BlockFrom the record
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ohio Wesleyan University Fraternity Hill Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.
The listing
- Address. 4, 9, 10, 15, 19, 20, 23, 30, and 35 Williams Drive, Delaware
- When was it listed? August 2019
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100004312 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1924 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ohio Wesleyan University Fraternity Hill Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Delaware Gazette | 1855 to 1886 |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Stuyvesant Hall | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Ohio Wesleyan University Student Observatory | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Sanborn Hall | 0.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Austin Hall | 0.4 miles | 1985 |
 | Delaware Post Office | 0.5 miles | 2020 |
 | Sandusky Street Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004312 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 57 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.