National Register reference number.76001448- 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 Hugh Campbell 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 340 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 340 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hugh Campbell House between 1835 and 1975: 176 Fungi, 145 Animalia, 19 Plantae.
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 Hugh Campbell 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
house, the windows are two-over-two double hung with simple The carriage house is L-shaped with intersecting slate, gabled A cupola crowns the point of intersection of the two roofs. On the east facade the two, large, square doors have paired CONDITION UNEXPOSED MOVED DATE EXCELLENT cupolas. UNALTERED XALTERED XFAIR Windows throughout have rounded arches with molded stone lintels. rounded arches across the top. is also constructed with vertically placed boards. The interior still has the original marble fireplaces and many The stables consist of a long, rectangular building with vertically is a two-story brick building with stone foundation and basement. basically T-shaped with a four story tower located in the angle of the original gas light fixtures.
CHECK ONE wooden top with gabled roof. A vintage water tower has a drum-shaped stone base on a square covered by a flat roofed porch with decoratively The Campbell House is a three story Italianate Villa style build- The carriage house, located to the west and rear of the house, also a railing on the third floor roof behind the tower which paneled door. Three of the facade's five bays, including the the tower is surrounded by a wrought-iron railing. created by the intersecting wings on the facade.Throughout the The main entrance is a double The plan is placed boards.The building has a gable roof and two square A frame barn is also located on the property, and has a gambrel roof are smaller with a pointed arch. There is ing constructed of brick with a stone foundation. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
century Italianate Villa Style architecture. The surrounding farm buildings, also mid-century, combine with the house to create a ville Coal Railroad, a branch of the 0 & M Railroad. Finally, in 1852 Chamberlin, contractors of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail- PERIOD 1400-1499 INVENTION XARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE LAW PHILOSOPHY THEATER INDUSTRY MILITARY SCIENCE SCULPTURE RELIGION LITERATURE X1800-1899 MUSIC _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The Hugh Campbell House is an excellent example of mid-nineteenth Hugh Campbell was a native of County Tyrone Ireland.He was born on near Harrison, which was burned by the Confederate Army during Morgan's _CONSERVATION SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN Park" reflect his success in his architectural pursuits.
roads.He built many of the most important sewers of Cincinnati _COMMUNICATIONS immigrated to New Orleans, where he became a successful contractor _TRANSPORTATION and numerous bridges, one being the bridge over Whitewater River, _PREHISTORIC remainder of the once rural area of Harrison. -1700-1799 -ENGINEERING 1900- -1600-1699 -1500-1599 November I2,1828. He and his father immigrated to the United States _COMMERCE Oxford-down sheep, and Bershire hogs.The out-buildings of "Phoenix Locke, Contractors. Eventually he became a partner of Mr. Boyle's. In 1858 hewithdrew from the firm and became active in the building of levees.In 1850 he moved to'St.Louis where he built the Casen- _COMMUNITY PLANNING SPECIFIC DATES c. 1858-60 the century.
Surrounded by modern development, the Campbell farm is the only and settled in Philadelphia. From Philadelphia, Hugh Campbell of railroads, bridges and sewers. He was employed by Doolittle & BUILDER/ARCHITECT Hugh Campbell ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Campbell specialized in the breeding of Jersey and Shorthorn cattle, he moved to Cincinnati and was employed by the firm of Boyle and basically unaltered illustration of rural living at the middle of 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001448, 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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