Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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
“Taking all this for granted, then, we pass to the separate history of the individual countries just growing into states. For a time, they grow within the common mould of the Empire, and Carolingian traditions bind them to the past.”
Cambridge Medieval History V 3 (1922). Machine-read text.
one of 18 National Register listings in Guernsey County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Guernsey County.
National Register reference number.78002071- 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 present volume of the Cambridge Medieval History covers the stormy period of about three hundred years from Justinian to Charles the Great inclusive. It is a time little known to the general reader, and even students of history in this country seldom turn their attention to any part of it but the Conversion of the English. Hence, English books are scarce - Dr Hodgkin's Italy and her Invaders is the brilliant exception which proves the rule - and the editors have had to rely more on foreign scholars than in the former volume. Some indeed of the chapters treat of subjects on which very little has ever been written in English, such as the Visigoths in Spain, the organisation of Imperial Italy and Africa, the Saracen invasions of Sicily and Italy, and the early history and expansion of the Slavs.
Taking all this for granted, then, we pass to the separate history of the individual countries just growing into states. For a time, they grow within the common mould of the Empire, and Carolingian traditions bind them to the past. Dimly to begin with, but with growing plainness, the realms of France, Germany, Italy, Lorraine, and Burgundy are seen taking their later territorial and constitutional shapes. England lay somewhat apart, insular, and therefore separated from the Empire, but by this very insularity everywhere exposed to Northmen and Danes. Here, too, as on the continent, statesman-like kings and far-sighted ecclesiastics worked together. The growth of territorial unity is easiest of all to trace, for it can be made plain in maps. But the growth of unity of thought and interests, of constitutions and social forms, is harder to see and to express; it is easier to estimate the work of Ecgbert, Edward the Elder, and Aethelstan than the more many-sided achievements of Alfred and Dunstan, or the more pervasive influence of the great Northern school which gave us Bede and Alcuin. But the peculiarity of England's position and history is most significant for constitutional growths, and it is, therefore, in connexion with English affairs that the origins of Feudalism are best investigated and discussed. Scientific history begins with the observation of resemblances and with classification by likeness. Then it passes on to detect differences, and to note their significance. Nowhere is there more need to remember these twin methods than in the study of Feudalism, where the Cambridge scholar Maitland was our daring and yet cautious guide. Processes and details which we notice in English history have their parallels elsewhere. If the centuries we traverse here have a large common inheritance, they also have at the same time, in spite of differences in place and character, something of a common history. What is said, therefore, as to the origins of English Feudalism also applies, with due allowance for great local differences, to Germany, France, and Italy ; even indeed to Spain, although there the presence and the conquests of the Muslims impressed a peculiar stamp upon its institutions.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 44 fires within 5 miles of McCracken-Scott House between
2007 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
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 321 specimens
collected within 10 miles of McCracken-Scott House between 1875 and
1975: 133 Fungi, 122 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of McCracken-Scott House: 1 occurrence, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
Cambridge, the town this property stands in, in 78 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
An intense thunderstorm gust known as a macroburst raked across central Guernsey County, wind gusts were estimated between 80 and 90 mph. The thunderstorm formed in northeast Guernsey County about 430 pm just ahead of another very intense thunderstorm moving through Muskingum County. It then moved southeast at nearly 40 mph.The swath of damage produced by this intense downburst of wind was estimated to be nearly 8 miles long. Its width fluctuated between 0.75 miles to over 2.5 miles. The damage started just south of Cambridge and continued southeast to near the town of Buffalo. There were 3 reported injuries which consisted of cuts and abrasions. One person was treated and released from the hospital. The town of Byesville was hardest hit. Hundreds of trees were snapped or toppled. Power lines and telephone poles were also downed which resulted in widespread power outages. There were some outbuildings destroyed, as well as damage to shingles, siding and roofs. Part of a roof of a school was torn off. Billboards, business signs and Interstate highway signs were also partially or totally destroyed. It was also reported that about 30 automobiles in a grocery store parking lot had their windows completely shattered. A plate glass window in a fast food restaurant was also shattered. The area was declared a disaster area by the Governor of Ohio. On Interstate 77, there was a report of a tractor-trailed truck which was stopped in its tracks by the tremendous gust as it tried to move forward. It actually spun its wheels as if it were on ice without moving and an automobile behind it collided with the truck.
