Nomination for Whiteman, Benjamin, House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Whiteman, Benjamin, House AND/ OR HISTORIC: -4 mile E of Clifton ^ C. J. Brown, Jr. - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments Commercial X Other (Specify) Martha T. (Mrs.

John R.) Horner 213 Broadmoor Nº LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS ENTRY NUMBER DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 057 039 LOCATION NAME ACCESSIBLE Religious CLASSIFICATION STATE Government CATEGORY Entertainment Springfield Site County Restricted Educational Military Yes: Both Unoccupied STATUS Transportation OWNERSHIP Structure Private Agricultural Park Being Considered CODE Private Residence Public Scientific District Museum vacant Ohio Xenia Industrial Public Acquisition: COMMON: Ohio Historical Society OWNER OF PROPERTY Object NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Greene County Court House 69 Greene St.

ENTRY DATE TITLE OF SURVEY: OWNER'S NAME: (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: DATE OF SURVEY: North River Road,.4 mile B of State Route2 In Process FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: 1982 Velma (Type all entries complete applicable sections) DEC 13 Survey of Historical Features, Miami River, Little Miami - Local Federal Building CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated * Unaltered X] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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the hill, and 3 stories behind, where the basement kitchen opens onto ground level farther down the hill. Just behind the house is a 2 story matching but the well opening is plainly discernable, a cupboard having been placed taining walls extending out perpendicular to the house, and there is an ex- detail in beading on the floor joist exposed there, occupies its E end. ceilings and returns on 2nd floor, are of walnut. CONDITION stone springhouse.

room was probably the kitchen as the stairs from the dining room descend to the tongue and groove floorboards are off center and appear to have been This stairway rises to the SW room which has doors in its N and E walls in- There is one window each to the E of both front and back doors,9/6 what smaller than the others as the stairwell, which contains an interesting ance of 2 stories in front, where the lst floor door opens onto the crest of The front door of the house opens into a room occuping the B side of the the kitchen,a centered door in the partition wall leads to the Woo over it.A door at the N end of the partition wall leads to stairs to 2nd The walls are beaded and The house is situated on a small hill looking south over the Little Miami it from it at the E end where 2 steps return to the level of the top of the A door in its N wall opens into the NE room which has one 6/6-window in its (Check One) to the Nw and SE rooms:The SW room has 2 windows in its S wall and the NW - Unexposed River.

Of faced fieldstone, both coursed and uncoursed, it has the appear- stair, in the N wall, is a 6/6 window, and to the of that adoor opening/g onto a back porch at ground level on the side of the hill. Ashopt-walk Excellent Ruins Moved These rooms are se- ner descends to the kitchen.The steps of.this stairway have been removed, in back where the small panes remain. Fair The plaster throughout may be original as it is very uneven. parated from each other by a partition wall running E-W which is pierced by placed with modern 2/2 panes.

The 2nd floor is divided into 4 rooms by a partition running the length some were later plastered over and it has not been ascertained whether all The front windows have all been re- The basement is divided into 2 rooms by a partition running N-s.The E four rooms had them.No central heat or electricity was ever installed in end.The NW room has 2 windows in the N wall but no fireplace.This room done by hand. mantel of which is over 6' high.In the partition wall to the Ware2 doors one door.The SW room has 2windows in the S wall and a fireplace at the W leading to the 2rooms on the W side of the lst floor. hill.

PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: - 15th Century - Prehistoric DEC 13 1972 - Landscape - Literature - Military eral early buildings, an operating water-powered grist mill and a general were probably of log construction, this stone house was probably to some ville, Ky. in 1782, While there he aided Daniel Boone in the defense of earliest pioneers of Greene County and in 1799 moved his family to the Commerce Science Conservation Communications

