Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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 Rawlings-Brownell House is a historic residence on the northern side of Washington Court House, Ohio, United States. Built during the middle of the nineteenth century, it was home to the man who established the neighborhood in which it is located, and it was later the home of a leading merchant.”
Wikipedia article Rawlings-Brownell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 12 National Register listings in Fayette County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000207- 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 239 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 239 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Rawlings--Brownell House between 1882 and
1975: 228 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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 federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Rawlings--Brownell House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
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From the nomination file
2,321 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
XX locally 1851; 1867-1902 Architect/Builder State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. he became a real estate developer, and purchased 55-1/2 acres of farm land residential neighborhood, and included within the city limits, contributing to offices in Columbus, Boston, Massachusetts, and Newark, New Jersey. stands on East Sycamore Street at Paint Creek, although it has been vacant 1870 Architecture Commerce 1867 taste that were taking place in the late 19th century.
1902 Unknown Significant Person during his residence in the house that Brownell's business venture grew to The Rawlings-Brownell House is significant under Criterion B for its The house is significant under Criterion B for its association with the second Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Sons as the leading business of its kind in the central/southern Ohio region together with his brother David, operated a retail grocery from 1872 to 1882. spent as a journalist followed by employment as an exchange broker.In 1850, elements of Italianate influence, illustrating the local changes in stylistic the late 19th/early 20th century growth of the community.
Cultural Affiliation Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: 1ater subdivided in 1858.By 1907,the Raw1ings Addition was a developed Charles H.Brownell was active in the business he founded until his death in 1ocated outside of what was then the Washington Court House boundary line of histories written in the 1890s and early 1900s describe C.H.Brownell and The house was built in 1851 for Moses Vance Rawlings.His early career was X See continuation sheet Charles H.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88000207, 33 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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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