Unionville Tavern

is of brick.

In the basement, part of the original log construction of here - JUN 2 9 1973 Interior Exterior CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins Fair and chimneys were of fieldstone while most of the remaining construction architrave returns against the face of the clapboard facade.The The dominant element of this building's exterior design is the two- hung windows with nine lights per sash -- five windows at each floor and its corner post.The clapboard siding is interrupted by numerous double- piece of trim is the greatest extravagance enjoyed by the early carpenters Doric columns rise from the porch and support an architrave above;this covered entry, no longer used as such; and above is the old ballroom still story portico which was added sometime after 182o.Four huge square bounded by an additional gabled structure;the right side still shows a simple doorway at the center of the first floor.

possible by the fact that the entablature only supports the (Check One) the first tavern still remains. The building's left side was once a intact.The first floor of the main building is divided into four large Woodwork is simple throughout even at the mantels.A small molding or startling feature of this architrave is its great bay size -- some twelve RECEIVED Good - Pre-Columbian: - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) Built 1818-20 - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) Agriculture - Landscape - Literature STATEMENT OF

cabin, identical to the first and directly beside it, was erected. mail route from Warren, Ohio to Cleveland, a distance of some 150 miles This event led to the conversion of the two cabins into a single, two- New England House, and finally to the Old Tavern. Civil War building in northeast Ohio, the Tavern is said to have been JUN 2 9 1973 Communications Commerce Military losophy Aboriginal Architecture Conservation Engineering REGISTER Theater Transportation Education Music Invention Science Buildings Survey.

Prehistoric NATIONAL Religion/Phi Social/Human- itarian Political Industry storied saltbox with rooms arranged as they are today.During this a station for the Underground Railway.If all of these claims are true, period of growth, the tavern's name evolved through Webster House, had appeared and with them passengers to rest overnight in Unionville. Sculpture The earliest tavern on this location was a log cabin erected around The building was the scene of numerous Civil War parties and dances 1798.The location was a good one along the road from Pittsburgh, In 1803 the tavern was located on the Cleveland-Buffalo Road, the The present living room lounge was once one of those cabins. RECEIVED scarcely a slave must have remained in the south by1865.

--a distance negotiatedat that time by foot.By 1815 stage coaches PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) through Warren, Ohio and leading west. As business increased another The Unionville Tavern has been recorded by the Historic American Art SIGNIFICANCE which took place in the still extant ballroom.Like almost every pre- AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Dover Publications, 1944. DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 41 46 49.5 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1/4 acre JUN 2 9 1973