{"nrhp_refnum":"79001784","name":"Boesel, Adolph, House","other_names":["Alfred Rabe House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 S. Franklin St","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bremen","county":"Auglaize County","state":"OH","lat":40.43462755500008,"lon":-84.38356438699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne style house with Eastlake ornamentation at 110 South Franklin Street in New Bremen, Auglaize County, Ohio, built in 1898 for banker Adolph Boesel.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest and best preserved example of Queen Anne style with Eastlake detailing in its region, unaltered from its original blueprints. It also reflects the wealth of the turn of the century, when New Bremen was a major pork packing town on the Miami-Erie Canal. It was built by the town's most prominent family.","narrative":"Built in 1898, this Queen Anne house on South Franklin Street in New Bremen, Ohio, carries elaborate Eastlake ornamentation. Its most striking feature is an eight-sided third-story tower with paired finials, set above a three-sided bay. A steep south gable, small triangular balconies, a sunburst design and a delicate porch with ten turned posts and spindlework give the facade a light, fanciful look. Slate roofing and bands of imbricated shingles add texture. The house was built for Adolph Boesel, president of the First City Bank, right after the 1896 death of his father Jacob. The Boesels were New Bremen's leading family, involved in banking, grain shipping, pork packing and the Miami-Erie Canal. The house is described as the finest and best preserved Queen Anne with Eastlake detailing in its region and as unchanged from its original blueprints. The Boesels lived there until about 1930, and the Rabe family, local hardware and manufacturing business people, bought it in 1940.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne with Eastlake ornamentation","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; the form says it remains exactly as constructed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.565521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001784.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001784/71fa44ba2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001784/71fa44ba2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dhelmstetter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolph_Boesel_House_at_its_current_site_in_New_Bremen,_Ohio,_2014.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dhelmstetter</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:Adolph_Boesel_House_at_its_current_site_in_New_Bremen,_Ohio,_2014.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986763","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Boesel_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4684318"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/auglaize-county/boesel-adolph-house-79001784/"}