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Photograph of Dr. Issac Elmer Williams House and Office
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Williams, Dr. Issac Elmer, House And Office

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

“Issac Elmer Williams House and Office are a pair of buildings in St. Built in 1903, both are fine examples of the Queen Anne style of architecture.”

Wikipedia article Dr. Issac Elmer Williams House and Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 24 National Register listings in Auglaize County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 407--411 N. Main St., St. Marys, 45885
  • When was it listed? 1979-05-08
  • Category. building
  • Township. St. Marys township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 79001785 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 889 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 889 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williams, Dr. Issac Elmer, House And Office between 1800 and 1975: 793 Animalia, 95 Plantae, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Wetzstein, Adler, K. K., Albert Wetzstein 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1895Wetzstein, A.St. Marys, Ohio.
Specimen of Equisetum hyemale L.Equisetum hyemale L.1895Wetzstein, A.St. Marys.
Specimen of Adiantum capillus-veneris L.Adiantum capillus-veneris L.1896Wetzstein, A.St. mary's. Greenhouse
A photograph of the species Mentha aquatica, not of this specimenMentha aquatica L.1800Ballenstedt, B.Bremen: An der WÅmme in Oberneuland bei Bremen
A photograph of the species Recurvirostra americana, not of this specimenRecurvirostra americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891882Uller, C. (Clem)St. Marys Res, Auglaize, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geum urbanum, not of this specimenGeum urbanum L.1883BaßmannBremen: Vegesack, feuchtes, schattiges Gehîlz bei Holthorst, sehr selten
A photograph of the species Rubus idaeus, not of this specimenRubus idaeus L.1889MeyerholzBremen: auf Quellgrund, Torf u. Humus
A photograph of the species Stachys aspera, not of this specimenStachys aspera Michx.1889Wilhelm SchiblerOhio: St. Marys, borders of Canal.
A photograph of the species Lobelia dortmanna, not of this specimenLobelia dortmanna L.1892WendelkenBremen: Bremen-Lesum, Lesum
A photograph of the species Rubus condensatus, not of this specimenRubus condensatus P.J.Müll.1892Elmgoeth, Fr.Niedersachsen: Soltau in der Lüneburger Heide
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1893P. KirschSt. Marys
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschSt. Marys River, St. Marys, Ohio

All 889 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Williams, Dr. Issac Elmer, House And Office: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Con-Ag, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Auglaize County

Map coverage status

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

1,564 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

vacant for 7-8 years and needs attention and paint, it is a fine example of Queen This large frame, multi-gabled house was built in 1903 by Dr. Issac Elmer To compliment the gables on the house, a smaller round arch window with keystone was has a facade that features a paneled front door with transom, a pair of 2/2 double hung sashes under a single moulded framing, and a wrought iron hand rail by the steps to allow more room in the front for patients' waiting space as house calls became less CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT house.

DETERIORATED UNALTERED GOOD story bay area that faces north which exactly matches the bay on the facade.At the CHECK ONE round arch sash and stick tracery in the flanking sashes over a two-story bay that rear of the house is a hipped roof l-story kitchen portion that has the same moldings Unmatched porch gables have imbricated shingles and are supported by 7 Doric pillars.

Spindle balusters and hand railing have been retained on the wrap-around porch which An unusual feature connects the house and office and forms a bridge on the second floors, stairway and woodwork.Large decorated steam radiators continue to heat the An early postcard photograph shows the house, office and sleeping porch as they story.A sleeping room with pairs of large windows to the east and west was constructed The office is a handsome L-shaped frame building of five rooms built also in l903. from an era when most prescription drugs were dispensed by the doctor and not by a -RUINS X ALTERED keyscone and scalloped tracery over casement windows that have stick tracery. 1ooked shortly after their construction. These buildings are situated on elevated Anne style.

The office reflects the same style.

Read the complete 1,564-word case file.

Statement of significance

He married Louise Marie McBroom who was a member of a prominent family in St. Marys in INVENTION of buildings for rental purposes. He has begun research and restoration work on the area at that time.In 1892,he was graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine

The whole case file for this property - 1,564 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79001785, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fountain Hotel, The0.3 miles1997
Holy Rosary Catholic Church0.5 miles1979
Glynnwood Catholic Church4.7 miles1979
Fledderjohann, H. E., House, Doctor's Office and Summer Kitchen5.4 miles1993
Boesel, Julius, House6.7 miles1978
Luelleman, William, House7.4 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001785 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Auglaize CountyAll 24 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.