Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1996. 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
one of 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96000221- 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 3 fires within 5 miles of Mott Drug Store between
2020 and 2020, 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
2
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 403 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mott Drug Store between 1884 and
1975: 278 Animalia, 121 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Mott Drug Store: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
2,207 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
was popular during its formation. was a residence, recently it has had new siding put on and new windows installed. and Mahoning Valley railroad. only two Greek Revival commercial buildings in Garrettsville.Of the two, the The floor plan is very open and simple.The east and west walls have shelves from Today, the first floor serves as a meeting hall with the shelves serving leading to the basement.
The village has many examples of residential Greek Revival that remain in good The second floor has two rooms at the front of the building, then an L-shaped sidewalks, the first paved roads in Portage County and a depot on the Cleveland west wall, there is a poplar staircase leading to the second floor as well as one National Park Service United Statee Depertment of the interior Section number 1, 8 Page - The second floor serves as a picture gallery, office, special Garrettsville, located in territory that was originally Trumbull County, The Mott building is historically significant for its distinctive type of exhibit room and a library. architecture and its association with a person significant in Garrettsville history.
is part of the Western Reserve and this building is reflective of the style that Dyson, who also came with Garrett, was the first blacksmith in town.Steadily, July of 1804.By 1805,a saw mill and a grist mill were in operation.Abraham as a display area. Mott Drug Store Frank F. Mott lived at 8021 Elm Street which was within walking distance of his business. County records date the house as "pre-1900." Although the exact construction date of the house is unknown, it can be estimated that Mott purchased the property between the years 1891-1900. Existing records indicate that Mott purchased several lots around his residence during that time period.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 96000221, 51 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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