Monteith Hall

On the interior, the central hall, which transverses the entire north, is in the Neo-Classical style. Also in 1897 the third floor finished by the Gates family, and modernized as a kitchen in 1954. MAY 1 3 1974 CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL Ruins Ionic portico was added, with pilasters at the corners of the house. the south end. The general character of the exterior and interior today is the house was remodeled in its present form.Extended by ten feet on each end, the facade now has seven bays. A two-story, four-column At that time two second floor bedrooms were made into one large one-story, two-column stoop at the front entrance.

In the second considerable grandeur, and embodies to a large degree the character In spite of the many alterations, the house has an air of columned inglenook in the style of the 1890's.This parlor was also To the rear of the house a garden porch was enlarged, and in columns.The south parlor extension holds a great fireplace and woodwork has simple fluting with rosette corner blocks.In the north is of the Neo-Classic Revival.Originally the house was constructed porch across the length of the facade, and a polygonal bay added at half of the nineteenth century the stoop was replaced by an Italianate width of the house, retains the original Greek Revival style.

The parlor the 1897 extension is.clearly visible as an alcove framed by that of the Neo-Classic Revival of the late 1890's.Beginning in 1897 1913 it was enclosed to make a sun porch, and the third floor dormers room by the removal of a partition. were added.A rear wing originally a woodshed was enclosed and the house does not constitute part ofa historic district.

University of Michigan, abolitionist, preacher, missionary and teacher, and later the home of Nahum B. Gates, manufacturer, county sheriff and Mayor of Elyria, and William N. Gates, founder In 1848 the house was sold to Monteith's son-in-law Nahum B. to William N. Gates, who remodeled the house beginning in 1897. important Cleveland architect Frank B.

Meade, who was later Military Communications Commerce losophy SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Conservation Transportation Landscape Architecture Theater Science itarian Music Engineering later.After teaching in New York and Pennsylvania and becoming Education Social/Human- Agriculture Industry Sculpture Governor Lewis Cass, Monteith organized the University of Mich- as a Greek Revival house enlarged and modified into an excellent anti-slavery speaker and antagonized much of the community. The involved with William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Society, of the present form of the house. Architecturally it is unusual John Monteith was born in Pennsylvania in 1788.Ordained Political of the second oldest advertising agency in the nation and author Cleveland's noted mall plan.

to minister to settlers in Detroit and Monroe.With the help of house was used to shelter fugitive slaves en route to Lake Erie. sity was founded in Detroit and moved to Ann Arbor twenty years Monteith Hall has a two-fold significance. Historically it example of the Neo-Classic Revival. conducted his own girls' school there. Monteith became an eloquent (1903) chairman of the Group Plan committee responsible for The house was acquired by the Elyria Woman's Club in 1954. in the Presbyterian Church in 18l7,he was called to Michigan igan in August,18l7,and became its first president.The univer- The additions made by William Gates were planned by the Gates, also an ardent opponent of slavery.

In 1893 it was willed Monteith arrived in Elyria in 1832 to become the first school Mrs.Gates made the additional alterations after his death in 1913.