{"nrhp_refnum":"75001531","name":"Moore, Philip, Stone House","other_names":["The Stone House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of West Portsmouth on OH 239","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Portsmouth","county":"Scioto County","state":"OH","lat":38.74330959400004,"lon":-83.03372447499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story fieldstone house with a 1 1/2 story rear wing, built in 1797 on a 0.95-acre tract on Hill Road (Route 239), near West Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio.","why_significant":"The house hosted the first Methodist society organized in the Scioto County area in the early 1800s. Its congregation became the first members of Bigelow's Methodist Episcopal Church, and traveling preachers including Bishop Asbury and Peter Cartwright preached there. The nomination also notes the structure's considerable age.","narrative":"Built in 1797 near West Portsmouth, this fieldstone house in Scioto County, Ohio, has a two-story rectangular front section and a 1 1/2 story rear wing over a partial two-room stone cellar. The front walls are squared rubble, and the windows and central door have stone arches with keystones. Inside, restoration uncovered solid oak ceiling beams, hand-hewn rafters joined with wooden pegs, and three fireplaces with keystone construction. The house matters mainly for its religious role. In the early 1800s the first Methodist society in the Scioto County area was organized here, and those who attended became the first members of Bigelow's Methodist Episcopal Church. The house served as a haven for circuit riders, and accounts record preaching there by Henry Smith, Henry Bascom, Peter Cartwright and Bishop Asbury. It originally belonged to the town of Alexandria, later lost to flooding. The nomination also stresses the building's early date.","period_of_significance":"1797","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restoration in progress at the time of nomination; basic structure described as in good condition. Listed as a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.278433-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001531.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001531/b8d00a6ca5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001531/b8d00a6ca5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"dok1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Moore_Stone_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">dok1</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Moore_Stone_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991265","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Moore_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7184098"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/scioto-county/moore-philip-stone-house-75001531/"}