{"nrhp_refnum":"79002690","name":"Whitmer, Frieda, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5530 Houchard Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amlin","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.07924626300007,"lon":-83.19748435399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick residence at 5530 Houchard Road near Amlin, in Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio, dated to about 1860 on an Ohio Historic Inventory sheet.","why_significant":"The inventory sheet files it under local history and 19th-century architecture. It has a patterned slate roof in three colors, stone lintels and sills, and scalloped ends. The bricks are said to have been made on site, and the house is reportedly contemporary with two nearby brick homes.","narrative":"This two-story brick house on Houchard Road near Amlin, in Washington Township, Franklin County, was built around 1860 as a residence. It sits on a stone rubble foundation with a basement and has brick walls, a plain wall treatment and a patterned slate roof in three colors. Stone lintels and sills frame the openings, and the roof ends are scalloped. The front shows two doors on the first floor and two bricked-up windows on the second. A one-story rear wing has a modern addition. The house stands among flat farm fields at the edge of an active farm, set back about 150 feet from the road. Local accounts hold that the bricks were made on the site and that the house was built at about the same time as two nearby brick homes. It was recorded in a township survey of historic resources under the themes of local history and nineteenth-century architecture, and it was later entered on the national list in 1979.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The inventory sheet lists the present use as vacant, but also notes that part of the rear wing has a modern addition and is occupied. Exterior condition is marked fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.977176-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002690/451a7c4148-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002690/451a7c4148-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frieda_Whitmer_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frieda_Whitmer_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985282","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137803666"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/whitmer-frieda-house-79002690/"}