Alexander, Dr. William S., House

Description of the property

primarily the room functions changed with the addition of kitchens, baths and Shera, local resident.The house extends two stories with stone foundations, shed at the rear. The interior features remained essentially unchanged; centered over the front porch and the addition of a small, open lattice-work Facing front and east,the main entrance has a handsome paneled door with Check one approach to this Imposing facade is by a semi-circular walk from the sidewalk, condition due to neglect and the ravages of time. style. The carriage house to the rear of the property remained unaltered.

graced each side of the double-hung 2/2 sash windows on the exterior including a basement, and solid brick exterior walls and interior bearing of Oxford and located within the "Mile Square district of the city.These ell-shaped.In approximately 1880 an addition was made to the south elevation 1954 a second alteration occurred when the owners converted this 12room continues below the roof line of the front porch.Louvered wooden shutters second floor interior rooms on the north side of the house!

since the windows About 19o0 the front and side porches were added in the Classical Revival rectangular-shaped lot facing east, along a major artery of access to the City exterior that occurred were the removat of a small second.floor balcony behind them were removed and the spaces bricked in at some previously unknown curb was once a mounting block and hitching post. Both are extant though not partition walls.The condition of the house is good and it appears very much This stately old house and accompanying carriage house are situated on a second floor balcony, thus giving the house its present rectangular shape. curving gracefully to the two-step porch and returning again to the sidewalk.

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Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Herschel D.Hinkley and his wife bought the house from the Shera family.In In the teens, Dr.Alexander was appointed by the Miami University Board of Areas of Significance-Check and justify below The basic architecture of the house is typical of the mid-to-late 1gth century Dr.Herschel D. Hinkley was already a respected member of the:community in in the city. .-.engineering family until it was sold on February 5,1985 to the present owner. In 1867 Inlot 176 was acquired.by John M.Shera,a local farmer,who built a -conservation -art -- law The Alexander House is significant under criteria A, B, and C. It was Oxford at the turn-of-the-century, but both were involved in the operation of "'town-gown" cooperation that has long been a constant issue in this and other Alexander.

Dr. Alexander lived in and used the house for his practice until Board of Trustees. Hewas offered the Chair of Surgery at Cincinnati College where he served for four consecutive 2-year terms under two administrations. resulted in major remodel ing of residences of this era. By far the most Period Builder/Architect unknown mixture of brackets, modallions and cornice returns is the primary reason for associated with two important local physicians and community leaders,Dr. catagorizing it as a transitional Greek Revival/ltalianate building. The of Medicine and Surgery in 1894,which he accepted.That same year he was clinics, the doctors office was a haven for the small town's ill and injured. Oxford before taking up residence at 22 N. College Avenue.While living Herschel Hinkley and Dr.

William Alexander.In the days before hospitals and his death in 1917.In 1954 the descendentsof Dr.Alexander,divided the memorabilia from the Alexander family (Smith Library). Ave., 182.70 ft. on the south by the adjoining property, 82.60 ft. on the west by an alleyway. -- state 11.