BlockFrom the record
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Licking County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rogers House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 304 N. Pearl St., Granville, 43023
- When was it listed? 1980-11-28
- Category. building
- Also known as. Granville MRA
- Township. Granville township
- Architectural style. Gothic Revival
- National Register reference number. 80003139 - 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.
The ground it stands on
48,426 wordsThe chapter on Granville Township in History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names Granville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The township was organized in 1807, out of the west half of Licking township, Fairfield county. The latter township then embraced all of what is now Licking county, except the Refugee lands. This being cut in two in the center, the west half was named Granville, and was, therefore, the second township organized in this territory.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
The works of the Mound Builders in this township are very numerous and interesting; indeed, in number and varied character are scarcely excelled by those of Newark township. The Raccoon valley and contiguous territory constitute, probably, the most interesting territory in the State, or even in the United States for the antiquarian. Mounds of different sizes and heights, earthworks of every kind known to the historian exist here in great numbers. Numbers yet to be seen and traced may almost be counted by the hundred, while many, very many, have disappeared entirely, by the ravages of time and the plow, and live only in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. No particular care seems to be taken to preserve these mounds and works. Wherever they are in the way of the tiller of the soil, they are ruthlessly plowed down or dug away. They are disappearing with comparative rapidity, and very soon, with few exceptions, will live only in history. Occcasionally they are erected upon high peaks, or places inaccessible to the plow and cultivator, and in such places are, of course, in the best state of preservation. The traveler between Newark and Granville will observe many of these mounds, a few yet pretty well preserved, even on the extensive and rich bottoms of the Raccoon; but the better preserved works, and those probably the most interesting, are located upon the hills that shut in the valley. Captain M. M. Munson, who occupies a beautiful farm in the midst of these mounds, and who has made them something of a study, is confident that around the great Aligator mound, located not far from his house, is a complete system of mounds and earthworks that point to it as a common center. However this may be, there is certainly a large circle of works in this vicinity, extending several miles in every direction, and seemingly connected with each other and with the "Old Fort" near Newark and its contiguous works.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Granville Township - 48,426 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 3,002 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,002 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rogers House between 1843 and 1975: 2,684 Animalia, 241 Fungi, 48 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | F. S. Robinson | |
 | Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822 | 1893 | unknown | Licking Reservoir |
 | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1893 | J.B. Ellis | Granville |
 | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | 1843 | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | Mack, D. (Don) | Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1872 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA |
 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | 1874 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813) | 1878 | Savage, E. (Ed) | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
All 3,002 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rogers House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockport Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
32 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted and several buildings were damaged at Lake Hudson near Granville. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down from 200 to 300 trees on a 5 mile path north and northeast of Granville. Nickel size hail also occurred in Newark. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $40,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Granville area. A few barns were also damaged and/or destroyed and a home just south of town was damaged. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $30,000 | Numerous trees and power poles were downed. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $24,000 | Twelve power poles were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $12,000 | Numerous power poles and trees were reported down. A few roofs were damaged and the main antenna at the 911 center was bent. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed from Granville to Newark. A tree fell on a car in Granville. Quarter size hail also occurred. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed from Denison University into Newark. A few trees fell on parked automobiles, causing minor damage. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Granville | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area. There were numerous reports of water flowing over roads in Union Township, Hebron, and the Buckeye Lake area. One woman was trapped in a car due to high water. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | A tree fell onto power lines. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | Several trees were downed near the intersection of Burg Street and New Burg Street. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Several trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | A few trees were downed in the Newark and Granville areas. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Several large limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Granville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $2,000 | Trees were downed on Welsh Hills Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | A tree was downed onto Cambria Mill Road. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | One tree was reported down at Highway 16 and Cherry Valley Road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | A tree was blown down and blocking a road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $500 | Multiple wires were knocked down at Burg Street and Thornewood Drive. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Granville | - | Minor street and low lying flooding was occurring due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Granville | - | High water washed out a berm on State Route 661. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
6 surveysUnited 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.
- 1908 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Granville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
From the nomination file
439 words on recordWhen 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.
The whole case file for this property - 439 words, 6 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80003139, 6 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wallace W. Carpenter House | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | Buxton Inn | 0.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Avery-Hunter House | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
| Granville Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1980 | |
 | St. Luke's Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 1976 |
 | A. A. Bancroft House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80003139 in Record Group 79. |
| Licking County | All 60 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- 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.