Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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
“Carlos Avery House is a historic house in the Pittsfield Township, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article Carlos Avery House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
National Register reference number.84003762- 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 1,753 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,753 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Avery, Carlos, House between 1852 and
1975: 998 Animalia, 527 Fungi, 198 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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
Wellington, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
A tornado touched down just south of Wellington at the intersection of Pitts and Jones Road. One home suffered significant damage and two barns were destroyed as the tornado moved almost due north. Nine other homes suffered minor damage and trees, utility poles, and power lines were downed. Two dogs in dog boxes that were kept in one of the destroyed barns were found 5 to 15 yards away from the site still in their boxes and unhurt.
A tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph impacted Wellington. The tornado began near the intersection of Meadow Lane and Sheila Drive, where tops of trees were broken off and scattered across neighboring streets, residential homes, and vehicles. As the tornado moved southeastward, a large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house along Hale Street. After the tornado crossed OH Route 18, powerlines and several trees were downed, and several large tree limbs were broken off and landed on homes. The tornado ended east of Grand Avenue, south of Dickson Street.
A microburst destroyed a barn, and the debris was blown downwind across a farm field. A neighboring garage and outbuilding also sustained minor damage. Several trees were also downed by the severe winds. There were no injuries reported.
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No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
1,653 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
locally made red bricks laid up in simple rows of stretchers with no apparent bonding extends out to the rear for a distance which is at least the length of the main building. This side wing has two full floors but the heights and detailing are reduced and the which is actually made of brick which is raised from the plane of the wall and painted wing features small frieze windows where the sash slide horizontally into wall cavaties. A one-story brick wing, which is apparently original, is located on the rear in the space between the two sections of the house. The interior features a broad central hallway along the south side of the main section. The hallway is entered by a large doorway featuring side and top lites.
It contains a spacious open stairway leading to a similar hallway on the second floor. To the right of the hallway is the parlor, a spacious room that features massive Greek Revival wood- front parlor is another room with similar woodwork. The lower south section contains 7. Description Condition unexposed moved cooking fireplace. surrounds the house. Alterations to the original fabric are minor and consist of rebricking of the fireplaces, facade;they have not been sandblasted or otherwise damaged.The building consists of two distinct parts:a large central section which isa full two stories in height, reached via a broad doorway with a hoist.The basement features a summer kitchen with . original site for present-day usage.
Check one here is another residence, the original home of Carlos Avery.
(in one paragraph) The Carlos Avery House is significant as a rare and unusually fine example of rural to a degree unmatched by any other building in the townshiy. Its broad brick entabla- ture and fully articulated triangular pediments are distinct characteristics of this defining the Greek Revival in this southern part of Lorain County. The building survives in remarkably good condition with only very minor alterations. Finally, this building is one of only a handful of brick residences built in the township during the pre-Civil War period and is the largest and most distinguished of these residences.
The house bears a similarity to two other brick Greek Revival residences which are the Werden House and the Brown House, both feature similar side wings to the Avery House and have similar datestones over the main entrance, suggesting that the same House is a full two stories in height, unlike the other two houses, and is considerably Carlos Avery purchased this 145-acre lot from the State of Connecticut for $325 in 1844. He initially built a small frame residence, which still stands in greatly altered condition, about five hundred feet north of here. Avery completed this residence in 1855 and raised a family of five children here.
He remained here until his death and picnic grounds was serviced by an electric interurban line which ran through the farm, Old photographs exist of the park, but no visible traces of its existence owners who have begun a thorough restoration of the property. 1855 property 1600-1699 commerce 1400-1499 1500-1599 philosophy communications larger. invention 1700-1799 humanitarian education 8.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84003762, 8 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.
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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