Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1989. 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 Jacob Light House is a historic residence in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio, United States. Once home to a prominent local craftsman, it has been designated a historic site as a well-preserved example of the Italianate style of architecture.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Light House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 12 National Register listings in Fayette County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88003191- 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 206 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 206 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Light, Jacob, House between 1907 and
1975: 201 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Light, Jacob, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.
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
2,011 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) The Jacob Light House, 123 West Circle Avenue, Washington Court House, Ohio, is are representative of Italianate architecture include its L shaped plan, hipped slate roof, bracketed cornice, double hung single sash windows with pedimented window heads and the mid-nineteenth century. Interior features include yellow poplar woodwork, hardwood pine floors, a central staircase with oak balusters and a walnut handrail, and the original fireplace mantels. altered with a post-1920 porch addition, and two have Italianate details limited to example of the Italianate style, as it evolved in this community.
The house was built by Jacob Light, a merchant tailor, who came to Washington Court House successfully from Jacob Light to Phoebe T. Light, his wife; then to their son Edwin J. Light in 1907 and then to his sister Minnie in 1922.
Neither Edwin, a land appraiser, nor X See continuation sheet 1875 Architecture Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation Significant Dates exhibit exceptionally fine craftsmanship reflecting improved woodworking technologies of Significant Person The Light House is one of twenty-one residences in Washington Court House that exhibit significant under criteria C as a good example of Italianate architecture within the local Ownership of the house remained in the Light family until 1936.It was deeded House is one of four gabled ell residences in the city with Italianate features.It died in 1935 the house was willed to the Methodist Home for the Aged. Apparently the bought a huge town lot from Mills Gardner and began construction the same month.
compares favorably to other houses in the gabled ell sub-group.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88003191, 31 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.
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