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Photograph of Eliphalet Austin House
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Austin, Eliphalet, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 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 Eliphalet Austin House is a historic residence in the community of Austinburg, Ohio, United States. Constructed by the community's namesake founder, it has been greatly modified by later owners, and it has been named a historic site.”

Wikipedia article Eliphalet Austin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1879 OH 45, Austinburg, 44010
  • When was it listed? 1975-02-24
  • Category. building
  • Township. Austinburg township
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75001313 - 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 1,328 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,328 specimens collected within 10 miles of Austin, Eliphalet, House between 1872 and 1975: 1,158 Animalia, 145 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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
Specimen of Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva

All 1,328 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austinburg, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
July 2008Flash FloodAustinburg$150,000Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell in an east-west line across Ashtabula County just north of Jefferson. Several flooded basements were reported due to high creek flows, and multiple roads in the area were closed due to high water, including State Route 306 northwest of Jefferson.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A couple streets were blocked by the fallen trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$8,000Several large limbs and power lines downed from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees along State Route 45.
September 2012HailAustinburg$2,500The public reported quarter size hail in Austinburg.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Lampson Road just west of State Route 45.
May 2013HailAustinburg-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2012HailAustinburg-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was observed.
June 2008HailAustinburg-Nickel size hail was observed.
May 1998HailAustinburg-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodAustinburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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

1,924 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

tion details, dates from the mid-1860s. This form was probably in Ashtabula, Lake, Summit, Medina and Cuyahoga Counties. He DEC31 1974 1815-1883 Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Conservation Commerce losophy Military Industry Landscape Communications Prehistoric RECEIVED REGISTER Agriculture Literature NATIONAL itarian apartments and an antique shop. Sculpture Invention The Austin house is of the first importance in the history of Ashtabula County and the Western Reserve because of its Education He arrived in Ashtabula County from Connecticut in 1799 and although the present Italianate form, based on style and construc- of Eliphalet. achieved while the house was owned by Louis B.

Austin, grandson Eliphalet Austin died in 1837.The house remained in the superior example of Italian Villa style architecture. Eliphalet Austin was one of the membersof the Connecticut Land Company which surveyed and developed the Western Reserve. associations with the family of Eliphalet Austin.It is also a Engineering The house stands on the land of Eliphalet Austin.By trad- ition, some portion of the house was begun by Austin in l815, good state of preservation is owed. At present it is used for after him.His first house was a log cabin built in 1799. Austin was also a cattle dealer and a mail contractor with the government. Austin family until 1883,the death of Louis B.Austin.In 1904 Social/Human- In 1829-3l he served in the State Senate.

began the settlement of Austinburg Township, which was named the house was acquired by the Ellsworth family, to whom its Art Music was one of the largest landowners in the Reserve, holding acreage

The whole case file for this property - 1,924 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001313, 13 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
Congregational Church Of Austinburg0.3 miles1978
Peck, L. W., House4.2 miles1976
Harpersfield Covered Bridge4.8 miles1975
Giddings, Joshua Reed, Law Office5.1 miles1974
Ashtabula County Courthouse Group5.1 miles1975
Jefferson Town Hall5.2 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001313 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashtabula CountyAll 36 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.