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.
From the record
one of 11 National Register listings in Ashland County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003539- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Garst, John, House between
2017 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
2
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 659 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Garst, John, House between 1896 and
1975: 622 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C ALLEN, A.E. Daugherty, Auten, 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 National Weather Service names
Loudonville, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees, destroyed one garage and blew the roof off a barn. Another barn was blown down, killing some of the livestock inside. Crops were damaged.
Moderate rainfall fell over the Mohican Valley on Sunday May 9th. Rainfall amounts between 2 to 3 inches was reported between 6 am and 6 pm. The Black Fork reported flooding from well upstream in Richland County and again down in Loudonville where it meets the Mohican River. The Black Fork USGS gage at Loudonville exceeded flood stage on Sunday afternoon and reached moderate flood stage on the morning of the 10th, cresting at 11.3 feet. Flood waters inundated recreational campgrounds and liveries along the river. Due to the early season timing, there was limited population along the river, however damage was reported to numerous campers and some permanent structures.
Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated at 65 to 75 mph knocked down around two dozen trees in Mohican State Park. A distinct damage path approximately one quarter mile in length and 50 to 100 feet wide was observed. Most of the downed trees were 12 to 18 inches in diameter and were snapped near the ground.
Thunderstorms dumped two to three inches of rain on southern Ashland County in about an hour. The Mohican River went out its banks just west of Loudonville in Mohican State Park. A campground in the park had to be partially evacuated.
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.
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From the nomination file
2,408 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
mouldings around door and window openings.South of the barn is a combination garage and Northwest of the house is a large barn of about the same period.It features Italianate Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM JOHN GARST HOUSE Mohicanville, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET around door and window openings which are similar in style to that used allowing an entrance to the lower level from the rear, while the ground RECEIVED building was also covered with clapboard siding.Recently in poor condition, level walls are rubble stone construction.The barn is well preserved and township.The combination barn and corncrib is a plain building and fairly The nominated property possesses two other structures which have structure located directly behind the residence.It was a story and a half DATE ENTERED in height and featured a doorway with side lights and an open stairway.The modest in size.It is an old structure and forms part of a group of three FOR NPS USE ONLY this building was taken down in 1980.
(Hev. 10-74) buildings which comprise this nomination.The original homestead was a log is one of the more impressive examples of this type of structure in this level entrance to the upper level is in front.The foundation and first on the residence.The land slopes away from the barn to the 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) John Garst was born in 1820 in Alsace, France. At the age of eleven his family Eventually, Garst was able to extend his farm to over six hundred acres and construct had deterorated considerably. It has since been restored. 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 communications industry humanitarian invention economics education conservation engineering theater prehistoric agriculture law 1900- 1400-1499 this elaborate Italianate residence. enterprises including a private banking business that concentrated in real estate.He stakingly restored to its original beauty.Of secondary importance is the historical few alterations have been made to the exterior and the interior has recently been pain century rural complex which has retained a remarkable degree of physical integrity.
The John Garst House is significant as a well preserved example of rural Italianate was active in local politics and business. who owned the house until his death in 1975,when the house was sold to the present Upon John Garst's death in 1904 at the age of 84,the estate passed to his second - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture - religion exploration/settlement - -philosophy resettled in Pennsylvania, but his parents died soon thereafter from a Cholera epidemic. twenty-five acres west of town in 1850 and moved into the small Greek Revival house. Taken as a whole the house, barn and outbuildings make up an important late 19th Builder/Architect Unknown architecture.
Its size and scale distinguish this farmhouse from other local examples association of this house with John Garst, one of the county's largest landowners, who eventually opened his own blacksmith shop.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003539, 14 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.
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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