Captain Jonathan Stone House


Capt. Jonathan Stone House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	612 Blennerhassett Ave., Belpre, Ohio
Coordinates	39°16′16″N 81°34′37″W / 39.27111°N 81.57694°W / 39.27111; -81.57694Coordinates: 39°16′16″N 81°34′37″W / 39.27111°N 81.57694°W / 39.27111; -81.57694
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1799
Architect	Jonathan Stone
NRHP Reference #	78002209^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 7, 1978

The Captain Jonathan Stone House is a historic residence in the city of Belpre, Ohio, United States. Built just ten years after Belpre's 1789 establishment, it is the oldest existing building in the city.^[2]

Born in 1751, Jonathan Stone joined the Continental Army early in the American Revolutionary War. After the Treaty of Paris, he moved to the Belpre vicinity. He and his family built a fortification on their land during a war with local Native Americans in the early 1790s; it was known as "Stone's Fort." As the Belpre region developed, Stone became a leading member of the area's society; he was elected treasurer of Washington County, and he was one of the three commissioners chosen to survey lands for the future Ohio University in Athens to the west.^[2]

Stone's house in Belpre is a two-story structure; except for a small wing on the rear northwestern corner, it is a rectangular building.^[2] The entire structure rests on a foundation of sandstone, and it is covered by a metal roof. Among its owners since Stone have been Dr. Thomas and Janet Barrett. At some point after Stone's life, the house was moved to its present location at 612 Blennerhassett Avenue.^[3] In 1978, the Stone House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture;^[1] it was seen as historic because of its place as a rare surviving example of Ohio's earliest residential architecture.^[2] It is one of four Belpre locations on the Register, along with the Charles Rice Ames House, the Sixth Street Railroad Bridge, and Spencer's Landing.^[1]

References

1 2 3 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 4 Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1400.
↑ Stone, Capt. Jonathan, House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2011-01-03.

National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Ohio

National Historic Landmark	W.P. SNYDER, JR. (steamboat)

Historic districts	Coal Run Historic District Harmar Historic District Marietta Historic District Muskingum River Navigation Historic District Vaughn-Stacy-Evans Farm Historic District Watertown Historic District

Other properties	Charles Rice Ames House Col. Joseph Barker House Judge Joseph Barker House Becker Lumber and Manufacturing Company Cisler Terrace Walter Curtis House Col. Simeon Deming House Erwin Hall, Marietta College First Unitarian Church of Marietta Harra Covered Bridge Hildreth Covered Bridge Hune Covered Bridge William Hune Farm John Kaiser House Mason House Mound Cemetery Mound Ohio Company Land Office Rufus Putnam House Rinard Covered Bridge Root Covered Bridge Sawyer-Curtis House Shinn Covered Bridge Sixth Street Railroad Bridge Spencer's Landing Jonathan Sprague House Old St. Mary's School Capt. Jonathan Stone House Waernicke-Hille House and Store Wilcox-Mills House

Former listing	MISSISSIPPI III

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio

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