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 Lambert-Parent House is a historic house in the village of Union City, Ohio, United States. Built in 1881, it was initially the home of George Lambert, who founded multiple major businesses in Union City and participated in the automobile manufacturing firm founded by his brother John.”
Wikipedia article Lambert-Parent House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80002987- 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.
In 1831, his brother. William K. Marquis, removing from the old home, joined him in the woods of Jackson, and for two years, or until 1833. these were the only two families in the township, though there were four or five cabins about two miles distant, in the Creviston neighborhood. Washington Township. Kidd Marquis was born in 1794, served during the war of 1812. removed to Jackson, as said, where he died in 1858. His wife, in her eighty-sixth year, is healthy and active, makes journeys of several miles on foot, and possesses her faculties unimpaired. She is a worthy type of the settler's wife, having raised a family of nine children, now grown to maturity and filling honorable positions in life - a marked contrast this to the feeble health of many modern matrons with their one or two children. In 1831. a man named Burns moved in, upon the Reeves Hand place, between Union City and Hillgrove, on the bank of Dismal Creek. In 1833. Frederick Roe came from Fayette County and located upon land adjoining the Marquis clearing on the west, a portion of which is now included in the Union City incorporation.
It seems that on organization Jackson Township contained Townships 13, 14 and 15 of Range 1. which were then embraced within the limits of Washington Township. In June, 1836, Township 15 and the north tier of sections of Township 14 were detached from Jackson and named Gibson Township. Three }~ears later, in March, the remainder of Township 14 was formed into Mississinawa Township. Following formation, the settlement of Jackson continued by the entry of lands, and the increase of clearings. In 1834, Hezekiah Fowler arrived with his family from Maryland. He hastily put up a log shed, on the prevailing plan of a " sugar camp," that is, with an open front, and in this rude covering passed the winter. In 1835, Matthias Sawyer entered land where the Archard place now is, north of town. James Marquis, above referred to as the pioneer of Jackson, had three sons, Henry, William and Lewis. The former inhabits the old homestead on Grey's branch. Lewis lives a short distance south of Union City. Ind. William moved to Iowa, in 1858, and died there. The elder Marquis was a Methodist local preacher, and a well-educated man for one who had gained his knowledge by self-application. He gave his attention to medicine, and became in time a very good doctor. Although a Virginian, he was a notable Abolitionist, and spoke upon the subject in both Ohio and Indiana, being at times subjected to vituperation and personal abuse, which he was not backward in resenting.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 288 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lambert-Parent House between 1915 and
1964: 274 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A VERWYST, Alexander, B. Montgomery 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
Union City, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 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.
Barns were damaged extensively. An agricultural hopper was moved approximately 1000 feet. Large trees and limbs were snapped in several locations. Corn fields were flattened. Vegetation was removed from a 30 foot area in a farm field. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds. The wind speed was estimated by the damage assessment.
Numerous trees and large limbs were knocked down in many locations across the county, including Hollansburg, New Madison,Versailles, Union City and Arcanum. One tree fell on a house in Arcanum.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
7,061 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
and is an ell shaped two-story brick with a one story rear wing. The Italianate style, windows located on the south and east walls. Only one central chimney of the original are noticeableja three-bay wooden porch with turned posts, brackets and dentillation shelves on the north wall which were topped by George A. Lambert's name and the date the unexposed deteriorated original woodwork remains in most of the rooms and is carved above each doorway and but this change did not affect the architectural lines of either porch.One of two remain of the original three and their chimneys have been dismantled to the attic.The original small circular window on the West end of the rear (North Street) wall also was the porch was built but it is not believed original to the house.
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Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) John W. Lambert was born in Champaign County, Ohio, January 29, 1860 and his parents, preceded the Duryea Brothers' and his friend Elwood Haynes' vehicles by two years. gasoline engine, and other mechanical fields. George A. Lambert was born in Clark County, Ohio, February 2, 1858. He married Eva Glendora Parent, whose grandfather was a farmer and co-founder of Jackson Township, holder when the Union Automobile Company organized in Union City, Ohio in 1902. After of World War I.
All were fitted with motors of Lambert design, driven by the Lambert 1800-1899 1700-1799 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 Builder/Architect transportation education engineering Period humanitarian invention conservation law important contributors to the early midwestern automotive industry.The house was _communications 1900- agriculture is also recognized as the father of the friction-drive transmission.His gasoline engine The Lambert-Parent House is significant for its associations with the Lambert family, Italianate styling with carefully incised window and cornice decoration clearly sets drove what some historians recognize to be America's first successful automobile having mass produced Lambert designed automobile, the Union, grew.He became the major stock- a manufacturing establishment for the purpose of making poles and shafts which was known an architectural landmark in this small midwestern border community.Its tall and narrow 8.
Significance and transmission provided the power for the early experimental Union automobile during Specific dates _commerce this house apart from others in the Ohio portion of Union City. of age he registered the first patent for a mechanical corn picker and in 1887patented one of the first gasoline engines in the United States.In l89l he constructed and -art - archeology-prehistoric exploration/settlement - philosophy built in 1881 for George A. Lambert, who not only established a major Union City manu- in Union City, Ohio in 1902. Mr.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002987, 30 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.
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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