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Rufus Putnam House

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or corner post construction. Each wall of the building was built prefabricated. Four-inch-thick by foot-wide hewn oak timbers were mortised and tenoned, and fastened with wooden dowels into a diagonal braced frame. Random-width four-inch-thick planks were fitted to complete the wall lying on the
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ground. Each plank was numbered with Roman numerals, then removed so the frame could be raised, and then re-assembled. Eight by eight-inch oak floor joists with neither foundation nor basement were used, and tulip poplar floor boards were laid, but not fastened until seasoned.
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Putnam's wife died in 1820; he stayed in the house till he died in 1824. After Putnam's daughter Elizabeth died in 1831, the house was sold to the Nye family, who occupied it for many years, followed by tenants late in the 19th century. The Marietta Chapter of the
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The building was completed late in 1790. The green planks used in original construction shrank, and it was necessary to wedge lath into the cracks, until clapboard was applied later. With the end of the
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fortification was no longer necessary, and Putnam bought the adjacent blockhouse, and used the lumber to add a four-room addition to the original four-room house in 1795.
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The house has been called "the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today."
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leased the building starting in 1905. In 1917, the state bought the Campus Martius site, and placed it under the control of the
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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Ohio
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General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio,"
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General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio,"
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General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio,"
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Construction began soon after Putnam arrived in 1788 using a building method known as
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pp. 109-10, 117-18, 126, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina.
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Ohio
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pp. 175-77, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina.
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Campus Martius Museum, corner of 2nd and Washington Sts.,
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A 1903 history says the building was commonly called
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
a house above a street
Rufus Putnam House is located in Ohio
Rufus Putnam House is located in the United States
Marietta, Ohio
39°25′16.5″N 81°27′40.0″W / 39.421250°N 81.461111°W / 39.421250; -81.461111
Marietta Historic District
ID74001646
70000524
Marietta, Ohio
Campus Martius
Rufus Putnam
Ohio
Ohio Company of Associates
National Register of Historic Places
contributing property
Marietta Historic District
Campus Martius Museum
post-and-plank
Northwest Indian War
Campus Martius
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ohio Historical Society
General Rufus Putnam House
Rutland, Massachusetts
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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