{"nrhp_refnum":"76001422","name":"Tallmadge-Mithoff House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"720 Lincoln Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Fairfield County","state":"OH","lat":39.708887606000076,"lon":-82.61644087999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Italian Villa-style house at 720 Lincoln Avenue, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, begun in 1836 as a cottage and a separate office, enlarged in 1849 and joined into one house in 1851.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a particularly fine example of the Italian Villa style in Ohio and the first full-scale Italian Villa in Fairfield County. Its doorway and windows were copied across the county. Its owners were wealthy, prominent citizens, so its history is tied to the area's economic history.","narrative":"Begun in 1836 by John M. Creed for his bride, this brick house at 720 Lincoln Avenue in Lancaster started as two buildings: a four-room, two-story cottage and a smaller two-room office, both with bracketed Italian Villa detailing. The office had Gothic-style upper windows. Daniel Robertson added a wing with a drawing room and veranda in 1849. Darius Tallmadge, a stage-line owner and banker, joined the buildings in 1851 with an entrance hall and a three-story tower, and added a carved wooden door hood and two iron lions. The finished house had ten rooms. The nomination describes it as the first full-scale Italian Villa in Fairfield County, with a doorway and windows that were widely copied. It also notes an underground tunnel from the barn to the cellar, built so fugitives could be sheltered. The Mithoff family lived there until 1941, and later the house was divided into apartments before restoration began.","period_of_significance":"1836; 1849; 1851","architect_builder":"John Creed","architectural_style":"Italian Villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence being restored to its mid-nineteenth century appearance and landscape; the form lists it as occupied by its owners and says original woodwork and paneling are being restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.041702-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001422.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001422/f1012b0fd2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001422/f1012b0fd2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tallmadge-Mithoff_House,_Lancaster,_Ohio,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tallmadge-Mithoff_House,_Lancaster,_Ohio,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988225","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137801633"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/fairfield-county/tallmadge-mithoff-house-76001422/"}