Duchemin House

Duchemin House c1910 New Vienna Ohio, now demolished, twin (w/improvements) to house on corner of College & 2nd Streets.  School Barn in background on left.  

Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.

New Vienna Building, Once Used for High School, Being Torn Down; Interesting History

By Maynard Ross

Clipping from unknown newspaper c1952  

courtesy of Margaret Rachford Dean (NVHS'53)

The former Duchemin residence, which once served as the high school building, is being torn down to make way for the new gymnasium.  The razing of the building has been under way for over a month.

Built around 1876 by Abraham Duchemin, the brick structure was the residence of the superintendant [this word is spelled incorrectly throughout the article – should be superintendent] of school for a number of years.

Although there are no facts to substantiate it, the story goes that Mr. Duchemin came to New Vienna from Cincinnati and began a brick kiln.  The kiln and his home were both located north of the present building and near the county line.  The large home that now goes by the name of the Fred Deck apartments was built by Frank Woodmansee some time very shortly before Duchemin began his house.  Apparently envious of the brick structure on the corner, he decided to outdo it and build himself a regular mansion.  His wife knowing his plans, had been saving carpets by laying one atop of the other in their small house.  Mr. Duchemin made the brick in his kiln and with the help of his family built the structure.  

The building was completed and the family moved in.  They finished it as best they could and for a number of years there were no doors, but lumber nailed together served the purpose.

What happened to the family I was unable to find out, other than the information in an obituary in the hands of Mrs. Geneva Phillips.  It states that Mrs. Abraham Duchemin passed away in 1887 and left five children, two sons and three daughters.  A few incidents of the family were related to me by Mrs. Phillips.  She recalled that one of the girls was very fond of riding and on one occasion was thrown in front of her house.  She remembered that this girl was apparently well-liked by the other youth of her age and that she wore a much-admired riding habit.  Mrs. Phillips said that she believed one of the daughters was still living and now resided in Arizona.

The building was a private residence until the fall of 1911 or 1912, when it became the high school.  The other building was being torn down for the construction of the present high school building.  

Charles Blackburn attended school in the building and he told me a few things about it.  There were no desks as are to be seen in school today, but rather straight chairs with a writing board on one arm.  The building was steam heated, but was never warm during the winter, Mr. Blackburn said, unless the boys built fires in the open grates.  Then the teacher and pupils would crowd around the fire and school would be in session.   The four upper grades attended school in this building; those that lived in the country were brought to school in horse-drawn school buses and the horses were quartered in the present VO-AG building.  The superintendant of the school at this time was Horace E. Cromer[1] and I understand he was a favorite teacher.

Another man who taught during this period but not at this time, was James Cadwaller[2], who was highly respected as a teacher.  The building again became a residence in 1919 and the school was moved into the new building.  The superintendant of the school used it as a residence until a short time ago.[3]

The razing crew under the direction of Wilbur Hodson have found that the structure was well-built and had to blast some of it.

I watched one afternoon as they tried to pull over a wall with a chain and cable hooked to a truck.  It was not successful as the cable broke each time the wall began to weave at the top.

To some of the people in town the razing of the building will be a loss, but to others it will be another step in progress to a better school system for the education of their children.

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[1] Horace Cromer was Supt. of Schools 1916-1919.  --New Vienna High School Memory Book 1881-1963 p7.

[2] J.L. (James) Cadwallader, Supt. 1909-1916.  Cadwallader became the first county Superintendent in August 1914. --NVHS Memory Book 1881-1963 p7.

[3] Among later Superintendents and families that lived in the Duchemin House were Forest Martin, Supt. 1928-33 & 1935-1940, grandfather of Larry Martin; Russell Fenwick, Supt. 1941-1963, father of Jane Allemang.

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And one other Duchemin related photo

Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Duchemin 1868 - ?

Graduated NVHS 1886

Youngest Daughter of Abraham & Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee Duchemin

Married Edwin Dun[n] in 1893[4] 

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[4] Hillsboro News-Herald 28 Dec 1893 p5

Blackburn House – Mapleshade

Seventh and last in a series of articles from the Wilmington News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows. [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

Clinton county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial gets underway Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7 with the Pilgrimage of old residences in and near New Vienna.

New Vienna plans for opening the celebration have been carefully laid and the pilgrimage, under the supervision of Mrs. Homer K. Williams, has taken in not only representative houses but old places full of charm, peculiar for the type of architecture and rich in fine old pieces of furniture, collections of china and glass and other articles.

