A large granite marker was placed on the church's front lawn by national beekeeper E. F. Phillips and others in 1948.

The idea of “bee space” had been incorporated by Berlepsch following Dzierzon’s discoveries, from the years 1835–1848, into his frame arrangement (Bienen-Zeitung, May 1852).

Langstroth filed his patent in January 1852 and shortly after that he fell ill and he was forced to quit his schoolteaching and he returned to Greenfield.

[3] A Philadelphia cabinetmaker and fellow bee enthusiast, Henry Bourquin, made Langstroth's first hives for him.

If I suspected that anything was wrong with a hive, I could quickly ascertain its true condition and apply the proper remedies.

This made hive inspection and many other management practices possible, and turned the art of beekeeping into a full-scale industry.

[citation needed] In 1853, Langstroth had moved back to Greenfield, Massachusetts from Philadelphia, and published The Hive and the Honey-Bee (Northampton (Massachusetts): Hopkins, Bridgman, 1853), which provided practical advice on bee management and, after more than 40 editions, is still in print today.

The home where he lived from 1858 to 1887 was built in 1856, and is now called Langstroth Cottage; it is designated a National Historic Landmark.

It was donated to the Western College for Women, and is today home to the Miami University Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.

[citation needed] Langstroth's book was taken over for revisions from 1885 by the bee-keepers Charles Dadant and son Camille Pierre who had settled from France in Hamilton, Illinois.

They published in French and Italian and came to the defence of Langstroth when his patent was challenged as being based on older ideas.

Langstroth died at the pulpit of the Wayne Avenue Presbyterian Church in Dayton on October 6, 1895, just as he was beginning a sermon on the love of God.

L.L Langstroth, "Father of American beekeeping," by his affectionate beneficiaries who, in the remembrance of the service rendered by his persistent and painstaking observations and experiments with the honey bee, his improvements in the hive, and the literary ability shown in the first scientific and popular book on the subject of beekeeping in the United States, gratefully erect this monument.Langstroth's papers are located at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia.