Harper, William Rainey, Log House

Description of the property

not within recent memory, and now faces north along the Main Street of the village of Muskingum College, A nineteenth-century store, now used by the College for oftices, southwest wall. CONDITION RUINS FAIR with the main entrance through the center bay.

The main door itself stands out as an This building is a two-story, double pen house, traditional in style, of square-hewn CHECK ONE _UNALTERED of poplar logs, twelve logs high to the plate log, with logs measuring up to sixteen inches XALTERED _UNEXPOSED to 1918) _DETERIORATED sits flush against the Harper house's west wall; land to the east and south is owned by well-intentioned attempt at restoration.A small wooden back porch is built onto the -GOOD The house is set on a stone and brick foundation, and is a three-bay structure, 1ogs, covered with a gable roof, of slate. It was moved to its present site, although building. with no fenestration on the gable ends.

There is a large inset chimney in the west XMOVED anachronism, due to its design and transom.The windows are double hung, six-over-six, New Concord the National Road),across the street from the main entrance to the Village and is used as a public park. The house measures 28'x50',and is constructed AREAS OF

Statement of significance

1og architecture, a style once prevalent on the cultural landscape of southern Ohio, began regular classes at ten, and graduated in 1870 at the age of fourteen, giving a graduation from Yale, he married Ella Paul, daughter of Muskingum President David Paul, and afterward taught at the Masonic Academy at Macon Tennessee, at Denison Uinversity, and own innovations, many of which are standard academic procedure today: university extention, a university press, and emphasis on graduate study and research. He held the Presidency served as the New Concord branch of the John McIntire Library. Muskingum College the building serves as a house museum, containing a collection of memorabilia of one of Muskingum College's greatest graduates, and one of the nation's greatest educators.

1500-1599 1400-1499 X1800-1899 ART LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD THEATER RELIGION AGRICULTURE XARCHITECTURE XEDUCATION TRANSPORTATION MILITARY XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY _CONSERVATION INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS INVENTION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _1700-1799 erected.This significance notwithstanding, this particular log house's greatest -1600-1699 commencement address to his graduating class in Hebrew.He taught Hebrew at his alma mater The University of Chicago's Harper Memorial Library was built in his honor and was ded- icated in 1912.

and the one style most used by early settlers before more impressive dwellings could be - ENGINEERING -COMMERCE 8 SIGNIFICANCE acquired the property in 1918,and shortly thereafter began a restoration under the Harper's birthplace was for some time occupied by the Pittsburgh Produce Co.,and also _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This house stands out as a well-preserved example of early nineteenth century traditional _ECONOMICS Samuel Harper (?) -SCIENCE -MUSIC -1900- SPECIFIC DATES at Yale, and wrote extensively on Hehrew language and lietrature and education. With the support and freindship of John D. Rockefeller, Harper assumed the first presidency of the at Chicago for fifteen years, and died in the President's house on the Campus in 1906.

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