{"nrhp_refnum":"75001495","name":"Brooks, James, House","other_names":["Easterling Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 E. 1st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.76272480600005,"lon":-84.19126070799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Greek Revival town house at 41 East First Street in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, built in 1832 on land then owned by George Davis. It is also known as the Easterling Building and the Thomas Clegg House.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the only building with a prominent Greek Revival facade still standing in Dayton. Together with the nearby Walters House and Edwin Smith House, it illustrates the shift from Greek Revival to Victorian styles in urban street-front dwellings. It is also tied to early Dayton figures including George Davis and the merchant and preacher James Brooks.","narrative":"Built in 1832 at 41 East First Street in Dayton, this rectangular stone-fronted town house is a Greek Revival dwelling that was later updated in Victorian taste. Its coursed, rusticated stone facade sits over an English basement, and Ionic pilasters mark the three bays of the second story. In the mid-nineteenth century the original Greek Revival entablature was replaced with a bracketed cornice, and some interior mantels were moved upstairs. The house is traditionally called the Clegg House, but deed and tax records show Thomas Clegg never owned the lot. The land belonged to George Davis, a brewer, sheriff and legislator, who had the house built. Merchant and Presbyterian preacher James Brooks bought it in 1836, and it later passed to his daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Jefferson Walters. It is described as the only prominent Greek Revival facade left in Dayton and, with neighboring Victorian houses, shows the change between the two styles.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date 1832","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival with later Victorian alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent but altered, on its original site; present use listed as commercial and private residence, with the form also checking occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.536598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001495/41137b23cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001495/41137b23cd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesBrooksHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesBrooksHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004316","name":"Downtown Dayton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-dayton-historic-district-100004316/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990490","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brooks_House_(Dayton,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6130298"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/brooks-james-house-75001495/"}