{"nrhp_refnum":"70000497","name":"Stowe, Harriet Beecher, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2950 Gilbert Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.13316573700007,"lon":-84.48734931999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house at 2950 Gilbert Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio, built as the residence of the president of Lane Seminary and now a state-owned museum. The form dates its significance to the early 1830s.","why_significant":"The house was the Cincinnati home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived there with her father, Lyman Beecher, after he came to head Lane Seminary in 1832. The nomination ties her time in Cincinnati to her education about slavery and to her later authorship of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It also notes the later occupant, antislavery Presbyterian leader Rev. Joseph G. Monfort.","narrative":"Located at Gilbert and Foraker Avenues in Cincinnati, this two-story brick house with a gabled roof, a chimney at each end and a three-part front facade began as the residence of the president of Lane Seminary. Lyman Beecher moved into it after arriving in 1832, and his daughter Harriet lived there during much of her years in Cincinnati. Her first published work, a geography for children written with her sister Catherine, appeared in 1833. In the city she saw the effects of slavery, from the 1836 riots against James G. Birney's antislavery paper to a trip into Kentucky. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written later, in Maine. After Beecher left, the Rev. Joseph G. Monfort, an antislavery leader, lived there. A memorial association bought the house in 1943 and gave it to Ohio in 1945. Additions include a bay window, a Classic Revival porch and a rear wing. It now serves as a museum of Stowe's work and of African American history.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date early 1830's","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Rated good condition and altered; structure strengthened and repaired by the Ohio Historical Society and open to the public as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.465387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/70000497.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000497/ceae7409ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000497/ceae7409ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrietBeecherStoweHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrietBeecherStoweHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989239","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe_House_(Cincinnati,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/stowe-harriet-beecher-house-70000497/"}