Clutts House
| Clutts House | ||
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| place | Wellston | |
| Client | Joseph Clutts | |
| Construction year | 1902 | |
| Coordinates | 39 ° 7 '25 " N , 82 ° 32' 4" W | |
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The Clutts House is a former residential building in the city of Wellston in Jackson County , Ohio in the United States . The house, built in 1902, was the home of industrialist Joseph Clutts, one of the leading members of Wellston's society.
history
Joseph Clutts, born in 1861, came to Wellston in 1882. After a short time he took the path that made him one of the most important people in the region. He bought blast furnaces in Wellston and Milton, acquired shares in the Spring Valley Iron Company, and large wooded areas whose wood served as fuel for his blast furnaces. In 1896 he founded the Wellston Iron and Steel Company with Henry Adam Marting and Lewis Vogelsong, which put two more blast furnaces into operation. Together with a partner named Willard, Clutts took over the shares of his previous partners in 1898.
In 1902, Clutts commissioned the building of the house that still exists today. The two-and-a-half-storey house is made of brownish bricks , on which sits a roof that is covered with ceramic tiles. The structure does not have any particular architectural style that would dominate it, but its size and detail make it one of the most eye-catching homes in Wellston. Most of the other houses in the city, whether built at the same time or at different times, are much smaller structures built for ordinary workers.
After Clutts' death in 1927, his home was referred to as the Reese Building . From then on it was no longer used for residential purposes and is now a law firm. Little has changed inside or out, and most of the original decorative details and building elements remain. Clutts House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for both its connection to Clutts themselves and its well-preserved, historically significant architecture . It is one of three buildings on the National Register in the City of Wellston , along with the Morgan Mansion and Harvey Wells House .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e National Register Information System . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009
- ↑ a b c d e f Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places . Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores : Somerset, 1999, p. 793.
- ^ Evans, Nelson W. A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio . Vol. 2. Portsmouth : Evans, 1903.
- ^ A b Clutts House ( English ) Ohio Historical Society . 2007. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
