{"nrhp_refnum":"80002941","name":"Weethee Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N of Millfield","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millfield","county":"Athens County","state":"OH","lat":39.45287994900008,"lon":-82.09446943499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Education","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-acre rural historic district north of Millfield in Dover Township, Athens County, Ohio, containing the early 19th-century Daniel Weethee House, a remnant of the old stage coach road between Chillicothe and Marietta, and the site of Weethee College.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant as the oldest and only remaining structure and sites tied to the Weethee family in Athens County. Daniel Weethee was a pioneer settler and early library shareholder, and his son Jonathan Perkins Weethee founded Weethee College and promoted the railroad and mineral development of the Sunday Creek Valley. The rural setting has changed little since the late 1800s.","narrative":"North of Millfield in Athens County, Ohio, this nine-acre district preserves traces of one pioneer family's role in the Sunday Creek Valley. It includes the braced-frame house built by Daniel Weethee, a New Hampshire cooper who reached the area in 1799, a surviving stretch of the old stage coach road between Chillicothe and Marietta, and the site of Weethee College on College Hill. The house, dated between 1804 and 1814 in different parts of the form, has five fireplaces, original flooring and pre-Victorian interior woodwork. Daniel's son, Jonathan Perkins Weethee, founded the college in the 1860s, and the house later served as a male dormitory. He also promoted railroads and the valley's coal resources. Later residents included Charles Bryson and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, wife of artist Ben Shahn. The area has been bypassed by modern development and is still used locally as a landmark.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899 (as marked; the form's first period is partly garbled)","architect_builder":"Daniel Weethee (builder of the house, per the Ohio Historic Inventory form)","architectural_style":"Daniel Weethee House: braced frame with Italianate porch; Weethee College site: Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Daniel Weethee House is described as largely unaltered and restorable but in need of maintenance, with interior and exterior in fair condition; the house is listed as vacant on its inventory form, while the district is marked occupied.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.675561-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80002941.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986739","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/athens-county/weethee-historic-district-80002941/"}