{"nrhp_refnum":"01001042","name":"Richland County Infirmary","other_names":["Richland County Home"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3220 Mansfield-Olivesburg Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Richland County","state":"OH","lat":40.84027099650007,"lon":-82.47003719932059,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A county poor farm complex on about 200 acres of farmland north of Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, with a 1925 Colonial Revival main building, an 1889 laundry/boiler building, and farm and support buildings. The county bought the land in 1845.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be significant for social history as a long-running county institution that housed paupers, orphans, the mentally ill and disabled people while operating as a working farm. It is also significant for architecture, through the 1925 main building, the 1889 laundry/boiler building and the 1938 Shawver plank-frame barn.","narrative":"Richland County bought a 160-acre quarter section in 1845 and built a poor house to care for paupers, orphans, the mentally ill and disabled residents. The site grew into a working farm complex of about 200 acres in rolling countryside north of Mansfield. The first residence burned in 1878. The surviving core includes a 1889 pressed-brick laundry and boiler building with polychrome arches and Palladian windows, and a 1925 two-story brick Colonial Revival main building on a Y-shaped plan, arranged so sunlight reaches every room. A 1938 basement barn uses Shawver plank-frame construction. Other resources include a silo, corn crib, machinery sheds, a slaughter house, a root cellar, a pest house, a pump house and an unmarked pauper cemetery. Together they illustrate how a county institution housed and fed its residents, who also did much of the farm and household work. Recent additions, such as a garage, field house, picnic shelter and observation deck, are noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"1845 - 1950","architect_builder":"Schnitzer, F. F. / Architect; Redding, Vernon / Architect; Hancock, Robert G. / Builder","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Colonial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The main building is in use, with first-floor front space converted to offices after 1984. The boiler/laundry building was shut down in 1984, though its roof remains sound. The exterior of the main building appears well maintained.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.179624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01001042.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991142","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/richland-county/richland-county-infirmary-01001042/"}