{"nrhp_refnum":"08000112","name":"Pleasant Hill","other_names":["Cle-326-1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"909 OH 131","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milford","county":"Clermont County","state":"OH","lat":39.17651809900008,"lon":-84.25650444199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-02-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pleasant Hill is a two-story, three-bay, frame, L-plan Italianate country house built circa 1867 at 909 State Route 131 in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio, with an associated circa 1867 timber-frame bank barn.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the property to Enoch Gest Megrue (1820-1881), described as the first professional fire chief in the United States, who bought the land in 1867 and used it as a summer country home. The large barn housed his horses and Cincinnati Fire Department horses resting from city streets. The house also keeps much of its original interior and exterior fabric and is called one of the last late nineteenth-century vestiges in a once-rural township.","narrative":"Pleasant Hill is a country property at 909 State Route 131 in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio, now within the city but historically part of Miami Township. The main house, built around 1867, is a two-story, three-bay, L-plan frame dwelling in a rural Italianate style. It has a truncated hip roof, weatherboard siding, bracketed porches, hood-molded windows and a central-passage plan. Inside, original plank floors, ceiling medallion, cornices, baseboards, four-panel doors and metal mantels survive. A large timber-frame bank barn of the same date has a coursed rubble foundation, a hipped roof and two cupola ventilators. The land was bought in 1867 by Enoch Gest Megrue, described as the first professional fire chief in the United States. His family summered here, and the barn sheltered his horses and those of the Cincinnati Fire Department. An altered early tenant house, now a garage, and a 1920s breezeway are counted as noncontributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Dwelling in use as a single-dwelling residence with a secondary structure (garage with apartment); barn retained and being maintained, with louvered vents being replaced in kind.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.432334-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/08000112.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000112/a2e4db3f93-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000112/a2e4db3f93-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_Hill_in_Milford.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_Hill_in_Milford.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987130","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137608100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clermont-county/pleasant-hill-08000112/"}