Nomination for Cary, Freeman Grant, Pleasant Hill Academy

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(Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service APR - 1 1999 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 Name of Property Location street & number_5651 Hamilton Avenue N/A - not for publication city or town - O vicinity 3. State/Federal Agency Certification -nationally-statewide X locally. (See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Dept. Head Signature of certifying official/Title State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: V entered in the National Register. ] See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the removed from the National J other. (explain:) 3-24-99 Date comments.) Cincinnati Register.

state RECEIVED Registration Form National Register Ohio National Register of Historic Places by entering the information requested. lf an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for"not applicable.For functions, Date of Action National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional historic name - code 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 Ex 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 Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional Cary, Freeman Grant, Pleasant Hill Academy 5. Classification Ownership of Property Xprivate X building(s) - public-local - district L public-State - site - public-Federal - structure - object Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use Domestic / Single Dwelling Education / Education - Related 7.

Description Mid 19th Century / Greek Revival foundation Stone walls Wood Clapboard roof Asphalt Shingle other _Wood Noncontributing Materials Historic Functions Architectural Classification Total Current Functions Narrative Description County and State (Enter categories from instructions) Number of contributing resources previously listed Number of Resources within Property in the National Register Category of Property Late Victorian/ Italianate (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Check as many boxes as apply) Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio (Check only one box) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cary, Freeman Grant House, Pleasant Hill Academy Hamilton County, Ohio Originally constructed ca.

1830 as a two story, center passage I house with interior end chimneys, the above the intersection of the original roof (photo #2). The exterior walls of the entire house are faced in wood clapboards which measure 1" x 6" on the 1830 are non-original but historic features. The original 1830 structure is braced-frame construction with hewn oak floor joists. The exterior walls are filled with soft bricks, covered with split oak lath. Alterations to the exterior of the house are confined to the rear elevation (see floor plan). A small, pre-1900 elevation. Two one-over-one attic windows were likely added at this time. Set well back from the house, is an 18' x 28' two story timber frame barn with hewn timbers, pinned joints, wide plank walls and floors which are 22" maximum (photo #4). Built ca. 1830-1850, the barn is a contributing 'Huston, A.B. Historical Sketch of Farmers' College 1902.

Description Clovernook (1973); College Hill Town Hall (1978); Laurel Court (1979); and the Old Post Office (1976). balusters and newel post also suggest a ca. 1870s update. Several cast iron mantels in the older structure structure.The interior has been renovated with the addition of closets and a bathroom. The stair railing, building measures18'x36.The front elevation is asit originally appeared inaca.1902photo including the heart of College Hill, one of Cincinnati's older hilltop neighborhoods. Although characterized by a small this community.

Within a few blocks of the Freeman Cary House are four National Register-listed properties: six-over-six and two-over-two sashes, except for a later 20 century poured concrete veranda floor (photos the "" are three cross gable additions (all built before 1900 that reshape the house to it's present "T" single story bathroom addition with bowed multi-paned window (added ca. 1980) marks the rear (west) resource. The four windows in the barn are all fixed multi-panes and still retain all the old glass. An early 20th (Strobridge, pre-1865) appearing in Old College Hill illustrates the house, with one addition and the barn.' configuration;photo #3). The roofline of the additions is higher with a small eight light gable window visible #1 and #5).

The distinguishing feature of the house is the decorative five-bay front porch (photo #2).The front The house is sited approximately 75'west of Hamilton Avenue and faces east. lt is flanked on the south by a Hamilton Avenue.There are no significant historic landscape features on the 75'X 4o0'parcel. NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service CARY, FREEMAN GRANT, PLEASANT O PEN //2 SEL, 23 -3 Continuation Sheet (8-86) National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior HALL 12-2 38'3" POR 18-311 CMB Approval No. 1024-0018 ADDED Section number 7 KIT 0219.1830 Page -I A 16'41 12-4" NPS Form 10-900-a HILL ACADEMY HAMILTON LOUNTY OH. 1830 2397 National Register of Historic Places 400 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section number 7 PLOT OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 LARY FREEMAN, GRANT, PLENSANIT (8-86) BARN Page 1 B MOSCALE * County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) *A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of x B Property is associated with the lives of persons - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses 1832 - ca. 1845 (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A ownedby a religious institution or used for L B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cary, Freeman Grant - 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 (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 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: - State Historic Preservation Office * Other State agency previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National - Local government U University designated a National Historic Landmark - Other recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Record # Bibilography 1832 Register Education religious purposes. high artistic values, or represents a significant and our history. Name of repository: Significant Dates unknown Ohio Historical Inventory Property is: Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder distinguishable entity whose components lack preliminary determination of individual listing (36 individual distinction.

