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 Christian Gayman House is a historic residence located in Canal Winchester, Ohio. Constructed around 1866, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1989.”
Wikipedia article Christian Gayman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
National Register reference number.89001037- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gayman, Christian, House between
2010 and 2010, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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 703 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Gayman, Christian, House between 1895 and
1975: 692 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R., Caldwell 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 Gayman, Christian, House: 2 past producers.
None of them 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.
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
2,339 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 other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Significant Person Miller, John - brickmason State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. "Agricultural Commerce: Railroad Era, 1869-1904" and E.3. "Agricultural 1877, an addition was put on in 1880, and the roof line changed in 1899. Gaynan Store include Anon Algire's Store, J. & P.
Game's Store, Shrader's Store, Rightly & Miller's Store, and later Bartlit & Gehs's Store, architecture commerce Architect/Builder lesser significance in operation concurrently at different tines with the Cultural Affiliation is the best preserved Classical I-House in Canal Winchester. Bajor general store/dry goods store in Canal Winchester which continued with the Christian Gaynan fanily of Canal Winchester, proninent merchants the time that Gaymans operated the store, the building was remodeled in construction of this house, was a teacher in the township schools See continuation sheet and citizens who owned and co-operated the C. & D. Gayman Store, the The C.& D.
Gayman Store operated until 191 when David retired and it the southeast corner of High and Waterloo Streets for the store in 1851. purchased the stack of Mr. Samuel Pond's dry goods store and established C.1866 prominent location on the southeast corner of High & Waterloo Street,was Commerce: Interurban/Auto Era, 1905-1938",for its lifelong association | nationally Lstatewide Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Miller, William P. - carpenter The Christian Gaynan House is significant under Criteria A. Historic in operation well into the 20th century. The property ig also The Gaynan brotherg (Daniel, David, Christian, Israel, Mogs) arrived in general stores in town, under the ownership of John and Samuel Bartlit.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 89001037, 19 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.
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