{"nrhp_refnum":"79002692","name":"Davis, Samuel Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5083 Rings Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dublin","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.183292642000026,"lon":-83.09891208899995,"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 house with a stone foundation at 5083 Rings Road in Dublin, Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio, dated to about 1860-65 on the inventory sheet, with an earlier birth year of 1826 noted for its original owner.","why_significant":"The inventory records that the house was built for Samuel Henry Davis by his father, Moses Davis, as a wedding present. It is listed as a 19th-century architectural and historical resource, with details such as a bracketed cornice and a projecting cut stone water table. The form gives little further argument for significance.","narrative":"Built around 1860-65 on Rings Road in Dublin, Washington Township, this two-story brick house with a stone foundation was constructed for Samuel Henry Davis by his father, Moses Davis, as a wedding present. The house has a gable roof of tin, brick walls laid in common bond, and a three-bay front. Notable features include an entrance with a transom and sidelights, a projecting cut stone water table, a boxed cornice with brackets, and end chimneys. A kitchen wing runs the full width of the rear. The property sits on about one acre of a larger 6.4-acre tract, roughly 1,200 feet west of the Frantz Road and Rings Road intersection, with suburban ranch houses to the east and west. The survey sheet describes the grounds as well landscaped but notes the property appears to have been abandoned and is endangered by neglect. It was recorded as a nineteenth-century architectural and historical resource in a Washington Township survey.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The environment description says the well-landscaped property appears to have been abandoned; condition is marked fair and the property is listed as endangered by neglect.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.379795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002692.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985286","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/davis-samuel-henry-house-79002692/"}