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 August Bepler House is a historic residence in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Tusculum Avenue in that city's Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood, the house was built in 1869 for a wealthy inventor and industrialist, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article August Bepler House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.77001062- 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 reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,566 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bepler, August, House between 1819 and
1975: 3,422 Fungi, 1,777 Animalia, 918 Plantae, 398 Protozoa, 31 Unrecorded, 20 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Bepler, August, House: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers 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
2,252 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 Bepler House is a two and a half story frame building, rectangular story portico composed of four giant, fluted, pseudo-Corinthian columns entrance is a Palladian window with wooden, decorative balcony. The The north side of the house is distinguished by a large, two story, The south side is distinguished by a large, centrally placed brick porch on the south side, a bay window on the east side and also has CONDITION DATE MOVED DETERIORATED facade.
DESCRIPTION FAIR three bays with sash windows on both floors and to either side of the CHECK ONE bay window at the northwest corner and a side entrance with bracketed - UNEXPOSED The interior retains the original central hall extending to the nine-over-nine on the second floor.The roof isa truncated gable roof with two rounded arch windows and _UNALTERED X_ORIGINAL SITE in plan, with a stone foundation. supporting a simple cornice and frieze. The a truncated gabled roof with widow's walk. The building is completely isolated by classical architrave made up of pilasters and dentils.Above the The facade is divided into decorative railing.Two story high pilasters flank either side of the and is in excellent condition.
dormers with gable roofs and a small semi-circular dormer. than the front of the original house. This rear section has a small The facade is dominated by a two decorative architrave located in the gable end.All windows are shuttered.The truncated roof is surrounded by a widowtss walk with A later sympathetic rear additon was made which is.slightly lower shed roof.Along the sides of the house, the roof is pierced by two chimney and a one story, small bay window. _RUINS Form No. 10-300a (Rev.
designed entrance, is an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture ~ with his brother Edward in downtown Cincinnati. In 1855 he startéd his of the flat bottomed paper bag as we know it today with its folded end. While visiting relatives in St. Louis during the 1860's, Mr. Bepler was 1500-1599 X1800-1899 EDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS SCIENCE PERIOD PREHISTORIC ART CONSERVATION THEATER TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY PHILOSOPHY XARCHITECTURE 1900- SIGNIFICANCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMUNICATIONS of preservation.
was the first and only time the property has changed hands since the original land grant to Major Howell, a Revolutionary War veteran and He also invented the machine capable of cutting and folding the bags to Cincinnati known as Mt. Tusculum. The Bepler House is the oldest remaining house in the section of to Chatfield and Woods Paper Company, still in operation today. _ENGINEERING -1600-1699 -1400-1499 In i952 it was inherited by Adelaide Burger Bieser, daughter of Mr. and -1700-1799 - LITERATURE - RELIGION -COMMERCE - MILITARY for 106 years. Bepler died in 1890 in New Orleans. _MUSIC The Bepler House with its pseudo-Corinthian columns, and gracefully Mr. Bepler is credited with the invention The original house in St.
Louis BUILDER/ARCHITECT Griffiths August Bepler, born John Augusta Bepler, emigrated to this country in Mrs. Burger. The house has, therefore, been in the possession of the family design. 1869 LAW bottomed paper bag and the machine that produced them. these specifications.Prior to his invention, paper bags in the United This style is not abundant in the area, especially in such a fine state national scale. home could be built for him in Cincinnati. moved his company to Cincinnati. States were conical in shape.His method was of course,adopted ona The house was built as the home of August of the flat- Because of poor health, Mr.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 77001062, 15 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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