Jonathan Sprague House
Historic house in Ohio, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jonathan Sprague House is a historic residence in northwestern Washington County, Ohio, United States. Located atop a bluff above the Muskingum River, it is one of Washington County's most significant houses, due to its age and method of construction.[2]
Joshua Sprague and his brothers William and Jonathan migrated to Marietta in 1788, less than a year after it was founded as the first white settlement in the Northwest Territory;[3] there, they soon signed a contract to contribute to the construction of Campus Martius.[2] After living in Marietta for a time, the three men moved to the vicinity of present-day Waterford; Joshua and William later left the area, but Jonathan remained where he had settled.[3] Here, he farmed, pursued the trade of carpentry, and operated a gristmill.[2]
At the age of thirty-three, Jonathan constructed the present house. Built in the Federal style of architecture, it is three-and-a-half stories tall and built primarily of large blocks of sandstone. When it was completed in 1800, it was the first stone house to be built anywhere in Washington County.[2] Sprague's barn, completed in 1803,[4] is also historically significant as one of the oldest extant barns in the county.[2]
In 1983, the Jonathan Sprague House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the barn.[1] Key to this designation was the property's nature as a rare survivor of Ohio's earliest architecture: architectural historians have seen the house as a fine example of the Federal architecture, and the barn — while architecturally undistinctive — is nevertheless an important survivor of the earliest years of Washington County's history.[2] Located west of Lowell across the Muskingum from State Route 60,[1] it is close to two other historic sites: the Mason House and the Coal Run Historic District, both located in the community of Coal Run,[1] lie approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) to the northwest.[5]
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