Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
One of 49 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The chapter on Hiram Township in 1927 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1927 names Garrettsville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Mantua Center has two notable clubs, the Girl's and Boy's Hi-Y. The Girl's Hi-Y have many plans Tor the near future. First of all, they have been asked to give an entertainment before the High School and the Farm Bureau, They also plan to attend the Flower Show in Cleveland, are to be remembered for the ng with the III. V Boys of Ravenna, Hiram, and Garrettsville. They also entertained the high school to a wiener roast, and the Hi-Y Girls to a sleigh ride party,
Passage source: 1927 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1927.
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 Hiram Township - 6,350 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ellenwood House in 2020, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16003 |
| 20 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16005 |
| 17 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16004 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ellenwood House between 1884 and 1975: 279 Animalia, 121 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | G. Dean | Garretsville |
 | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1904 | Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. Webb | Freedom Twp |
 | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1924 | Webb, Roscoe J. | Alford's Glen |
 | Lepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort. | 1884 | Czekaj | |
 | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1885 | Collector(s): S. N. Denton | Windham |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1893 | not recorded | Garrettsville |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
All 404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellenwood House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrettsville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $30,000 | Large tree was downed onto mobile home in Garrettsville. Mobile home was damaged. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled 20 trees at a golf course. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Garrettsville | $25,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees along State Route 88. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Garrettsville | $10,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $7,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed four trees near Garrettsville. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | $2,000 | Several large tree limbs were downed. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | - | Numerous trees downed and tree limbs snapped in Garrettsville. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | - | Several trees snapped, one of which fell onto a car, about three-miles ENE of Garrettsville. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | - | Numerous trees and power lines downed in Garrettsville. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | - | Several downed trees blocking road at Sugar Bush Golf Club north of Garrettsville. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrettsville | - | Several large trees down in Garrettsville. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Penny size was observed five miles northeast of Garrettsville. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | Dime size hail was observed. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Garrettsville | - | no account filed |
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.
entrance of the noted Pomeroy House in Strongsville, Ohio, which Original Site rather than the partial cornice return of the Greek Revival. for inspection at the present time.The house stands on a high Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian; X 19th Century - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) Landscape - Literature STATEMENT OF
house. It belonged to the Ellenwood family, but we only know that Garrettsville in 1885, and a Daniel Ellinwood, Jr. (sic) established developed Greek Revival doorway, complete pediment, and unusual - NATIONAL Conservation Architecture Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Communications Transportation losophy Aboriginal REGISTER nineteenth century architecture. Military Religion/Phi itarian Music Education Agriculture MAY21975 Engineering Theater Invention Prehistoric from the late Adam-Greek Revival transitional period unprecedented Industry positively associated with this house. Very little documentary evidence is available concerning the extant in Northeastern Ohio.
Science frieze and dentils make this an exceptional example of early Social/Human- Political several houses on the same road as the Ellenwood house, can be Sculpture Garrettsville was carved out of the southwest corner of Nelson in the Hiram-Garrettsville area. However, neither Pelatiah Allyn, Township, settled in 1799.There were two known master builders builder of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute building (later In any case, the combination of two-story pilasters, a fully one R.T.Ellenwood was a member of the Methodist Church in among the large number of houses from the same period still This is a house with a combination of architectural details Township, first settled in 1804, and the southeast corner of Hiram a sawmill there in 1857.
SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) MAY 2 Hiram College) in Hiram in 1850, nor Sherman Leach, builder of AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art History of Portage County, Ohio (Chicago, 1885), 459-475. Atlas of Portage County, Ohio (Cleveland, 1900), 39. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POIN I OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES MAY 2 1975
The whole case file for this property - 1,756 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001523, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mott Drug Store | 0.9 miles | 1996 |
 | Thomas F. Young House | 2.0 miles | 1976 |
 | James A. Garfield House | 2.2 miles | 1975 |
 | John Johnson Farm | 2.9 miles | 1976 |
 | Freedom Congregational Church | 4.3 miles | 1975 |
| Mantua Station Brick Commercial District | 5.8 miles | 1974 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75001523 in Record Group 79. |
| Portage County | All 49 listed properties in this county. |
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