{"nrhp_refnum":"76001550","name":"East River Road Historic District II","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"577 E. Front St. to 28589 E. River Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perrysburg and","county":"Wood County","state":"OH","lat":41.56582095600007,"lon":-83.6183765337471,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of five large estate houses strung along about half a mile of the north side of East River Road (Ohio Route 65) beside the Maumee River near Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. The houses date from about 1915 to 1940.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district shows the economic peak reached by Toledo's industrial and legal leaders, including figures tied to Libbey-Owens-Ford, Owens-Illinois and Champion Spark Plug. It also notes the unusual concentration of palatial country estates in one place, and the group's range of period revival styles. The estates are described as reminders of Toledo's growth as a major commercial center.","narrative":"Five grand estate houses line the north side of East River Road beside the Maumee River near Perrysburg, Ohio. Built between about 1915 and 1940, they began as summer places for Toledo families and became year-round homes after World War I. Each reflects a different fashionable style: an Italianate villa, a half-timbered Tudor house, a French Renaissance Revival mansion, a second Tudor-style house and a Colonial Revival house with Federal-style outbuildings. Toledo, Cleveland and New York architects and landscape designers shaped them. Their original owners included glass-industry pioneers, lawyers and a Champion Spark Plug executive, people tied to companies such as Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois. The district was listed because it records the wealth of Toledo's industrial leaders and because so many palatial country estates were grouped so closely together. The houses remain private residences and are described as largely unchanged from their original appearance.","period_of_significance":"C. 1915-1940","architect_builder":"George Rheinfrank; Mills, Rhines, Bellman and Nordhoff; George L. Walling; Harry W. Wachter, assisted by Thomas Best and Horace Wachter; Olmstead Brothers, Ellen Shipman and Arthur Berger (landscape); Alfred Hopkins (outbuildings); Helen Irwin (interiors)","architectural_style":"Italianate villa adaptation, Tudor/Jacobethan Revival, French Renaissance Revival, Colonial Revival and Federal (outbuildings)","criteria":[],"status_note":"All five houses are privately owned and used as residences; the form says they remain remarkably unchanged from their original appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.008544-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001550.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992052","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wood-county/east-river-road-historic-district-ii-76001550/"}