{"nrhp_refnum":"75001553","name":"Zimmerman, Ezekiel B., Octagon House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Marshallville on OH 57","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marshallville","county":"Wayne County","state":"OH","lat":40.92271288200004,"lon":-81.76301552199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-sided red brick house in the Octagon mode with Eastlake ornament, on State Route 57 near Marshallville in Wayne County, Ohio. It was completed in 1883 for Ezekiel B. Zimmerman, who apparently designed it himself.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare and unusual variant of the Octagon mode, built almost twenty years after the fashion peaked. Its four steep gables and Eastlake ornament make it seem virtually unique. It is also tied to Zimmerman, an enterprising, well-educated progressive farmer and local official who apparently designed it himself.","narrative":"Near Marshallville in Wayne County, Ohio, a red brick house with eight sides stands along State Route 57. Completed in 1883, it has two and a half stories, a cupola, and walls three bricks thick, built from more than 99,000 bricks made on the property. Each side measures 17.5 feet. A wooden porch with Eastlake brackets and incised ornament wraps four sides, and the standing-seam red tin roof has four gables. Inside, rooms radiate around a central stairwell with a spiral stair, a plan based on one in Orson Fowler's A Home for All. Ezekiel B. Zimmerman, a progressive farmer, township trustee and school director, is believed to have planned it with a local carpenter. The house was listed because it is a rare, late example of the Octagon mode, built almost twenty years after the style's peak and combined with Eastlake detail. It had central heating by 1896 and stayed in the Zimmerman family until 1973.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1883)","architect_builder":"Ezekiel B. Zimmerman, builder, who apparently designed it himself, possibly with a local carpenter","architectural_style":"Octagon mode with Eastlake ornamental detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, in good condition, with restoration under way by the owners at the time of nomination (1974-75).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.288406-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001553.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001553/b2047b5562-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001553/b2047b5562-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Tom Bower from Canal Fulton, Ohio, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Octagon_House_(3601790588).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Bower from Canal Fulton, Ohio, USA</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:The_Octagon_House_(3601790588).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991982","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel_B._Zimmerman_Octagon_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5423131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wayne-county/zimmerman-ezekiel-b-octagon-house-75001553/"}