Site Inventory Form State Inventory No

Site Inventory Form State Inventory No. 57-10836 New Supplemental

State Historical Society of Iowa Part of a district with known boundaries (enter inventory no.)

(December 1, 1999) Relationship: Contributing Noncontributing

Contributes to a potential district with yet unknown boundaries

National Register Status:(any that apply) Listed De-listed NHL DOE

9-Digit SHPO Review & Compliance Number

Non-Extant (enter year)

1. Name of Property

historic name brick house

other names/site number

2. Location

street & number 555 Green Ridge Road

city or town Lisbon vicinity, county Linn

Legal Description: (If Rural) Township Name Township No. Range No. Section Quarter of Quarter

Franklin 82N 5W 24 NE NE

(If Urban) Subdivision Block(s) Lot(s)

3. State/Federal Agency Certification [Skip this Section]

4. National Park Service Certification [Skip this Section]

5. Classification

Category of Property (Check only one box) Number of Resources within Property

building(s) If Non-Eligible Property If Eligible Property, enter number of:

district Enter number of: Contributing Noncontributing

site buildings 1 buildings

structure sites sites

object structures structures

objects objects

Total 1 Total

Name of related project report or multiple property study (Enter “N/A” if the property is not part of a multiple property examination).

Title Historical Architectural Data Base Number

Survey of Subsections D, L, & R, Linn County, IA 57-120

6. Function or Use

Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions)

01A01 DOMESTIC/single dwelling 01A01 DOMESTIC/single dwelling

7. Description

Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Materials (Enter categories from instructions)

05B LATE VICTORIAN/Italianate foundation 04C STONE/limestone

walls 03 BRICK

roof 08A ASPHALT/shingle

other

Narrative Description ( SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED)

8. Statement of Significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark “x” representing your opinion of eligibility after applying relevant National Register criteria)

Yes No More Research Recommended A Property is associated with significant events.

Yes No More Research Recommended B Property is associated with the lives of significant persons.

Yes No More Research Recommended C Property has distinctive architectural characteristics.

Yes No More Research Recommended D Property yields significant information in archaeology or history.

County Linn Address 555 Green Ridge Road Site Number 57-10836

City Lisbon District Number

Criteria Considerations

A Owned by a religious institution or used E A reconstructed building, object, or structure.

for religious purposes. F A commemorative property.

B Removed from its original location. G Less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past

C A birthplace or grave. 50 years.

D A cemetery

Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Significant Dates

Construction date

02 ARCHITECTURE 1860s-70s check if circa or estimated date

Other dates

01 AGRICULTURE

Significant Person Architect/Builder

(Complete if National Register Criterion B is marked above) Architect

Builder

Narrative Statement of Significance ( SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED)

9. Major Bibliographical References

Bibliography See continuation sheet for citations of the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form

10. Geographic Data

UTM References (OPTIONAL)

Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

1 2

3 4

See continuation sheet for additional UTM references or comments

11. Form Prepared By

name/title Leah Rogers, Principal Investigator

organization Tallgrass Historians L.C. date May 2013

street & number 2460 S. Riverside Dr. telephone (319) 354-6722

city or town Iowa City state IA zip code 52246

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION (Submit the following items with the completed form)

FOR ALL PROPERTIES

1. Map: showing the property’s location in a town/city or township.

2. Site plan: showing position of buildings and structures on the site in relation to public road(s).

3. Photographs: representative black and white photos. If the photos are taken as part of a survey for which the Society is to be curator of the negatives or color slides, a photo/catalog sheet needs to be included with the negatives/slides and the following needs to be provided below on this particular inventory site:

Roll/slide sheet # Frame/slot # Date Taken

See continuation sheet or attached photo & slide catalog sheet for list of photo roll or slide entries.

Photos/illustrations without negatives are also in this site inventory file.

FOR CERTAIN KINDS OF PROPERTIES, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AS WELL

1. Farmstead & District: (List of structures and buildings, known or estimated year built, and contributing or non-contributing status)

2. Barn:

a. A sketch of the frame/truss configuration in the form of drawing a typical middle bent of the barn.

b. A photograph of the loft showing the frame configuration along one side.

c. A sketch floor plan of the interior space arrangements along with the barn’s exterior dimensions in feet.

