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 Donovan Robeson House is a historic house in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Located along Fourth Street west of downtown, the Robeson House has been ranked as the city's most significant Queen Anne mansion.”
Wikipedia article Donovan Robeson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.76001411- 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 Robeson, Dr. Donovan, 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 Robeson, Dr. Donovan, 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
1,563 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
The right side has one box oriel window, a large polygonal bay with and hips. There are four tapered brick chimneys, two interior and an turn of the century houses but does not constitute a district in CONDITION stairway. quality. DETERIORATED FAIR The left side has a pedimented polygonal bay with pendented ornament CHECK ONE face stone rails and piers and projecting truncated hip roof. X_EXCELLENT The environment is a mature residential neighborhood of large The interior trim is in an excellent state of preservation. The Robeson House is a two and one-half story brick Queen inside on each side wall. multifaceted roof and a frame two story sun porch back of the bay. _UNEXPOSED -RUINS -GOOD (c.
1934) appended to the rear again with rockfaced piers, hip roof DATE concave conical patterned slate roof with fenial.The windows Anne of irregular plan standing on a moderately high rockface stone moulded frieze.The roof is patterned slate with complex gables Excellent tracery art glass windows are on each landing of the veranda partially encloses the bay.There is a carport and garage The living room has a fireplace in mission style.The dining room has a built in walnut buffet. There are boxed beam ceilings.
double hung sash with stone lintels and sills.The main door is including three bays with curved lights in the turret are l/l on the projecting cornice.A one story side porch patterned after the and concrete foundation with basement windows.The two bay The eaves are box cornice with consoles on a narrow in the right bay.The lower level is dominated by a veranda with rock- and a deck.T AREAS OF
Statement of significance
doctor served as Darke County Probate Judge. -1600-1699 Greenville at the turn of the century and had his new home built -1700-1799 Dr.Donovan Robeson was a physician, surgeon, and probate offices in the basement. -1500-1599 _CONSERVATION -1800-1899 study at Bellvue Medical College in 1874.Dr.Robeson moved to -1400-1499 -MUSIC _RELIGION From 1902 until 1908 the XLAW The most outstanding example of late Queen Anne brick house with his offices in the basement.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001411, 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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