Built in 1835 in the Greek Revival architecture. 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
“The Bank of Xenia is a historic former bank building in downtown Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in 1835, it was the location of Greene County's first bank, which opened on June 1 of that year.”
Wikipedia article Bank of Xenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1835, Greek Revival architecture · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.73001450- 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 957 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 957 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bank Of Xenia between 1870 and
1975: 713 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 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
9 workings within 5 miles of Bank Of Xenia: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. 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
Xenia, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 7 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 100 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.
A violent tornado that moved at 65 mph hit the town of Xenia for the second time in 26 years damaging some of the same areas that were hit in 1974. Along the path of the tornado, around 250 homes were either damaged or destroyed, over 40 businesses were damaged or destroyed including the local Wal Mart, Kroger, and Tire Discounters, and 6 churches were damaged. A strip mall was nearly destroyed, cars were thrown from the Highway 35 bypass into ditches, 4 semi-trailers were thrown up to 400 yards, and most of the buildings were damaged or destroyed at the Greene county fairgrounds. In Sugarcreek Township, which is to the southwest of Xenia, an additional 14 houses and 3 barns were damaged and some crops were destroyed on a narrow path. Over 10,000 residents were without power for at least 1 day.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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
1,580 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 old Bank of Xenia building is a two story, templeform, Greek Revival tablature, with alternating triglyphs and metopes in the frieze, topped by a wrought iron balcony The door is elevated four steps above the of iron, curves around each column and spans the distance between the column chitrave trim and the first floor rooms, including woodwork, are now uniform- MAR 1973 CONDITION REGISTER Excellent NATIONAL Fair building occuping a corner location in Xenia's main business district.It well at the southwest corner of the building.A door has been cut through is a pilastered rectangle with the main door, facing west onto Detroit St., There have been only slight alterations to the building and none seriously and an exterior entrance provided by a flight of steps leading dow into the they do not distract the eye.
ly painted in pastel shades. the stone foundation wall.However, as these features are below ground level The main entrance opens into a medium sized room with another, slightly that the basement may be used to house a business (currently a beauty shop) street level and a delicate and graceful handrail, composed of a single bar side there are two 6/6 windows on each side of the door and were five on se- design with a smooth lower third and fluted upper two thirds;which leads to (Check One) cond floor first window at the Detroit St.end has been bricked in.) - There is one 6/6 window a stair rises to second floor, where the cashier had a flat. It is now a- affects its appearance.
As mentioned above, one side window has been bricked This suite now serves as The doorways have shouldered ar- sized walk-in vault with iron bands on the door.
ton & James Galloway sold the property to Brinton Baker, a son-in-law of John Bank of Xenia & had as its officers: President, John H. Hivling; vice-presi- dent, John Ewing; cashier, Henry Clark, Later .Elias F. Drake became cashier." ized, under a newly enacted act of the General Assembly, with the name of Xen- The deed book confirms the event on Feb. 1, 1865. Ca.1867 a Victorian Gothic as the Xenia National Bank, the name by which it is still known." the Ist floor & basement have housed various businesses & the 2nd floor has Lunchanged.
Architecture 1973 Commerce Art Conservation Communications Aboriginal losophy Engineering Religion/Phi Landscape Education Literature Music Agriculture itarian Military Industry plots for business buildings having narrow frontages on Detroit St.The "The bank continued a successful career until it was reorganized under the Hivling, one of Xenia's earliest settlers & most prominent businessmen.On Invention dent of the bank upon its reorganization, while E.F.Drake was continued as shows a transfer of the property from Drake to the Xenia Branch of the State building which is the subject of this application stands on the corner plot, June 1,1835,the first bank of Greene Co."concerning which definite infor- This building is a good example of the Greek Revival style of architecture In 1902 the old bank building was sold to Dr.A.C.Messenger & it was use mation has been preserved"(all quotes in this section are from Broadstone, Bank of ohio.
building was built on the SE corner of Main & Detroit Sts.& the bank left The bank continued as a private enterprise until 1846,"when it was reorgan- corner lot where it shows to advantage & is probably the oldest & perhaps one which consists of 40'off the S end of lot 133.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001450, 11 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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