National Register reference number.76001526- 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.
Clinton township is drained by the Great Miami river, which enters at the northeast corner and flows south by west, and then, running southwest, becomes for a distance of about two miles the boundary line between Clinton and Orange township. Side by side with the river flows the Miami feeder with its water supply, which it carries to the canal at Lockington. Tawawa creek enters the Miami opposite Sidney, coming from the east, while another small tributary, flowing in the same direction, joins the large stream about a mile south of the mouth of the Tawawa. Three small streams enter the Miami from the west within the bounds of the township.
Ordered, that it (the township) be divided into three districts (road); Sidney, No. 1 ; Plum Creek, No. 2 ; and Mile Creek, No. 3. No. 1 to work the road from the ford below Ruckman's mill to the public square in Sidney, the road leading to Hardin, and the one from Dingmansburg to Sidney. No. 2 to work the road from the public spuare on the road that leads up the river past Wm. Johnston's and Talbert's to the township line, and the Plum Creek road to the township line. No. 3 to work the road that leads from Sidney past Rufus Carey's to the township line, and the road from where it intersects the aforesaid road leading past Mr. Levalley's as far as the township line. John Blake supervisor district No. 1, N. Coleman of district No. 2, and a supervisor to be elected in No. 3.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 226 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Whitby Mansion between 1897 and 1967: 186 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Whitby Mansion: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown.
4 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
Sidney, the town this property stands in, in 111 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 66 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 15 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Two barns had their tin roofs removed and a wooden fence was downed around a pool along Hardin-Wapakoneta Road. Several trees and power poles were also knocked down in this vicinity.
Numerous trees and large limbs were downed across the northern half of the county. One tree fell on a vehicle and another on a house in Sidney, causing minor damage to both.
Several homes were damaged by falling trees. Numerous trees and limbs were knocked down, and a few road signs were blown over. A 63 mph gust was measured in Anna.
Roads were closed across the area due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0754 EST on February 28th and ended around 0900 on March 2nd. Damage estimates for February were around five-thousand dollars.
Roads were closed across the area due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0754 EST on February 28th and ended around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates for March were around five-thousand dollars.
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
Built ca. 1890, the three-story Whitby Mansion is asymmetrical in plan, built of random ashlar stone blocks. The structure was originally four stories, but truncated just below the fourth level. In so doing several dormers were eliminated and the towers and turrets shortened. dormer on the right. To the right, in the lower portion of the wall dormer is a enclosure. The wood roof is flat and the center, above the entry, is enclosed with a balustrade of wood. tower employs a wide belt course between the floors, marked also with a band of roof. Between the towers on the north elevation is a one-story, rectangular turret is found at the SE corner. Here the conical roof is not free, but truncated. Dormers, gables, and towers are covered with slate tiles.
Several tall, multi-flue chimneys appear at every angle of view. CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED RUINS FAIR CHECK ONE The east elevation echoes the west without the porte cochere. Another round The structure borrows elements of both the Jacobethan revival and Chateauesque received more modern sash. dormer.At the NW corner is a round tower with conical roof.Various sized, window bay and semi-enclosed porch.
Virginia, an ancester of one of the first settlers of Jamestown, Va. In 1805 Dr. Goode came to Clinton County, Ohio with his brother and remained daughter, Miss Francis Goode, lived there until her death when the Way partners. ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION ECONOMICS ENGINEERING INVENTION PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE ART BUILDER/ARCHITECT CONSERVATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LAW EDUCATION AGRICULTURE THEATER PHILOSOPHY INDUSTRY MILITARY LITERATURE X1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Historical Center.
_COMMUNICATIONS _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE _TRANSPORTATION is complete as well as serving as the Way International Fine Arts and Whitby Mansion was built for one of the wealthiest men of Shelby County and -1500-1599 was the youngest of ten children and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan W.H.C.Goode was the youngest son of Dr.H.J. Goode.Dr. Goode was born in being restored and will be open to the public as a house museum when it -1600-1699 SCIENCE -COMMERCE -1400-1499 the 1890's. excellent and the products of the company were sold all over the world.
is an outstanding local example of the architectural tastes of the rich in -1700-1799 in Dakota.By the mid 1880's he was one of the wealthiest men in the begun late in the 1880's at the height of Goodes success.W.H.C.'s -MUSIC -_1900- there until 1849 when he bought a farm near Sidney, Ohio. W.H.C. Goode American Steel Scraper Company was the first steel scraper company in the interest in American Steel Scraper Company and by 1877 had bought out his It was founded by B. Slusser, inventor of the scraper. Sales were Goode invested some of his money in growing wheat on a 2,000 acre farm father. International Ministry purchased the mansion.The building is presently
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001526, 12 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.
Block
