Franklin Auglaize Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ragersville School Greenwood Cemetery James Baxter House Science Hill School Enclosed please find eight(8) new National Register nominations.All appropriate notification procedures have SINCE 1885 RECEIVED 413 JUN 2 3 1994 OHIO