Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1986. 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
one of 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.86002874- 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.
Fires near this property
4 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Evans--Holton--Owens House between
2014 and 2020, burning about 7 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
4
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 2,612 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Evans--Holton--Owens House between 1843 and
1975: 2,290 Animalia, 236 Fungi, 57 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Evans--Holton--Owens House: 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer.
3 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
Newark, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 5 flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 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.
,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed.
A 30-foot by 30-foot section of a roof was ripped off of a building on the southeast side of town. A construction trailer was turned on its side, and a steel overhang was pulled off of a home, causing minor damage to a wall.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,725 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
down in 1914. In 1920,the garage attached to the rear of the house was added.In appears to have been added.The front window of the tower is 2/2,while the side also has paired brackets and a hipped roof. in 1866.In1890 a circular stairway was imported from Europe and installed in the -ruins front and side gables, which each have two clustered pointed arched windows and entrance portico, and a post and lintel doorway with transom and sidelights. Areas of Significance - Check and justify below . archeology-historic . agriculture . literature X architecture _ music Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Criteria B and C icant Gothic Revival details are the pronounced front and side gables, each with The Italianate tower with paired brackets, a hipped roof, and decorative wooden According to deed records, Lewis Evans appears to have been the original owner of the house. Evans was a carpenter by trade and a lifelong resident of Newark. Later, 1n 1860, he was a bridge builder, followedby terms as county treasurer (1862-1866) and state senator (1868-1870). Evans was one of Newark's leading citizens and was responsible for developing a large portion of Mound Street. His obituary claimed progress than he. Evans sold the property to James Birkey on August 20, 1849. Birkey was a Newark ical figure, Isaac C.
Ball, owned the house from 1855-1858, at which he held the Henrietta and her husband, David (a saloon keeper) owned the house until 1866. It seems likely, according to tax duplicates and deed records, that the Holtons made James W. Owens owned the house from 1868 until 1870. At this time he was prosecut- 1700-1799 1800-1899 1600-1699 1400-1499 1500-1599 Period humanitarian theater engineering commerce science prehistoric social/ sculpture characteristics of transitional Gothic Revival and Italianate architecture. It The house is outstanding in its neighborhood and unique in the Newark area. Signif- _economics 8.
Significance .education is also significant for its association with several leading citizens and political ..communications the house which gave the building its present minor changes). merchant and one of its most prominent and wealthy citizens.Another Newark polit- The Evans-Holton-Owens House is significant as a building that embodies the industry position of county treasurer.Ball sold the house to Henrietta Holton in 1858.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 86002874, 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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