This house was originally located on Ankeney Road on the property owned by Mary and Phil Ankeney. It was donated to the Beavercreek Historical Society by them and rebuilt at Wartinger Park in 1993. Samuel Ankeney, age 19, bought the Ankeney House in 1830 along with 210 acres after his father died in 1830, having just arrived from western Maryland. Samuel built a kitchen for his mother and added it onto the house. He was the oldest of ten children.

The cabin was about four years old when Samuel Ankeney bought it from John Davis. The Ankeney House fireplace was rebuilt in 1997 with bricks from the old Beavercreek High School which had burned in 1996.

• Ankeney House Kitchen 1 Ankeney House Kitchen 1
• Ankeney House Kitchen 2 Ankeney House Kitchen 2
• Ankeney House Living Room 1 Ankeney House Living Room 1
• Ankeney House Living Room 2 Ankeney House Living Room 2
• Ankeney House Kitchen 3 Ankeney House Kitchen 3
• Ankeney House Kitchen 4 Ankeney House Kitchen 4
• Ankeney House Plumbing Ankeney House Plumbing
• The Early Oven/Stove The Early Oven/Stove
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Proceed to the stop sign at Dayton-Xenia Road.

Ahead of you are a couple of homes in a wooded grove at 1835 Dayton-Xenia Road, the Ankeney-Westbeld House built in the Vernacular style by Samuel Ankeney in 1853 on 12 acres of the 212 acre David Ankeney Farm.  An earlier log cabin was razed to make way for the large three-layer thick brick home.  The limestone for the foundation is believed to have come from Mr. Herring’s quarry on Beaver Valley Road.

The single most expensive item in construction was a cherry newel post at a cost of $40.  Son Horace Ankeney, a State Legislator and Congressman, and grandson Herman Ankeney, a State House Representative, also resided in the home.

Thanks to the Westbeld family for allowing the photographs!

• The Famous Cherry Newel Post The Famous Cherry Newel Post
• Horace Ankeney Horace Ankeney
• Ankeney-Westbeld House Ankeney-Westbeld House
• Ankeney-Westbeld House 2 Ankeney-Westbeld House 2
• Ankeney-Westbeld House Barn Ankeney-Westbeld House Barn
• Ankeney-Westbeld House Barn 2 Ankeney-Westbeld House Barn 2
• Samuel Ankeney Samuel Ankeney
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As you continue south, pass through the stop sign at Swigart Road.  You’re now on land that in the early 1800’s was the 250 acre farm of Samuel Puterbaugh, you’ll find his beautiful home at 407 South Fairfield Road.  

Please turn left onto Stutsman Road and left again onto South Alpha Bellbrook Road.