Monitor House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 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 Monitor House is a historic house in St. Located along West Main Street, it is a square brick structure resting on a foundation of stone and covered with an asphalt roof.”
Wikipedia article Monitor House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 27 National Register listings in Champaign County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 375 W. Main St., Saint Paris, 43072
When was it listed? 1974-05-02
Category. building
Township. Johnson township
National Register reference number. 74001408 - 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.

Fires near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Monitor House between 2002 and 2002, burning about 25 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
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 March 2002	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 419 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 419 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monitor House between 1876 and 1975: 367 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A.R. Gaufin 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger	1926	E.C. Leonard	Chapmans Creek, 1 mile east of Thackery
Ctenidium molluscum (Hedw.) Mitt.	1876	E. J. Spence	10.5 miles north of Springfield
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1877	E. J. Spence	10.5 miles north of Springfield
Bryum roseum (Hedw.) Crome	1880	E. J. Spence	Cedar Swamp, 10 miles north of Springfield
Climacium americanum Brid.	1881	E. J. Spence	Cedar Swamp, 10 1/2 miles north of Springfield
Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst.	1892	Dormire Geo.	Carysville
Phalaris arundinacea L.	1916	EC Leonard	Chapman's [Chapman] Creek E of Thackery.
Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.	1921	Leonard Emery C.	Thackery Miller's woods near home farm, 1 1/4 mi. E of Thackery
Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1921	E. C. Leonard	Miller's Woods, about 1 mile northeast of Thackery
Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger	1921	E. C. Leonard	Miller's Woods, about 1 mile northeast of Thackery
Bryum caespiticium Hedw.	1925	E. C. Leonard	In Dibert's woods 1 mi E of Thackery
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1925	E. C. Leonard	Dibert's Woods, 1 mi. E of Thackery

All 419 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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

1,791 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.

Description of the property

and is deeply recessed. The separate, twin doors are recessed Excellent on each of its four sides.The clerestory measures approximately measures approximately thirty feet square.The Monitor House is PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) - Science Unfortunately, little is known about the history of this house. Its exact construction date, architect and original owner DEC 1 9 1973 Aboriginal Commerce Military Architecture Conservation Engineering Theater Communications

Statement of significance

SPECIFIC DATEIS) (If Applicable and Known) or three known monitor style houses in Ohio, and thus is rather built circa 1860 intriguing style is the Kendrich-Barret House in Chillicothe, The Monitor House was built circa 1860.It is one of two AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 10

The whole case file for this property - 1,791 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001408, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kiser Mansion	0.5 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001408 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Champaign County	All 27 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.
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.