Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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
“The Bailey-Thompson House is a registered historic building in Georgetown, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1976-11-07.”
Wikipedia article Bailey-Thompson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 21 National Register listings in Brown County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Brown County.
National Register reference number.76001373- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bailey-Thompson House between
2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Debris and open burning
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 375 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bailey-Thompson House between 1885 and
1974: 291 Animalia, 74 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Bailey-Thompson House: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flood, 2 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.
Three to four feet of water was reported over Highway 52 between Higginsport and Ripley. Mud was covering the roadway near Free Soil Road. A tree was downed across A and P Road. Fire crews were working to clean up the roadways. This flooding occurred due to persistent heavy rainfall.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,966 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
The original portion of the house is a 2-1/2 story, temple-form, Greek revival sandstone slabs. Steps are limestone. Brick pilasters with wood capitals complete The facade has five full length windows, three on the second floor and two on the not original, is a plain, rectangular transom. The door and front windows are framed a one-story, rectangular bay window. Fenestration of the addition is very plain gingerbread porch on the addition, but it was removed in 1937. Both portions have original, metal, standing seam, roofs.
There are three chimneys, two interior on the south side of the original house, and one irregular fenestration, two small windows in the gable, three, not aligned, on are separated with 12', sliding doors, and three rooms and a hall on the second floor, The addition has four rooms, two per floor; an enclosed stairway; inside shutters at the rear of the house in the early 1960's. CONDITION UNALTERED EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION FAIR XALTERED CHECK ONE screened-in porch extends across the rear of the property. with sandstone hearth in the dining room.The house has been updated with wiring, exterior on the northeast end of the addition.The rear of the house has framed with wood with pilasters alongside.Three of the four have 1900,iron grates.
in the dining room; and round medallion trim on doors and windows and an iron mantel recessed entrance is placed to the 1eft of the facade.Above the door,which is two-pane eyebrow windows in the architrave on the facade and four on the south side of the house. All other windows are very plain,6/6 pane. the corners of the facade. The original house has a side hall with stairway,2rooms on the first floor which X_GOOD the simple triangular pediment, architrave, and frieze.
temple form of the Greek revival style, which is found throughout Ohio, but of two prominent families, Dr. George Bailey, an early physician, and W. J. Thompson, a lawyer. The architect was E. Hubbard Baker, who later built the Brown County Courthouse, several other Georgetown residences, and at least two prominent churches. George Bailey, the first owner, was a prominent physician, active in political B. White, gained national prominence. Jesse Grant, father of Ulysses, brought his Another Bailey son, John Warren Bailey, was Brown County Prosecutor, 1866-1870, and & P. Railroad in its early days. His son, William, was also a lawyer and a state senator. INVENTION ENGINEERING PERIOD AGRICULTURE EDUCATION THEATER CONSERVATION West Virginia.
SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC X1800-1899 TRANSPORTATION XARCHITECTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE INDUSTRY PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _COMMUNICATIONS for about a year while their respective residences were completed. This following less frequently in southern Ohio.The house has had few alterations and is one _COMMERCE The house is presently owned by Judge and Mrs.Harold Neu; Mrs. Neu is the grand- decided to quit. This was in 1838.Hamer agreed and kept his word, appointing -1500-1599 Bailey residence to buy milk from Mrs. Bailey and on one occasion overheard her reading _1700-1799 died in 1870.William Jesse Thompson was appointed to fill the vacancy and was heirs in 1876.Mr.Thompson was a lawyer and a director and attorney for the C.G.
Ulysses to West Point in 1839...this turned out to be the starting point ofa well-known career. Bart Bailey was a Major in the Civil War and was killed in -1600-1699 daughter of W.J.Thompson.The house has been in the family since 1876. -ECONOMICS _RELIGION family to Georgetown in 1823 where they moved into a double family home-the - MILITARY -_1400-1499 -MUSIC -_1900- E.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001373, 16 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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