{"nrhp_refnum":"73001492","name":"Unionville Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On OH 84","address_restricted":false,"city":"Unionville","county":"Lake County","state":"OH","lat":41.78044011600008,"lon":-81.00294653099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Unionville Tavern is a former stagecoach-era tavern building at the intersection of County Line Road and State Route 84 in Unionville, Lake County, Ohio, built 1818-20 on a site used as a tavern since about 1798.","why_significant":"The nomination cites architecture and transportation as areas of significance. The building has a two-story Doric portico added after 1820 with an unusually wide architrave bay. The site also served travelers on the Cleveland-Buffalo Road and the Pittsburgh-Warren route westward, and it grew from log cabins into a two-story saltbox as stagecoach traffic increased.","narrative":"Unionville Tavern sits at the crossing of County Line Road and State Route 84 in Unionville, Lake County, Ohio. A tavern has operated on the site since about 1798, when a log cabin was built beside the road running west from Pittsburgh through Warren. A second identical cabin followed as business grew. By 1815 stagecoaches were bringing overnight passengers, and the cabins were converted into a single two-story saltbox, with the present building dated 1818-20. Its most prominent feature is a two-story portico, added after 1820, with four square Doric columns and an architrave spanning about twelve feet. Inside, part of the original log construction remains in the basement, and an old ballroom survives above a former covered entry. The first floor has four large rooms plus a kitchen and pantries, with traveler rooms upstairs. The tavern stood on the Cleveland-Buffalo Road mail route and was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936. It remains in commercial use and is described as in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered, on its original site; marked occupied and in commercial use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.077434-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001492.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001492/03752f1949-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001492/03752f1949-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unionville_Tavern_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Unionville_Tavern_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989603","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138456669"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lake-county/unionville-tavern-73001492/"}