National Register reference number.79001942- 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.
The ground it stands on
13,506 words
The chapter on Fostoria City in History of Seneca County, Ohio, published 1886 names Fostoria. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In the histories of Loudon and Jackson Townships, a large number of names and a few incidents connected with the founding of the villages once known as Rome and Risdon, are presented to the reader. In this part of the chapter other names and incidents connected with the actual settlement of the old villages, up to the period of their consolidation under the name "Fostoria. " and the story of the city's progress are related - the information being almost solely based on pxtblic and private records.
The early settlers of Fostoria were not backwoodsmen previous to their coming here. They were from a region cleared bv their fathers, and were little accustomed to the use of the ax. To them a heavy growth of timber and the great fallen trees were formidable. A tree was not then, as now, a little mine of wealth - it was a nuisance to be rid of and to the task of destroying the forest and subjugating the wilderness, the pioneers ajiplied themselves assiduously. However, the original forest has not entirely disappeared; oven where the woodman began his work of destruction, a new race of trees, planted in regular lines, has sprung uj) to relieve the face of the country and to offer to it that shelter and beauty of which the old time mania for improvement robbed it. There are many well-kept gardens, lawns and terraced grounds throughout the city, which, with the ti'ees ranged regularly along the parkways, lend a peculiar beauty to the city.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ambrose Cory House
in 2002, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
19 August 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
13 July 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
Specimens collected near this property
11 of 13 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 13 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ambrose Cory House between 1901 and 1961: 8 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista.
11 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Chidester, D. (Dale), Cunningham J. L., Cunningham, J. L. 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
1 working within 5 miles of Ambrose Cory House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: REE. 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
Fostoria, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 33 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood.
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.
After lifting in downtown Fostoria (near the Hancock County border) the tornado touched down again on the northeastern edge of Fostoria. The tornado moved northeast from this location and damaged several homes before reaching the Fostoria Airport where a hanger and office building were damaged. From the airport, the tornado continued northeast across open farmland for a few miles and finally dissipated northwest of Amsden near the intersection of County Road 3 and Township Road 172. Several more homes and barns were damaged along the last half of the tornado track. Many cars were also damaged and hundreds of trees and power poles toppled. The damage path from this tornado in Seneca County was roughly five and a half miles in length and around 25 yards in width.
A line of thunderstorms producing winds estimated to be around 70 mph raced east across Seneca County causing widespread damage. Hundreds of trees were snapped or toppled. A lot of damage to homes and buildings was also observed. Most of this damage was from lost roofing or siding but some outbuildings were also flattened. A lot of tree damage was reported on the south side of Fostoria. A line of 15 utility poles was knocked down northeast of Republic. The damage was especially heavy in the northeast corner of the county from Reedtown north to Flat Rock. A lot of downed trees were also reported in the Attica area. Several vehicles were reported damaged in the county. Power outages were reported throughout the county. It took several days for power to be fully restored, especially across the northeast corner of the county. Many roads had to be closed because of downed trees and power lines.
Fostoria Police and Fire reported flash flooding across the southern half of Fostoria. All underpasses in the city were impassable with up to 5 feet of water over the roadways. Most streets on the south side of Fostoria were flooded with an average of 2 feet of water depth. Several reports of vehicles stranded in flood waters with up to 3 feet of water depth. Reports of numerous basements flooded. Trained spotter measured 3.05 inches of rain in around an hour period between 1300 LST to 1400 LST. Radar estimates of 2.5 to 3 inches of rain fell in this one hour period across Fostoria, with a peak recurrence interval of 50 years where the heaviest rain fell. Peak instantaneous rainfall rates of 3.5 inches per hour were estimated by radar.
Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and large limbs in Tiffin and at least two large limbs in Fostoria. A couple homes in Tiffin sustained roof damage. A few cars were also damaged by fallen trees and limbs. 1,600 customers lost power in Tiffin alone.
Numerous trees were reported down throughout the city of Fostoria. Four houses and two cars sustained damage from trees falling on them. A restaurant in Fostoria had two walls knocked down causing considerable structural damage.
On the morning of July 13 heavy rain produced some overland flooding in Seneca County. Fostoria measured 3.20 between 4-6 am. Road flooding was common across the area including US 224-west of Tiffin and SR53 south of Tiffin. Numerous local road closures occured across the county.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
This Italiarate building sits on a cut stone foundation with a stone water table. metal roof, with segmental arches in the entablature connecting the pillars. This front door, with wood columns supporting a flat roof and an open porch on the east end The interior of the house has been beautifully restored, as has the exterior with to this brick section with.a door in the second floor gable end leading out to the a stone fireplace under the roof, and a large three-car garage immediately north of the south side, and an old grape arbor in back of the house.
CONDITION DETERIORATED RUINS UNALTERED The windows have wood shutters.The front double door has a multi-light fanlight in The porch on the west end of the south side has wood pillars supporting the sloping The house is basically square in plan with a large two-story bay on the south side The windows are double-hung 6/6 with cast iron sills and decorated shaped lintels. Outbuildings include a shelter area with a gable roof supported by four pillars and on the walls contains hog's hair.Door knobs and latches are of white porcelain.
drawing in the Seneca County atlas shows a balustrade on the roof to form a widow's CHECK ONE the round arch above the door.A door off the porch on the west end of the south _UNEXPOSED This is a two-story brick building with a truncated hip asphalt roof;an 1874 of the south side with a door facing east on that side. that projects out.Arear.ll-story rectangular.section has a.gable metal roof with an side has a decorated shaped lintel like those on the windows. -EXCELLENT side.of the main house on the.south.side.of.the lk-story/brick.section: -GOOD steeply-sloping shed roof. The date of this alteration is unknown, but the owner guesses it was in the early 1900s.
family sold 20 acres of land to Ambrose Cory in 1860 for $2000, including this plot. That would indicate some sort of structure, probably, but' the style and quality of 1863 map of Fostoria, but only squares are used to indicate the existence of buildings, Ambrose Cory was born in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania on May 29, 1825 and was his parents in 1832, was reared on a farm here, and received a common school education. On February 14, 1854 he married Amanda Kelly, and they had three children. The Corys lived in Perry Township until 1861 when they moved to Fostoria, presumably eighty acres in Wood County, Ohio, as well as eighteen acres of land in Fostoria on history, p. 893).
most of the block bounded by Jackson, Union, Culbertson, and County Line; Culbertson was not a through street in 1874. Cory Street, which parallels Union and County 1400-1499 ART LAW INVENTION RELIGION THEATER EDUCATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY PERIOD SCULPTURE MILITARY INDUSTRY The 1874 atlas shows Cory owning 20 acres bounded by Jackson, Union, and County PREHISTORIC This is still a recognized local landmark and was included in the Fostoria Antique Perry Township (Wood County, bordering Fostoria).
Ambrose came to Perry Township with _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC This house is significant as an example of Italiaate architecture in Fostoria and _COMMUNICATIONS The exact date of construction is not known, as it appears likely that there might _SCIENCE pioneers in the Fostoria area, with Ambrose' cousin the first male child born in It seems to have been associated with the house since the time of Ambrose Cory and Study's first designation of historic homes in the area in 1978. - CONSERVATION _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN a wooded area.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001942, 20 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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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