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Photograph of James Baxter House
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Baxter, James, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 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

“United States Department of the Interior Hamilton County, Ohio wife, Jane. No written documentation death in 1821, the 160-acre farm in the northwest of Section where he lived was estate, which resulted in the division of the Baxter farm into three large tracts of land. residences in country-like settings in the suburbs.”

Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Baxter, James, House. Machine-read text.

one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.

Sources: the nomination case file at the National Archives · the full case file on this site · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2930 Fair Acres Dr., Amberley Village, 45213
  • When was it listed? 1994-07-22
  • Category. building
  • Township. Amberley village
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94000774 - 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 7,746 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 7,746 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baxter, James, House between 1819 and 1975: 4,372 Fungi, 1,923 Animalia, 956 Plantae, 441 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 21 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A Schwartz, A. Braun 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Kellerman, W.A.College Hill

All 7,746 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Baxter, James, House: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Map coverage status

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

4,733 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

Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory foundation DOMESTIC other Brick Weatherboard Federal or history. Wood lack individual distinction. Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Colonial Revival contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Stone Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

qualifying the property for National Register listing) Property is associated with events that have made a significant Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components walls Sub: of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic Materials (Enter categories from instructions) Historic Functions categories from instructions) Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or roof _Wood shake OMB No. 1024-0018 Hamilton County, Ohio #1 and 2).

Baxter/Seybold House Page Section CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES side contains a one-story frame addition which is covered with wide wood clapboard siding. United States Department of the Interior the undulating front and rear yards of the house. Two simple hip-roofed dormers have been added to the rear slope of the roof. The original portion of the Baxter House, the three-bay wide,2-i/2 story section On the east side of the original section is a smaller two-story section with a side (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a The Baxter/Seybold House in Amberley Village, just north of Cincinnati's Pleasant Ridge nineteenth century 2-1/2 story brick house with two subordinate wings, a one-story c.

Read the complete 4,733-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 4,733 words, 37 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 94000774, 37 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Tonkens, Gerald B. and Beverley, House0.9 miles1991
St. Aloysius Orphanage2.5 miles2012
Norwood Municipal Building2.5 miles1980
Twentieth Century Theatre2.9 miles1993
Retszch, W. C., House2.9 miles1986
Baldwin, Joseph W., House3.0 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000774 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 314 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.