Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. 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 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.73001449- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 883 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Whiteman, Benjamin, House between 1870 and
1975: 624 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 116 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Whiteman, Benjamin, House: 5 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
1,726 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
the hill, and 3 stories behind, where the basement kitchen opens onto ground level farther down the hill. Just behind the house is a 2 story matching but the well opening is plainly discernable, a cupboard having been placed taining walls extending out perpendicular to the house, and there is an ex- detail in beading on the floor joist exposed there, occupies its E end. ceilings and returns on 2nd floor, are of walnut. CONDITION stone springhouse.
room was probably the kitchen as the stairs from the dining room descend to the tongue and groove floorboards are off center and appear to have been This stairway rises to the SW room which has doors in its N and E walls in- There is one window each to the E of both front and back doors,9/6 what smaller than the others as the stairwell, which contains an interesting ance of 2 stories in front, where the lst floor door opens onto the crest of The front door of the house opens into a room occuping the B side of the the kitchen,a centered door in the partition wall leads to the Woo over it.A door at the N end of the partition wall leads to stairs to 2nd The walls are beaded and The house is situated on a small hill looking south over the Little Miami it from it at the E end where 2 steps return to the level of the top of the A door in its N wall opens into the NE room which has one 6/6-window in its (Check One) to the Nw and SE rooms:The SW room has 2 windows in its S wall and the NW - Unexposed River.
the war.He died in 1852 and is buried in the cemetary at Clifton. His Greene County) in 1790,and in 1792 was one of a group under the leader- 1817.Part of the new boundary lime ran a little to the south of his house SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1805 modern construction. The immediate area contains state, county and col- Teeumseh in Brown County. In 1793 he married the daughter of one of the on the Little Miami, thus leaving it in Clark County. Art feeling of the nineteenth century. The remaining countryside is agricul- 47 years. He was one of the first associate judges of the first court held Wishing to live in dent of the county court of inquiry. During the War of 1812 he was ap-
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001449, 10 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.
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