Built in 1898. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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 Adolph Boesel House is a historic house in New Bremen, Ohio, United States. Built in 1898 in a combination of the Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne styles of architecture, it was the home of a leading New Bremen citizen.”
Wikipedia article Adolph Boesel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 24 National Register listings in Auglaize County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1898.
National Register reference number.79001784- 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 523 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Boesel, Adolph, House between 1800 and
1974: 427 Animalia, 95 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
1,656 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
On the south half, a steeply pitched gable with fluted eaves is highlighted by a On the first floor, a delicate porch with an off center gabled entrance has a CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED XEXCELLENT open onto a second story balcony. FAIR three story square bay to the south side with pie crust top decoration in arched hung sashes overlook a third story balcony with spindle ballustrade and turned posts, bellcast base that is decorated with imbricated shingles.The tower itself rests on a variety and texture. decoration at the eaves and in a ballustrade.
obliquely to form small triangular balconies on turned posts each with spindle The Adolph Boesel House is a majestic Queen Anne style with elaborate Eastlake The other three sides have projecting gabled wings of varying width and paired finials on the north half of the facade.It has vertical ribbing on grey slate, facade and wraps around half of the north side to allow another porch entrance into the is just south of the central back door.
eaves, spindled ballustrade and a spindled bannister for the concrete steps make this A one story pantry area is tucked in the northeast rear angle and a porch shingles are at both floor lines, and a hexagonal slate roof pattern provides more supported by heavy carved brackets.A waffle weave wall arches to form a large round miniature bargeboard and medallion that matches the huge sunburst design on the third three sided bay area with a paneled molding over three narrow double hung sashes that of open latticework is.in the southeast angle.An open bulkhead cellar entrance GOOD window with mullion that makes a square insert. Double hung sashes are placed RUINS creates a shadow box effect.
a bank. Adolph's father, Jacob, also served in the lower house of the state General 1700-1799 ENGINEERING COMMERCE RELIGION ART Bremen. ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD INVENTION TRANSPORTATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY THEATER MILITARY SCULPTURE CONSERVATION SCIENCE LCOMMUNICATIONS the possession of the owner. The Adolph Boesel house is architecturally outstanding because it is the finest _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT hardware business and later began the Rabe Manufacturing Coompany.Mrs.
Marie New Bremen, which had been organized by his grandfather as a private institution in _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LITERATURE It is historically significant because it represents the enormous wealth around INDUSTRY, built for his daughter in a similar style, but now altered.Adolph Boesel and his At that time, the house fell into the hands of the New Bremen Investment Co. _PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE family lived in this lovely Queen Anne until around 1930.
in town and is the most elaborate of the Queen Annes built during the period in New terms each as state representative and state senator from 186l to 187l, and established The house is exactly as it was constructed, according to the original blueprints in _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN this large house was built for his son, Adolph, and one next door to the south was Rabe lives there today. -1400-1499 _ECONOMICS -1600-1699 -1500-1599 - EDUCATION -MUSIC -1900- 1866.
His grandfather, Charles Boesel, began his business career in New Bremen in 1835, 1898 LAW important business promoter in New Bremen from the canal days.They operated a the turn of the century when New Bremen was regarded as the fourth largest pork packing The house was constructed by Adolph Boesel, president of the First City Bank of and had the general store. He was superintendent of the Miami-Erie Canal, served two and best preserved example of Queen Anne style with Eastlake detailing in Region 3-HA. town along the Miami-Erie Canal.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001784, 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.
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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