John Glenn’s birthplace passed over for historic status

Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio

A New York graduate student seeking historic recognition for John Glenn’s birthplace in Ohio says the proposal has been rejected.

The Times-Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia reports state officials wrote 24-year-old Adam Sackowitz that the Cambridge home where Glenn was born in 1921 wasn’t a strong candidate for the National Register of Historic Places.

The National Park Service now views Glenn’s boyhood home in New Concord, where he moved at age 2, as “most suitable” for recognition.