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 Millen-Schmidt House is a historic residence in Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in the late nineteenth century, it was named a historic site after surviving a massive tornado.”
Wikipedia article Millen-Schmidt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.76001432- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 958 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 958 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Millen-Schmidt House between 1870 and
1975: 713 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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
10 workings within 5 miles of Millen-Schmidt House: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 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
Xenia, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 7 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 100 injuries. 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.
A violent tornado that moved at 65 mph hit the town of Xenia for the second time in 26 years damaging some of the same areas that were hit in 1974. Along the path of the tornado, around 250 homes were either damaged or destroyed, over 40 businesses were damaged or destroyed including the local Wal Mart, Kroger, and Tire Discounters, and 6 churches were damaged. A strip mall was nearly destroyed, cars were thrown from the Highway 35 bypass into ditches, 4 semi-trailers were thrown up to 400 yards, and most of the buildings were damaged or destroyed at the Greene county fairgrounds. In Sugarcreek Township, which is to the southwest of Xenia, an additional 14 houses and 3 barns were damaged and some crops were destroyed on a narrow path. Over 10,000 residents were without power for at least 1 day.
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
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Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
One, a veranda, wraps around the tower from the main entrance to the rear cross block. Another, a drive-through entrance gallery, curb, semi-circular dormers front and rear and two bays of round CONDITION foundation. angle. FAIR XEXCELLENT CHECK ONE joined semi-circular transomed entrance with elaborate patterns The massive three story two bay tower has the overall scheme tower in the left reentrant angle.A large mansarded wing is See Continuation Sheet The well preserved interior is high ceilinged and spacious. polygonal bay.The eaves are box cornice with consoles and porches in rockfaced stone with sandstone trim sitting on high of segmental above semi-circular windows with l/l double hung excellent.Several of the ceilings have retained their decorative frieze, and returns.
gable roofed blocks form a lopsided T with a three story rectangular extends north from the reentrant angle behind the cross block.On dormers north and south. balanced behind the cross block and a relatively small one story arch with low hip roof.There is a semi-circular gable window. The facade of the right block and the south front of the is a recessed gallery with a semi-circular arch. The main entrance is sheltered by the veranda in a flat roofed The two story brick mansion has an Italian Villa plan.Two the south side the entrance in the reentrant - UNALTERED -RUINS - GOOD The third story has semi-circular windows paired on The box cornice has consoles and frieze.Above the cornice isa plaster work.The moulded composition wainscotting is well preserved.
with consoles and dentiled frieze supporting a concave mansard with The north end of the cross block forms a pavilion with a one story The porches have decks with a stone balustrade.ne belt course.
INVENTION Prosperous merchant Henry E. Schmidt bought the house in l9l2. Eli Millen saw its parent on a trip to Europe and was greatly INDUSTRY impressed.A friend reported seeing a copy in New York.Miilen _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X1800-1899 damaged in the Xenia tornado of April,1974,that engineers -LITERATURE the 1870's in Xenia. -MUSIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING SPECIFIC DATES c.1871 - porch, 1912 Becoming splendor. recommended its demolition.
ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC immigrant father's prosperous store and further developed the Since most of Xenia's fine homes were destroyed by the tornado, partnership with James C.McMillan in a dry goods store.Millen charitable causes.It is felt he built the house for his second a Second Empire roof and a Romanesque porch.It is reported that later added butchering and pork packing to his ventures. apartment to a single family dwelling. The house was so badly The William Schmidts, proud of hired the New York architect, whose name we do not know, to plan "comings and goings."Henry Schmidt (b. 1858) bought out his
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001432, 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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