Nomination for Speaker, Charles, House

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NPS Form 10-900 (Oct. 1990) Revised - January 31, 1997 MAR 2 8 1997 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 Name of Property Speaker, Charles, House Schneider, John W., House other names/site number Location street & number - not for publication city or town U vicinity zip code _ - county - State/Federal Agency Certification Exmeets -does not meet the National Register criteria. 1 recommend that this property be considered significant Signature of certifying official/Title 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: - See continuation sheet. - removed from the National - other, (explain:) 039 43512 RECEIVED comments.) Defiance Date state Ohio National Register historic name 3-21-97 Registration Form entered in the National Register.

National Register of Historic Places Ohio Historic Preservation Office United States Department of the Interior State of Federal agency and bureau National Park Service This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts.See instructions in How to Complete the 912 Holgate Avenue determined not eligible for the OMB No. 10024-0018 3 74 NAT.REGISTER architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional - request for determination of eligibility meets 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 Date of Action NAT Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.In my opinion,the property LACES Speaker, Charles, House Defiance, Ohio 5. Classification (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) & building(s) - public-local - public-State Site - public-Federal - object _ Total 6. Function or Use 7.

Description Late Victorian: Second Empire foundation _ walls _ asphalt shingle/metal Noncontributing Historic Functions wood/weatherboard structure Narrative Description Materials Category of Property brick/stone foundation Current Functions in the National Register Number of Resources within Property Architectural Classification County and State Domestic/Single Dwelling (Enter categories from instructions) Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed district Name of Property Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) 1imestone private (Check only one box) other NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio siding, the house features Victorian elements which include the arched mansard style roof with dormers on all elevations, and and early 20th century residential neighborhood, adjacent to Later (1880-1900) hames of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival and fifty feet from the rear of the house, down two gentle slopes native oak, walnut and buckeye trees (photos 7 and 8) abounding south) elevation and the rear (north/west) elevation (photos 1 and 2).

The front elevation features a large "I" shaped wooden screen door, transom and beveled glass side lights (photo 6). Original two-over-two double hung wood windows are large in scale and are predominate on all elevations, with the exception of the front elevation at ground level, where (3) four-over-one double corner porch, was extended and enclosed in the 1940's to The interior features of the Speaker house have been first floor includes an entrance hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, two full baths and a family roam. The second floor features three bedrooms, a study and a full bath. A narrow hallway leads to a rear staircase down to the kitchen area. A third floor walk up attic includes three spacious rooms, one of the flat roof of the home, where a widow's walk was located. The Continuation Sheet on the north side of the property (non-contributing). the third floor.

and across a large, grassy expanse with mature foilage including elevation features a varied roofline with decorative support National Park Service National Register of Historic Places hung wood windows have been installed.These are presumed to be the Second Empire style.A wood frame building with weatherboard non-original (photo 9).The rear entrance, originally a recessed The entrance features a wood and beveled glass door, components of the original widow's walk still exist in storage on The two primary elevations of the house are the front(west/ brackets beneath the eaves (photo 5).There are two stone decorative gable treatments.The house is located in alate 19th been modified or added sometime after 1899.(photo9).The rear which servedas a maid's quarters.A set of stairs leads upto for the main staircase and 11)and in the primary planters at the rear entrance to the home Section number - presumed to have been added sometime after the house was built.

accomodate a utility room (photo 3) . The Speaker House, built in 1870, is an excellent example of porch that although possibly an original element, appears to have Main entry to the home is gained through the front entrance Page styles.The Maumee River is located approximately two hundred preserved over the years by its owmers.Oak wood trim is used NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio the living room, and includes a built-in bookcase with full paned basement with original floor plan intact, including a coal room with chute, and a fruit/vegetable cellar. The earliest known site plan of the Charles Speaker House porch was originally a full wrap-around configuration. Located building and the barn/stables no longer exist, the latter having shows some alteration, including the closure of the rear entry ca.

1860 stone planters near the rear entrance, and the remains Continuation Sheet (8-86) noteworthy is a hand-etched marbel mantle in the dining room National Register of Historic Places although the structures have changed.Both the single story Two fireplaces and mantles exist in the house.The most porch and the elimination of the front porch on the south side of at the southwest line of the property was a single story ediface, recent vintage than the marble mantle.The home has a full United States Department of the Interior bluff line of the property. reached a dilapidated state and torn down around 1975.The home face string on the main staircase (photo 12). Current site Plan (Reference Section 7, Page 7) rest facility.At the rear of the property was a barn with which is assumed to be a storage building, or perhaps an outdoor to the lower section of the property.

