Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
From the record
“Zanesville Masonic Temple, at the northwest corner of North Fourth and Market streets, was erected in 1857. Stated communications are held Friday evening on or before full moon.”
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio; Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the County and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy Families and Individuals (1892). Machine-read text.
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Muskingum County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80003191- 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.
Then and now
1910 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19101992
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Zanesville city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C.
Zanesville and its immediate vicinity possess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if not quite, all the industries requiring skilled labor, it is believed, all things considered, equal, if not superior to those of any place East or West. In every item to be taken into account in the make-up of a manufacturing city comparison is challenged. It was the remark of the late John Quincy Adams made in reference to the water power here existing, that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal inspection of the water power at this point, said: "The water power furnished by the James river at Richmond makes it the best manufacturing site in the United States save that at Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were expressed before the era of coal and railway transportation.
The manufacturing interest of Zanesville are at this time its leading attraction. It is a growing interest and is imparting to the city a permanent and solid character, and placing it among the most prosperous cities of the West. The progress made in this direction has been rapid during recent years. Old industries have been enlarged and extended, and new ones added which bid fair to become large and prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to manufacturing industry is attributed to the fact that fuel and living are so cheap, market supplies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for shipment so superior, and the location so central and generally so advantageous. Besides a more enlightened and liberalized sentiment than heretofore existed now prevails, and there is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage productive enterprises by furnishing money at liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Charles Brendel House
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
33
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
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 857 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Charles Brendel House between 1873 and 1975: 744 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Charles Brendel House: 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Zanesville, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down four power poles and power lines just north of Zanesville. Several trees were also reported down across the eastern part of the county.
Street flooding was reported in and near Zanesville after 1.30 inches fell in 20 minutes. Large branches were downed east of Zanesville. One branch fell on a passing motorist's car. There was no mention of any injuries.
United 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.
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
brick construction, laid in common bond and resting on a sandstone foundation. L-shaped in plan, the structure is comprised of a 42'x32' rectangular block tains four bays, and is symmetrically arranged with a handsome trabeated doorway (photos 1 and 2) with transom and sidelights and a main door with a glass upper this small-scale dwelling is its fine portico, designed in the very best traditions at each side of the door, set perpendicular to the house, are two porch benches portico are two tall windows, flat arched, 4/4, with low pedimental hoods. intact completely around the house, on the main portion as well as on the ell.
At the north side of the rear elevation is located the ell described above, one with a slate roof through which break two inset gable-end chimneys at the north and south elevations. (photo 3) The only outbuilding on the site is a wood frame gable roofed garage, with Condition ruins unexposed 7. Description Check one X original site board-and-batten sheathing (photo 4) The Charles Brendel House isa 1-story Gothic Revival cottage of _fair X altered and an ell measuring 19'x22'. The facade, which is oriented to the east, con- story in height. At the point that the south elevation of the ell joins the main block of the house there is an inset screened-in porch, 7'x9'. The house is covered section and paneled wood lower sections.
One of the most distinctive features of with a pedimental window matching those of the first story. Lacy bargeboard is date further trimmed at its cornice and eaves with lightly sawn bargeboard.Finally, which carry forth the multifoil motif described above.To either side of the Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric . archeology-historic - 1500-1599 .agriculture . sculpture - military - social/ _art .
(in one paragraph) The Brendel House is nominated as one of only three remaining Gothic Revival residences in the city of Lanesville, and, indeed, as the finest of these three. The Gothic Revival movement arrived late in Zanesville, the Greek Revival having time a particularly popular style in Zanesville; architectural fancy seems to have lept directly from from the formalism of the Greek Revival to the eclecticism unaltered exterior and interior, is clearly Zanesville's finest example of the Gothic Revival cottage. The house was built for Charles Brendel (1833-1911) a local merchant who had a shoe store in the city for many years.
Under Brendel's ownership, the tax records for 1867 list "$1500 added--brick house." 1600-1699 1400-1499 1867 1700-1799 commerce architecture Period transportation industry education economics conservation engineering humanitarian invention literature science 8. Significance Specific dates communications exploration/settlement law 1900- - archeology-prehistoric - community planning landscape architecture _ - religion held sway well into the 1850s. In point of fact, the Gothic Revival was at no of the various Italainate-inspired modes.The Brendel House, with its essentially Quadrangle scale 1:24000 Verbal boundary description and justification Lot 7 of Brendel's Subdivision _ state 16 May, 1980 city or town 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national X local 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the NationaRegister and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature GPO 938 835 code 614-543-0762 county Easting Zone Northing date 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003191, 11 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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