{"nrhp_refnum":"79002893","name":"Sells, Benjamin, Wash House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4586 Hayden Run Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dublin","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.068161340000074,"lon":-83.11551825899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story brick wash house at 4586 Hayden Run Road in the Dublin vicinity of Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio, dating to about 1840. It was built into a small hillside.","why_significant":"It is a surviving part of the original farm complex of the B. Sells homestead. Benjamin Sells was an early Dublin-area settler who arrived in 1809 with his father and brothers, and the Sells family stayed prominent in the Dublin area throughout the 1800s.","narrative":"This small brick wash house at 4586 Hayden Run Road, in the Dublin area of Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio, dates to about 1840. It is a one-story rectangular building with brick bearing walls on an uncoursed fieldstone foundation, built into a small hillside. The gabled roof is covered in asbestos shingles, and the cornice is a plain box style. The entrance on the north side has an arched entry framed with brick headers, and a window on the east side has shutters and six-over-six panes. A chimney rises toward the south end. The building was originally part of the farm complex of the Benjamin Sells homestead. Sells was an early settler in the Dublin area who arrived in 1809 with his father and brothers, and the Sells family remained prominent locally throughout the 1800s. The setting is farmland with slightly hilly terrain, and the inventory records the building's condition as excellent.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory sheet records interior and exterior condition as excellent; the roof has new asbestos shingles.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.855051-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002893.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985123","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/sells-benjamin-wash-house-79002893/"}