Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: J preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register L Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark X Other J recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1930 1856-1949 1861 Bibilography Register Architect/Builder ARCHITECTURE Unknown Significant Dates our history. EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT individual distinction. religious purposes.
Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of repository: Independence Historical Society (Enter categories from instructions) Property is: (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Fuller-Bramley House Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification 11. Form Prepared By organization Independence Historical Society date 4-30-99 state Ohio 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. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) - telephone Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. Northing name Maps Independence Easting Photographs Zone Cleveland zip code 44131 Additional Documentation telephone _216-692-0747 Continuation Sheets under contract with Independence Historical Society (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) city or town UTM References Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act. as amended (16 U.S.C.
470 et seg.) name/title Carol Poh Miller/Historical Consultant street & number OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Fuller-Bramley House Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio The Fuller-Bramley House is a two-story, gable-fronted sandstone house in the Greek Revival style. Located nine miles south of Cleveland on the western rim of the Cuyahoga Valley, the house stands on a wooded half- acre lot at the northeast corner of Brookside Road and State Route 21 (Brecksville Road), one of Ohio's first House, an unpaved semicircular drive and the remnants of rock gardens added in 1930 preserve the historic rural character of the property despite the suburban development that has since surrounded it (Photo #2). The rectangular main block, 23 feet by 32 feet in size, is 3 bays wide and 4 bays deep.
It has a full basement and rests on a plain ashlar foundation with a cut stone water table. The walls of the house are smooth-dressed a low sandstone stoop and a round-arch doorway with semicircular fan (Photo #3). A second entrance, in the has double-hung windows with axed sills (i.e., covered with parallel chisel marks) and broad lintels of fine- pointed stone with margins (Photo #5). The windows on the second floor and most of those on the first floor have 6/6 lights; the four living-room windows at the southwest corner of the first floor - two in the façade and two in the south elevation - have 4/4 lights. Projecting from the rear of the house is a one-story wood-frame addition with brick foundation, clapboard siding, and double-hung windows with 1/1 lights (Photo #6).
The addition contains a gable-roofed kitchen (14 feet square) and verandah (5 feet by 14 feet), and an attached two-car garage (19 feet by 31 feet). A concrete cornerstone in the south elevation of the garage contains the builder's date and initials: "MB [Mathew rooms. The additionadates to c. 1930. second floor contains four bedrooms and one large full bath (probably a former bedroom adapted to this purpose) with early twentieth-century plumbing fixtures. Description shallow, completely unadorned surrounds with semi-elliptical arch tops (Photo #7). There are hardwood floors throughout the original main block, and the original single-flight open-string stair is intact (Photo #8). The (since removed) and two pairs of paneled folding doors that reputedly once separated the living and dining highways (see Site Plan, Photo #1).
Opened in 1931, the four-lane divided highway in this vicinity is lined with Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places the house taken in the 1920s.) The principal entrance, at the northwest corner facing Brecksville Road, features Inside, the house features a classic side hallway plan (see Existing Conditions Plan).Windows and doors have single-family houses, most of which date from the twentieth century. On the south side of the Fuller-Bramley Section number7Page ashlar with fine-pointed quoins.The house has a shallow gable roof of asphalt shingles and a wide, plain frieze. NPS Form 10-900-a Page - The Fuller-Bramley House was built in 1856 with minor early: 20th century alterations and additio south elevation, also features a low sandstone stoop and is capped by a plain stone lintel (Photo #4).
The house (8-86) A single center brick chimney with stone cap apparently was added later.(It does not appear in photographs of Bramley], 1930." The basement-less garage, which has a flat roof, originally featured a clapboard parapet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Fuller-Bramley House Because of the continuity of ownership - it remained in the Bramley family for four generations, from 1861 until 1996 - the house has been little altered. About 1928, several classical revival-style elements were added, including a small pedimented hood over the front entrance and a Federal-style wood-frame sunroom (12 by 21 feet) and porch (12 by 8 feet) spanning the south elevation of the main block. Shutters were also added to the leaving scant evidence that they had ever been there.
Inside, central hot-water heat and plumbing have been original garage doors. A barn and pig shed that once stood on the property near the house are no longer extant. Statement of Significance Built by pioneer settler Jasper Fuller in 1856, the Fuller-Bramley House is significant under Criterion C as a only a small number of stone houses in this vicinity, even though sandstone was extensively quarried in Independence from the late 1840s through the end of the nineteenth century. The house is also significant under Criterion A for its association with the settlement of Independence. Mathew Bramley (1802-82) and his wife Sarah Oldershaw Bramley (1805-83) immigrated to the United States from England in 1842. They settled in last family member to occupy the house, lived her entire life there, bequeathing it to the Independence Historical Society, the current owner.
