{"nrhp_refnum":"79001975","name":"Wright, Dr. Aaron, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 W. Central Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springboro","county":"Warren County","state":"OH","lat":39.55773696800003,"lon":-84.23818720499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large frame country house at 155 West Central Avenue on the western edge of Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, built in 1857 for Dr. Aaron Wright. It sits on a 2-acre lot with a bank barn and a combined shop and smokehouse.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a first-rate example of the large country residences built in Ohio in the third quarter of the 19th century, with offset towers and heavily bracketed cornices. It is also an important link to Miami Valley College, a Quaker work-study school Wright helped found and served as first president.","narrative":"Built in 1857 for Dr. Aaron Wright, this frame house on West Central Avenue in Springboro is a large country residence with three two-story offset blocks joined by a central three-story tower. Its white siding, bracketed cornices, full-width front porch with cut-out paneled columns, and multiple gables reflect Victorian handbook designs popular in Ohio in the 1850s through 1870s. Inside are walnut woodwork, marble mantels, and an original pull-type doorbell linked by pulleys and cables to bells upstairs. A bank barn and a shop-smokehouse remain on the two-acre lot. Wright, a Yale-trained physician and son of Springboro's founder, returned to the village in 1857. He became first president of Miami Valley College, founded by Quakers in 1869 to combine academics with daily work. The college building across the road was demolished after the school closed in 1883. The house stayed in the Wright family until 1906 and has changed little since the 19th century.","period_of_significance":"1857","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th century country residence with Victorian-handbook features (reviewer notes call it a large Italianate country house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied private residence in excellent condition, largely unaltered and very well maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.797573-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001975.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001975/a71e8a8a1f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001975/a71e8a8a1f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Aaron_Wright_House_Springboro_OH_USA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Aaron_Wright_House_Springboro_OH_USA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Aaron_Wright_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303947"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/warren-county/wright-dr-aaron-house-79001975/"}