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
“Prospect Place, also known as The Trinway Mansion and Prospect Place Estate, is a 29-room mansion built by abolitionist George Willison Adams in Trinway, Ohio, just north of Dresden in 1856. Today, it is the home of the non-profit G.”
Wikipedia article Prospect Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 70 National Register listings in Muskingum County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001913- 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
26 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Prospect Place between
2012 and 2020, burning about 87 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
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
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 324 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Prospect Place between 1866 and
1974: 235 Animalia, 72 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Spreitzer, Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Buker, W.C. 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 Prospect Place: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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
Trinway, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 local emergency manager reported that a high-water rescue took place along School House Road. Additional flooding was experienced along Moore Road and Hedges Lane. School House Road and Moore Road remained closed the following day.
A EF-0 tornado briefly touched down near the town of Twinway. Maximum winds were estimated at 70 MPH, with a path width of 25 yards. Video and pictures showed the tornado skipped as it touched down for less than one quarter mile. A large tree branch was on top of a home with no apparent damage, and areas of corn were knocked down in a field.
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
1,984 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
"Prospect Place" is a massive residence constructed of two rectilinear blocks, the though only a single door, features a transom and sidelights which were distinguished by In most of the principal rooms there is ornamental plasterwork, some of which re- tunnel has been found, however. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DATE EXCELLENT DETERIORATED RUINS X.UNALTERED rather heavy mouldings.and corner blocks.An outstanding walnut balustrade graces the dued ornament. belvedere, affording a panoramic vista of the surrounding countryside. perty remains much as it was at the time of its construction. entry hall to elaborately ornamented mouldings and medallions in the front parlor.
clusive use of double hung sash, with windows on the front being of a two-over-two light CHECK ONE section contains a ballroom with a central stair rising from the ballroom to the glazed story section is inset a two-story recessed open porch trimmed with sawn, somewhat sub- tually every room had a fireplace with a marble hearth and mantle; all mantles have suf- arched and are capped with cast-iron denticulated lentils.All windows are trimmed with less than four tall chimneys with crenellated peaks rise from the roof.The house's pillars once ran along the public road west of the house; only the gate and supporting "Prospect Place" is built between the villages of Trinway and Dresden, in rural _MOVED -GOOD crowing touch is an impressive glazed belvedere, lavishly trimmed, which rises from the The interior is trimmed entirely in walnut, with In general, no major alterations have been made to the structure of "Prospect Place", story open porches with rich ornamentation grace the front and side entrances, located on the south and west walls, respectively.
Fenestration is accomplished through the ex- configuration, while those on the rear are six-over-six. All windows are segmental with low hipped roofs.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE secondary associative significance for its relation to early commerce and transportation extensive landholdings, ground it in their mills, packed it in barrels made at their Dresden A daughter, Elizabeth, married Rear Admiral Mordecat T. Endicott, an engineer and a 1856 1400-1499 1600-1699 INVENTION ART 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD SCIENCE AGRICULTURE SCULPTURE THEATER MILITARY X1800-1899 _1700-1799 moved to Zanesville but the home remained in the fanily. a suspension bridge, was the first of its kind constructed west of the Ohio River and was INDUSTRY (continued) of the Panhandle and Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroads. built along thelines of those developed by the now-famous John Augustus Roebling.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001913, 14 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.
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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