{"nrhp_refnum":"02000218","name":"Weston, John Henry, House","other_names":["Weston, J.H., House","Weston Flats","Ham-6529-10"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1321 Michigan Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.13609786300003,"lon":-84.44237752599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story stone and brick building at 1321 Michigan Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, built c. 1873 as an Italianate villa and converted to six apartments in 1917, with a rear garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion A in community development as one of few surviving 19th-century suburban estate mansions in Hyde Park. Its 1917 conversion to a fashionable apartment house, carried out with care to harmonize new and old features, links the neighborhood's suburban past to its later urban character. Long ownership by one family and high property values kept its original apartment layouts and finishes largely intact.","narrative":"Built around 1873 on a rise in Cincinnati's Hyde Park neighborhood, this three-story building began as an Italianate villa with Tudor and Gothic Revival details, faced in rock-faced limestone with sandstone trim. In 1917 it was converted into six apartments. The original roof and tower caps were replaced with a third story of light brown brick, and new porches and a central entrance were added in Neoclassical, Tudor and Craftsman-influenced styles that echo the older design. Inside, the apartments keep Italianate door and window frames, walnut doors, tile-surrounded mantels, pocket doors and oak floors. A six-car garage stands at the rear. The property matters as one of the few surviving hilltop estate houses in a neighborhood built mostly in the early twentieth century. Its reuse as apartments shows how Hyde Park changed from an exclusive suburb to part of the city. The period of significance runs from 1873 to about 1920.","period_of_significance":"1873-ca. 1920","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th century: Gothic Revival; Late Victorian: Italianate; Late 19th and early 20th century revivals: Classical Revival and Tudor Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Described as in very good condition with little alteration over the past 84 years; in use as a multiple dwelling with six apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.812276-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/02000218.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000218/3c79fd3695-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000218/3c79fd3695-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Weston_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Weston_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989199","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Weston_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6238984"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/weston-john-henry-house-02000218/"}