{"nrhp_refnum":"74001425","name":"Picking, D., And Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"119 S. Walnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bucyrus","county":"Crawford County","state":"OH","lat":40.805919463000066,"lon":-82.97412360099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story copper kettle factory at 119 South Walnut Street in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, built in 1874 by joining an earlier brick store back with a frame addition.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the last remaining hand-hammered copper kettle factory in the United States, still operating in its original and essentially unaltered plant. Its products, including tympani kettle drums, are noted as unique in Ohio and the nation. The business has run for a century in the same building.","narrative":"D. Picking and Company is a copper kettle factory at 119 South Walnut Street in Bucyrus, Ohio. It began in the early 1870s, when the founder made hammered copper kettles as a sideline to his hardware business in the back of a brick store. The kettles sold so well that the building was enlarged in 1874 with a frame addition to hold a copper-goods factory, and the hardware section was later removed. The result is one long, narrow, two-story structure with an office, shipping room, cutting area, brazing and forming room, and hammering and cleaning space. Coal stoves from 1874 still heat it. The only major changes were telephone and electric service after 1900, with motors now driving the old line shafts. The nomination describes it as the last hand-hammered copper kettle factory in the United States. Its remaining products include apple butter kettles, candy kettles and tympani, which prominent musicians consider among the world's best.","period_of_significance":"19th and 20th centuries; specific date 1874","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as an industrial plant; the form describes the building as unaltered and on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.878114-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001425.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001425/8e5a4e9ad3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001425/8e5a4e9ad3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D._Picking_and_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D._Picking_and_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987331","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137625532"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/crawford-county/picking-d-and-company-74001425/"}