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Christy, Howard Chandler, Art Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“(Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) later build this art studio. Christy's interest in art was apparent from early childhood.”

Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Christy, Howard Chandler, Art Studio. Machine-read text.

one of 70 National Register listings in Muskingum County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the nomination case file at the National Archives · the full case file on this site · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6020 S. River Rd., Blue Rock, 43734
  • When was it listed? 2011-06-15
  • Category. building
  • Township. Wayne township
  • National Register reference number. 11000368 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

17,128 words

This property stands in Wayne Township. 1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882; History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wayne Township - 17,128 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

36 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Christy, Howard Chandler, Art Studio between 2002 and 2019, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15152
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 707 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 707 specimens collected within 10 miles of Christy, Howard Chandler, Art Studio between 1873 and 1975: 644 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
A photograph of the species Gyromitra brunnea, not of this specimenGyromitra brunnea Underw.1909Moore S. R.Zanesville

All 707 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Christy, Howard Chandler, Art Studio: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Muskingum R. Plant No 1 Mine & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Philco, OhioIronProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms near this property

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Rock, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBlue Rock$5,000A newspaper reported trees down on Pioneer Drive.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBlue Rock$1,000A tree was downed on to Cutler Lake Road.
April 2024Flash FloodBlue Rock-State Route 60 closed due to flooding in both directions.
May 2025HailBlue Rock-no account filed
April 2018HailBlue Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

8,210 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high Period of Significance artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Significant Dates (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Christy, Howard Chandler A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Period of Significance (justification) The period of significance reflects Christy's productive years at his Ohio property and extends from the date of construction of the Barracks, 1908 to when he left to return to New York City; 1915. 1908-1915 history. purposes. Art Property is: Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations individual distinction. OMB No.

1024-0018 Cultural Affiliation (Expires 5/31/2012) Name of Property (Enter categories from instructions.) NPS Form 10-900 (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property United States Department of the Interior OMB No.

Read the complete 8,210-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 8,210 words, 58 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 11000368, 58 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Mound House1.8 miles1979
Buckingham-Petty House1.9 miles1980
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church5.0 miles1980
Galigher, James, House6.1 miles1979
Grant School7.2 miles2023
Seborn, Frederick Augustus, House7.4 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000368 in Record Group 79.
Muskingum CountyAll 70 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.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.