{"nrhp_refnum":"80003020","name":"Evans, Richard W., House","other_names":["Bland House","Topping,J.R.,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"92 E. Granville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worthington","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.088962464000076,"lon":-83.01505669099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small 1½-story brick residence at 92 E. Granville Road in Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, originally built for J. R. Topping, a physician. Dates have been revised from 1868/1880 to 1855 and 1860.","why_significant":"The inventory form describes it as an unusual adaptation of the French Second Empire style for a very small house. Its slate mansard roof dominates the building and is its major feature. It was listed as part of the Worthington Multiple Resource Area, which covers an early 19th-century village with a New England heritage.","narrative":"Located at 92 E. Granville Road in Worthington, Ohio, this small brick house rises one and a half stories above a fieldstone foundation and is painted white. Its defining feature is a slate mansard roof, which dominates the symmetrical three-bay facade. A mansard-roofed dormer with two narrow round-arched windows sits above the central entrance, which is sheltered by a small porch. The house was built for J. R. Topping, a physician; the original inventory gave a date of 1868 or around 1875, and later documentation revised the construction dates to 1855 and 1860 and renamed it the Richard W. Evans House. It was listed because it is an unusual adaptation of the French Second Empire style to a very small dwelling. At the time of the inventory it was a residence in very good exterior condition on a busy street, with a detached garage behind. It forms part of the Worthington Multiple Resource Area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"French Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory form (1980) lists interior condition as good and exterior as very good, in residential use, with a detached garage behind.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.558227-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003020.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003020/3d37cdc119-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003020/3d37cdc119-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_W._Evans_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_W._Evans_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000190","name":"Worthington Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/worthington-historic-district-10000190/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985143","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138339344"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/evans-richard-w-house-80003020/"}