Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Warder Public Library is a historically significant building in Springfield, Ohio, United States. A robust example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, it was a gift to the city from industrialist Benjamin H.”
Wikipedia article Warder Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002019- 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.
Domint informed his visitors of bis intent to lay out a town, and offered valuable tracts of lund at low prices. John Dungherty, of Kentucky, & surveyor, was speedily engaged, nod the work of suryay commenced Mareh 17, 1801, This town plat was bounded on the south by the section line running parallel with Main Street, and distant from it south one hundred and twenty-five feet; on tho wort to the ulloy near the Prosbyterian Church; on the north to the top of tho rocks along Buck Creek; vod on the oast to the onst line of Spring Street. he number of lols incladed was eighly-two. 'They were not recorded us u town plat til 1803, What is now Columbia wag in this plat. Muin and the present Main wus enlled South Street. Mrs. Demint suggested that, on account of the numerous adjacent springs, the place should be called Springfield, and the name was adopted,
Lhe survey completed, Foose and his party returned to Fraoklington for their fumilies. In their removal with their wagons, they made the first wagon-trucle from that direction into Springfield. The jouruey oveupied four wand uw hal! days, one day being given lo crossing the Big Darby. Virst they packed their goods acrosa upon horses, and then drew their wagons over with ropes, while some Their route through the woods had to be cleared with the axe in many places. After Moos arrived, he made prepirations for the erection of nh house.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Warder Public Library
in 2002, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,435 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Warder Public Library between 1840 and 1975: 961 Animalia, 333 Plantae, 138 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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 Warder Public Library: 5 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 56 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 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.
Several utility poles were down, a barn was blown off of its foundation, and minor damage occurred to a house and an apartment due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
A tornado touched down along Moorefield Road, just to the east of State Route 4. Trees were either uprooted or snapped off towards their tops with additional large limbs down from other trees. Some minor structural damage occured as well along the 250 yard damage path. The tornado was rated EF-0 with top wind speeds of 70 mph.
A barn was blown over on Victory Road. Several trees and power lines were down on Sintz Road. In another location, a roof was peeled back due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
There was scattered damage at a mobile home park affecting four mobile homes. A metal carport was heavily damaged. Three evergreen trees were also downed.
Numerous 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were downed in Snyder Park. A tree fell on a house on Upper Valley Pike. Part of the roof was removed as a result.
Three to four inches of rain fell across southern Clark County as thunderstorms pushed slowly east during the late evening. A car was washed into a flooded ditch near the Springfield Airport along US 68. High water caused several road closures across the southern part of the county, with basements flooded on the south side of Springfield.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
Designed by the architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the Warder Public The library is L-shaped in plan and is 1-1/2 stories in height. The dimensions of the of about 43'; length in the rear, 91'10"; frontage of the porch on High Street 38'. spring from short, paired columns which have heavy carved capitals. Above the arches is In the gables and the one dormer (north) there are arched, multicomponent, openings The tower is octagonal with a cone-shaped roof, which also has a crocket. The first stage has narrow, rectalinear windows; the second stage has 1/1, round-arched openings; When looking at the exterior of this building one is completely deceived with regards forms the east side wall of the stack room on the ground floor, and the children's in excellent condition.
CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED the arches. Romanesque style. The north gabled elevation encloses the reading room alone, whereas the remaining gable The north side is dominated by a shed-roofed arcade.Three arches with russet voussoirs stone is laid in random ashlar blocks and is rock-faced except for the columns supporting CHECK ONE The interior was modified in 1970 to provide additional stack space.The building is in the corner stonesof the gable roofs.There is a crocket at the peak of the dormer The windows on both the north end and the two east-facing sides, consist of grouped, Library was built in 1890 and is an outstanding example of the Richardsonian The end of the arcade (east) has an identical arched opening.
divided by short stone columns with carved capitals.The uppermost part of the dormer - DETERIORATED Groupings of pilasters divide the windows of the third stage. building are as follows:from the High Street front to the rear,82'8",from on Hight reading room on the third floor.
architecture designed by the well known architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston, Massachusetts, who were sucessors to the prestigious practise Warder in 1890. The library was dedicated on June 12, 1890 in the memory of Jeremiah and Ann A. Warder. Jeremiah Warder came to Springfield, Ohio in 1818 to examine his father's real factory that produced farm machinery. In 1832 Jeremiah helped organize the Springfield Lyceum, a literary club from which formed and a small library was affiliated with the Lyceum in 1847. From 1855-1868 Warder, Jeremiah's son was the largest stockholder. In April of 1872 the City library was finished in 1890. Benjamin Warder had moved from Springfield to Washington, D.C.
where he had the house he decided to let Richardson's successors, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge Through itsover 80 years of existence the library has served the people of 1890 INVENTION ART structure. RELIGION SCIENCE INDUSTRY THEATER EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PERIOD SCULPTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE XEDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE the Ladies Library Association was organized.A subscription library was organized LITERATURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT of Henry Hobson Richardson.The Romanesque forms introduced by Richardson persist _CONSERVATION landmarks of Springfield architecture.
Warder Public Library is an excellent example of Richardsonian Romanesque Springfield and has provided the community with an interesting and educational -1600-1699 Library Association was incorporated with capital stock of $20,0o0.Benjamin design the library.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002019, 10 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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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