Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1970. 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
“Universalist Church Historic District is a registered historic district in Montgomery, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1970.”
Wikipedia article Universalist Church Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1970 · category: District · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.70000498- 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.
It is thought by some that inroads were made upon the forest and improvements begun by white men upon the present site of Montgomery as early as the fall of 1794; but the earliest trustworthy date is fixed one year from that time, when a colony of six families came in from Ulster county. New York. They were headed, respectively, by three brothers Felter - Jacob, Irominius, and David - Cornelius Snyder, Nathaniel Terwilliger, and Jacob Rosa. All were Felter families, indeed, in this, that the three brothers sired one-half of them, and their three sisters - Mesdames Snyder, TerwiIITgef,"and~ Rosa - were mothers to the other three. It is seldom that a pioneer colony is thus uniquely made up. Snyder bought of Thomas Espy, June 27, 1796, the whole of section four, for one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Here the first improvements v?ere made by the party. August ist of the same year Terwilliger bought of Judge Symmes the southwest quarter of section three, upon which section Montgomery is situated, and began the clearing of that tract shortly after. Nearly five years afterwards - May 5, 1801 - he also bought the north half of the section, and upon it laid out the town of Montgomery. It was surveyed in 1802; but the recorded plat of this bears date the ninth of August, 1805. It is situated on the Montgomery pike, two and one-half miles from the south line of the township, and one and a half miles from Montgomery station, in Symmes township.
Like most towns of its size Montgomery has no written history. Situated on a leading road, it became a resting place for teamsters and travellers, and so grew up from a single tavern to what it now is, a town of five hundred inhabitans. A log cabin formed the first tavern of the place. This was situated on the southeast corner of Main and Mechanic streets, on what is now known as the Station road, and kept by John Osborn. A man named Yost opened another tavern on the diagonel corner. Some idea of the extent of travel, or the drinking habits of the people of that time (1809), may be formed when we state that a fifty-barrel supply of whiskey for the year failed to meet the demand upon Yost's bar.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,132 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Universalist Church Historic District between 1819 and
1975: 3,394 Fungi, 999 Animalia, 377 Plantae, 326 Protozoa, 25 Unrecorded, 11 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. Gaufin 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 Universalist Church Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Montgomery, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
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
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From the nomination file
2,572 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
are ot rounded brick. The cupola is octagonal, dome-topped, and of wood. has two rooms up, two down, with original fireplaces. The structure is Pioneer Building, 9433 Montgomery Road. Built early in the 1820's, it is also simple Federal style with dentils. The exterior of the structure place.Condition of the church is poor, and private efforts are being remains essentially unchanged and is brick in construction.Inside, Fair UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 The Brick Residence, at 9463-9465 Montgomery Road, is owned by: James H.
Thomas, 8773 Sturbridge Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 The Old Manse, at 9449 Montgomery Road, is owned by Nationality Foods, Inc., which consists of: Vincent Gramaglia, 2545 Meyerhill Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211; Jerome P. Schwartz, 6700 Meadow Ridge Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio 45237; Richard L. Roth, 6740 West Farm Acres Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45237; John P. Cipriani, 7476 Boleyn Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45239. The Pioneer Building, at 9433 Montgomery Road, is owned by: Robert D. Essex, 3437 Stettinius Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208; Herbert D. Essex, 9474 Zigzag Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242.
STATE COUNTY Hamilton DATE The Universalist Church, at Remington Avenue and Montgomery Road, Ohio (Continuation Sheet) Form 10-300a (Number all entries) 70.12.39.0042 (July 1969) REGISTER is owned by:Thomas F.Behrens, Remington Avenue and ZigZag Road, NUV PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF
Statement of significance
fired on the site. Rev. Pingree, its first minister, organized the by John and Elizabeth Vail. Sometime in the recent past, the church was community symbol, however, for periodic art shows and an annual Christmas Brick residence: This structure has no historical importance, but is a Presbyterian clergy and their families, this residence is a prominent feature of the district, its spacious grounds provide desirable green space in a commercial area, and the private owner is considering demolition Lfor a modern building. of the community's leading citizens, Abraham Slaughter. Later, it was The Montgomery Historic Area is all that remains of the tangible, early 19th century evidences of a small village.
The preservation of these buildings is important as the sole link to the architectural beginnings 1820-1837 Communications Commerce losophy Transportation Architecture Engineering Conservation Music Aboriginal Industry Landscape SIGNIFICANCE Sculpture open house. itarian Religion/Phi Theater Pre-Columbian Political Social/Human Invention DEMOLISHED tectural and historical merit in the community. Education in the immediate vicinity. denomination erected in Ohio.It was built by James Jones of key building because of its competent style in the district. The Universalist Church is believed to be the first structure of this - Prehistoric Old Manse: Occupied from 1829 to recent years by a succession of prominent to maintain the historical and architectural integrity of the area.
of the community; and preservation of the structures forms a welcome and needed relief from gross and undistinguished modern commercial developments Pioneer Building: During the 1820's this residence was occupied by one Art archi- which are threatening the sole remaining historic structuges
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000498, 19 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.
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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