{"nrhp_refnum":"79002797","name":"Barker, William, Residence","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"805 Wye Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ghent","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.15742471200008,"lon":-81.63652793299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay wood frame house at 805 Wye Road in Ghent, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, built around 1850 and recorded as the William Barker Residence.","why_significant":"The house is associated with William Barker, a prosperous local landowner and mill investor who owned it in 1856. It is also a surviving mid-19th-century frame house with original siding, windows and porch details. The inventory form is brief and gives little argument beyond these points.","narrative":"This two-story wood frame house at 805 Wye Road in Ghent, Bath Township, dates to about 1850. It has three bays, a T-shaped plan, a gable roof with shingles, clapboard siding and a stone foundation. Original siding and double-hung windows survive. A central entrance opens onto a full shed-roof porch supported by turned posts and carved brackets, with saw-tooth vertical siding in the gable ends. A two-story rear addition has a similar back porch. The house is associated with William Barker, who owned two buildings in 1856, this one probably serving as his residence. Barker held 571 acres that year, invested in two mills and built a factory, which suggests considerable prosperity. By 1874 he had sold the house to J. Evans. It faces a side residential street, with a creek on one side and a modern post office on the other. The survey lists its exterior condition as fair and notes a risk from neglect.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior condition is listed as fair; the form notes the property is endangered by neglect. It is in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.32158-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002797.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986252","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/barker-william-residence-79002797/"}