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Welton, Allen, House
Built in 1854 in the Gothic Revival. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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
“its firet officers were Timothy Bishop, Andrew Johnson and Aai'on Miller, trustees; William Beers, clerk; Launcelot May, treasurer; Alfred Wolcott and Moses Cunningham, justices of the peace, and James Jordan, constable. More than 140 men of Boston township fought for the Union in the war of 1861-65, the most distinguished of whom was Colonel Arthur L.”
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1854, Gothic Revival · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.79000314- 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.
its firet officers were Timothy Bishop, Andrew Johnson and Aai'on Miller, trustees; William Beers, clerk; Launcelot May, treasurer; Alfred Wolcott and Moses Cunningham, justices of the peace, and James Jordan, constable. More than 140 men of Boston township fought for the Union in the war of 1861-65, the most distinguished of whom was Colonel Arthur L. Conger. On July 4, 1889, Colonel and Mrs. Conger presented to Boston Town- .ship the fine soldiers' monument which stands in the village of Peninsula at its western border. Peninsula has an extensive flour-mill and, in the southern part of the village, a large stone-quaiTy of a fine-gi'ained, white .sand-stone, from which mill-stones are made. Boston has saw-mills and the great papermills of the Akron-Cleveland Paper Bag Company, the power for which is partly secured from a large dam thrown across the Cuyahoga River. Colonel A. L. Conger aaid Hon. S. P. Wolcott are the Boston citizens who have earned for themselves the greatest fame. At the present time Charles Peterson is clerk and E. B. Conger and N. B. Wise are justices of the peace.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Welton, Allen, House between
1993 and 2012, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Natural
3
Debris and open burning
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 1,067 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Welton, Allen, House between 1877 and
1973: 1,009 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 14 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, 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 National Weather Service names
Peninsula, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 9 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.
Nine boys ages 11 to 14 were injured when lightning struck a tree near their campsite. All of the injuries were minor. The boys were staying at a campground in Boston Township.
A thunderstorm with torrential rain produced 2.25 of rain, most of which fell within 30 minutes between 606 PM and 636 PM. Flooding commenced shortly thereafter around 640 PM. Storm drains were overwhelmed with water over a foot deep filling in streets. Roads flooded include Morris Drive, Woodland Drive, I-271 underpass, with minor damage to Riverview Road.
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
1,763 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
changes were designed by Firestone & Cassidy, Architects, of Akron. room, workshop, garage, breakfast room, and an enclosed porch on the about forty years old, stands near the road adjacent to the driveway. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DATE MOVED UNALTERED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED FAIR XGOOD original main block. the same board and batten siding and architrave window trim as the Remodeling of the original Welton House included new floors and The latter is not included with this nomination. CHECK ONE door frame has a flattened Gothic arch molding. margins, are original.
The Allen Welton House is a modest one-and-one-half-story wood frame stone foundation and vertical siding, and a privy.A milk house, XORIGINAL SITE In 1950,the Welton House was remodeled inside and a long one-and- to the road and is intersected by a double lancet window with the front stoop apparently is a replacement, although it is the same Mead & Moffett, 1874), p. 101. with 6/6 lights, and have architrave trim and shutters. The front first floor, and a bedroom in the half-story. The addition features XALTERED 1978.Information about the alterations to the house is based on this interview; an interior inspection was not permitted.
shows that the house originally had two interior end chimneys; now The Welton House is situated on a semi-rural road.It is surrounded house in the Gothic Revival style.The original part of the house size as the original one.The porch steps, of tooled stone with horizontal flush siding under the porch. Windows are -RUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, 1881), p. 907. p. 536. 4Doyle, Centennial History of Summit County, P. 894. 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 History EDUCATION INVENTION ART ENGINEERING PREHISTORIC LAW COMMUNICATIONS BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC THEATER SIGNIFICANCE INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION MILITARY SCULPTURE LITERATURE ARCHITECTURE .1900- _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE The Allen Welton House is a modest farmhouse in the Gothic Revival disaster,"according to a story recounted in the Centennial History large addition at the rear, the Welton House retains its architectural 185o, for his name does not appear in the census records for that X800-1899 that appeared in the Summit County atlas of 1874.
-PHILOSOPHY Pub1ishing Company,1908),pp.893-894. -SCIENCE -CONSERVATION Allen Welton was born in Vermont on July 18,1809.As a young man he worked as a store clerk, and later went to New York State, where he _ECONOMICS Welton had acquired a wood yard, and "on one In New York, Welton married Sarah George, William, John, and Ellen. Francis must have died prior to William B. Doyle, ed. and comp., Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Biographical was variously employed. the township, one of which was on the Welton farmstead.Despite a township from New York State.He operated two cheese factories in integrity; it appears nearly identical to an illustration of the house of Summit County.
"One of his first enterprises proved a Welton had emigrated to Ohio.3 style.It was built about 1854 for Allen Welton,"one of the pioneer dairymen of the Western Reserve."i Welton had emigrated to Boston They had five children: Francis (who died at an early age),
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000314, 13 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.
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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