Historical site Plan (Reference Section 7, Page 6) the home.Also included in the site plan is the location of (photo 13).A more simplified, wrap around mantle is located in was contained in a comprehensive City of Defiance plat from The topography of the site remains much the same asin 1899, doors 14).This second fireplace appears to be of a more Section number _ 7 December 1899. Shown is the house plan view, including the rear the top line of the bluff, which drops approximately fifteen feet in the dining area, and an octagonal newel post and decorative pressed tin ceiling in the family room (photo 16), crown moldings other notable features of the interior include the original Note:Refer to Section 7, pages 4 and 5 for detailed floor plans.

stables located on the lower level.This building was built on throughout all first floor rooms 15),the hardwood floor (non-contributing) was added ca.1990 and is located near the NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio FLOOR PLAN - BASEMENT 1623 SQ FT AREA 12/05/96 - C. GEISLER STORAGE & 1623 SQ FT LIVING AREA January 31, 1997 UTILITY ENTRY REAR CLST MANTLE Continuation Sheet HEATING ROOM DINING ROOM CHARLES SPEAKER HOUSE KITCHEN FAMILY ROOM FRUIT/VEG CELLAR COAL STORAGE ROOM United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places FRONT PORCH MAIN ENTRY ROOM LORXSHOP AREA OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 FLOOR PLAN - 1ST LEVEL BATH ROOM WALKOUT (8-86) Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio FLOOR PLAN - 2ND LEVEL 12/05/96 - C.

GEISLER STAÍRS UP/DN 950 SQ FT AREA MAID'S QUARTERS WIDOW'S WALK FRONT ROOM January 31, 1997 MASTER BEDROOM CHARLES SPEAKER HOUSE Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places STORAGE AREA MSTR CLST National Park Service STUDY United States Department of the Interior STAIRS TO NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - 7- Page REAR HALLWAY 1455 SO FT LIVING AREA NPS Form 10-900-a Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio TOP LINE December, 1899 912 Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 STABLES (8-86) Maumee River BARN Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio January 31, 1997 Continuation Sheet PLANTERS National Park Service National Register of Historic Places TROUGH United States Department of the Interior SHED WATERINY NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 -HOLGATE-AY NPS Form 10-900-a Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio Charles R. Geisler II September 2, 1996 Facade/South Elevation, Camera Facing N Streetview of Facade, Camera Facing W Detail of Support Brackets, Camera Facing W Interior View of Front Door, Camera Facing E Front Facade, Camera Facing NW Interior View of Staircase Detail, Camera Facing N Interior View of Pressed Tin Ceiling, Camera Facing W Interior View of Crown Molding, Camera Facing W Continuation Sheet applies to all subsequent photo listings.

Rear View of Landscaping, Camera Facing SE National Register of Historic Places Charles Speaker House LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS National Park Service Defiance, Ohio West/South Elevation Showing Original Planters, Camera Facing E Interior View of Marble Fireplace, Camera Facing N Interior View of Living Room Fireplace, Camera Facing W United States Department of the Interior Interior View of Staircase, Camera Facing NE North/West Elevation, Camera Facing S OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Note: All information as contained in listing for Photo #01 (8-86) Speaker, Charles, House Defiance, Ohio 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, ormethod of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - 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 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 & State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency - Federal agency - previousiy determined eligible by the National - Local government L University - Other Lrecorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Record # Bibilography Register Criteria Considerations Unknown 1870 religious purposes. Significant Dates Significant Person Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Architect/Builder previously listed in the National Register our history. individual distinction.

Narrative Statement of Significance for National Register listing.) Name of repository: Property is: A Property is associated with events that have made designated a National Historic Landmark a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Areas of Significance Architectupe recorded by Historic American Engineering Primary location of additional data: Name of Property significant in our past. (Enter categories from instructions) County and State information important in prehistory or history. (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) B Property is associated with the lives of persons within the past 50 years.

CFR 67) has been requested Cultural Affiliation A owned by a religious institution or used for (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Speaker, Charles, House Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property - Approximately 3/4 Acre (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By November 12, 1996 912 Holgate Avenue street & number - telephone _ state - zip code Submit the following items with the completed form: 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. Representative black and white photographs of the property.

Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) Charles R. and June W. Geisler Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This informationis 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.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 43512 city or town Photographs date Easting organization Zone name Maps Continuation Sheets Additional Documentation Boundary Justification Ohio Northing name/title Verbal Boundary Description County and State Additional items Defiance, Ohio Charles R.

