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 81 National Register listings in Stark County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87002147- 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 75 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 75 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Earley-Hartzell House between 1890 and
1975: 71 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bryan, J. M., Collector(s): William D. Stull 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Earley-Hartzell House: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. 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
Alliance, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage in Alliance and adjacent Washington Township. Dozens of trees were downed in these areas. A house just south of Alliance was heavily damaged by a fallen tree. Several barns in Washington Township lost portions of roof and a couple mobile homes were also damaged.
Thunderstorm winds downed many trees south of Alliance. A large pole building sustained considerable damage and a home nearby was damaged by a fallen tree. Scattered power outages were reported in the 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
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From the nomination file
1,896 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
X locally Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Mabel Hartzell State significance ofproperty,and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Architecturally, the Barley-Hartzel1 House features a hip roof with brackets and modillions, segmental arch windows and doors, and porches with ornamental Along with the Teeters House at 323 W. Vine, the Barley House is one of the the Alliance Board of Education.
In 1914, she became the first woman elected she was again elected to the Board of Education, serving until 1954, when ill director, member of the Board of Education, and school council, due to 1867 Education Architecture Unknown Significant Person marble fireplaces are additionally representative of this architectural style. The Earley-Hartzell House is also significant for its associations with Mabel respite in her thirty year Alliance teaching career to care for her parents, Architect/Builder The Earley-Hartzell House is significant as one of the most distinctive and See continuation sheet architecture in Alliance. first generation of women in Ohio who could be elected to and vote for school woodwork, all characteristic of the Italianate style.
The porch arches are intact examples of Italianate architecture in the city of Alliance, and for Applicable National Register Criteria distinctive and unique in Alliance and the asymmetrical plan of the Earley- Cultural Affiliation she was eight years old; her mother had died and her father was unable to care health forced her to resign. Hartzell's election to the Board of Education in 1911,ranks her among some of nationally | statewide Born on New Year's Day in 1874, Mabel Hartzel1 was adopted by the Earleys when School, Mount Union College, and The Ohio State University. Hartzel1 took She was a part of the Hartzell House is also noteworthy.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002147, 14 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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