{"nrhp_refnum":"75001380","name":"Kelleys Island South Shore District","other_names":["See Also:Erie Indian Inscription Rock"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Water St., S side of Kelleys Island","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kelleys Island","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.59507338250006,"lon":-82.7100527311297,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-03-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential district of about 23 acres along a strip of Lake Erie shoreline on the south side of Kelley's Island, Erie County, Ohio. It holds forty buildings, mostly nineteenth century houses along Water Street, plus the prehistoric Inscription Rock.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is unique in Ohio because it shows the character of a permanent population, not a summer resort, shaped by nineteenth century Lake Erie island life. It also notes architecturally important buildings, including a large stone Italian Villa mansion, a Stick style resort hotel and a Gothic Revival house. Inscription Rock is the only remnant of two Indian villages on the island.","narrative":"Along the south shore of Kelley's Island in Lake Erie, a strip of land about 250 feet wide and three-quarters of a mile long holds forty buildings, most of them nineteenth century homes facing Water Street and the lake. Styles include Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Stick. Standouts are a large stone Italian Villa mansion with an octagonal belvedere, completed in 1865 by Addison Kelley, a three-and-a-half story Stick style resort hotel, a small Gothic Revival house with decorative gingerbread, and a stone meeting hall built by Datus Kelley in 1860-1861 that still serves as Town Hall. Inscription Rock, found by white men in 1834, is the only remnant of two Indian villages on the island. The district was recognized because it shows a settled, self-sufficient island community built on cedar, limestone and grape and wine production, and because much of its nineteenth century setting survives.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, High Victorian Italianate, Queen Anne and Stick styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent and altered. A photo caption describes the resort hotel as vacant, and several buildings at the commercial center are described as altered or modern.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.284321-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001380.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001380/29a1acbc0f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001380/29a1acbc0f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Mbrickn","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KI_Town_Hall_(Infobox_crop).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mbrickn</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KI_Town_Hall_(Infobox_crop).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988090","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115704514"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/kelleys-island-south-shore-district-75001380/"}