{"nrhp_refnum":"73001465","name":"Rawson House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3767 Clifton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15235897400004,"lon":-84.51943006399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story painted brick house at 3767 Clifton Avenue in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built in the Italian Villa style. It was originally the home of Jacob Lloyd Wayne and later of the Joseph Rawson family.","why_significant":"The form describes the house as a classic example of the Italian Villa style, with well-preserved original interior features such as marble fireplaces, carved plaster ceiling molding and an open-string staircase. It is also tied to the Rawson family, Cincinnati meatpackers and bankers. Areas of significance checked are architecture, commerce and social/humanitarian.","narrative":"Italian Villa architecture defines this brick house at 3767 Clifton Avenue in Cincinnati. It has an irregular plan, round-arched first-floor windows with foliated cartouches, a bracketed cornice and a central tower with a concave slate mansard roof. Inside, an open-well stair with ornamental scroll brackets rises through three stories. The living room keeps gray-white marble fireplaces and carved plaster ceiling molding in a fruit and foliage pattern, and the heavy woodwork throughout is original pale oak. The house was first owned by Jacob Lloyd Wayne, whose family ran a Cincinnati hardware business. Around 1876 it became the home of Joseph Rawson and his wife Lucy Russell Rawson, who raised a large family there. Joseph Rawson worked in the family meatpacking firm and served as vice-president of the First National Bank of Cincinnati. The house hosted family weddings and celebrations. Its last resident, Gwendolyn Rawson, died in 1973. The property was recognized for its architecture and its connection to a prominent local family.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and used as a private residence. The last resident died in February 1973, and the house's future was uncertain pending a decision by the heirs.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.070149-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001465.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001465/8a49e05f6b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001465/8a49e05f6b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RawsonHouse.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:RawsonHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78002074","name":"Clifton Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/clifton-avenue-historic-district-78002074/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989195","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7297060"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/rawson-house-73001465/"}