Nomination for Young, Benjamin and Mary, House

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 . (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior This form is for use in nominatingor requesting determinationsfor individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the by entering the information requested.If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, 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 - Young, Benjamin and Mary, House (LAK-95-3) other names/site number_ Location street & number - N/A O vicinity city or town. _ zip code _ 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification L request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Signature of certifying official/Title State of Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting official/Title National Park Service Certification LI See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National - other, (explain:) code comments.) 44060 Date Register. state Registration Form National Park Service RECEIVED Entered in the National Register of Historic Places Rhoda Corning Holmes House Ohio Historic Preservation Office- SHPO 7597 South Center Street NAnot for publication National Register Ventered in the National Register. Date of Action NAT.

REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES architectural classification, materials,and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional - county Lake As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination Historic Places and meets the procedural and protessional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property * meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant In my opinion, the property meets - does not meet the National Registar criteria. ([] See continuation sheet for additional Mentor Ohio 867 JUL- Ben jamin and Mary Young House Lake County, Ohio 5. Classification _ buildings _ sites _ structures _ objects - Total Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use 7.

Description Noncontributing Federal private public-local Architectural Classification public-State asphalt roof walls other Narrative Description Number of contributing resources previously listed Historic Functions in the National Register Materials public-Federal (Enter categories from instructions) Current Functions Category of Property district DOMESTIC/single dwelling (Check as many boxes as apply) Name of Property Number of Resources within Property County and State (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Ownership of Property wood (Check only one box) foundation concrete (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) NPS Form10-900- OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Historlc Places Beniamin & Marv Young House, Lake County, Ohio Section number _ - Page - SECTION 7 DESCRIPTION The Benjamin and Mary Young house located at 7597 South Center Street, Mentor, Ohio, is wing. The central features are a recessed front porch and a low pitched hip roof. The house is symmetrical, except for the door placement on the rear wall of the recessed porch The front portion of the house has narrow beaded corner boards, wide 16" frieze, a small cornice with both bed mold and crown mold. The water table is missing. The central design element is the centered recessed porch which is framed by attenuated Doric pilasters clapboard. Windows are 2/2. A basement entry formerly existed on the northwest corner of members, mortised and tenoned together. The basement joists are bark-covered logs varying purlins.

These members are all placed so that the largest dimension is the width of the member. Flooring is narrow, about 6", oak or poplar with clear marking of the plane that cut wall plate. A narrow ridge board, 1/2" x 5" receives the rafters at the gable ridge. The first floor ceiling framing reflects the basement framing (see drawing). center ridge chimney before stoves replaced the fireplaces. The interior spaces have been reworked, while the split lath and plaster of the original The above described structure has a rear kitchen wing or ell that dates from about from the front structure. This wing, which has framing independent and different from the above described building, once extended farther north, beyond the north side of the front wall sills. This porch is articulated on the exterior with a corner board (see drawing).

The Young House was moved to its present location on a residential lot in 1955, when Continuation Sheet and has an elliptical arched opening.The porch is faced with wide beaded flush boards centers.The south facade once had a 4'-2" deep recessed porch which is framed with 4" x 4" National Park Service building.The rear wing was married to the front ca. 1810 house in about 1866. composed of house sills and two east-west purlins spaced 9' apart that are 8"x 10" adzed oak an example of a single story, Federal style house, approximately 33' x 25', with rear kitchen This wing is framed with vertically sawn members.Joists are 8x2's set at about 18" the house. interior shows in the attic.Ceiling heights were originally about 8'-6" Both attic and basement framing of this building survive intact.

The basement is the grooves for the tongue-and-groove or splined floor.The attic has bark-covered log poles, (replaced on the east side) and has a plaster ceiling.The exterior siding of the house is from 8"x7" to8"x10" in size,spaced at 2'-6",set into pockets in the house sills and approximately 4" x 3" at each ridge of the hip roof. The roof joists are mostly log, similar joist ends at the gable ridge and bits of early brick suggest that the house had an interior frieze with bed mold and crown mold, returned cornice. The cornice detailing is dissimilar The replaced center flooring, missing center joist pockets in the basement, replaced 1830.

