{"nrhp_refnum":"06000765","name":"Washington Cemetery Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1741 Washington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington Court House","county":"Fayette County","state":"OH","lat":39.53867156250007,"lon":-83.41661483450602,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Black","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic cemetery district at 1741 Washington Avenue on the east edge of Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, founded in 1856 and expanded in 1870. It covers two historic tracts with 9,386 interments, and includes a chapel, mausoleums, Soldiers Rows and a restored cast iron fountain.","why_significant":"The two tracts show how American cemetery design changed in the mid-19th century, from a rectangular plan with a central flagpole to a curvilinear \"Rural\" Cemetery layout. They also hold the oldest and most historically and architecturally significant funerary structures. Notable features include Soldiers Rows for Civil War veterans, including United States Colored Troops, and an 1892 three-tiered fountain.","narrative":"Washington Cemetery is a burial ground on the east edge of Washington Court House, Ohio, laid out in 1856 on ten acres and enlarged in 1870 with a second tract of about thirteen acres. The first tract follows a rectangular plan with a mounded center and flagpole, while the second uses winding drives and rolling ground typical of the mid-19th-century \"Rural\" Cemetery movement. Together the tracts hold 9,386 burials and the cemetery's most important monuments and buildings, including Judy Chapel. Soldiers Rows set aside space for Union veterans, among them thirty-six members of the United States Colored Troops buried between 1887 and 1939. The centerpiece is a three-tiered cast iron and zinc fountain, added in 1892 and made by J. W. Fiske & Co. of New York. It was moved in 1904 and again after a restoration completed in the early 2000s, then rededicated in 2005. The district was listed for its landscape design and funerary features.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Fountain made by J. W. Fiske & Co. of New York; 1st Tract platted by Captain John H. Bell; 2nd Tract designer not identified (possibly Leo Weltz or Adolph Strauch)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th Century Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; the fountain was restored and moved to its third location, and rededicated in 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.84579-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/06000765.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000765/b250c899e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000765/b250c899e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aesopposea","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judy_Memorial_Chapel,_Washington_Court_House,_Ohio.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:Judy_Memorial_Chapel,_Washington_Court_House,_Ohio.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Cemetery_(Washington_Court_House,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716925"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/fayette-county/washington-cemetery-historic-district-06000765/"}