Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1985. 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
“Thomas Johnson, by the documentary history of the county, and the concurrent testimony of survivors, was one of the most prominent and spirited citizens. He was born in the parish of Glentubert, Monaghan county, Ireland, on the IGth of March, 1783.”
Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio : (1876). Machine-read text.
one of 16 National Register listings in Coshocton County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85000033- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Coshocton city, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
Miscellaneous Matters - 1. The Pre-Historic Race. 2. Ancient Burial Grounds. 3. Meaning of the names Muskingum, Tuscarawas, and Walhonding. 4. Prose Legend of the Walhonding. 5. Heckwelder's Famous Ride. 6. Temperance Crusade among the Indians. 7. The Gnadenhutten Massacre. 8. Curious Stories Touching Captives Reclaimed by Boquet.
The tastes of the preparer of this volume disposed him to undertake it ; a residence in Coshocton of twenty years, and peculiar relations and associations of favorable sort, gave hira, as friends claimed, at least a certain fitness to do it ; and the Centennial year seemed to be the proper occasion. Amid illhealth and other hindrances wholly unanticipated when the work was begun, the book has been written. If it does not meet all expectations, it is hoped it will not disappoint any reasonable ones. It could scarcely be expected that a work of the sort should be entirely free from errors, but great care has been taken to make it at least correct as far as it goes. Of course, in the line of personal history, regard must be had to the limits and scope of the work. It only purports to be a panorama - not a series of finished portraits, with every shadow and light. Mere mention of every person and thing not amiss in such a volume would indefinitely extend it and add to cost. To those who have kindly assisted in its preparation, I shall ever feel grateful ; and I can confidently say that if there had been on the part of some others such help as those kind friends rendered, and as a little public spirit, local fame and denominational interest might well prompt, the book would be a better one. As it is, I respectfully submit it as at least an honest endeavor to put in convenient and permanent form something of the record of a locality of classic (American) interest, and to trace the steps whereby we have reached our
Miscellaneous Matters - 1. The Pre-Historic Race. 2. Ancient Burial Grounds. 3. Meaning of the names Muskingum, Tuscarawas, and Walhonding. 4. Prose Legend of the Walhonding. 5. Heckwelder's Famous Ride. 6. Temperance Crusade among the Indians. 7. The Gnadenhutten Massacre. 8. Curious Stories Touching Captives Reclaimed by Boquet. 9. Description of the Hunting-Shirt. 10. The Houses and Furniture of the Pioneers in Coshocton County. 11. Louis Philippe at Coshocton. 12. How to Raise a Large Family. 13. Indian Stories. 14. Backwoods Sports 159-177 ored People in Coshocton County. 4. Fires in Eoscoe - An Incident and a Joke. 5. A Bundle of First Things. 6. Relics and Curiosities in Personal Possession. 7. Coshocton Wags in Early Days. 8. The Treasury Robbery. 9. Humors of the Crusade 178-191
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Meek, J.F., Buildings 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
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
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 1,665 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Meek, J.F., Buildings between 1846 and
1974: 876 Animalia, 655 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 Meek, J.F., Buildings: 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.
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
1,612 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
Long rectangular window and door openings by pairs of wooden columns on massive stone piers, extends across the main to apartments on the second floor and is separated from the rest of the The second floor features spacious rooms The third floor is a single large room with plastered walls and The building is crowned by a massive gable roof which is Extending to the rear is a facade and along the east side. The brickwork has a hard In the center of and gas. Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below . community planning X architecture X commerce other (specify) Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) engraved trays for Coca-Cola, which have today become popular collectors' Meek subdivided his main house into two living units. only two such row-house units in the city, the other being diagonally sophisticated English-inspired Tudor style, the only such apartment 1600-1699 1800-1899 communications 1500-1599 1400-1499 theater 8. Significance philosophy art transportation invention education and English-derived Tudor architecture in the city.
engineering archeology-prehistoric archeology-historic science industry music Period humanitarian Meek first became prominent locally as publisher and editor of the prehistoric exploration/settlement commercial advertising, a field which was just then blossoming as a major social/ sculpture agriculture -politics/government building in town. The Shaw-Barton Company, a leading business in town, produces calendars school in Pennsylvania, Kiskiminetas.
Meek continued to live in this house leading local industrialist and newspaper publisher whose innovative work law The J.F.Meek Buildings are significant for their association with a in detail and was probably designed by the same architect or builder but has developer in Coshocton and built a number of business blocks, some of still living here in l9l6,naming the units after his son's preparatory _economics _conservation specialty advertising center largely as the result of the efforts of J.F. military rare in Coshocton and this building is unusually finely crafted ina literature They are fine examples of late Queen Anne As a result of national enterprise. He formed the American Art Works and produced elaborately information prominently displayed.
Meek was also a prominent The only other is the present YWCA building, a few blocks from here. Specific dates 1898 and 1916 1700-1799 religion group of buildings with such an association. landscape architecture It has some similarity architecture of the buildings.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85000033, 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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