{"nrhp_refnum":"79001796","name":"Lee, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"306 4th St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coshocton","county":"Coshocton County","state":"OH","lat":40.27661420900006,"lon":-81.86497351499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal style wood frame house with a rear brick wing at 306 Fourth Street, Coshocton, Ohio, probably built around 1830 by Dr. Samuel Lee. The nominated property also includes a two-story brick carriage barn on a roughly 0.75-acre site.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its architecture: a rare Federal style house in Ohio with a very rare two-story portico on fluted Roman Doric columns. It also notes the Italianate overlay added in the 1870s, and its history as one of the town's earliest buildings, home of Coshocton's first doctor and later a cabinet works.","narrative":"Built probably around 1830 for Dr. Samuel Lee, Coshocton's first doctor, this house at 306 Fourth Street is a wood frame Federal style building on a stone foundation. Its most striking feature is a two-story portico with fluted Roman Doric columns and a pediment holding a semi-elliptical fan light. A two-story brick wing at the rear gives the plan a T shape, and a two-story brick carriage barn stands on the grounds. The Dewey brothers acquired the property in 1846 and ran a cabinet factory here, and the brick section may have been built for that purpose. The Wilson family bought it around the Civil War and expanded and remodeled it about 1877, adding Italianate doors, marble fireplaces, sliding doors and a connecting frame section. The nomination values the house for its rare Federal design, the Italianate overlay, and its early place in town history. When documented, it had stood abandoned for about thirteen years, and a senior center restoration was planned.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, with Italianate alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as deteriorating after about thirteen years of abandonment and neglect, though thoroughly cleaned, with a restoration planned for use as a senior social center. Owned by the county commissioners.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.705131-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001796.pdf"},"photo":null,"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/71987277","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/coshocton-county/lee-samuel-house-79001796/"}