Photographs from the nomination case file, National Park Service records.
Fitz Randolph-Rogers House
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 Fitz Randolph-Rogers House is a historic farmhouse located outside the city of Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the 1840s, it was home to a well-known diarist of the 1860s, and it has been designated a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Fitz Randolph-Rogers House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 63 National Register listings in Butler County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Butler County.
National Register reference number.78002014- 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.
Beginning at the bank of the Miami, on the eastern side, at the place where the south boundary line of the . county strikes the same; thence east with the southern boundary line of the county to the southeast corner of section No. 14 of the second township of the second entire range; thence north to the Great Miami River; thence importance led from Hamilton to Cincinnati via Springdale. The Symmes's Corner road was also of considerable consequence at an early day. The River road, as it was called, follows down the Miami on the east side, from Hamilton to the Colerain pike, with which it unites near the Venice bridge. The Miami Canal, treated in detail elsewhere, is the most important thoroughfare in the township excepting the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. It passes through a fertile tract of country.
No creeks of any considerable size flow through Fairfield, yet it is well drained by natural streams, artificial ditches, and tiling. The lack of large creeks prevented any mills in the interior of the township from running regularly by water power, though along the Miami excellent mill sites were found and utilized. Above Pinney's mill, at the mouth of Bank Lick Creek, a stream which takes its rise in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, and which is very rapid in its current, an ''old stone mill" was built as early as 1810. Joel Williams, a Yankee mill-wright from the East, acted as the builder. This stream takes its name from the fact that in the early settlement of the country deer frequented it to drink the peculiar water which in some places flows from its banks. The mill was a stone building about thirty by thirty-five feet, one story high. The grinding machinery was propelled by an undershot or breast wheel; a race carried the water from some distance above. The walls were about twelve feet high and eighteen inches thick; the stone were taken from the bed of the stream. For years this mill called together many of the people in the township. It finally ceased to be a profitable establishment, and for years thereafter stood idle. Some fifteen years ago the building was torn away and now the mill site can hardly be found.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 476 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fitz Randolph-Rogers House between 1835 and
1975: 409 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 25 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Billups, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Fitz Randolph-Rogers House: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 13 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 2 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.
Street flooding occurred along Western Avenue and several other roadways in the Highland Park neighborhood of Hamilton. Water was as deep as 3 feet in some locations.
Hundreds of trees and some power lines were downed. Some of the trees fell across State Route 4, to the southeast of Hamilton. Power was out to around 30,000 customers shortly after the storm.
Flash flooding, several feet deep, occurred at several intersections in Hamilton, including Main St. and Lawn St., Franklin St. and Edgewood St., and Eaton St. and Rhea St.
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
2,115 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
Exterior: The Fitz Randolph-Watson home is an example of a Greek revival, southern which support a simple, but molded, entablature. Cut stone was used for steps with oak in 1931. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED RUINS UNALTERED XALTERED FAIR story facade.It is flanked on either side by two undecorated square columns windows that originally contained four panes.A summer kitchen with a brick the upper stories have ash floors and the lower has flagstones that were covered a stone pier this supported an enclosed wooden porch across the end of the upper time.The brick and stone for these additions were taken from outbuildings on connecting wall was initially built at the southern end of the house.Along with The woodwork on the main floor has very wide fluting and large corner blocks.
rear and a stone wine cellar and coal cellar at the northern end at the same XORIGINAL SITE Interior:Each of the floors is divided into four rooms by a central hallway CHECK ONE the farm. -GOOD DESCRIPTION The brick walls of Ohio home. Built into the side of a natural slope, the front facade is one-and-a DATE story.In 193l the porch was replaced with a brick addition for bathrooms and the lower section was enclosed as a garage.A two-story veranda was added at the leading to the entrance and the 1intels for the 6/6 windows.The wide entablature boards at the cornice on both front and rear facades are pierced by three small a half story while the rear is a full two-an-a-half stories. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Elizabeth Rogers, an important portrayal of political and social life in south- Greek revival style, built into a hillside. for the social historian with illustrations of the cultural, educational, and social 1931 when the prosperous Hamilton physician, Henry Lee Good, bought it. Under his 1840-1844 INVENTION COMMUNICATIONS CONSERVATION LAW PERIOD EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION XXARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING 1800-1899 MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT THEATER ECONOMICS SCULPTURE LITERATURE _PHILOSOPHY garage were added.
-1400-1499 The home was constructed over a four-year period for Benjamin Fitz Randolph.He -1500-1599 _COMMERCE "Country Life During the Civil War,' in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical The Fitz Randolph-Watson home was the scene of the writing of the diary of Sarah -PREHISTORIC -SCIENCE -1700-1799 was a farmer of Liberty Township and operated a tannery. -1900- In 1860 the farm was sold to the widow Lydia Rogers. Her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, direction the wooden side porch was removed and the stone wine cellar, veranda, and life of rural Ohioans in the 1860s. The home was owned by the Rogers family until western Ohio during the Civil War.The building is also an unusual example of the Democrat"or "Copperhead who supported Clement L.Vallandigham.It also has value 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002014, 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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