Significant Person recorded by Historic American Engineering HAM 1868-34 Period of Significance information important in prehistory or history. Areas of Significance significant in our past. CFR 67) has been requested D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, (Enter categories from instructions) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number _ 8 Cary, Freeman Grant House, Pleasant Hill Academy Hamilton County, Ohio known as Pleasant Hill Academy, is significant under Criterion A for its role within the context and Hill so closely identified within the context of higher education. Jacob Tuckerman House (HAM-1864-34), built ca. 1864 for Jacob Tuckerman when he was president of the Farmers' College.

graduate of Miami University, established Pleasant Hill Academy in 1833 and later founded and served as education,"Cary was an active member of the Hamilton County Agricultural Society and edited The ' Samuel F. Cary, temperance leader and politician ran as a vice-presidential candidate on Greenback ticket in 1876. Significance few institutions offering what Cary described as a "liberal course of scientific training"and"agricultural Page . College.It was these two institutions,along with the Ohio Female College, that inspired naming of the 1833 - ca. 1835 as a boarding school for high school aged boys enrolled at Pleasant Hill, or "Cary's century home to three institutions of higher learning. Pleasant Hill Academy, founded ca. 1833 as a boy's science" (Cary, "Our College," pp. 244-248).

Of the nearly 200 colleges and universities in the nation in 1855, only a few offered subjects remotely related to agriculture (Becker, 152). During the early 1850s nearly 300 students were enrolled annually and by the 1880s an estimated 4-5,000 student's had graduated from the College Hill, an independent village until annexed in 1911 by the City of Cincinnati, was during the middle 19th boarding school, closed in 1845 when it was reorganized and chartered as an agricultural school under the college (Cist, Cincinnati in 1851, p. 274; Obituary, 27 August 1888).

The Ohio Female College was also Academy."According to the Bicentennial Guide(1988),"There was little to distinguish Pleasant Hill from any Pleasant Hill Academy was the first of a series of educational institutions that shaped College Hill and gave United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cary, Freeman Grant House, Pleasant Hill Academy Hamilton County, Ohio north of Pleasant Hill Academy on Hamilton Avenue in College Hill. It is a three-bay brick house built ca. 1832 (NROHP, 1973). successful that Cary purchased ca. 1835 land adjacent and south of his own, at the juncture of Hamilton and Hill Academy nearly 1,200 young men, chiefly from Ohio, were given a classical liberal education (Historical Sketch, p.20). was called Mt. Pleasant, but when a post office was established in 1834 it was named Pleasant Hill.

The the village was incorporated in 1866 (S.F. Cary, p.25). Freeman Cary lived in this house until the late 1840s when he built a Greco-Roman style house (demolished) P.T. Kilgour. A ca. 1905 photo of the house, then described as "well preserved," shows there has been little change to the house since that time.. Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Ketner, p. 106). Significance The noted African-American artist,Robert S.Duncanson's portrait of Cary (ca.1855) resides in the National Museum of American College contributed to the "town-gown" development of College Hill. Both schools attracted students from In 1833, Freeman Grant Cary and his sixteen year old bride, Malvina (McCan) of Chillicothe moved into this horticulture school.

The college's historian observed, "Farmers' College sprang from Cary's Academy, like and moved to a fruit farm on the old Hamilton Pike in Butler County where he lived until his death in 1888.2 Hill became a prestigious rural suburb like Avondale or Walnut Hills (Bicentennial Guide, 482). Samuel Hannaford, noted regional architect. Farmers' College (demolished, ca. 1956; HABS OH-23-3) along Cursory investigation indicates the farm has been cleared for new development Cary's house at 5651 Hamilton Avenue was subsequently occupied by President Mattoon, and later by Dr. NPS Form 10-900-a CMB Approval No 1024-0018 Cary, Freeman Grant House Hamilton County, Ohio BUILT CA. 1847 (DEMOLISHED) Page THE NO.

11 Section number Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places COLLEGE HILL United States Department of the Interior FREEMAN CARY'S GRECO-ROMAN STYLE HOUSE CINCIN NA T U S. VOL: II. NOVEMBER 1, 1857. (8-86) 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 6 Acres (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 organization N/A street & number 1328 Aster Place - telephone (513) 541-0450 _ state Ohio - zip code 45224 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.) city or town 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.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimatedto average 18.1 hours 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 Zone date name Photographs Cincinnati telephone Additional Documentation Additional items Continuation Sheets UTM References Cincinnati West Quadrangle Boundary Justification Property Owner Scott Schoenharl Easting Verbal Boundary Description name/tile Paul Schoenharl with Steve Gordon, Ohio Historic Preservation Office (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Northing Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio city or town Cincinnati A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. 5651 Hamilton Avenue street & number - instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 1 [1,6 .zip code Management and Budget.

Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. 45224 Maps 434,019,00] United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 9, 10 Page _ 1 Cary, Freeman Grant House, Pleasant Hill Academy Hamilton County, Ohio 21(July 1963): 151-175. Cary, Samuel F. History of College Hill and Vicinity. College Hill, 1886. Chace, Laura. Cincinnati Museum Center Library. Cist, Charles. Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851. Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore & Co., 1851. General Catalogue of the Graduates and Farmer Students of Miami University, 1809-1909. Giglierano, Geoffrey and Obermyer, Deborah. The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Huston, A.B. Historica/ Sketches of Farmers' College. Cincinnati: Students' Association of Farmers' College [1905?] Ketner, Joseph D.

