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Photograph of John Baker Tavern
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Baker, John, Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 49 National Register listings in Delaware County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4151 OH 203, Radnor, 43066
  • When was it listed? 2006-09-06
  • Category. building
  • Township. Radnor township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000766 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 558 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 558 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baker, John, Tavern between 1871 and 1975: 488 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, B. R. Laughlin, Binning, M. B. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Fr.) Lév.Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Fr.) Lév.1898LloydOhio
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887not recordedDelaware, near Olentangy River
Dryobates villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Falco sparverius, not of this specimenFalco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 17581890not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Muhlenbergia mexicana, not of this specimenMuhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin.1890Wilcox, E.V.Deleware
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1891not recordedDelaware
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)1891not recordedDelaware

All 558 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Baker, John, Tavern: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Penry QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radnor, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Radnor$200,000The tornado briefly touched down on the west side of Highway 257 southwest of Radnor. The tornado initially hit two barns, destroying one and heavily damaging another. One barn consisted of cinder block walls and tin roofing. Much of the cinder block collapsed, while roofing of this structure with some of the attached cinder block and other bard roofing and walls was lifted across Highway 257 where much of the material was wrapped around trees along the Scioto River. Large portions of the barn roofing was lofted over the tree line along the Scioto River and deposited in the back yards of residences along River Road, on the east side of the river, a distance of two tenths of a mile away. Tree damage along the south side of the brief tornado track was lying in a northeast orientation which was inward toward the tornado track which confirms the convergent circulation. Other damage along the path included snapped large trees, complete destruction of a small shed, and large amounts of debris wrapped around trees. Corn stalks were found in yards of residence on the east side of the Scioto River, with the nearest corn fields nearly a quarter of a mile away. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum wind speed of this tornado was approximately 85 miles per hour.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindRadnor$15,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRadnor$8,000Numerous trees down across the northern part of the county.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRadnor$5,000A car shelter was destroyed and a few windows were broken in an RV due to thunderstorm winds. Several large limbs were also downed.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRadnor$3,000no account filed
February 2009Thunderstorm WindRadnor$2,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRadnor$1,000A tree was downed near the intersection of Radnor and River Roads.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRadnor$250Several large branches were downed on Radnor Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRadnor-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2013FloodRadnor-High water due to heavy rainfall was reported over State Route 203 near Radnor.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRadnor-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRadnor-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRadnor-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRadnor-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindRadnor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

10,159 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for (Enter categories from instructions) National Register listing) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance individual distinction. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Significant Dates 1849, 1859 (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for religious Significant Person removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or a grave. Cultural Affiliation -D a cemetery. -E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. -F a commemorative property. less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 10,159 words, 57 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 06000766, 57 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Radnor Township Hall0.3 miles2023
Lewis, Samuel, Farmhouse1.8 miles1993
Detwiller, John, Tavern and Farmstead2.2 miles1993
Cooper, Samuel, Farmhouse3.8 miles1993
Richey, James, Farmhouse5.6 miles1993
High House5.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000766 in Record Group 79.
Delaware CountyAll 49 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.