Kindleberger, Frederick, Stone House and Barn

originally open porches; the rear inset has been enclosed, leaving only the west wall. To serve this porch, a door has been cut in the void which originally houses a window, opening into the kitchen. Most windows are the roof was remodeled. At the time of construction, the Kindleberger House The Kindleberger Barn stands approximately 200' south of the home, midway It is built entirely of stone which is laid dry, with the stones deeply rus- with a shed roof addition of wood frame construction built on the bank, against outbuildings serve as grainaries, a garage (beside the house), a milk house, various storage sheds, and a machine shed.

They are strictly agricultural CONDITION DETERIORATED UNALTERED FAIR cyma reversa pattern highlights the upper portion of this front porch and farmstead, no one building posesses any great architectural character of its own.

CHECK ONE front inset to serve as a porch of sorts.A valance-like board trimmed in a the north wall of the barn.There is no forebay.A concrete block addition appears to be original to the house.The main door is located in the front ashlar sandstone.It is an H-shaped building,42'x32'in dimention with The Kindleberger Stone House is a 1-story structure built of smooth-dressed inset.Originally no open porches were appended to the house;however a 1- the farm is dotted with more than a dozen small outbuildings of concrete block they are noted on the enclosed turn-of-the-century photo.The most radical of gable ends and the extention of the monitor. was capped with a hip roof with a glazed monitor:This roof was altered -UNEXPOSED in the basement are 6/6 lights.

These are probably the original sash, as was built at the southwest corner.

/ARCHITECT Frederick Kindleberger, builder STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE of this era were built of wood frame construction or perhaps of brick, and are exclusively of wood frame construction, with the exception of a few log barns to this rule, and as such has been recognized as pivotal property in the Atlas of Monroe County, Ohio notes these structures as "stone" on his township county atlas, by 1898 he controlled over 200 acres in eastern Switzerland Township. Primarily, however, Kindleberger and his descendants were farmers. Fred Kindleberger's son, William, purchased the property from his father in 1905. William (1865-1945) became one of the best-known farmers in the area, and was the Kindleberger farm before the turn of the century, long before and govern- family to this date.

James Caldwell, who was one of the original directors of the local soil conservation board, married Mary, the daughter of William Kindleberger. 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMUNICATIONS THEATER ECONOMICS ENGINEERING 1900- PERIOD RELIGION SIGNIFICANCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT EDUCATION PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE ARCHITECTURE TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE XAGRICULTURE INDUSTRY PHILOSOPHY. are simply no agricultural structures in the area which compare to the Kindleberger _CONSERVATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The Kindleberger Stone House and Stone Barn are nominated for their architectural ment conservation policy had been formulated.The property remains in the Their granddaughter and her family continue to farm the old homestead.

significance to the heritage of Monroe County and southeastern Ohio.There the collosal stone barn below his dwelling house.Kindleberger was involved to a generation immigrant from Bavaria.Little is known about Kindleberger himself, Apparently he was successful in his agricultural ventures, for in 1883 he erected -MILITARY _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN The house was built in 1873 by Frederick Kindleberger (1835-1911),a second- -COMMERCE -MUSIC -LAW Generally, farmhouses limited degree in county politics, having served as a township tax collector.