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
one of 14 National Register listings in Highland County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001865- 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
9 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Eubanks-Tytus House between
2003 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
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 870 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Eubanks-Tytus House between 1876 and
1975: 448 Animalia, 360 Fungi, 49 Plantae, 10 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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
Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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 brief tornado moved along a half mile path just north of Rocky Fork Lake. A restaurant along North Shore Road sustained minor siding damage. A real estate office along North Beach Road had portions of its aluminum roof peeled back or completely ripped off. The most extensive damage occurred to a residence about a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast of the real estate office. The home sustained major roof damage, and had an enclosed patio on its front porch completed removed and strewn behind the home. The majority of the patio was deposited into a deck and above ground pool behind the house, causing additional damage. A few trees between six and twelve inches in diameter were snapped between the real estate office and the residence.
Numerous trees were downed onto several houses along Ivy Hill Road. A garage door and wall were damaged at one residence. A few homes also had shingle and siding damage.
A roof was blown off a mobile home and several trees up to two feet in diameter were snapped near the base of the trunk along Dade Road. A storm survey determined the damage was caused by straight line winds, with gusts estimated up to 70 MPH.
1 paper 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
1,369 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
wall construction is beveled siding, now painted yellow. The CONDITION DATE UNEXPOSED door on the second story opening onto the porch roof, and centered just above the main entrance. The house has a three bay wide open frame porch on the Italianate Influence architecture.It has a T-shape and the frieze is a scalloped architrave. CHECK ONE Chimneys are located on either end of the front portion house is surrounded by a white rail fence. of the house, with one chimney centered on the base of the T, _FAIR -GOOD - MOVED porch area, and cornice are painted white. The foundation roof is hipped, made of tin, and now painted red. Trim, shutters, front facade and on both sides of the rear wing. The porches are entablature with a saw-toothed vase.
Paneled frieze under the roofline with double bracked cornice. The under the roofline RUINS is made of cut coursed sandstone. wish two lights over two.. Hoodmolds over.the..rectangular windows Windows have double hung sash No original outbuildings remain of this 1860 house.The are five bays on the front and three on the side. - AREAS OF
Statement of significance
The Anthony Eubanks House is a unique and highly decorative structure significant primarily for its architecture. Anthony Eubanks built his house on what was to become line, c. 1860. The Eubanks family were early settlers in the Highland-Pike county area, having originated in Maryland ana come Italianate Influence architecture in rural southern Ohio. daughter, Cynthia. Anthony Eubanks, builder of this house, placed on the site. much to the scandel and horror of the community. The house remains as an outstanding example of the Italianate influenced this period was obviously carefully calculated. The wooden forms of course permitted the builder greater freedom to develop the whimsical millwork of the porches and cornice.
1500-1599 ART COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY 1900- SCULPTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY MILITARY MUSIC LITERATURE _COMMUNICATIONS _1700-1799 _TRANSPORTATION -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _AGRICULTURE The Eubanks family settled in the Highland-Pike county _1600-1699 _RELIGION _EDUCATION St. Rt.4l, in Highland County, just west of the Pike County - 1400-1499 of the out the to Ohio via Kentucky.The house is an excellent example of Victorian .ENGINEERING between 1835-l840,named in honor of his wife, Anna, and In the late l880's two maiden aunts resided in the house, area in 1807 when they bought land from Nathaniel Massie.
LAW One INVENTION and were robbed by the outlaw, Bob Mackimie, in this house,
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001865, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
2 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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