Clester, Joseph, House

struction is different, being of light frame while the older section is mortise and interior plaster is original, lime mixed with animal hair. Most of the interior (photos #8 and #9); they share a common chimney. All original outbuildings have disappeared, including a barn and summer kitchen. Condition unexposed ruins fair in agriculture. Check one The floor joists of the first floor, main section, are of round logs, many still 7. Description batten siding taken from a demolished building in the area. The back parlor and the kitchen have fireplaces with identical mantels of poplar steeply pitched gable roof of slate.The house has returns and pilasters at the corners.

tenon construction with large timbers (photo # ).The building is L-shaped with a the entrance door has square pillars and entablature (photo #). exhibits the same external detailing as the first part #3),although the con- is the family cemetery which was also used by other local families. Recent buildings include a gazebo(1978) and a shed board and deteriorated The house sits on a small hill on a tree shaded lot.Just down from the property The area is rural farmland although the present owners are not themselves engaged Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic - science - agriculture - sculpture _ social/ _ commerce - transportation Statement of

(in one paragraph) The Joseph Clester House is significant as an example of a New England-Western New Italianate, Gothic and Romanesque Revival. The Clester House is the only house of its type known to exist in Dover Township. It is important not just for this reason but as an example of the rapid mobility of folk housing types from one region to another to still a third within a relatively short Assoc., 1905, Athens, Ohio. 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 Builder/Architect communications military invention conservation politics/government theater engineering industry humanitarian literature music Pillsbury, Richard and Andrew Kardos,^A Field Guide to the Architecture of the North- other (specify) law Specific dates 1900- 8.

Significance eastern United States.Geography Publications at Dartmouth, No. 8, n.d., n.p. X_1800-1899 housing types are generally of the Pennsylvania or Southern "I"variety or English cottage His son, Samuel, was the father of C.P. Clester whom the 1905 Atlas of Athens County _economics period of time. _education -archeology-prehistoric - community planning landscape architecture - religion X architecture - art York folk structure known as an "upright and wing" or "Lazy I" in an area where folk and then carried to upstate New York by the migration streams coming from New England. In upstate New York they took on their "High style" Greek Revival detailing.

From New lork state, the type, with its Greek Revival dressing, was carried to Pennsylvania reported as having lived in the house for over 51 years. 2 Ibid. Bush, Fred W., The Centennial Atlas of Athens County, Ohio. The Centennial Atlas most other housing types common to this area. Detailing in this region leans toward the Joseph Clester migrated to Athens County, Ohio in the late 1830's from Pennsylvania. 1600-1699 philosophy and west to the Great Lake states (the Western Reserve in Ohio).2 exploration/settlement Period 9.