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.
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 J.F. Meek 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 J.F. Meek 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 J.F. Meek 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.
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
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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