{"nrhp_refnum":"01000390","name":"Mount Victory Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main and Taylor Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Victory","county":"Hardin County","state":"OH","lat":40.53395882050006,"lon":-83.52042209430923,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Commerce","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial-center historic district in Mount Victory, Hardin County, Ohio, centered on Main and Taylor Streets and made up of 24 buildings, mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district preserves the commercial, industrial, institutional and residential core of a small farming and railroad town. Its buildings show how the railroad, the mill and elevator, and later the automobile shaped the town's growth. The rebuilding of Main Street after an 1903 fire gave it a more urban row of brick storefronts.","narrative":"Mount Victory's historic district covers the commercial heart of a small farming and railroad town in Hardin County, Ohio. Its 24 buildings line Main and Taylor Streets, where a double-track rail line crosses the south end of the business district. Most are brick commercial blocks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and many east-side buildings went up after a fire in August 1903. The district also includes the 1903 Methodist church in Romanesque Revival style, the Mount Victory Milling Company, a 1918 grain elevator, and early concrete block garages tied to the automobile. An c. 1915 town hall once held council chambers, a jail cell, fire equipment and an upstairs gymnasium. At the east end stands Park Place, an Italianate house of about 1872. Together these buildings show how rail shipping and a location on a road between two county seats supported the town as its population grew from 350 in 1879 to 1,050 by 1910.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate, Romanesque Revival; No style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 24 buildings, 20 are contributing and 4 are non-contributing (the form's own count tables list 19 and 5). Several buildings still serve as stores, a restaurant, a church and a town hall. The Main Street storefronts, the mill and the elevator remain in place.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.739995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01000390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000390/b5da0943ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000390/b5da0943ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Orbitd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mv-mainstreet7.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Orbitd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mv-mainstreet7.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989292","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Victory_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25021637"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hardin-county/mount-victory-historic-district-01000390/"}