{"nrhp_refnum":"78002030","name":"Hoffman House","other_names":["Crestline Shunk Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 Thoman St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crestline","county":"Crawford County","state":"OH","lat":40.78575854800005,"lon":-82.73792322999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame Italianate house at 211 Thoman Street in Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio, built about 1860. It is probably the work of John Adam Thoman and now serves as a local historical museum.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a locally significant example of Italianate architecture. It has been nearly unchanged for over a century and keeps all its significant architectural elements. It is also the home of the Crestline Shunk Museum, which is the historical museum for Crawford County.","narrative":"Built around 1860 at 211 Thoman Street in Crestline, Ohio, this L-shaped wood-frame house is a local example of Italianate architecture. The main block has shiplap siding, a hipped shingled roof with a monitor, and carved wooden eave brackets shaped as ogee curves with egg-shaped pendants. Several one-story additions extend along the east side, one of which may once have been a summer kitchen. Two outbuildings remain: a smokehouse and a two-story barn. Land records suggest John A. Thoman, who laid out house lots in Crestline, may have built it. John Hoffman bought the property in 1874, and it stayed in his family until 1925. In 1953 philanthropist John Q. Shunk gave it to the Crestline Historical Society, which restored it as a museum with ten rooms. The house remains largely unaltered, and the nomination arose from a highway project review in Crestline.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a museum (Crestline Shunk Museum), owned by the Crestline Historical Society; condition listed as unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.933819-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002030.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002030/3bf69c9e91-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002030/3bf69c9e91-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"User:OHWiki","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoffman_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:OHWiki</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoffman_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987295","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137632225"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/crawford-county/hoffman-house-78002030/"}