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.
one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 587 specimens collected within 10 miles of Long--Romspert House between 1836 and 1975: 435 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. | 1881 | Foerste AF | |
 | Geaster limbatus Fr. | 1883 | A. E. Foeerste | Dayton |
 | Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr. | 1897 | H. W. Anderson | |
 | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | 1836 | C. W. Short | Dayton |
 | Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl. | 1837 | van Cleve, John W. | 3 mi. north of Dayton |
 | Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt. | 1838 | J. W. Van Cleve | Dayton |
 | Allium canadense L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 1 mi. northeast. |
 | Cardamine L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt. | Dayton. 1 mile east. |
 | Cassia marilandica L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred | Dayton |
 | Cynoglossum officinale L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. Suburbs E. |
 | Iris versicolor L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 2 mi. south |
 | Nuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton | 1839 | Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. Haupt | Dayton |
All 587 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Long--Romspert House: 9 past producers, 6 producers. 6 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hawker and Son Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hawker and Son Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jackson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jackson Sand Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Pit No 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $25,000 | An approximately 4.5 mile swath of intermittent wind damage, mainly to trees, was surveyed. In the Oakwood area, damage was broad and sporadic in nature, centered on Forrer Boulevard but extending several blocks north and south of the boulevard, over a half mile wide at times. Tree damage in this area was mostly comprised of small and large limb breaks, but a few uprooted trees were noted. Tree damage was not determined to be convergent or to have a particularly strong cross-path component when taken in sum, and pointed more to being non-tornadic in nature.||Gaps of more consistent wind damage were evident before another area of more concentrated wind damage in Kettering along Aragon Avenue and Vale Drive, including an apartment complex which had several trees heavily damaged. Like with the Oakwood area damage, little evidence of a concentrated tornadic circulation existed in the tree damage, which again consisted of large broken limbs and a couple uprooted trees. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $10,000 | A tree was downed on Shroyer Road and Wonderly Avenue and another was downed on a car near the intersection of Oakdale Avenue and White Oak Drive due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $5,000 | A large tree fell into a home on Peach Orchard Avenue. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $1,000 | One tree was downed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $1,000 | A large tree was downed. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $500 | Tree limbs, one inch in diameter, were broken off. Also a few shingles were blown off a roof. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High water was reported on Patterson Road east of Kenmore Avenue. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High standing water was covering Patterson Road near Wilmington Pike to due heavy rainfall. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Oakwood | - | High standing water was covering the road on Yorkshire Place due to thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2002 | Hail | Oakwood | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
summary paragraph ruins Ownership completeness Accessible REJECT clarity unexposed dates resubmission Condition Status Discipline fair yes RETURN Action: good Montgomery County alterations/integrity Long-Romspert House Category boundary selection Substantive Review: deteriorated Present Use Working No. Federal Agency: AUG 13 1987 87001522 9/25/87 Nomination returned for: .technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussed below Recom./Criteria_ 8.
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates other: community growth and development State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. development, the early agricultural period of the mid to late nineteenth representation of the agricultural period. The Romspert renovation of rural farming area to a fashionable Dayton residential suburb. Henry Long's Italianate farmhouse represents the early agricultural period. This is especially true of the interior which remains relatively unchanged. He bought this apparently underdeveloped quarter 'section in 1857 for $280.00. 1and.
The area was primarily rural consisting of orchards and cornfields. off parcels of the original farmland as the 20th century suburban development successful lawyer and music publisher married Ethel Gilbert of a noted [X See continuation sheet 1917-1923 1866 Architect/Builder Significant Person Cultural Affiliation Italianate T-Plan farmhouse and outbuildings are the best surviving century and the explosive suburban growth in the early twentieth century.The The history and architecture of the Long-Romspert House reflects the history map shows a toll gate on the Pike located at the southeast corner of Henry of its time.
Henry Long was typical of the early settlers who cleared and farmed their Long also owned a sand and gravel quarry pit just west of what is today T-plan farmhouse was built in 1866 on Lebanon Far Hills Avenue). Jnationally Lstatewide *locally and developnent of Oakwood from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. Three generations of the Long-Romspert family who lived in the house two children, Harry and Maude.
The whole case file for this property - 2,771 words, 26 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 87001522, 26 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Library | 0.1 miles | 2013 | |
 | Hawthorn Hill | 0.6 miles | 1974 |
 | Long--Mueller House | 1.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Schantz, Adam Sr., House | 1.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Rubicon Farm | 1.5 miles | 1976 |
 | Trailsend | 1.7 miles | 1979 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87001522 in Record Group 79. |
| Montgomery County | All 117 listed properties in this county. |
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