{"nrhp_refnum":"79001943","name":"Michaels Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Kansas on OH 635","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kansas","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.23064773100003,"lon":-83.28227545045053,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A working farm complex near Kansas, Seneca County, Ohio, centered on a red brick farmhouse built in 1878 and including an earlier Greek Revival frame house, barns and other outbuildings on about 79.7 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex shows the range of local farmhouse types, from early Greek Revival frame buildings to the more substantial brick houses of the 1870s with Italianate porch features. The brick house is one of few in the area. The farm has also been worked continuously for almost 150 years by the related Michaels and Dicken families, with early heavy machinery use in 1916.","narrative":"Michaels Farm, near Kansas in Seneca County, Ohio, is a working farm of about 80 acres whose buildings span much of the area's agricultural history. The main building is a two-story red brick farmhouse completed in 1878, with a hipped roof, bracketed cornice, segmental-arched windows, and a front porch with decorated brackets and a pressed tin ceiling. Nearby stands an earlier wood frame house with Greek Revival features, thought to date from about 1850. Barns, a chicken house, a garage, an outhouse and a corn crib complete the farmstead. The land was granted to members of the Dicken family in the early 1830s and later passed to Isaac and Margaret Jane Michaels, who built the brick house. The farm is notable for its mix of early and later vernacular buildings, for a brick house rare in the area, and for nearly 150 years of continuous farming, from horse-drawn work to mechanized grain production.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (frame house); brick farmhouse with Italianate features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a working farm; the brick house is rented as a residence. The Greek Revival house and chicken house are used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.629547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001943.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001943/0407a52cdc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001943/0407a52cdc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaels_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaels_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991273","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaels_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15253314"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/michaels-farm-79001943/"}