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

Nomination for Beir, Anna, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,190 words across 11 pages, filed in 1977. 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 77001055, 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 (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES APR 1 1 1977 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Anna, House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _ VICINITY OF PRESENT USE _WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 LOCATION DATE TITLE CODE Greenville ACCESSIBLE COUNTY SCIENTIFIC OWNERSHIP HISTORIC CATEGORY STATE EDUCATIONAL GOVERNMENT Darke DISTRICT 037 CLASSIFICATION TRANSPORTATION MILITARY PARK RELIGIOUS NAME STATUS XENTERTAINMENT The Court House STRUCTURE PRIVATE DATA SHEET XXBUILDING(S) SURVEY RECORDS BEING CONSIDERED Ohio AGRICULTURE City of Greenville _INDUSTRIAL DATE ENTERED XMUSEUM COMMERCIAL -UNOCCUPIED 2l4 East Fourth Street _OBJECT FOR NPS USE ONLY -OTHER: -BOTH -FEDERAL _STATE COUNTY LOCAL RECEIVED NOV 5 8th XPUBLIC PH0357723 51976 7 DESCRIPTION X UNALTERED X ORIGINAL SITE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

CONDITION UNEXPOSED MOVED GOOD DETERIORATED RUINS The house sits in a long established residential neighborhood CHECK ONE This very straight forward rectangular two story Victorian the front.The structure is seriously in need of maintenance. with bracketed cornice and Tudor shaped stone device above. roof has inside chimneys on the left rear and right side near brick moulded window in the gable. An outside furnace chimney near the heart of Greenville. The two semi-circular light Victorian moulded doors sit in a _EXCELLENT DATE. Anna Beir is right of the door. The windows are 6/6 double The gable verges steps.The walls are eight course American bond brick that project plain with sloping soffit and frieze.
badly need repointing.The doorway has a stone frontispiece and fire escape have been appended to the left side.The eaves a frame shed addition file in the right rear.The metal gable AREAS OF

Statement of significance

"Miss Anna" was a dedicated artist, a challenging teacher, 1700-1799 1400-1499 ECONOMICS RELIGION COMMUNICATIONS PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PHILOSOPHY BUILDER/ARCHITECT EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE 1900- TRANSPORTATION PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE c.1865 her influence. MILITARY COMMERCE THEATER MUSIC INVENTION EDUCATION A typical nineteenth century middle class tradesman's residence Colleges sought her services but she quietly and without a motivator of artistic talent, and patroness of civic culture. It was discovered after her death that many of the supplies and INDUSTRY 36 years. work did not stop in the classroom--the whole community felt supervisor in the Greenville position she held for public notice declined in favor of her town and pupils.Her Methodist Church, at the end of the Civil War.
-CONSERVATION _ENGINEERING _1500-1599 Miss Anna Beir, Conrad Beir's daughter, was the founding spirit behind the Greenville Art Guild (l937) and gave the built by Conrad tailor and part time pastor of the German _SCULPTURE local history -LITERATURE - LAW COMMUNITY PLANNING ÄART ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Miss Beir won honors and acclaim for her meager personal means. from Greenville High School and Pratt Institute, she became art house as a bequest to the City of Greenville for an art museum. Miss Beir was born in the house on September 27,1873 and died

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 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER The OldCourt House, P. O. Box 461 CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 DATE Sept.
21, 1976 FOR NPS USE ONLY KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CPO 892.453 CODE COUNTY 513/228-6271 NORTHING DATE TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION EASTING NATIONAL ZONE Public Record Files of the Darke County Historical Society and Greenville Art Guild Dayton Chicago: W. H. Beers & Company, 1880. March 24, 1976 Loren S. Gannon, Jr., Preservation Officer THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE J LOCAL Montgomery County Historical Society ATTEST: History of Darke County, Ohio. Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - APR 1 1 1977 Send-back - OTHER KEEPER Entered TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST HAER CONTROL Re-submit Maps Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF ACCEPT Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 12.8.76 3.2177 Cole INT: 2106 - 74 Property State Working Number 11. 5. 76.
4454 5-3-27 ART GUILD Workshop Cheatre THEATRE BEIR, ANNA, HOUSE NOV 5 December 1975 D8E APR 11 1977 The facade from the southwest Greenville, Darke County, Ohio BEIR, ANNA, HOUSE NOV 5 December 1975 Greenville, Darke County, Ohio The facade and east side from the southeast GREENVILLE WEST QUADRANGLE | GREENVILLE WEST, OHIO '5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 16/702020/4441580 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STATE OF OHIO APR 1 1 1977 APR 11 1977 (Beir, Anas, House Goctschall, Oscar Ie, House Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historie Preservation Officer Bon. John H. Glenn, Jz. Hon, Charles W. Vhalen, Jr. 880 Location Mott STATE Dayton Shandon Name Carroll County Butler County Defiance County Date Entered Also Notified Montgomery County Waynes vieinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Greenville 4/15/77 Thomas Select School Hamilton County Adams County Hon.
Douglas Applegate Darke County St. Mary's of Morges Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Bepler, August, House (Holly Ridge) Hon. Deibert L. Latta Hamilton vieinity Brown, Samuel N., House Hughes, Phillip, Bouse Cincinnati Wilson, John I., Honestead Columbus, Ohlo 43211 Riverside Chapel APR 11 :1977 Beir, Anna, House OTHER NANES: STREET & NUMBER 214 E. 4th CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT VICINITY OF - 039 FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : - Substantially intact-3 - unknown.-5 - not applicable - 7 -Interior, exterior, environs not intact-0 CONDITION - SORIGINAL SITE FAIR _Unexcavated YES, NAME: IF YES, NAME: ADAPTIVE USE: Saved ? FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) then- HOUSE _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _urban & commun .OTHER (SPECIFY -INVENTION "first" YES "oldest?
YES 037 COUNTY code INTERIOR DOE UNEXPOSED ENVIRONS ARCHITECTURE Greenville Darke ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC Claims planning MIDWEST PHILOSOPHY ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE DETERIORATED 8th FEATURES: LOCATION: EXPLORATION EDUCATION EXCELLENT SIGNIFICANCE: PACIFIC NORTHWEST POLITICS/GOVERNMENT STATE -recreation Unknown DATE: Reviewer WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? ART MOVED Xsocio/cultural LITERATURE Ohio -entertainment ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION UNALTERED _CONSERVATION _settlement WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? COMMUNICATIONS -ECONOMICS No access -Reconstructed historic district?
ADMINISTRATOR(underline) Xes-restricted _Excavated _MUSIC _COMMERCE -health _RELIGION GOOD INITIALSI O OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCE NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: EXTERIOR SOUTHEAST OTHER NR Data Sheet _RUINS INDUSTRY --MILITARY (label role DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : LOCAL GOV"T FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) builder/contractor: institutional events DATES: architect/m.builder: STATE artist/artisan: interior decorator: NAMES: appropriate date) PRIVATE landscape/garden designer: ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: engineer: personal Anna MUNICIPAL COUNTY SIGNIFICANCE:(maximum two sentences)