Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1990. 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 Glenford Bank is a historic bank in the small village of Glenford, Ohio, United States. Built in the early twentieth century, the building has served as a core component of village life for much of its history, and it has been named a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.”
Wikipedia article Glenford Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 11 National Register listings in Perry County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000389- 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.
The ground it stands on
3,686 words
The chapter on Hopewell Township in 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names Glenford. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Glenford, a small village 'that has grown up since the building of the Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad, is the principal town in Hopewell township. M. Estella, Mechling, an intelligent school girl, eleven years of age.describes Glenford as follows:
Glenford has a population of seventy to eighty, it has two dry goods stores, one school examiner, one grocery, one dress making and 'ne store, one carpenter shop, one shoe and boot shop, one blacksmith shop, one grist mill, run by water or steam; one warehouse for wheat, corn, etc. ; one tool house, one watering tank, one express office, one post office, one section house, two boarding houses, one sewing machine agent, one agent selling reapers, mowers, wagons and buggies, one physician, one school teacher and two engineers. The town is noted for its beautiful surroundings, its rolling hills, and the hill of the Old Fort, less than a mile south of Glenford. This hill and Fort can be seen from town and is so much of a curiosity [so ancient its date is not known - Compiler], a circle of stone thrown up three or four feet high, inclosing more than twenty-seven acres of land, a big pile of stone within the circle and an entrance to all, between two high rocks. It used to be a pleasant place for the scholars at the school near by. There is a large grove near town, and this is one of the most beautiful places for festivals, Sunday school,or other celebrations, political meetings and pleasure seeking parties. The passenger train passes through Glenford four times every day, Sunday excepted, two local trains and about four coal trains daily. ;
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glenford Bank between
2007 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 125 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Glenford Bank between 1892 and
1973: 109 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Auten, Breakey, Buker, W.E. 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Glenford Bank: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Glenford, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 hail, 3 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.
Heavy rainfall on the morning of the 13th lead to flash flooding across northern Perry County. As runoff from this rain worked its way through the water system, Jonathan Creek remained out of its banks into the afternoon of the 14th. Some residents were evacuated due to the high water. About a dozen homes and outbuildings were surrounded by water on South Main Street. High water marks indicated 6 to 9 inches of water made it into the first floors of some homes. A 100-barrel oil storage facility was also damaged by the water. Some oil spilled into the flood waters.
Along State Route 668 from State Route 204 to Township Road 65, all lanes were closed due to flooding. All lanes of State Route 204 were also closed due to high water near the intersection of Gower Road. State Route 93 also observed water from State Route 13 to Township Road 402, resulting in road closures.
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.
From the nomination file
3,151 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
cont.: craftsmanship and materials is significant, in particular the oak woodwork in the interior undertaking a reconnaissance survey in the township. There are no written records of construction of the bank.A long-time local resident often did work in conjunction with the Hawkins, although there is no documentation to National Park Service the integrity of the features,both inside and out, considering the bank only operated from National Register of Historic Places No other buildings of a similar style were identified in the community, township or No documentation has been found to confirm their involvement in the Glenford Bank, however.
The Glenford its classically inspired detailing on plain brick walls with round Bank.Although the Emergency Banking Act of March 9,1933 permitted banks to reopen on The "bank holiday," beginning March 6,1933,was the beginning of the end for the Glenford "WELCOME TO OUR NEW BANKING GLENFORD Page 2 October 22, 1938, at which time the case was closed. As a part of the liquidation process, which appears to be influenced by the Arts & Craft Movement. In addition, the quality of arched openings, is a landmark structure known to residents throughout the county.
Its sensitively restoring significant architectural features while preparing the building creditors were paid back 100% of their aacounts, however, at the expense of the stock- Significant.architectural featutes of the Gbenford Bank include its quasi-octagonal form, holders, some of whom paid double.Glenford residents took their banking business to 19l9-l933 and has had adaptive uses ever since.The current rehabilitation of the building George A.Ball, Jr.,an architect practicing in Newark in the early-mid twentieth Section number 8 for a new use as a single family residence.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 90000389, 34 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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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