Blair House (Montgomery, Ohio)

Blair House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front and side of the house
Location	7844 Remington Rd., Montgomery, Ohio
Coordinates	39°13′42″N 84°21′34″W / 39.22833°N 84.35944°WCoordinates: 39°13′42″N 84°21′34″W / 39.22833°N 84.35944°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1875
Architect	James Madison Blair
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP Reference #	82001466[1]
Added to NRHP	November 30, 1982

The Blair House is a historic house in the city of Montgomery, Ohio, United States. One of the best examples of Victorian-period Italianate architecture in the city, it was built for butcher James Blair and his wife Anne in 1875.^[2] A brick structure with a slate roof,^[3] it is a two-story structure built in the plan of the letter "L." Among its distinctive architectural elements are the ornamented single-story bay, the brackets that support the eaves of the roof, and the corbelled chimneys.^[2]

In 1982, the Blair House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture.^[1] Its date makes it close to unique; most of the city's remaining nineteenth-century buildings were erected before 1850, and almost no other Victorian structures have survived to the present day.^[2] It is one of five locations in Montgomery that is listed on the Register, along with the Montgomery Saltbox Houses, the Universalist Church Historic District, the Wilder-Swaim House, and the Yost Tavern.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 567.
3. Blair House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-10-11.