{"nrhp_refnum":"79002877","name":"St. John's Lutheran Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6135 Rings Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandy Corners","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.08010790700007,"lon":-83.15646566899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Romanesque Revival brick-and-cut-stone Lutheran church at 6135 Kays Road (near Avery Road) in Sandy Corners, Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio, dated to about 1860, with a datestone reading 1900 in the tower.","why_significant":"The inventory sheet records the church as a historic religious building serving German settlers, with a church organ dated 1856. It notes the Romanesque Revival design, a massive circular feature above the entrance, and stained glass side windows. The form gives little explicit argument for significance.","narrative":"St. John's Lutheran Church is a small Romanesque Revival church at 6135 Kays Road in Sandy Corners, Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio. The inventory dates it to about 1860, while a datestone in the tower carries the year 1900. It is built of brick with cut stone foundation and trim, and has a gable roof covered in asphalt shingles. The building has two stories, an L-shaped plan, three bays across the front and sides, and corbeled buttresses. The surveyor noted that the forebays on either side of the tower look like later additions, and that the tower is topped by sheet metal, with a large circular feature above the entrance and stained glass in the side windows. The inventory links the congregation to German settlers and mentions a church organ dated 1856. A graveyard lies around the church. The property is still used as a church, and its exterior condition was rated excellent. It is one of the resources recorded in a survey of Washington Township historic properties.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a church; condition listed as excellent on the inventory sheet, with a graveyard around the church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:13.049314-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002877.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002877/70de0869e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002877/70de0869e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"User:Postdlf","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._John%27s_Lutheran_Church,_Dublin,_Ohio_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Postdlf</a>, <a href=\"http://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:St._John%27s_Lutheran_Church,_Dublin,_Ohio_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985324","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138337512"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/st-johns-lutheran-church-79002877/"}