Because of the unusual continuity of ownership, this modest Western Historical Background Jasper Fuller and Mathew Bramley are both listed among the resident landowners in Independence Township 1839 Jasper Fuller owned 89 acres in Range 12, Township 6, Tract 3, Lot 29, the parcel where the present house Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Independence, purchasing the Jasper Fuller property in 1861.
They occupied it for two decades, following in an attempt to conceal failing plaster.In the later frame addition, an automatic overhead door has replaced the good example of the Greek Revival style interpreted in sandstone.The two-story, gable-fronted house is one of Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places occupants during this remarkable 135-year period reflects the story of Independence itself, especially its which it remained in the Bramley family through three succeeding generations.Betsey Bramley (1911-96), the added, and some walls and ceilings (notably those in the front hall) have been covered with wallboard, probably 1 Crisfield Johnson, History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Cleveland, 1879), 461-62. Reserve house has been little altered and retains a high degree of integrity.The story of the house and its NPS Form 10-900-a Section number Z.
8 Page 2- transition from a pioneer agricultural settlement to a populous suburb. (8-86) (west of the Cuyahoga River) in 1843.The Cuyahoga County Treasurer's Duplicate shows that as early as main block (see 1959 Real Estate Appraisal Record).These later additions were removed in recent years, OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Fuller-Bramley House Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio would be erected. Except for 1851-52 (when James F. Leonard's name inexplicably appears in the Treasurer's substantiates 1856 as the year the house was built. The house, with 83½ acres, appears on the 1858 Map of he and his wife Lorna, 38, were natives of New York State. Also listed as members of their household that year were a son, Frederick, 19 (who also farmed), and a daughter, Alpha, 4.
Mathew Bramley purchased the Jasper Fuller property in 1861. The name Mathew Bramley appears on an 1842 land ownership map of Independence Township as the owner of 97 acres on the south side of Pleasant Valley Road (west of Brecksville Road). According to family records discovered in the house, Bramley (1802-82), a native of Nottinghamshire, England, together with his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Oldershaw Bramley (1805-83), a Bramleys came first to Cleveland, then to Ridgeville (Lorain County), then to Independence. The 1850 U.S. Census lists Mathew Bramley as a farmer. Also enumerated in his household that year were his wife Sarah and very young).
According to an undated typescript in the possession of the Independence Historical Society, Mathew Bramley engaged in various occupations, "among them being a shoemaker, a baker, a van driver (stage coach and mail), Erie Canal was built through Independence in 1825-27.) The 1870 federal Products of Industry census for Brecksville Township (the Fuller-Bramley House is close to the Independence-Brecksville line) lists Mathew of lumber annually. When he died in 1882, his personal estate consisted of "cattle, horses, farming implements, Following Mathew Bramley's death in 1882, his wife Sarah remained in the house until her own death the following year. Their son George Thomas Bramley (1845-1927) subsequently purchased his siblings' shares in (sometimes spelled "Matthew").
Mathew Bramley (1874?-1960) subsequently occupied the house with his wife National Register of Historic Places Martha Helen Wolff Bramley (1872-1944), whom he married in 1910. Their only child, Betsey Helen Bramley, that the assigned value of the property that year increased from $1964 to $2464; the notation"H 500"further etc.," indicating that, notwithstanding his multifarious occupations, he continued to farm the land. Rebecca, 10; Julia, 8; Sarah, 6; George, 4; and Elias, 2. (Two other children, Hannah and Miriam, died when wholesale dealer in farm products and lastly a farmer. He also owned and operated canal boats."(The Ohio & Duplicate), Jasper Fuller is listed as the property owner until 1861.The Treasurer's Duplicate of 1856 shows the property and occupied it with his wife Betsy Hammersly Bramley and their only child, Mathew C. Cuyahoga County.According to the 1850 U.S.
Census, Jasper Fuller, then 40 years of age, was a farmer. Both Bramley as the proprietor ofa steam-powered sawmill employing two hands and producing 250,000board feet (8-86) their ten children: John, 25, a laborer; Ann Bennett, 23;Mathew,18,a farmer; Francis, 14; Martha, 12; NPS Form 10-900-a Cuyahoga County Archives, Cuyahoga County Probate Court Records, Docket K, No. 1287. native of Derbyshire, England, immigrated to the United States with their large family in June 1842. The OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Fuller-Bramley House Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio was born the following year. Betsey, who never married, lived with her parents and continued to occupy the house until she died in 1996.
According to his obituary notice, Mathew Bramley in his early life owned teams of horses and used them to help string telephone wires in newly developing sections of Cleveland. He also worked for a time for the Trinidad Paving Company, a nationally important firm owned by an uncle, Matthew F. Bramley. He is listed as he sold all but one-half acre and used a portion of the proceeds to substantially remodel the house. In 1928, he added shutters, a hood over the front door, and a large sunroom and porch to the south. A letter recently found designed these additions. In 1930, Mathew Bramley added a two-car garage at the back of the house. The family continued to garden and kept several farm animals. Betsey attended Independence public schools.
