Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 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.
“The Becker House is a historic house on the outskirts of the city of Springdale, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1830 as a farmhouse, it was for a time home to a prominent figure in the national debate over slavery.”
Wikipedia article Becker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Springdale City in History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names Springdale. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Some of the earliest tradesmen and mechanics of the village are thus recalled by Mr. Anthony Hilts, one of the very oldest survivors of the early day in Springdale: John Baldwood, proprietor of the town, blacksmith; John McGilliard, postmaster; Captain John Brownson, hotelkeeper; Garret Lefferson, and Isaac Larrne, blacksmiths; Colonel William Chamberlain, dry goods merchant; John Swallow, dealer in dry goods and groceries ; N. S. Schorey, tanner and currier; the father of Governor O. P. Morton, of Indiana (who was brought up in Springdale), hotel-keeper; William Creager, cabinetmaker and undertaker; John Rogers, manufacturer of Windsor chairs; Hatfield Williams, wheelwright; James Cogg, hatter; Joseph Hagerman, physician. It is also remembered by old citizens that one Birder made hats in Springdale about sixty years - of rabbit and other fur, great bellcrowned affairs, that would hold a peck apiece, the fur sticking out of them half an inch or more. It is thought that James Cogy preceded Creager as cabinetmaker, and was the first in the village; and that Creager was followed by Garrett Williamson.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.
The old brick store in Springdale was erected in 1833, and the old pork-house on the other side of the street in 1838. Among the oldest dwellings in town, some of which go a long way back, are the Hunt, Prigg, and Creager houses.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Springdale City - 8,481 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,147 specimens collected within 10 miles of Becker House between 1819 and 1975: 1,933 Fungi, 722 Animalia, 325 Plantae, 138 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. Gaufin, A. H. W. Povah 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Clavaria striata Pers. | 1899 | Aiken, Walter H. | College Hill |
 | Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck | 1899 | Aiken, Walter H. | Cincinnati |
 | Peronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary | 1899 | Aiken, Walter H. | Hamilton County, Ohio |
 | Quercus × leana Nutt. | 1819 | Thomas Nuttall | 3 miles North of Cincinnati |
 | Rhus venenata DC. | 1830 | Clark, Joseph | North of Cincinnati |
 | Carex comosa Boott | 1835 | Collector unspecified | In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.] |
 | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1835 | Collector unknown | |
 | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1835 | Collector unknown | |
 | Carex amphibola Steud. | 1837 | Collector unknown | In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. |
 | Carex suberecta (Olney) Britton | 1837 | Collector unspecified | Cincinnati. |
 | Philonotis longiseta (Michx.) E.Britton | 1838 | T. G. Lea | |
 | Fissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hook. | 1839 | T. G. Lea |
All 3,147 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springdale, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springdale | $500,000 | A large supercell moved across the northeastern parts of the county causing widespread damage. Trees and/or power lines were downed in Springdale, Sharonville, Glendale, and Wyoming. A roof was blown off a manufactoring plant onto Interstate 75 in Lockland. In addition, three-quarter inch diameter hail occurred in Blue Ash and 1 inch diameter fell in Sharonville. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Springdale | $15,000 | Water was flowing into some apartments. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Springdale | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springdale | $250 | One 6-8 inch branch knocked down. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springdale | - | A tree was knocked down and was blocking Sheffield Road. |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Springdale | - | Kemper Road was flooded due to heavy rainfall. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Springdale | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Springdale | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Springdale | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Springdale | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
consisting of small, vertical, turned elements. The roof of the addition highway, is square in shape and has a one story high flat porch roof RECEIVED cornice.The roof of the original section is of a low hip construction with a small dormer centrally placed on each side.All of the windows
estate transferred the title to John Burgoyne, Jr. Records indicate century, resided there from 1860 to 1864. William Henry Harrison, In 1864 John Burgoyne, Jr. transferred the deed to Mary Regan, who as Rheinbolt Hill and it was probably Rheinbolt who, during almost well landscaped hill, it serves as a visual indentity to the surrounding community, once rolling farmland but now a rapidly developing industrial Historically, lt was the home of Judge John Burgoyne Sr., who was both is threatened by the planned widening of Crescentville Road, from S.R. 4 to S.R. 747. JUL 1 1 1974 park.
Conservation Commerce Communications losophy Architecture Aboriginal REGISTER Science Transportation Theater NATIONAL Education Prehistoric Landscape Agriculture itarian Music Invention Pre-Columbian Burgoyne was the first to pronounce the unconstitutionality of the Industry Political Social/Human- Sculpture teenth century rural homestead and its present excellent condition the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas from Judge Burgoyne.They a local and a national figure.Architecturally it typifies a mid-nine- Cincinnati law and politics during the later part of the nineteenth Religion/Phi retains a strong nineteenth century rural character.Perched on a small, The Becker House has historic as well as architectural significance. remained close friends until Harrison's death in office in 184l.
During his term on the Court of Common Pleas bench in Cincinnati, President of the United States (l84l),received his appointment as thirty years of residence built the large addition to the rear of the Fugitive Slave law. SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) that his father, John Burgoyne, Sr., a well known personality in The original portion of the Becker House was built in 1830 by Joseph 1830-1879 Art Engineering RECEIVED Hough ona 63acre tract of 1and.In 1854,executors for the Hough Biographical Publishing Co., 1891, Vol. V. Smalley, Stephen B., Documentation of Becker Residence. July 1973.
The whole case file for this property - 1,772 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001522, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Glendale Police Station | 2.3 miles | 1975 |
 | Whallon, James, House | 3.3 miles | 1973 |
| Rauh, Frederick and Harriet, House | 3.8 miles | 2016 | |
 | Twelve Mile House | 4.0 miles | 1976 |
 | Moore, Charles H., House | 4.8 miles | 1986 |
 | Kirby, Josiah, House | 4.8 miles | 1986 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001522 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hamilton County | All 314 listed properties in this county. |
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