{"nrhp_refnum":"79001946","name":"Umsted Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Tiffin on SR 38","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.168506241000046,"lon":-83.16051989390054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex north of Tiffin in Seneca County, Ohio, made up of an Italianate brick farmhouse, a log cabin, a bank barn and several smaller outbuildings. The cabin dates from between 1832 and 1846, the barn from 1853 (moved and converted in 1900), and the house from the Civil War era.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant for its architecture, including a log cabin built later than those normally found in the Tiffin area and an excellent example of rural vernacular Italianate architecture in the farmhouse. It is also important as the home of the Umsted family, early settlers and primarily farmers. The buildings show changes from the 1830s to 1911 and suggest the family were prosperous farmers.","narrative":"North of Tiffin in Seneca County, Ohio, this farm complex contains buildings from more than eighty years of continuous agricultural use. The earliest is a steeple-notched log cabin built between 1832 and 1846, unusually late for the area, where brick and sawn lumber were already available. The Umsted family moved into it in 1846. During the Civil War, Ephraim Umsted built a two-story Italianate brick house with a bracketed cornice and stone lintels. A bank barn dates to 1853 and was moved and converted in 1900 by Lafayette Umsted. A brick wood shed and smokehouse, a wagon shed and corn crib, and other farm buildings complete the group. The land was part of the Seneca reservation until 1832, then passed through Jacob Stem to the Umsteds in 1840. The property was listed for its architecture, its record of vernacular building from the 1830s to 1911, and its link to an early farming family.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Ephraim Umsted (builder of the farmhouse); Lafayette Umsted (moved and converted the barn in 1900)","architectural_style":"Italianate (brick farmhouse); vernacular farm complex with log cabin","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in agricultural and private residence use; the log cabin has been empty for many years and is in fair condition, and the chicken house is vacant. Tenant farmers have worked the farm since 1945.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:11.88305-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001946.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001946/a561ac29f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001946/a561ac29f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Christopher L. Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Umsted_House_%E2%80%94_Seneca_County,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher L. Riley</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:Umsted_House_%E2%80%94_Seneca_County,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991275","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138673041"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/umsted-farm-79001946/"}