{"nrhp_refnum":"74001537","name":"Lundy, Benjamin, House","other_names":["Warren House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Union and 3rd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mt. Pleasant","county":"Jefferson County","state":"OH","lat":40.17477442300003,"lon":-80.80354714999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-30","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1974-05-30","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story brick double house at Union and Third Streets in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, with a clapboard annex once used as a Quaker free labor store. The form gives 1820-21 as its specific date.","why_significant":"The house was occupied by the abolitionist Benjamin Lundy after he moved from St. Clairsville in 1820. During a stay of nearly a year he began his newspaper, the Genius of Universal Emancipation, an early chronicle of the antislavery movement. The nomination describes Lundy as possibly the most important antislavery reformer of the decade before 1830. It also places the house within a Quaker antislavery community in Mt. Pleasant.","narrative":"At Union and Third Streets in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, stands a two-and-one-half-story brick double house, two separate blocks joined by a common wall and an interior door. A small clapboard annex on one side served as a Quaker-run free labor store, where shoppers could buy goods not made by slave labor. The house is tied to Benjamin Lundy, a Quaker abolitionist who moved here from St. Clairsville in 1820. During a stay of nearly a year he started his newspaper, the Genius of Universal Emancipation, in January 1821, before relocating it to Tennessee. Lundy traveled widely on foot and horseback, and the nomination credits him with helping found about 130 antislavery societies, mostly among Southern Quakers. Mt. Pleasant was a strategic center of Quaker reform, and the house sits near the Quaker Meeting House. Sources disagree about which half of the double house Lundy lived in. It remains a private residence closed to visitors.","period_of_significance":"1820-21","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence in fair condition, unaltered and on its original site; not open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.298547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001537_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001537/dd6bae1f92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001537/dd6bae1f92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Lundy_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Lundy_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001536","name":"Mount Pleasant Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/mount-pleasant-historic-district-74001536/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986505","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lundy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888984"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/jefferson-county/lundy-benjamin-house-74001537/"}