{"nrhp_refnum":"77001062","name":"Bepler, August, House","other_names":["Holly Ridge","The Beiser Residence"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"805 Tusculum Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.116351318000056,"lon":-84.42528178699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and a half story frame house known as Holly Ridge at 805 Tusculum Avenue in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built in 1869 for August Bepler on nearly five acres of land.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent and well-preserved example of Classical Revival architecture, a style described as not abundant in the area. It is the oldest remaining house in the Mt. Tusculum section of Cincinnati. It was built as the home of August Bepler, inventor of the flat-bottomed paper bag and the machine that made it.","narrative":"Holly Ridge, at 805 Tusculum Avenue in Cincinnati, is a two and a half story frame house dated to 1869, set on nearly five acres screened by greenery. Its facade is dominated by a two-story portico of four fluted pseudo-Corinthian columns, with a classical entrance, a Palladian window and a widow's walk on the truncated gable roof. Inside, the central hall stair and parquet floors survive. The house was built for August Bepler, an emigrant who came to Cincinnati in 1851 and is credited with inventing the flat-bottomed paper bag and the machine that cut and folded it. After seeing a relative's home in St. Louis designed by an architect named Griffiths, he had the same design built here on land bought from Joseph Longworth. It is the oldest remaining house in the Mt. Tusculum section and a well-preserved example of Classical Revival style. The house stayed in the family for 106 years, with changes made after a 1917 tornado, in 1928-29 and in 1953.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Griffiths","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, occupied; the interior is described as retaining its original central hall stair and parquet floors and being in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.335293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001062.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001062/b206584cda-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001062/b206584cda-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_Bepler_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_Bepler_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989111","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Bepler_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4820647"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/bepler-august-house-77001062/"}