{"nrhp_refnum":"00001063","name":"Decker, Henry, Farmstead","other_names":["Decker--Treon Farmstead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2595 W. Lower Springboro Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springboro","county":"Warren County","state":"OH","lat":39.54654580700003,"lon":-84.24491445199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead of about ten acres in Clearcreek Township near Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, centered on a ca. 1878 two-story Stick and Eastlake style farmhouse with a summer kitchen, a timber-frame barn and other farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant under Criterion C for architecture. The house is a high-style example of Stick and Eastlake design in a rural area otherwise dominated by plain Quaker-era masonry houses. The surviving barn and outbuildings also show roughly 150 years of changing farming practices.","narrative":"Located about a mile west of Springboro in Clearcreek Township, this farmstead preserves about ten acres of an original forty-acre farm beside Clear Creek. The centerpiece is a two-story, T-shaped farmhouse built around 1878 on a limestone foundation. It carries Stick and Eastlake detailing: vertical banding, patterned wall surfaces, steep gables with scroll pendants, and three verandas with turned posts and spindled friezes. A matching summer kitchen is connected by a breezeway. Nearby stand a three-bay threshing barn dating to about 1860, with later additions, plus poultry buildings, wells and a cistern. The nomination notes that the house may have been built from a published pattern-book design, though no matching plan was found. Local surveys turned up no other house in the township with comparable Stick and Eastlake ornament. The property was listed for its architecture, and its surviving farm buildings document changing agricultural practice from the mid-1800s into the twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1846-ca. 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne-Eastlake-Stick","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is still used as a single dwelling and the barn and fields remain in agricultural use. The east and west verandas were reconstructed in the early 1990s, and a deteriorated tobacco shed was recently demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.754369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/00001063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001063/5505cb5614-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001063/5505cb5614-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Decker_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Decker_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991841","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138762850"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/warren-county/decker-henry-farmstead-00001063/"}