The Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board in Columbus approved the nomination of a North Madison house for a national distinction.
The Mr. and Mrs. Karl A Staley House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the four other sites considered Friday morning will now move on to to the office of the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.
Tom Wolf, a spokesman for the Ohio Historical Society, said it takes about 90 days for that office to decide whether a site deserves to be listed in the National Register of Historical Places.
Wolf said there are about 3,700 places in Ohio on that list, five of which are houses designed by Wright.
Wright did not do much work in Ohio, Wolf said, adding that the historical society knows of only 10 houses designed by the famous architect.
There are 10 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed houses that we know of in Ohio, Wolf wrote in an email. Five are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the Staley House would be the sixth).
Owner Susan Turben and her husband, Jack, bought the 1950 home in 1983 from the original owners and namesakes Karl A. Staley and his wife.
The Turbens worked with historic preservation consultant firm Naylor Wellman, LLC to prepare the nomination.
Typically her firm works on corporate projects, helping to designate businesses as historic places for tax benefit reasons, and does accept requests from private homeowners.
Its a gem to be presenting a nomination of this caliber, consultant Wendy Naylor said.
A gem, Naylor said, because of its location on the coast of Lake Erie, the preservation down to the magazines that were kept by the Staleys and that its a unique example of Wrights Usonian style.
Simon Husted contributed to this article.