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 John Wright Mansion is a historic farmhouse located east of Bellevue in northwestern Huron County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1881, it represents an unusual combination of location and architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article John Wright Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 15 National Register listings in Huron County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number.74001530- 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 first saw mill was built in the south part of the township on Frink run by Levi Sutton, in 1814 or 1815. Another saw mill was built about 1830, on a creek which drains the prairies in the west part of the township in Bellevue. It was afterwards used for a brewery.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 277 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wright, John, Mansion between 1893 and
1975: 254 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, C F WALKER AND JOHN ANDERSON 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 National Weather Service names
Bellevue, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1995 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
1,736 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
south to the rear of the house. The window detail, mansard roof, and arched dormers of the main block are repeated in the south A small stoop of the same design as the front veranda projects from both the east and west flanks of the house. The mansion has a central plan characteristic of earlier, more There are ten rooms on the first floor, nine partition walls are part of the brick masonry bearing structure. DEC 19 19 CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL Ruins conservative styles. has a projecting polygonal bay. There is a veranda with Italianate The brick used in construction was made on the property. This is a large three-story brick mansion in the Second Empire (Check One) Each end of the main block Both the tower and the house have the typical mansard roof, with arched dormers.
on the second, and four rooms and a ballroom on the third, plus is exactly symmetrical. The rectangular block has a central projecting tower. Fair have been replaced with brick.A large three-story wing projects
Statement of significance
it is an unusually substantial and stately example of the Second farmhouse rather than an urban residence. was begun in 1881 and took over a year to complete. The Wright's career notwithstanding, the mansion is primarily DEC 1 9 1973 1881 Conservation Architecture Commerce Science Transportation Communications Engineering losophy REGISTER Education Theater Aboriginal Social/Human- itarian Agriculture NATIONAL Invention Music Sculpture builder is unknown. The owner John Wright emigrated from England to the United in the township." An indication of his position may be inferred RECEIVED Religion/Phi. Empire Style mansion tobe found asa relativelyisolated architecture in a rural setting.
A local history credits him with the "most successful career The significance of this house lies primarily in the fact that States in 1833.He settled in Huron County and began accumul- Industry AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) ating large amounts of property, finally totalling 2,500 acres. served in the Union army from 1862 to 1865. The mansion significant as an outstanding example of Second Empire Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001530, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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.
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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