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 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001879- 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
4 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Courthouse Center between
2014 and 2020, burning about 7 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
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 2,548 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Courthouse Center between 1843 and
1975: 2,223 Animalia, 238 Fungi, 58 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Courthouse Center: 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Newark, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 5 flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed.
A 30-foot by 30-foot section of a roof was ripped off of a building on the southeast side of town. A construction trailer was turned on its side, and a steel overhang was pulled off of a home, causing minor damage to a wall.
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
1,296 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 building at 35-37 S. Park Place is known locally as the "oldest 1853 of brick on a stone foundation with a truncated hip asphalt roof. punctuates the skyline. The storefront has been altered. The two buildings are flanked by parking lots but occupy a key CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED UNALTERED EXCELLENT XALTERED frieze and slightly projecting cornice complete the design.The CHECK ONE second floor windows are round arched while the remainder are rectangular County Courthouse across the street. storefront has been altered, although the bracketed entablature remains.
The buildings are representative of the nineteenth century commercial The flat roof is built up.The facade measures four bays.The central is already listed on the National Register as is the Second Empire structure which adjoins it to the south.This building was built corner on the Square.The Shield's Block immediately to the west brick commercial block on the Square'.It was constructed prior to It measures 7 by 5 bays and rises three stories in height.The building some of the original 2 over 2 windows are intact. An undecorated -RUINS The building provides a striking contrast to the more ornate Italianate is rather simple in design.T The stone lintels and sills are plain and double hung 1 over 1 and 2 over 2 sashes.An elaborate bracketed cornice AREAS OF
Statement of significance
The two commercial buildings located on the southeast corner of the Courthouse, then the Ohio Canal and the Railroads nearby assured 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 ART LAW ECONOMICS ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION RELIGION PERIOD AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY historically. ARCHITECTURE LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY PREHISTORIC commercial use.
SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC _COMMUNICATIONS Courthouse Square in Newark are significant architecurally and provides a contrast to the richly ornamented Italianate structures _CONSERVATION These two buildings are important examples of Newark's commercial Most of the early buildings were replaced around the square during MILITARY INVENTION _SCULPTURE -THEATER -1900- _COMMUNITY PLANNING prior to 1853, between 1866-1875 The Courthouse Square has been the governmental and commercial the importance of this area throughout the nineteenth century. around the square.
It blends well with similar scale, materials, BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC new owners are in the process of rehabilitating them for continued an unusual survivor from the earlier days.Its simple design center of Newark since_ the town was platted in 1802.First the X1800-1899
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001879, 12 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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