The wing is approximately 20' x 15' with late Federal detailing: narrow corner boards, size, spaced at 3'-2".They are notched and nailed to the ridge poles and pocketed into the United States Department of the Interlor Benjani1 & Mary Young House Lake County, Ohio Section number _ 7 Page - National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet National Park Service The front part of the Young House gained 5'-6" on the north side in 1955 to accommodate a bathroom and a basement staircase. Mentor Avenue became a main commercial thoroughfare with large commercial buildings. NP8 Form 10-000 OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

a significant contribution to the broad patterns of significant in our past. El C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and ca. 1810 - ca. 1856 D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) ca. 1310 CA owned by a religious institution or used for [xl 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. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

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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 13 State Historic Preservation Office L Other State agency L Federal agency L Local government L. University L Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Register Bibliography Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation Significant Dates individual distinction. Criteria Considerations religious purposes. Period of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Property is: Areas of Significance our history.

distinguishable entity whose components lack designated a National Historic Landmark previously determined eligible by the National previously listed in the National Register (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) Narrative Statement of Significance Significant Person CFR 67) has been requested B Property is associated with the lives of persons Primary location of additional data: A Property is associated with events that have made Benjamin & Mary Young House Architectire Name of Property (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) ofa type,period,or method of construction or Lake County, Ohio (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualitying the property ca. 1866 (Comptete it Criterion B is marked above) NPS Form 10-000-s OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 Section number - SECTION 8 SIGNIFICANCE a one-story, hip roof Federal style house of the Western Reserve; as a rare survivor of early framing technique in the Western Reserve and as a stylish and thoughtfully designed statement of Western Reserve federal architecture. This house is a rare example of early building practices and technology of the first phase of frame construction methods in the Western Reserve. It displays the wide joist spacing of early Western Reserve timber frames, the lack of understanding of structural framing in using the largest dimension for the width instead of depth of joists and beams.

It displays construction materials and methods no long available or seen: sheathing boards up to 3'-0" in width and boards and structural members still covered in bark because sending a log through the saw mill four times was a waste of valuable water power which could be better utilized to cut more framing members. This house is important for its stylish and unusual presentation of the Federal style in the Western Reserve. Whilethose townships settled early in the nineteenth century by New prominent families, e. g. the Allen House at Kinsman, Trumbull County (National Register), very few Federal period one-story houses survive. Shandy Hall at Harperfield (National vernacular with simple Federal period details. The same is true for the Addison Kimball House at Madison, Lake County (Campen).

The Young house has a bold, wide frieze and the pre-1830 Asher Benjamin pattern books so frequently referred to by Western Reserve carpenter-builders. The most notable feature of the residence is the recessed front porch with elliptical arched facing. No examples of this treatment are known in northern Ohio. Most local architectural historians mention no hip roof one-story houses (Frary, Campen, Hitchcock, Buerling). Canfield has one hip roof Greek Revival one-story house. The gabled, one-story George Mygatt House, constructed by Jonathan Goldsmith about 1830 in Painesville (demolished) had a small stylish portico with fluted lonic columns.

It had a similarly wide frieze, crisp small cornice, symmetrical facade and center chimney as the Young House century when saw mills processed timber relatively periodically so that sawn lumber was bark-covered and adzed lumber was used frequently in framing. All roof sheathing, for example, has bark on the edges of the sheathing boards. Secondary joists are bark-covered Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior This house is eligible for the National Register under criterion C as a rare example of National Park Service builder such as Goldsmith who had great experience and self-assurance in his designs.

The Young House has a long history.It was constructed during the early nineteenth (Hitchcock).The whole construction of the Young House speaks of a sophisticated carpenter- Register)in Lake County is an example.It speaks little to being stylish but is more employed only where essential in construction, such as for trim and floor boards. Unfinished England immigrants have long been known for the stylish late Federal residences of restrained but sharply drawn cornice. The tall, thin Doric pilasters that flank the porch reflect (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Ben jamin & maay Young House, Lake County, Ohid logs except at the corners of the hip roof framing where they are notched to fit tightly to the centered; it likely had several fireplaces. that the house is constructed with very early nineteenth century building technology.

Its original location, likely in Mentor, is unknown. The rear kitchen wing was constructed later, about 1830, and added to the front portion of the house about 1866. The nominated house was still considered valuable as housing stock some fifty years after its construction when it was moved to a lot facing Mentor Avenue about 1866. At that X/164). In 1866, Mary Comstock Young, wife of Benjamin M. Young of Willoughby bought the vacant lot between the corner and William Kerr's for $350 from the estate of Thomas Jones (Lake County Registry of Deeds, X/165). When the property changed hands in 1877, Benjamin M. and Mary Young sold it to Rhoda Corning Holmes for $2000 (Lake County Deeds, 7/285). Updating of the house at the time of the move to Mentor Avenue included the addition of the ca.

