{"nrhp_refnum":"76001432","name":"Millen-Schmidt House","other_names":["Schmidt House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"184 N. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Xenia","county":"Greene County","state":"OH","lat":39.68725351100005,"lon":-83.93169830899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick mansion at 184 North King Street in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, built around 1871 for merchant Eli Millen, with Romanesque stone porches added in 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an eclectic house combining an Italian Villa plan, a Second Empire roof and Romanesque porches. It is tied to Eli Millen, a prosperous merchant, and later to Henry E. Schmidt, who bought it in 1912. After the 1974 Xenia tornado destroyed most of the city's fine homes, it became important as evidence of Xenia's architectural taste in the 1870s.","narrative":"Built around 1871 at 184 North King Street in Xenia, this two-story brick mansion follows an Italian Villa plan: two gable-roofed blocks form a lopsided T, with a three-story tower in the corner and a mansard-roofed wing behind. Eli Millen, a merchant who moved to Xenia in 1837 and prospered in dry goods, pork packing, gas, electricity and real estate, reportedly hired a New York architect to design a house that people would notice. In 1912 Henry E. Schmidt bought it and had local stonemason Thomas Higgins add heavy Romanesque porches in rockfaced stone. The interior retains marble mantels, bold wood trim and decorative plaster ceilings. The April 1974 tornado damaged the house so badly that engineers recommended demolition, but the owners restored it, converting it from apartments to a single-family home. With most of Xenia's fine homes lost, it stands as rare evidence of the city's 1870s architectural taste.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unnamed New York architect (name unknown); porches added 1912 by local stonemason Thomas Higgins","architectural_style":"Italian Villa plan with Second Empire roof and Romanesque porches","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored from apartment use to a single-family residence after severe 1974 tornado damage; occupied private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.885472-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001432.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001432/804606835e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001432/804606835e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millen-Schmidt_House_from_south.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millen-Schmidt_House_from_south.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988712","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millen%E2%80%93Schmidt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6858730"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/greene-county/millen-schmidt-house-76001432/"}