Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1992. 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
one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.
National Register reference number.92000973- 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 686 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 686 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Krug House between 1835 and
1974: 668 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, John 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
10 workings within 5 miles of Krug House: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants.
6 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
Union, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
4,293 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
Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) _N/A Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates 1879 - 1880 Significant Person See continuation sheet x The Krug House is worthy of inclusion on the National Register under Criterion C and method of construction. The original owners of the Krug House emigrated to Randolph Township during the present in their unaltered state and that are associated with early 1800s Pennsylvania Dutch construction (Ref.
3) engineering principles to the design of an air circulation and ventilation system that utilizes exterior vents, wooden Over 75% of the residents of Montgomery County in 1850 were emigrants from Pennsylvania while more than 82% of the residents of Randolph Township had been born in Pennsylvania (Ref. 2). This "resettlement" of the area took moved further west and northward. The large influx of members of the Reformed Mennonite, German Baptist, River and the church was erected soon therafter. It is located on Main St. in Englewood and is still in use.
Architecture Builders Engineering Cultural Affiliation The Krug House Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria - 1850s and were part of the broad pattern of westward migration of Pennsylvania religious settlers that took place include the beehive bakeoven, poplar wainscoting, six-over-six window sash with wavy glass, original iron window wood stoves (no fireplaces), transom windows above all first floor doors to facilitate air flow and windows in top panels Brethren and United Brethren in Christ churches, led to an increased period of growth for Randolph Township and the The story of The Krug House in particular begins with the emigration of Samuel M. Herr and his family from (Ret.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92000973, 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.
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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