Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1990. 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 Joseph and Rachel Bartlett House is a historic residence in the city of Fremont, Ohio, United States. Built in 1872, it is one of the city's more prominent examples of high-style architecture.”
Wikipedia article Joseph and Rachel Bartlett House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 9 National Register listings in Sandusky County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000388- 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.
Five hundred and fifty homes were flooded, fifty of them either totally destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. This created a problem to cope with for which there was no ready-made organization at hand. The way it was speedily met will stand for a long time as a significant testimony to some of Fremont's leading citizens as adequate leaders in time of need. To be caught in such a situation, unwarned and unprepared, is a real challenge to any man. More than one man has been well tried in this last month. This principle has been very manifest among the rank and file of the people. The readiness and willingness with which a man went about rehabilitating himself was a good sign of what he was worth. In all sections of the city the thrifty man was the first to find his shovel, and the last to ask or look for any help. It has been significant all through that those least willing to help themselves, were most willing to ask help of others. But I want to hasten to say that what has struck me all through my contact with the people in the inundated district, has been their undaunted courage. I think it has been really heroic the way some have faced the situation and recovered their home life.
On Tuesday, March 25, 1913, Fremont faced a calamity. The entire city was without gas or water. Down its main business street, and through a large portion of its residential section rushed a current of furious swiftness; dozens of homes were being swept away; hundreds of people were homeless and hundreds more marooned in their homes surrounded by the angry waters were facing possible death.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett, Joseph and Rachel, House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 798 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bartlett, Joseph and Rachel, House between 1865 and
1975: 751 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Bartlett, Joseph and Rachel, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fremont, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 52 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Structural damage occurred at the Sandusky County Fairgrounds in Fremont. Three buildings had metal siding damaged. One of these buildings had its large metal door blown-in and half of its roof torn off. A barricade was blown into a car and injured the driver.
A tornado touched down just northwest of Fremont near the intersection of Shade Road and Four Mile House Road. A house was heavily damaged and a motor home destroyed near this location. From the initial touchdown site, the tornado traveled northeast for around three and a half miles and then dissipated east of State Route 19 just to the south of the Ohio Turnpike. A second home was heavily damaged near Booktown Road at State Route 19. Elsewhere along the damage path, a few homes sustained minor damage and seven barns were leveled. One of the barns contained a collection of antique cars which were destroyed. Many trees and power poles were also downed along the damage path which was generally no more than 50 yards in width.
Reports of impassable roadway flooding in and just north of Fremont, including flowing water over County Road 73 between Oak Harbor Road and Fangboner Road. Community building in the northern portion of Fremont experienced up to 5 feet of water in the basement of the building. Radar estimated rainfall of 3.25 to 4 inches fell in a 3 to 4 hour period, much of which fell in an initial 45 to 60 minute period, when 1.5 to 2 inches of rain fell in the hour leading up to the flash flood event.
Torrential rain with fell on July 10th over mainly southern portions of Sandusky County with radar estimates around 3 inches fell in 1.5 hours. Widespread rapidly developing flooding occurred. Bellevue Police reported most of the town was flooded with several cars stuck in the water. State RT 105, U.S. 6 between U.S. 23 and State Rt. 53, Route 53 near the Ohio Turnpike, and State Rt. 19 near County Road 213 were closed from the flooding.
A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 70 mph caused considerable damage in Fremont. Dozens of trees were downed in the city. A few homes sustained roof damage from fallen trees.
Numerous trees, a few utility poles, and wires were reported down in the area. One tree fell onto a house, but the extent of the damage to the home was not known.
Numerous trees downed in Fremont. Four of these trees fell onto houses and one fell onto a car. A mesonet station in Fremont recorded a peak convective gust of 61 mph.
A complex of thunderstorms tracked across the county producing widespread wind damage. Several reports of downed large trees and branches came in to the office. Crop damage was also reported during this event.
A tractor trailer was blown-over by strong convective wind gusts about 1.2 miles-WNW of downtown Fremont. Business' signs were also damaged in the area.
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From the nomination file
3,312 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) local example of Second Empire/Italianate residential architecture. The wood siding and Second Empire/Italianate style combination, perhaps in concert with the Fabring House across the street at 201 So. Park, the Bartlett House featured a mansard roof with peaked dormers, a towered central entry, incised hoodmoldings, delicately carved porch details ancestral home of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Fremont, founded in 1813, first was known as Lower Sandusky in reference to its location battle, combined with American victories on Lake Erie under Oliver Hazard Perry and at Fort Meigs (NHL, Wood County) under William Henry Harrison in 1813, ended British and in 1822 and changed its name to Fremont in 1849.
1872-73 Architecture Architect/Builder locally Significant Person Significant Dates See continuation sheet Period of Significance rare examples of the Second Empire including the Fabring House (NR Iisted 5/26/1983)are Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation The Bartlett House originally was occupied by Joseph R.Bartlett and his wife Rachel fashionable homes during the mid and late 19th century.Expansion of this area continued State significance of property,and justify criteria,criteria considerations,and areas and periods of significance noted above.
Lower Sanduskyin 1833.He studied law under his had served The Bartlett House was erected about 1872-73 at a time of steady growth in this section of War of 1812,including a decisive victory of Col.George Croghan over British and Indian Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) 1815 that officially ended the War of1812 and opened the Northwest Territories for (Mitchener) Bartlett. A noted name in the county, Bartlett is representative of prominent men of his era.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 90000388, 20 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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