Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Iddings, Benjamin, Log House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,180 words across 10 pages, filed in 1976. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 76001497, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 22 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM NOV 2 1 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON 6.5 miW of Troy STREET & NUMBER of Horseshoe Bend Road, east of Stillwater Riv-NOTFOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN X VICINITY OF PRESENT USE PUBLIC STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION X_YES: RESTRICTED - IN PROCESS - BEING CONSIDERED -YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 45373 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 037 109 Troy DATE COUNTY LOCATION CODE Miami TITLE ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY COURTHOUSE.
SCIENTIFIC OWNERSHIP ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT INDUSTRIAL HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION MILITARY _EDUCATIONAL AGRICULTURE STATE COMMERCIAL NAME Brukner Nature Center STATUS XPRIVATE _GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION 4th--Tennyson Guyer OTHER: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT XMUSEUM DATE ENTERED XNCCUPIED 5995 Horseshoe Bend Road X_BUILDING(S) (Rev. 10-74) SURVEY RECORDS DATA SHEET FOR NPS USE ONLY -RELIGIOUS _OBJECT _BOTH Ohio -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL At Brukner Nature Center on land north XPARK PH0369161 7 DESCRIPTION X ORIGINAL SITE X ALTERED - MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED EXCELLENT XRUINS UNALTERED FAIR CHECK ONE The shingle roof has an interior stone have camfer and notch construction and seriously deteriorated dilapidated weatherboard encasement that sheaths the house. The the gables verge close. -GOOD in the southwest corner that has partially collapsed. DATE The in spots. chimney.There is a rubble boulder foundation and small cellar A typical four room two story log house. The gap for the fireplace can be seen through the The log walls AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Quaker meeting records indicate that Benjamin Iddings, a Scotch-Irish Bedford County, Pennsylvanian, migrated with his family to South Carolina, Tennessee, Warren County, Ohio, and 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE X1800-1899 PERIOD THEATER RELIGION BUILDER/ARCHITECT LAW POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE INVENTION SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE natural history interpretive program. INDUSTRY XAGRICULTURE LITERATURE This is very possibly the oldest structure in Miami County.
_TRANSPORTATION _CONSERVATION initiated to restore the house and incorporate the pioneer into the reasonable deduction from old histories would give us his patent this log house by a clear spring that is still active on the bluffs The site is part of the Brukner Nature non-profit -1600-1699 -COMMERCE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN Quaker who settled in l8o5 and patented his land in the fall of -PHILOSOPHY MILITARY -1900- His neighbor, Benjamin Pearson, a fellow SPECIFIC DATES 1797-1809? certainly ascertained, it may have been as early as 1797. However, natural history preserve. It stands adjacent to the interpretive above the river. The exact date of construction cannot be history credits Benjamin Iddings with being a "prominent citizen." quarter of section 33.
Iddings the lot on which the cabin sits.We are was not aware of the value of the structure.A campaign has been quite certain that Iddings's grandson was born there in l809.Local the banks of the Stillwater Riber.He appears to have

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE _ 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE March 29, 1976 STREET & NUMBER The Old Court House, P. O.
Box 461 CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National 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 evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CPO 892-453 10-8-76 TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION 513/228-6271 CODE Dayton DATE NORTHING LOCAL COUNTY ZONE EASTING Brien, Miami Valley Ohio Pioneers.
LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES ATTEST ZONE Lewis Genealogical and Biographical Record, Miami County; Research of Mrs.Virginia Boes, Troy Hist.Soc.(very Beers, History of Miami County, Ohio.1880;Brien, Quaker Records, Working Number 10.22.76.4345 Photos_ 2 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF NOV 2 1 1976 National Register Write-up KEEPER CONTROL Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Maps HAER Send-back TECHNICAL HISTORIAN Re-submit 10.26.76 Review Federal Register Entry Miami Ohio United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 State OTHER Cole INT:21 11.5.76 IDDINGS, BENJAMIN, LOG HOUSE from east NOV 2 1 1976 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER November 1975 OCT 22 1976 East end and north side showing fireplace gap Section 33, Newton Township, Miami Co., Ohio IDDINGS, BENJAMIN, LOG HOUSE November 1975 NOV 2 1 1976 OCT 22 1976 PROPERTV OF THE NATIONAL, REGISTER Southwest Detail, southwest corner showing cellar from Section 33, Newton Township, Miami Co., Ohio PLEASANT HILL QUADRANGLE PLEASANT HILL, OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES STATE OF OHIO OCT 22 1976 1961 ROAD CLASSIFICATION 16/728940/4432740 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mapped, ecited, and published by the Geological Survey NOV 2 1 1976 Saunders, Elizabeth Sheets, Farm Montgomery County B.
River Rd. Historic District II Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas il. Smith Hon. Tennyson Guyer Director, The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Delbert L. Latta Office of Eon. Wayne Le Hays 880 Dayton Location STATE Name Perrysburg vicinity Wood County Troy vicinity Miami County State Historic Preservation Officer Casstown vicinity Columbiana County Also Notified Rossford vicinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Bast Liverpool Iddings, Benjamin, Log House Regional Director, Midwest Region Date Entered Reynolds, John R., House Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Bast Liverpool Post Office Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
Columbus, Ohio 43211 OHIO VNOV 2 1 1976 NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: OTHER NANES: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) ADMINISTRATOR (underline) FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST - Substantially intact-3 X unknown - 4 Xunknown -6 - not applicable - 7 -Interior, exterior, environs not intact-o ZORIGINAL SITE CONDITION - IF YES, NAME: Saved ? FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) -LITERATURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _urban & commun _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) INTERIOR Sheet ENVIRONS Yes-unrestricted UNEXPOSED "first" YES COMMERCE FEATURES: EXCELLENT ECONOMICS planning Claims EXPLORATION MILITARY PHILOSOPHY INITIALS: STATE COMMUNICATIONS MIDWEST DOE DATE: SIGNIFICANCE: MOVED TRANSPORTATION Unknown ENGINEERING EDUCATION _Reconstructed INDUSTRY historic district? ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC MUSIC -recreation WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?
_UNALTERED _Unexcavated WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? _CONSERVATION ARCHITECTURE _entertainment -socio/cultural _RUINS LARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC ADAPTIVE USE: INVENTION -settlement No access NR Data S -health IDDINGS, BENSAMIA, LOG HOUSE STREET & NUMBER CITY. TOWN YVICINITY OF then- RESIDENTIAL. _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE "oldest" EXTERIOR code COUNTY SDETERIORATED AGRICULTURE LOCATION: -ART GOOD 10.26.76 _FAIR ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: L06 per sonal (label role LOCAL GOV"T builder/contractor: STATE events MUNICIPAL institutional engineer: artist/artisan: NAMES: interior decorator: PRIVATE OTHER appropriate date) landscape/garden designer: FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) DATE(S) SIGNIFICANCE:(maximum two sentences) DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) COUNTY ETHNIC GROUP: