{"nrhp_refnum":"07001089","name":"Hartong, Levi J., House and Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"6521 Mt. Pleasant Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Green","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":40.91305534850005,"lon":-81.4679682860037,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 197-acre farm district at 6521 Mt. Pleasant Road in the City of Green, Summit County, Ohio, centered on a c. 1883 Eastlake-style farmhouse and an 1883 Sweitzer barn built by Levi J. Hartong.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a rare surviving nineteenth-century farmstead in a community now largely taken over by suburban and commercial development (Criterion A, agriculture). It also cites the farmhouse's Eastlake detailing and the timber-frame barn under architecture (Criterion C).","narrative":"Set on 197 acres in a rural corner of the City of Green, this former farm centers on a 2½-story wood frame farmhouse built about 1883 by Levi J. Hartong. The house has a cruciform plan, sandstone foundation, shiplap siding, and Eastlake porches with turned posts, spindle balustrades and sawn bargeboard. Nearby are a timber-frame Sweitzer barn with a datestone reading LEVI HARTONG and 1883, a chicken house, a well house, a shed, four ponds, and fallow fields. A small earlier family cemetery unrelated to the Hartongs lies on the tract. Hartong, born in 1844 into a Pennsylvania Dutch family, farmed the land into the twentieth century. The property is considered important as one of the last surviving farmsteads in an area once dominated by agriculture and now crowded by suburban growth between Akron and Canton. The city bought it in 2005 for a park and nature preserve, and the barn now serves the county's mounted sheriff patrol.","period_of_significance":"1883-1927","architect_builder":"Levi J. Hartong (builder of the farmhouse and Sweitzer barn)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Stick/Eastlake","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is listed with a current function of vacant/not in use. The barn houses horses of the Summit County Sheriff's mounted division, and the surrounding land is used as park and nature preserve space by the City of Green.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.537125-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/07001089.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991551","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/hartong-levi-j-house-and-farm-07001089/"}