Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1992. 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
“SMYTH, who has been the guest of her sister, MRS. KLEINHAUS, nee STEPHENS, who has been visiting her friends here the past two weeks, returned to her home at Winnemucca, Nevada, Monday.”
Genealogical Selections from the Steubenville Weekly Gazette, 1891: Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio (1891). Machine-read text.
one of 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
National Register reference number.92001160- 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.
AWFUL ACCIDENT---One of the most horrible accidents on the Panhandle R.R. for some years occurred near Coshocton Tuesday evening. . . in which WHEELER BURGESS was fatally injured, JOHN CURN and ROBERT DAVIS of THOS. FRITH's crew of stone bridge builders from this city were killed. . . (men were riding on a hand car, overtaken by train, these three had no time to jump from car). The three bodies arrived in Steubenville Wednesday morning. Davis' body was taken t6 the residence of THOMAS ROBERTS on Eighth Street. Curn's body was taken to his late residence at the corner of Eighth and Adams Streets. The body of Burgess was taken to his late residence, a new house just completed last summer on South Fourth Street.
We are grieved to announce today the death of M. JENNIE, wife of FREDERICK FRIDE, which occurred this morning at her home on West Market Street, of inflammation of the bowels, aged 25 years. She was a daughter of GEORGE and ELIZABETH SHARLETT, and was born in Steubenville. She had been married less than a year. . . Her remains will be laid to rest in the Union Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie Library of Steubenville between
2002 and 2017, burning about 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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 504 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Carnegie Library of Steubenville between 1836 and
1974: 281 Animalia, 183 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Carnegie Library of Steubenville: 2 producers, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. 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
Steubenville, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 46 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
3,754 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
Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Sighificance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Significant Person Alden and Harlow (Architects) Trimble, John H. (General Contractor) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Historic Places under criterion C.
Completed in 1902, the library stands as an excel lent example of early institutional architecture in Steubenville and as a fine example of the bullding Include the ornate round-arched openings, the massive tower, bands of transomed been made to the interior and exterior of the bullding, the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County Board of Trustees has chosen to maintain the building's original form Steubenville's downtown business district. The Library Board of Trustees has carefully placing the garage, a later addition and a parking lot to the rear of the building where they are not dominant parts of the streetscape. The first recorded interest in a "public" library in Steubenville was 1830, when at the age of 15, the Hon. Edwin M.
Stanton, who would later become Secretary of War under the Lincoln Presidency, opened a circulating library from a private collection of books at his Two years prior to offering books for circulation, he had become a clerk in a local Iiterary and debating purposes, and established rules for membership and borrowing books, which they called the "City Library of Steubenville". The library collection was 1902, when it was turned over the Carnegie Library. During the 1850's, the first school library in Steubenville began, supported by tax funds until it also was turned over to the 11, 1902, and continues to serve area residents.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92001160, 35 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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