{"nrhp_refnum":"76001531","name":"Miller, Lewis, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"142 King Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Akron","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.084580937000055,"lon":-81.52295628199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A very large three-story brick mansion at 142 King Drive in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, built in 1870 for industrialist Lewis Miller, in High Victorian Italianate style with Eastlake detailing.","why_significant":"The house is significant as the home of Akron industrialist Lewis Miller, inventor of the Buckeye Mower and Reaper and co-founder of the Chautauqua Association. His daughter Mina married Thomas A. Edison in the house in 1886. The design is also described as advanced for its time and place, matching Miller's role as an innovator.","narrative":"Built in 1870 at 142 King Drive in Akron, this very large three-story brick mansion combines High Victorian Italianate massing with Eastlake-style incised ornament on its great gables. Inside are twelve-foot ceilings, heavily molded segmental-arched doors and windows, marble mantelpieces, a servants' stair and spacious third-floor servants' quarters. Around 1900 a second-floor room was remodeled in Neo-Classic Revival style. The house was built for Lewis Miller, an Akron industrialist who invented the Buckeye Mower and Reaper, co-founded the Chautauqua Association in 1874, and devised the \"Akron plan\" for Sunday school buildings. His daughter Mina married Thomas A. Edison here in 1886, and Miller's son lived in the house until 1917. The building has since been divided into about twenty apartments, yet much of its interior detail, including folding shutters, remains intact.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1870; 1886)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate with Eastlake detailing; a later write-up calls it Picturesque Eclectic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and altered; divided into about twenty small apartments, with much interior detail intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.032688-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001531.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001531/d85a05b7a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001531/d85a05b7a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ironman44320","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Miller_House_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ironman44320</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Miller_House_front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991597","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104283651"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/miller-lewis-house-76001531/"}