{"nrhp_refnum":"74001433","name":"Chagrin Falls West Side District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by W. Washington, Church, Maple, and Franklin Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chagrin Falls","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.428699186000046,"lon":-81.39546461459508,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 29-acre residential historic district on the west side of the village of Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bordering the Chagrin River. It takes in parts of eight blocks and about six dozen houses built between 1845 and 1900.","why_significant":"The district is a representative 19th-century residential area in what was an important mill and manufacturing village. It holds high-quality examples of the main 19th-century architectural styles, and it includes the homes of local manufacturers and a former academy. Much of its character comes from two local builders, William C. Hutchings and Joseph O'Malley, and from its riverside setting.","narrative":"Chagrin Falls West Side District is a residential neighborhood of about 29 acres beside the Chagrin River, covering parts of eight blocks and roughly six dozen houses. Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne buildings stand side by side along open, tree-lined streets, mostly white frame houses with some brick. The houses date from 1845 to 1900, a period when the village grew into a mill and manufacturing center powered by the river. Local industrialists lived here, including Curtiss and John Bullard of the wooden ware factory and J.D. Williams of the thimble skein and sad iron works. The building at 55 West Washington housed a select school in the late 1830s. Much of the architecture is credited to two builders: William C. Hutchings, who worked in brick Greek Revival and vernacular forms, and Joseph O'Malley, who favored Italianate, Eastlake and Queen Anne designs. The district was listed as a well-preserved example of a small nineteenth-century village neighborhood with a distinctive riverside character.","period_of_significance":"1845-1900","architect_builder":"William C. Hutchings and Joseph O'Malley (builders)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italian Villa, Early Gothic Revival, High Victorian Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition given as excellent and altered; occupied, in mixed public and private use (government, private residence, religious). The area was described as tentatively threatened by a proposed bridge across the river at the foot of Water Street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.746267-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001433.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987721","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/chagrin-falls-west-side-district-74001433/"}