Following graduation from high school in 1928, she joined William Tricker, Inc., an Independence firm In 1930-31, Brecksville Road was widened and rebuilt as a divided four-lane highway. Designated State Route selling fruit, flowers, and the hooked rugs Betsey and Mathew Bramley crafted in their spare time. They also opened their home to tourists and itinerant laborers. A diary kept by Betsey Bramley during this period provides an engaging portrait of Bramley family life and life in Independence, which was then beginning a gradual transition from a largely agricultural community to a bedroom suburb of Cleveland, nine miles to the north. In the diary, Betsey describes the many hours spent on berries and apples.
A talented needlewoman, Betsey quilted, embroidered, and sewed her own clothes, subscribing to the Library of Dressmaking of the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences in Scranton, Betsey's mother Martha died in 1944. Her father Mathew died in 1960. Betsey continued to reside in the The population of Independence, meanwhile, boomed after World War II, growing from 1,074 in 1920 to 3,105 (8-86) in the house suggests that Robert Peal, a Cleveland architect with an office at 2014 East 105th Street, may have rural household chores - canning and baking; keeping rabbits, goats, and chickens; hauling wood, and picking 21, the new highway connecting Cleveland and Akron brought more traffic past the modest sandstone house, 3 Cleveland Press, August 6, 1960. house, working at Tricker's, spending time in the rock garden she had built in 1930, changing almost nothing. Pennsylvania.
In the 1930s, Independence and surrounding communities had not yet seen the explosive specializing in water gardens, where she worked as a horticulturist until her retirement. did on December 15, 1934, "Up early. Went fox hunting in Broadview Heights...." allowing the Bramleys to earn some extra income during the Depression years.
They operated a farm stand, . suburban and commercial development that would occur after World War II, so that Betsey could write, as she a farmer on his daughter Betsey's birth certificate.He continued to farm until the late 1920s (Photo #9),when National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a Section number 8 Page 4 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Fuller-Bramley House living on the city's southeast side - was facilitated by construction of the Willow Freeway in the 1940s and the completion of Interstate 77 in 1975. As Betsey Bramley's health deteriorated, a cousin living nearby intervened to assist her. Under Forrest Bramley's direction, the several additions to the house made in 1928, which had badly deteriorated, were removed.
Betsey Bramley died in 1996, leaving her modest sandstone house and its contents to the In addition to its association with the settlement and development of Independence, the Fuller-Bramley House is a fine example of the Greek Revival style interpreted in sandstone. Independence is underlaid with a large construction, but some of it was used locally, notably for the Independence Presbyterian Church (1855) and several widely scattered farmhouses in the Cuyahoga Valley. Besides the Fuller-Bramley House, these include and Edmund Gleason House (ca. 1851-55), both on Canal Road in Valley View (formerly part of Independence National Register.
Although the Ulyatt and Gleason Houses differ stylistically from the Fuller-Bramley House - they have central hall plans, with two rooms on each side, and facades of tooled stone with margins - all three are fine examples of the Greek Revival style interpreted in sandstone. Each exhibits a high degree of workmanship and the distinctive characteristics of mid-nineteenth century rural domestic architecture. in 1908. Yet the industry's legacy lives on: "From the grindstone boundary marker on Route 21 to the naming 4 Named by J. S. Newberry in 1870 after the village of Berea in Cuyahoga County, the Berea sandstone extends from the southeastern (Columbus, O., 1915), 72-118. The quarrying industry in Independence declined in the late nineteenth century, eclipsed by the much larger Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio crescent-shaped vein of high-quality Berea sandstone. M.
Sherman, Erastus Eldridge, and others established seven stone quarries were operating in Independence Township, producing grindstones, block stone, perch (8-86) quarries there beginning in the 1840s. Quarrying became the principal industry of the township, and by 1870 the Joseph Blessing House (ca. 1860), on Stone Road in Independence; and the Abraham Ulyatt House (1849) Township). The latter two houses, together with the Independence Presbyterian Church, have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places Independence Historical Society, which is now deciding what to do with this small but remarkable property. Continuation Sheet Berea and South Amherst quarries nearby. The small Independence quarries could not compete with such for building, grindstones, and other purposes. See J.
