Harper Mausoleum and Harper, George W., Memorial Entrance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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
“Harper Memorial Entrance are a pair of funerary structures in the village cemetery at Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Commemorating one of Cedarville's wealthiest nineteenth-century citizens, they have together been named a historic site because of their distinctive Egyptian-style design.”
Wikipedia article Harper Mausoleum and George W. Harper Memorial Entrance, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.88000115- 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.
In 1848, when an effort was made to form the township of Cedarville, some citizens of Ross objected to the measure, entering a vigorous protest against it, the parties making this protest saying to the commissioners: "Our reasons we will fully set forth in your presence, only adding here that we are not wiUing to have any of our township cut off. wliicl: is ah'eady too small, to gratify the caprice or spleen of any."
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 890 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Harper Mausoleum and Harper, George W., Memorial Entrance between 1870 and
1975: 630 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 116 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Harper Mausoleum and Harper, George W., Memorial Entrance: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cedarville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 2 flash flood.
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.
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
2,371 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.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Person George Dodds & Sons Granite Co. Inc. State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. (ca.
1906) in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery, the Brown memorial in Pittsburgh's In a miniature parallel, boasting a population of less than 2,000 at its X See continuation sheet 1915 Architecture Architect/Builder locally investigation occurring in the Middle East during the three decades bracketing traditional funerary imagery reflecting the symbolism of Egyptian afterlife, Significant Dates The granite mausoleum displays influences of Egyptian architecture and has similar details to the overall mausoleum, and double bronze doors with the turn of the century with dissemination of this material peaking circa The Harper Mausoleum and George W.Harper Memorial entrance are significant the mausoleum on a circular mound in direct axis along the tree lined roadway which creates a distinct visual impact and reorientation of the small rural heyday at the turn of the century, Cedarville in rural Greene County had its cemeteries of the large cities whose ascendance paralleled in time the worldly own local success and benefactor in George Harper, who died there in 1908 at Homewood Cemetery, and the Erb mausoleum in Salem Fields in Brooklyn.
North Cemetery located just outside Cedarville. suggests dissemination of this material peaked circa 1900-1905.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88000115, 17 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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