{"nrhp_refnum":"70000499","name":"Harrison, William Henry, Tomb State Memorial","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Mount Nebo on OH 128","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Bend","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.151720168000054,"lon":-84.75214772825379,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A tomb and state memorial on Mount Nebo along Ohio Route 128 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, containing twenty-four vaults and the burial of President William Henry Harrison, with an adjoining military cemetery. Harrison was interred there in 1841, and a memorial obelisk was added in 1924.","why_significant":"The tomb is the burial place of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, who died in 1841 after only a month in office. It is also tied to his career as soldier, territorial governor and North Bend farmer. The memorial also includes Congress Green Cemetery, which holds the grave of John Cleves Symmes, Harrison's father-in-law and proprietor of the Symmes Purchase.","narrative":"Perched on Mount Nebo at North Bend, Ohio, this tomb holds the remains of William Henry Harrison, his wife, their son John Scott Harrison and other family members in twenty-four vaults. Harrison, born in Virginia in 1773, served as an army officer, as governor of Indiana Territory, and as commander in the War of 1812 before returning to his farm at North Bend. Elected President in 1840, he died of pneumonia after a month in office and was buried here in July 1841. The tomb fell into disrepair until the State of Ohio acquired it in 1919, then landscaped the grounds and added a formal entrance of two pillars topped by eagles. A 60-foot Bedford sandstone obelisk designed by Garber and Woodward was dedicated in 1924. The memorial also takes in Congress Green Cemetery, a former military graveyard containing the grave of John Cleves Symmes, Harrison's father-in-law.","period_of_significance":"1841 & 1924","architect_builder":"Garber and Woodward (designers of the memorial obelisk)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition described as excellent and unaltered, on its original site. It is state-owned, open to the public, and administered by the Ohio Historical Society as a park.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.3749-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/70000499.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000499/5fac8d7497-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000499/5fac8d7497-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevin Myers at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_tomb.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Myers at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Harrison_tomb.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison_Tomb_State_Memorial","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716952"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/harrison-william-henry-tomb-state-memorial-70000499/"}