Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.88000468- 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
10 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wolcott House between
1993 and 2012, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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
3
Natural
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
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 752 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wolcott House between 1877 and
1973: 718 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. R. 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 Wolcott House: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Northfield, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Many trees downed across the northern portion of the county. A large tree in downtown Twinsburg landed on a set of bleachers and destroyed them. Two trees fell on homes in Macedonia and two trucks in Macedonia was also severely damaged by fallen trees. Five trees were downed in Northfield.
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
3,608 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
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) C. 1847 Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Inventory in the twelve counties of the Western Reserve, fewer than 45 are of foothold in Ohio, but the Greek Revival was at the height of its sway. The The Tuscan order was used, being the simplest and most economical, especially In this case, there are also two free-standing columns flanking the side frieze, separated by a narrow fillet, this entablature omits the fillet and [X See continuation sheet Architecture Unknown Wolcott House incorporates proportions and ornamental details which are has but one member for the architrave and frieze.
The Wolcott House is significant as a rare example of a well-executed Significant Dates sandstone Greek Revival farmhouse remaining in the Western Reserve of Ohio. elements shown in plate 28 of Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by an entablature, but no transom. Architect/Builder choices fora design with any architectural pretensions.The Federal Revival design, particularly in its massive but elegant entrance. columns in antis.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88000468, 27 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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