{"nrhp_refnum":"76001549","name":"Kunkle Log House","other_names":["Young,Jacob,Log House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 mi. E of jct. CR 17 and 0","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kunkle","county":"Williams County","state":"OH","lat":41.63593683400006,"lon":-84.48210630899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half log house built in 1838 by Jacob Young near Kunkle, Williams County, Ohio, with a fieldstone foundation and full basement. It is being restored as a house museum.","why_significant":"It is believed to be the first permanent log residence in Williams County. Few log houses survive in northern Ohio, and fewer still in the northeast quarter, so it matters to the continuity of log construction in the state. It also has unusual features: a full basement with an inside entry, an exterior bake oven, a parson's cupboard and a \"borning\" room.","narrative":"Near Kunkle in Williams County, Ohio, this story-and-a-half log house was built in 1838 by Jacob Young, who came from Vermont with his family of eight children. It sits on a fieldstone foundation over a full basement with both inside and outside entrances. Inside are a kitchen with a beehive oven, a living room with a parson's cupboard where the family Bible was kept, a small borning room, and three upstairs bedrooms with black walnut woodwork and some original animal-hair plaster. An exterior bake oven stands on the west end. The house is believed to be the first permanent log residence in Williams County. Northeast Ohio was settled late, and few log houses survive in the northern half of the state. Young's descendants used the house for over a hundred years before it was donated to the Williams County Historical Society in 1972. Restoration as a house museum began in 1973.","period_of_significance":"1838","architect_builder":"Jacob Young","architectural_style":"Log cabin; vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Being restored as a house museum by the Williams County Historical Society since 1973; the form lists the property as unoccupied and vacant, with work in progress. Roof, logs and mortar have been replaced, while windows, doors and the exterior bake oven remain to be done.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.232372-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001549.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001549/d0ed7cf45f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001549/d0ed7cf45f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kunkle_Log_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kunkle_Log_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunkle_Log_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113518037"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/williams-county/kunkle-log-house-76001549/"}