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Hamilton-Ickes House
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 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
National Register reference number.80003106- 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
9 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton-Ickes House between
2003 and 2016, burning about 26 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
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 99 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hamilton-Ickes House between 1876 and
1964: 94 Animalia, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Clarence H. Kennedy 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
Adena, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
3,051 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
This is a 2½-story residential structure, executed in brick and set on a tooled (photo 1) features a centered 1-story portico supported by square posts and pilasters Windows on the house are double hung, mostly 2/2; since the original owner was a contractor, and would have had access to the best materials, this sash configuration could be original, but it seems likely that originally the windows had multi-light sash. Some of the original louvered external shutters remain. The principal Greek Revival-Italianate transitional element found on the house is the entablature which contains a molded cornice, paneled frieze, brackets and a rather weighty return on the latticed open porch is loca ed in the south side of the ell (photo 3), in a deter- iorated state at present.
Another porch, not dissimilar was located along the inside of the ell but has been enclosed. heavy, but is distinguished by marbelized baseboards and mantles (photo 4). are wood frame barns located ca. 100 feet east of the house. Condition unexposed The interior of the Hamilton-Ickes House is its most impressive feature.Origi- Check one nal heavy molding trims all doors and windows.All wood is grained and original. the main door which consists of a Greek-Revival-style door with transom and sidelights.
and having a molded wood ceiling.The pilasters on the portico also serve to frame sections foregound of photo 2).Even the milkhouse has a molded entablature with The nearest dependency is a brick milk house to which has been added two frame _ruins X fair ashlar sandstone foundation with a smooth-dressed stone water table. The 5-bay facade gable ends.
(in one paragraph) The Hamilton-Ickes House is nominated as the finest architectural specimen in County, to the south) has been stripped, leaving little evidence of human habita- domestic, commercial, and ecclesiastical -- is clearly vernacular in character. The Hamilton-Ickes House is the exception to the rule in the area, combining the Greek Revival massing, portico, and interior decoration with a weighty Italianate the Short Creek Presbyterian Church in Adena, erecting its house of worship, and the Ickes family in whose hands it remained for 42 years. Thomas Ickes was a farmer and his son, John, who purchased the property in 1908, was a regional manager of Belmont Savings and Loan.
John Ickes was later president of the People's National Bank significance to local commerce, through its association with John Ickes. 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 economics exploration/settlement conservation education industry invention engineering Builder/Architect humanitarian Period entablature. science 1900- military law 8. Significance Specific dates - other (specify) -art - archeology-prehistoric - community planning X architecture The house was built by and for Thomas Hamilton, a local contractor builder. He purchased the land in 1839 and probably erected this dwelling during the 1840s in Adena. It was during the tenure of the Ickes family that the property took on its - landscape architecture - __religion 1600-1699 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003106, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
3 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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