{"nrhp_refnum":"78002138","name":"Wallischeck Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Fort Recovery","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Recovery","county":"Mercer County","state":"OH","lat":40.44436840050005,"lon":-84.80149310903352,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nineteenth-century brick farm homestead near Fort Recovery in Mercer County, Ohio, made up of a story-and-a-half brick house and a group of outbuildings. The family built the house between 1866 and 1880.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house and support buildings represent a typical farm from the turn of the century and a 19th-century German immigrant farm complex. The house is described as an outstanding example of German vernacular architecture with rare stencilling in its original plaster. The complex shows how a homestead developed over about 100 years.","narrative":"This homestead lies in woodland near Fort Recovery in Mercer County, Ohio, close to the Indiana line. Philo Wallischeck and his wife came from Baden, Germany, and settled the farm in 1855. Between 1866 and 1880 the family built the story-and-a-half brick house, using bricks made on the site. Its interior is the main point of interest: walnut woodwork cut from the farm, a wide center hall, and stencil painting applied to the rough plaster in the hall and main living room. The blue and green leaf and flower patterns and gold window outlines were never painted over. Surrounding the house are outbuildings arranged as they were used for decades, including a summer kitchen and wash house, smoke house and bake oven, brick henhouse, hand-hewn barn, and a butchering vat. The nomination describes the property as a typical turn-of-the-century farm and a good example of German vernacular building, noting that the family lived in the house for about a century without changing the interior.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Philo Wallischeck","architectural_style":"German vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied at the time of nomination by the last family member, with a note that the property would become vacant and vulnerable when she left. The house had no running water, bathroom or furnace, though it had electricity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.502587-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002138.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002138/fc5e6d7b88-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002138/fc5e6d7b88-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallischeck_Homestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallischeck_Homestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallischeck_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7963150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mercer-county/wallischeck-homestead-78002138/"}