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
“The Frederick Fabing House is a historic residence in Fremont, Ohio, United States. Built as the home of one of the area's richest men, it has been designated a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Frederick Fabing House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 9 National Register listings in Sandusky County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in Europe
National Register reference number.83002054- 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.
Five hundred and fifty homes were flooded, fifty of them either totally destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. This created a problem to cope with for which there was no ready-made organization at hand. The way it was speedily met will stand for a long time as a significant testimony to some of Fremont's leading citizens as adequate leaders in time of need. To be caught in such a situation, unwarned and unprepared, is a real challenge to any man. More than one man has been well tried in this last month. This principle has been very manifest among the rank and file of the people. The readiness and willingness with which a man went about rehabilitating himself was a good sign of what he was worth. In all sections of the city the thrifty man was the first to find his shovel, and the last to ask or look for any help. It has been significant all through that those least willing to help themselves, were most willing to ask help of others. But I want to hasten to say that what has struck me all through my contact with the people in the inundated district, has been their undaunted courage. I think it has been really heroic the way some have faced the situation and recovered their home life.
On Tuesday, March 25, 1913, Fremont faced a calamity. The entire city was without gas or water. Down its main business street, and through a large portion of its residential section rushed a current of furious swiftness; dozens of homes were being swept away; hundreds of people were homeless and hundreds more marooned in their homes surrounded by the angry waters were facing possible death.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fabing, Frederick, House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 521 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fabing, Frederick, House between 1880 and
1975: 477 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Fabing, Frederick, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fremont, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 52 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Structural damage occurred at the Sandusky County Fairgrounds in Fremont. Three buildings had metal siding damaged. One of these buildings had its large metal door blown-in and half of its roof torn off. A barricade was blown into a car and injured the driver.
A tornado touched down just northwest of Fremont near the intersection of Shade Road and Four Mile House Road. A house was heavily damaged and a motor home destroyed near this location. From the initial touchdown site, the tornado traveled northeast for around three and a half miles and then dissipated east of State Route 19 just to the south of the Ohio Turnpike. A second home was heavily damaged near Booktown Road at State Route 19. Elsewhere along the damage path, a few homes sustained minor damage and seven barns were leveled. One of the barns contained a collection of antique cars which were destroyed. Many trees and power poles were also downed along the damage path which was generally no more than 50 yards in width.
Reports of impassable roadway flooding in and just north of Fremont, including flowing water over County Road 73 between Oak Harbor Road and Fangboner Road. Community building in the northern portion of Fremont experienced up to 5 feet of water in the basement of the building. Radar estimated rainfall of 3.25 to 4 inches fell in a 3 to 4 hour period, much of which fell in an initial 45 to 60 minute period, when 1.5 to 2 inches of rain fell in the hour leading up to the flash flood event.
Torrential rain with fell on July 10th over mainly southern portions of Sandusky County with radar estimates around 3 inches fell in 1.5 hours. Widespread rapidly developing flooding occurred. Bellevue Police reported most of the town was flooded with several cars stuck in the water. State RT 105, U.S. 6 between U.S. 23 and State Rt. 53, Route 53 near the Ohio Turnpike, and State Rt. 19 near County Road 213 were closed from the flooding.
A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 70 mph caused considerable damage in Fremont. Dozens of trees were downed in the city. A few homes sustained roof damage from fallen trees.
Numerous trees, a few utility poles, and wires were reported down in the area. One tree fell onto a house, but the extent of the damage to the home was not known.
Numerous trees downed in Fremont. Four of these trees fell onto houses and one fell onto a car. A mesonet station in Fremont recorded a peak convective gust of 61 mph.
A complex of thunderstorms tracked across the county producing widespread wind damage. Several reports of downed large trees and branches came in to the office. Crop damage was also reported during this event.
A tractor trailer was blown-over by strong convective wind gusts about 1.2 miles-WNW of downtown Fremont. Business' signs were also damaged in the area.
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From the nomination file
1,723 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
area with many school and public buildings in the near vicinity.Parking The Frederick Fabing Residence isa three common bond brick structure ona changed after the turn of the century and the fence of the patio was sensitively remodeled -fair - excellent .deteriorated _ unaltered X good added to the openings.. There is a partial basement beneath the house ( not under addition). blends with the original design. A cupola was originally situated atop the square tower. Ornamental iron cresting was also once on the cupola and atop the mansard roof. within the past few years. The interior of the house was converted into a combined office extant.
slate walk leads to the house's main entrance.The boundaries selected for this nomination bricks form the walk along Park Avenue Main Street)and part of the original Areas of Significance - Check and justify below _ archeology-historic - agriculture _architecture - military - music - 1800-1899 - philosophy _ theater .industry X politics/government - transportation X other (specify) include a flat-sided mansard roof with ornamental metal curbs and dormers, elaborate front hall stairway with newel post, a marble mantel and woodwork. Fabing's involvement in public service was extensive, but particularly important were 1600-1699 1859 1700-1799 1500-1599 1400-1499 utilities communications community.
commerce education engineering Unknown Period art Builder/Architect literature science exploration/settlement sculpture law Specific dates 1900- social/ hoodmolds and projecting overdoor, and projecting cornice with brackets, dentils, modillions for its association with Frederick Fabing, an individual significant in Fremont's past, _invention and his serving as treasurer of the Sandusky County Agricultural Society (l869). Fabing s other contributions to Fremont include the construction of the Fabing& Heim block, humanitarian 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) two year old gas works in 1862.The business, called the Fremont Gas Works after 1867, overseeing the development of Fremont's first water works. -prehistoric where he lived out his entire adult life in Fremont. - conservation his years served as city council member, 1865 and 1873-6. Fabing, a native of Lorraine, France, arrived in Fremont(then Lower Sandusky) in 1844 _economics an opera house (both demolished),the founding of the lst Brass Band and the Lifeguard Band, and the end of which he was president.In l882 Fabing was one of the first three trustees FREDERICK FABING (l832-l906) was noted as"one of the oldest established businessmen in _ archeology-prehistoric _ landscape architecture _ religion a paneled frieze, and a square tower.
Significant interior details include the original community planning characteristics of the French Second Empire style of architecture.It is also significant fitting and plumbing, Mr.Fabing was one of four gentlemen who purchased a floundering early twentieth centuries and are more vernacular. Significant details of this residence Fremont area.The majority of residences in Fremont date from the late nineteenth and the city"of Fremont in a county biographical record.In the profession of gas and steam to Fremont in 1857,having been successful.He married in 1858 and built this residence in '59 * Snádusky County Courthouse Records: Recorder's Office, Map Room. * Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Sandusky & Ottawa, J.H. Beers & Co.: Chicago, 1896.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83002054, 17 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.
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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