Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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 Eliphalet Austin House is a historic residence in the community of Austinburg, Ohio, United States. Constructed by the community's namesake founder, it has been greatly modified by later owners, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Eliphalet Austin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.
National Register reference number.75001313- 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 1,328 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,328 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Austin, Eliphalet, House between 1872 and
1975: 1,158 Animalia, 145 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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
Austinburg, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell in an east-west line across Ashtabula County just north of Jefferson. Several flooded basements were reported due to high creek flows, and multiple roads in the area were closed due to high water, including State Route 306 northwest of Jefferson.
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
1,924 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
tion details, dates from the mid-1860s. This form was probably in Ashtabula, Lake, Summit, Medina and Cuyahoga Counties. He DEC31 1974 1815-1883 Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Conservation Commerce losophy Military Industry Landscape Communications Prehistoric RECEIVED REGISTER Agriculture Literature NATIONAL itarian apartments and an antique shop. Sculpture Invention The Austin house is of the first importance in the history of Ashtabula County and the Western Reserve because of its Education He arrived in Ashtabula County from Connecticut in 1799 and although the present Italianate form, based on style and construc- of Eliphalet. achieved while the house was owned by Louis B.
Austin, grandson Eliphalet Austin died in 1837.The house remained in the superior example of Italian Villa style architecture. Eliphalet Austin was one of the membersof the Connecticut Land Company which surveyed and developed the Western Reserve. associations with the family of Eliphalet Austin.It is also a Engineering The house stands on the land of Eliphalet Austin.By trad- ition, some portion of the house was begun by Austin in l815, good state of preservation is owed. At present it is used for after him.His first house was a log cabin built in 1799. Austin was also a cattle dealer and a mail contractor with the government. Austin family until 1883,the death of Louis B.Austin.In 1904 Social/Human- In 1829-3l he served in the State Senate.
began the settlement of Austinburg Township, which was named the house was acquired by the Ellsworth family, to whom its Art Music was one of the largest landowners in the Reserve, holding acreage
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001313, 13 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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