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
one of 49 National Register listings in Delaware County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80002991- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,444 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,444 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Building at 223 West High Street between 1837 and
1975: 1,243 Animalia, 101 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 5 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 Building at 223 West High Street: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Ashley, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Trees were downed. Twenty sailboats capsized in O'Shaughnessy Reservoir (Shawnee Hills area) during the storm. Many boaters had to be rescued from the water well off shore.
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
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From the nomination file
811 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
Opel House- This house, constructed in 1891--is the earliest of the four. It is con- originally one room deep. The three bay facade features a gabled projection with a the exterior design. A large frame was added to the rear of the house. The interior over 1 window on each story. On the first story it is flanked by angled windows with is quite plain. A one story addition extends the length of the rear of the house. gabled dormers and hipped roof are covered with green and gray diamond patterned com- features a sunburst design above the window. The double hung 1 over 1 windows have X good The decorative porch is two bays wide. The other elevations are fairly plain. structed across the rear of the house. This building has been vacant for some time.
It is constructed of wood frame on a stone foundation. The steeply pitched ruins projecting bay window is located on the west elevation.Decorative siding--dado of - moveddate Working Number 10/14/30/2532 Photos - Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up OTHER KEEPER HAER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL Send-back Maps HISTORIAN Review Re-submit State United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry 2.2.82 Entered NOV 2.5-1980 Property JOANNE F. OAKS 101 W. High St. Ashley, ohio NOV 2 5 1980 Westerville, Ohio North elevation 620 Mohican Way OPEL HOUSE (C.) August, 1979 8-1979 By JOANNE F. OAKS DELAWARE COUNTY, OHIO 101 W High St.
Ashley, Ohio Westerville, Ohio August, 1979 NOV 2 5 1980 OPEL HOUSE Window detail 620 Mohican Way Delauane co. 1 4 1980 for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: _64000621
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002991, 6 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
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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