Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1977. 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 Waring House is a historic house in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Perry, the house was started in 1860, but construction was only substantially completed in 1869, and the details took two more years to finish.”
Wikipedia article Waring House (Greenville, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77001057- 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 Waring 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 Waring 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
1,771 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
rockfaced stone foundation and low rail, Roman ionic columns, and CONDITION UNALTERED DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION hung sash with elaborate High Victorian sheet metal caps and EXCELLENT trim is preserved or restored. FAIR CHECK ONE The basic structural work has been accomplished to stabilize Several original light fixtures veranda on the side and a one bay entrance porch were the same veranda and restore the Victorian entrance porch. kitchen wing extending further on the right rear with alleft rear A High Victorian rectilinear residence on a stone foundation are in place including two comination gas/electric chandeliers in parlor wall and in the left study wing.
Across the facade is a one story Classic Revival porch with asphalt shingle roof has inside chimneys centered on the right The three bay brick facade has the main rectangular entrance have been installed are in appropriate style and materials. segmental windows and a side entrance, and a one story, two bay two story, two bay dining wing in smaller scale offset right having door and Victorian entrance porch. -UNEXPOSED The bracketed sills. the exterior. design.A restoration is planned to remove the classic revival The interior has been restored and rehabilitated.The original in irregular plan.The basic block is rectangular with a one bay What new appurtenances The eaves are box cornice with consoles.
The windows are 2/2 double in the left bay with a moulded Victorian door having one oval light. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
preservation showpieces of Greenville. The Darke County 1400-1499 1700-1799 INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMUNICATIONS ART RELIGION PHILOSOPHY available. BUILDER/ARCHITECT INDUSTRY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC PERIOD PREHISTORIC THEATER AGRICULTURE SCIENCE SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE _ENGINEERING SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT well-off financially in banking and investments. seat is relatively wealthy in well-preserved nineteenth century This excellent High Victorian residence is one of the _TRANSPORTATION structures but only a few are worthy of special recognition.This family claims to have been the first residents on November 6,1874. The Stockslagers have made a very notable effort to restore The house was built by an Oliver C.
Perry, immediately sold -1600-1699 _COMMERCE is the most notable house in its style. -SCULPTURE _ECONOMICS -EDUCATION to the present owners in October, 197i. -1500-1599 -_1900- LAW and rehabilitate. They have great sensitivity for the design The last Waring resident was Mrs. Ralph Waring who sold the house Waring was a county commissioner. Little is known of significance about the Warings. Thomas to T.M.Taylor and then resold to Thomas Waring.The Waring The family was comfortably of the structure.Restoration continues as money and effort are
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 77001057, 18 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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