{"nrhp_refnum":"78002115","name":"103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association Barracks","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5501 E. Lake Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sheffield Lake","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.50036855400003,"lon":-82.06929625399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame barracks building at 5501 East Lake Road in Sheffield Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, built around 1910 on the reunion grounds of the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association.","why_significant":"The building is tied to the 103rd O.V.I. Association, described as the sole surviving Civil War regimental association in America. It was one of the first structures on the association's lakefront reunion grounds. The form concedes it is not architecturally distinguished but calls it typical of turn-of-the-century resort buildings, with few alterations.","narrative":"This two-story wood frame barracks in Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was built around 1910 on lakefront grounds bought in 1907 by the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association. The regiment was organized in 1862 from volunteers in Lorain, Cuyahoga and Medina counties and mustered out in 1865. Its veterans and their descendants kept holding reunions, and the association is described as the only surviving Civil War regimental association in the country. The barracks offered sixteen small sleeping rooms, each about seven by ten feet, reached from long two-story porches on both sides. It has clapboard siding, simple wood trim and turned porch columns, though steel pipes replaced the original first-floor columns. Few changes have been made, unlike many neighboring reunion buildings. Little used as lodging today, it is deteriorating, and a memorial foundation is raising funds to convert it into a museum for the association's Civil War relics, keeping at least one room as a barracks room.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Fair condition and altered. It receives little use as a barracks and is deteriorating from disuse; a foundation plans to rehabilitate it as a museum and visitors center.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.133968-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002115.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002115/b9f0d8c5e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002115/b9f0d8c5e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Philip Sutherland","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:103rd_OVI_Infantry_Barracks_Museum.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Sutherland</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:103rd_OVI_Infantry_Barracks_Museum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989883","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_Ohio_Volunteer_Infantry_Association_Barracks","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4546486"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/103rd-ohio-volunteer-infantry-association-barracks-78002115/"}