Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1983. 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 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83002022- 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. Museums hold 873 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Beebe, Horace Y., House between 1883 and
1975: 582 Animalia, 251 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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 federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Beebe, Horace Y., House: 5 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ravenna, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 4 flash 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.
Widespread flooding through the northern half of the county. Hewins Road in Windham Township has 6 ft. of water across the roadway. Three mobile home parks in Ravenna Township were inundated. Over 20 homes in Ravenna Township had basement flooding, with additional flooding reported throughout Nelson Township, Garrettsville, and Freedom Township.
An 56 knot thunderstorm wind gust was measured by the AWOS in Ravenna. Emergency Management reported one building collapsed with three others damaged. One of the damaged buildings may have shifted off its foundation. Broadcast media also relayed reports of pine trees down in the area.
Heavy rain fell across central Portage County on the evening of June 17th. Rainfall estimates from local officials were 2 to 3 inches with a few reports of 4 inches which fell in an hour. Some roads were damaged and manhole covers blown off. Ten properties sustained minor water damage to basements and first floors.
Heavy rainfall produced widespread flooding in Ravenna with the hardest hit area along Dawley Road in the township. Other areas include South Chestnut Street, Spruce Road and Hazen Avenue in the city. The rainfall estimates are between 3 and 4 inches of rainfall which fell on the 10th.
7 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,698 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
On either side of the main block is a one-story wing parallel to the main added in the Neo-Classical revival style ca.19l5.Located two miles X fair fluted pilasters and a robust, heavy frieze and mantel. Otherwise the interior The front gable forms a complete classical pediment.There are two windows The interior is in a simple classical style.The main stair is a single-run on each floor of the facade; they have six-over-six pane double-hung sash. the house.The main floor joists are milled.To the rear of the house -good Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ science _ sculpture X architecture - social/ .engineering - music X 1800-1899 _ theater X politics/government -other (specify) Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) and Republican, holder of several prominent local positions, and one of the architecture in the city of Ravenna, enhanced by the addition of its twentieth Horace Y. Beebe was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1816. He first came to Ohio in 1834 and to Ravenna in 1836. He was County Deputy Clerk for seven district, receiving the appointment of Provost Marshal, remaining in that position until the close of the war. on February 15, 1861. Beebe was an Ohio delegate to the Republican Convention in 1860, and with three others, changed his vote upon the third ballot, thus to the estate, and it is assumed that the front porch was added at that time.
However, Bassett kept the property for only three years, and the home remains 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 1400-1499 commerce conservation economics communications invention transportation education industry literature Period humanitarian agriculture 8. Significance 1900- years.He led the efforts to organize the first Universalist Church Society. assuring the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.Lincoln ordered his inaugural train landscaped site above the graded terrace overlooking the road. law century Neo-Classical portico, and especially significant because of the significant primarily for its associations with Horace Y.Beebe.
military Beebe was one of the main reasons that President-elect Lincoln stopped at Ravenna tion of Lincoln.The house is one of the finest examples of pre-Civil War He was also a charter member and president of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Portage in the Beebe family until 19l5.When the house was acquired by C.J.Bassett in 1915,a newspaper account stated that Bassett made"extensive improvements" Horace Beebe lived in this house from 1852 until his death in 1888.It remained The Horace Y. Beebe home was the estate of an important Ohio abolitionist After 186l,"The Terrace"was also called "The Lincoln House,"because Horace Y.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83002022, 16 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.
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.
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.
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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