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
“The Greenville Mausoleum is an Egyptian Revival structure in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Built in 1913, this historic mausoleum is built of concrete covered with courses of limestone, resting on a foundation of granite and covered with a roof of ceramic tiles.”
Wikipedia article Greenville Mausoleum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001410- 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 485 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Greenville Mausoleum between 1895 and
1975: 452 Animalia, 19 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 Greenville Mausoleum: 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
1,602 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
antis and an entablature inscribed "Greenville Mausoleum." The CONDITION roof. UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION FAIR rectangular windows with lotus art glass in Tiffany style glass and shouldered architrave trim battered on stone sills.Four attic windows CHECK ONE a granite footing are buttressed. A Second Egyptian Revival structure of smooth limestone in range engaged entablature supported on polished gray marble columns.The The central entrance is dominated by a stone porch with corner aisles and twelve clerestory one light windows.The sided walls on glass in the upper half protected by a lotus motif bronze grill. "Greenville Mausoleum" inscription appears above the entablature square doorway has shouldered architrave trim battered and inscribed between the attic windows.
The Basilican crypt has a low gable tile roof with shed roof The interior has 4oo concrete crypts with marble seals centered above have the same trim. course over concrete with a basilican crypt and pylons at each end. foundation (or plinth) with sloping water table resting on a rough On each side of the porch and on the faces of the pavilions are LRUINS 1912 that is surmounted by the Vulture and Sun Disc symbol in relief pillars, gray polished marble pillars with Roman Doric capitals in faced granite block footing.The eaves are box cornice with flat The rear entrance varies in that the porch is replaced by an by Dr. J.P.Collett."It was dedicated in 1913. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
MAR 1 7 1976 1700-1799 1600-1699 1400-1499 assisted. ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION ART POLITICS/GOVERNMENT NATIONAL PERIOD AGRICULTURE THEATER REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE MILITARY TRANSPORTATION MUSIC _ENGINEERING SCIENCE builder) RECEIVED XARCHITECTURE X1900- While structurally sound this structure suffers from serious _COMMUNICATIONS is not adequate to support restoration of architectural features unless _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _1800-1899 architectural scene in Greenville as an example of a rare style. Cemetery with the rear entrance facing a public street (West Street). The Greenville Mausoleum is a precursor of the twentieth century (promoter/ _CONSERVATION _EDUCATION _COMMERCE _1500-1599 INDUSTRY _LITERATURE _RELIGION - LAW PHILOSOPHY erosion of inflation.
Two windows have been bricked in. The general maintenance fund of the cemetery vandalism of the art glass windows. Second Egyptian Revival.It makes a significant contribution to the The tile roof is subject to serious deterioration in this climate. The building is sited facing west on the east edge of Greenville 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001410, 16 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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