{"nrhp_refnum":"78002084","name":"Warder, John Aston, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of North Bend off Shady Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Bend","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15204369350005,"lon":-84.73169944957391,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story stone residence known as \"Aston,\" on Warder Lane off Shady Lane, east of North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio. It was built by John Aston Warder, with dates given as 1855 and ca. 1870, on a 233-acre planted estate.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the property to Dr. John Aston Warder, founder and first president of the American Forestry Association in 1875, and a pioneer in forestry, botany and fruit research. The farm is described as the first fruit experiment station in the Middle West and the first forestry station in the United States. The house is also cited as a fine example of nineteenth-century stone residential architecture with excellent craftsmanship.","narrative":"Aston is a two-and-a-half-story stone house east of North Bend, Ohio, built by Dr. John Aston Warder, who intended an English manor-type residence. Its walls are coursed, rock-faced stone quarried from the bed of Indian Creek, with lighter stone string courses, stone voussoirs over the windows, original shutters, a tile roof and stone bay windows. A stone outbuilding stands near the east end. The house sits within 233 acres that Warder planted with many trees and shrubs not native to the area, and many still remain. Warder, a physician born in Philadelphia in 1812, moved to North Bend in 1855 and used the farm for experiments in fruit and forestry. He described the catalpa speciosa, published a major work on apples in 1867, and in 1875 organized the American Forestry Association, serving as its first president. The property is valued for this conservation history and for its fine stonework.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"John Aston Warder","architectural_style":"English manor-type house (nineteenth-century stone residential architecture)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, unaltered and in private residential use at the time of nomination; a 1995 request to decrease the boundary was rejected.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.208618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002084.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002084/81e24a0bcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002084/81e24a0bcd-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Oaks_Golf_Course.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Oaks_Golf_Course.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aston_Warder_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6219656"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/warder-john-aston-house-78002084/"}