Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. 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
“The Monitor House is a historic house in St. Located along West Main Street, it is a square brick structure resting on a foundation of stone and covered with an asphalt roof.”
Wikipedia article Monitor House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 27 National Register listings in Champaign County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001408- 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.
Fires near this property
3 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Monitor House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 419 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Monitor House between 1876 and
1975: 367 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A.R. Gaufin 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.
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
1,791 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.
Description of the property
and is deeply recessed. The separate, twin doors are recessed Excellent on each of its four sides.The clerestory measures approximately measures approximately thirty feet square.The Monitor House is PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) - Science Unfortunately, little is known about the history of this house. Its exact construction date, architect and original owner DEC 1 9 1973 Aboriginal Commerce Military Architecture Conservation Engineering Theater Communications
Statement of significance
SPECIFIC DATEIS) (If Applicable and Known) or three known monitor style houses in Ohio, and thus is rather built circa 1860 intriguing style is the Kendrich-Barret House in Chillicothe, The Monitor House was built circa 1860.It is one of two AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 10
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001408, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
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.
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