{"nrhp_refnum":"75001557","name":"Perrysburg Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Perrysburg Historic District (Boundary Increase)"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Front St. (between E. Boundary St. & W. Boundary Ln.) 2nd St. (between Pine & Hickory Sts.) & 3rd St. (at Louisiana Av.)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perrysburg","county":"Wood County","state":"OH","lat":41.55954389450005,"lon":-83.62336350800919,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 90 acres in Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, on the Maumee River. It combines Victorian commercial buildings along Louisiana Avenue with residences along Front Street, dating from the 1830s to 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a fine example of a prosperous nineteenth-century rivertown. Its buildings range from Greek Revival to High Victorian Italianate and show the eclectic taste of the late 1800s. The Louisiana Avenue commercial area is described as a particularly well-preserved group of Victorian buildings.","narrative":"Perrysburg's historic district covers about 90 acres along the Maumee River in Wood County, Ohio. It includes a commercial strip on Louisiana Avenue, mostly Victorian brick buildings such as the Phoenix Block, built in the 1830s as the Eagle Hotel, and the Centennial Block of 1875. Front Street, once the Fremont Pike and paved in 1838, holds houses in styles from Greek Revival and Gothic Revival to Italian Villa, Italianate and Shingle. The town was platted after an 1816 act of Congress and became county seat in 1823. Shipping and shipbuilding flourished from 1823 to 1840, and the greatest building came between the late 1850s and 1870s, after a cholera epidemic in 1854 and the arrival of German immigrants and railroads. Loss of the county seat to Bowling Green in 1879 and the rise of Toledo as a trade center ended its commercial growth. The district was listed as an example of a prosperous nineteenth-century rivertown with well-preserved architecture.","period_of_significance":"1830's-1926","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival to High Victorian Italianate, with Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Shingle and Carpenter Gothic examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and altered; the district is occupied and used for commercial, private residential and religious purposes. Homes are described as uniformly well maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.096646-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001557.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992044","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wood-county/perrysburg-historic-district-75001557/"}