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ship of Simon Kenton which engaged a party of Indians under the warrior pointed Brigade General of the Greene County Militia and served throughout Little Miami River near the future site of Clifton and there he resided for and early organization of Greene County and helped to organize the military General Benjamin Whiteman played an important part in the settlement feeling for his county is evidenced by his actions at the time Greene Coun- in Greene County and was associated with Generals Gano, Findley and others The building has some significance as an indicator of the style of liv- of preservation on an attractive rural site free from encroachments of Social/Human- the area) and its relatively unaltered condition.It is in a good state mouth of Beavercreek.While there he built the log house in which the first ty was reduced to its present limits by the organization of Clark County in extent a status symbol.Following is a brief biography of the man who The primary importance of the Whiteman House lies in its great age (for the white settlements and served as a volunteer in General Harmar's cam- passage of a law changing the line so that it ran north of his house.

built it. the county with whose public interests he was so identified, he procured the lege parkland and nearby is the interesting village of Clifton, with sev- in organizing the military system of Ohio.He held a commission of lieu- tenant colonel in the militia of Greene County in 1805,and was then presi- court was held in Greene County.In 1805 he built the stone house on the ing of a community leader of that date.At a time when most buildings lage of Old Chillicothe on the Little Miami River (present Oldtown in STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

the war.He died in 1852 and is buried in the cemetary at Clifton. His Greene County) in 1790,and in 1792 was one of a group under the leader- 1817.Part of the new boundary lime ran a little to the south of his house SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1805 modern construction. The immediate area contains state, county and col- Teeumseh in Brown County. In 1793 he married the daughter of one of the on the Little Miami, thus leaving it in Clark County. Art feeling of the nineteenth century. The remaining countryside is agricul- 47 years. He was one of the first associate judges of the first court held Wishing to live in dent of the county court of inquiry. During the War of 1812 he was ap-

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Dills, R. S. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÄCRES N 39° APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 4.50 DEC 13 1972 National Q FORM PREPARED BY Dec. 5, 1972 CITY OR TOWN: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been level of significance of this nomination is: GPO 931-894 057 039 023 Degrees ORGANIZATION LONGITUDE DATE Seconds Name LATITUDE ATTEST: REGISTER Title Local STATE Minutes COUNTY Xenia CORNER CODE Greene Susannah Lane Degrees Mfnutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION National Register. 12.

STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Ohio STREET AND NUMBER: 1010 Union Rd. EATITUDE Pub1ishing Co.,1902,Pp.45-47 & Robinson, George F. W 83° forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Brl 4.50 storic Preservation Greene Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Maps HISTORIAN Send-back KEEPER Re-submit TECH REVIEW Photos ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register write-up WORKING NUMBER 12.13.72.1934 BRANCH CHIEF CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 2-13-23 3-21-22 Federal Register entry 6-5 -23 NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 43.73 Title: ROPERTY CF PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REEISTER NPS Number 4.3.73 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: 1" = 2,000" TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1.

Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. INT: 155-72 039 057 1968 APR Greene LOCATION STATE DATE COUNTY REGISTER CODE COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER REQUIREMENTS Ohio MAP REFERENCE SCALE: SOURCE: PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: .4 mile E of Cliftom Whiteman, Benjamin, House NAME CLIFTON QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLIFTON, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEC 13 1972 UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO Hami1con County Miami University Old Center School Chi11icothe Mr. Daniel R. Porter Hon. Wayne In. Hays Hon. Chalmers P. Wylie Hon. Charles A.

Vanik Worthington STATE Cuyahoga County Greene County Butler County Name Jefferson County PHR Also Notified Steubenville Mayfield Village Coshocton ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Coshocton County Cincinnati Location Franklin County The Morrison House Hon. John M. Ashbrook Federal Land Office of Steubenville Oxford Ross County Johnson, Orange, House Hon. William B. Saxbe Hon. Clarence J. Brown Whiteman (Benjamin) House Roscoe Village Elliott and Stoddard Halls, Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. Donald D. Clancy Goshorn (Sir Alfred T.) House Clifton vicinity HON& William H.- Harsha Columbus, Ohio NRowland: jec 43211 Director APR Date Entered 4/12/73 OHIO Hon. Walter E. Povell