National Register reference number.80002993- 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
1915 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19151995
Fires near this property
1 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Building at 505 East High Street
in 2012, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning
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 1,441 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Building at 505 East High Street between 1837 and 1975: 1,241 Animalia, 100 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 505 East 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.
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
The four houses described in this nomination are located in the village of Ashley in striking similarities in design and stand out as unusually ornate buildings in this small town. projecting bay window is located on the west elevation. Decorative siding--dado of diagonal siding and an undulant pattern shingles on the upper story--add interest to has been altered and 'modernized." Wilson House - This two story wood frame residence on a stone foundation with a hipped roof was constructed in 1892. The facade is symmetrical with a central double hung 1 over 1 window on each story. On the first story it is flanked by angled windows with decorative brackets and pendants. Identical Eastlake porches are located midway on used on the first story and undulant pattern siding on the second.
The rear elevation is maintained today. Interior window and door frames are intact. Lynn House - This house, which was also constructed in 1892, is very similar to the Wilson House. It is constructed of wood frame on a stone foundation and has an inter- siding is accented with panels of imbricated and wavy siding beneath the windows. The windows are all double hung 1 over 1 lights. A one story frame addition has been con- Bartha House - This house, constructed in 1901, is the latest and most ornate of the sizes, materials and decorative elements contribute to its lively appearance. easternmost bay of the facade. 7.
Description Condition projecting bay window with colored glass insets and a pent roof.An angled window Check one Opel House- This house, constructed in 1891--is the earliest of the four. It is con- structed of wood frame on a stone foundation with a gable roof. The buildings was originally one room deep.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002993, 6 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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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