{"nrhp_refnum":"75001331","name":"Edgeton","other_names":["Jacob Shaffer House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"575 Harrison Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Butler County","state":"OH","lat":39.40584654300005,"lon":-84.58630392099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story painted brick house at 575 Harrison Avenue in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, built in the 1860s for Jacob Shaffer. It has an L-shaped plan, a hipped roof and a bracketed cornice.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a good example of a nineteenth-century vernacular house. It is also tied to Jacob Shaffer, a Hamilton banker and businessman, and to later owner Harrison Leib, who named it Edgeton. With its park-like grounds it serves as a focal point in a neighborhood near the western edge of Hamilton.","narrative":"Edgeton is a two-story painted brick house at 575 Harrison Avenue in Hamilton, Ohio, built in the 1860s by Jacob Shaffer. Its main north facade has five bays and a center entry under a wooden porch, with stone lintels, shuttered two-over-two windows, a hipped roof and a bracketed cornice. A lower rear wing gives the house an L-shape, and a small frame outbuilding connects to the back by a covered breezeway. Shaffer was a Hamilton banker, a flour mill partner and an original stockholder of the Hamilton Street Railway Company. In 1883 he sold the property to Harrison Leib, a Cincinnati merchandise broker who named it Edgeton and operated the Edgeton Farm Dairy. The house is recognized as a good example of nineteenth-century vernacular architecture. With its park-like grounds, it is an important focal point in a neighborhood near the western edge of Hamilton. The nomination notes that it needs renovation.","period_of_significance":"1860's","architect_builder":"Jacob Shaffer (built by)","architectural_style":"Vernacular Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in fair condition and altered, in need of renovation. It was used until recently as a multi-family residence and is now a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.264638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001331.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001331/ba1fcde408-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001331/ba1fcde408-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgeton-Hamilton.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgeton-Hamilton.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeton","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337826"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/butler-county/edgeton-75001331/"}