Burr, George, House

and the north end are identical, with an elliptical fanlight under a early shallow roof and had a Doric frieze with triglyphs, plus an CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED DETERIORATED RUINS XALTERED FAIR six-over-six pane double-hung sash.The entrances on the east front roof appear to be from the original structure. CHECK ONE narrow round arch.The same pattern appears on the ends. The windows themselves have rare keystone lintels of sandstone, and These are framed by blind arcades making three major bays on each side.On the long sides, the two outermost ranks of windows are stone arch with a prominent keystone. At the south end of the house elliptical fanlight in the pediment.These elements were removed are five window openings on the side elevations and three on the ends.

grouped by a wide elliptical arch, and the center entrance by a XORIGINAL SITE exactly as it does today.in an 1874 lithographic illustration. The illustration also shows the original roof.It was a typical is a small frame wing with a porch on its east side. It appears by the wooden gable ornament in the Eastlake or Queen Anne idiom. when the present tall attic roof was added in the 1880s, as indicated This isa substantial brick house of the Federal period altered in the late nineteenth century by the addition of an attic roof. There DATE The lower portions of the brick chimneys protruding through the AREAS OF

spirit, not being too bound by tradition to modernize. brother Russell, who came from Litchfield County, Connecticut. and 1870, and the house was owned by George Burr, Jr. (born in 1850), when the roof was altered. 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 ART INVENTION ECONOMICS LAW SCIENCE EDUCATION PERIOD 1900- RELIGION AGRICULTURE PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC LITERATURE INDUSTRY XARCHITECTURE _TRANSPORTATION roof and its family history. Brick houses of that period having blind arcades are rare in northern Ohio, and this one is unique because of its altered _COMMUNICATIONS Mehitable Burr was the first white child born in the township.

indicates that the second generation of the family had the same pioneer _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT year Harris was joined by George Burr, his wife Mehitable and his HHarrisville Township is one of those located on the geographical architecture suggests a conjectural date no later than l830, when Burr was forty-two years old. George Burr died between 1860 "divide' between the Ohio River and Lake Erie.It was first settled but the date of Burr's house is undocumented.The style of the The next settlers arrived in 18l4. In 18l5 the daughter of George and Harris replaced his first cabin with a modern structure' in 1824, in the war with England. They returned to Harrisville in October. During the summer of 18l2 they returned briefly to Randolph in -COMMERCE -MUSIC by the second settler of the township.

Furthermore, its alteration in 1810 by Joseph Harris, for whom the township is named. The next northern Ohio. It is also of great local significance, having been built Portage County, not knowing whether the Indians would be friendly five families settled there.The county history mentions that Joseph XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT This is.an early house of unique architectural distinction in The township was organized in 1817.By 1818there were thirty-