{"nrhp_refnum":"78002145","name":"Gummer House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1428 Huffman Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.75731341000005,"lon":-84.14304437399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-02-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large Spanish Revival house at 1428 Huffman Avenue in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, built in 1913 and designed by local architect Lewis Printz.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the best Spanish Revival house in Dayton and notes it predates the usual start of the style's movement in America by two years. The design is reportedly taken from the Villa Ammerberg in Oberammergau, Germany. It also housed about fifteen refugees during the 1913 flood.","narrative":"Built in 1913 at 1428 Huffman Avenue in Dayton, this large Spanish Revival house has an irregular plan, a low red tile hip roof, a five-bay arcaded porch with semicircular arches, and a four-story towerlike section at the rear. Local architect Lewis Printz reportedly took the design from the Villa Ammerberg in Oberammergau, Germany. Henry Burkhardt gave the house to his daughter Susan as a wedding gift; her husband Charles Gummer owned the Clermont Stove Factory. Finished just before the great flood of 1913, it sheltered about fifteen refugees. The interior is unusually well preserved, with original chandeliers, imported woodwork and paneling, period bathroom fixtures and a custom walk-in refrigerator. The third floor was designed as an apartment for Mrs. Gummer's sister. The nomination judges it the best Spanish Revival house in Dayton, and it predates the usual start of the style's movement in America by two years. Mrs. Gummer left the house to a sorority.","period_of_significance":"1913","architect_builder":"Lewis Printz","architectural_style":"Spanish Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition; interior architecture unusually well preserved; used as a sorority club.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.223136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002145.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002145/d681d619c5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002145/d681d619c5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gummer_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gummer_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990450","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138632646"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/gummer-house-78002145/"}