Built in 1887 in the Colonial Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. 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
“Arrowston is a historic estate in the city of Piqua, Ohio, United States. Built at the end of the nineteenth century for a local industrialist, it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Arrowston, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Miami County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1887, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.80003162- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 331 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Arrowston between 1835 and
1973: 300 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Arrowston: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Piqua, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Many trees and power lines were blown down across the county. In Piqua alone, at least 130 trees were knocked down, 12 homes damaged severely, and 3 vehicles were nearly destroyed.
Two 24 inch diameter trees were downed at the intersection of US Route 36 and Casstown Road. A few large tree limbs were downed along Miami-Shelby County Road.
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
3,803 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
The original appearance of the house was in the Eastern Stick style with elements of Queen Anne and Eastlake styles (see photo documentation) and was built in 1887. Arrowston, situated on a substantial hill, consists of the main house - a large Georgian Revival mansion, remodeled in 1929, a stable-garage-apartment, gardener's cottage, pool house and swimming pool, and several other buildings, structures and objects. 1.
The main house is "L" shaped, wood and steel framed, 3 stories with full basement, has a stone foundation, 9x5 bays on the west and south sides, white painted weatherboard siding, and light windows with working shutters; 2 full porticos with unfluted freestanding columns and enriched capitals with a small balcony on the second floor of the east portico; front entrance with broken pediment, 6 panel door, unfluted pilasters with enriched capitals and leaded glass transom; several eliptical arched dormers, and a dormer on the rounded bay of the shaped window is surrounded by intricate carved relief on the tympanum of the east porticos; most fixtures were custom made for this house, using the finest materials, such as solid brass.
pediments, and fluted pilasters around doorways; elaborate trim detail on living room walls, in dark walnut with intricate carved upper molding and relief plaster ceiling; dining room with scenic wall covering from a centuries old French chateau, a Waterford glass chandelier, scenic wall covering; wide spiral staircase with a large arched glass alcove, and a chandelier that are all in perfect operating condition, including an elevator and circulating ice water topped with a cupola that has a clock, bell, and large iron weathervane. 4. Poo1 House has 4 rooms and a built-in grill; and the swimming pool has a 25,000 gallon 5. Clay tennis court. capacity. ruins Check one 3.
(in one paragraph) 8. Significance (1902) along with his father of the Wood Shovel & Tool Company, another large Piqua industry main house and to construct the other buildings on the estate because he had the wherewithal In 1898 the Boals moved to downtown Piqua after a son's death caused Mrs. Boal to want to live for many years.
His wife was Aileen Frederick Boal Scott - her father being W.K.Boal, Areas of Significance-Check and justify below all combine to set the landscaping of the estate apart from the mid-20th century subdivisions The main house was built in 1887 for William K.Boal who reorganized and was president of the military the "High Acre' farmhouse which was already there in 1929 and was soon remodeled and enlarged; Lucius C.Cron moved in and remained until his death in the was associated with the L.C.& W.L.Cron Furniture Company of which he was Cron-Kills Furniture Co).
Specific dates (1887) 1929 became mayor of Piqua and during his term had a steam fire engine named for him which - - philosophy -science -art X landscape architecture - -archeology-prehistoric - religion Arrowston is significant in western Ohio for its extraordinary scale, detailing and setting. double-hung windows. Furthermore, the lake, hydraulic canal, and elevation of the main house He was the mayor of Huntersville from 1875 until 1891 when it was annexed to Piqua. He then surrounding it. The careful placement of outbuildings, walkways, terraced gardens, lamp posts, house - the exteriors of Arrowston buildings reflect this too. and skill necessary to undertake such a project.
(He built everything on the estate except Favorite Stove and Range Company, Piqua's largest and most important industrial enterprise Airheart M.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003162, 48 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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