Hostesses have been selected to receive guests the two days of the pilgrimage and the garden clubs are making lavish arrangements of flowers to grace the rooms of the houses.  Tickets are sold for the pilgrimage and the proceeds will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.

So that  visitors may know something of the history of each of the houses the owners have written descriptive articles about them.  Today is presented the story, in picture and words, of the Charles G. Blackburn [1900-1975] residence.

The Charles Blackburn home known as Mapleshade, was built in 1837 and 1838.  Many interesting stories of its building have been handed down by persons connected with its beginning.

Francis Woodmansee, great-grandfather of Mrs. Minnie Hadley, former resident of New Vienna, purchased several hundred acres of land between New Vienna and Highland.  He had lived in New Jersey and had the business of selling cord wood in New York City.  During the war of 1812 he was licenses as a privateer.  Having decided to move to Ohio, he obtained $30,000 in gold and silver, bought kegs of nails, and placed the precious load between layers of nails in the kegs.  These were transported by ox cart across the mountains to Ohio.  The driver of this wagon was William Chamberlain, a great-great uncle of Miss Martha Johnson, Mrs. Will Levo, and Dr. James Johnson of Wilmington, and of Charles Johnson, Miss Addie and Ethel Johnson, Mrs. Will Holmes, Mrs. Harley Phillips, and William Johnson of New Vienna.

[William Chamberlain, 1795-1873, was the father of one son (who died unmarried) and five daughters.  Oldest daughter Anna, 1820-1898, married Michael Mount Johnson, 1818-1912, and lived most of her adult life in the New Vienna area.  She and Michael had ten children.]

After buying his land, Woodmansee decided to build a house modeled after his New Jersey home, and so it is that the house is colonial in style with a wide center hall but differing from the southern colonial style in that the ceilings are lower.  It was originally heated by seven fireplaces, three of which were equipped with cranes.  Five of these fireplaces are still opened and usable.

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The bricks were burned on the place and the timbers are walnut and oak.  Of particular interest is the woodwork, all of which is fluted and was made by hand.  Each mantel downstairs has a different pattern.  The curved walnut stair rail is supported by slender turned spindles.  The knobs on all the doors of the house are small brass ones imported from England. The brick on the house front is laid in a Flemish design with every other brick laid end ways.  Nothing is known of the man whose hands and skill did the actual work of building, but there must have been a "touch of the artist in that artisan" or these extra beauties of workmanship would not have been added.

Very little change has been made in the house in its life time of 116 years [as of 1953] except to add modern conveniences.  At some time a porch with iron work was added.  The kitchen fireplace ceased to be used for cooking, first replaced by a wood burning stove and in modern times by electricity.  Electric lights replaced candles.  But the wide oak boards of the floors, the time darkened bricks of the fireplaces, and the huge stone steps at the front door remain, as does most of the house, as it was when Francis Woodmansee saw it completed in 1838.

Of added interest is a painting made of the house in 1882 and given the present owners by Mrs. Hadley.  On display June 6 and 7, will also be a [paper torn] collection of old china [paper torn] Mr and Mrs. Harry [paper torn].

Pilgrimages host [paper torn] residence will be [paper torn] Hamilton, Mrs. Homer Bohl, Mrs. Beryl Nobel, Mrs. J. Gurney Terrell and the Blackburns' daughter, Mrs. Hugh Young, Jr.

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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838

Christy Home "Few Fields" c1850

Sixth in a series of articles from the Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows.   Of the seven WNJ articles about old homes in New Vienna, this is the only one that contains the source and the date. [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

 
Christy House - Wilmington News-Journal clipping - May 28, 1953

"Few Fields," located two miles southeast of New Vienna on Pan Handle [sic] road or what was once known as the Hillsboro and New Vienna turnpike, is one of the old landmarks of this community. It was the original home of Dr. A. T. Johnson who started his practice at New Vienna in 1859.

In 1862 he was appointed by Gov. Todd, surgeon of the 48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in which he served with great distinction.  Upon his return he resumed his practice in New Vienna until his death here in 1887.

A few years later the farm was transferred to Walter J. Bates who in turn transferred it to John A. Murry [Murray was Bates' wife's maiden name, she had a brother named John] in 1915.  It was purchased by its present owner, Parley F. Christy [1900-1992], a former architect of Cincinnati, in March, 1937.  In 1946 the Christy's restored and remodeled the house to its present state.

