{"nrhp_refnum":"78002159","name":"Christman, Nicholas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"532 Wayne Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.93098702100008,"lon":-82.00116165499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Italianate brick residence at 532 Wayne Avenue in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, built in 1873-1874 on a limestone foundation. J.Y. Smeltzer is named as builder/architect.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the best-preserved examples of Victorian Italianate residential architecture in Zanesville. Richly detailed Italianate houses like it have mostly disappeared, though the style is still fairly common in the commercial district. Its little-altered interior adds to its importance for Zanesville and Muskingum County.","narrative":"Built in 1873-1874 at a cost of $2,900, this Italianate brick house at 532 Wayne Avenue in Zanesville sits on a limestone foundation and a terraced hillside. It is a two-and-a-half-story rectangle with a projecting front bay, a slate hip roof, a one-story kitchen wing, and a richly bracketed cornice. Round-arched windows with heavy carved lintels line the front and sides, and the main door has etched colored glass in its transom and sidelights. Inside, plaster cornices and unpainted oak and chestnut woodwork survive, with only sensitive alterations such as a modern kitchen and bathroom. The house was built for Nicholas Christman, a Bavarian-born merchant tailor who arrived in Zanesville in 1854, and it has stayed in his family ever since. It was listed because it is among the best-preserved Victorian Italianate homes in the city, where such ornate residences have largely vanished, and because its interior remains so little changed.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"J.Y. Smeltzer","architectural_style":"Italianate (Victorian Italianate)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, occupied; interior described as little altered and the house has remained in the Christman family since construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.893263-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002159.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002159/d84258cd67-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002159/d84258cd67-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Christopher L. Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicholas_Christman_House_%E2%80%94_Zanesville,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher L. Riley</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:Nicholas_Christman_House_%E2%80%94_Zanesville,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990731","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138645455"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/christman-nicholas-house-78002159/"}