Hoffman House

The main entrance, no longer in use, is in the center of the main (west) facade; There are three interior chimneys (brick) on the main house, two with corbelling There are two outbuildings on the property, an old smokehouse and a two-story CONDITION 7DESCRIPTION addition with wood columns supporting the flat porch roof.The easternmost addition entire building is of wood frame construction with shiplap siding used on the main CHECK ONE This is essentially an L-shaped building in the Italianate style with the main the door is shuttered and has a carved shaped lintel.A flat-roofed wooden porch runs building and both shiplap and weatherboard on the additions.Endboards are also used.

Carefully-crafted wooden eave brackets are used for decoration on all four sides The interior has been arranged as museum rooms with four rooms in the main notable interior feature is the wood fireplace on the first floor. along the west side with wood pillars and pilasters supporting the carved brackets and XUNALTERED The windows are all one-over-one double-hung sash with wood sills, decorated along the top. porch roof.A row of dentils decorates the roof. rectangular with weatherboard siding and has two bays;windows have simple wood surrounds decorated shaped lintel and transom. shaped lintels matching those over the doors, and shutters; the windows have slip sills.

of the house and on the monitor on the hipped shingled roof,individual brackets project _DETERIORATED story additions are each one room.Many of the windows have been boarded up.but the this may originally have been a separate building since both the siding & endboard square part (front) as the base and several additions along the east side.There are has a door on the south side. on the porch.

This building is being nominated, as a locally-significant example of Italianate the original north-south streets in Crestline when the town was laid out in 1852, and Crawford County, and to promote the teaching of local history, further the establishment Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Officer, eligible for the National Register in August 1976. 1400-1499 1700-1799 ART X1800-1899 EDUCATION LAW PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE THEATER SCIENCE INDUSTRY MILITARY INVENTION TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1900- The building's precise history is difficult to trace.Information from the Crawford County Recorder's office indicates that the land upon which the house stands have been one of those houses.

-ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION Thoman sold the property in 187l to John Hoffman for $2000.The property the society to maintain a museum of four rooms on the second floor of the Town Hall. Thoman laid out part of his 8o acres in house lots and built houses on them.This could _ENGINEERING at about this time, since a purchase price of $35o indicates that it is unlikely a house of this quality would have been standing. PHILOSOPHY a fine example of this style. _RELIGION John Adam Thoman had a store in Livingston (now the north part of Crestline)and architecture.The house dates from about l860 and has been nearly.unchanged for over Small history museums in the state.

was sold by John A.Thoman to E.Kiney in 1855 for $ll6o.Thoman bought the land back in 1862 ata sheriff's sale for $350,and it may have been Thoman who built the house -1600-1699 -MUSIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING c. 1860 SPECIFIC DATES a century, retaining all its significant architectural elements and thus serving as the Railroad Room, Crawford-Indian Room, Victorian Parlor, Founder's Room, and the the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Mayor of Crestline.