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Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal

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

“Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal is a historic former church building in Windsor Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1830s, it features a distinctive combination of two different architectural styles, and it has been named a historic site.”

Wikipedia article Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal, 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.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Wisell Rd. and U.S. 322, Windsor Mills, 44099
  • When was it listed? 1975-05-29
  • Category. building
  • Township. Windsor township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75001319 - 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 ground it stands on

32,534 words

This property stands in Windsor Township. History of Ashtabula County Ohio, published 1924 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers organized in 1811, early settlers, first marriage, first death, religious interest, rev. john badger.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Windsor Township - 32,534 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 785 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 785 specimens collected within 10 miles of Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal between 1890 and 1975: 748 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Acker, G. G. & Class, Athearn, Herbert D. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1891Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Cetraria lacunosa Ach.Cetraria lacunosa Ach.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Geum rivale, not of this specimenGeum rivale L.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Sceptridium dissectum, not of this specimenSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1890E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cladonia pyxidata, not of this specimenCladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.1891Bogue, E.E.Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144
A photograph of the species Lecanora caesiorubella, not of this specimenLecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella1891E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Physcia stellaris, not of this specimenPhyscia stellaris (L.) Nyl.1891Bogue, E. E.Orwell
Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1892E. E. BogueOrwell

All 785 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Map coverage status

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 pending.

From the nomination file

1,574 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

first building on the road north of Windsor Corners was erected largely through the contributions of Judge Solomon Griswold, the second settler in the township, and was familiarly known as was erected one-half mile west of the township center at Windsor Mills in 1832. It was dedicated by Bishop Mcllvaine of the Ohio Diocese in 1833. that the Historical Society will be able to continue the maintenance MAR 1 2 1975 1832-1833 Commerce Conservation Engineering Transportation Military Communications RECEIVED Theater losophy Aboriginal RREGISTER Literature Agriculture itarian Pre-Columbian Religion/Phi Architecture Landscape Political example of modern adaptive use as a museum building. Sculpture Social/Human- NNATIONAL Education The primary significance of this church is architectural.

Industry "Solomon's Temple." The present "neat and well-built' structure Music Ashtabula County Historical Society, and extensive and costly restoration was undertaken. At present (l974) it seems unlikely It is a charming example of a small Greek Revival building later Invention The Episcopal Society was formed in Windsor in 18l6.Its of the building. adapted to the Gothic Revival period taste.It is also a good AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art 1878), 252. June 15, 1963, n. p. (Cleveland, 1963), 52.

The whole case file for this property - 1,574 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001319, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wiswell Road Covered Bridge0.2 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001319 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashtabula CountyAll 36 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.