William Holmes McGuffey House

William Holmes McGuffey House (HMFX5)

Location: Oxford, OH 45056 Butler County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 30.427', W 84° 44.15'

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William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was a Miami University faculty member in 1836 when he compiled the first edition of the McGuffey Eclectic Reader in this house. His Reader taught lessons in reading, spelling, and civic education by using memorable stories of honesty, hard work, thrift, personal respect, and moral and ethical standards alongside illustrative selections from literary works. The six-edition series increased in difficulty and was developed with the help of his brother Alexander Hamilton McGuffey. After the Civil War the Readers were the basic schoolbooks in thirty-seven states and by 1920 sold an estimated 122 million copies, reshaping American public school curriculum and becoming one of the nation's most influential publications.
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McGuffey lived at this site in a small frame house in 1828, and in 1833 built this brick home in the Federal vernacular style common to the area. The west wing was added about 1860 in the first of a series of renovations typical of nineteenth-century domestic architecture in the Miami Valley. From the 1850s to 1958 several Oxford families owned the property. At the Miami University Sesquicentennial in 1958, the University purchased the house from the Wallace P. Roudebush family, and it was endowed by Emma Gould Blocker to serve as a museum of University history in honor of McGuffey's legacy. The museum opened to the public in 1960 and the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. It exhibits such unique artifacts as the octagonal table upon which the McGuffey Eclectic Reader was designed and the lectern McGuffey used as professor of Ancient Languages and Literature and University Librarian.
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HM NumberHMFX5
Series This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
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Marker Number14-9
Year Placed2002
Placed ByOhio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Miami University, and The Ohio Historical Society
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Date Added Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 at 2:53pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 694660 N 4375501
Decimal Degrees39.50711667, -84.73583333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 30.427', W 84° 44.15'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 30' 25.62" N, 84° 44' 9.00" W
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Area Code(s)513
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 417-435 E Spring St, Oxford OH 45056, US
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