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.79001883- 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
2 since 2017
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Williams, Elias, House between
2017 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
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 2,889 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Williams, Elias, House between 1843 and
1975: 2,566 Animalia, 239 Fungi, 55 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Williams, Elias, House: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 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
1,908 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
portion of the two story "L" and the rear one story wing are original, the wing being The west elevation is in three parts. First is the original two story house with gable center part is a two bay, shed roofed addition filling the void of the "L". This part higher roof just behind this eave. In the wing to the rear is one typical window, DATE hung windows identical to those below and aligned with the openings below.The eave contains the entrance. A stone stoop, from the 1950s restoration/renovation is up XGOOD projects slightly forward from the remainder of the wall.The third part is a one AREAS OF
Statement of significance
The Bolton House is one of the best examples of the pre-Victorian, antebe1lum area was already subdivided. Originally constructed less than a mile west of Newark, the Bolton House was utilized constructed about 1836 by Elias Williams, a carpenter born in Wales in 1800. sold to Samuel B. King, a prominent real estate agent from Newark who presumably rented of a Newark tinware and stove works. Walker was a harbinger of a 20th century trend William Palmer, a local contractor, acquired the property in 1919, and the Palmers were responsible for the careful maintenance of the house and its restoration/ in survey work, but few date as early as this structure, and most have suffered through the use of artifical coverings and other unsympathetic alterations.
Fúthermore, an examination of the tax duplicates for Newark for the 1830s show a predominance of frame construction over brick. The Bolton House is therefore, additionally signifi- comparatively unaltered condition. The house is now completely surrounded by late 19th and early 20th century development, making this property even more distinctive. 1700-1799 LAW 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD THEATER COMMERCE AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT RELIGION PHILOSOPHY X1800-1899 SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY INDUSTRY COMMUNICATIONS LITERATURE ENGINEERING 1900- _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT .SCULPTURE _OTHER (SPECIFY) cant for representing this architectural heritage in the community in its present renovation in the 1950s.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001883, 11 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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