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 Hollister-Parry House is a historic residence in the village of Woodsfield, Ohio, United States. Built in the middle of the 19th century, it has been named a historic site and converted into a museum.”
Wikipedia article Hollister-Parry House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 9 National Register listings in Monroe County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80003166- 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
11 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hollister-Parry House between
2012 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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
6
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 390 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hollister-Parry House between 1860 and
1975: 368 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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
Woodsfield, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 flash flood, 3 flood.
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.
Minor low-land flooding was first reported in Woodsfield. In 45 minutes 1.2 inches of rain was recorded at Woodsfield and Lewisville. State Route 26 between Graysville and Rinard Mills was closed. SR 260 was closed near Sycamore Valley. Wills, Skin, Rich Fork and Wolfpen Creeks all went out of their banks. Numerous small streams were also flooded. SR 26, CR 68 and Twp 562 flooded near the Little Muskingum River. Flooding was also reported along SR 379 in Seneca Township. SR 78, west of Lewisville, was closed.
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
1,269 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
1898 Atlas of Monroe County. an 'ell" shape with two story projections at both front and west entrances.Both entrances a one story shed roofed open frame porch in the "ell".A small cheese house typical _fair moved date The house sits on a four acre lot of nearly the dimensions of the lot in The Windows are 6/6 double hung on the firststory and 3/3 double hung on the second bracketing and a partial return.A semi elliptical light is found in the pediment and to do with heating and plumbing.The house is used as a house musuem and as the Xunaltered Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - prehistoric _ archeology-historic .
science - sculpture _ social/ - 1800-1899 exploration/settlement _ - philosophy .theater - politics/government .transportation - other (specify) of its architectureas viewed against the backdrop of the village of Woodsfield, a small are restrained in ornament and the pitch of the roof is not steep. Two porticos and was occupied by Nathan Höllister, a prominent attorney. In 1889 the house was sold to Dr. J. R. Parry, a Woodsfield physician and it remained in that family until 1974. commerce 1700-1799 1400-1499 conservation military communications Builder/Architect literature Period humanitarian engineering education law music Specific dates invention economics and exteriorly.
community with modest vernacular architecture predominating.The architecture of the siding which simulates rusticated ashlar stone with distinct quoins.The windows 1900- house possesses some elements of the Renaissance Revival and Italian Villa styles 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) with flat roofs supported by square columns are featured on the north and west elevations. - archeology-prehistoric - community planning _ architecture When the house was built in 1858 it was considered a "splendid residence" in that it has a block-like appearance, a prominent cornice with bracketing and wood 1859 1500-1599 1600-1699 industry art agriculture 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003166, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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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