Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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 15 National Register listings in Clermont County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003554- 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 626 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 626 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ross-Gowdy House between 1866 and
1975: 481 Animalia, 124 Fungi, 13 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, Alice Edwards; J.G. Edwards 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 National Weather Service names
New Richmond, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
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
1,975 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
Situated in 125 George Street in the Old Susannah section of New Richmond, Ohio 400 half feet wide by thirteen feet long one-story extension, it is two "rooms" wide by and enclosed "Porch"). There are three windows across the second story front, and two windows and entrance (east end) across the first floor front, first floor and second floor windows) on the first floor east side, first and second floors openings symmetrically floor, with second and first floor windows asymmetrically placed. The main roof is metal, with three pitched sections (front and two sides) pointing up at the center of roof center ridge at the rear of the house, flush with the gables. Above each window ..
the main fireplace, the remainder of the interior is unremarkable, though no main or area, and there remains a recessed entryway and front door. CONDITION EXCELLENT RUINS 7DESCRIPTION FAIR bearing walls have been structurally altered. XALTERED CHECK ONE and two windows across the rear second story, and two windows across the rear first is a rectangular sawn stone lintel. brick construction, with a one story original extension across the rear of the building. opening symmetrically placed; there are three windows across the second and first floors XDETERIORATED of four square cut wood pillars, approximately six feet by six feet in total covered The interior of the house has front landing and staircase at the main door. Except for building.
The Ross - Gowdy House, built c. 1850, is significant for its historical association 1700-1799 ART SCIENCE CONSERVATION EDUCATION ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMERCE 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC RELIGION AGRICULTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PERIOD XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY INVENTION THEATER SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY example of mid-nineteenth century Greek Revival design.During the Civil War Ross had Ross probably had amassed sufficient wealth that allowed him to build an impressive A.Gowdy, another local illuminary.Gowdy's public service included terms as town with two of New Richmond's chief nineteenth century businessmen and civic leaders.
townhouse on George Street.Although altered, the house is a locally sophisticated the historical development of this small Clermont County community. _ECONOMICS X1800-1899 four terms as a village trustee and in 1849 held the recorder's position.By 1850 -1500-1599 -1600-1699 -1400-1499 - MILITARY -MUSIC - LAW stands. Anxious to inprove the town's amenities, Ross was appointed one of three David Ross, an early settler to this Ohio River community,is listed as New Richmond's only baker in 18l6.By 1829 he purchased two unimproved parcels where this house now recorder in 1844,trustee in 1853,and in 1854 Secretary of the New Richmond Board 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003554, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
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.
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