{"nrhp_refnum":"79001917","name":"Kearns, George and Edward, Houses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"306 and 320 Luck Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.93516643700008,"lon":-82.01784201699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two late nineteenth-century residences at 306 and 320 Luck Avenue in Zanesville, Ohio: a brick Italianate house (c. 1885) and a wood frame Queen Anne house with Eastlake influence (1891), both built for the Kearns glass-manufacturing family.","why_significant":"The houses are nominated as residences of early Zanesville glass manufacturers and as well-preserved examples of late nineteenth century elite architecture. The 1891 house is an intact Queen Anne building with Eastlake influence, while the c. 1885 house draws its character from the Victorian Italianate. They are tied to Zanesville's glass manufacturing heritage.","narrative":"Two houses on Luck Avenue in Zanesville, Ohio, record the family and fortunes of a local glass-making dynasty. The brick house at 320 Luck Avenue, dated to about 1885, was built for George W. Kearns, a Pittsburgh native who came to Zanesville in 1842 and spent over sixty years in glass production. It is L-shaped with an Italianate character, a decorated porch, and a walnut and oak spiral stair. A barn with a cupola stands nearby. The wood frame house at 306 Luck Avenue was built in 1891 for his son, C. Edward Kearns. It shows Queen Anne form with Eastlake details, a three-story tower, half-timbered gables set with colored glass, and stained glass windows that were probably made by the family firm. A fireplace with Zanesville-made Mosaic Tile survives inside. Together the houses illustrate the wealth that glass manufacturing brought to the city and the architecture favored by its business families in the late 1800s.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne with Eastlake influence (306 Luck Avenue); Victorian Italianate (320 Luck Avenue)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both houses are listed as occupied private residences in good condition and altered. The 320 Luck Avenue house was remodeled as apartments in 1936.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.143147-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001917.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/71990743","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/kearns-george-and-edward-houses-79001917/"}