Casement House

The soffit has closely-spaced modillions interspersed with stone and brick courses, reflecting the stone quoins at the building's pavilion with hipped roof and denticular cornice like the porch. fireplace, was located to the left of the hallway and the old library in organic patterns such as fruit and flowers, and wall and ceiling paintings, some naturalistic and some geometric to give the illusion of depth, abound. The dining room, kitchen and pantries were at the end JUL 1 7 1974 CONDITION Interior: Exterior: REGISTER NATIONAL Fair ular.A decorative cast iron balustrade runs along the perimeter of bond with a stone foundation and stone quoins at the building's corners.

Built 1870-1873,this High Victorian Italianate house is brick in running There is a central round-arched window extending up into the with a pedimented entrance in the center runs the width of the front of south facade) and segmental-arched with plain stone hoodmolds The building is basically rectangular in plan but it has projecting bays cornice and flanked by two pairs of rectangular windows on each side on the south, east and west sides.It is two stories in height with a On the first floor is a central hallway with a walnut staircase leading topped by decorative grillwork is located in the center of the building's of the hallway.Originally the second floor had a large central hallway, have been modified for use as office space. (Check One) Good the porch.

rooms: a parlor, bedroom and bath. Another parlor, with a large marble five bedrooms, two baths and servants' quarters which were connected to the kitchen below. A stairway lead to the cupola.

7th regiment, O.V.I., during the Civil War, was involved in the chased in 1840 from Colonel Lemuel Storres, an officer of the sixteen, he became apprenticed to the renowned architect and builder, to Cleveland in 1833 to supervise Goldsmith's work in that city, set of Heard and Porter designed St. Paul's Church, the Second Presbyterian Church and the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, as well as the Porter was later dissolved and Heard took in Walter Blythe, who had JUL 1 7 1974 Conservation Commerce Architecture Communications losophy REGISTER Aboriginal Military NATIONAL Engineering Landscape Religion/Phi Music Science Agriculture itarian The Casement House is the most pretentious Italianate villa in Lake Connecticut Land Company. northeastern Ohio in the nineteenth century.

Political Social/Human- Invention Literature Sculpture The architectural firm of Heard and Blythe was responsible for the and the first railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific in Puerto Prehistoric to Painesville from New York when he was young.At the age of up his own carpentry shop and by the 1840's was handling his own in 1876. He was the most well-known designer of public buildings in Education Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) (Check One or More as Appropriate) and her husband, John Stephen Casement. Casement, a major in the Laying of tracks for the Lake Shore Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, Jonathan Goldsmith, whose daughter he later married. Heard moved another influential architect of the area, Simeon Porter. The firm County.

Art Industry RECEIVED Heard died The partnership with It was built by Charles Jennings for his daughter Frances Administration Building at Lake Erie College. architectural commissions.He formed a partnership in 1849 with married Heard's daughter in 1857,as his new partner.