The house is of the old conventional frame construction, hand [page torn] and corner posts held together by the use of pegs and wrought iron nails. Materials used were oak, walnut and poplar extensively.

All panes in the original windows are the old hand blown glass which are far from the modern thermopanes of today but perhaps more interesting to look through because of the many distorted shapes into which objects can be turned.

The plan of the house was of the early American center hall type with fire places and a basket type grate for heating facilities.  The kitchen fireplace was restored and equipped with a new mantel, crane and woodbox of early American design and is located in a paneled wall opposite the modern kitchen working facilities.

The original light fixtures which are of the ceiling pull-down, kerosene type with the hobnail glass domes and brass ornamentation were converted to electric.

The old grandfather's clock that embellishes the wall of the early American furnished dining room is truly an Ohio antique since it was in Mrs. Christy's side of the family for 150 years and in its present location is now only a few miles from its original home.  It was purchased by Mrs. Christy's great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Wright in the year 1813.  He lived near the Mt. Auburn vicinity.

Lending "Few Fields" a weathered and mellow look are the six large maple trees and the one huge elm that with the house have withstood the storms of many hears gone by.

Hostesses during the pilgrimage will be Mrs. Vinton Wolfe [Leone Hack Wolfe 1908-2000], Mrs. Lou Dever, Mrs. Frank Cunningham and Mrs. Delbert West.

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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

Yet to be featured:

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838

Historic Brown Home c1840

Fifth in a series of articles from the Wilmington News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows. [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

 

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –

Jefferson Signed Patent for Land Where Brown Home Stands

(Editor's Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7. The owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain. Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society. The following is the story of the Dr. H. M. Brown residence.)

In June, 1794 a military land grant of 6,000 acres was made to John Jameson, a lieutenant colonel in the Army of Virginia.

Survey of the land No. 1320 was completed on November 7, 1795 and 1,200 acres of this densely wooded tract was assigned to Joshua Woodrow and the patent signed by Thomas Jefferson on April 14, 1806.

Joshua Woodrow then lived in Hillsboro, and in addition to the 1,200 acre tract in Clinton county he owned large tracts in Adams and Highland counties as well as considerable property in Hillsboro.

His will dated in 1829 is most interesting.  In dividing his property among his six children he gave to his daughters, Lydia, wife of Johnathan Ellis, and Rachael, wife of Allen Trimble, 540 acres of the Clinton County tract.  He also gave Lydia some money but wanted it expressly understood that any money owing him by her husband, Johnathan Ellis, be taken from this.  However, he gave to Rachael Trimble a note of honor for $360 which he held on her husband, Allen Trimble.

Lydia's part of the 540 acres was described as the part on which the East Fork of the Little Miami River rises and in which Thomas King now lives.  The corners of this part were designated as a white oak and ash, two ashes and a sugar tree, two ashes and a hornbeam and a stone near an ash and a hickory.  [Not certain but I think this house is off of SR-729]

Probably the Thomas King then living in this land was a squatter, as there is no record to show that he owned any of it.  The home of Lydia and Johnathan Ellis was probably a cabin in the woods, but there is no trace of it on the farm which is now owned by Dr. H. M. Brown.

This farm was sold by Johnathan Ellis Jr. to Isaac Woodmansee in1834 for $10,000.  The deed was witnessed by Allen Trimble, one of the early governors of Ohio and then a resident of Hillsboro.

It is thought that the present brick homestead was built by Isaac Woodmansee from brick burned on the place.

In 1843 the property was deeded to Reuben Woodmansee whose will, probated July 30, 1864, was executed by his friend Zephenia Spear [sp?], great-grandfather of the present owner, Dr. Brown. [Zephania Spears* 1807-1898, is listed as the builder of the Swingley home in the mid-1800s.]  This will requested that real estate be sold and money divided among the heirs.

The farm was bought in 1864 by Dr. Brown's grandfather, Washington Spear, for $14,353.30.

Here Dr. Brown's mother, Olive Spear Brown [1862-1934], lived when she was a small child.  In an article she wrote for the New Vienna Reporter about the Snow Hill community at the time of the New Vienna Centennial she speaks of her home here and later in the home now owned by Thomas Swingley as being a "varitable girl's paradise" and mentions the sports afforded by the East Fork and the woods lying between her home and Snow Hill.