The Emergence of the African American Artist. Columbia and London: University of Missouri, 1993. Wright, Smithson E. Obituaries of Cincinnatians, 1868-1891. Microfilm, Cincinnati Museum Center The property boundaries are defined as plat #3, parcel #35 in book 234 of the City of Cincinnati The nominated boundaries include the property that was historically associated with the Freeman Bibliography Library. Verbal Boundary Description Center Library. Verbal Boundary Justification Grant Cary House. Becker, Carl "Freeman Cary and Farmers' College: An Ohio Educator and an Experiment in Nineteenth Century Education." Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Portrait of Two Hundred Years. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988. National Park Service 1. Cary, Freeman Grant, Pleasant Hill Academy 2. Cincinnati, Ohio 3. Paul Schoenharl 4. 1998 5.

Paul Schoenharl - 1328 Aster Place, Cincinnati, Ohio Photograph # 4 6. Front elevation, looking west 6. Partial front elevation, and north elevation 6. Rear (west) and south elevations, looking east 6. Rear elevation, looking east, including barn Photograph # 5 (Historical) 3. Photographer unknown 4. 1902 S. Location unknown Continuation Sheet (8-86) Hamilton County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior The following information is the same for photographs#1-3: NPS Form 10-900-a Section number Mill Creek Tp / 2125/2125 College Hill Business Directory. 65.52 Sharonville Business Directory. J. Bluckburn CEDAR 370 COLLEGE COLLEGE HILL 120 Cary 625 J.206 Freeman Cary House, Pleasant Hill Academy ca. 1832 SOURCE: Bird's Eye View of College Hill, Ohio. Ca. 1865. LEGEND Freeman Cary House, ca.1847 (Demolished) Ohio Female College, ca.

1848 (Demolished) Cincinnati, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N RECOM./ CRITERIA TELEPHONE DATE REJECT RETURN 5/16/99 4/01/99 MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER NAME: VACCEPT OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: Entered in the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF 16TH DAY: 4/29/990Are National Register Cincinnati, Ohio GARY, FREEMAN G., PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY Cincinnati, Ohio CARy, FREE MAN G. HS., PLEASANT HILL ACADEMy Photo #2 CARY, F.G. Hs. Cincinnati, Ohio Photo #3 REAR PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY CARY, FREEMAN G. HS, PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY Cincinnati, Ohio F. G. CARY'S RESIDENCE-FIRST SCHOOL, 1833. Afterwards the residence of Pres.

Mattoon Cincinnati, Ohio PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY Photo #5 CARY, FREEMAN G. HS. CARy FREEMAN HILL ACADEMY : UTM REFERENCE! UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CINCINNATI WEST, OHIO CINCINNATI WEST QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) G. HOUSE; PLEASANT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY HAMILTON CO. REC'D BY OHPO JAN 2 7 1999 Two Centennial Plaza 805 Central Avenue January 26, 1999 Suite 720 Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513) 352-4880 (513) 352-4853 Fax Leon A. Meyer Mr. Stephen C. Gordon Survey and National Register Manager Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Dear Mr. Gordon: RE: Freeman Cary's Pleasant Hill Academy, 5651 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton County the Board took the following actions: 2.

Recommended that the nomination be revised to: development of College Hill, as described in The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years, published by the Cincinnati b) Describe more completely the physical character of the property, including the size of property, distance of the house from the street, distance of the barn from Describe the barn more completely, including the barn's architectural style and its significance to the earlier uses of the property. Provide background information on the building's original owner, John Strong. century. City of Cincinnati Conservation Board).

City Planning Department Equal Opportunity Employer considered the proposed nomination of the Freeman G.Cary House /Pleasant Hill a)Demonstrate more clearly Cary's and the academy's significance to the Academy to the National Register of Historic Places.After discussing the nomination, the house and significant landscape features. 1.Found that the Freeman Grant Cary House meets the criteria for listing in the At its meeting on January 25,1998,the Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board and the development of educational facilities in College Hill in the nineteenth Director of City Planning Document the significance of the Cary family to the development of College Hill.

National Register of Historic Places, due to its association with Freeman Grant Cary Historical Society in 1988 (see the attached staff report to the Historic Page 2 January 26, 1999 review of this nomination, please contact Daniel Young of the Historic Conservation Office at (513) 352-4845. Sincerely, Board. Urban Conservator Stephen C. Gordon the March 5,1999,meeting of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory 3.Directed staff to forward the Board's findings and recommendations and its strong support of this nomination to the Ohio Historic Preservation Office prior to Should you have any questions concerning the Historic Conservation Board's