Nomination for Housley, R. A., House

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) JUL 2 4 1996 This form is for use in nominating or requesting 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 Housley, R.A. House other names/site number 2. Location street & number N/A vicinity city or town code OH 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this [nomination - request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OHSHPO State of Federal agency and bureau 4.

National Park Service Certification Date of Action - See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National - other, (explain:) Date comments.) Register. state Ohio NAnot for publication RECEIVED Registration Form National Register Entered in the Grand Rapids historic name 24155 Front Street United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Boulton - Entenman House by entering the information requested. lf an item does not apply to the property being documented,enter"N/A"for"not applicable."For functions, National Register of Historic PlaceSNAT REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional code 173 _ zip code 43522 Xmeets does not meet the National Register criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant - Plamig. Enr. iRy. In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. (L See continuation sheet for additional I hereby certify that the property is: BEC'D BY OHPO MAR 1 81996 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property county entered in the National Register. 932 Wood Ohio Name of Property 5. Classification (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) * private G building(s) - public-local _ Structures - objects 6. Function or Use (Enter categories from instructions 7.

Description other Wood Historic Functions Narrative Description district public-State Asphalt Noncontributing Total in the National Register Architectural Classification Current Functions Number of contributing resources previously listed Name of related multiple property listing Ownership of Property HOUSLEY House public-Federal Category of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (same)Domestic: Single Dwelling (Check only one box) (Check as many boxes as apply) site Materials ( (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) roof Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

for National Register listing.) LI A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. 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 D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) LA owned by a religious institution or used for - 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 than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

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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 *l State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested | Other State agency - Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark * Other L recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey J recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1883 Bibilography Architecture Register Architect/Builder Ohio religious purposes. individual distinction.

Center for Archival Collections, Housley House Bowling Green State University Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Person Significant Dates Narrative Statement of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) not known Property is: Criteria Considerations previously listed in the National Register Areas of Significance Name of repository: Cultural Affiliation B Property is associated with the lives ofpersons (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 10. Geographical Data I See continuation sheet (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

Form Prepared By _ telephone (419)882-1234 -state Ohio zip code 43560 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) (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect Zone Northing Easting name Additional Documentation Maps Continuation Sheets Additional items name/title Ohio Photographs Verbal Boundary Description UTM References Property Owner street & number 7105 Erie Street Boundary Justification Ted and Pat Ligibel Don and Audrey Entenman (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) P.O. Box 1283 street & number Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This informationis being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate of this form to the Chief,Administrative Services Division, National Park Service,P.O.Box37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of 4588 3,00 city or town Grand Rapids Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

Sylvania Acreage of Property less than one County and State A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. city or town NPS Form 10-900-a NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 7 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 1 The town kitchen wing, or ell portion, run west from the main block at a large garden has been installed, complete with a Victorian-period of cisterns, since infilled. Similar to urban townhouses, high-style exterior ornamentation is Census). United States Department of the Interior CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service Property Name: (8-86) that was erected at the same time;the garage sits on the site of hewn ashlar blocks topped by a smooth stone water table. OHB Approval No.1024-0018 The R.A. Housley commercial street the west elevation and a deeply bracketed cornice on the facade. The R.A.

Housley House is two stories in height, L-shaped in plan, and contains 2783 square feet of space. bathroom, kitchen The dining room and angle. The main block of OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 7 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 2 cast-iron stair, typical of those found on other urban townhouses recreation of the original, exhibits chamfered columns supporting brackets at their intersection with the porch roof. A series of bevelled, rectangular-mullioned glass. main entrance, atop a single-door entry that leads to the plain, bracketed metal molding that serves as a simple cornice.

The National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET United States Department of the Interior Property Name: NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) This A bay) wooden porch connects the side The main entry is reached by pair of double doors that are surmounted by an A smaller the western half of this elevation. its west-extending ell. roof. The columns, modeled after original columns on the rehabilitation. kitchen. supported by It is strongly vertical, oversize consoles on either side of the doorway. tis the broad two-story bay window that juts from This hood forms OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number: 7 R. A.

Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 3 The window and door openings on the facade are flat-topped, while chamfered columns and brackets similar in form and size to those on the side porch at the front of the house, although the roof is over the years, and was hand-stripped as part of the restoration. repainted over time, necessitating a complete redecoration of the Aluxuriant National Park Service glass-enclosed breezeway that is attached to the garage. Property Name: elaborate black marble fireplace and mirrored overmantle. (8-86) grained in period motifs by local wood-graining artist NPS Form 10-900-a Ohio. The only other and remains window moldings. between the two parlors. deeply carved profile in Wilkins of Fremont, balusters, and handrail. The is a small, two-bay porch that leads from the rear (south facing) features largely Victorian blocks.

wallpapering theremaining openings The interior architecture isan excellent representation of mid- The elaborate main stair leads from the foyer to the second This porch a shed type of standing seam metal. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number: 7 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 4 interior accents. consoles flanking the doorways. CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service United States Department of the Interior first floor. (8-86) designed to resemble the original carriage house on the property.

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The second floor features identical woodwork to that found on the NPS Form 10-900-a Property Name: adorn walls and ceilings, resulting in a dramatic and decorations in Planned by Sylvania, Ohio landscape ivy beds, defines the front and west side yards, originally graced a former The eighty by forty foot rear house) chamfered, plastered archway leads to bed and bath rooms effect. recreations, Tecumseh, Michigan coordinated the selection of wall papers. stairs reveals an unusual series of three adjacent doors, chosen to John Crosby yard is surrounded by a new vertical board and lattice-work fence on the west side of the house. The main house was repainted OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 7, 8 R.A.

Housley House is Wood County, Ohio Page # 5 square feet of the total, were added in 1988 on the approximate SECTION 8 Revival; NR listed), the Kerr House (Queen Anne; NR listed) and characteristics of a type [and] period." structures. National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Property Name: United States Department of the Interior The R.A.Housley House is significant to Grand Rapids, Ohio as an NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) The new breezeway is attached to in Grand toward the garden. breezeway and garage, approximate form of similar previous Ohio via the Maumee Stylistically, it is one of few fully-expressed represent landmark Hinsdale-Laskey House (Greek Revival), the Heeter House (Gothic Criterion a place the distinctive The that comprising 702 architectural idioms throughout Northwestern River valley.

A small washroom is located at the southern batten wall facing west and a glass-enclosed wall facing east "embodies OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 8 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 6 Leaf/Nickel Plate/Wabash/Norfolk & Western), that arrived as a It was in River and Grand Rapids commercial district. milling enterprises.

CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service settlers arrived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Its The R.A.Housley House was erected for Richard A.Housley shortly Property Name: United States Department of the Interior embarking on a career as proprietor of established grocery and (8-86) of whom settled along the banks of the Maumee The site of Grand Rapids had long been associated with the Ottawa NPS Form 10-900-a The location known historically as the "Head of the Rapids," offered a natural As a result of 1830, the Ottawas were forced to move from opened the way for large influxes of Euro-American settlers, many to Fort Wayne. The town Grand Rapids of a house previously served as the location of a log cabin belonging familiarity with as serving expression of a business physical advanced unknown.

crossing and entrepreneur in the community.The Italianate style is not Indian Removal Act of and islands, 1833 as the village of Grand Rapids in1868). OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 8 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 7 counterparts flourished. A review of the 1978-79 architectural inventory Kansas City line) which sliced through the village.in 1886; by Volunteer Infantry (OVI) during the Civil War. After the war he Renamed National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET NPS Form10-900-a United States Department of the Interior Fort Wayne evidence a much higher proportion of Italianate-styled the City Livery and Feed Stable at the turn-of-the-century. (8-86) Property Nane: Housley to purchase the Peugh Planing Mill around 18g0.

the canal era before the Not until just prior to the turn-of-the-century did a district great fire of 1898. This conflagration, combined with subsequent remodeling and demolition, left only four recognizable commercial the mercantile precinct. enterprise known for 1894 and worked on the railroad in the western territories before settling maintain The spurred liberally in design. residential properties that can be classed as purely"Italianate the largest enterprises of its kind in the area.He continued to Housley House that much more significant to its locality. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 8 R. A.

