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Photograph of Ross-Gowdy House
Photograph by Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ross-Gowdy House

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 15 National Register listings in Clermont County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 125 George St., New Richmond, 45157
  • When was it listed? 1982-06-01
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ohio township
  • National Register reference number. 82003554 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 626 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 626 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ross-Gowdy House between 1866 and 1975: 481 Animalia, 124 Fungi, 13 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, Alice Edwards; J.G. Edwards 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Bryum argenteum, not of this specimenBryum argenteum Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant

All 626 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Richmond, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2005Flash FloodNew Richmond$10,000US Route 52 was flooded and closed. High water entered several homes.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$8,000A few trees and power lines were downed along Old U.S. 52, between Grays Lane and Birney Lane.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$5,000Several trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$5,000Trees were knocked down across roads around New Richmond.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$3,000A few trees were downed on 12 Mile Road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$3,000Trees and powerlines were downed.
November 2007HailNew Richmond$2,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$2,000no account filed
February 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$1,000A tree was knocked down along U.S. Route 52.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$1,000Large branches were broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011FloodNew Richmond$1,000Streets were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$1,000A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond-A small tree was uprooted.
April 2020HailNew Richmond-no account filed
March 2019HailNew Richmond-no account filed
August 2015HailNew Richmond-no account filed
August 2015HailNew Richmond-no account filed
March 2012HailNew Richmond-no account filed
March 2012HailNew Richmond-no account filed
July 2011HailNew Richmond-no account filed
June 2011HailNew Richmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clermont County

Map coverage status

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.

From the nomination file

1,975 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

Situated in 125 George Street in the Old Susannah section of New Richmond, Ohio 400 half feet wide by thirteen feet long one-story extension, it is two "rooms" wide by and enclosed "Porch"). There are three windows across the second story front, and two windows and entrance (east end) across the first floor front, first floor and second floor windows) on the first floor east side, first and second floors openings symmetrically floor, with second and first floor windows asymmetrically placed. The main roof is metal, with three pitched sections (front and two sides) pointing up at the center of roof center ridge at the rear of the house, flush with the gables. Above each window ..

the main fireplace, the remainder of the interior is unremarkable, though no main or area, and there remains a recessed entryway and front door. CONDITION EXCELLENT RUINS 7DESCRIPTION FAIR bearing walls have been structurally altered. XALTERED CHECK ONE and two windows across the rear second story, and two windows across the rear first is a rectangular sawn stone lintel. brick construction, with a one story original extension across the rear of the building. opening symmetrically placed; there are three windows across the second and first floors XDETERIORATED of four square cut wood pillars, approximately six feet by six feet in total covered The interior of the house has front landing and staircase at the main door. Except for building.

Read the complete 1,975-word case file.

Statement of significance

The Ross - Gowdy House, built c. 1850, is significant for its historical association 1700-1799 ART SCIENCE CONSERVATION EDUCATION ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMERCE 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC RELIGION AGRICULTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PERIOD XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY INVENTION THEATER SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY example of mid-nineteenth century Greek Revival design.During the Civil War Ross had Ross probably had amassed sufficient wealth that allowed him to build an impressive A.Gowdy, another local illuminary.Gowdy's public service included terms as town with two of New Richmond's chief nineteenth century businessmen and civic leaders.

townhouse on George Street.Although altered, the house is a locally sophisticated the historical development of this small Clermont County community. _ECONOMICS X1800-1899 four terms as a village trustee and in 1849 held the recorder's position.By 1850 -1500-1599 -1600-1699 -1400-1499 - MILITARY -MUSIC - LAW stands. Anxious to inprove the town's amenities, Ross was appointed one of three David Ross, an early settler to this Ohio River community,is listed as New Richmond's only baker in 18l6.By 1829 he purchased two unimproved parcels where this house now recorder in 1844,trustee in 1853,and in 1854 Secretary of the New Richmond Board 9

The whole case file for this property - 1,975 words, 14 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82003554, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003554 in Record Group 79.
Clermont CountyAll 15 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.
  • 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.