{"nrhp_refnum":"77001055","name":"Beir, Anna, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"214 E. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenville","county":"Darke County","state":"OH","lat":40.10222302300008,"lon":-84.62979018299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Victorian vernacular house at 214 East Fourth Street in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, built around 1865 by Conrad Beir, a tailor and part-time pastor.","why_significant":"The house is a typical nineteenth-century middle-class tradesman's residence. It was also the home of Anna Beir, who founded the Greenville Art Guild in 1937 and supervised art in the city's schools for 36 years. She left the house to the City of Greenville for use as an art museum.","narrative":"This two-story brick house at 214 East Fourth Street in Greenville, Ohio, was built around 1865, at the end of the Civil War, by Conrad Beir, a tailor and part-time pastor of the German Methodist Church. It is a plain rectangular Victorian vernacular building on a stone rubble foundation, with a three-bay facade, six-over-six sash windows under stone lintels, and a stone doorway surround with a bracketed cornice. Its later significance comes from his daughter, Anna Beir, born in the house in 1873. She served 36 years as art supervisor in the Greenville schools and was the founding spirit of the Greenville Art Guild in 1937. After her death in 1939 the house passed to the City of Greenville as a bequest for an art museum. It remains city-owned and serves as a cultural center for the art guild, though the nomination noted the brickwork needed repointing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Conrad Beir (builder, per the significance statement)","architectural_style":"Victorian vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Greenville; listed as occupied and used as a museum and cultural center (art guild). The description notes the brick needs repointing and the structure is seriously in need of maintenance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.729305-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001055.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001055/0841bdadc7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001055/0841bdadc7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Beir_House,_Greenville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Beir_House,_Greenville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987995","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Beir_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4766842"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/darke-county/beir-anna-house-77001055/"}