Housley House Hood County, Ohio Page # 8 his granddaughter Vivian Smart, who maintained residence with her thereafter in Maude Boulton was civically active as a founder of the original architectural character, including painting of natural woodwork, removal of present property holders, Don and Audrey Entenman, purchased the exterior, site, and landscape restoration and renovation. grandfather. National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET NPS Form 10-900-a Property Name: United States Department of the Interior house in1977,commencing rejuvenation of the dwelling in 1987. (8-86) in August, 1927. Vivian Smart sold the property to Fred and Maude Boulton shortly Town Hall). door, (see Section 7). the residence, returning many of the original features to their 1880s condition, and replicating others that had disappeared. restoration by recognized guided comprehensive Hartman.

The subject property subsequently was willed to The Boulton's resided at this house for thirty- 1900,and servedas its first president from 1900to NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 8, 10 R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 9 in Grand Rapids, but in the historic Maumee Valley as well. VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Grand Rapids in Wood County, Ohio. structure and its subject CONTINUATION SHEET its erection. National Park Service progression of residential and architectural development not only BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION Property Name: SECTION 10 United States Department of the Interior (8-86) The R.A.

Housley mid-twentieth century decline to late century reclamation of its Lot 40 and the west one-half of Lot 41 in the Original Plat of contain the appurtenances, and have been regional its The associated with the structure since OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number: 9 R. A. Housley House Hood County, Ohio Page # 10 County. Ohio: Its Past and Present. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., Floyd D. Huffman, pub.; Grand Rapids, 1897. Present. Volume One. Grand Rapids, Ohio; July, 1978. Grand Rapids. Ohio and Area: Commemorating the Past and the The Historical Society of Grand Rapids, December, 1978. June Huffman; Grand Rapids, Ohio, L.J. Publishers, 1993. Toledo, Ohio, July 15-21, 1990. Bowling Green, Ohio, 1850-present. Wood County Register of Wills, Wood County Probate Court; Bowling Green, Ohio, 1927.

National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a Property Name: Recollections:Qver a Century of Grand Rapids.Ohio History. (8-86) 1. Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record ef Wood Grand Rapids, Ohio: A Souvenir of the Past and Present. Present, Volume Two. Ohio Historic Inventory. Patricia Ligibel. Ohio Historic Wood County Record of Deeds, Wood County Register of Deeds; OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES R. A. Housley House Wood County, Ohio Page # 11 PHOTOGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS Name : 2. Location: Date of photo: December, 1995 5. Neg.

Location: With current owners Facade and west side elevation, facing southeast Facade close-up, facing south Rear and east side elevations, facing northwest Garage and part of rear yard from rear porch, facing southwest View from second parlor into formal, main parlor; looking north Second parlor exterior wall, looking southwest Dining room, looking northeast toward second parlor Main stair in foyer, looking up (south) First floor breezeway from kitchen, looking south toward garage National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET United States Department of the Interior The following information is the same for all photos: Property Name: NPS Form 10-900-a The following are specific descriptions for individual photos: Second floor south from top of stair (8-86) Photo Number 6 of 10 3.

Photographer: Ted J Ligibel UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE TELEPHONE RETURN REJECT DISCIPLINE 9/07/96 MULTIPLE 7/24/96 8/22/96 REVIEWER National Register RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL: OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: V ACCEPT Entereu i STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Wood LESS THAN 5O YEARS: 12 1795 WOOD CO., OHIO R.A. HOUSLEY HOUSE - WooD Co., OHIO PHOTO 20F 10 R.A.HOUSLEy HOUSE PHOTO #OF 1O NOOD CO, OHIO R.A. Hous LEy House RA HOUSLEY HSE WOOD CO., OHIO.

56.L1 21 K.A- HoUSLEY HoUSE PIOTO TOF 10 Woos Co., OHCO PHOTO 8 oF 10 1217'95 WOODCO., OHIO WOODCO., ONO R.A.HoUSLEYHbus POTO 10 0F 10 GRAND RAPIDS, OHIO GRAND RAPIDS QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) R.A. HOUSLEY HOUSE 17 260510/4588300 () State Route DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES UTM REFERENCE