Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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
“Oxford College for Women was a women's college in Oxford, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1867 through the federation of the Oxford Female Institute and Oxford Female College.”
Wikipedia article Oxford College for Women, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 63 National Register listings in Butler County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Butler County.
National Register reference number.76001379- 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.
August 5, 1811, at a session of the same commissioners, on petition of inhabitants of Milford Township, it was 'ordered, that so much of the township of Milford as lies within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of the county of Butler; thence south with the western boundary line of the said county of Butler to the southwest corner of township numbered five in the first range east of the meridian line drawn from the mouth of the Great Miami River; thence east with the southern boundary line of the same township to the southeast corner thereof; thence north with the eastern boundary line thereof to the north boundary line of the said county of Butler; thence west with the same to the place of beginning, - shall compose a township which shall be called and known by the name of Oxford Township." Election to be held at the house of Sylvester Lyons on the 24th day of August, 1811, for the election of township officers.
Oxford Township presents a variety of soils and surfaces: The land is generally elevated and well. adapted to grazing, the growing of wheat, and produce of all kinds. Farms are small, and the agricultural population large for the territory embraced. With the exception of two or more sections, the land belongs to the Miami University, the trustees of that institution leasing the land for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, subject to the annual payment of a quit-rent of six per cent on the purchase money.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,851 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Oxford Female Institute between 1888 and
1975: 803 Animalia, 770 Fungi, 204 Plantae, 60 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.L.; Bucholtz, I. 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
1 working within 5 miles of Oxford Female Institute: 1 plant.
All of them 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
Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
One half mile of power poles were knocked down along State Route 732. Three trees up to 12 in diameter were snapped along Reily-Millville Road. A greenhouse was blown over on US Route 27 in Hanover Township.
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
4,689 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
This is a three-story red-brick building with white trim and tin gable roof, hipped there is a double door entry with elliptical fanlight and sidelights. On each side in this section are 1/1 double hung sash with the third level windows interrupting octagonal "observatory" which originally had a mansard roof with an iron railing. The south section of the east facade has eight bays. The windows on all three levels are.6/6 double hung sash.There is a one story wooden porch with square posts which are three bays on the south facade with a single door in the center bay on the first level. It has glazed sidelights and transom.
There is a window above each first three stories and has 6/6 and 1/1 double hung sash windows on its north, south and The original section was built as a three storied, brick rectangle in 1850; in 1856 DEC 9 1975 UNEXPOSED CONDITION EXCELLENT REGISTER XALTERED FAIR RECEIVED NATIONAL XGOOD cornice around the entire structure including the raking cornice of the pediment CHECK ONE _DETERIORATED the cornice facing.At the northeast corner of this section is a white painted The wing which extends to the west of the main portion has two sections.One is additions made to the original building:The foundation is.rock-faced regular coursed on the east facade. on the south and west sides. tinous stone lintel.
of the land there are large flat arched windows with transoms at the ground level -UNALTERED window above each first level opening at the second and third levels. windows to the right of this on the north facade are grouped in threes with a con- a second building was built south of the first and in 1884 the two were joined bya building and a portico added still later.
and College merged to be known as Oxford Female College and classes were moved in 1884 the south wing was built; by 1888 the north wing, including the octagonal "observatory" was added and in 1894 a section was added to the west wing. DEC 9 COMMERCE 1700-1799 INVENTION CONSERVATION 1600-1699 BUILDER/ARCHITECT LAW PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PHILOSOPHY RECEIVED X1800-1899 THEATER SCULPTURE AGRICULTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMUNICATIONS General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.The building is currently Female Institute and had married Benjamin Harrison. She was the first President LITERATURE used a a women's domitory.
women in central and southern Ohio.and as such was one of the pioneer institutions was purchased by Miami University.At this time some of the neo-Georgian details The school continued from its founding in 1849 through a number of financial were added.and the Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial Lounge added on the south side of The school flourished until 1929 when it again ran into financial difficulties and the west wing.Caroline Scott Harrison was the daughter of the founder of Oxford 1849, twelve years before Vassar College.At the time it was the only college for -1500-1599 for women only.The Institute was established by Rev.John Witherspoon Scott in -SCIENCE -ENGINEERING either the original buildings or for any of the later additions.
-PREHISTORIC - MILITARY _RELIGION - 1400-1499 _INDUSTRY -MUSIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING to Fisher Hall. Financial matters, however, dictated that the Female College move back to the less prestigious building of the Institute in 1882 and in 1890 Oxford Female Institute is nominated.as a very early and interesting college founded (National Register) now on the Miami University campus. In 1867 the Institute ART ARCHEULOGY-PREHISTORIC for the higher education of women in the Midwest.The architect is unknown for crises.In 1854 a faction founded Gxford Female College and built Fisher Hall NATIOINALL 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001379, 35 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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