Built in 1836 in the Greek Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1987. 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 Alexander Conner House is a historic rowhouse in Xenia, Ohio, United States. Built in 1836, this two-story brick building is a physical merger of six buildings constructed in the Greek Revival and Federal styles of architecture.”
Wikipedia article Alexander Conner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1836, Greek Revival architecture · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.87000460- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 957 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 957 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Conner, Alexander, House between 1870 and
1975: 713 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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
9 workings within 5 miles of Conner, Alexander, House: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 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
Xenia, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 7 flood, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 100 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.
A violent tornado that moved at 65 mph hit the town of Xenia for the second time in 26 years damaging some of the same areas that were hit in 1974. Along the path of the tornado, around 250 homes were either damaged or destroyed, over 40 businesses were damaged or destroyed including the local Wal Mart, Kroger, and Tire Discounters, and 6 churches were damaged. A strip mall was nearly destroyed, cars were thrown from the Highway 35 bypass into ditches, 4 semi-trailers were thrown up to 400 yards, and most of the buildings were damaged or destroyed at the Greene county fairgrounds. In Sugarcreek Township, which is to the southwest of Xenia, an additional 14 houses and 3 barns were damaged and some crops were destroyed on a narrow path. Over 10,000 residents were without power for at least 1 day.
1 paper 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
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
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From the nomination file
3,349 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
with American Renaissance molded panels.There are sidelights and a segmental transom light.The six-panel doors are a recent rehabilitation from unsightly hollow panel doors.The doorway in the right bay of the center unit has a simple inframement with the street in the Federal portion is a very simple box cornice which has been roofed over sent vernacular residential construction in southwest Ohio prior to the Civil War. the transom restored.The windows of these two Federal units are six over six double hung sash in correct proportion.The sash are guillotine sash weights).The The house is sited on a busy secondary street near the center of the small city.The little impact in the public sightlines.
It isbelieved the corner three-bay unit was built first in 1836.Structural evidence assures us the center two bays were added very shortly thereafter.The left two-bay Greek other of the street is modern commercial construction and parking lots. The main doorway of the right hand unit was renovated in the 1850'a.It has a deep reveal -deteriorated -ruins . unaltered X original site - good Alexander Conner's brick two-story row house is a "U" shaped building made up of six parts, five of which are historic.
Ihe Federal and Greek Revival facade is an early streetfront left unit is in Greek Revival proportion.The door in the right bay has a simple at some time in the past.The gable to the street on the Greek Revival addition has a Check one Revival addition was added shortly after 1855.The first addition to the rear of the 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Little is known of Alexander Conner Connor)its builder and first sold in 1865. - - communications - invention - archeology-prehistoric - community planning X architecture X 1800-1899 .landscape architecture religion Builder/Architect Unknown remaining early vernacular Federal and Greek Revival houses that have and experienced a sizeable development prior to the Civil War.
Continued growth of its 1600-1699 art philosophy Xcommerce retained their character are highly prized contributors to the cultural fabric and the various urban manifestations of that development such as this example exploration/settlement and son.He bought this land in 1836,built all of the substantial brick The owners after Conner were mainly land speculators that constantly census of 1860 lists him in the livery business.Alexander had modest The building is significant for Criteria C.properties that embody the The house has seen three residence.He was born in Ireland circa 1790,arrived in Xenia in property and $800.00 in personal property in 1860.The property was 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87000460, 24 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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