1830 kitchen wing, the removal of the chimney and conversion of heat to stoves, the replacement of the center bay of flooring, replacement of original window sash with 2/2 sash, the replastering of the interior and possible reworking of the room arrangement. The "new" house was located so that both the ca. 1810 Federal house and the ca. 1830 house, a style more in fashion in the 1850-1880 period than a 1-story hip roof house with rear Little is known of the Youngs. Benjamin was born in Connecticut in 1829. He married Mary Comstock, daughter of Mentor cabinetmaker Samuel Comstock in 1858. Benjamin does not appear in the 1840 census, nor did other Youngs live near Mentor or Silverthorne's family in Willoughby where both Silverthorne and Young were fanning mill Infantry, F Company for duty in the Civil War.

He was discharged on surgeon's disability Benjamin and Mary only had one child, bor in 1859.It seems likely that Benjamin Young did the alterations to the house when his family occupied it after his return from the war. By school teacher, lived with the Youngs on Mentor Avenue (Lake County History Center Continuation Sheet the 1870 census, Benjamin was again a fanning mill maker. Mary's sister, Juliet Comstock, a National Park Service as early as the Corning house.Physical investigation by the form preparer has determined kitchen ell. United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Local history (van Rensselaer,1896) notes that Warren Corning had the first 2-story entrance.The intention must have been to make the house appear to be an upright-and-wing Willoughby in that year(1840 census).

In 1850,Benjamin lived with Jacob Silverthorme and makers (1850 census). The Youngs were living in Willoughby when he enlisted in the 105 wall plate and ridge beam.Original lath was split lath.The chimney was on the interior and frame house in Mentor built in 1814.It was demolished long ago. The Young house could be Section number - - Page _ time the property was the second lot east of Center Street (Lake County Registry of Deeds, Federal wing faced Mentor Avenue. The recessed porch on the wing may have been the main three years later. At the time of his enlistment, Benjamin was employed as a carpenter. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Page 3 genealogy files) The property passed from Young to Rhoda Corning Holmes, daughter and Mina Corning Angier, a school teacher and Mentor's first librarian, and her husband James, Angiers the house passed to a cousin, Jane Bostwick, then to the Snells, parents of the present When Mentor Avenue continued to be the main thoroughfare and highway commercial land uses continued to proliferate, the Snells moved the house to a residential lot around the corner on Center Street, an early nineteenth century street, in 1955. At that time, the north addition was made, adding a bathroom and stairs to the basement (Marilyn Snell Daniels interview). This house was moved in the 1860s to be reused as a residence when its unknown original site was used för another purpose.

The house was again moved in 1955 from a busy highway commercial strip to an early Mentor residential street lined with single family Continuation Sheet had a Sun Oil gas station; the house was a rental residence for the gas station employee. National Register of Historic Places granddaughter of prominent Mentor men. When she died intestate in 1881, the property the postmaster, occupied the house (Lake County History Center, genealogy file). From the residences of similar scale, siting and landscaping as this house. National Park Service Section number 8 passed equally to her six children (Lake County Civil Court Case # 04927). One daughter, United States Department of the Interior Ben jamin & Mary Yoang House, Lake County, Ohio owners (ca. 1915 Mentor Village Engineer's map). In the 1930s, the land west of the house (8-86) 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property - (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By . date February, 1996 organization _ - telephone Youngs town . zip code A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. (Check with the SHPOor FPO for any additional items) Marilyn Daniels and Barbara A. Snell street & number - 7493 Cadle Avenue 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.). of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division,Nationai Park Service, P.O.Box37127,Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFPICE : 1993 0 - 350-416 QL 3 44060 44515 Zone Mentor Easting Maps Photographs Continuation Sheets Northing Boundary Justification Verbal Boundary Description state Additional Documentation name/title Additional items County and State UTM References Property Owner Representative black and white photographs Qf the property. less than one acre Rebecca M. Rogers (Describe the boundariesof the property ona continuation sheet.) Name of Property Beniamin & Mary Young House Submit the following items with the completed form: this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) city or town Lake County, Ohio street & number_44 Audubon Road A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. instructions,gathering and maintaining data, and complating and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) name Estimated Burden Statement:Publicreporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time forreviewing United States Department of the Interior Lake County, Ohio Buerling, Sigfried Campen, Richard N Architecture of the Western Reserve, 1800-1900. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University. Early Homes of Ohio. Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, Inc. Geauga County Tax Assessment. 1817, 1821, 1825, 1827, 1829. 1830, 1832, 1834, 1839 Geauga County Probate Record. Chardon, Ohio. Geauga County Registry of Deeds. Chardon, Ohio. Hitchcock, Elizabeth G. Jonathan Goldsmith, Pioneer Master Builder in the Western Reserve. Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society. Lake County Civil Court. Painesville, Ohio.

