{"nrhp_refnum":"76001429","name":"Russell, Mark, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5751 N. High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Riverlea","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.07997481900003,"lon":-83.01901355299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A house at 5805 North High Street in Riverlea, Franklin County, Ohio, built about 1850 on a roughly three-acre lot, with additions made in the late 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare surviving example of Carpenter Gothic style in the area. It is also tied to Mark Russell, a well-known Columbus artist and teacher who specialized in penwork, calligraphy and stained glass design, and who designed the 1920s additions. The house and grounds recall the era when the area was farmland.","narrative":"Built around 1850 on a rolling hillside along North High Street in Riverlea, this board-and-batten house was later stuccoed and given additions in the late 1920s. It is described as a rare surviving example of Carpenter Gothic architecture in the area. Its steep gable faces the street, trimmed with a cut-out scroll bargeboard, bracketed window boxes and a half-timbered entrance porch. A two-story rear wing with a stone first floor and half-timbered upper story served as a den and north-lit studio, using lumber salvaged from another Columbus home. The roughly three-acre lot, with mature plantings and a wildflower garden, is unusual amid surrounding commercial development. The Russell family acquired the property in 1919. Mark Russell, an artist who taught at the Columbus Art School until 1964, designed stained glass, murals and decorative penwork and drew the 1920s additions himself. The nomination was driven partly by concern that the land might be sold for commercial use.","period_of_significance":"1850-1967","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied as a private residence at the time of nomination; condition marked as altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.860819-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001429.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988304","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138337473"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/russell-mark-house-76001429/"}