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
“The Fort is a prominent historic house in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located northeast of the village of North Lewisburg in Union County, this two-story brick building is a local landmark.”
Wikipedia article The Fort (North Lewisburg, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 4 National Register listings in Union County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003662- 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 273 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 273 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fort, The between 1918 and
1975: 264 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, D.L. Caldwell, Doellinger H. C. 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
1,705 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
The interior of the housewas extensively remodeled in 1956,establishing the two date. A gently rising lane approaches the home and encircles it.It sits off the road Openings in the house are attenuated 1/l light double hung windows with bracketed 5 bay by 5 bay stretcher bond brick structure which sits on a rock-faced ashlar stone Xexcellent shape near the tri-county line of Union, Logan and Champaign Counties. It is a 2 story "1877-S. Clark." There are five chimneys on the house, all with corbeling and detail. carved stone lintels with keystones and lug sills.
Some of the carving in the house The Fort is an outstanding rural Italianate farmhouse of symmetrical, yet irregular plan they do not contribute to the architectural merit of the property because of their late unexposed deteriorated and is visible from miles around. - prehistoric _ sculpture X architecture _ art - music X 1800-1899 _ commerce -politics/government other (specify) rolling farmland which surrounds it, and is visible from miles around. Architectural highlights include the decorative slate roof, elaborate cornice, ornamental porches the county seat. It is also significant for its association with Shepherd Clark, a major breeder of Norman draft-horses who was renowned within the state. Champaign County, the son of Angus Clark, an important frontier settler in the township.
(in one paragraph) According to the county history,"there may be seen on his place some of the best _industry most perfectly deserves the true old name of home Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Shepherd Clark was born June 7,1832,on the old homestead farm in Rush Township, literature - religion - archeology-historic x agriculture exploration/settlement _ - philosophy settled in Allamakee County, Iowa, and there remained for a period of four years, after assisting in its cultivation. In 1867 he purchased the present farmstead, which comprises The family residence, which was erected in 1877, at a cost the most attractive rural homes in the county". The same description went on to say that and carved stone lintels.
The 1895 county history claimed that it was "unexcelled by Percheron or Norman horses to be found in the State". He was also an active worker in 1400-1499 1877 1500-1599 landscape architecture The farm was designated by the name of Green Bush.The char- this section of the State.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003662, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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