{"nrhp_refnum":"76001444","name":"Wilson-Gibson House","other_names":["The Gibson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"425 Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.13014139100005,"lon":-84.49163854799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick house at 425 Oak Street in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built in 1860 on an L-shaped plan with a coursed stone foundation. The architect or builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a sophisticated example of a transitional style that blends Federal and Classical Revival elements. It notes similarities to the Martin Baum House (Taft Museum), such as double-door entrances with semi-elliptical fanlights, double interior chimneys and six-over-six windows, though it calls any influence conjecture.","narrative":"Built in 1860 at 425 Oak Street in Cincinnati, this brick house is two and a half stories high with a coursed stone foundation and a gabled roof of easy pitch. The original block was probably the front section, with interior chimneys; a rear wing creating an L-shaped plan and other additions came later in the nineteenth century. The three-bay facade has paired entrances on both floors, each with a semi-elliptical fanlight and delicate mullioned sidelights. The ground-floor entrance opens onto a veranda with Doric columns and square piers, and the upper doors open onto a railed deck. The house is notable for combining Federal and Classical Revival features into a transitional style. Land records show James Wilson bought the property at a sheriff's auction in 1859, and his brother Frank lived there until 1873. Louis Hauck bought it in 1911. No architect or builder is documented, and a later note records transfer to the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners.","period_of_significance":"1860","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional: Federal and Classical Revival (Federal and Greek Revival in the data sheet)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a private residence; a later note records that ownership passed from the private owner to the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:08.924095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001444.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001444/dc7a62a775-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001444/dc7a62a775-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilson-Gibson_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilson-Gibson_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988883","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson-Gibson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8022948"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/wilson-gibson-house-76001444/"}