Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
From the record
“The Jehu John House was a historic house and school building in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located in the city of Harrison near Cincinnati, it was one of the area's earlier buildings and home to one of its most prominent residents.”
Wikipedia article Jehu John House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001428- 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.
Then and now
1915 to 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
This township had its origin in the manifest need of a new municipality for the convenience of the increasing population in the northwestern part of the county, which in 1853 caused the erection by the county commissioners of Harrison from Crosby and Whitewater townships. It is the northernmost township of the county. Its boundary lines are wholly artificial, and begin on the dry fork of Whitewater, at the southeast quarter of section thirty-three, in range one, township three; thence westward three miles to the county and State line; thence north six miles to the Butler county line; thence east three miles to the northeast corner of section four; thence south to the place of beginning. Dearborn county, Indiana, lies next to the westward; Butler county on the north; four miles of Crosby and two miles of Whitewater townships on the east; and Whitewater township on the south.
Harrison lies altogether upon Congress land, in the west half of the third township, range one. It thus contains eighteen sections of land, which cover a little more territory than so many exactly full sections, by reason of some divergence of meridian lines in the easternmost tier, making some of them a little broader than should be. The central and western tiers are beautifully regular squares, appropriately exact. The acres of the township number eleven thousand one hundred and forty-seven.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jehu John House
in 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
28 February 2004
Recreation and ceremony
1.0 acres
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 392 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 392 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Jehu John House between 1835 and 1975: 213 Fungi, 141 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 17 Protozoa.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Gaufin, A.P. Morgan 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.
In America boerali prope Fernbank, ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope North-Bend (Kentucky). | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope ''North Bend.'' [=In northern America, near Fernbank, beside the Ohio River, near North Bend (Kentucky).]
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Jehu John House: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 3 plants.
10 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
Harrison, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Damage occurred to the roof of an apartment complex on Harrison Avenue between Walnut and State Streets. The loss of some insulation was also reported.
Three trees were downed in Harrison. Several tree limbs up to four inches in diameter and street signs were knocked down near White Oak. Siding was peeled off of a few homes.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
original single room in the stone portion, with fireplaces on the MAR 1 4 1975 CONDITION The NATIONAL Moved 1860). REGISTER RECEIVED Fair has been removed.The windows still have their paneled reveals.
sills.The hewn stone walls are laid in regular coursed bond and were gables have wooden siding and the south gable has a hinged hay-loft north and south side flanking the brick portion.A barn door was add- Interior:Originally, there were two rooms on the first floor.The Exterior:This is a one and half story stone and brick house built on There is a wooden fascia board along the cornice There is a narrow curving stair in the wall next to all three fire- door and the original louvered shutters, with smooth stone lintels and were interior end chimneys on the north and south are the same height as the trim matching the ridge pole remains. plain wooden trim, is recessed and has a three light transom.
There is a single window on the east wall of the stone portion, at the The main west facade is symmetrical with two windows that had 6/6 north and south subdivided by a center hall.To the rear with gable right angles to the stone portion of the house. plastered at one time. ed in the Twentieth Century to the south side of the brick portion. of the west facade.
pany which has plans to restore and refurbish it as an antique/gift This house is a good example of early stone construction in this area Industry developed a popular fever medicine. fifth Governor of Ohio.Dr.and Mrs.John traveled widely Newman John 1850 Dr.John left for California to of the state. The house was built by Dr. Jehu John, Jr. (1796-1867) and Emily Hewitt Looker (1808-1853). Dr. John was an educator and throughout the country before settling in Harrison, Ohio. They built DI. John was born in Brookville, Indiana. He married Emily Hewitt in the winter of 1847-48. The school was popular locally, but Dr.
Art Looker in 1828.She was the granddaughter of Othniel Looker medical pursuits and opened a school in the front room of the house their house on land deeded to Emily John by her grandfather in 1821. house until 1856 when it was sold.The house is now owned by a com-
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001428, 21 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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