{"nrhp_refnum":"76001511","name":"Young, Thomas F., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Wakefield and Garfield Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hiram","county":"Portage County","state":"OH","lat":41.30970792100004,"lon":-81.14424989399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house with a T-shaped wing on Wakefield Street at the corner of Garfield Street in Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. The oldest section dates to about 1822-1826 and was built by Thomas Fitch Young.","why_significant":"The house was built by one of the first settlers of Hiram Township and served as both a residence and an inn. It has stayed in the same family for about 150 years. Architecturally it is unusual because the typical five-bay facade was extended to eight bays, reflecting its combined residential and commercial use.","narrative":"Built in stages from the 1820s, this frame house at Wakefield and Garfield Streets in Hiram grew from a one-and-a-half-story section, dated by family record to 1822-1826, into an eight-bay, two-story building with a T-shaped rear wing. Thomas Fitch Young, who arrived from Connecticut in 1812, built it on land given by his father-in-law, township proprietor Daniel Tilden. Young served as the township's first Justice of the Peace, postmaster and township clerk. The house later operated as an inn called Young's Exchange on the Warren to Cleveland route, with a barroom in the west room and a ballroom upstairs. Five bays were added around 1835-1845 with a Greek Revival doorway, followed by three more bays to the west. Five-bay Federal and Greek Revival houses are common, but this extended facade is rare. The same family owned it for about 150 years.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thomas Fitch Young","architectural_style":"Greek Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as unoccupied at the time of nomination; it had served only as a private residence since around 1875, after earlier use as an inn.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.339092-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001511.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001511/5fb7565c3f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001511/5fb7565c3f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"JonRidinger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Young_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JonRidinger</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Young_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990975","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138648847"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/portage-county/young-thomas-f-house-76001511/"}