{"nrhp_refnum":"75001411","name":"Antioch Hall, North And South Halls","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hyde Rd., Antioch College campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yellow Springs","county":"Greene County","state":"OH","lat":39.79987400700003,"lon":-83.88789739999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of three brick college buildings on the Antioch College campus along Hyde Road in Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, begun in 1852: the main Antioch Hall with North Hall and South Hall dormitories.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the group as an excellent example of Romanesque Revival architecture and as a symbol of the progressive principles of Antioch College. Antioch Hall was the earliest college building in Ohio in this style, and was reputed to be the largest building west of the Alleghenies when erected. The college is also tied to Horace Mann, its first president, and to the work-study program proposed in 1919.","narrative":"Antioch Hall and its two flanking dormitories, North Hall and South Hall, form the original core of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Construction was well under way by May 1852, and the college was dedicated in October 1853. Antioch Hall is a long brick building with a slate gable roof, paired round arches, rose windows, arched corbelling, large square towers flanking the east entrance, and smaller octagonal corner towers. Its design drew on the Smithsonian Institution building by way of Davis Hall at Worcester Academy. Early catalogues called it the largest building west of the Alleghenies. North and South Halls are plain four-story brick dormitories with Palladian windows in the gables. In 1958 the main hall was recorded for the Historic American Buildings Survey, then rebuilt inside with five floors replacing four, and its windows and west entrance were altered. The group is significant for its architecture and for the college's progressive educational tradition.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Alpheus M. Merrifield (architect/builder); plans drawn by Messrs. Kyler & Knoll; Max Mercer was architect of the 1958 reconstruction","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; condition listed as excellent and altered. The interior of Antioch Hall was completely reconstructed in 1958.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.506723-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001411.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001411/eefc961e19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001411/eefc961e19-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antioch_Hall,_Antioch_College.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antioch_Hall,_Antioch_College.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82003573","name":"Yellow Springs Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/yellow-springs-historic-district-82003573/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988734","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch_Hall,_North_and_South_Halls","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4775018"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/greene-county/antioch-hall-north-and-south-halls-75001411/"}