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
one of 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
National Register reference number.74001550- 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 1,050 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,050 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hurst, William E., House between 1853 and
1975: 936 Animalia, 78 Fungi, 30 Plantae, 6 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. Woolman, A.M. Evans 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
Avon, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 waterspout.
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
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
1,407 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
stable wing includes a storeroom, and has two large arched doorway masonry has been painted, but the owner plans to The RECEIVED surround with "ears," and above that a frieze and cornice. At Fair constructed of dressed ashlar, except on the rear of the stable wing, where coursed rubble is used. The north facade has five roof is unusual.There are two great trusses with king posts. the house.The doorways are framed by fluted woodwork.Some integrity well above average for its date.The exterior front The walls are PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian] X] 19th Century SPECIFIC DATEIS) (If Applicable and Known) - Prehistoric Other (Specify) - Agriculture - Science * Architecture - Landscape - Sculpture - Literature - Military STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
This is an unusually fine example of a stone masonry house in pretentious of a number of stone houses in Lorain County, and the builders John and Charles Leneghan, exists. Walter Kidney has pointed out, "Stylistic correctness is not as the unorthodox combination of frieze and architraves on the On the other hand, no less a Greek Revival authority than Talbot Hamlin remarked that the house "boasts a front-door dignity and strength." In addition, the unusual roof structure is notable, and both of these features point to innovative designer- William E. Hurst was an immigrant from England who built the in the Hurst family until 1946. It has been carefully preserved JAN 1 5 1974 1843 builders. Commerce Conservation Communications Transportation entrance.
Engineering losophy REGISTER Aboriginal Industry SIGNIFICANCE Theater itarian NATIONAL Invention Political Music Urban Planning Education Religion/Phi Social/Human- fully observed as one might at first suppose." This refers to and restored since 1949by Mr.and Mrs.Charles H.Tomes. the Greek Revival Style. According to Campen, it is the most well documented, as the contract between William E. Hurst and design of the greatest power . . . the whole has an uncommon Art 1971), 102-103
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001550, 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.
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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