Williams House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 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 15 National Register listings in Clermont County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 112 Gay St., Williamsburg, 45176
When was it listed? 2002-06-26
Category. building
Township. Williamsburg township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02000704 - 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

207 words

This property stands in Williamsburg Township. Atlas of Clermont County, Ohio : from Actual Surveys, published 1891 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Williamsburg Township - 207 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 853 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 853 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williams House between 1866 and 1975: 634 Animalia, 171 Fungi, 37 Plantae, 11 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915	1929	A. Braun	[Not Stated]
Galium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray	1866	Mohr, C.	Bantam
Asarum canadense L.	1877	Mohr, Marie	Clermont County, Ohio
Vireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Freeman, L.	Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
Geastrum lageniforme Vittad.	1882	Carley S. T.
Chordata	1886	Smithsonian Institution
Liobunum Agassiz, 1846	1890	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)	1900	not recorded
Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1904	Lindahl, J. (Joshua)	Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
Aecidium Pers.	1910	C. C. M.	Bantam
Bryum caespiticium Hedw.	1910	Braun, E. Lucy	Homer's Run
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1910	Braun, E. Lucy	Homer's Run

All 853 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsburg, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$100,000	The beginning of an enhanced area of wind damage occurred when a large tree fell on to a parked vehicle on Macedonia Road north of Bethel. The neighborhood of Concord Meadow Lane had numerous trees uprooted and damage to siding and roofing of a few houses. Additional similar damage was observed on Concord Hennings Mill Road to the east of Concord Meadow Lane. Further to the northeast, several trees were uprooted along State Route 133.\|\|Widespread tree damage was noted on the south end of Santa Barbara Drive with numerous large hardwood trees uprooted and snapped, damaging some outbuildings. Similar damage was noted just to the northeast at the Williamsburg Junior Athletic Association Fields. Roofing material was blown off, outbuildings tipped over, and metal dugout awnings were destroyed. Soccer goals were pushed downfield and over a fence. A house across the street sustained damage to its siding. Wind speeds in the Santa Barbara Drive and athletic field areas were estimated to be around 90 miles per hour.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$50,000	Trees were downed.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Williamsburg	$20,000	Flash Flooding resulted in water entering a home along Old State Route 32 in Batavia.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$15,000	Power poles were downed in Williamsburg Township due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$15,000	Trees were uprooted and there was structural damage to a roof due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$5,000	Numerous trees were knocked down throughout the county, especially in the Williamsburg area.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$3,000	Trees were knocked down along Blue Sky Park Road.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$3,000	Trees were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$3,000	Trees were downed.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$2,000	A few trees knocked down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$2,000	Two trees fell on power lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$2,000	Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsburg	$1,000	A tree was downed near Williamsburg High School.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Williamsburg	$1,000	Six to twelve inches of water was flowing across Hageman Crossing Road due to heavy rainfall.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Williamsburg	-	An estimated one to two feet of water was covering Zachary Drive in Williamsburg.
July 2013	Flood	Williamsburg	-	Zachary Drive in Williamsburg was closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Williamsburg	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused high water on roads.
May 2022	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
February 2017	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Williamsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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

10,668 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

Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property UA Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of * B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) 1862, 1863, 1926 -A ownedby a religious institution or used for L B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 10,668 words, 53 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 02000704, 53 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Harmony Hill Dairy House	0.6 miles	2001
McKever, Lewis, Farmhouse	1.9 miles	1982
Bethel Methodist Church	5.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000704 in Record Group 79.
Clermont County	All 15 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.
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.