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 Brightman House is a historical house in Millersburg, Ohio first built in 1902. The house is now owned by the Holmes County Historical Society and operated as the Victorian House Museum, with displays of Victoriana and Holmes County history.”
Wikipedia article Brightman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 13 National Register listings in Holmes County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001528- 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
27 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Brightman House between
2004 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Smoking
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 227 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Brightman House between 1890 and
1974: 188 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, C. Triplehorn 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
14 workings within 5 miles of Brightman House: 9 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Millersburg, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 46 thunderstorm wind, 15 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.
Heavy rain producing thunderstorms affected Holmes County County during the late evening hours of August 20th and early morning hours of August 21st. Rainfall totals from across the county included: 4.30 inches at Nashville; 3.74 inches at Millersburg; 3.08 inches at Holmesville and 2.40 inches at Stillwell. Runoff from this rain combined with ground already saturated from earlier rains led to significant flooding across portions of Holmes County. Widespread lowland flooding occurred across the county and many roads had to be closed because of flooding. Some of the worst flooding occurred in and around Millersburg and also near Glenmont. Killbuck Creek left it's banks in Millersburg flooding homes and business nearby. Several people had to be evacuated from their homes. In Glenmont, Black Creek went into flood and damaged some homes. Hundreds of homes elsewhere in the county suffered damage as well, mainly from basement flooding. Finally, standing water and erosion from the runoff caused damage to agricultural interests in the county.
Thunderstorm downburst winds of 60 to 70 mph caused extensive damage on the west side of Millersburg. Hardest hit was the Holmes County Fairgrounds where a covered grandstand was toppled and destroyed. Four other buildings at the fairgrounds were damaged and a small shed was also destroyed. Nearby, a business lost a ten foot section of roof to the high winds. The damage path from the downburst was approximately one half mile in length and several hundred yards in width. Around two dozens trees were downed along this path.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees and large limbs near Millersburg and Walnut Creek. A garage was crushed by a fallen tree in Walnut Creek and a house north of Millersburg was also damaged by a fallen tree.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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
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From the nomination file
1,391 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
Built by the Brightman family in 1903 as a residence, this house lent example of its type. redecorated the interior, and he or his decendants owned the for the project, and it should be successful. JUL 1 1 1974 Architecture Commerce Communications Transportation Landscape REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Aboriginal Theater Science Engineering Agriculture Industry itarian Social/Human- Political The Brightmans did not live in the house very long.For some Invention Sculpture Education until the Holmes County Historical Society purchased it in 1972.
firm was headed by a group of physicians who converted Brightman Religion/Phi- is the finest of its type in the village of Millersburg.Its AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) fine Queen Anne features and balance styling make it an excel- the laboratory had folded and the house was used as a residence Since 1972, the Historical Society has endeavored to restore the house for many years. Yet another commercial venture tried to laboratory and plant for the manufacture of cosmetics. By 1950, losophy Art RECEIVED use Brightman House.Circa 1940,the basement was used asa reason,the house was sold in four years to a small firm.The
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001528, 10 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.
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.
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