Built in 1891 in the Victorian architecture. 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.
From the record
“Fort Piqua Plaza is a historic hotel building renovated for public uses including a library in downtown Piqua, Ohio. Yost who is known for his many county courthouses, churches, and other major public buildings in and around Ohio and later New York City.”
Wikipedia article Fort Piqua Plaza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Miami County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1891, Victorian architecture.
National Register reference number.74001576- 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 331 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fort Piqua Hotel between 1835 and
1973: 299 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Fort Piqua Hotel: 3 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Piqua, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Many trees and power lines were blown down across the county. In Piqua alone, at least 130 trees were knocked down, 12 homes damaged severely, and 3 vehicles were nearly destroyed.
Two 24 inch diameter trees were downed at the intersection of US Route 36 and Casstown Road. A few large tree limbs were downed along Miami-Shelby County Road.
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.
From the nomination file
1,787 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
Built 1890 to 1891 the Old Favorite Hotel is one of Piqua's Landmarks. The four and one-half story Richardsonian Roman- on the southeast corner of the building, and it rises about its style, it is in good condition, and is in constant use. NOV 1 3 1973 CONDITION NATIONAL Ruins REGISTER between them. The building is general has that sense of massiveness so characteristic are both rectangular and round-headed. Generally the windows has four gablets flanked by turrets.Pyramidal roofs are various tenants. with outside entrances. Without exception these store fronts thirty feet above the roof line.Its pyramidal slate roof of Richardsonian Romanesque buildings.
Contrasting types and are capped with smooth stone coping.A large tower is formed are not original, having been modified over the years to suit also found on the southwest and northeast corners of the hotel. finishes of masonry are not extensively employed, so the hotel are set in groups of three with engaged columns of smooth stone The entrance to the hotel is located Fair Above the windows on the third floor a series of arches around The main slate roof is hipped.
The first floor of the building is divided into store fronts (Check One) in the center of the south side, and is set apart with the use of a three story arch, oriel window, and arched X Good Excellent esque building is built of rock-faced stone laid in random ashlar bonds.The hotel is built on a stone foundation and the building gives the illusion of a balustrade.The walls PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
by several, small deteriorating frame buildings. Piquans started sometime in 1890, Work progressed rapidly, and the owned the complex, but did not operate the hotel. first level, but had faded from the picture later in the Overshadowed by modern hotels and motels, and removed from NOV 1 3 1973 losophy Engineering Conservation Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Commerce REGISTER Communications Military Aboriginal twentieth century. NATIONAL Education Theater Music Science itarian Agriculture of its once-prosperous times.
Literature Prehistoric The land was acquired by Orr and Statler and construction Political built by the partnership of Orr and Statler.Before the Landscape Statler continued to rent the spaces for stores on the Sculpture hotel was built, the corner of Piqua Square was occupied the mainstream of traffic by the Interstate Highway System, could not find a suitable tenants or the hotel business Social/Human- Transportation not there.But its fine architecture remains as a reminder the Old Favorite Hotel is open, but the business is simply bought out Grapes and operated the hotel until circa 1920. The first hotel operator was N. C.Johnston who opened The Plaza Hotel, as it was known when first opened, was Urban Planning Invention the Plaza Hotel in 1892.
Apparently Orr and Statler either The hotel again changed hands during the 1920s, and sometime Religion/Phi. 18th Century Industry RECEIVED SPECIFIC DATE(S) :(If Applicable and Known) built 1890-1891 were happy that at last these shacks would be removed. was poor in Piqua.Johnston sold his concession in October, the name was changed to the Old Favorite Hotel.Orr and hotel was finished by the summer of 1891.Orr and Statler was W.H.Grapes who lasted until 1898.But W.P. Rice Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001576, 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.
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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