{"nrhp_refnum":"79001887","name":"Jewett, Frank, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"73 S. Professor St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oberlin","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.29000083600005,"lon":-82.21944059899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Science"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house at 73 South Professor Street in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, built in 1884 and still on its original site. It was later joined on its lot by two other relocated historic buildings, which were excluded from the final listing.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its association with Frank Fanning Jewett, a distinguished Oberlin College chemistry professor who lived there for over forty years. Among his students was Charles M. Hall, who discovered the electrolytic process for making aluminum. The house also survives in a good state of preservation with few alterations.","narrative":"Built in 1884, this two-story brick house on South Professor Street in Oberlin, Ohio, reflects the shift from Italianate forms to the Queen Anne style. It has tall, narrow windows with segmental brick arches, restrained wood trim, and brackets at the eaves. The larger front porch was added in 1891 and shows stick-style construction. Inside, a spacious entrance hall leads to front and rear parlors and a dining room, with a stained glass window at the stair landing and finely crafted woodwork. The house is mainly noted for Frank Fanning Jewett, who came to Oberlin College in 1884 to teach chemistry after training at Yale, Harvard and in Germany. He bought the unfinished house that year, completed it, and lived there until his death in 1926. His home often hosted student gatherings, and his students included Charles M. Hall, discoverer of the electrolytic aluminum process. The house remains well preserved with few alterations.","period_of_significance":"1884","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Transition from Italianate forms to the Queen Anne style, with a stick-style front porch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition with few alterations; owned by a local historical organization and listed as occupied and used as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.6801-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001887/6928212613-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001887/6928212613-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Chris Light","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hall_-_Jewett_House_P5080640.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Light</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:Hall_-_Jewett_House_P5080640.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000324","name":"Downtown Oberlin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-oberlin-historic-district-03000324/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989863","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138515014"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/jewett-frank-house-79001887/"}