Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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
“Salem Methodist Church Complex is a registered historic building near Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on April 29, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Salem Methodist Church Complex (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.82003586- 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.
Besides the natural features of Anderson which vary its topography, its broad surface is further intersected by the Batavia turnpike in the northern part, which takes Union bridge and Newtown on its way; the Richmond turnpike on the extreme south, passing California and hugging the river closely until its exit from the county, shortly after which it trends rapidly northeastward; the Salem and Ohio turnpikes, also in the southern half of the township, the latter passing through Mount Washington and Cherry Grove; a number of other good wagon roads; the Cincinnati & Eastern narrow-guage railway, along the valley of the Little Miami, by Newtown, in the north part; with a branch from a point a mile and a half east of Newtown, running up the valley of Dry run, to a point due east of Mount Washington, where it leaves the township; and the Cincinnati & Portsmouth narrow-guage railway, cutting the southern and eastern parts in an exceedingly tortuous line, as compelled by the broken country, from the crossing of the Little Miami southwest of Mount Washington to the departure from the township and county considerably to the northward, near Mount Carmel, in Clermont county. As well as the nature and demands of the township will permit at present, it is served with means of transportation; but other railroads have been projected, as that already mentioned along the Ohio.
At present the circular wall is almost leveled, but can be readily traced by the color of the soil and the large number of flat river-stones. The ditches can be easily recognized. The mound is still prominent. It measures now in height five and one-half feet, diameter twenty-five yards, circumference seventy-five yards. The causeway is cut through by the Cincinnati & Eastern railroad, the forest cut away, and the soil cultivated annually.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,182 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Salem Methodist Church Complex between 1820 and
1975: 2,691 Fungi, 1,399 Animalia, 736 Plantae, 318 Protozoa, 27 Unrecorded, 11 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, A. 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Salem Methodist Church Complex: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 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.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers 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
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From the nomination file
2,862 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
This nomination consists of a frame church built in 1863, a brick school, and a cemetery projecting eaves over the main facade supported by decorative paired brackets. A large door entry with elongated panels, wooden door surrounds and a flat compound lintel support- 1y a small finial rested a top the low hip of the tower which has been removed and the low exterior chimney composed of cinder block has been added to the east side facade. The interior of the church is distinguished by white painted pews with raised, stained panel ends. The communion rail is of similar design and is mounted on a low wooden platform.
The six-over-six double hung windows on the front facade and three bay side facade have several periods in time the interior has been extensively altered to accomodate various uses, the most recent is to allow the building to be used as an educational center and contain approximately 100 tombstones, dating from the early 1800's, situated on one acre of The tombstones designs are reflective of the custom and association typical for the period in which they were erected. Condition 7.
Description tion with low asphalt shingled roof with projecting eaves supported by exposed rafters.The second addition is square in plan with common bond brick and a flat, built-up roof.At front porch treatment has been altered, but retains the original.design and scale.A small fry's cross gable roof with projecting eaves is supported by decorative singular and pair- rear, with the earliest addition sympathetic to the school.It is a one story brick addi- X altered The Salem United Methodist Church is a 30' x 45' rectangular in plan Italianate styled building with shiplap wall treatment. The large belfry is composed of long louvered ed by decorative brackets.
(in one paragraph) Senate and served in the Eleventh.and Twelfth General Assemblies of 1812-1813. The present church, built in 1863, is the third building of the congregation, preceeded by a log cabin The church, school, and cemetery are important for their aesthetic integrity, cohesive set- 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 economics 1400-1499 communications education conservation military engineering politics/government humanitarian Period literature music prehistoric law 1900- Specific dates commerce The Salem Methodist Church is significant for its aesthetic integrity, and with the ceme- McCormick, who established the first Methodist class in the Northwest Territory at Milford 8. Significance renamed McCormick Hall and currently serves as the church's educational center.
the brick chapel was dismantled and subsequently reassembled as a schoolhouse on the site immediately east of the church.This schoolhouse served the students of the Anderson Town- significant in that it contains the only known object directly associated with Francis church has served the Methodist congregation for over 1o0 years with little exterior altera- _invention ship Community until 1929,and when it was purchased by the Salem Church in 1949 it was built in 1810and a brick chapel in 1828.When the existing frame church was built in 1863, - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - philosophy southwestern Ohio. Salem Church, founded in 1805, is the second congregation organized by The shiplap wall treatment and Italianate detailing service to the community.
Although the 1860's schoolhouse has had its function changed, it still used, but it also contains the graves of the earliest settlers of this community. position 1863 industry exploration/settlement grave of Rev.McCormick is the only association left with this very influential person.The the founder of Methodism in the Northwest Territory.He was also elected to the Ohio State 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003586, 21 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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