{"nrhp_refnum":"74001597","name":"Eager Inn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Morgantown off OH 772","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morgantown","county":"Pike County","state":"OH","lat":39.14240380000007,"lon":-83.19581076899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Waverly sandstone inn at the junction of Richardson Hollow Road and State Route 772, north of Morgantown in Pike County, Ohio. The original portion was built before 1834, and a two-room addition followed, probably in 1858.","why_significant":"The inn stood on Zane's Trace, the shortest and most used route between Zanesville, Ohio, and Maysville, Kentucky. It is considered important as a well-preserved early stone building and a typical simple inn of the stagecoach era.","narrative":"Built of smooth random ashlar Waverly sandstone, this two-story inn sits north of Morgantown in Pike County, Ohio, where Richardson Hollow Road meets State Route 772. The original section has four rooms, a gable roof, stone end chimneys and stone-arched openings, with separate doors that probably led to the sleeping area and the tap room. A two-room stone addition on the left side, dated 1858 in its gable, was built by local mason Peter Higgins. The inn lay along Zane's Trace, the route between Zanesville, Ohio, and Maysville, Kentucky, which was laid out between 1797 and 1804 and lined with taverns during westward migration. The exact construction date is unknown, though it was built before 1834, and Isaac Penisten is the likeliest builder. John Eager bought the property in 1836 and ran a tavern there until 1850; it stayed in his family until 1917. The building is valued as a well-preserved early stone inn typical of stagecoach-era travel.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (built before 1834; addition 1858)","architect_builder":"Addition built by Peter Higgins, a local stone mason; original builder unknown (possibly Isaac Penisten or John Eager)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; the form checks private residence as present use and marks the property occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.02019-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001597.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001597/98c84550d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001597/98c84550d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"dok1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eager_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">dok1</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eager_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990943","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138648248"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/pike-county/eager-inn-74001597/"}