{"nrhp_refnum":"76001471","name":"Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Lorain off OH 301","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sheffield Township","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.454900758000065,"lon":-82.10554575099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of two buildings in Sheffield Township, Lorain County, Ohio: a two-story brick late Federal house built about 1828 and a frame former cheese factory behind it, in French Creek Reservation.","why_significant":"The house stayed in the family of Sheffield Township's original proprietor for nearly 150 years and was tied to the early days of Oberlin College, when it served as a branch in the manual labor program in 1836. It is a very early two-story brick house for its area. The cheese factory is significant because few of the many buildings put up for Ohio's cheese industry survive.","narrative":"Two buildings in Sheffield Township, Lorain County, Ohio, make up this farmstead: a two-story brick house in the late Federal style, built around 1828, and a frame cheese factory directly behind it. The house has a five-bay facade, a center entrance, end chimneys, sandstone lintels and sills, and a rear wing added probably in the 1880s. Inside, the central hall, stair, original rooms and Adam style carved mantelpieces survive. The property matters for several reasons. Capt. Jabez Burrell and Capt. John Day bought the whole township in 1815, and the house stayed with the Burrell family for nearly 150 years. Robbins Burrell gave his farm and house to a short-lived branch of Oberlin College's manual labor program in 1836, and his brother Jabez Jr. was one of Oberlin's original incorporators. The cheese factory, with its rubble stone foundation and plastered interior, is one of few survivors of a once-common Ohio industry building type.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1828","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent or good. The house is occupied by the last members of the Burrell family, and the cheese factory is fitted out as a workshop. Owned by the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.087874-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001471.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001471/dbf3833a6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001471/dbf3833a6a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jabez_and_Robbins_Burrell_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jabez_and_Robbins_Burrell_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989823","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138515111"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/burrell-jabez-and-robbins-house-and-cheese-factory-76001471/"}