{"nrhp_refnum":"16000041","name":"Greenwood Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"264 Richmond Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond Heights","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.57085665550005,"lon":-81.49689659686952,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2016-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-nineteenth century farm complex in Delaware Township, just outside the city of Delaware, Ohio, with six buildings (four significant): a small house, main brick farmhouse, bank barn and apple storage building. The barn is dated 1854 and the main house was built between about 1852 and 1856.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-preserved, nearly intact nineteenth-century farm complex that has stayed in the Vergon family since 1833. It is also the home of Frederick Vergon, a nationally recognized orchardist credited with the grass mulch system, who developed the nearby Greenwood Lake amusement park. The bank barn and the apple storage building, considered innovative for its time, add architectural and agricultural interest.","narrative":"Greenwood Farm is a cluster of farm buildings about a quarter mile from the road near Delaware, Ohio. John and Elizabeth Vergon came from southern France in 1834, and the family kept the land for well over a century. The oldest building is a small brick house, probably from the 1840s. The main brick farmhouse followed in the early 1850s, and a braced-frame bank barn on a limestone foundation carries a cornerstone reading 1854. Late in the century an apple storage building was added, with insulated brick walls and an iced frame section that kept apples fresh into early summer. Frederick Vergon ran the farm after his father, established one of Ohio's first commercial orchards in 1888, and is credited with developing the grass mulch system of orcharding. He also built Greenwood Lake, a nearby amusement park created in 1873. The farm was listed as a largely intact nineteenth-century agricultural complex and as the home of a prominent county family.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1840's, 1852-56)","architect_builder":"J.J. Vergon & Sons","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in fair to good condition with the main buildings altered; the owner was reported to be restoring the complex at the time of nomination. The form's status boxes mark it both occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.308715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001825.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/16000041/37902f213d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/16000041/37902f213d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RHOhio","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_main_house_at_Greenwood_Farm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">RHOhio</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:The_main_house_at_Greenwood_Farm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Farm_(Richmond_Heights,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5605019"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/greenwood-farm-16000041/"}