Thumann Log House

Description of the property

The two-story, gable roofed Thumann Log House is approximately 47 feet long and 18-1/2 feet deep and has a one story rear ell extending three- two 18-1/2 foot square rooms separated by a center hall. This portion time windows were changed so that there were four on the first level and known as Murray's Corner. During this period there appears to have been in place, though new roofing material now covers them. The angle of the roof on the original wing probably connected with the angle of the gable Ruins been built during the first quarter of the 19th century.Steeple notch The rear kitchen ell was accessible through the west room.

to two large rooms and also to the basement.There was another stairway lights and a transom were added to the center door.The chimneys were corner of the house which probably opened into the taproom.There were quarters of the way across the north side.It is built of various woods construction was infrequently used in Ohio log structures after 1840.

Statement of significance

grant to Abraham and Solomon Claypool in 1787. The land was later sold John Breckenridge owned the land in the 40's and apparently remodeled the structure as a house after the rear of the building was partially Cornelius Murray who, it is known, operated a tavern and owned the The Thumann 1og house is one of the largest log buildings in Ohio, and, from a construction point of view, it is one of the most complex. closely resembles a common type of Ohio log house - the double pen with pen structure, however, since all the walls, including those of the "breezeway" and kitchen ell, were raised simultaneously and are built two "pens", ten to fifteen feet apart, and join them with a single The breezeway was closed in later, if at all.

Ells or additions DEC31 1974 Engineering Commerce 1811 Transportation Military Architecture REGISTER Conservation losophy Communications Industry NATIONAL Aboriginal Literature Science Prehistoric Agriculture RECEIVED Theater Religion/Phi Music Landscape itarian Sculpture Political Urban Planning Education Social/Human- and desire for permanency with which these early structures were built. destroyed.It was at this time that the shed roof and frame rear an enclosed breezeway.It differs radically from the standard double the convent stopped there. The land on which the Thumann Log House stands is part of a military land The large size, early date, and the unusual design and construction were generally frame.

only 2 miles from the Adkins tavern and visitors on the way to and from Invention land into the early 1900's. to Erastus Adkins who, it is believed, built this structure - the first two-story, double log pen to be built in the Northwest Territory- rooms replaced the rear log rooms.

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