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
“The Matthew McCrea House is a historic house in Circleville, Ohio, United States. Located along Main Street on the city's eastern side, the house mixes elements of the Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article Matthew McCrea House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 20 National Register listings in Pickaway County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88001714- 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.
The ground it stands on
18,473 words
The chapter on Circleville Township in Circleville Herald (1928-01-03), published 1928 names Circleville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
One of the gayest watch parties in Circleville Saturday night was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clif ton, on North Court street. The New Year was welcomed by radio and with i D. Doddroe, son of Mr .and Mrs. H. R. Doddroe of Blacklick, at the home 1 of the officiating minister, the Rev. j T. M. Ricketts, of Ashville, Ohio. The bride was graduated from Ga hanna High school with the class of 1919 and has been employed by the Belle Telephone Company there. Mr. and Mrs. Doddroe will live near Gaj hanna, where Mr. Doddroe is engaged j in farming.
Saturday. Miss Mary Ellen Phillips returned to Columbus Business and Training School, Tuesday morning. Theodore Goeller, w'ho is a student at Colorado College, at Colorado j Springs, Colo., returned Tuesday j evening after spending the Christmas vacation with his father, Mr. John ! C. Goeller. Norman Aronson has returned to | Ada, Ohio, wdiere he is a student at Ohio Northern University. Air. and Airs. Robert H. Bates left Alonday night for Norfolk, Va., j where they will spend several w'e'eks as guests of his sister, Mrs. John F. Small. In their absence Aliss May Lowre will have charge of the print ing office. ' Air. and Mrs. H. C. Stoker and daughter, Harriet, of Columbus, were guests of Mrs. Stoker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gearhart, for the New' Year holidays. Miss Helen Skeele, of Columbus, a former teacher in the Circleville high ! school, visited friends here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Airs. Donald Smith, of To ledo, wdio have been the guests of Col .and Airs. C. E. Groce, have re turned to their home. Air. Guy Culp left Tuesday for Chicago, to attend the furniture m ar ket, where he is showing one hundred living room suites made by the E. AI. Hulse Co. Aliss Elsie Jew'ell, of Akron, who has been the guest of Miss Dorothy Ale Arthur, left Alonday for her home. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mead and son, i William Jr. ,and daughter, Mary Al ice, of Mansfield, are guests of his and her parents, Air. and Airs. Charles G. Mead and Air. and Airs. H. S. Hulse. Mrs. Flora Watson and daughter, Mrs. Alerle Lane, spent Sunday w'ith Mrs. Alary Jones, in Columbus. Airs. Alary Morris spent Sunday with her son, Albert Alorris and w'ife. 1 Aliss Alary L. Walters, who has been spending the holidays the guest of her parents, Air. and Mrs. John Walters, and Aliss Beatrice Hosier, daughter of Air. and Mrs. S. T. Hosier of Walnut street, left Tuesday for Delaware, to resume their studies at the Ohio Wesleyan university. Miss Alice Adah May leaves Wednesday for Baltimore, Aid., to re enter Goucher college for women. I. A. Jones, of East Franklin street, is ill with pneumonia.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,570 specimens
collected within 10 miles of McCrea, Matthew, House between 1829 and
1975: 2,471 Animalia, 82 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Acker, G. & Class 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 McCrea, Matthew, House: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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
Circleville, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 29 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 14 flood, 7 flash flood.
The reports record 7 injuries. 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.
A tornado touched down west of Circleville, pulling a small shed off of its foundation and destroying a section of a construction building. after this, the tornado lifted and then touched down in a more developed area in town. It destroyed a building housing two businesses and ripped the roof off of a section of a strip mall, ejecting furniture from inside the structure. A large sign weighing several hundred pounds was ripped from its foundation and blown twenty feet away. A tractor trailer with a load of 18 to 19 tons was blown over and dragged ten feet away from where it landed. The tornado then proceeded to a housing development where several homes were destroyed, several roofs ripped off, and garages either destroyed or moved from their foundations. Trees were twisted and broken off at their bases and carports were also torn from nearby houses.
A tornado touched down along State Route 361, causing damage to three buildings at the Pickaway Machine and Fabricating Company. Portions of the aluminum roofing and insulation were removed from these three buildings, and deposited throughout the complex and in a cornfield across Route 361. Corn stalks at six to eight feet in height were knocked over in a 150 foot wide swath across this cornfield, extending for a mile to the northeast to Boggs Road. Across Boggs Road, minor tree and limb damage occurred, with part of an open air aluminum shed being blown into a nearby tree line.
A small tornado moved across the south side of Circleville producing minor structural and roof damage to a few buildings, and some damage to nine cars at a dealership. Numerous trees and power lines were also knocked down.
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
2,351 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
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) circa. 1840 Significant Person State significance of property,and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. entablature and frieze windows, flat sandstone lintels and sills, 6/6 double hung windows elements include the box-like shape of the house, tall, narrow 2/2 windows, and 1ow-pitched hipped roof with wide eaves supported by paired brackets. Interior features Greek Revival features have been identified. Of this group, three are I-houses, one contains Second Empire additions, one has a side hallway floor plan, and one is a one integrity.
It is located one block east of the Watt-Groce-Fickardt House (NR listed LX See continuation sheet 1840 Architecture Unknown Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation Significant Dates representing Greek Revival and Italianate styles are located throughout the city with the house marked the eastern edge of the town boundary until the farm associated with the Period of Significance The McCrea House is eligible for the National Register within the context of Circleville's neighbor, are among the oldest properties in the neighborhood which was not extensively excellent example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture in Circleville, historic resources based on the distribution of styles and building types.Houses horizontal post and beam features associated with Greek Revival with the verticality and include a circular cherry wood staircase, cupboards, and the original walnut woodwork.
8/23/85),a vernacular residence built in three stages between 1826-1885.The latter developed until after 1890. Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally - Xlocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) identified within the city boundaries. Of this group, eleven can be classified as I-Houses, ten are asymmetrical with Queen Anne or Second Empire elements, and one features McCrea House was subdivided in 1882.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88001714, 36 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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