{"nrhp_refnum":"04001201","name":"West Market Street Boulevard Historic District","other_names":["West Market Street Boulevard Park Addition, Westwood"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1410-1529 W. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Allen County","state":"OH","lat":40.740092964500064,"lon":-84.13498881835883,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 25 houses and associated outbuildings along West Market Street (1410-1529) in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, laid out around a landscaped central boulevard. Houses were built 1921-1955 in Plat 1 of the West Market Street Boulevard Park Addition, dedicated in March 1920 by Lawrence C. Townsend and others.","why_significant":"The district is a planned boulevard-style residential development promoted by Lawrence C. Townsend as an exclusive section of Lima. It served as home to many prominent residents, including doctors, lawyers, a congressman, industrialists and business leaders. Its houses also form a timeline of popular early to mid-20th-century styles, with Tudor Revival the most common.","narrative":"West Market Street Boulevard Historic District is a residential neighborhood on the west side of Lima, Ohio, running from Woodlawn Avenue to Glenwood Avenue. It forms the first plat of a four-plat development dedicated in 1920 by Lawrence C. Townsend and others, and its houses face a landscaped boulevard in the center of the street. Twenty-five homes, along with garages, a pergola and a garden shed, were built between 1921 and 1955 on lots of roughly equal size. Tudor Revival is the most common style, alongside Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival and a few Ranch houses. Many are brick, with details such as half-timbering, false-thatched roofs, solariums and porte-cocheres. The district matters both as a planned residential section marketed as exclusive and as the home of leading Lima figures, including physicians, lawyers, a congressman, oil and roofing-tile businessmen and financiers. Its largely intact houses show how architectural tastes changed over about three decades.","period_of_significance":"1920-1955","architect_builder":"Builders named include Killian & Son Builders, F.H. Brietz, E.E. Uptigraph, Raymond Campnell Construction Company and R.D. Miller","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival, English Tudor, Georgian Revival, French Eclectic, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single-family dwelling; the district has 35 contributing and 3 noncontributing resources (three later garages).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.696226-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/04001201.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986598","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/allen-county/west-market-street-boulevard-historic-district-04001201/"}