Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Belleview Heights, also known as the Rigas House, is located at 61500 Candlewick Lane in Bellaire, Ohio. The house and gardens were placed on the National Register on 1994-04-08.”
Wikipedia article Belleview Heights, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Belmont County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.94000259- 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The chapter covers population and township officials, organization of the township and the first settlers, the mining industry, rock hill presbyterian church, high ridge united presbyterian church, the towns: steel, west wheeling and shadyside.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Belleview Heights
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
14
Arson/incendiarism
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Smoking
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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 1,302 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Belleview Heights between 1800 and 1975: 1,079 Plantae, 129 Fungi, 92 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Belleview Heights: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
Inationally Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Period of Significance Keyser, C.D., Builder, Bellaire, Ohio Viets, Leonard C.. Landscaper, Woodsdale,w.V. XX See continuation sheet statewide ARCHITECTURE 1928-1929 Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Architect/Builder locally LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Significant Dates Significant Person Cultural Affiliation Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.
Franzheim, Edward Bates, Architect, Wheeling: NP8 Form 10-0004 United States Department of the interlor Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Belleview Heights, Belmont Co., OH Bates Franzheim, a noted architect from Wheeling, West Virginia. Other nearby Sistersville, West Virginia, but at present Belleview Heights is Bellaire, located on the Ohio side of the Ohio River five miles south glass factories, sash and door manufacturers, barrel works, iron was instrumental in the development of the Belleview Heights Addition Keyser hired Edward Bates Franzheim, Architect, of Wheeling to design his house.
As early as 1902 in History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia, editor Gibson Lamb Cranmer refers to Franzheim as ...probably the most successful and best known architect in the state of gardens. As Bellaire grew, the need for buildings to house its banks, where he built his home, Belleview Heights3 of Wheeling, West Virginia, was known as a manufacturing city in the several other buildings in the commercial district of the city.In 1928 he wrought iron stair rail.Belleview Heights is also significant under Belleview Heights is significant under Criterion C in the area of constructed in 1928, including gilded pilasters, sculpture niches, and Belleview Heights for Charles D. Keyser, a builder from Bellaire.Great examples of Mr.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 94000259, 30 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.
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