National Register reference number.78002166- 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
1910 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19101992
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Zanesville city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C.
Zanesville and its immediate vicinity possess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if not quite, all the industries requiring skilled labor, it is believed, all things considered, equal, if not superior to those of any place East or West. In every item to be taken into account in the make-up of a manufacturing city comparison is challenged. It was the remark of the late John Quincy Adams made in reference to the water power here existing, that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal inspection of the water power at this point, said: "The water power furnished by the James river at Richmond makes it the best manufacturing site in the United States save that at Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were expressed before the era of coal and railway transportation.
The manufacturing interest of Zanesville are at this time its leading attraction. It is a growing interest and is imparting to the city a permanent and solid character, and placing it among the most prosperous cities of the West. The progress made in this direction has been rapid during recent years. Old industries have been enlarged and extended, and new ones added which bid fair to become large and prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to manufacturing industry is attributed to the fact that fuel and living are so cheap, market supplies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for shipment so superior, and the location so central and generally so advantageous. Besides a more enlightened and liberalized sentiment than heretofore existed now prevails, and there is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage productive enterprises by furnishing money at liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Frederick Augustus Seborn House
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
29
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
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 825 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Frederick Augustus Seborn House between 1873 and 1975: 739 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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 Frederick Augustus Seborn House: 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Zanesville, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down four power poles and power lines just north of Zanesville. Several trees were also reported down across the eastern part of the county.
Street flooding was reported in and near Zanesville after 1.30 inches fell in 20 minutes. Large branches were downed east of Zanesville. One branch fell on a passing motorist's car. There was no mention of any injuries.
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
It features five bays on the front, three on the sides. The main entrance arched upper. In keeping with the overall character of the building, it seems replaced by an anachronistic stoop covered by a hip roof, supported by two and second floor, hinges for exterior shutters are visible, although the shutters stretcher bond, and have been painted a faded yellow creme, with the foundation and trim dark brown.
The cornice isboxed, and features a rather elaborate dentiled is hipped, and has been covered with metal Originally, the roof was no doubt of slate, and included a square, hip-roofed cupola with a bracketed cornice.The frame cupola, windowed on all, four sides was crowned with a pagoda-like spire which was broken when tossed from the roof to the ground when the cupola was removed at and south sides, with double-hung windows, six-over-six, set on extended lug sills this cornice featured a similar dentiled pattern to that of the cornice of the main The house was divided into four apartments in the early 1950s, but no walls were the front, one sees a wide central hallway, with the four downstairs rooms opening off this hallway.
At the west end of the hallway is a stately rounded, open-string stairway, featuring turned balusters, newel, and ornamental brackets, all of oak. colonettes and lions' heads-obviously a late-nineteenth century addition.
home was built by Frederick Augustus Seborn, a prominent May 13, 1813, and came to Zanesville at an early age, in one-horse wagon. In Church. Aself-taught lawyer, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and was admitted the Methodist Press, and also being the author of many religious poems and hymns. he moved from his Maysville Pike home and built a home at the northeast corner of Market and Underwood Streets, to be nearer to his office in his later years. 1t was in this newer home that he died in 1898.
This property is clearlyi the finest example of nineteenth-century midwestern American architecture south of the Putnam Historic district in Zanesville, and 1400-1499 1700-1799 1600-1699 SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION INVENTION THEATER SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD MILITARY INDUSTRY MUSIC ART XARCHITECTURE X1800-1899 SCULPTURE LITERATURE _TRANSPORTATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS _COMMERCE This fine - ENGINEERING X_RELIGION -1500-1599 _ECONOMICS -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -1900- nineteenth-century Zanesvi|le teacher, minister, writer, and lawyer. "He was born man, he taught is a district school and later entered the ministry of the Methodist continues to be a well-known landmark on the Maysville Pike (now US Route 22). and became known as "Squire" Seborn.
He practiced law until three days before It is said that he used his cupola-room to do most of his writing.ln the 1880s 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002166, 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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