Kirtland, Jared P., House

Description of the property

house is almost square. There is an excellent Doric entablature, a facade was refaced with vertical tongue-and-groove siding, a porch the turn of the century. The side elevation has only two bays. A modern story wing which may be older than the two-story part, but this is typical Greek pattern. The original staircase, which is said to have cooking fireplaces in both the basement and first floor, and these, inference that the wing may be earlier than the main Greek Revival CONDITION DESCRIPTION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS FAIR This is a large wooden frame house in the Greek Revival style. XGOOD The foundation is of coursed sandstone ashlar.The main block of the The pediment originally had a semi-elliptical fanlight which has been four bays, with six-over-six pane sash in the windows.

The first story The cornice of this section is dentilled. remains in the east parlor. It includes a handsome classical mantel- frieze with triglyphs, and flat mutule blocks beneath the cornices. On the interior, excellent original Greek Revival woodwork removed and is stored in the attic.The pediment was resurfaced was added across the front, and the front entrance was altered around house have monumental two-story Doric pilasters.The facade has - DETERIORATED _UNALTERED with composition shingle ofa scalloped pattern.The corners of the together with the different exterior cornice treatment, lead to the piece flanked by blind arches, and window and door moldings of a undocumented.There is a porch along the east side of the wing.

CHECK ONE the west.To the rear (south)of the main house is a one-and-a-half -ORIGINAL SITE been curved, has been removed. In the south wing there are large side entrance with an overhanging roof and a stoop have been added on DATE. AREAS OF

Statement of significance

physician, scientist and naturalist, while he lived in Poland, Ohio, before accomplishments, that house in Lakewood, Ohio, has been razed. an agent of the Connecticut Land Company and the founder of Poland, the survey of Ohio, identifying the rich coal and iron deposits which ultimately spite of the alterations, it still conveys the fundamental spirit of the 1832-1837 1500-1599 ECONOMICS 1700-1799 COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ARCHITECTURE PERIOD RELIGION AGRICULTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY THEATER 1900- SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MUSIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION ENGINEERING ART _COMMUNICATIONS horticultural experiments.

of the Cleveland Medical College which became the Medical School of southeasternmost township of the Western Reserve of Ohio.Jared Kirtland a leading naturalist in the country.Louis Agassiz and John Audubon were period of his occupancy. _PHILOSOPHY attended the Yale Medical College and graduated from Philadelphia Medical Poland home is the only residence still associated with him, and in College.He settled in Poland in 1823 to practice medicine.During this time he served three terms in the Ohio Legislature.The best evidence Museum of Natural History.

At his home in Lakewood he developed extensive In 1837 Kirtland assisted Charles Whittlesey in the first geological 1837.While this is not the home associated with the period of his greatest _1600-1699 attracted the attention of the great scientific men of his day.' Kirtland's Jared P.Kirtland became Cleveland's most celebrated scientist and (Lakewood).He was a member of the faculty of Willoughby University east of Cleveland, and when it closed in 1843,he was one of the founders land Academy of Natural Science in 1845,which became the Cleveland _TRANSPORTATION This was the home of Jared P.Kirtland, the noted nineteenth century Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877) was the son of Turhand Kirtland, -LITERATURE respects to the house of his brother Billius (l830),which has been demolished.

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