{"nrhp_refnum":"75001404","name":"Everal, John W., Farm Buildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7610 Cleveland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westerville","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.12633183100007,"lon":-82.94762351199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of six buildings at 7610 Cleveland Avenue, Westerville vicinity, Franklin County, Ohio, centered on a large frame bank barn with an integrated windmill tower. The barn is believed to date from the early 1880s and was built by John W. Everal; the brick house dates to the 1870s.","why_significant":"The barn is presented as a good example of Carpenter Gothic style and is unique in building a windmill tower into its design. John W. Everal ran a tile plant nearby that made the first vitreous tile in Ohio, and its brick went into Westerville buildings. Together the six buildings portray an 1880 Ohio farm.","narrative":"Along Cleveland Avenue west of Westerville center, a large white frame barn with a cupola and an octagonal tower serves as a local landmark. Believed built in the early 1880s by John W. Everal, it is covered in vertical board and batten and uses two grades, with stables below and a main floor entered from the road. The tower encloses a windmill and a wooden water tank of about 1,000 gallons, and it is entered from inside the barn. Five other buildings stand with it: a brick carriage house, a brick farmhouse from the 1870s, two older board-and-batten outbuildings, and a brick building of 1898. All predate 1900 and have no intrusions. Everal also ran a tile plant on nearby Alum Creek, established in 1872, which produced the first vitreous tile in Ohio. Its brick was used for the house and outbuildings and for Otterbein College buildings. The group is valued for its Carpenter Gothic barn and as a picture of an 1880 Ohio farm.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date early 1880's","architect_builder":"John W. Everal (barn believed built by him)","architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and unaltered on original site; the barn has been kept in good repair and well painted. The windmill still works but has not been used for about 20 years. Present use is agricultural.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.571521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001404.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001404/d089aaeff8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001404/d089aaeff8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Christopher L. Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everal_House_and_Barn_%E2%80%94_Westerville,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher L. Riley</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:Everal_House_and_Barn_%E2%80%94_Westerville,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988531","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138337587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/everal-john-w-farm-buildings-75001404/"}