{"nrhp_refnum":"75001376","name":"Sunbury Tavern","other_names":["Hopkins House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW corner OH 37 and Galena Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sunbury","county":"Delaware County","state":"OH","lat":41.14240245600007,"lon":-82.88517153699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame tavern built in 1804 at the northwest corner of Route 37 and Galena Road in Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio. It is reputed to be the first frame building built in Sunbury.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent and quite rare example of an early frame tavern in Ohio, with a \"southern\" two-story porch and a cornice and frieze that closely follow a plate in Asher Benjamin's pattern book. It dates from the stagecoach era and is said to have hosted Henry Clay and Presidents Hayes and Harrison. It was likely the first public building in the area.","narrative":"Built in 1804, this two-story frame tavern at the corner of Route 37 and Galena Road is reputed to be the first frame building in Sunbury, Ohio. Joe Adams built it on land owned by his father, Joel Adams. It rests on a stone foundation and has a two-story \"southern-style\" porch on the east front, a metal gable roof, and interior end chimneys. The cornice and frieze closely follow, in simplified form, a plate from Asher Benjamin's The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter. Inside, much black walnut was used, and removable partitions on the second floor could be taken out to make a dance floor. During the stagecoach era the tavern reportedly drew notable guests: Henry Clay spoke from the upper porch, and Presidents Hayes and Harrison stayed overnight. Later known as the Hopkins House and used as a rooming house, it was valued as a rare surviving early frame tavern in Ohio, though it needed repair when it was nominated.","period_of_significance":"1804","architect_builder":"Built by Joe Adams; design reportedly attributed to Benjamin of Boston (per a local historian)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (per the data sheet write-up); described as an early frame tavern with a \"southern-style\" porch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as a rooming house in fair condition and in need of attention and repair at the time of nomination; a 1985 letter lists a new owner, a community library board.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.025562-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001376/cc0126d822-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001376/cc0126d822-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunbury_Tavern.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunbury_Tavern.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988054","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137763561"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/delaware-county/sunbury-tavern-75001376/"}