Marker #15-9; Langstroh Cottage/Lorenzo Langstroh
N 39° 30.515 W 084° 43.982
16S E 694897 N 4375670
Location: East side of Patterson Ave. between Western Drive and Route 73.
This national historic landmark was built in 1856 by Rev. Edward Root. Lorenzo L. Langstroth, the famous inventor of the moveable bee frame that revolutionized beekeeping, lived in the cottage until his 1895 death.
Waymark Code: WM2TM0
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2007
Views: 36
Side A : "Langstroth Cottage"
Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, renowned as "The Father of American Beekeeping," lived in this simple two-story, eight-room house with his wife, Anne, and their three children from 1858 to 1887. Unchanged externally, the Greek Revival cottage features brick pilasters and pediments and a fan-shaped front window. In his garden workshop, Langstroth made experimental beehives, established an apiary, and on the ten acres that surrounded his home, grew buckwheat, clover, an apple orchard, and a "honey garden" of flowers. He imported Italian queen bees in efforts to improve native bees and shipped his queens to keepers across the United States and around the world. The Langstroth Cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.
Side B : "Lorenzo Langstroth"
Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was born in Philadelphia on December 25, 1810. Although educated at Yale to be a clergyman and teacher, he achieved international fame as an inventor and author. Fascinated from childhood by the intricate and orderly kingdom of honeybees, he discovered "bee space," an open space of not more than three-eighths of an inch which bees would not fill to bond their combs to hives. From this came the world's first moveable frame beehive, patented in 1852, which revolutionized beekeeping and the honey industry. His book, Langstroth on the Hive and Honeybee (1853) provided practical advice of bee management and is still in use. Langstroth died on October 6, 1895 in Dayton, Ohio. Appropriately, his tombstone in Woodlawn Cemetery reads "The Father of American Beekeeping."
Latitude / Longitude
39.505732 ° / -84.73065 ° - Map Marker
Address
303 Patterson Avenue
Oxford, OH 45056
Butler County
Location Directions
303 Patterson Avenue
Keywords
Farming, Houses
Categories
Agriculture, Architecture
Sponsor(s)
Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Miami University, and The Ohio Historical Society
Marker Number: #15-9
County: Butler
Significance of Location: Person
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
Bicentenial Mark: Not Listed
Website address: Not listed
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