{"nrhp_refnum":"74001578","name":"Watkins House","other_names":["\"Ye Old Stone\""],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9950 Lebanon Pike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Centerville","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.599124679000056,"lon":-84.16131884699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story stone and wood frame farmhouse at 9950 Lebanon Pike (State Route 48), Centerville vicinity, Montgomery County, Ohio, begun about 1804 as a one-room stone cabin and enlarged in 1812.","why_significant":"The house is built of native limestone known locally as \"Dayton marble\" and is one of the few remaining early 19th-century stone farmhouses in an area that once had over 100. It illustrates how such homes grew from a one- or two-room cabin by stone and wood additions into an irregular form. It is also tied to the Watkins family, pioneer settlers from Kentucky.","narrative":"Known as \"Ye Old Stone,\" this farmhouse on Lebanon Pike near Centerville began as a one-room limestone cabin, probably started in autumn 1804 when Jonathan and Clarissa Watkins arrived from Mason County, Kentucky. A west addition with eighteen-inch stone walls followed in 1812, and work reportedly paused briefly while the family and workers watched General William Henry Harrison's army pass nearby. The local limestone, called \"Dayton marble,\" was widely quarried in the area, and over 100 stone houses once stood nearby. This is one of the few survivors, and it shows the typical pattern of a small cabin growing through stone and wood additions. About 1940 the interior was remodeled and a frame shed on the south side was replaced by a two-story frame addition. Many original door jambs, window frames and interior stone walls remain. The Watkins family farmed hogs, corn and grain and sold produce in Centerville and Woodbourne.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1804 and 1812)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered, on its original site; used as a private residence and occupied. Not presently in danger, though it faces an increasingly busy main road.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.038784-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001578.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001578/b254235049-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001578/b254235049-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watkins_House_in_Washington_Township.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watkins_House_in_Washington_Township.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990458","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138590636"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/watkins-house-74001578/"}