A.Bownocker, Building Stones of Ohio, Geological Survey of Ohio, Bulletin 18 larger and better-capitalized firms as the Cleveland Stone Company, and the last one, Little & Pettibone, closed stone, and flagging.Most of this stone was transported by canal boat to Cleveland for building and harbor in 1950 to 6,500 in 1990.Out-migration from Cleveland-including notable numbers of Poles and Czechs corner of Ashtabula County southwest into Trumbull County. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was widely quarried Section number 8 Page - 5 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Fuller-Bramley House Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio of Stone and Rockside Roads, the Bramley House at Brookside [Road] and Route 21, and the Presbyterian Church guarantee that the effect that sandstone had [on Independence] shall never be forgotten.S Stone Masonry. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 6:297-304. Historical Society, 1979), 65. Washington, D.C. Bibliography (8-86) Map of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Philadelphia: S. H. Matthews, 1858. Plat Book of Cuyahoga County (various dates). Independence, O.: Independence Historical Society, 1979. Johnson, Crisfield. History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Cleveland, 1879. Bramley, Forrest. 1998. Interview by author. Independence, Ohio, 16 December. U.S.Bureau of the Census.1850.Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States.
Croes, J. James R., William E. Merrill, and Edgar B. Van Winkle. 1877. Nomenclature of Building Stones and National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga County Archives, Cleveland, Ohio. Real Estate Appraisal Records and Treasurer's Tax Duplicates. Bownocker, J. A. Building Stones of Ohio. Geological Survey of Ohio, Bulletin 18. Columbus, O., 1915. Bramley, Betsey H., Papers. Independence Historical Society. Independence, Ohio. Continuation Sheet and 1880.Products of Industry in Independence Township, Ohio.Washington,D.C Miller, Grace, Elizabeth Spelman, Kathryn Boyer, and Robert Boyer. The Story of Independence. Grace Miller, Elizabeth Spelman, Kathryn Boyer, and Robert Boyer, The Story of Independence (Independence, O.: Independence OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Fuller-Bramley House Verbal Boundary Description bequeathed to the Independence Historical Society under the terms of her will. Page Boundary Justification Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Continuation Sheet (8-86) Geographical Data This boundary constitutes the historic Fuller-Bramley property at the time of Betsey H. Bramley's death and as Section number 10 005.It has a frontage of 130feet and is 204feet deep.
The nominated property consists of an irregular lot identified by Cuyahoga County permanent parcel #564-10- NPS Form 10-900-a LIVING ROOM Independence, Ohio FIRST FLOOR PLAN SECOND FLOOR PLAN Independence Historical Society BETSEY BRAMLEY HOUSE BEDROOM KITCHEN GARAGE EXISTING CONDITIONS PLAN PORCH 216-696-6767 1220 West Sixth Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Cuyahoga County, Ohio MAP 563 BROOK-DALE 60' SCALE: 1*=120 240 INDEPENDENCE MAP 564 100' 120 SUNREC SUBD.
V.229 P.46 Fuller-Bramley House, Independence 708 05 - VALLEY DRAWN: 7-15-83 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N OTHER : PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE REJECT TELEPHONE RETURN 10/25/99 10/07/99 DISCIPLINE PROPERTY REVIEWER MULTIPLE 9/10/99 9/21/99 ACCEPT RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL: PERIOD: Fuller--Bramley House DATE RECEIVED: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: DATE OF 16TH DAY: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N PDIL: SAMPLE: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: National Register Bntarod in the DECEMBER 1998 FACADE AND SOUTH ELENATTON, LOOKINF NE, STATE ROUTE DECEMBER 1998 CARAL POH MILLER CAROL POH MILLER DECOMBER 1998 FULLER-BRAMLEY HOUSE CAROL POH MILLER DECEMBER 1998 FULLER-BRAMLEY HOUSE DECEMBER 1998 CAROL POH MILLER FULLER-BRAMLEY HTUSE CAROL POH MILLOR DECEMBER 1998 CAROL POH mILLER DECEMBER 1998 DECEMBER 1998 FRONT DOOR CAROL POH MILLER FULLER-BRAMLEY HOUSE PHOTO6RAPHERUNKNBWN 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OHIO UNITED STATES BROADVIEW HEIGHTS QUADRANGLE 4 1 °15* 1994 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COMMERCIAL SURVEY CU 19.446900,4578540 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 614/ 297-2470 Fax: 614/ 297-2496 Visit us at www.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/ SINCE 1885 September 3, 1999 National Park Service SEP I 0 1999 National Register, History & Education Programs Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 NATIONAL REGISTER, HISTORY & EDUCATION procedures have been followed for this new submission.
NEW SUBMISSION Fuller-Bramley House If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. N Amos J. Loveday, Jr. State Historic Preservation Officer Cuyahoga COUNTY enclosures Sincerely, SOCIETY OHIO HISTORICAL Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find one (1) new National Register nomination.All appropriate notification Washington, D. C. 20240 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration 1849 C. Street, NW
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