Built in 1886 (Queen Anne style architecture in the United States). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
From the record
One of 95 National Register listings published here for Stark County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1886, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.92001247- 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.
Then and now
1914 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19141994
Fires near this property
2 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walter S. Putman House
between 2009 and 2018, burning about 2 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
2
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 87 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Walter S. Putman House between 1875 and 1975: 80 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Cooke W. B.; Cooke V. G. 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Walter S. Putman House: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. 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
Wilmot, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
Walter Putman, a prominent local businessman and attorney, and as Wilmot's best and only example of Queen Anne style architecture. Walter Putman, born in 1853, was a grandson of Gabriel Putman, one of Wllmot's five over a flour/feed mill In Wllmot, converted it to steam power, and operated it until 1896, completion in 1886 until hls death in 1915.
houses, as does Its steeply pitched hipped slate roof with cross gables and a dominant ornate staircase, window and door surrounds,pocket doors, and other work in a variety of Lx See continuation sheet 1886-1915 Industry Architecture Unknown Commerce Significant Dates Architect/Builder distinctive characteristics of the Queen Anne style.Its asymmetrical facade and one-story Involvement with this Industry and his subsequent career In several fields marked him as The property was occupied by Walter Putman during the time he achieved his greatest local Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Navarre Deposit Bank in 1895.The local esteem Putman enjoyed was reflected in his Navarre, using two of his sons as drivers, and in company with five other men, started the election as Wilmot's second mayor, and Putman continued to reside in this house from its Wilmot's most prominent citizen in the post-Civil War years.He was admitted to the bar in The Walter S.Putman House is signiflcant under Criteria B and C for its association with full width,wrap-around porch with turned posts and small brackets,typify Queen Anne woods also contribute to the Queen Anne design of the house.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92001247, 12 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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