Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
From the record
“The Old Union School at 310 Sycamore St. in Coshocton in Coshocton County, Ohio was built in 1855. Milner and is designed in the Greek Revival style of architecture.”
Wikipedia article Old Union School (Coshocton, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Coshocton County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84000127- 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.
Then and now
1913 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
In apportioning the pages of Coshocton County history it has been necessary to keep ever in view a vital Present as well as a vivid Past; to dwell not unduly on the Old, and to treat justly of the New; to sketch the antiquity that was Moundbuilder and the barbarity that was Indian into the civilization which is Coshocton.
In apportioning the pages of Coshocton County history it. has been necessary to keep ever in view a vital Present as well as a vivid Past; to dwell not unduly on the Old, and to treat justly of the New; to sketch the antiquity that was Moundbuilder and the barbarity that was Indian into the civilization which is Coshocton.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Old Union School
between 2007 and 2020, burning about 20 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
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 1,671 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Old Union School between 1846 and 1974: 878 Animalia, 659 Plantae, 124 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Old Union School: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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
Coshocton, the town this property stands in, in 117 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 71 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 16 flash flood, 4 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.
Local emergency manager reports trees and wires down across the county; 3 utility poles were snapped from the bottom in a row laying the same direction along Magnolia Street.
Trees and power lines blown down in Nellie, Coshocton, and Warsaw. Some fell on 12th St in Coshocton. 10 large trees fell in the Warsaw-West Lafayette area.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
front door is surrounded by sidelights and a trabeated transom; the window above the door also has sidelights.On the attic story on the sides of the building are two quarter-circle spite of the new siding the cupola retains its original form including its slightly a lobby connecting the rooms on each floor.Two partially enclosed stairways lead to the adversely affecting the buildings integrity. The major alteration to the school has been the residing of the cupola bell tower.In A bell tower is on the roof. -ruins The interior consists of four large rooms, two on the first floor and two on the second with deteriorated windows.A small concrete block one-story addition was made at the rear of the building.
bond brick over a sandstone foundation.It has a gable roof.Nine bays are on the front The school is located at the western end of a two acre park.A brick walk leads from the 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) schools in Roscoe, W. Lafayette, Jacobsport, and Canal Lewisville. Today, the Roscoe Union School is rebuilt and expanded, The Jackson Township Hall, a school in the 1900s, became a firehouse, and now houses a craft exhibit in Roscoe Village. The Old Union School remains as a unique example of early schoolhouses for all grade leyels. returns, flat stone lintels, entrance and brick pilasters across the facade.
1855 1600-1699 commerce 1700-1799 1400-1499 1500-1599 communications economics conservation art engineering humanitarian archeology-historic industry invention transportation Period theater philosophy military exploration/settlement prehistoric science agriculture literature Specific dates sculpture social/ law of the criminal law within the bounds of the Coshocton School district were used to purchase The Old Union School is historically significant because it is one of the few virtually intact examples of pre-Civil War school houses.As the Coshocton area expanded during the 1900- became offices for the Coshocton City School Board.
From 1930-1979 the building housed the Johnson-Humrickhouse Memorial Museum.In 1979 it was later made.George Hay was the carpenter, and the stone work was by Henry Davis. The contract bid for the school was made by A.N.Milner of $4,500-a small allowance - community planning landscape architecture Revival style used during this period of school construction, characterized by its cornice end a belfry, the school was brick with plain stone lintels and a gable roof. Pilasters were often used to mark the corners. The Old Union School serves as a fine example of Greek Bricks for the school were made from clay at the site. Fines collected for violations the bell for the belfry in 1860. In 1886 this bell was taken down and re-hung in the then alterations.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84000127, 12 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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