The home was later owned by Mrs. Brown's sister, Mrs. Iva Spear Bond, and it was during her occupancy that Dr. Brown as a small boy made many visits to this home.

The farm was later owned by Nathan Gregory, Harold Gilliland and others and was purchased by Dr. Brown in 1934.

At this time the house was in bad repair and much remodeling and reconstruction has been done.

What is now the living room was originally two front rooms with a fireplace and a front door in each room.  The mantels in this room are the original ones.  What was once the dining room is now the hall and kitchen.  The present dining room is new and takes the place of a frame wing which served as the kitchen.  Both porches and the downstairs bedroom and bath are also new.  However the new parts are built of old bricks, selected to match those of the main part of the house.

Most of the furnishings of the house except in the dining room and one bedroom are colonial reproductions and hand hooked rugs are used in two rooms.

With the exception of two corner cupboards the dining room furniture is late Victorian as is also the walnut bedroom suite which belonged to Mrs. Lucinda Brewer Hildebrant, the maternal great grandmother of Miss Lois Brown.  The chest of drawers in the southwest bedroom also belonged in the Hildebrant family.  It is marked on the back with the initials of the cabinet maker and the date 1834.  The open corner cupboard belonged to Dr. Brown's great grandmother, Mrs. Lovina Matthews Spears.  The milk glass and other pieces of antique china and glass are parts of a large collection belonging to Miss Lois Brown.  The breakfront desk contains some pieces which were wedding presents to Dr. Brown's father and mother, the late Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Brown.

Hostesses for the pilgrimage will be Mrs. David Morris, Miss Lucy Hildebrant, Mrs. Alonzo Hildebrant and Miss Helen Brown.

* According to the Cemetery Records of Clinton County, Olive Brown's maiden name was Spear.  However, in the index Spear, Speer, Spears, and Speers are listed as interchangable.
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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840

Yet to be featured:

• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850
• Charles Blackburn House built 1838

Carl West House Built 1850

Fourth in a series of articles from the Wilmington News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

Carl West Colonial House - Wilmington News-Journal clipping 1953

Captioned:  Mrs. Carl West stands near the cherry grandfathers' clock on the stair landing in their house built in 1850.  The cherry and black walnut used throughout were taken from timber on the land and can be seen in the stair rail.  (News-Journal Photo).

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –

Carl West House is Colonial

Old Hand Hewn Oak, Cherry Woods Used Throughout

(Editor's Note:  The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7.  the owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Thomas H. Swingley residence.)

The Carl West house on Route 28 is of New England colonial style being built by James and Lucinda [Turner] McKibben in 1850.  The father of James McKibben immigrated here in 1801, originally owning 2,000 acres of land, of which this farm was a part.  At that time the Indians were so hostile, having  a camp on East Fork, that they did not stay, but returned in 1803.  Their nearest neighbors were people at Morgantown, now Snow Hill.

According to information received from the granddaughter of James and Lucinda, Mrs. Burr Johnson [Flora McKibben Johnson, 1881-1961] of Arlington, VA., the cherry and black walnut used in the house were taken from the timber on the land.  These you can see in the stair rail and closets.

The oak frame work was also from the timber here.  This frame work is hand hewn with the plates and sills running as long as 55 feet in some places in one piece.  In remodeling these old sills proved to be a problem because it was impossible to drill through them.  They are almost as hard as cement.  Wiring had to be done in a roundabout manner because of this difficulty.  The nails used were square headed and long and were made in the blacksmith shop.

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All the rooms on the first floor had fireplaces in them for heating purposes.  These have all been closed except one in the living room which has the original mantel.  The others have been cut down or completely closed.  The present china closets in the dining room were originally closets which have been closed up.  The present owners knew of this so used this space to advantage.

The red stained glass windows around the front entrance came from England and are said to have been processed with gold in them to give them their color.  Since the house has always had many children in it, it is amazing that none of these have ever been broken.

According to the family reports, the stairs were the pride and joy of the McKibben family.  They waited for months for a certain stair builder who built stairs the way they really wanted theirs built.  These stairs show today that they were built well and with a sense of artistry.

On the first stair landing is a cherry grandfathers' clock hand made in 1953 by Stanley McKenzie [1896-1969] and Roscoe E. Moore.  The works came from a clock out of the old school building in Martinsville.  The clock was copied exactly from an original by G.S.H. Bellerose of Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada in 1800, by Roscoe Moore who was aided by Stanley McKenzie in the construction of it.  Mrs. Moore stained the wood and did all the designing on the face of the clock.  The painting was done by Robert Huffman of Martinsville.

