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
“Among the first Catholic families who settled in and around Mount Vernon were the brother's, Timothy and William Colopy, (1814), John P. McArdle, David Morton, William Brophy, Charles Colerick, and at a later date the families of Michael Boyle, (1835), Thomas McMullen, (1840), and Probably the earliest Catholics in this section of the State were those who settled at or near Napoleon, Holmes county, the settlement being known in early times as the "French Settlement;" and those who settled around what is now known as Danville in Union township.”
A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .. (1862). Machine-read text.
one of 35 National Register listings in Knox County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001448- 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 town it stands in
16,802 words
This property is in Mount Vernon, which the
county-history sources cover in 1 chapter of its own rather than as
part of a township. All are public domain and reproduced here complete.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 713 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Woodward Opera House between 1837 and
1975: 652 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Woodward Opera House: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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
Mount Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A downburst with winds as high as 90 mph downed hundreds of trees, some on structures and vehicles. Signs were blown down and some windows were broken and minor roof damage occurred to several buildings. A dog was electrocuted when a live power line fell onto the dogbox. A man was injured by a falling tree limb and another man, sleeping in his bedroom, escaped injury when a large limb crashed through his ceiling missing him by inches. Three state highways where closed until storm debris could be removed, one for over 24 hours.
Large hail fell. A 41-year-old man was struck by lightning while working inside his new home which was under construction. The house appears to have been struck first and the charge passed through the man causing minor burns.
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
2,036 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
brick building, four stories high and measuring 45' x 132'. At the top, a wide, the Vine Street entrance, all of the windows are arched and feature a more appearance belies its past history when, as a landmark for the area and with offices of the newspaper and dentist, but they have been unoccupied in recent years. At either side of the stage and above the entrances back-stage, hang two large to the stage by either of the short stairs on the side, one notes a trapdoor and the occassional donkey required for the show, and the stair to the small banjo, fiddle and horn. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED EXCELLENT RUINS UNALTERED DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE XALTERED the rear have two wings extending along the sides toward the proscenium stage.
white bracketed cornice decorates the front, corners and side of the building. lectures, minstrel and vaudeville shows.The theatre is large and impressive. bath tub available.The barber shop exists today but the old tub has bowed to The ground floor has always maintained a men's clothing store from the first XORIGINAL SITE those on the two top floors have been removed and boarded.The undistinguished east and to the front on the north have rectangular hood molds.To the rear of the ceiling still featuresa circular gessoed decoration with sculptured stars The third and fourth stories provide the center of interest in the building.Here it was closed for general use in 1925.
reputed accoustics of great excellence,it served asa prominent center for The main floor contains a lobby at the head of the stair with a reception dressing and makeup rooms on the floor below.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001448, 17 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.
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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