{"nrhp_refnum":"74001426","name":"Scroggs House","other_names":["Bucyrus Historical Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"202 S. Walnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bucyrus","county":"Crawford County","state":"OH","lat":40.80745610100007,"lon":-82.97381351899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 202 S. Walnut Street in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, originally built in 1839 and remodeled in the Victorian Italianate manner in 1871-1873. It now serves as the Bucyrus Historical Museum.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well cared for, handsome example of a mid-nineteenth century home. It is also tied to the Scroggs family, early settlers and important local politicians, which makes it important to Bucyrus.","narrative":"Located at 202 S. Walnut Street in Bucyrus, this two-story frame house began in 1839 as the home of John Scroggs, a hatter. His son Jacob, a lawyer and mayor of Bucyrus, extensively remodeled it in 1871, finishing in 1873. The work replaced the front rooms with eight new rooms and a center entry hall in the Victorian Italianate manner. The exterior has a hip roof with an iron-railed widow's walk, a projecting center bay with a triangular pediment, paired brackets with dentils, and segmental and round-arched windows. Inside are a wide main stairway, slate fireplaces, and a library with a walnut mantel. The Scroggs family kept the house until it passed to St. Paul's Church, which used it as a parsonage until 1970. It was then deeded to the Bucyrus Historical Society, which operates it as a museum. Its architecture and its link to a locally prominent family account for its importance to the city.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1839 & 1871)","architect_builder":"John Scroggs, a hatter, built the original 1839 house; his son Jacob Scroggs remodeled it in 1871.","architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, unaltered, on its original site, and used as a museum by the Bucyrus Historical Society.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.826915-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001426/454a85f4ae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001426/454a85f4ae-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scroggs_Bucyrus.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scroggs_Bucyrus.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000401","name":"Bucyrus Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/bucyrus-commercial-historic-district-85000401/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987303","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137625559"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/crawford-county/scroggs-house-74001426/"}