{"nrhp_refnum":"79001871","name":"Madison Seminary And Home","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Madison at 6769 Middle Ridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Lake County","state":"OH","lat":41.79042683400007,"lon":-81.04555200599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of nineteenth-century brick buildings on Middle Ridge Road north of Madison, Madison Township, Lake County, Ohio: a Greek Revival seminary building (1859) and a Romanesque Revival 'Ohio Cottage' (1891), joined by a 1959 connecting addition.","why_significant":"The buildings housed two important nineteenth-century institutions, one educational (Madison Seminary) and one charitable (a home for Civil War nurses, widows and children, later Madison Home). Both are described as being of excellent architectural quality, in Greek Revival and Romanesque styles. Together they convey nineteenth-century ideals of social and community improvement as a unified ensemble.","narrative":"Two brick institutional buildings on Middle Ridge Road in Madison Township, Lake County, Ohio, form this complex, joined by a one-story addition built in 1959. The east building, erected in 1859, is a three-story Greek Revival structure that housed Madison Seminary, chartered in 1845 to offer private higher education. Its portico with four Tuscan columns was added around 1904. The west building, a larger Romanesque Revival structure of 1891, features a rusticated sandstone basement, round-arched openings and the words 'Ohio Cottage' carved over the center arch. It was built after the National Women's Relief Corps bought the property in 1889 to create a home for Civil War army nurses and the widows and children of veterans. The State of Ohio took over the home in 1904 and named it Madison Home. Later uses included a mental health rehabilitation center from 1962 to 1975. Lake County purchased the buildings in 1977 for conversion to offices.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (east building, 1859) and Romanesque Revival (west building, 1891)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Lake County, which bought the buildings in 1977; they were being renovated for use as offices at the time of nomination, and the form checks the work-in-progress status.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:13.071642-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001871.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001871/61645ddef8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001871/61645ddef8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6769_Middle_Ridge_Rd.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</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:6769_Middle_Ridge_Rd.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989585","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Seminary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101239378"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lake-county/madison-seminary-and-home-79001871/"}