{"nrhp_refnum":"79003932","name":"Barber Shop","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Liberty Ave., W. of Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vermilion","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.421991287000026,"lon":-82.36541317799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame commercial building with a false front, built around 1860 on the north side of Liberty Avenue, the third building west of Main Street in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio. It contains two shops.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a good example of early Italianate wooden commercial architecture that is unusually well preserved. A barber shop has operated at this location continuously for over one hundred years. It is part of Vermilion's commercial center within a group of restored commercial buildings.","narrative":"This one-story wood-frame commercial building dates from about 1860 and sits on the north side of Liberty Avenue in Vermilion, Ohio, the third building west of Main Street. It has a gable roof with asphalt shingles, clapboard siding, a stone foundation, a four-bay front and a false front. The heavily carved and bracketed cornice, plate glass windows and plain door openings make it more ornate than its neighbor, the Harbour Store. The building holds two shops and has been carefully restored in recent years. A barber shop has operated here continuously for more than a century. The building was recognized as a good, unusually well preserved example of early Italianate wooden commercial architecture. It stands in the middle of a contiguous group of restored commercial buildings and forms part of Vermilion's commercial center, still serving as a store today.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as carefully restored recently; condition is very good on the exterior and good on the interior. Still used as a store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:13.058157-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79003932.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003932/c55d39d508-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003932/c55d39d508-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barber_Shop_Vermilion_Ohio_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Barber_Shop_Vermilion_Ohio_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984934","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137783877"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/barber-shop-79003932/"}