Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Bookwalter was reared under the conditions and influences marking the pioneer period in the history of Indiana, and he aided in the work of the home farm and the mills operated by his father. The discipline which he acquired in the local schools was supplemented by one year of study in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, the death of his father having caused him to return home.”
A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio (1922). Machine-read text.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number.80002954- 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 Francis Bookwalter House
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 1,446 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Francis Bookwalter House between 1840 and 1975: 972 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Francis Bookwalter House: 6 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
apartments, but also served as the residence for Mr. Hawkins. It 1s frame construction, built on a high foundation of coursed, limestone through a semi-detached tower, balanced by a window on either side in of the house, eliminating window hoods and balustrades. The House The north side of the house has a semi-octagonal bay, rising the slates, laid in a pattern and topped by cast-iron cresting. Each side CONDITION construction. MOVED DATE EXCELLENT DETERIORATED _UNALTERED GOOD cut into arabesques or is used to lead to a window hood. one story in heighth, below which is the excavated garage.
As originally conceived, the House was a rectangular block of dipping down to a garage excavated under the front, southeast corner Serving the dual purpose of window hood,as well as giving the impression The Frank Bookwalter House is a frame, three story Mansardic or Were fitted with large, shed-type hoods, covered with patterned slate being the location of the firm while the main house was divided into sides have the hoods projecting from the 3rd or mansard level thus The mansard roof is covered on the steep side with multicolored a driveway was excavated from the street, through the terrace and then fourth is occupied by a brick, three story, mansardic carriage house. window and the roof is convex mansard, covered with slate.
Due to the tower, bays and numerous windows, the exterior of the with bracketed eaves. This Service and domestics area has an open, is covered with a gable-type hood, resting on bracketry. Those on the Each of the three windows in the Second sloor part of the bay are fitted presently undergoing restoration, but is still used for apartments.
which was razed in 1939. The latter, however, was more in the rich but sedate "Prarie Avenue, Chicago" form. The Bookwalter, however, is an exhuberant structure, loudly proclaiming glory of the scroll saw and the the mansard of his borther-in-law, W. C. Leffel, across the street is a 1500-1599 1700-1799 1600-1699 RELIGION COMMERCE EDUCATION THEATER PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE ART SCULPTURE TRANSPORTATION X1800-1899 SCIENCE 1900- _COMMUNICATIONS James Leffel and thus acquired an interest in this important industry. _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT Bookwalter was thus a mechanical genius who contributed immensely and has now largely vanished from the streetscape.
XINDUSTRY X_ARCHITECTURE and even devised an elaborate clock recording both solar and sidereal Frank Bookwalter was also a scholar interested in astronomy and to one of the foundation industries of Springfield and Ohio. time. This clock was electrically connected to the Central Fire Engine had become general manager of the firm while.brother John was.two-thirds as well as grist mill.Although he studied for one year at the Univer- It is a mansard of the most extreme design, incorporating virtually the standard time for all Springfield factories. County, Indiana, from childhood he was acquainted not only with farming The design is extremely similar to one published by S. B.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002954, 14 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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