Langstroth Cottage is a historic building on the Western College campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Langstroth Cottage was built in 1858 by Reverend Edward Root. It was purchased for Lorenzo Langstroth by a brother-in-law in 1859, where he then raised his family. The property once included the house and eight acres of land where Dr. Langstroth did his apiculture research and planted a "honey garden" and linden trees for bee forages. Langstroth (1810-1895), minister, scholar, and student of the honeybee, and lived in Oxford from 1858-1887. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale, had been ordained a Congregational minister, and had obtained a patent (1852) on beehive inventions based on his revolutionary discoveries concerning colony behavior and management. During his Oxford years in the house, later named for him, Langstroth planted apple and American Linden trees to help acquire his bees. Langstroth also planted a formal garden, almost an acre long to help bring in bees. In the orchards and gardens nearby, he continued studying innovative bee breeding and refinements of management.
In the last years of his life, he lived with his daughter and her family in Dayton, Ohio. While attending church, Langstroth started preaching and as he said "I wish to talk to you this morning about the love of God," he collapsed and died; Langstroth is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio with his gravestone marking "The Father of American Beekeeping".Architectural Style-Greek Revival. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1976. GPS: 39.50669°N, -84.73022°W.
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