{"nrhp_refnum":"73001471","name":"Waldschmidt-Camp Dennison District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7509 and 7567 Glendale-Milford Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.191222811000046,"lon":-84.29045500599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of two early 19th century coursed rubble stone houses at 7509 and 7567 Glendale-Milford Road, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio: the Christian Waldschmidt House (ca. 1804) and the Camp Dennison Guard House (ca. 1810).","why_significant":"The two buildings are among the earliest stone houses still standing in Ohio and represent their style and period. They are also tied to Christian Waldschmidt's New Germany settlement and to the Civil War training camp known as Camp Dennison.","narrative":"Two early stone houses on Glendale-Milford Road in Cincinnati make up this district: the Christian Waldschmidt House, built around 1804, and the Camp Dennison Guard House, erected about 1810. Both are of coursed rubble stone. The Waldschmidt House is two and a half stories with a five-bay facade, paired recessed doorways and twelve-over-twelve sash windows. The guard house is a two-story building with a two-bay facade and a rear ell. Christian Waldschmidt, a Pennsylvania native leading a group of German Pietists, reached the site near the Little Miami River in 1794 and founded the village of New Germany, with a gristmill, distillery and a paper mill thought to be the first in Ohio. During the Civil War the area became Camp Dennison, a Union training and induction center; the larger house served as General Joshua Bates's headquarters and the smaller one as a guard house. Given to the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution in 1941, the Waldschmidt House was restored as a public memorial. The two buildings are among Ohio's earliest surviving stone houses.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates ca. 1804 and ca. 1810)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent, unaltered condition on its original site; the Waldschmidt House was restored as a public memorial and is used as a museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.022098-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001471.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001471/2dc0aa71b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001471/2dc0aa71b5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Frank Leslie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CampDennison.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Leslie</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CampDennison.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989125","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Dennison","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5027121"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/waldschmidt-camp-dennison-district-73001471/"}