Winter, William, Stone House

the east side by a one-story, gable-roofed frame addition which dates ca. 1850. This addition also is connected to the one-story, brick summer kitchen which CONDITION MOVED UNEXPOSED DATE UNALTERED EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION RUINS FAIR XALTERED CHECK ONE four fireplace mantels are original. The north elevation has three second story windows which are visible.There The interior of the stone house retains much of its original black walnut west end has no other windows.The east end has one first floor window which The east and west ends each have two round windows high in the gable.The reached by a corner stairway. is a small stone, one-story cabin at the northwest corner of the house.This the windows and doors have stone voussoirs.

The south entrance has a plain covered with standing seam metal.There are two massive interior-end chimneys. of the kitchen have an entrance toward the south end and a window toward the north All windows are surrounded with plain framing and are 2/2 lights.The building The William Winter House is a 2-l/2 story, coursed stone house.The facade door and two windows on the east side and a single window on the north side. end. Just west of the house is a small frame barn. The gable roofed kitchen has an interior end.chimney.The east and west sides *GOOD woodwork, including chair rails, ceiling and baseboard moldings. Two of the wood molding around it and a four light transom.The front stairs are missing. on each floor.These are divided by a central stairway.An attic floor is was built.

This cabin is now connected to the main house and encompassed on was used as a temporary shelter for the Winter family while the larger house AREAS OF

and the childhood home of a western explorer of the 1840's. William Winter, a Virginian, and his wife, Nancy (Carr), came to Tate Township region, William Winter's house became a general store. Both William and Nancy 1600-1699 1700-1799 ENGINEERING COMMERCE ECONOMICS EDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION ART THEATER LAW TRANSPORTATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE RELIGION PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE MILITARY XARCHITECTURE SCIENCE _COMMUNICATIONS _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT MUSIC X_EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY _PHILOSOPHY as a guide for many travelers heading west. Hiram Carr were postmasters.The home was willed to Wesley's children. interesting.It was the home of one of the earliest settlers in Tate Township _CONSERVATION restoring it as their home.

Another son, William H.,set off with two friends to explore Missouri in 1840 and The William Winter house is an excellent example of an early Ohio stone building. The decorative molding of the frieze and round windows in the gable are especially Mountains with a Description of Oregon and California.This journal was used father's commercial interests and enlarged upon them. Ca.

1850 he built the became Mt.Olive.The Winter's had five children.In this fairly isolated -1500-1599 continued on to Oregon and California in 1843.A journal of their experiences -1400-1499 Was published in 1848 in Lafayette,Indiana entitled 'A Route Across the Rocky X1800-1899 In 1934 the house and remaining land was sold out of the family and used as a -1900- in 180l.He had obtained 800 acres of land and began the settlement of what COMMUNITY PLANNING ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC