{"nrhp_refnum":"74001528","name":"Brightman House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Wooster Rd. and Walnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millersburg","county":"Holmes County","state":"OH","lat":40.559377701000074,"lon":-81.91503252699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story frame Queen Anne style house at Wooster Road and Walnut in Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, built in 1903 by the Brightman family and now used as the Holmes County Historical Society building.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest Queen Anne style house of its type in the village of Millersburg, with balanced styling and varied surface treatment. It also retains almost all of its original fixtures and has a varied history as a residence, sanitarium, cosmetics laboratory and museum.","narrative":"Brightman House is a two-and-one-half-story frame residence at Wooster Road and Walnut in Millersburg, Ohio, built in 1903 in the Queen Anne style. It rests on a stone foundation and features lapped siding, bay windows, wall dormers, a slate hipped roof and a three-story octagonal tower with a tall finial. Inside are twenty-four rooms, a full basement with the original coal furnace and an early sauna bath, hardwood floors with inlay, and handpainted wallpaper and tapestries installed in 1909. The Brightman family sold the house after about four years to a group of physicians, who used it as a short-lived sanitarium. H.C. Lee bought it in 1909 and redecorated, and a cosmetics laboratory operated in the basement around 1940. It later served as a residence until the Holmes County Historical Society acquired it in 1972. The nomination describes it as the finest house of its type in Millersburg, and the society was restoring it as a museum and headquarters.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (built 1903)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and structurally sound; owned by the historical society, which is restoring it for use as a museum. Exterior and first floor interior restoration were complete at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.399171-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001528.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001528/6e3ca203de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001528/6e3ca203de-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Chris Light","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brightman_House_P5111151.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Light</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brightman_House_P5111151.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29640476"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/holmes-county/brightman-house-74001528/"}