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Thompson-Builder House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5051 Brand Rd., Dublin P.O., 43017
  • When was it listed? 1979-04-11
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Washington Township MRA
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 79002749 - 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.

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Thompson-Builder House, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Thompson-Builder House, surveyed 1901

The ground it stands on

333 words

This property stands in Washington Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 333 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,125 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,125 specimens collected within 10 miles of Thompson-Builder House between 1804 and 1975: 2,065 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. P., A. J. Penniman, A. Spreitzer 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Serpoleskea confervoides, not of this specimenSerpoleskea confervoides (Brid.) Loeske1842W. S. Sullivant6 miles above Columbus
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Muriealin, JFlint?
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1877P.N. WheatonColumbus
A photograph of the species Aster firmus, not of this specimenAster firmus Nees1890Wilcox, E.V.N. Columbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191897not recordedOlentangy River, Franklin County, Franklin County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Olentangy River, within Franklin Co, Franklin County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio

All 2,125 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Thompson-Builder House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shawnee Division QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Shawnee Division QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

From the nomination file

434 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 434 words, 4 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002749, 4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Washington Township Schoolunder 500 feet1979
Asher Brand Residence0.3 miles1979
Charles Mitchell House0.9 miles1979
Fletcher Coffman House0.9 miles1979
Indian Run Cemetery Stone Walls1.2 miles1979
Artz House1.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002749 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 343 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.