Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1987. 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 21 National Register listings in Ottawa County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87001628- 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 6,406 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,406 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Clemons, Alexander, House between 1871 and
1975: 5,107 Animalia, 1,145 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 8 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. F. Satterthwait, A. J. Eames 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 Clemons, Alexander, House: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Marblehead, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind.
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.
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
2,590 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.
Statement of significance
Certitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to othey/properties: Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Cultural Affiliation Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. crafted limestone house with Italianate and Greek Revival elements, and for developer who helped found Lakeside, a Methodist camp meeting site on Ottawa The large limestone house stands on Clemons Street, an unpaved limestone wooden buildings, the Clemons house makes a significant impact on the Alexander Clemons, a Hiram, Maine native, came to the area in 1817 after married Angeline Hollister in 1824.
While in Sandusky, Alexander was elected to the common council, serving at the time the city was incorporated. In purchased one hundred thirty-three acres of land from John Beatty, and *x See continuation sheet 1861-1886 architecture surrounding landscape. social history Significant Dates Applicable National Register Criteria County's Marblehead peninsula. Alexander Clemons columns and a door surrounded by sidelights and transom, and windows moved to the Sandusky area when his family arrived.Alexander protects it from storms.Because the neighboring houses are mostly small constructed of limestone from the Clemons quarry, and was used at times to constructed a log cabin on the property.
Clemons House faces Lake Erie and a large steel, stone and cement breakwall highlighted with limestone 1intels and sills.Built in 1861,the house was Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) its association with Alexander Clemons, a businessman and limestone quarry roof with projecting eaves, topped with a hipped roof cupola. Elements 1834, the Clemons Family moved to Marblehead. The following year, Alexander Archütest/ Builder because the stones on the facade were fitted together without mortar.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87001628, 23 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.
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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