Nomination for Marion Township School District No. 3

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1. Name of Property Marion Township School District #3 historic name - other names/site number 2. Location 8884 C.R. 236 street & number N/A - not for publication city or town & vicinity code 063 . zip code county - 3. State/Federal Agency Certification Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OHSHPO State of Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. (-] See continuation sheet for additional 4. Natiopal Park Service Certification Date of Action Ventered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet.

- determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other, (explain:) 45840 Findlay Date Hancock comments.) RECEIVED state Ohio Register. National Register Registration Form Marion School Entered in the JUL - 9 1996 7-1-94 This form is for use in nominatingor requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the * meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant I hereby certify that the property is: Hancock County, OH 5. Classification wnership of Proper Number of Resources within Property Check as many boxes as appl (Do not include previously listed resources in the count & private E building(s).

- public-local - district -public-State - site - public-Federal - structure -object _ Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions EDUCATION: school RECREATION: museum 7. Description Architectural Classification Limestone foundation roof Brick Metal walls Noncontributing Materials other Narrative Description Current Functions Category of Property NO STYLE Name of Property Marion Township School District #3 County and State (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Enter categories from instructions) Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing Wood EDUCATION: school (Check only one box) OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number - Marion Township School District #3, Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio openings just above the foundation provide air circulation under the floor. The north and south facades of the red brick building each have three 2/2, double-hung windows. The each have original exterior, louvered shutters, now painted green. The east facade has two the same common bond pattern used in all the exterior walls. The gabled roof is of standing seam metal. A corbelled brick chimney is in the center of the west end of the roof. The belfry is centered on the east end of the roof. It is square, wood has a small door to the attic at the east end, next to where the pull rope for the bell hangs.

The blackboards on the west wall are not original, but are from the period of the school's use, and were installed during the restoration in the early 1970s. Two, small wood frame outbuildings can be found at the west end of the half acre schoolyard. The reconstruction was based on the retired teachers' own memories of rural schools, as well as reminiscences of former students of Marion School #3. The privies are gabled, with vertical shiplap siding, doors on the east facade, and quarter moon cutouts over the doors. Page The one-story, vernacular school has no particular architectural style. It sits on a limestone had a wooden stoop and steps. The doorways also have the same segmental arched openings Foundations for two previous privies can be seen near the present structures.

The 2 privies historical photograph).The doorways now have three concrete steps leading to each, but once Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places wooden, five-panel doors, which are not original, but are similar to the originals (see as the windows, and have rectangular, single-light transoms. The west facade is solid brick in foundation with a small opening between the ground and the floor joists.Small, grated plank flooring and wainscoting are original. The walls and ceilings are plastered. The ceiling are considered non-contributing. frame, and gabled with arched openings revealing an iron bell. The belfry is original, and its Two-hole privies, one for girls and one for boys, were reconstructed during the restoration. windows are original, and are set within segmental, double-header, arched openings. They is of native oak and sycamore.The bell is a replacement.

The interior of the schoolhouse has been restored to look as it did 1o0years ago.The wood NPS Form 10-900-a Marion Township School #3, located in rural Marion Township, is a rectangular, brick, one- (8-86) just a quarter mile west of the schoolyard. room schoolhouse. It was constructed in 1864, and still occupies its original location. The NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Marion School District #3, Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio A combination wood storage and pony shed for the teacher once stood off the north-east corner of the school, but it no longer exists. An original well and pump are situated on the east side of the school, just inside the fence which surrounds the schoolyard.

The fence is a recent reconstruction of the original based on historical photographs of the school. Page (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Hancock County, OH 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. * 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 distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance 1864, 1936 information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. Cultural Affiliation - 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. Narrative Statement of Significance 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 Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 E 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 Bibilography religious purposes. Register Significant Dates our history. Architect/Builder Architecture Education individual distinction.

Property is: D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, for National Register listing.) County and State Marion Township School District #3 Name of repository: (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Name of Property Record # (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Marion Township school District #3 Hancock County, OH Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data 0.5 acres Acreage of Property UTM References - See continuation sheet Jerbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet. Boundary Justification 11. Form Prepared By J. Weiser, Archivist-Historian Hancock Historical Museum Association 422 W. Sandusky Street street & number city or town .

- state - - zip code 45840 Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets 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 SHPO or FPO.) Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate Findlay Maps date Photographs organization Northing name Zone Easting Additional Documentation Additional items name/title 6 November 1995 (Place additional UTMreferences ona continuation sheet.) (419 423-4433 - telephone A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 14.514,610,00 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section number - Marion Township School District #3, Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio Marion Township School District #3 is significant under Criteria A and C as Marion Marion School #3 represents the important educational role provided by one room country schools. Controlled by separate boards of education, each school was designed to be accessible to the local rural community where they had a significant impact on social development of youth.

North Dakota south to Missouri, over 90,000 one-room schoolhouses survived across the schoolhouses survived in the Midwest, more than half of the entire nation's number. As a architects; rather, they were the product of local farmers and building committees. Yet the standard plan remained popular for decades: "Relieved by minimal if any adornments and nearly always rectangular, with three windows on each of the longer sides, these plain schoolhouses had a chimney at one Many one-room schoolhouses have vestibule entrances and small belfries at the peak of their The vast majority of rural schools in Hancock County were vernacular style, red brick, rectangular buildings. A few brick schools had more elaborate design, with the southeast functional architecture of most rural county schools, and has a high degree of historical integrity in its structural features.

