Marmon, Martin, House

Road 153 just east of the village of Zanesfield in Section 4413,Virginia X altered Military Lands. The foundation of an early barn, destroyed by fire in sash windows. Both door and windows have flat lintels of flush, soldier- to the placement of the fireplaces. The largest room, which encompasses rooms. The delicate Federal fluting carved in the mantels dates from date 6-course common bond, visible through weathered white paint.

The interior of the Martin Marmon House retains its distinctively Corner fireplaces catted to use the west chimney appear in the smaller springhouse to its south.Sheep often graze amid the pines growing on three bay facade in which a central entrance is flanked by double hung south side of the wing with a frame l story summer kitchen the first quarter of the 19th century. The rooms and fireplaces on the the room has had few changes.The ground level of the house has no fire- appear to be original. Only the stairway, constructed at the rear of the four doors.Other than the reconstruction of the hearth's brickwork, OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Marmon, Martin, House, Zanesfield vic., Logan County, Ohio Continuation sheet places, but a huge stone foundation for the catted fireplaces appears on the west Heat and running water have converted the space into a small apartment. The other building on the property included in the nomination is the animal Although not as old as the house, the shed is the only remaining farm building. The summer kitchen and springhouse (D) are not included in the nomination for the barn (E) is not included because the building was moved to the site at the turn of the century.

(in one paragraph) under Criteria A, B, and C. The building is historically significant because In 1805 Robert, Samuel, and Martin Marmon and their families came from settle the land where Isaac Zane and Princess Myeerah had lived since 1785. states were among the first to leave their homes for newly opened, free ation in the region, and the only representative of this denomination in squatter for a decade, Martin Marmon purchased a parcel of land from his Jefferson Township(1818-1841) and Logan County(1818-1821, 1826-1835). He -when David Springate purchased the property.

23 stories in height, and have a three bay facade with two windows and a commerce economics 1700-1799 1400-1499 communications philosophy education engineering theater industry invention transportation archeology-prehistoric music Period humanitarian 1500-1599 literature science prehistoric social/ sculpture conservation 8. Significance the Society of Friends in 1807. The meeting is the oldest extant congreg- River and travelled through the Virginia Military District to the headwaters House also features "the most important modification that distinguishes the ential in early local government, serving as the first treasurer of south of the Greenville Treaty Line remains from this settlement. 1900- Quaker-plan house,' i.e., the arrangement of the chimneys.

law a multi-county area which extends to the Indiana line.Having lived as a The Martin Marmon House qualifies for inclusion in the National Register denomination's northernmost settlement in the Virginia Military Lands.It was significant as the best preserved example of Quaker-plan architecture in The Martin Marmon House is a fine and well preserved example of Quaker- The Marmon brothers and their families founded the Goshen Meeting of military constructed by a prominent member of the Society of Friends and an office -agriculture plan architecture, as described in Allen Noble's Wood, Brick, and Stone.