{"nrhp_refnum":"79001886","name":"Burrell-King House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"317 E. College St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oberlin","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.290954845000044,"lon":-82.20584307699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Greek Revival house at 317 East College Street, Oberlin, Ohio, built in 1852 on a lot of about two acres, with a late nineteenth-century wooden carriage barn.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Jabez Lyman Burrell, who built it and was one of Oberlin College's first trustees, and to Henry Churchill King, who served as college president from 1902 to 1927. It is also Oberlin's largest domestic example of Greek Revival architecture and one of few surviving pre-Civil War buildings associated with the college.","narrative":"Built in 1852 on a spacious lot in eastern Oberlin, this two-story brick house is the city's largest domestic example of Greek Revival architecture. It has a gable end facing the street, a massive entablature with dentil detailing, and a rear wing added later. Around the turn of the century a semicircular classical porch, a porte cochere and a side porch were added, giving the house a Neo-Georgian appearance while its Greek Revival character remains visible. Jabez Lyman Burrell, one of Oberlin College's first trustees, had the house built. In 1886 the college sold it to professor Henry Churchill King, who served as college president from 1902 to 1927, the longest term in its history. During that time the house became the center of the college's official social life, and many townspeople still call it the President's House. It has been restored as a residence, and a wooden carriage barn survives on the grounds.","period_of_significance":"1852","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, with early twentieth-century Neo-Georgian alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored and in use as a residence; offices were removed from the house. A new building on the grounds, excluded from the nomination, is used as a child care facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.81692-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001886.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001886/b01c22cf4a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001886/b01c22cf4a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burrell-King_House_from_street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burrell-King_House_from_street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989817","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138514963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/burrell-king-house-79001886/"}