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 Morris Sharp House is a historic residence in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio, United States. Built to be the home of one of the city's leading citizens, it has remained the architectural landmark that it was designed to be.”
Wikipedia article Morris Sharp House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 12 National Register listings in Fayette County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001483- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 230 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 230 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Sharp, Morris, House between 1907 and
1975: 225 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Sharp, Morris, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
1,298 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 on the first floor, bay windows are located on the south, of the house, is a frame one story addition. The eaves are supported by brackets, paired along a are round windows, one on each of the sides of the tower, set windows, a bracketed cornice and blank frieze. The pagoda- Leads to the top of the tower. The living room, parlor, and CONDITION Moved Excellent third level. on a stone foundation. Ruins doors and two smaller doors provide access to the interior. thirty-five by twenty feet.
Second floor notable features include the cornice and gable The walls and rusticated stone quoins of the house have been Additions to this building have been made on the south and The brick two story with tower Morris Sharp House was built but these items have been painted black, greatly detracting from and an elaborate, pointed finial crowns the top. star painted in its upper portion Ornamental iron cresting the appearance of the house.A one story porch is located on with two wings on the north and west side joined at right angles. The interior of Sharp House is built on a center hall plan. in 1875.Basically the house is done in an Italian Villa style, house measures approximately fifty by forty feet, and is built behind exposed framing.At each gable is a pointed finial.
The roof is composed of multicolored pieces of slate laid in top of the tower, the best vantage point is obtained from the type slate mansard roof is four-sided with dormer windows on The stairway is located just inside the front (west) door and each side..These windows are round-headed and each has a gold the west side (front).The porch has a low wooden balustrade (Check One) north ends.
The family came to Fayette County during the 1850s, and and Traders' Bank. Bank, and made himself president. Locally, Sharp was known as & great advocate of temperance, and was.nominated.. 5, 1905. losophy REGISTER Communications SIGNIFICANCE Conservation Engineering Military Commerce Aboriginal Religion/Phi Transportation NATIONAL Theater Architecture Education Agriculture Morgan continued his mercantile business in Washington itarian his father in the family business.The Sharps moved temporarily Literature Music Science Political candidate had.Sharp died in Washington Court House February Pre-Columbian In 1873 the Sharps moved back to Washington Court House Court House.
The Sharp House was acquired by the Fayette County Historical Sharp polled more votes than any other Prohibition Party Invention to Covington, Kentucky and Morris worked for a bank there. early life in Brown County before moving to Washington Sculpture Morris Sharp was born August 30,1838 in Aberdeen, Brown Urban Planning and Morris joined the Merchants' and Traders' Bank as the From 1867 to 1873 Morris was head cashier at the Farmers' Industry Social/Human- Society in 1955,and has been used as a museum since then. SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) built 1875 Court House. After Morris finished school, he assisted OCT 1 6 1973 County, Ohio. Sharp was the son of Morgan and Frances Art RECEIVED
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001483, 11 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.
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.
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.
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