Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 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.
“Trimble House is a historic residence in the village of Mount Gilead, Ohio, United States. The most significant house in the village, it was built in the middle of the nineteenth century, and it has been designated a historic site.”
Wikipedia article James S. Trimble House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 15 National Register listings in Morrow County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 286 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trimble, James S., House between 1837 and 1975: 272 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Bird, C., Breiding, G. (George) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh. | 1890 | A. P. Morgan | Preston |
 | Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr. | 1898 | Lloyd | Ohio |
 | Sagittaria latifolia Willd. | 1837 | Frank B | |
 | Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius | 1837 | Frank B | in civitatate Ohio |
 | Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg. | 1837 | not recorded | |
 | Empidonax traillii (Audubon, 1828) | 1893 | Roberts | unspecified |
 | Veronica officinalis L. | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Russell |
 | Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr. | 1901 | Kellerman W. A. | |
 | Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. | 1919 | W. J. Campbell | Edison |
| Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke | 1920 | C. G. Lloyd | ||
 | Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819 | 1923 | Lyle D. Miller | Claridon, Lake Aquilla |
 | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1924 | Lyle D. Miller | Claridon |
All 286 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trimble, James S., House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Gilead Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer |
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.
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.
7. Description This is a large square two story residence constructed of brick.It is a fine example floor. It is in somewhatdeteriorated condition, but the interior has sustained no substantial Four large chimneys rise above the roofline from each corner of the house. On the east deteriorated unaltered in 1853. side is a projecting one story semi-octagonal bay topped by a bracketed cornice.Exterior -good 8.
(in one paragraph) The James S. Trimble House is the largest and most ornate residence in the village the Cook family, it was a major social center in the community. along the railroad at nearby Edison and dealt in grain sales. He later organized and operated residence. The house was acquired by Perry Cook and was occupied by his descendents for many owner through an open bid process. 1853 commerce 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 1400-1499 communications economics transportation philosophy engineering industry theater literature agriculture exploration/settlement education science music Period prehistoric Specific dates humanitarian law politics/government 1900- _conservation invention military community planning of Mount Gilead.
It is a rare and fine example of pre Civil War Italianate style archi- in this small county seat. Trimble was a prominent local businessman in Mount Gilead. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the house was owned by to 1819. James Trimble was a dry goods merchant in Mount Gilead. He operated a warehouse archeology-prehistoric art religion landscape architecture Baughman, A.J., History of Morrow County, Ohio. Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1880, page 308. Acreage of nominated property Mount Gilead, Ohio The nominated property consists of the lot owerdy by the Presbyterian Church at the northwest corner of Iberia and Douglas Streets, which and on a third side by an alley and on the fourth by a fencerow. - State 11.
The whole case file for this property - 3,179 words, 14 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82001481, 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Levering Hall | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Morrow County Courthouse And Jail | 0.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Floral Hall | 0.6 miles | 1976 |
 | Brown, Samuel, P., House | 7.6 miles | 1982 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82001481 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Morrow County | All 15 listed properties in this county. |
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