{"nrhp_refnum":"10000874","name":"Stone House, The","other_names":["THe Stone House on Mason Road"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8217 Mason Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berlin Heights","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.33731439300004,"lon":-82.47580731899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story sandstone Greek Revival house at 8217 Mason Road in rural Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio, built around 1835 for Joseph H. and Anna Tucker, with a one-story rear addition added before 1907.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an early, well-preserved example of an Upright and Wing Greek Revival house in the Firelands area of Ohio's Western Reserve. It retains original windows, frieze and quoins, plus carved stone lintels and sills. It is also the only structure in Berlin Heights built solely of sandstone from the early local quarry, and it reflects the area's rapid settlement in the 1830s.","narrative":"Built around 1835 for Joseph H. and Anna Tucker, this small sandstone house on Mason Road in Berlin Heights, Ohio, is an early example of the Upright and Wing form in the Greek Revival style. Its walls and foundation are quarried sandstone about 15 inches thick, with carved stone lintels and sills, a frieze across the front and alternating quoins at the corners. Many original wooden double-hung windows survive. Like simpler Greek Revival houses of the Firelands region, it was built without an entry porch or sidelights. The house sits on a high ridge within farmland and apple orchards, and a one-story rear addition predates 1907. Its stone likely came from the first quarry in Berlin Heights, less than a mile away, and it is the only local structure built solely of that stone. It reflects the rapid settlement of the area by New England migrants who wanted familiar eastern house styles. The house is vacant and in disrepair but keeps its historic plan.","period_of_significance":"1835 - 1907","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use and in a state of general disrepair, though it retains most of its original features and its historic floor plan.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.50284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/10000874.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000874/abe5903070-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000874/abe5903070-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aedyall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_Northwest_from_the_driveway..jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Aedyall</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:Looking_Northwest_from_the_driveway..jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988102","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137765518"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/stone-house-the-10000874/"}