House, Col. Erastus, House

to the rear of the chimney, with a great hearth and a bake oven. There is a smaller room on each side of the kitchen, making five A rear stair opened from the kitchen, making a right-hand turn to MAR 2 1 1974 CONDITION with the great chimney foundation occupying the center. Rocks and Ruins NATIONAL REGISTER timbers of the house, as well as the hearths and chimney masonry. going a careful and thoughtful restoration by the present owner the second floor. When the rear wing was added, this stair was All of the original mantelpieces and woodwork are intact. The since 1968.

Fair hall or keeping room has a chair rail which is original, as the walls timbers.These provide a bearing for some of the main framing The front door opens into a shallow stairhall, with the stairs in changed to continue straight into the addition.There is a full cellar, with a center entrance.The doorway has sidelights framed by slender on the walls of several first floor rooms.

The house has been under- of the stairs have fireplaces in the central chimney.The corner posts front of the chimney stack making a sharp left-hand turn.The posts their double-hung sash with twelve panes over twelve.A modern This is a large two-story frame house of the seventeenth and moldings suggesting pilasters.The majority of the windows retain rubble support two giant hewn timbers, which in turn support corbelled and balusters are plain rectangular spindles.Rooms on either side a historic district. The interior of the house has a typical central chimney plan. kitchen wing was added to the rear of the house around 19oo.There of the house frame can be seen in the rooms.The large kitchen is have been plastered to the rail.

far less common in Ohio than the later central-hall plan which ed by the addition of a lean-to providing additional rooms to the rear of the chimney. It culminated between 1700 and 1750 in the built by Colonel Erastus N. House, who migrated to Lenox Town- ship in 1809 from Sandisfield, Massachusetts. The Memoirs of his second wife Abigail Clark Fish were published shortly after successful dairy farmer, local postmaster and historian. He wrote a pioneer history of Lenox Township in the 1840's which was later destroyed in a courthouse fire in Jefferson. Colonel in the house until 1854, when she sold it to her son-in-law J.M. Commerce land.

Engineering Conservation Communications losophy Science Architecture Literature NATIONAL Theater REGISTER Landscape Religion/Phi Aboriginal Education Prehistoric Agriculture Social/Human- the builders came from a more conservative locality in New Eng- Music appeared around 1750 and which is more characteristic of the Adam House died in l844. Abigail House was a strong personality herself Sculpture Invention Urban Planning Industry The seventeenth century central-chimney plan was first expand- Military floor rooms. This house is a perfect example of that type, and This is an unusually well-preserved house of the Connecticut type in which a full second story was raised over all five first married Abigail in l8l9.This house was begun shortly thereafter, and Greek Revival Styles.