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 first school house in the township was erected on lot number two hundred and seventy-two, in Monroeville village. It was, doubtless, built of logs, but the date of its construction, the writer could not ascertain.”
History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development (1909). Machine-read text.
one of 15 National Register listings in Huron County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001531- 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 school house in the township was erected on lot number two hundred and seventy-two, in Monroeville village. It was, doubtless, built of logs, but the date of its construction, the writer could not ascertain. George Burt was the first teacher and he was paid ten dollars per month for his services.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 376 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Brown, Seth, House between 1893 and
1975: 307 Animalia, 64 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, Baumgartner, L. 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 Brown, Seth, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Monroeville, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A tornado touched down north of Monroeville along State Route 99 near Mead Road. The tornado traveled east for 2.5 miles along State Route 113 and dissipated in Erie County near the corner of Higbee and Livengood Roads. The tornado was not on the ground the entire length and had a damage path approximately 100 yards in width. A mobile home, small outbuilding, barn, garage and a camper were destroyed in Huron County. An adult male inside the mobile home was slightly injured. The damage path of the tornado was clearly visible through corn fields and debris from the destroyed buildings was strewn along the path and in some case thrown well outside the path. Ears of corn were found shucked, apparently by the tornado. Several hundred trees were downed along the damage path.
This tornado began about two miles south of Monroeville, near Townline Road 198 and Sand Hill Road, where trees were damaged. The tornado moved southeastward, damaged additional trees, and caused EF0 to EF1-level damage to two barns and outbuildings. The greatest damage from the tornado occurred in vicinity of Snyder Road and Peru Center Road. This is where several residences sustained EF1 to EF2-level damage and the tornado's estimated peak winds reached 115 mph. A piece of slate roofing was lifted off a building north of Snyder Road and impaled a tree to the southeast. An outbuilding was destroyed completely and material from this structure was lofted a quarter mile southeast into a residence before eventually settling into a tree line. About ten buildings in total sustained damage, including one residence that was shifted off its foundation.||Damage to additional trees and outbuildings occurred as the tornado persisted farther southeastward across Peru Center Road, toward Townline Road 131 and OH-61. As the tornado reached Hanville Corners Road and Townline Road 113, several outbuildings and silos were damaged heavily with twisted debris lofted in various directions. The tornado continued farther southeast toward OH-162 and Ridge Road, where it caused heavy damage to a barn before the tornado dissipated west of the village of North Fairfield.
An EF1 tornado touched down in a cemetery on the southeast side of Monroeville. This tornado then continued east on the ground for about eight miles before lifting near the intersection of Tiger Road and North Greenwich Milan Road on the southeast side of Norwalk. The path was parallel and just south of U.S. Route 20 for several miles. Around a dozen homes and businesses were damaged by this tornado. A couple of the buildings lost large sections of roofing with some of damage caused by fallen trees. The tornado also leveled a large barn as it crossed Halfway Road. Several dozen trees were also downed along the damage path which was no more than 50 yards in width.
Penny to quarter size hail was observed six miles west of Monroeville in Bellvue. Hail completely covered the ground at some locations on the east side of town. Many cars were damaged in this area.
Amateur radio reported a 40 inch circumference tree was uprooted on Route 99 near Monroeville. Trained spotters reported tree damage continued east to Norwalk where tree branches were down.
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
1,259 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
temple-form house, although its odd number of columns is of Seth Brown, founder of Monroeville, or his son Seth Brown, until the mid-1820's, it seems certain that a date no earlier than tion of the tax valuation records, the house could have been Brown named it Monroe, after Monroe, Michigan, where he had been an Indian fighter in the War of 1812, and where he married. it in 1849 to Thomas Taylor for $800.00. DEC 1 9 1973 Commerce Conservation Architecture Transportation Communications Science REGISTER Aboriginal NATIONAL Political losophy SIGNIFICANCE itarian Agriculture Theater Music Social/Human- RECEIVED Sculpture Urban Planning Education Military 1845 to George Manahan, a builder, for $75.00.Manahan sold The significance of this small Greek Revival house is chiefly Religion/Phi.
family. Seth Brown arrived in Ridgefield Township in 18l6,where he PERIOD One or More as Appropriate) rare, and its ornament is unusual. It is traditionally the house 1830 could be ascribed to this house. Depending on the interpreta- built as late as 1845, after the property was sold by the Brown was laid out on this land in 1817. died in 1849. inasmuch as the temple-form house did not appear in the East Later the "ville" was added to distinguish the village from another Art The property was sold by the Brown family in W.W. Williams, History of the Firelands (Cleveland, 1879), 254, 259.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001531, 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.
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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