Geisler II UTM References (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (419) 782-1308 L4,57,312,4,5 Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) REUDEYCHPO MAR 1 9 1997 Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio architecture, reflecting the increasing prosperity and economic development of the city of Defiance in the early 1870s. One of exterior features include arched dormers, Mansard roof, original tin ceiling, etched marble fireplace, and original floor plan. early as 1715. (2) With the building of the Wabash and Erie Canal in 1828 and the connecting Miami and Erie Canal in 1845, Defiance grew from a half of the 19th century. William C. Holgate, for whom Holgate Avenue is named, arrived in Defiance from Utica, N.Y. in 1835.

came in the 1830s, they traded trinkets for hides and furs cleared, the bark was sold to the tanneries and the trees burned, Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior to the city's growth and development. The Charles Speaker House meets National Register Criterion only five Defiance homes designed in that late Victorian style, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places been periodically occupied by prehistoric and historic Indian building's interior is distinguished by an oak staircase, pressed tanneries as the first Defiance industries.As forests were population during the period up through 1860,a boom occured from Although Defiance experienced somewhat slow growth in frontier settlement to a thriving commercial center in the first land brought several mills to provide flour and meal.

brought by the Indians.This soon led to the establishment of the strongest fortification built by General"Mad Anthony Wayne, the Speaker House is the most intact example.Significant three contributed more than any other individual The present city of Defiance grew out of old Fort Defiance, during the Indian Wars of the 1790's.(1)Strategically located Section number 8 Page - 2 Cas an early and locally significant example of Second Empire door and window tratments, and a deep bracketed cornice; the at the junction of the Maumee and Auglaize Rivers, the site had itself into a modern industrial city. When the first settlers and the ashes used to make lye and potash. Cultivation of the cultures.The French may have established a trading site here as (3)He lived here until his death in 1888.During those fifty- OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 National Park Service Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio logs. As the timber business matured, Defiance leaders realized timber, and fuel growth. Soon there was manufacturing of several starting with simple farm implements and forgings, and then Detroit and Cleveland, Defiance firmly established itself as a efforts of Defiance's business community. (11) 1890: 8,105 1900: 10,430 from Curtis Holgate, father of William C.Holgate, in 1838 by Dr. Brunersburg, Ohio with his family in 1832. Charles became a citizen September 22, 1841, in Defiance County. In 1847, he litigation. (9) 942 1860: 1850: 1870: 1880: 2,750 implements.

5,907 Continuation Sheet DEFIANCE COUNTY POPULATION quickly progressing into advanced manufacturing including screw National Register of Historic Places pioneer citizens.The property was further subdivided and the As the population grew and the demands of trade increased, construction use and plank houses and stores replaced those of Less than 300 Defiance soon added a wealth of metals manufacturing plants, United States Department of the Interior the saw mills began preparing the wealth of native timber for hundred people from the area, and his sizable estate caused much joined a company of men from Defiance, who went to California in the prosperity and challenges brought about by the visionary wood products -hoops and staves for barrels to hold the flour, for hubs, spokes and wagon beds, for furniture, boxes and To complement the timber and wood products industries, that new industries must be started to help utilize the local Section number - 8Page was born June emigrated to NPS Form 10-900-a John Evans and subsequently by Thomas Warren, two of Defiance's search of gold.

Returning to ohio, he married Elizabeth Shirley on June 10, 1853. Charles Speaker was a farmer by trade, and was served as Commissioner of Defiance County from 1871 until his viable manufacturing center by 1900, and it's residents enjoyed 890 (8-86) very industrious.Speaker was a very respected citizen, and death on December 16,1872.His funeral was attended by several The current property was part of a larger tract purchase house was built in 1870 by Charles Speaker NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio During1870-1883, the property was owned by two other individuals, then was sold in 1883 to John W. Schneider.

John After Schneider's retirement, the house was sold in 1918 to late 19th- and early 20th-century residential architecture, much the Second Empire style, all of them considerably larger than the Speaker house, more complex in their massing, and more closely aligned with high-style Victorian prototypes. Compared to them, the Speaker house is more modest in scale, with a generous application of Italianate and Mansardic elements. This applied decoration. The Speaker house stands somewhere between the Holgate district in an area that, because of non-historic instrusions and unsympathetic alterations, did not qualify for inclusion in the district. It does, however, stand on its own as Continuation Sheet listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The district their eight children.

thirty five years, during which time he and his wife Mary raised in the interior neighborhoods, for instance, are small in scale the two. qualifies for listing on the National Register. an excellent example of the French Second Empire style and thus National Park Service of it concentrated in the neighborhoods on its western side.In National Register of Historic Places D.W. Coy, a local timberman.Since the Coy occupancy, the assimilation of high-style elements on a simpler vernacular form is a fairly common feature of Defiance architecture.Many homes remodelled in 1920 -was built in the Seond Empire style. and simple in form, but are elegantly "stylish" in their use of Scattered elsewhere in the city are three other examples of The Speaker house is located just beyond the boundariesof Della Shindler and her daughter Vera, and Daniel Offutt.

