{"nrhp_refnum":"77001059","name":"Cook, John, Farm","other_names":["Watts Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Harlem at Miller Paul Rd. and Gorsuch Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harlem","county":"Delaware County","state":"OH","lat":40.15159196400003,"lon":-82.82378161999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex east of Harlem in Harlem Township, Delaware County, Ohio, made up of an 1863 two-story farmhouse with an attached 1863 wing and three frame barns. It is what remains of a farm dating to 1805.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the remains of a once large early Ohio farm established by Benjamin Cook, the first permanent settler of Harlem Township. The 1860s house and three barns are described as tokens of early farming in a township now largely given over to housing developments.","narrative":"Set east of Harlem in Delaware County, Ohio, this farm complex includes a two-story farmhouse built in 1863, an attached one-story wing from the same year, and three frame barns on about 40 acres. The house has a flat-roofed entry porch with square columns, carved brackets, and an original iron fence, gate, and hitching post across the front. The wing housed married sons and their brides while the parents lived in the main house. The land was bought in 1805 by Benjamin Cook, a Connecticut native who became Harlem Township's first permanent settler and kept about 600 acres for himself. His son John took over in 1839, raised cattle and grains, and built the house and barns. Later generations farmed it until 1973. Most of the original acreage has been sold as the area turned to housing, so the surviving house and barns stand as evidence of early farming in the township.","period_of_significance":"1863","architect_builder":"John Cook","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition and altered; the house and barns are still standing. Cattle, sheep and hog barns have been torn down.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.238146-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001059.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001059/0f4b133b2a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001059/0f4b133b2a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Cook_Farm,_Harlem_Township.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</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:John_Cook_Farm,_Harlem_Township.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988028","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137762866"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/delaware-county/cook-john-farm-77001059/"}