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 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.80003134- 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
194 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Erlich, F. W., House between
1992 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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
100
Arson/incendiarism
36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Other causes
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
Natural
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 438 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Erlich, F. W., House between 1888 and
1972: 320 Animalia, 68 Fungi, 49 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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 Erlich, F. W., House: 1 unknown, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Ironton, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Several small streams, including Symmes Creek flooded on the 4th into the 5th. The Ohio River caused minor flooding and road closures to continue into the 7th.
On South Third Street, a vacant building saw an entire wall of bricks blown out from its upper floor. The bricks toppled to the sidewalk below. One tree on Sixth Street fell onto a parked car. Trash cans, potted plants, lawn furniture and other debris were blown around town.
Fallen trees damaged the roofs of two businesses and one house. Cars were also damaged. Urban runoff from the downpour flooded the police station when a sump pump failed.
Trees were uprooted. One hard hit region was Kitts Hill area, where Crow Ridge and Homeless Roads had power lines blown down. One car was reported crushed by a fallen tree.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,321 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
in the left section of the facade. The roof is of irregular lines including gable, hipped and a large conical roof on the turret.A gabled dormer is set on the front roof slope. The main entrance is sheltered by a hip roofed open frame porch with gingerbread plastered with gold leaf.The basement features a wine cellar. Check one Built-in cabinets 7)and the stairway 6) further illustrate the excellent A garage sits just east of the home. double with panels of beveled leaded glass (photo 5). The floors are of four different X altered are featured, one on the rear east portion and one in the rear. (photo 2) has been entirely retained.
(photo 4) The interior contains original features in excellent condition.The main doors are transom lights.Wainscotting of pressed cork simulating leather 6)iis found through- light fixtures are present; half are gas.half are electric; all are of different styles. on the roof. Windows are variable in shape and size; 6 are identical with beveled leaded 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) is virtually unchanged, providing an outstanding example of workmanship and taste of the in the late 19th and early 20th centruies.This home was built during that time by Thomas _economics with a prominent businessman of that time. 1900- military -art - archeology-prehistoric .community planning _ religion Frederich W..Erlich, owner of one of the largest dry goods concerns in the city. Erlich added the massive turret making the home a most imposing structure. On the exterior, the house, though somewhat altered, retains original features and fine detailing- The interior original five lots . The property has been well maintained and remained in the Erlich being of much smaller scale, modest design and of later vintage.
The quality of the interior landscape architecture The city experienced great expansion due to the growth of the iron and coal industries family until 1976.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003134, 15 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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