{"nrhp_refnum":"76001522","name":"Gurney-Kochheiser House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"174 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bellville","county":"Richland County","state":"OH","lat":40.61914188800006,"lon":-82.51145769499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 174 Main Street in Bellville, Richland County, Ohio, built around 1879 for Oliver H. Gurney. It has an L-shaped plan and a low hip roof, and is a private residence.","why_significant":"The house is an example of small-town Italianate architecture, with carved and scroll-sawn brackets that the form calls among the finest in the area and unusual in their placement. The brackets and trim were made by the Howard Mill, a planing mill that supplied fancy wood moldings across Richland County. It is also tied to Oliver H. Gurney, a prominent local citizen.","narrative":"Built around 1879 at 174 Main Street in Bellville, this two-story frame house sits on a locally quarried sandstone foundation and has an L-shaped plan, white-painted overlapping wood siding, and a low hip roof with a central chimney. Its character comes from carved wood trim: scroll-sawn hardwood brackets, paneled frieze, bracketed entrance and bay windows, and metal-roofed bays shaped as half hips of ogival arches. The bracket spacing is uneven and unusual for the area. The brackets came from the Howard Mill, a planing mill that supplied decorative moldings across Richland County. The mill owner's daughter married Oliver H. Gurney, for whom the house was built. Gurney ran a hardware store, made rakes, served as railroad station master, and conducted the first B&O passenger train out of Chicago. A 1879 newspaper cited the house as a sign of the village's economic improvement. It was listed for its architecture, as a small-town version of a popular style.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date ca. 1879)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, altered; the interior is much altered and the rear has one-story additions, a garage and a shed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.072016-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001522.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001522/0093fad6ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001522/0093fad6ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"User:OHWiki","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gurney-Kochheiser_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:OHWiki</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gurney-Kochheiser_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991120","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138657549"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/richland-county/gurney-kochheiser-house-76001522/"}