{"nrhp_refnum":"79001909","name":"Baughman Memorial Park","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"W of Frazeysburg on OH 586","address_restricted":false,"city":"Frazeysburg","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":40.110887072000054,"lon":-82.1797779219093,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 65-acre rural park in Jackson Township, about three miles west of Frazeysburg, Muskingum County, Ohio, holding sandstone statues carved by Daniel Brice Baughman between about 1898 and 1927, along with several early farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as the open-air gallery of a local folk artist whose work has been known in this part of Ohio for over sixty years. Baughman had no formal training and carved statues of presidents, Civil War figures and the Doughboy for fraternal and veterans' groups. The park drew large crowds, including 3,640 automobiles on the day the Harding statue was dedicated in 1927. It is rated locally significant.","narrative":"Baughman Memorial Park is a 65-acre site west of Frazeysburg in Muskingum County, Ohio, where undertaker and quarryman Daniel Brice Baughman carved large sandstone statues from native rock. Born in 1874, he began carving figures in quarry outcroppings in the 1880s and made full statues from the 1890s. The park holds ten larger-than-life figures, among them McKinley, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Sherman, Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Harding and the American Doughboy, plus smaller carvings. Most were dedicated by fraternal or veterans' groups, and Baughman never charged for his work or took commissions. Crowds visited from across the state; 3,640 autos entered the park on the day the Harding statue was dedicated in 1927. Early farm buildings also stand on the grounds, including a log house, a log crib and a barn converted to a funeral parlor and later a residence. The park was listed as the work of a self-taught folk artist, with local significance.","period_of_significance":"c. 1899-1927","architect_builder":"Daniel Brice Baughman (sculptor)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good, fair, altered and unaltered. The old Baughman log house is described as vacant. The owners intend to preserve the statues and buildings as an outdoor sculpture museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.06753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001909.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990781","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/baughman-memorial-park-79001909/"}