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
“Barnum, with the postoffice in his residence at Florence Corners. Cyrus Butler was the first postmaster at Birmingham.”
A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio (1916). Machine-read text.
one of 175 National Register listings in Erie County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Erie County.
National Register reference number.78002056- 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 ground it stands on
6,497 words
The chapter on Florence Township in A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names Birmingham. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The first schoolhouse was built at Sprague's corners, on land owned by John Brooks. The first teacher was Ruth Squire, and the school was supported by subscription; the parents paying in proportion to the number of children sent. This schoolhouse was afterward taken down and rebuilt on the south side of the road. The second schoolhouse was built half a mile west of Birmingham, and the school first taught by Rhoda Root. A certain individual objected to her custom of opening the school with prayer, so that a school meeting was called to consider the matter. The teacher was sustained.
Fish, was born in Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio, October 2, 1872. He pursued his later studies in Oberlin and in the University of Wisconsin, and for a number of years taught school in Florence and Berlin townships. He was married April 12, 1910, to Anna Sophia, daughter of Boardman Henry Packer and Mary Annie Hanson Packer of Greenville, Michigan, and later of Chicago. Their only child, John Boardman, was born December 29, 1910, in Chicago. They live on their fine farm on the bluffs overlooking the beautiful valley of the Vermilion River, about one mile south of Birmingham, Erie County, where they are enthusiastically engaged in agriculture and horticulture.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 944 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Starr-Truscott House between 1874 and
1975: 705 Plantae, 147 Animalia, 91 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. M. Evans, A.M. Evans 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
1 working within 5 miles of Starr-Truscott House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Birmingham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
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.
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From the nomination file
1,297 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
facade. This includes a corner side-lighted entrance, a blank change made by the addition of a rear wing for a woodshed, utility CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED EXCELLENT FAIR RUINS XALTERED garage and much internal restoration has been undertaken. old glass. XGOOD This wood-frame Greek Revival house was built with a three bay exterior is very similar to the original, with the only obvious east porch added.The woodshed has recently been converted to a The interior of the original portion has remained virtually time, the recessed porch on the east side was enclosed and a larger _UNALTERED CHECK ONE The foundation is of squared sandstone, and the cellar floor of pediment, corner boards, and a continuous entablature. The present and pantry rooms, and a second floor meeting room.
At the same basic construction is post and beam.T sandstone flagging.The windows are six over six, many containing tulip poplar,while the interior woodwork is of black walnut.The fireplaces, two with stone mantels and one with stone surrounds. There are three original AREAS OF
Statement of significance
he sold the Birmingham mill and 160 acres to Cyrus Butler, who built the house were: Perez Hiram Starr, Hiram Perez Starr, Helen Starr Truscott, Starr Truscott, Starr Truscott Jr., and, presently, the Documentation about the builder does not exist. However, the 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 EDUCATION ECONOMICS TRANSPORTATION ART BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD RELIGION SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION INDUSTRY _ENGINEERING SCULPTURE LITERATURE THEATER SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC MILITARY XARCHITECTURE X1800-1899 _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT millwright and had experience building mills also suggests that he children of Starr Truscott Jr.
MUSIC _COMMUNICATIONS _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT structure's fairly typical design suggests the work of local builders is important for its historical ties to the early settlement and one family have lived in the house. took part in the house's construction. River in Birmingham and his own house a few years later.In 1823, The house's continuous ownership, as well as its elegant design, first grist mill in the Firelands on Old Womans Creek in what is development of the Firelands and unique in that six generations of This structure, an excellent example of the Greek Revival style, his brick house on the National Register)a few hundred Perez Hiram Starr came to Huron, Ohio in 181o from New London, - LAW -COMMUNITY PLANNING SPECIFIC DATES ca.
1820 ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC 1900- make it a landmark of considerable local and regional importance. following a pattern book.The fact that Perez Hiram Starr was a - INVENTION now Berlin Township.In l8i7,he built a mill on the Vermilion
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002056, 11 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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