Rial, York, House

Description of the property

re-arranged when rooms were added, this house is remarkable because it has not rooms on both levels are of equal size with nineteenth century woodwork at the The 1890 house is a frame one and one-half story gabled structure which frame or cement block and a half of a brick house are found in the black of the river. Great Miami River. It has never been annexed by the City of Piqua, but is community. The Rial house sits alone, without any outbuildings or barn, on is divided into two rooms up and two rooms down. (See sketch of house) The doorways, windows and stairs. The downstairs east room has a steep stairway simulate brick, show near the eaves of the structure.

Underthe porch is Because so many of these small modest frame houses have had the interiors date The York Rial House is located near Piqua in Springcreek Township of Miami risers and steps are unfinished wood and have not been covered.An old mantle the original portion of the house,but runs parallel to the long side.The from the 1950s allows. for a bathroom and family room.The earlier wood siding residents at the turn of the century.The interior of the original 1890 house Since 1846,the area has been the home of a small group of freed blacks, was noted in a 1901 article from the Piqua Daily Call as "our useful and -- community planning - archeology-historic _ science - agriculture _ economics _ literature - sculpture X architecture -education X social/ - music X 1800-1899 .

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Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below .communications incomplete.Like most other former slaves the Randolph people were not military -conservation assign an unusually small appraisal value to a house or if thought to be worth before the Civil War.Finally, the Rossville community, where Randolph Slave which devastated much of southwest Ohio, washed away many of the other small houses in the Randolph Slave community at Rossville. is found repeatedly in rural black settlements that were established in Ohio or changed hands were not considered tobe important.Finally,the 1913 flood which can be definitely documented as.being built for one.of the Randolph landscape architecture.___.

religion freed slave who built this house in 1890 at Rossville, gained national attention between 1907 and 1917 when he represented the Randolph Slave descendants in a court case. They sought to reclaim the 3200 acres of land in Mercer County that had been purchased for them through Randolph's will. The of any one dwell.ing difficult to document through courthouse records.

Because many of the houses were fairly insubstantial construction and had no heavy buildings were sometimes on parcels of land that changed hands frequently and art accustomed to owning land and dwellings, and record-keeping of property was Rossville an 1871 atlas map shows as many as three houses sitting on one small The York Rial House is significant because of its association with one of the Builder/Architect unknown Ohio before the Civil War are difficult to trace through primary sources.In 9.