Photograph of Marsh Foundation School — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

George H. Marsh Homestead and the Marsh Foundation School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Van Wert County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Listed as. Marsh, George H., Homestead and the Marsh Foundation School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ridge Rd., Van Wert
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80003239 - 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

1914 to 1953

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering George H. Marsh Homestead and the Marsh Foundation School, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheet covering George H. Marsh Homestead and the Marsh Foundation School, surveyed 1914

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of George H. Marsh Homestead and the Marsh Foundation School: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Ridge Township Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Van Wert County

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1914 USGS Van Wert quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Van Wert quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Van Wert quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Van Wert County Courthouse	0.9 miles	1974
Kauke and McCurdy Block	1.0 miles	2021
Brumback Library	1.0 miles	1979
Van Wert Bandstand	1.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003239 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Wert County	All 8 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.
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.