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
“The Charles Butler House is a historic octagon house in the city of Franklin, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the nineteenth century, it was originally home to one of the city's most prominent men, and it has been named a historic site due to its unusual design.”
Wikipedia article Charles Butler House (Franklin, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Warren County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003664- 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 114 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Butler, Charles, House between 1888 and
1975: 106 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A.C. Borror, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Butler, Charles, House: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer.
3 still produce. 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
Franklin, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flood, 1 flash 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.
Strong winds took a chair into the air, striking a person. The metal roof from a car wash in Springboro was torn off. Also, scaffolding and several trees were knocked down.
A portion of the roof was removed by the wind at the Townsend Auto Sales building along State Route 122. Several automobiles on the lot sustained minor damage.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned 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
The Charles Butler House is one of two octagon houses in Franklin, but only one of three such planned houses known to exist in southwestern Ohio. It rests on the brow of a small this two story brick dwelling is distinguished by its paired four-over-four windows, 1a- bel lintels, and bracketed wooden cornice. A handsome bay window with bracketed cornice marks the northwest elevation. In keeping with octagon design, the house is surmounted by a flat standing seam metal roof. Not only is the octagon plan unusual for its unfiguration, but also for its interior de- Layout of the second floor space closely follows the first floor plan, basically the A sensitively constructed two story brick wing was added to the southeast elevation in 1880.
Additional changes in 1940 consist of a one story kitchen, utility room, and at- doubtedly this replaced a frame porch that typified octagon architecture. Condition ruins unexposed fair Check one ized by the center placement of fireplaces and stairwell location on the outside wall. hill and overlooks the city of Franklin and the Great Miami River valley.Built c.1860, _unaltered Morgan and Brothers excution of William Howland's octagon. tached garage. In 1910 a classical revival porch was built onto the front facade, un- 112. deteriorated sign.The original layout strongly suggests the Butler house was directly influenced by United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service This octagon house directly influenced the design of the Charles Butler house.
(Fowler, The Octagon House, 1853.) with single-cross tin, soldered and painted, two coats.
(in one paragraph) when Orson Fowler's unique designs achieved considerable popularity in the East and for All (1853). Despite these bold innovations, the octagon style of architecture was however, satisfy the desires of Franklin's John N. Schenck, who had the house built for his daughter Mary Schenck Butler and her husband Charles. From its founding, the Schenck family had been instrumental to the settlement and development of Franklin.
1600-1699 commerce 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 transportation conservation communications theater industry engineering literature art invention science economics philosophy humanitarian politics/government Builder/Architect prehistoric Period education exploration/settlement unknown social/ military law plan architecture in southwestern Ohio.It was constructed during the brief interlude cative of Butler's prosperity in nineteenth century Franklin. Charles Butler,(1820-1904) Schenck's son-in-law, was a prominent merchant and civic leader.He was the first president of the Franklin National Bank and also operated .landscape architecture .
religion The Charles Butler House, built circa 1860, is a significant representation of octagon spired by a design included in Fowler's extraordinary book, The Octagon House: A Home Midwest.Fowler's approach was significant for its economy in interior space and for Warren County Courthouse Deeds Vol. 64 - 394 Oral history from Mrs. Florence Johnston, great-granddaughter of original owners, Quadrangle name Franklin UMT References List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries _ state Mrs. Thomas Hayes and Steve Gordon date February 1980, revised January, 1981 street & number city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.
State Historic Preservation Officer signature county date Easting Northing organization Franklin 11.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003664, 17 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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