Martin Marmon House
The Martin Marmon House is a historic home near Zanesfield in Jefferson Township of Logan County, Ohio in the United States. It was built around 1820 by the pioneer Martin Marmon and is one of the best preserved examples of the architecture of the Quakers.
History
Martin Marmon was a Quaker from North Carolina. He moved with his two sons and their families in 1805 from Kentucky to the center of Ohio, where they were the first settlers in Jefferson Township according to Isaac Zane. He had married a woman of the people of the Shawnee and lived in the area. This move was typical of the Quakers from the south, the northward in large numbers to turn away from the slavery system in the South. Their new home was very close to the territory of the Shawnee, only a small distance south of the boundary line, which had been laid down in the Treaty of Greenville. Ten years after their arrival, Martin bought the land on which he settled, by his brother Robert, who lived a little further east. On this land he built his brick house, where he lives for the rest of his life.
The Martin Marmon House was the residence of one of the leading figures in the area at that time. After the Logan County in 1818 removed from the area of Champaign County, Marmon took several offices in the newly formed County one: he was 25 years treasurer of the Jefferson Township and four years of Logan County, also for five years county sheriff. The brothers Marmon stood out even in the exercise of religion, as they 1807 the Goshen Meeting of Friends justified, which is called Goshen Friends Church the oldest existing church in Logan County today.
After the death of Martin Marmon his farm was sold to David Springate, a Briton from Kent, who in 1864 settled. The farm was, at that time an area of 153 acres ( about 62 hectares. Today the house is part of the Marmon Valley Farms, a Christian institution. Recently, she served in 1971 as a residence. The Marmon House was considered in 1984 in Ohio Historic Inventory, and the February 20, listed on the National register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of four residential buildings in Logan County, which is recorded in the register.
Architecture
In addition to his role in the colonization of the Marmon Valley is the Marmon House significant as a rare example of the no longer existing architecture of the Quakers and is considered the best preserved Quaker in this part of Ohio. It is typical for a building of that time with respect to its foundation stone, the masonry of brick two and a half storeys, the arrangement of the windows and the location of chimneys. Although around four more residential buildings were built of brick around the same time, none of them has preserved the integrity of the architecture of the Marmon House; Robert Marmon House was rebuilt, and two more were destroyed and the fourth corresponds to a different architectural style. Some changes has yet to experience the Martiin Marmon House: a summer kitchen, which was grown to a non- specific time on the eastern end of the house, the installation of running water on the ground floor and the replacement of the original roof with a tin roof. On the property there's also a shed and a cold store on a water source. The latter was significantly changed, the shed but is sufficiently historically, so that it is listed as a contributing property. The location of the house is a bit unusual. While running the here -developed highway-like U.S. Highway 33 in the immediate vicinity and the house is only 30 meters from the County Road 153 is removed, it is still at the foot of a hill surrounded by densely grown trees.