Rural schools were also social centers for the families living around each school. Box socials, recitations, musical programs, spelldowns, last day of school carry-in dinners, and and the only one-room school remaining intact from eight schools in the township in 1878. distinctive building type, one-room schoolhouses were seldom designed or inspired by One-room schoolhouses, along with windmills, barns and covered bridges, rank among other school events brought parents, grandparents, and siblings to school to attend programs, end, and a door, sometimes two, at the other." (Fuller, One-Room Schools, p. 15). Midwest as late as 1918, far more than any other region. By 1936, nearly 70,000 one-room 18 townships, only about 40 percent of the rural schools remain standing in Hancock County.

the nation's most endearing rural images.From Ohio west to Kansas and Nebraska, and from Township's best surviving example of a one-room school, the backbone of education in Hancock County in the 19th and early 20 centuries.Once numbering about 140 buildings in National Register of Historic Places Built in 1864,Marion School #3 is one of the oldest of the schools still extant in the county, gable ends. NPS Form 10-900-a Page - townships, were wood frame buildings. However, Marion School #3 is typical of the simple, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number Marion Township School District #3, Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio share food, and interact socially with family and neighbors. These events provided an also share a meal and fellowship together.

but most are used for farm storage and are in varying degrees of disrepair. Marion Township originally had six schools, of which three remain. Marion School #3 has been restored, another is an now unoccupied residence, and the third was for many years a grange hall, but is now unused Marion Township, located on the east side of Findlay, the county's largest city and county seat, was a predominantly rural, agricultural area, as was nearly all of the county. The school served the children of surrounding farm families from grades one through eight. Those school trustees who built and ran their schools. Nearly all rural children were educated in one-room schools until the consolidation movement began in the early 1900s, when small, country schools were thought to have become outmoded. The last of Hancock County's rural occupies was deeded back to the neighboring farmer in 1938.

The school was restored by the Hancock County Retired Teachers' Association in 1972-73, after its donation to the museum by the Wiseley family. After 36 years as a it has been available for tours, and is a popular site for school field trips. It is also the location of "project Schoolbell," developed by two Findlay elementary teachers. It allows third graders from Findlay to spend a day at the school as their counterparts did a century sponsored the first Box Social, now an annual event, featuring tours, spelldowns, children's will continue to be used for historically oriented educational and social programs and events.

Page children going on to high school commuted to or boarded in Findlay.The farmers elected Continuation Sheet games, chicken dinner, and a dessert auction with decorated boxes and baskets.The school National Register of Historic Places ago.The program was expanded to all county schools in 1994. In May 1994, the museum granary, it opened to the public in spring 1973 furnished once again as a school.Since then opportunity for neighbors to not only be able to assess their children's progress in school, but schools were all closed in 1936, including Marion School #3.The land which the school Some remaining schools have been converted into private residences or meeting halls, (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 9. Major Bibliographical References The Republican-Courier, May 18, 1973, p. D1. Fuller, Wayne E.

"Everybody's Business, the Midwestern One-Room School." Timeline (September-October 1993):32-47, Fuller, Wayne E. One-Room Schools of the Middle West. Lawrence: University Hancock County Recorder's Office, Deed Book 202, Page, 390 and Deed Book 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description One-half acre of land in Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio, commencing 32 rods north of the southeast corner of section 16 on the section line, west 18 rods and 3/4 rod, north 70'4", east 18 3/4 rods to east line of said section, and south to place of The boundary includes the school house, two outdoor privies, and the schoolyard. Page beginning. (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Press of Kansas, 1994. Continuation Sheet Boundary Justification 364,Page 516 (November 22,138 and June 1,1972).

Section number & 10 9 & 10 Cochran, Terry."Little Red Schoolhouse Renovation Now a Reality." NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Marion Township School District #3, Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio Photographic Documentation The following information is the same for photographs 1 through 6: 1. Marion Township School District #3 3. Paulette J. Weiser 4. 10 September 1995 5. Hancock Historical Museum, Findlay, Ohio Looking at the east and south facades, toward the west-northwest Looking at the west and north facades, toward the east-southeast. Looking at the east and north facades and the yard back to the girls' privy, toward the west-southwest. Looking at the back of the two privies and the back of the school, toward the Photographer unknown 5 March 1984 From the collection of the Hancock Historical Museum.

Findlay, Ohio east-northeast. Photo #7. Photo #1. Photo #5. Photo #3. (8-86) Photo #4. Continuation Sheet Photo #2. Section number Photos Page National Register of Historic Places Photo #6. 2. Hancock County, Ohio Looking at the northwest corner of the school's interior. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Marion Township School District No. NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.

/CRITERIA TELEPHONE RETURN 8/08/96 DATE REJECT 7/09/96 MULTIPLE 8/23/96 DISCIPLINE PROPERTY REVIEWER National Register PDIL: OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: Entered in the DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF PENDING LIST: REQUEST: N DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 7/23/96 SAMPLE: APPEAL: REASONS FOR REVIEW: Little Marion School #3 (051979 0122 N Hancocklo. Hancock lo.d, Hancocko., chio 0073979 0122 NH HancocrCo. FPS 95 06905 NNNCA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ARCADIA, OHIO UNITED STATES OHIO-HANCOCK CO ARCADIA QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Fax: 297-2496 June 28, 1996 SINCE 1885 National Register of Historic Places P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations.

All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. NEW SUBMISSION Marion Township School District #3 The Zottman House If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. State Historic Preservation Officer COUNTY Scioto Hancock Sincerely, 614/297-2470 SOCIETY enclosures HISTORICAL RECEIVED Amos J. Loveday, Jr. Dear Ms. Shull: Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JUL - 9 1996