{"nrhp_refnum":"79002851","name":"Botkins Elementary School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Botkins","county":"Shelby County","state":"OH","lat":40.46908348900007,"lon":-84.18255366499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick school building from 1921 on Main Street, about two blocks north of the main intersection in Botkins, Shelby County, Ohio. It is the Botkins Elementary School, located south of the Immaculate Conception church.","why_significant":"The inventory form ties the school to the Immaculate Conception parish, which opened its first real school in Botkins in 1881 beside the Catholic church. The building is documented as part of a thematic group of cross-tipped churches and related structures. Its centered entrance with pillars and pediment is called its most outstanding feature.","narrative":"Botkins Elementary School is a two-story brick building completed in 1921 on Main Street, two blocks north of the main intersection in Botkins, Ohio. It has a flat roof, a concrete foundation, a basement, and a rectangular plan, with stretcher-bond brickwork. Its most outstanding feature is the central entrance, which has pillars and a pediment beneath a double row of windows in a projecting frontispiece. Four pairs of windows flank the entrance, a horizontal band runs along the top of the building, and a round-arched central parapet is topped by a cross. The school is classed as Transitional in style. It belongs to the Immaculate Conception parish, which established its first real school in Botkins in 1881 next to the Catholic church on the old pike from Sidney to Wapakoneta. The school sits south of the church on old Route 25, with the rectory and a convent to the west across the playground. The building is still used as a school and is in good condition.","period_of_significance":"1921","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a school; interior and exterior condition both listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:11.992369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002851.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986186","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/shelby-county/botkins-elementary-school-79002851/"}