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.79001882- 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
3 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Upham-Wright House between
2015 and 2020, burning about 4 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
3
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 2,692 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Upham-Wright House between 1843 and
1975: 2,375 Animalia, 234 Fungi, 54 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 Upham-Wright House: 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
1,181 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 Upham -Wright Jones House, a Gothic Revival cottage, is constructed of brick on a rectangular window frames. The double pointed arch window in the central gable is flanked clustered flues,typical.of. the.Gothic.Revival period, are located at the east and west corners of the hipped roof. crenelated trim is located on the west elevation. A 11/2 story wing with gable roof, in an older, residential area of Newark,. CONDITION MOVED 2 bays. DATE DETERIORATED in the middle bay. The flanking first floor windows possess pointed arch wood tracery within The house rises 2 stories in height, is L-shaped in plan and the main portion measures 3 by The interior has undergone alteration, however, some of the original mantels, woodwork multiple paned windows have been boarded to prevent vandalism.
A more recent garage is rectangular windows with plain lintels and sills is located to the rear of the house. heavily encrusted with Gothic ornament and finials. Substantial brick chimneys with also on the site. by rectangular casement windows with smooth stone hoodmoulds. A one story porch with Gothic trim and finials extends the length of the facade.The gable bargeboards are also dressed ashlar foundation. The hipped roof with intersecting gable is covered with slate.
XORIGINAL SITE The Upham-Wright-Jones House occupies a tree shaded hill above a major thoroughfare level and casement windows with smooth stone hoodmoulds above.A small porch with braced frame on a stone foundation with wood siding and a gable roof.Some of the XUNALTERED CHECK ONE _UNEXPOSED The side elevations are similar with projecting bays and poihted arch windows on the lower A small barn is located to the rear of the house.It is 2 stories in height, constructed of a -GOOD and flooring remain.
The Upham-Wright-Jones House derives its significance from its architectural integrity. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest, finest and best preserved Gothic Revival residences in the By the 1840's in the East and several years later in Ohio, the Gothic Revival began to replace the Greek Revival as a popular style of architecture. Two men, Alexander Jackson Davis and mid-nineteenth century tastes. Although the Upham-Wright-Jones House was started in 1848 before the 1850 publication of Downing's Architecture of Country Houses, it enbodies all the ideals espoused by Downing. In fact, it bears a striking resemblence to a house designed by A.J.Davis for William Rotch in New Bedford, Massachusetts and illustrated in Downing's book.
The house was built by George Upham, a native of Sullivan County, New Hampshire. The house was completed in 1852 and Upham died in 1864. Virgil Wright, a local banker, purchased the house in 1868 and it belongs to his heirs today. 1849-1852 LAW 1700-1799 ECONOMICS PERIOD AGRICULTURE ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION INVENTION COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE 1900- _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PREHISTORIC 1400-1499 Andrew Jackson Downing popularized the Gothic Revival movement and were influential in forming _ENGINEERING _THEATER _PHILOSOPHY State of Ohio. _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -SCULPTURE _RELIGION _INDUSTRY - MILITARY -1500-1599 _COMMERCE _1600-1699 - MUSIC
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001882, 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.
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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