Lake County Registry of Deeds, Painesville, Ohio. Lake, D. J. Atlas of Lake and Geauga Counties. Philadelphia. Matthews, S. H Lake County Map. Philadelphia. Township Map. Geauga County Registry of Deeds. 1980 1995 1857 1971 1830 1875 Genealogy files. Interview. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Benjamin & Mary Young House Mentor Township. Daniels, Marilyn Snell. Lake County History Center. Section number 9 Page 1 NPS Form 10-000e Approvel No. 1024-0018 Frary, I. T NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Township Map. Geauga County Registry of Deeds. Mentor Village Plat Map. Lake County Registry of Deeds. Painesville, Ohio. Newkirk, Lois, ed. State University Press. 1840, 1850 Population Schedules of the Census of the United States. History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio.

Philadelphia. VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Part of the Church lot, City of Mentor, Lake County, and is bounded and described as follows: Beginning on the easterly line of South Center Street at the point of intersection recorded in Volume 247, page 137 of Lake County Deed Records; thence south 3 degrees 15 feet west along the easterly line of the parcel of land as deeded to John Pinley et. al., Trustees of the Church of God by deed as recorded in Volume 186, page 531 of the Lake County Records; thence south 86 degrees 45 feet 52 inches east, along the northerly line of land conveyed to John Pinley, et.

al., and said line extended easterly, 215 feet thence north 3 degrees 15 feet east, 100 feet to the intersection with the southerly line of land as conveyed to Gunton aforesaid, thence 86 degrees 45 feet west, along the southerly line of Gunton's land 215 feet to the place of beginning, containing approximately 0.4935 acres of land BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION The boundary includes the entire legally recorded village lots that has been associated with 1989 1855 1840 1878 Page (8-86) Continuation Sheet United States. Mentor Township. Williams Brothers. National Register of Historic Places the nominated property since it was moved in 1955. Hudsona Survey of Historic Buildings in an Ohio Town.Kent,Ohio:Kent with the southerly line of property conveyed to Percy K. and Mabel G. Gunton by deed as Section number - Lake County, Ohio 8""7" LOGS.

W/ TENON JOSTENDS REPLACED FLOCKING, CA.1840-10- 4" 4"OAK SAWN FRAMING 4 "x 3"' LOG RIDGE POLES' - LOG OR SAWN RAFTERS Beniamin and Mary Young House ca 1810 1955 38-11" UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION Young, Benjamin and Mary, House STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Lake DATE OF PENDING LIST: 7/16/96 DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 8/15/96 DATE 8/01/96 PROPERTY 7/01/96 REVIEWER MULTIPLE REJECT RETURN TELEPHONE ACCEPT DISCIPLINE RECOM./CRITERIA EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: NAME: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE RECEIVED: Entered in REFERENCE NUMBER: 96000867 N PDIL: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: OTHER: LAKE COUTY, OHIO FRONT (WEST) ANA NORTH FACADES 1993 MICHAEL UANTZ BENJAMIN + MARy YoUNG HOUSE 1993 LAKE COUNTY, OHIO FRONT (WEST) AND SOUTH FACADES MICHAEL VANTZ NEGATIVE LOCATION = PROPERTY OWNER EAST FACADE MICHAEL VANTZ 1993 NEGATIVE LOCATION - PROPERTY OWNER LAKE CONry, OHIO BENJAmIN + MARy YoUNG HOUse LAKE COUNTY, OHIO CELLAR DETAIL: SAWN TREE BEAMS MICHAEL VANTZ NEGAnUE LOCATION = PROPERTY OWNER LAKE COUNTY, OHIO MICHAEL VANTZ NEGATIVE LOCATON = PROPERTY OWNER 1993 NEGATIVE LOCATON ANÀ PHOTOGRAPHER= 199 ANJD PHOTOGRAPHER= 1996 rean1830s wing from south east NEGATIVE LOCATION AND PHOTOGRAPHER: Lake County Ohio 1996 REBECCA ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHER = REBECCA ROGERS 996 Lake County Phio MENTOR QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 6.S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO UNITED STATES