Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
National Register reference number.09000094- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Duncan, Robert P., House between
2007 and 2007, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 10,447 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Duncan, Robert P., House between 1804 and
1975: 8,468 Animalia, 1,269 Fungi, 562 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Duncan, Robert P., House: 1 plant, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bexley, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Thunderstorms that produced locally five to seven inches of rain inundated the east side of Columbus during the evening. Street flooding occurred from Bexley north to Gahanna with numerous road closures. Several homes in Bexley neighborhoods had flooded basements, with high water forcing 25 families out of their homes. Seventeen structures sustained major damage from flooding.
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
2,305 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.
Description of the property
of the house with rooms running off the two barrel-vaulted east-west hallways has not been door of the house is flanked by stone pilasters and decorated with carved stone ornamenta- Alterations to the interior plan of the house primarily involve the expansion and remodeling an apartment in the 2nd story. of the kitchen and bathrooms.The uses of some rooms have also to X_excellent The rear of the house hasa loggia or gallery supported by masonery piers from the front side of the house has been added.
X altered house modeled after the Mediterrabean Teaded glass windows and doors (east and south entry, butlers pantry), wood floors (2nd An open porch in the southwest corner of the former servants wing was enclosed and a window band.The remainder of the original trim is intact. The symmetrically planned and"French doors"have multiple 1ights.Second story windows are primarily 6/6 The basic plan Revival style has a low pitched hip roof covered garage) of approximately 6,ooo sq.ft.,which sits on a masonry foundation and has masonry The Judge Robert P.Duncan House is a 2 story,12x 5 bay attached OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Duncan, Robert, P, House, Bexley, Franklin County, Ohio Item number 8 into a wooded, undeveloped lot adjacent to Alum Creek.
The formal landscaping originally Of the 52 properties surveyed, only 2 others showed strong influence of the Mediterranean Columbus Maps and Property Atlas, 1899, 1920 Columbus Citizen Journal - 4/15/67 (Duncan Obituary) Dau's Blue Books, Who's Who is Society etc. 1908-1933. The Ohio Blue Book, 1917 p.103 Columbus "The Capital City" Newpaper Reference Book, Pen & Pencil Club: Columbus, Ohio; 1915, p.59. Bench and Bar, Taylor, pp 249-50. Columbus City Directories - 1908-1983 Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780 in the deed to Leslie H.
(in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below other (specify) The property is situated on a large wooded lot of the prestigious Bullitt Park Addition of social/ Columbus as early as 1908 and throughout his life he and his wife Cole Campbell) were with his father & Duncan)until 19l4 when he was elected as Franklin County and was established as a village in 1908. _law _ archeology-prehistoric community planning . landscape architecture . religion century. Architecturally, it is significant as an early example of the Mediterranean textured (stuccoed) walls, its doorway flanked with pilasters and its balcony, loggia and partially enclosed patio. new style. structures statewide.
They not only appear to have been prolific, but they were also exploration/settlement Columbus businessmen which characterized the suburbancommunity of Bexley in the early 2oth Common Pleas Judge for Franklin County and he held this position for 25years.After 1944 The style did not evolve from its experimental stages to.a."movement"per se Revival).The Duncan House is an early example of their fine work executed 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 09000094, 18 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.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
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