{"nrhp_refnum":"01001481","name":"Ault-Weygandt Farm","other_names":["Weygandt Farm","Way-315-11:WAY-316-11"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"15090 Back Massillon Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Orrville","county":"Wayne County","state":"OH","lat":40.87799216150003,"lon":-81.70941874739239,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 91.3-acre farm district three miles northeast of Orrville in rural Wayne County, Ohio, with a Sweitzer barn (ca. 1827), a mail-order concrete block farmhouse (ordered 1914, completed 1917), a corn crib, and an animal shelter/chicken coop.","why_significant":"The farm is significant for architecture and agriculture. The Sweitzer barn is a well-preserved example of scribe rule timber framing, with intact granaries and threshing floor. The concrete block house, made by the Orrville Cast Stone Company from a Chicago House Wrecking Co. package, shows early 20th-century modernization of Ohio farm life. The same family has farmed the land for five generations.","narrative":"Three miles northeast of Orrville, this 91.3-acre Wayne County farm has been worked by the Weygandt family for five generations. Its centerpiece is a Sweitzer barn built about 1827 by Frederick Ault and enlarged around 1870. The barn keeps a hand-hewn timber frame joined by the scribe rule method, marked with Roman numeral \"marriage marks.\" It also retains an oak threshing floor, windlasses for raising wagons, and extensive grain bins. The farmhouse replaced an earlier brick house damaged by a windstorm in 1913. Interior fittings came from a mail-order package from the Chicago House Wrecking Company, and the walls are cast concrete block made by the Orrville Cast Stone Company, finished in 1917. The house blends late Queen Anne and Colonial Revival details. A corn crib and an animal shelter/chicken coop complete the courtyard-plan farmstead. The property was recognized for its architecture and its record of northeastern Ohio farming from about 1827 to 1951.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1827-1951","architect_builder":"Orrville Cast Stone Company, Orrville, OH; Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, IL","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; 20th Century Revival/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a working farm and family residence; most tillable acreage is leased to a relative on an adjacent farm. A 1979 steel garage is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.789442-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01001481.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001481/ad3c195ebf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001481/ad3c195ebf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AULT-WEYGANDT_FARM.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AULT-WEYGANDT_FARM.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991968","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ault%E2%80%93Weygandt_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4821826"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wayne-county/ault-weygandt-farm-01001481/"}