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OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY 1. No. 2. County 4. Present Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 5. Historic or OtherName(s) 6. Specific Address or Location 6a. Lot, Section or VMD Number 7. City or Village If Rural, Township & Vicinity 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 9. U.T.M. Reference Quadrangle Name Zone Easting Northing Coded 10. Object Structure 11. On National Register ? 12. N.R. Potential ? 13. Part of Estb Hist Dist? 14. Dist. Potential ? 15. Name of Established District (N.R. or Local) Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 E. Hudson St. Columbus, Ohio 43211 614/297-2470 16. Thematic Association(s) 17. Date(s) or Period 17b. Alteration Date(s) 18. Style or Design 18a. Style of Addition or Element(s) 19. Architect or Engineer 19a. Design Sources 20. Contractor or Builder 21. Building Type or Plan 22. Original Use, if apparent 23. Present Use 25. Owner’s Name & Address, if known 26. Property Acreage 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 30. Foundation Material 31. Wall Construction 33. No. Bays Front Side 34. Exterior Wall Material(s) 35. Plan Shape 36. Changes (Explain in #42) 37. Window Type(s) 38. Bldg. Dims. 39 Endangered? 40. Chimney Placement 41a. Distance from road 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization 48. Date Recorded 49 Revised by 50a. Date Revised 50b. Reviewed by LOR O.H.I.O. Resource Center 09-00-085-105-005 Andrus House; Yocum House; Nord House OHIO HIST ORICAL SOCIETY SINCE 1885 Oberlin 251 Forest Prairie 1908 Mediterranean Daniel Reamer (?) Other Domestic Residential/Domestic (single dwelling) .455 Doud (92) Brick Brick Hip Moderate Spanish Tile 3 Red Brick, Running Bond Stucco L-Shaped Some Alteration Double-hung; Other 1 Off-Center No O.H.I.O. and H.P.C. 1-30-2000 50 ft. x 39 ft. Lorain County Courthouse: Lorain County tax records. Oberlin Public Library: Oberlin City Directories. O.H.I.O. Resource Center: Oberlin Historic Preservation Commission Files; Oberlin City Directories; Hi-O-Hi Collection. Blodgett, Geoffrey. Oberlin Architecture College and Town: A Guide to its Social History . Oberlin College, 1985. Oberlin College Library Special Collections: Oberlin City Directories. Well Maintained 41b.Frontage on road 99 ft. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings (see #52) 42. Further Description of Important Interior and Exterior Features 43. History and Significance This two and one-half story Prairie Style house has many architectural features unusual in Oberlin. The front façade has near perfect symmetry (with the exception of a two-story side wing that is set back from the front wall). The hipped roof is covered with Spanish tile and has extended eaves. In the center, a hipped dormer helps to define the line of symmetry above the front door. One over one, double-hung windows are the dominant window type, except on the first story where multipaned casement windows flank the front porch. In 1996 a new front porch, new windows and a flat roofed, closed, rear porch made significant changes to the house. The white wood of the front porch (cont.) This house, designed by Daniel A. Reamer, was commissioned by Rev. Jonathan Andrus, a Congregational minister from Massachusetts. Mr. Andrus came to town to educate his children at the college. The Andrus twins graduated from the college in 1916 and then went to Johns Hopkins where they earned MD degrees; they received honorary degrees from Oberlin in 1941. In 1917 and 1918, the house was a college rooming house, with Mrs. J.C. Andrus as matron (HI-O-Hi). Rev. Andrus left town in the early 1920s after a decade as director of Downing House, the college infirmary (Blodgett). (cont.) This block of Forest Street has turn of the century and early 20th century homes. It is an intact residential neighborhood. On the north side the college has demolished some homes for dormitories. Parochial/private education: Higher & Commerce 28. No. of Stories 2 and 1/2 29.Basement? Yes Explain: No No OHIO No Yes Site Building Public Private 24. Ownership High Style Elements 32. Roof: Type Pitch Material N 2 15 S Front 2 16 N Rear Roll # Exp. # Facing X X X φ M. Fedelchak-Harley; J. Heaton; L. Previll
