Herrington, John, House and Herrington Bethel Church

Description of the property

gable-end returns.The site includes two associated farm structures --a bank barn and dressing with chiseled margins.

the residence.A simple structure of coursed squared sandstone from the Herrington portion, windows and porch are not recent alterations, and judging from the evidence, with clapboard where a two-story recessed gallery was earlier featured.The infilled probably date from the turn of the century.The sandstone of the facade was quarried on The roof is slate with a heavy entablature and brief The Herrington Bethel Church sits at the top of a hill 500 feet northwest of -prehistoric _ landscape architecture_X religion _ archeology-historic _ conservation .law - science _ economics - sculpture - education - social/ - music X 1800-1899 _ theater _ 1900- _ communications _ invention - other (specify) Specific dates 1840, 1843 Ohio by early settlers and local craftsmen.

Taken together, the house and the church himself, minister and farmer. extended to within a few miles of the Herrington property, northeast Carroll County does residence, the stonework of the church is said to have been done by a local Black mason farm for $1,000.00 from Frederick Woods in 1819. to have yielded 80 converts, including one of his sons. Possibly as a result of his having seen the light at this Revival, Herrington is said to have decided that worshiping in a log structue (which was, by the 1840's, dilapidated) techniques, as well, perhaps, as a certain type of antic religious consciousness. Herrington lived until 1862, a hardy soul who, at 100, walked to Augusta, three miles from his home, to vote and be photographed.

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Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) and materials. Unlike more northerly counties in Ohio whose predominance of frame and brick struc- also represent the association of frontier protestantism with rural settlement and stand of the types of antebellum stone architecture built in this region of east central The present structure may thus represent the development of more self-conscious building The John Herrington house and the Herrington Bethel Church are significant examples While no records remain to identify the mason who so.expertly dressed the stone of the suggests he may have been responsible for both. as a monument to the earlier embodiment of this association in the person of Herrington the sturdiness of Ohio pioneers. 8.

Significance named Frank Dunmore, and the fact that the structures were built at about the same time class meetings in his home until 1825 when a log building was constructed on the hilltop Areas of Significance-Check and justify below feature a number of stone structues, most of which are of a lesser quality than these. site of the present church.An 184l Revival conducted in this early structure is said Herrington was born in Pennsylvania in 1759 and served as a drummer boy in the - art - archeology-prehistoric community planning X architecture . exploration/settlement - - philosophy Revolutionary War under Washington.

Builder/Architect Frank Dunmore (Church) tures is probably due to the topographical disturbances caused by the glacier that of Indians) spurred him to migrate to Ohio in 1816 where he purchased his Carroll County was sinful. Thereupon, he set fire to the building and watched it burn from his own porch. 1600-1699 transportation Herrington and the stone structues he built reflect The death of his parents (reportedly at the hands 9.