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In the dining room is a cherry mantel clock, electric works, but copied from original made by Herman Clark of Connecticut in 1810.  This clock was made entirely by Roscoe E. Moore.  The painting was done by Robert Huffman.

One of the bedrooms is made up in old style with a blue coverlet used on the bed.  The coverlet is a family heirloom of Mrs. West's.  [Harriett Hunter West 1916-2005]

The house is still the same style in the front but has lent itself well to modernization, the side porch being transformed into a modern kitchen in 1952.  Old houses in good repair can be used to advantage even in this modern day.

The house has been occupied by only three different families.  The McKibbens, Monroe Browns and the Wests!  Two families of McKibbens, James and Lucinda, his son, John Milton, and Eva; one family of Monroe Brown [1853-1921] and Mathilde; two families of Wests, Arthur [1877-1966] and Audra [Andra (?) Swearingen], his son Carl [1915-1997] and Harriett, [there may be more to this article, since this ends with a comma, but this ends the photocopy and the transcription and seems like a conclusion.  Perhaps the comma was a typo?]

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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850

Yet to be featured:

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

1953 Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family home

Second in a series of articles about The New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses continues in spring 1953.  Transcription follows.

Captioned:  This fine old desk, circa 1700, stands in the dining room of the Terrell residence, Hillyard Farm, and is one of the many pieces of elegance and charm housed there.  (News-Journal Photo).

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses – 

[From the Wilmington News-Journal, Spring 1953 – copied from an undated clipping at the Clinton County Historical Society.]

Hillyard Farm Rich in Old Furniture

Terrell Family Has Owned House for 40 Years

(Editors Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county’s observance of Ohio’s sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7 [1953].  The owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Paul Terrell residence.)

Hillyard Farm located one mile northeast of New Vienna on the highest elevation in Clinton county (1,197 feet), has been in possession of the Terrell family for 40 years, having been purchased from the Posegate family who had owned it nearly a century.  The original deeds are not recorded, but it is mentioned in one deed that the Posegate family purchased at least part of the land from the Clevenger family, who with Abner and Morgan Van Meter were considered to be the earliest settlers of this county.

Earliest records available state that Abner Van Meter and S. Clevenger resided on this land.  There have been at least three other houses on this farm as evidenced by the broken chimney brick, glass and chinaware.

An overflowing spring located at present within the farm pond, was used by wild animals as a source of water and they in turn were used for food by Indian bands.  This fact is proven by the large numbers of arrowheads and other stone implements which have been found around this area from time to time.  Many of these Indian relics are in perfect condition.

This house, like many others, is a combination of the old and the more modern.  The old Posegate house was L-shaped and the L has been filled in to make a square.  The two front rooms and the dining room are the original parts of the house.

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THE HOME is furnished with several antiques, a number of which are family heirlooms.  In this group will be found a grandfather clock which has been in the family for five generations.  It was first known to be a wall - sweep, having later been put in its present case.  The case for this clock and a large bookcase also in the home were both made out of walnut logs taken from the first Friends meeting house which stood just north of New Vienna.  The land and logs for this meeting house were donated by Micajah Nordyke, the great-great-grandfather of the present owner of the clock.  Nordyke came to Ohio from Tennessee in 1806.

Several other pieces which will be of interest to antique-lovers include chairs, drop leaf tables, chests, cherry china cabinet, four-poster bed, and an inlaid desk which several competent judges have declared to be a choice piece of early furniture.

In addition to the various pieces and furnishings to be seen at any time at Hillyard Farm there will be two collections loaned for the occasion and of surpassing interest.  Mrs. Robert Metcalf of Columbus, will bring her collection of fans to be on display Sunday.  Mrs. Frances Dobbs, of Indianapolis, will bring her collection of old and unusual ink wells and they may be seen on both days of the pilgrimage.

The following will be hostesses:  Mrs. Harold [Garnet] Fisher, Mrs. Charles [Virginia] Hildebrant, Mrs. Elmer [Eva?] Southerland, Mrs. Howard [Hazel] Penn, Miss Geneva Johnson, Mrs. Arthur McCoy [Eva] and Miss Janet Terrell, daughter in the family.  

