{"nrhp_refnum":"01001524","name":"Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building","other_names":["Hercules Trouser Company Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"135 North West St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hillsboro","county":"Highland County","state":"OH","lat":39.20368170200004,"lon":-83.61389287599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story concrete-frame, brick industrial building at 135 North West Street, just west of downtown Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, completed in 1917 for poultry and produce dealer James E. Roads.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it qualifies under Criterion C as an early 20th century all-masonry industrial building, a property type that has nearly vanished from Hillsboro. It is the best-preserved of the city's surviving historic industrial buildings and keeps features such as mushroom columns, steel windows, a monitor roof and a layout that reflects product flow.","narrative":"Built in 1917 for James E. Roads, this three-story industrial building at 135 North West Street in Hillsboro, Ohio, housed the Highland Egg and Poultry Company, locally described as the largest produce storage building in southern Ohio. It has a concrete frame, common-bond brick walls, a monitor roof and a datestone reading 1916. Concrete mushroom columns support the interior floors. The sloping site hides part of the south side, where freight doors once opened onto a rail spur. After Roads's firm went bankrupt in 1932, the Hercules Trouser Company occupied the building, made clothing for the military during World War II, and stayed until 1985, giving it the nickname The Pants Factory. It was later used as commercial space and is now unused. The building was listed because it represents the early 20th century masonry industrial building, a type that has nearly disappeared from Hillsboro, and because it is the best preserved and least altered of the city's remaining industrial structures.","period_of_significance":"1917","architect_builder":"Information not found; the building is named for its builder and original owner, James E. Roads","architectural_style":"Other/Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently unused; it served as commercial space after 1985.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.964687-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01001524.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001524/d763a71b49-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001524/d763a71b49-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aesopposea","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HEPCB.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Aesopposea</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:HEPCB.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989339","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138359090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/highland-county/highland-egg-and-poultry-company-building-01001524/"}