{"nrhp_refnum":"12000463","name":"Brown-Gorman Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"10052 Reading Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evendale","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.24155138650008,"lon":-84.38926529476359,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic farm district at 10052 Reading Road in Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, centred on a c. 1835 stone farmhouse and a Pennsylvania bank barn, with an alfalfa barn (1911) and other agricultural outbuildings, set on part of the original 99-acre farm.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as a well-preserved example of a long-lived family farm in the Mill Creek valley, with a largely intact farmstead ensemble from c. 1835 onward. The barn has a rare swing beam, and the buildings show how the Brown and Gorman families adapted to changes in farming, including early alfalfa growing and mechanization. The form marks local significance.","narrative":"Eleven miles north of Cincinnati, in the Mill Creek valley community of Evendale, the Brown-Gorman Farm preserves a working farmstead that began around 1835. Its core is a two-story vernacular limestone house, later stuccoed, with a stone kitchen ell added about 1858. A Pennsylvania bank barn from 1835 has a cantilevered forebay and a rare swing beam in its threshing bay, and a south addition was made around 1900-1920. An alfalfa barn of 1911 reflects the Gorman family's early move into alfalfa hay, which they sold to local dairy farmers. Other buildings include a rabbit house, tractor shed, chicken house, corn cribs, springhouses and a fish pond, much of the stonework done by mason Ben Maxfield. Together the resources show how a single family farm modernized over more than a century. The original 99-acre farm is now part of a larger property owned by the Village of Evendale and managed as the Gorman Heritage Farm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ben Maxfield (stonemason, built the upper springhouse, woodshed and barn foundation addition)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Village of Evendale and managed as the Gorman Heritage Farm; the historic farmstead survives with some later alterations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.925795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/12000463.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000463/7428f41f10-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000463/7428f41f10-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown-Gorman_Farm_barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown-Gorman_Farm_barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988829","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorman_Heritage_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54958224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/brown-gorman-farm-12000463/"}