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
“Barnum, with the postoffice in his residence at Florence Corners. Cyrus Butler was the first postmaster at Birmingham.”
A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio (1916). Machine-read text.
one of 175 National Register listings in Erie County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Erie County.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.76001416- 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.
The ground it stands on
6,497 words
The chapter on Florence Township in A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names Birmingham. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The first schoolhouse was built at Sprague's corners, on land owned by John Brooks. The first teacher was Ruth Squire, and the school was supported by subscription; the parents paying in proportion to the number of children sent. This schoolhouse was afterward taken down and rebuilt on the south side of the road. The second schoolhouse was built half a mile west of Birmingham, and the school first taught by Rhoda Root. A certain individual objected to her custom of opening the school with prayer, so that a school meeting was called to consider the matter. The teacher was sustained.
Fish, was born in Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio, October 2, 1872. He pursued his later studies in Oberlin and in the University of Wisconsin, and for a number of years taught school in Florence and Berlin townships. He was married April 12, 1910, to Anna Sophia, daughter of Boardman Henry Packer and Mary Annie Hanson Packer of Greenville, Michigan, and later of Chicago. Their only child, John Boardman, was born December 29, 1910, in Chicago. They live on their fine farm on the bluffs overlooking the beautiful valley of the Vermilion River, about one mile south of Birmingham, Erie County, where they are enthusiastically engaged in agriculture and horticulture.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 936 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Butler, Cyrus, House between 1874 and
1975: 705 Plantae, 147 Animalia, 83 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. M. Evans, A.M. Evans, A.M. Starr 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 Butler, Cyrus, House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Birmingham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
1,945 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
parapets framing a gable roof, with two chimneys at each end. There house in Norwalk, except that it has five bays and the elliptical light with square corner blocks, but the architrave molding is treated CONDITION UNEXPOSED DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED UNALTERED unusual newel post. Its base is an acanthus leaf design suggesting with slight variations in each room.The windows have recessed a Sheraton bedpost. There are seven fireplaces, with excellent utilities.The frame wing contains a recreation room and a garage. folding interior shutters.There have been no significant alterations CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE north to the rear of the house.The brick portion is part of the There is also an additional frame extension which is more modern. a wide opening.
The door and window woodwork is a common pattern have stone lintels with a stepped shape.The sash have six lights over Revival transitional style.The main block is nearly square, with in the main part of the house apart from the addition of modern is on a horizontal axis.This house also has plain stone pilasters six.All of the features are the same as those of the noted Kimball The interior rooms are excellent examples of the early Greek This is a large two-story brick house in the Federal-Greek on either side of the doorway.There is a one-story wing extending Revival style.The side stairhall has a fine balustrade with an isa vertical elliptical light in the east attic wall.The door and windows original house.On the west side of the brick wing there is a porch.
three bays on the south facade.The ends of the building have stepped -RUINS -GOOD Greek Revival mantelpieces.Between the two east rooms there is AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Florence Township, Cyrus Butler. Butler arrived in 1820 in Norwalk, the seat of Huron County, which now in Erie County which was partitioned from Huron County in1838. 1830-1834 1600-1699 1700-1799 capital. ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ART PHILOSOPHY INVENTION SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION SCULPTURE THEATER INDUSTRY 1900- LITERATURE X1800-1899 _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PREHISTORIC resembles so closely.This fact, together with Butler's business whose structure and ornamental detail are virtually in mint condition. XARCHITECTURE Norwalk (National Register West Main Street District) which it _COMMUNICATIONS This is an excellent late Federal-early Greek Revival residence MILITARY by the same builder.
where bar iron was made from ore near the Vermilion River. -1400-1499 _ECONOMICS It was the home of one of the preeminent citizens and businessmen of _TRANSPORTATION Butler moved to Florence Township in 1827 and opened a store -1500-1599 Butler's home was apparently built between 1830 and 1834.Itis with a capital of $5oo.He was the first postmaster in Birmingham, urer and in 1833 the auditor.
He began a business and built a brick also embraced Erie County at that time.in 1823 he was the county treas- by Perez Starr in 1816-1817.He also operated a forge near the mills - EDUCATION _RELIGION MUSIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING Soon he bought out the saw mill and grist mill which had been built almost exactly contemporary with Moses Kimball's house (1832) in LAW ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC connections in Norwalk, suggests the conjecture that they were built
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001416, 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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