A National Historic Landmark. 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.
“Hawthorn Hill is the house that served as the post-1914 home of Orville, Milton and Katharine Wright. Located in Oakwood, Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright intended for it to be their joint home, but Wilbur died in 1912, before the home's 1914 completion.”
Wikipedia article Hawthorn Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 616 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hawthorn Hill between 1836 and 1975: 463 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. | 1881 | Foerste AF | |
 | Geaster limbatus Fr. | 1883 | A. E. Foeerste | Dayton |
 | Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr. | 1897 | H. W. Anderson | |
 | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | 1836 | C. W. Short | Dayton |
 | Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl. | 1837 | van Cleve, John W. | 3 mi. north of Dayton |
 | Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt. | 1838 | J. W. Van Cleve | Dayton |
 | Allium canadense L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 1 mi. northeast. |
 | Cardamine L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt. | Dayton. 1 mile east. |
 | Cassia marilandica L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred | Dayton |
 | Cynoglossum officinale L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. Suburbs E. |
 | Iris versicolor L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 2 mi. south |
 | Nuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton | 1839 | Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. Haupt | Dayton |
All 616 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hawthorn Hill: 12 past producers, 6 producers. 6 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hawker and Son Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hawker and Son Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jackson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jackson Sand Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Pit No 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $25,000 | An approximately 4.5 mile swath of intermittent wind damage, mainly to trees, was surveyed. In the Oakwood area, damage was broad and sporadic in nature, centered on Forrer Boulevard but extending several blocks north and south of the boulevard, over a half mile wide at times. Tree damage in this area was mostly comprised of small and large limb breaks, but a few uprooted trees were noted. Tree damage was not determined to be convergent or to have a particularly strong cross-path component when taken in sum, and pointed more to being non-tornadic in nature.||Gaps of more consistent wind damage were evident before another area of more concentrated wind damage in Kettering along Aragon Avenue and Vale Drive, including an apartment complex which had several trees heavily damaged. Like with the Oakwood area damage, little evidence of a concentrated tornadic circulation existed in the tree damage, which again consisted of large broken limbs and a couple uprooted trees. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $10,000 | A tree was downed on Shroyer Road and Wonderly Avenue and another was downed on a car near the intersection of Oakdale Avenue and White Oak Drive due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $5,000 | A large tree fell into a home on Peach Orchard Avenue. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $1,000 | One tree was downed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $1,000 | A large tree was downed. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $500 | Tree limbs, one inch in diameter, were broken off. Also a few shingles were blown off a roof. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High water was reported on Patterson Road east of Kenmore Avenue. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High standing water was covering Patterson Road near Wilmington Pike to due heavy rainfall. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High standing water was covering the road on Yorkshire Place due to thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2002 | Hail | Oakwood | - | 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.
large white house of rectangular plan is located on a hilltop on a Moved doorway.The east and west sides feature one-story porches with bal- The Dayton architectural firm of Schenk and Fair with sidelights and a fanlight above.This door has pilasters to ends of the portico.There are oval windows on either side of the seventeen acre estate.T Good
lifetime of work in aeronautics.It was while he was living at Hawthorne Hill that Orville constructed a wind tunnel which was an The Company uses the house asa guest house for international visitors Landscape December 17,1903 with the first successful flight of an airplane. Hawthorn Hill was purchased in February,1912 by Orville and Wilbur Industry Hawthorne Hill is significant asa typical example of the large Political begun. The house was completed in 1914 and Orville lived there Art Wright.They intended it to be the site of their future home but The National Cash Register Company bought the property soon after Wright Brothers' boyhood home was located.The property for NATIONAI Wilbur died on May 30,1912 before construction on the house was
The whole case file for this property - 3,613 words, 18 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001585, 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Library | 0.5 miles | 2013 | |
 | Long--Romspert House | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Schantz, Adam Sr., House | 0.7 miles | 1980 |
 | Rubicon Farm | 0.9 miles | 1976 |
 | St. Mary's Hall, University Of Dayton | 1.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Deeds Carillon | 1.3 miles | 2005 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001585 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Montgomery County | All 117 listed properties in this county. |
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