{"nrhp_refnum":"73001400","name":"Street, John, House","other_names":["Durand House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"631 N. Ellsworth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salem","county":"Columbiana County","state":"OH","lat":40.90477673000004,"lon":-80.85703315499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped brick house at 631 N. Ellsworth Avenue in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, built around 1835 by John Street on land originally purchased by his family.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the Street family, whose patriarch Zadock Street laid out Salem in 1806. John Street opened the village's first store and kept its first post office. The house was also a station on the Underground Railroad, with hiding areas beneath the front portion.","narrative":"Built around 1835, this two-story brick house at 631 N. Ellsworth Avenue in Salem, Ohio, was the home of John Street, son of Zadock Street, who laid out the village in 1806. The L-shaped building has a cut stone foundation, six-over-six windows with stone lintels and sills, a central doorway with transom and sidelights, and carved wood brackets beneath the cornice of its gray slate gable roof. A bracketed wooden entrance porch and a one-car brick garage were added later. John Street opened Salem's first store in 1807, kept the first post office until 1828, and built a brick store in 1832. The Street family also ran the first tannery, served as directors of the first bank organized in Salem, and donated land for early roads and streets. The house served as an Underground Railroad station, and a basement under the rear wing and two hiding areas beneath the front portion remain. A stone-mounted bronze plate near the sidewalk records that activity.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (ca. 1835)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and altered, with a later porch and garage addition; used as a private residence and occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.432425-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001400/bfa8eb8ab8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001400/bfa8eb8ab8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"BFDhD at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Street_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">BFDhD at en.wikipedia</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:John_Street_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987216","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Street_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6259422"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/columbiana-county/street-john-house-73001400/"}