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
“For several years he served as justice of the peace. When the Western Reserve bank was started, he was one of the first subscribers to its stock, $12,000, in all, and was an influential director.”
Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men (1880). Machine-read text.
one of 11 National Register listings in Geauga County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001406- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Burton township, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
The first was built by Augustus Rose and Lucius Chatfield, who began carriage making. This shop, at last wras used for a plaining mill. An explosion occurred June 15th, 1867, which threw the boiler over the tops of trees and 20 rods away, carrying with it the body of Hiram Carlton, who was killed. Lawrence Huff was so badly injured that he died.
Thus it is written of the clover-grown park and its town hall, of the villagers and their homes, of the public buildings and the places of trade, of the music and the ways, the people and the farms in and surrounding one of the most beautifully located villages in northern Ohio. Quiet and solid in its ways, this village of Burton, on the first day of August, 1878.
The first movement for a road to Burton began on Tuesday, the 5th of June. Mr. Law, and Mr. Beard, the surveyor, started a line from a point about three miles from the mouth of the river, where Mr. Skinner afterwards laid out the town of New Market, ahd where the old Skinner bridge was built. The next day, with Kirtland, Tomlinson, Pond, and Rice, they began cutting the road, and by Friday night, the 8th, were about Tour miles ahead, to a stream running eastward. On Monday night they encamped about eighty rods in No. 9 township, 8th range. The road came up what is now State street, in Paines vi lie, and kept easterly, through to what was afterwards Perkin's camp, one-half mile east of the "Old Log tavern" on the present road in Concord. On Tuesday they run more westerly, to avoid deep runs, and camped two and one-half miles ahead, on lot 2, township 9, 8th range. Working on the camp Wednesday, the 13th, was within one mile of township 8, 8th range, and B. Rice and Yale, who had been, with the boat and families of Edwards and Honey, up the lake to Cleveland, came to this, camp. On Friday the 15th, they arrived at No. 7, 7th range. Kirtland and Bond, having marked the road for the men and teams to come on, two miles, to the northwest corner of the township, went on to find a place for a tent and garden: making nine days that the first team and sled, with Mr. Umberville as driver, were on the road, the first trip ever made to Burton: an average, from Painesville, of two miles per day. Afterwards, the stages made the distance in one-third as many hours.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Goodwin, Dr. Erastus, House between
2019 and 2019, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 719 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Goodwin, Dr. Erastus, House between 1887 and
1975: 607 Animalia, 104 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. M. Evans, A. N. Rood, A.E. Daugherty 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
1 working within 5 miles of Goodwin, Dr. Erastus, House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. 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
Burton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 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.
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
2,013 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
wing may constitute the original, or 1815 portion, of the The structure is of locally-made brick, with ly dentiled returns, and louvered fans over the entrance been gutted of any original interior features, and has CONDITION furniture. The house The rear elevation bears evidence of now-destroyed sheds; serious structural defects in the masonry has modern white shutters. The interior has been extensively restored in the mid-twentieth story one room wing with a porch across its front.This in contrast to the rectangular stone lintels over the win- the street.On the south side of the building is a single windows added in two places on the rear wall to light surrounded with the same reeded woodwork motif; these niches (Check One) these were removed around l9oo.
There have been modern E Original Site room above. sandstone foundation, sills, lintels and steps. The ex- The second floor room retains arched niches Moved twentieth century bathrooms. terior woodwork consists of a dentiled cornice with similar- The Goodwin House is a rectangular structure three bays are said to have been built to hold large case pieces of The gable end faces The wing on the south has in width and four bays in depth. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | - Urban Planning - Historic ] Other (Specify) Landscape - Literature STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
in Burton June 21, 1798. Of Dr. Erastus Goodwin, one of the first doctors in Burton. from his arrival in 18l1 until his death except for a Architecture Conservation Commerce losophy Engineering Transportation Communications Aboriginal Theater SIGNIFICANCE Science Agriculture Education itarian Religion/Phi Music Industry one particular room for this purpose remains. Sculpture Social/Human- Invention who had travelled from Connecticut by ox cart, and arrived first actual settlers had arrived in the town prior to The Dr. Goodwin house is one of the first permanent The town of Burton was one of the earliest surveyed in 18th Century Despite changes in the windows and the addition of the survey.
This first settler was Thomas Umberfield Political He married in Cleveland in 18l4,and tax records indicate that the house was built in l8l5.Goodwin was trained Military them to Ohio. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) a parcel of 20,741 acres of land to be sold at 62 cents Andrew Hull, Daniel Holbrook and Levi Tomlinson. as a physician in Connecticut, and practiced in Burton Art shutters, the Goodwin House remains largely unchanged a sample of the building style New Englanders brought with residences to be built in Burton.It was the residence Doctor's office, although no evidence of the use of any period during the War of 18l2 when he served as an army Born in Goodwin came to Burton in l8ll.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001406, 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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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