Home for the Aged Deaf

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Home for the Aged Deaf between 1804 and 1975: 2,834 Animalia, 195 Plantae, 57 Fungi, 16 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Basinger, A. J. Penniman 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
	Sporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex Link	1900	W. A. Kellerman
	Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana	1804	Dr. Paddock	Worthington
	Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.	1805	J. R. Paddock	Worthington
	Carex comosa Boott	1809	Collector unknown	Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1840	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Podophyllum peltatum L.	1840	Sullivant, W.S.
	Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Anoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	Sullivant, W.S.	Columbus
	Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Alum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westerville, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

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.

• 1902 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1995 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000

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 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 - 880 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80004522, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Presbyterian Parsonage	under 500 feet	1980
	Central College Presbyterian Church	0.1 miles	1980
	Rev. Ebenezer Washburn House	0.2 miles	1980
	Gideon Hart House	0.7 miles	1973
	McDannald Homestead	1.7 miles	1978
	Charles S. Osborn House	2.4 miles	1977