State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Use Only Below This Line

Concur with above survey opinion on National Register eligibility: Yes No More Research Recommended

This is a locally designated property or part of a locally designated district.

Comments:

Evaluated by (name/title): Date:

Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs

State Historical Society of Iowa Site Number 57-10836

Iowa Site Inventory Form Related District Number

Continuation Sheet

Page 1

brick house Linn

Name of Property County

555 Green Ridge Road Lisbon

Address City

7. Description

This large square two story Italianate brick house is located on the east side of Green Ridge Road southeast of Lisbon. It is on a knoll overlooking the Spring Creek Valley. The house features a low-pitched truncated hipped roof with eave overhang. A wide friezeboard and brackets are underneath the eave overhang. The foundation appears to be limestone construction. The windows are tall 1/1 double-hung windows that are likely replacement windows. The windows have segmental-arched brick lintels and dressed stone sills. The front door is to right on the west façade with two windows to the left of the door. The front door is a single door with segmental-arched transom above that has been infilled or covered over. The entry was once covered by an open porch the “ghost” image of which is visible on the brick wall around the doorway and the first window to the left of the door. There is a smaller brick ell off the rear of the building that is probably original to the house construction; however, there is also a modern frame addition that has been made to the rear ell that is oversized and in poor condition. A concrete block chimney is also a modern addition to the north side of the house. The house is part of a former farmstead, and there is a small gabled horse barn still standing to the south of the house; however, no other historic outbuildings appear to be extant.

8. Statement of Significance

Historically, a house was first shown on this property on the 1869 map when G.S. Hoover was listed as the owner (Thompson and Everts 1869). The 1881 map in this area is illegible; however, by 1895, the property was owned by Michael Blessing (Bergandahl 1895; Warner and Foote 1881). The 1870 Industrial Census for Franklin Township listed G.S. Hoover as a cooper making barrels in the Lisbon area. Likewise, George Hoover was listed in the 1870 U.S. Population Census as a cooper. This is the same George S. Hoover who by 1878 was listed as a farmer living in Section 24, which is the location of the subject property (Western Historical 1878:710). Unlike other Hoover family members who settled in the vicinity who hailed from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, George S. Hoover was listed in the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Population Censuses as having hailed from Ohio. His wife, Orphia or Orphy Grimm, also had been born in Ohio as had six of their nine children. The family was in Iowa by at least 1865 when their third youngest child was born. It is suspected that this large brick house was built by the Hoovers in the late 1860s or 1870s to house their large family.

The integrity of this house has been impacted to some degree by the loss of the front porch and the large addition made to the rear of the house. However, the house still retains some of its Italianate details and as a brick building dating from the late nineteenth century appears to have potential for National Register under Criterion A for its association with the historical settlement of the Lisbon vicinity if not also under Criterion C as an example of the Italianate brick houses built in Lisbon, Mt. Vernon and the rural environs in the late nineteenth century.

9. Major Bibliographical References

Bergendahl, C.G., compiler

1895 Atlas of Linn County, Iowa. S.N. Parsons, W.G. Treat and J.D. Wardle, Marion, Iowa.

McWilliams and Thompson

1859 Map of Linn County, Iowa. McWilliams and Thompson.

Rogers, Leah D., and Cindy L. Nagel

2013 Survey and Evaluation of Selected Historic Archaeological and Architectural Properties in Subsections D, L, and R, Linn County, Iowa. Tallgrass Historians L.C., Iowa City, Iowa.

Thompson and Everts

1869 Map of Linn County, Iowa. Thompson and Everts, Geneva, Illinois.

Warner and Foote

1881 Map of Linn County, Iowa. Warner and Foote, Minneapolis and Philadelphia.

Western Historical

1878 History of Linn County, Iowa. Western Historical, Chicago.

Additional Documentation

Italianate brick house on Green Ridge Road, looking ESE.

Photograph taken by Tallgrass Historians L.C., April 14, 2013.

Topographic map showing location of brick house (black arrow points to location at blue outline).