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
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.78002094- 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 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Morley, Lewis, House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
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 1,296 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Morley, Lewis, House between 1864 and
1975: 1,034 Animalia, 143 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Morley, Lewis, House: 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. 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
Painesville, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
A thunderstorm downburst downed dozens of trees and damaged several homes. The damage path began near Liberty Street in Painesville and continued east along Prouty Road to near State Route 44 in Concord. A mobile home was crushed by a fallen tree in Concord.
Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fallen tree. A brand new sport utility vehicle was also destroyed by a fallen tree. An additional dozen trees were downed to the east of Painesville in North Perry.
Around noon on January 23rd, local officials reported the jam at the mouth of the river at Lake Erie extending as far south (upstream) as the Route 2 bridge near Painesville. The resulting backwater caused flooding of outbuildings along the river on Richmond Street and Ram Island, and flooded the Fairport Harbor Marina. Some storage equipment was flushed out into the lake. The Coast Guard ice cutter was sent in to remove the jam on the night of the 23rd.
2 papers 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
1,599 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
to the rear was added at a later date, probably in the 1880's. son, Gillet. Above the doorway the entablature is concave with projecting porch identical to that of the facade, though the doorway was never as elaborate Two-thirds of the rear of the building is covered by a two story, rectangular CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED XGOOD decorated with concentric circles or organic designs. _DETERIORATED CHECK ONE of modillions. defined as rectangular panels by brick piers between the bays and at the corners, The original structure is the gable roofed,2-story rectangular brick block outside portions are narrower than the center section.The south end has a story brick bay.
parapet with raised center panel which mimicks the stepped gable of the main paneled effect and which divide these elevations into three uneven bays.The molded horizontal and vertical trim which meets with corner blocks which are two Ionic columns at the front and plain pilasters at the rear which support windows centered in them while the windows of the center bay are placed to the the ellipse and the outer panel is carved woodwork in a leaf pattern.These The facade of the original section is 3 evenly spaced bays.These bays are have been boarded over.
more elaborate that is typical of Goldsmith and likely the influence of his light which is not the original configuration.The wood cornice has a row The front hallway opens to the left into a large front room.At the end of -RUINS -FAIR is a narrow transom. Facade windows, three on the second floor and two on the first, are plain with stone lintels and wood sills. They are now 6/1 block. Fenestration is irregular, utilizing oval, rectangular, and round- arched windows.
of Jonathan Goldsmith, one of the Western Reserve's most notable 19th also shows the influence of others, including his son, Gillet who is 27 years he completed over 40 residences, two taverns, a church, a bank, and a lighthouse that we know of.
He died in 1500-1599 1400-1499 LAW ECONOMICS ART ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC RELIGION EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY X1800-1899 BUILDER/ARCHITECT PREHISTORIC SCIENCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION THEATER LITERATURE AGRICULTURE 1900- Jonathan Goldsmith INVENTION SCULPTURE PERIOD INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS exemplify the classical correctness and proportions of the Federal _TRANSPORTATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The home is important as a late and rather unusual example of the work He had apprenticed as a carpenter-joiner and gradually became an SPECIFIC DATES Goldsmith came to the Western Reserve in 18l2 from Connecticut. known to have worked on this house. - ENGINEERING -1600-1699 -1700-1799 - MILITARY -MUSIC accomplished draftsman and designer. His residential buildings
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002094, 11 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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