{"nrhp_refnum":"74001461","name":"Froelich, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7095 Broadview Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seven Hills","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.372888637000074,"lon":-81.68406800799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story stone farmhouse with a large frame wing at 7095 Broadview Road in Seven Hills, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, built by farmer John Froelich, probably between 1840 and 1843.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the house primarily architecturally significant. It has an unusual pair of semi-circular attic fanlights where one is typical. It is also an isolated stone farmhouse in a rapidly developing commercial highway strip, with no neighboring structures that would form a historic district.","narrative":"This small two-story stone farmhouse on Broadview Road in Seven Hills was built by John Froelich, a farmer who was listed as a resident landowner on the west side of the Cuyahoga River in 1843. The house was probably completed between 1840 and 1843. A large frame wing adjoins the stone section, which has two bays on its narrow end and three along the side. Its most distinctive feature is a pair of semi-circular fanlight openings in the attic, where a single one would be usual. Inside, each floor has two rooms, the original woodwork is intact, and an opening between the ground-floor rooms has late Federal casings. Stone houses are not rare in southern and western Cuyahoga County, where sandstone quarries were nearby, but this one is isolated in a developing commercial highway strip. Road widening has brought the house right up to the highway. It was listed mainly for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1843)","architect_builder":"John Froelich, a farmer","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and altered; occupied as a private residence. Successive widenings of Broadview Road mean the house now fronts directly on the highway.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.431446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001461.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001461/9c5bfc3d5c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001461/9c5bfc3d5c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Froelich_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Froelich_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987498","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137734670"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/froelich-john-house-74001461/"}