Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Pennsylvania House is a historic inn and tavern in western Springfield, Ohio, United States. Built circa 1839, this three-story brick Federal structure lies along the original National Road and near the old road that connects Springfield with Dayton, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article Pennsylvania House (Springfield, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001396- 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.
Domint informed his visitors of bis intent to lay out a town, and offered valuable tracts of lund at low prices. John Dungherty, of Kentucky, & surveyor, was speedily engaged, nod the work of suryay commenced Mareh 17, 1801, This town plat was bounded on the south by the section line running parallel with Main Street, and distant from it south one hundred and twenty-five feet; on tho wort to the ulloy near the Prosbyterian Church; on the north to the top of tho rocks along Buck Creek; vod on the oast to the onst line of Spring Street. he number of lols incladed was eighly-two. 'They were not recorded us u town plat til 1803, What is now Columbia wag in this plat. Muin and the present Main wus enlled South Street. Mrs. Demint suggested that, on account of the numerous adjacent springs, the place should be called Springfield, and the name was adopted,
Lhe survey completed, Foose and his party returned to Fraoklington for their fumilies. In their removal with their wagons, they made the first wagon-trucle from that direction into Springfield. The jouruey oveupied four wand uw hal! days, one day being given lo crossing the Big Darby. Virst they packed their goods acrosa upon horses, and then drew their wagons over with ropes, while some Their route through the woods had to be cleared with the axe in many places. After Moos arrived, he made prepirations for the erection of nh house.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pennsylvania House
in 2002, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 1,426 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pennsylvania House between 1840 and 1975: 968 Animalia, 333 Plantae, 122 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Pennsylvania House: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 56 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Several utility poles were down, a barn was blown off of its foundation, and minor damage occurred to a house and an apartment due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
A tornado touched down along Moorefield Road, just to the east of State Route 4. Trees were either uprooted or snapped off towards their tops with additional large limbs down from other trees. Some minor structural damage occured as well along the 250 yard damage path. The tornado was rated EF-0 with top wind speeds of 70 mph.
A barn was blown over on Victory Road. Several trees and power lines were down on Sintz Road. In another location, a roof was peeled back due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
There was scattered damage at a mobile home park affecting four mobile homes. A metal carport was heavily damaged. Three evergreen trees were also downed.
Numerous 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were downed in Snyder Park. A tree fell on a house on Upper Valley Pike. Part of the roof was removed as a result.
Three to four inches of rain fell across southern Clark County as thunderstorms pushed slowly east during the late evening. A car was washed into a flooded ditch near the Springfield Airport along US 68. High water caused several road closures across the southern part of the county, with basements flooded on the south side of Springfield.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
The basic original plan was in the shape of a T. In the mid-1850's a building until a restroom was added on the south facade in 1940. bedrooms and, above the main dining room, a large room of the same dimensions as the dining room which was probably used a a ballroom or meeting room. This room, along with the rest of the center section (except for the central hallway) is at a lower level than the east section. As part of the improvement program, in 1971 all brickwork was repointed, heating, electrical and plumbing systems were renovated and a new front walkway was put in. This work, part of the first two stages of a three on the interior, the resident caretakers' apartment in the second floor CONDITION roof. DESCRIPTION Excellent NATIONAL REGISTER of the twenty-three rooms are on display.
and door and window woodwork are examples of fine craftsmanship.Fourteen This was probably done to provide more headroom in the third floor west wing.The final stage of improvement will be the redecoration of The Pennsylvania House is a Federal style three-story white brick structure RECEIVED sections of the building.The west wing was the last addition to the one of the porch floors was replaced, storm windows and doors were installed, the interior of the museum. facade the main facade) has a two-story 3 bay veranda.
stairwell was the large main public dining room.On the second floor were The brick outer walls are made from local clay and the foundations are built of wood.The cedar shingle roof was replaced in 1945 by an asphalt the main facade)has a large l story porch supported (Check One) NOV 10 1972 - Unexposed - Moved part improvement program, involved the exterior of the building and, and Bible" doors are arranged symmetrically.
and the Old Dayton-Springfield Pike in Springfield, Ohio. This on the National Road. Pioneers on their way west, wagon men, stage- coach traffic and drovers on their way to Cincinnati, all stopped for food and lodging at the Pennsylvania House. Customarily, drovers were relegated to the third floor dormitory rooms while the less rowdy "the old place" helped prevent the destruction of the building. Afterwards, the building served a variety of uses including a raised funds, and had it repaired.
Filled with antiques and period NOV 10 Conservation Commerce losophy Engineering Theater Science NATIONAL Aboriginal Architecture Communications REGISTER itarian Art Literature Music Landscape Political Sculpture Education Invention recalling memories of the time when he lived at the inn and praising Social/Human- it was again threatened with demolition.At this time Lagonda Chapter boarding house and a junk shop.It escaped the demolition threat of raise funds to improve the condition of the initiated building by Daughters of the American Revolution acquired the title to the building, Religion/Phi.
Agriculture Industry The Pennsylvania House was built around 1822 between the National Road Among the famous visitors claimed to have stayed at the inn are guests used the more comfortable rooms on the first two floors. With the coming of the railroad in 1846,traffic on the National Road 1910,but afterwards went on to almost total disrepair until 1937 when Lagonda Chapter in 1969 and the first two stages of a three stage began to diminish so rapidly that by 1869,the inn was forced to close. program of improvement were completed in 1971. with demolition in 1910,publication of some of Dr.Funk's letters Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Charles Dickens, and Military AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) * Transportation Thomas Corwin.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001396, 12 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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