{"nrhp_refnum":"74001412","name":"East High Street District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. High, S. Sycamore, and Walnut Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Clark County","state":"OH","lat":39.92174436200003,"lon":-83.79649721299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small historic district of five late 19th-century houses along East High Street in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, built between the 1850s and 1888 for prominent local businessmen, covering about 5 acres.","why_significant":"The district shows three major late 19th-century styles side by side: Italianate, Renaissance revival and Richardsonian Romanesque. It also records the move of Springfield's wealthy manufacturers and merchants to East High Street. One house was the home of Asa Bushnell, later Governor of Ohio, and was designed by Robert H. Robertson.","narrative":"East High Street in Springfield, Ohio, holds a group of five houses that together show how architectural taste changed between the 1850s and 1888. The Charles M. Clark House is an altered Italianate residence that may be the oldest. The Rinehart-Bowman House has a limestone front, and the Ellen Ludlow Bushnell House is a brick home of about 1869-70 with Italianate and Renaissance details. The John Foos House, begun in 1870, is a limestone Italian Renaissance mansion that was completed in 1875. The Asa Bushnell House, built in 1887-88, is a Richardsonian Romanesque building of rock-faced granite designed by Robert H. Robertson. The street became fashionable after about 1869, when successful manufacturers and merchants built here, and by 1871 three of Springfield's most important businessmen lived within one city block. Asa Bushnell later served as Governor of Ohio. The district is listed for the contrast among its houses and for what they show about the values of their owners.","period_of_significance":"1856-1888","architect_builder":"Robert H. Robertson (Asa Bushnell House, 838 E. High St.)","architectural_style":"Italianate, Renaissance Revival, and Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and altered, with the district occupied. Uses include private residence and commercial: a women's club, a day care center, a catering inn and a funeral home.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.308472-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001412/4f9bded007-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001412/4f9bded007-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richards,_Raff,_and_Dunbar_Funeral_Home.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richards,_Raff,_and_Dunbar_Funeral_Home.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987060","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_High_Street_Historic_District_(Springfield,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clark-county/east-high-street-district-74001412/"}