Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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 Leftwich House is a historic house in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Built in 1875, the house features a combination of the Italianate and Stick-Eastlake styles.”
Wikipedia article Leftwich House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001373- 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.
Darke County was organized in March, 1817, from Miami County. It is abundantly timbered with poplar, walnut, blue ash, hickory, beech and sugar maple. It yields superior wheat, and is well adapted to grazing. In this county occurred the lamentable defeat of St. Clair, and the treaty of Greenville.
Greenville is the county seat, and was laid out August 10, 1808, by Robert Gray and John Dover. In December, 1793, Wayne built Fort Greenville on this spot, which covered about the same extent as the present town.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 478 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Leftwich House between 1895 and
1975: 446 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 14 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A VERWYST, A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Albrecht, C. 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Leftwich House: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 65 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 31 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 9 flood, 4 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.
Several mobile homes in the Sherwood Forest Trailer Park suffered severe damage, and a nearby 10' by 12' shed was destroyed. The roof of a home on Hog Path Road was torn off.
High water was reported on roads and some roads were closed due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0749 EST on February 28th and continued until around 1100 EST on March 1st. Damage estimates during February were around five-thousand dollars.
High water was reported on roads and some of the roads were closed due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0749 EST on February 28th and continued until around 1100 EST on March 1st. Damage estimates during March were around five-thousand dollars.
Hail as large as baseballs fell across the county for the second time in 90 minutes. This time the hail fell over a populated area causing damage to many cars, including 2 car lots.
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
pending.
From the nomination file
1,377 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
CONDITION UNEXPOSED RUINS FAIR EXCELLENT XDETERIORATED CHECK ONE Eastlake style porch in the reentrant angle and interior chimney construction sitting on a stone foundation with basement.The This Eastlake style house of irregular plan shape is frame The dominant feature of the house is an outstanding Eastlake style -GOOD the front (left) segment. a polygonal bay in the center segment and an exterior chimney in DATE shaped cornice and segmental blinds. porch with shed and gable roofs; the gable is decorated in stick panelled frieze. The roof is truncated hip with composition shingle. style.The Victorian door enters through the north face a one story polygonal bay with bracketed cornice and flat roof in There is a rear kitchen wing with AREAS OF
Statement of significance
the few remaining, unaltered examples of the Eastlake style. 1700-1799 INVENTION COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE PERIOD EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT LAW EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1900- THEATER CONSERVATION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY MILITARY SCIENCE LITERATURE forestall demolition. reported that she has consistently refused to sell the property and _COMMUNICATIONS SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN XARCHITECTURE The significance of this house is entirely architectural and is is one of -1500-1599 This is a bona fide high priority emergency nomination.The Little historical data is available at this time.
-1600-1699 is vital to the sale and eventual restoration of the property.The -1400-1499 - ECONOMICS C.1875 -MUSIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING historical heritage of Greenville. Every effort is being made to ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC The attorney representing her interest just as consistently refused to maintain it.Mrs. Shultz was recently placed under guardianship. are interested.The cost of rehabilitation is such that financial aid The Leftwich House is an excellent example of the Eastlake style loss of this house would be a serious loss to the architectural The house is at long last for sale and several parties has been directed by the city of Greenvillee to repair or demolish the building.T 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001373, 13 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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