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Another house in the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses was posted under "Historic Hause House, built 1874," and featured a picture of Charlotte Pugsley Hause.  The Hause article, about the house on Bernard Road near Huffman Ave. could have been titled differently.  The house was owned by the Hines family from 1874-1917, the Elmer Pages 1917-1942, Wilbur Huffmans 1942-1952, and the Hauses in the 1950s.

Other houses part of the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses yet to be featured include:

• Carl West Colonial House built 1850 
• T.H. Swingley House built 1837
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Charles Blackburn House built 1838
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

Historic Hause House, built 1874

One of a series of articles about historic houses published in the Wilmington News-Journal, this undated photocopy mentions the celebration of Ohio's sesquicentennial and also mentions the house being built 79 years prior, indicating this was published in 1953.

The Hauses lived in this for a few years in the 1950s.  Though the article says it is located "on Main Street," the house is actually on the south side of Bernard Rd between Huffman Ave. and Penn Lane.

Historic house on Bernard Road, built 1874, New Vienna, Ohio.  

Once occupied by the Elmer Pages, and in the 1950s by the Hause family.

Pictured in 2013 courtesy of Barbara Johnson Mee.

Transcription of article follows.

Historic Hause Residence in New Vienna, Built 1874, Charlotte Pugsley Hause picture.  

Photocopy from the files of the Clinton County Historical Society.

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –
Hause Residence Stands as Originally Built

(Editor's Note:  The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7.  The owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Dr. A.W. Hause residence.)

The Dr. A.W. Hause home on Main street, New Vienna, is of colonial architecture and was built by John Hines in 1874.  Stephen Pemberton made the brick at his kiln located about one-fourth mile east of the building site and also laid the brick.  The iron fence along the front and side of the house was made by the Forest City Wire and Iron Company of Cleveland.

The home has had four families owning and residing it it during these 79 years.  The Hines estate was settled in 1917 when Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Page purchased it.  The Page heirs sold to Mrs. Wilbur Huffman in 1942 and Dr. and Mrs. Hause bought from the Huffmans in 1952.

The house now stands as it was originally built.  There are four rooms downstairs and tree bedrooms upstairs with a fireplace in every room except the kitchen.  The ceilings both upstairs and down are 10 feet and 10 inches.  [Indecipherable] front two rooms on the first floor have inside shutters.  IN the front door of the home is a frosted and etched window which was made in Cincinnati at a cost of $50 in 1874.  The combined hat rack and umbrella holder in the hall is a solid walnut piece of furniture which came from the Ben Pugsley home in Hillsboro.  Pugsley was a great great uncle of Mrs. Hause.

The room to the left of the hall is the downstairs bedroom completely furnished in antique furniture.  The bed walnut clothes cupboard and cherry chest along the east wall came from the Ben Pugsley home.  The large solid cherry chest on the west wall has been in the Hause family for 100 years and was given to Dr. Hause by his father, L. G. Hause.  The school master's desk placed in the bay window belonged to George Carter (1782-1869) who came with his family to Clinton County from Orange County, NC in 1811.  A school teacher, he was great-great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Hause.  The blanket chest at the foot of the ed is solid cherry and was made by Zimri Haines (1798-1868) who came to New Burlington from Burlington NJ ... [indecipherable]

"... Fox's Works" printed in 1706 and reprinted in 1831, belonged to Gayer Starbuck (1777-1866) who with his wife, Susanna Dillon Starbuck, were the first clerks of the Dover Monthly meeting.  Gayer Starbuck came with his family from Guilford County NC in 1810.  The Starbucks were great-great-great-grandparents of Mrs. Hause.

The ladder back chair belonged to Louisa Smith Custis (1819-1889), a great-great-grandmother of Mrs. Hause.  The chair was loaned by the Starbuck sisters.  The marriage certificate hanging above the chair was issued to Robinson Custis and Mary Savage of Virginia, August 7, 1793.  The certificate is hand written.  It is loaned by Mary Custis Ellis.  Robinson Custis was Mrs. Hauses' great-great-great-grandfather.

The Dining room has a solid cherry three cornered cupboard which was made by hand in Highland county about 90 years ago.  The table and chairs are solid cherry and copies of antiques.  The low cherry chest is from the Ben Pugsley home.  The silver tea and coffee service was handed down from the estate of John L. Per...ger, the paternal great-grand- [indecipherable]
woven linens displayed are loaned by Mrs. Persi Pugsley, Mrs. [not available]