A Birmingham home on the National Register of Historic Places, The Starr-Truscott home on Route 113 west of the Birmingham School, is an example of Greek Revival or Classical Revival architecture.

The frame home was built in 1840 in the old construction style with posts and beams. A house raising was conducted to erect the partially assembled frame timbers which were pushed up into place with poles and pinned together. Then the floors, siding, and roof were attached to the frame.

The timber and construction wood and other materials are all local varieties. Floors, lath, and siding are of tulip polar.

In the late 1800s Hiram Starr added a rear extension.

The home is a part of the old Starr farm which Perez Starr the millwright settled in 1817.

The farm is listed as a Historical Ohio Homestead by the Ohio Historical Society which lists those properties held by the same family for over a century.

The gas light in the front yard is the only surviving light from the days when

Birmingham Village was lit by gas.

Six generations of the Starr family and their descendants have lived in this home.

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Transcribed by Lowell Dunlap