Griffith Breese Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Breese, Griffith, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2875 Fort Amanda Rd., Lima
When was it listed? January 1983
Category. building
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83001942 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Griffith Breese Farm: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Lima Ohio Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Fouremans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lima Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Allen County

Maps showing this location

5 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1906 USGS Lima quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Cridersville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
West Market Street Boulevard Historic District	2.9 miles	2004
Neely-Sieber House	3.4 miles	1976
MacDonell House	3.5 miles	1978
Armory-Latisona Building	3.6 miles	1982
Lima Cleaning and Pressing Company	3.7 miles	1982
Lima Memorial Hall	3.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001942 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allen County	All 29 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.
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.