{"nrhp_refnum":"74001439","name":"Dunham Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6709 Euclid Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50466039100007,"lon":-81.63848476999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame former stagecoach tavern at 6709 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, built in 1832 and now operated as a museum.","why_significant":"The tavern marks the early nineteenth century migration route into Ohio and was a stopping place on the Buffalo-Cleveland-Detroit stage road. It also served as a social and political gathering place, hosting wedding parties and Whig party meetings. It is a fine example of early frame construction with mortise and tenon joinery.","narrative":"Dunham Tavern, at 6709 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, is a two-story frame building dating from 1832. It once served as a stopping place on the old Buffalo-Cleveland-Detroit stage road and was built to replace the log house of Rufus and Jane Pratt Dunham, who settled a 140-acre farm in 1823. Travelers drank in its taproom and slept in its upstairs rooms, and newspaper accounts describe wedding parties and Whig party meetings held there. The building is five bays wide with clapboard siding, a central entrance with sidelights, and a gable roof with dentil trim. Its frame uses heavy hewn timbers joined with wooden pins and hand-wrought spikes. Inside are an original taproom, kitchen fireplace with cranes, and a mantel attributed to Samuel McIntyre. After serving the public under several owners, it became a private home from 1857 until 1930. As Cleveland grew around it, a nonprofit group bought the property, and it now operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1832)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned and operated as a museum by Dunham Tavern, Inc.; condition listed as good and altered, with a restoration program begun. The building was structurally and electrically renovated in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.115737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001439.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001439/cee1f494a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001439/cee1f494a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"stu_spivack","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunham_Tavern.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">stu_spivack</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunham_Tavern.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunham_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5315250"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/dunham-tavern-74001439/"}