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Photograph of Temperance Row Historic District
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Temperance Row Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 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 Temperance Row Historic District is a historic district in Westerville, Ohio. Westerville became the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League of America (ASLA) in 1909.”

Wikipedia article Temperance Row Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 2008 · category: District · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 43 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Vicinity of Park, Grove, Walnut and University Sts., Westerville, 43081
  • When was it listed? 2008-10-16
  • Category. district
  • Township. Westerville city
  • National Register reference number. 08000995 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 3,622 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,622 specimens collected within 10 miles of Temperance Row Historic District between 1804 and 1975: 3,378 Animalia, 195 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 17 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Penniman, A. P. Morgan 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1840W. S. SullivantColumbus
Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Anoectangium ciliatum, not of this specimenAnoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.1842Sullivant, W.S.Columbus
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
Astomum muhlenbergianum (Sw.) Grout1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,622 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westerville, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2003HailWesterville$80,000,000Hail up to the size of golf balls affected the north side of the Columbus metro area and southern Delaware county. Hail was extensive from Dublin, through Worthington and Powell, to Westerville. Trees and shrubs were stripped of their foliage and cars and homes sustained significant hail damage. The hail covered the ground in some locations up to six inches deep in Worthington in northern Franklin county and near the Polaris Mall in southern Delaware county.
October 1999LightningWesterville$20,000A lightning strike created a house fire, causing extensive damage to one residence.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWesterville$10,000Numerous trees were downed, including two that fell on houses.
July 2011Flash FloodWesterville$10,000County line road was closed between Spring Road and Hempstead Road due to high water caused by heavy rain. One car was stranded in the high water.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWesterville$5,000Numerous trees downed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Three mature trees were knocked down near the intersection of County Line and Hempstead Roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Several trees were knocked down near the intersection of Walnut Street and Orchard Lane.
September 2018Flash FloodWesterville$3,000High water was reported on numerous roads through the city of Westerville. Several cars became stranded in the high water.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Trees were knocked down a mile or two south of the Polaris area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Trees downed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000A large section of a 50 foot tall tree was knocked down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Two large trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Tree limbs were downed in the area of Westerville due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000A large tree limb was broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWesterville$500Several large tree limbs were downed.
July 2023HailWesterville-Pea to dime sized hail was covering the ground.
August 2022FloodWesterville-High water was encroaching on a building at Columbus State Community College.
June 2014FloodWesterville-Park Meadow Road near Schrock Road was closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWesterville-The spotter estimated the magnitude of the thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville-A trained spotter estimated the wind gust.
March 2026HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2026HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2024HailWesterville-no account filed
April 2024HailWesterville-no account filed
July 2023HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2022HailWesterville-no account filed
August 2012HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2012HailWesterville-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWesterville-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWesterville-no account filed
August 2003HailWesterville-no account filed
June 1994HailWesterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

Map coverage status

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

16,904 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

(Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property SOCIAL HISTORY X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. X B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. 1910 - 1935 D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

(Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) Baker, Purley A.; Russell, Howard Hyde; - B removed from its original location. Cherrington, Ernest H - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. ] E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 16,904 words, 106 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 08000995, 106 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Carnegie Library Otterbein University0.1 miles2021
Hanby, Benjamin, House0.2 miles1970
Otterbein Mausoleum0.3 miles1979
Westerville High School-Vine Street School0.5 miles1975
Everal, John W., Farm Buildings0.6 miles1975
Towers Hall, Otterbein College0.6 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000995 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 295 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.