The city of Defiance contains an important collection of United States Department of the Interior district-the John Ferland in 1890 and salooon on Clinton Schneider lived at the home for Schneider moved to Defiance in the late 1870s and maintained a Section number 8 Page 4 1990, the area known as the Holgate Avenue Historic District was that period. Few of them are wholly intact, and only one in the (8-86) Speaker house has had three subsequent owners: the present owner, OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE Historical Society, Defiance, Ohio, 1979 2. History of Defiance County, Chicago: Warner, Beers and Company, 1883 History of Defiance County, The Defiance County Historical Society, 1976 Toledo: Hadley Printing Company, 1902 5.

1895-1896 Defiance City Directory Press, Washington, D.C., 1983 7. Howe, Barbara J. and others, Houses and Homes - Exploring History, Nashville, Tennessee, 1987 Rifkind, Carole, A Field Guide to American Architecture, New American Library, New York, N.Y., 1980 9. The Defiance Democrat, December 28, 1872 to February 7, 1873 10. Original Abstract of Title - Defiance County Courthouse Edition, October 22, 1938 Records Continuation Sheet Their History, American Association for State and Local National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Gunket, John E.The Early History of the Maumee Valley, Poppeliers, John C.What STYLE is it?, The Preservation Section number _ 9 - Page - 2 1. Simonis, Louis.

Maumee River 1835, The Defiance County NPS Form 10-900-a 11.The Defiance Crescent News -Progress and Achievement NPS Form 10-900-a Speaker, Charles, House, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description Lots between Maumee and Auglaize, Lot J, B01-1054-0-026-00 Boundary Justification Continuation Sheet The boundary includes the entire city lot that has historically (8-86) National Park Service been associated with the property. National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : 4|25/97 DATE DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N TELEPHONE REJECT RETURN DATE DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 5/12/97 3/28/97 REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: Speaker, Charles, House DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Defiance REFERENCE NUMBER: 97000374 REASONS FOR REVIEW: 4/09/97 PROPERTY ACCEPT DATE OF PENDING LIST: SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO SEP. 1996 C Processing Proc PREMIUM PHOTO #1 or 16 Kodak SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO # 2 OF 16 SEP. 1996 C Kodak PREMIUM Proce sing DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #3 OF 16 SEP.

1996 C Kodak Processing SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE PREMIUM DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #4 OF 1L SEP. SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE PREI SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE sing SEP. DEFIANCE,OHIO Ko'ak PHOTO #S OF 16 Pro PREL SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #6 OF 16 sing SEP. 1996 C Processing Kodak PREMIUM :196 C lak DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #T OF16 Korak 16 C SEPT. 1996 C PREMIUM Proce sing SPEAKER, CHARLES HOUSE Kodak PREM UM SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE SEP. 1996 C Kodak Processing DEFIANCE OHIO DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #9 OF 16 SEP. 1996 C Kodak Processing PREMIUM T. 1996 C SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO PHOTO #10 OF 16 . 1996 C Proce sing sing 16 C PREMIUM Korak SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE - DEFIANCE, OHIO DEFIANCE, OHIO SEP. 1996 CHARLES SPEAKER HOUSE SEP. 1996 C Kodak DEFIANCE OHIO SPEAKER, CHARLEs, HOUSE PREMIUM Processing Proce SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO SEP. 1996 C SEP.

10 -6 Kodak Processing PREMIUM SPEAKER, CHARLES, HOUSE DEFIANCE, OHIO DEFIANCE, OHIO sing SEP. SPEAKER, CHARLEs, HOUSE PHOTO #16 OFLLO Kodak Proc PRER 719 820 UNITED STATES DEFIANCE EAST QUADRANGLE DEFIANCE EAST, OHIO DEPAR MENT OF HIGHWAYS 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC DE FIANCE Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROAD CLASSIFICATION STATE OF OHIO Ohio Historic Preservation Office Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Fax: 297-2496 March 24, 1997 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 NEW SUBMISSION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. COUNTY 614/297-2470 enclosures Defiance Sincerely, SOCIETY Fairfield HISTORICAL Dear Ms. Shull: SINCE 1885 procedures have been followed for these new submissions.

National Park Service Charles Speaker House State Historic Preservation Officer John Gill Farmstead Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations.All appropriate notification 567 East Hudson Street OHIO