Built in 1902. 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 Clutts House is a historic residence in the city of Wellston in Jackson County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1902, it was constructed as the home of Joseph Clutts, a leading member of Wellston society and industry.”
Wikipedia article Clutts House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 10 National Register listings in Jackson County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1902.
National Register reference number.80003105- 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
41 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Clutts House between
2009 and 2019, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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
18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Arson/incendiarism
9
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Fireworks
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 877 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Clutts House between 1878 and
1975: 550 Animalia, 264 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Clutts House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wellston, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Multiple large trees were blown down by thunderstorms winds. The winds also removed the underpinning from a mobile home, and blew over a chest freezer that was stored outside.
Rains of 1.5 to 2.5 inches fell in less than 3 hours over saturated grounds. Streams such as Pigeon Creek and Sugar Run overflowed over roads. Urban flooding also occurred. From the 15th thru the 18th the city of Jackson had 5.5 inches of rain.
Thunderstorms moved rapidly south through Ohio, producing a gust front on its' leading edge. Trees and power lines were blown down. Winds gusted to around 60 mph.
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
1,750 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
type motif.Original lighting and steam heating fixtures remain intact.A water- Check one X original site containsa pediment;the porch roof is supported by round and square brick pillars - unexposed - moveddate - fair .deteriorated Windows vary in size and shape; on the first story facade is a large 1/1 window and a rounded bay window. On the story above, five arched windows in a Romanesque motif are set in a line. Upper lights in these windows contain a circular design; the on all other roof slopes. Other notable windows include a large arched stained glass window on the west elevation and a bay window on that side, also. Many other segmental and flat arched windows are featured around the house.
An open frame porch with The interior double doors gathering system on the third floor illustrates that aspect of original operation. space used at one time as a childrens' room and/or ballroom. seat is found directly to its right. Also in the main foyer area is a large fire- windows in the dormer above reflect the design quality.Plainer dormers are found features including wall coverings and light fixtures. The exterior door is original;a modern storm door has been installed over it.
The kitchen is large with an arched brick alcove apparently designed to house The interior is in an excellent state of preservation containing most original Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below _literature _ sculpture _ education .military - social/ .engineering - music - exploration/settlement - - philosophy The X industry - politics/government Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Wellston was a center of the iron industry in Jackson County in the mid 19th century to the early 20th century. The town was platted in 1874, because of the systems were more developed. Joseph Clutts (1861-1927) arrived in Wellston in 1882 and established himself as owner of the Milton and Wellston Furnaces, the Spring Valley Iron Company and as holder of large tracts of timberland in Southeastern Ohio. All of these enterprises were associated with the production of iron, the mainstay of Wellston's economy at the time. Clutts leased and owned other operations pertaining to iron, coal and established himself as owner of the Wellston Sentinel newspaper and later as a with the decline in its economy.
The Clutts-Oths House is elegant and of quite large scale when contrasted with immediate area surrounding the house is comprised almost exclusively of commercial central business district. All major architectural features on the exterior are 1700-1799 1800-1899 transportation humanitarian commerce Builder/Architect Period economics conservation 1500-1599 science agriculture the bulk of Welston's architecture, most of which is modest, workers' housing. The law 8. Significance Specific dates The Clutts-Oths House is significant both historically for its association with _communications - invention promient member of the Republican party.Clutts 1eft Wellston c.1919,coinciding - other (specify) -art - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric .community planning . landscape architecture .
religion .archeology-historic X architecture Joseph Clutts, a major industrialist in Wellston, and architecturally as a fine example of early twentieth century residential architecture in Wellston.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003105, 18 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.
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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