{"nrhp_refnum":"77001056","name":"Garst House","other_names":["The Garst Museum","Coover's Inn"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"205 N. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenville","county":"Darke County","state":"OH","lat":40.106960204000075,"lon":-84.63678211299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick early Victorian Ohio country-style house at 205 North Broadway in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, built in 1852 as Coover's Inn beside the new Greenville and Miami Railroad and now used as a museum with attached gallery wings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-proportioned example of early Victorian country architecture typical of 1850s Darke County. It is tied to the growth of commerce and the railroads through its origin as a railroad inn. It also serves as a museum holding a valuable local history collection.","narrative":"Built in 1852 by George Coover beside the newly constructed Greenville and Miami Railroad, this two-story brick house in Greenville, Ohio, began as an inn for railroad travelers. It sits on a stone foundation and has a three-bay facade, a c.1900 porch with paired neo-classical columns, 6/6 double-hung windows with stone lintels and sills, and a sheet metal gable roof. Coover died in a stagecoach accident in 1857, and his brother sold the house in 1861 to John Hufnagle, who gave it to his daughter, Miranda Garst. Her heirs donated it to the Darke County Historical Society in 1946. It now operates as a museum, with one-story gallery wings added in 1967. The collection includes Howard Chandler Christy's painting of the 1795 Greenville Treaty, Native American and Indian wars artifacts, and memorabilia of Annie Oakley and Lowell Thomas. The house is valued as a plain, well-built example of 1850s vernacular architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date 1852)","architect_builder":"George Coover (builder)","architectural_style":"Early Victorian Ohio country style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition and in use as a museum (Garst Museum); altered by museum additions built in 1967 and a c.1935 frame addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.320275-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001056.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001056/bb993a3183-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001056/bb993a3183-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garst_Museum.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garst_Museum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987977","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garst_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5524294"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/darke-county/garst-house-77001056/"}