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
“Patterson House is a historic residence in the city of Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1860s, it was named a historic site in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Samuel N. Patterson 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.76001433- 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 961 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 961 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Patterson, Samuel N., House between 1870 and
1975: 716 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 Patterson, Samuel N., 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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From the nomination file
1,566 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
CONDITION DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED XALTERED RUINS FAIR window of outstanding quality that miraculously survived the collapse floor have shaped metal caps with incised foliation and bracketed The plan of this brick house is irregular facing east on a high ornately carved hood with box cornice and pointed arch, supported by CHECK ONE length rectangular windows with round corner of the first floor have with decorative entablature is in the reentrant angle on the north richly carved brackets with ornamental pendants, resting on paired The interior trim is magnificent, all of the naturally finished the main doorway on the left in a deep panelled embrasure with one light south wall slightly.
To the left in the main entrance hall is a ruby colored cut crystal of the wall above and flying missiles in the tornado. A small addition fills the south side angle and laps the in the rear. GOOD consoles, dentils, and a paneled frieze with attic windows.The On the left side isa pavillion giving access from a side - UNEXPOSED - UNALTERED The roof is truncated hip with interior side chimneys on each side and Gothic columns. brick foundation with a stone water table. The 2/2 double hung sash mostly fell victim to a wood is heavily moulded.The panelled music alcove is quite unique. a gable roofed two bay wing with box cornice and returns.A porch The three bay facade has tornado in 1974 being replaced by 1/l double hung sash.The floor AREAS OF
Statement of significance
1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD INVENTION PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT COMMUNICATIONS RELIGION PHILOSOPHY SIGNIFICANCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCIENCE AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT THEATER XCOMMERCE EDUCATION MILITARY ART LITERATURE SCULPTURE XARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY 1900- admirably preserved.For those who see the interior the wood trim _CONSERVATION Samuel N. Patterson North King Street Victorian area of Xenia to survive the devastating Samuel N. Patterson, the owner and builder, was born in Washington, in the locale. This excellent house is one of the very few in the prestigious was converted to the Quaker faith, moved to Chillicothe, and then -ECONOMICS - MUSIC - LAW -COMMUNITY PLANNING to Xenia in 1846.
The next year Ellen Newcom, daughter of a pioneer ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC sixty years. The architectural detail has been is outstanding. SPECIFIC DATES Samuel was four. As a young man he became a carpenter in Cincinnati, aied instantly at age 88 of a heart attack while visiting Dayton on This house serves as one of the best examples of its era a business trip.He was the oldest working citizen of Xenia in 1907. C.1875
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001433, 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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