Emergency manager reported damage to the clock tower of an 150 year old courthouse, the collapse of a church, and several other structures damaged in the city of Cambridge.
Between 840 PM EDT and 9 PM EDT, a microburst struck just southwest of Warrentown, about 4 miles northeast of Cambridge. Numerous trees toppled or snapped. Siding and shingles torn from a few houses. Two small barns knocked down. One mobile home was pushed off its foundation. Maximum estimated wind 75 mph (65 knots). This microburst made a swath of sporadic damage about half a mile in length and 350 yards wide. It started from just south of Lakespur Lane, and moved northeastward to just south of Route 22
No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
2,017 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 nominated house is basically an I-house with a 2-story ell extending north The masonry walls were laid in common bond, and, according to a journal discovered recently, 59,500 common bricks, manufactüred at a cost of $178.50, were used in the bay on the south side, and features something of a Greek Revival entrance, with sandstone steps, rather badly worn, lead to the doorway from the sidewalk. Other entrances, secondary in function, are located on the west and north sides of the moved at one point, and the original nine-over-nine-light window sash were replaced various wood frame additions and porches were added to the rear of the house, in the a shed-roof addition of wood frame construction was made to the east side of the the gable end of the northward-projecting ell.
The box cornice is unadorned. rooms, with the plan consisting of two rooms over two plus the central hallway in the The McCracken-Scott House is located in the heart of the city of Cambridge, on UNEXPOSED offices. CONDITION UNALTERED DATE MOVED FAIR DETERIORATED for client parking. 7DESCRIPTION XEXCELLENT newel post.,The house is floored with random-width tongue-in-groove hardwood boards. course of the present adaptive re-use and rehabilitation of the structure.Also, and is set on a sandstone foundation with a smooth-dressed cut stone water table.
_RUINS Side and rear windows do not feature the corner-blocked lintels.Over the The original interior of the McCracken-Scott House seems to have contained six CHECK ONE sills and on the south side are capped with stone lintels trimmed with corner blocks. ceiling-lowering was done in the present rehabilitation of the house for use as law There are inset gable-end chimneys at both the east and west gables and in main section of the house, and one room over one in the ell.
The nominated property is one of only three examples of settlement architecture example of midwest Greek Revival-influenced traditional architecture, and was built for one of the town's most influencial early civic leaders, William McCracken (1787- A native Pennsylvanian, McCracken came to Cambridge in 1809 and became the built around 1830. During McCracken's 63-year stay in Cambridge, he became one he organized the Associate Church, which continues in existence today as the First of prime significance to the early history of Cambridge. ECONOMICS ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD EDUCATION THEATER INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT LITERATURE INDUSTRY 1872).
_COMMUNICATIONS William McCracken _ENGINEERING _COMMERCE of the most well-respected and influencial citizens of the growing town.In 1822 -1600-1699 -1500-1599 _CONSERVATION -1400-1499 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN - 1700-1799 -1900- - MUSIC use as law offices, the McCracken-Scott House has not been radically altered, and remains group which organized Cambridge's first library. The property passed to Alexander McCracken in 1841. He apparently fell on hard times, as the house and lot were sold in 1869 to pay his creditors. iIn 1873 Elza Scott X.EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT United Presbyterian Church of Cambridge.Prior to the formal establishment of the including that of county commissioner from 1819 to 1828.In 1832 he was partofa - - PHILOSOPHY - LAW 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002071, 14 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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