Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. 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
“The Savage-Stewart House is one of the oldest buildings in Athens County, Ohio, United States. Located a short distance southeast of Canaanville along U.S.”
Wikipedia article Savage-Stewart House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 19 National Register listings in Athens County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Athens County.
National Register reference number.80002939- 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
22 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Savage-Stewart House between
2006 and 2020, burning about 57 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
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 1,138 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Savage-Stewart House between 1831 and
1975: 958 Animalia, 134 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 National Weather Service names
Canaanville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail.
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.
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
1,706 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
Interior woodwork appears tobe largely original.Most rooms seen to have had chair There is a rear addition to the building of frame construction which houses the kitchen, hand-hewn logs, it has no ridge pole.The building is full of very old implements, The building is a two-story 5-bay brick house laid in Flemish bond, with a long side on wood stud partitions. The cornice line of the facade features a saw-tooth brick struction. The doorway is a single door with transom. The original stone steps leading stairs are located under it. It appears that the handrail is of cherry, and the newels All four interior rooms have had fireplaces on the ends. Two of the fireplaces appear 1. The Carriage Barn. This appears to have been the original barn.
It is made of 3.The Barn.This isa very large turn-of-the-century barn with a barrel vault roof. to have the original mantels.All rooms in the house have been wallpapered.The and a full basement under the house.Basement walls are of rough cut sandstone and X_original site UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED DEC 2 8 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Savage-Stewart House, Canaanville Vicinity, Athens County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 The site of the ice-house can be located, but it has been destroyed. construction.
PAGE FHR-8-300A (11/78) DATE ENTERED Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric -archeology-prehistoric - community planning .archeology-historic - law X agriculture .
(in one paragraph) to other Athens County farmers. - x.architecture .landscape architecture - religion of this early period in Ohio. According to oral tradition, this house was the model for Federalton, the home of Daniel Stewart built from 1815 to 1817 (NR-8/13/76). The century agriculture that it provides, complete with equipment. Agriculture has in 1897, in whose family it still remains. It was a working farm until the 1930s, when it was abandoned and has since seen very little maintenance. All the pre-1930 farming equipment and machinery however, is still largely present within the outbuildings.
present owners plan to restore the house and outbuildings in the immediate future and historically not been that successful in this part of the state because of the hilly fortunately, little is known of his Ohio activities. He apparently came to the state is among the earliest identified buildings in the entire county.The details such in some details.In addition the farm complex is unique for the glimpse of early 20th years later and the house became the property of their daughter Julia.She soon 1800-1899 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002939, 17 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.
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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