Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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 Julius Boesel House is a historic house near the village of New Bremen in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located in German Township in southwestern Auglaize County, it is a well-preserved Queen Anne mansion.”
Wikipedia article Julius Boesel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 24 National Register listings in Auglaize County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.78002008- 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.
Range four east. Three years later (in 1851) for the convenience of the sparsely settled portions of the township at Minster and New Bremen, it was divided into two election precincts. In 1858 the township was divided by the erection of Jackson township, whereby German township was reduced in area to eighteen square miles.
In 1835 many of the German township settlers went to Indiana and worked on the Wabash canal. Some of them accumulated a sufficient amount of money to purchase farms for themselves. In the same year (1835) a postoffice was established, and the name of the town changed to New Bremen to distinguish it from another Bremen within the State. The only place of business of any importance in the township at that time was the grist mill owned by J. H. Kuenning, and was located a mile and a half north of New Bremen. This horse mill was the only one within a radius of several miles. The old horse mill at St. Mary's and the Quaker mill at Wapakoneta were the next nearest points where grinding was done.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 573 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Boesel, Julius, House between 1800 and
1974: 476 Animalia, 96 Plantae, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Wetzstein, Albert Wetzstein, Anonymous collector s.n. "91" [1898-08-30] 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 National Weather Service names
New Bremen, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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.
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
1,619 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 2-1/2 story brick and frame house, built on a high stone foundation, is section is a stained glass panel within which is lettered "JULIUS BOESEL 1895". Lapped siding covers the exposed end. Within are paired, 1/1 light, double-hung The left half of the facade has centrally placed doorways on the lst and 2nd First and second levels of the porch are shed-roofed, supported by lathe-turned of the bay are segmental arched, 1/1 light with stone voussoirs and decorated and this frame section takes the form of a flattened octagon with the north which is also decorated with finials. All of the roofs are covered with slate On the south elevation the east side of the center projection has To the right is a one-story, enclosed frame porch.
A low brick wall encloses CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED XALTERED FAIR XGOOD CHECK ONE rectangular windows.Brackets with drop finials support the ends of the gable a wide segmental arched single-sash window. Above the clear glass rectangular by another gable roofline running north-south.At the intersection there is a roof.Additions have been made to the west and north sides and the building is except the new porch roofs which are asbestos shingles. _DETERIORATED The north and south elevations are similar with centrally placed projecting presently used asa residence and general store.Though quite altered,it could supported by decorative brackets.The third level is framed ina wide gable- with a frame gable end.There is a segmental arched doorway on the first floor.
Behind the house is a very large carriage house.Rectangular in plan the east be restored. and placed within a projecting 3-sided frame bay.Over the window is a pediment X_ORIGINAL SITE 1950's)extend across the right half of the facade and part-way down the a patio to the rear of the house.
It was built by J.A. Chapin of Lima, Ohio, for Julius Boesel, son a secluded country home, though a sidewalk extended the 1 mile In the 1960's Route 66 was built behind the home, drastically changing 1700-1799 1895 1600-1699 LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMUNICATIONS INVENTION SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE prominent family. SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN X1800-1899 MILITARY 1900- INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _TRANSPORTATION _PHILOSOPHY _COMMERCE The upper floors are mostly original.
local history _CONSERVATION _RELIGION of State Senator and State Representative,Charles Boesel.The _PREHISTORIC _ENGINEERING _SCULPTURE The twenty room mansion is a very good local example of the Queen Anne mode and is important historically as the home of a locally -1500-1599 been altered but the oak staircase and front hall are intact. -1400-1499 .EDUCATION -LITERATURE _SCIENCE _MUSIC elder Boesel had been a founder of New Bremen.The home was originally 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002008, 12 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.
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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