{"nrhp_refnum":"80003025","name":"Wright, Horace, House","other_names":["Sharon Township Memorial"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"137 E. Granville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worthington","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.08827069700004,"lon":-83.01339419799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house built in 1861 at 137 E. Granville Road in Worthington, Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio. It has an L-shaped plan, a truncated hipped roof and a classical portico, and now serves as a township war memorial.","why_significant":"The inventory form cites its early Victorian architecture, especially the stone entryway. It is also important as the home of Horace Wright, a member of a prominent cloth manufacturing family who operated the Worthington sawmill on his property and supplied building materials to the community.","narrative":"Built in 1861 on East Granville Road in Worthington, this two-story brick house combines Italianate styling with a classical portico. It has an L-shaped plan, a truncated hipped roof that once carried a balustraded widow's walk, and two large chimneys rising from the side hips. Its most admired feature is the recessed entryway, a flat stone archway with rounded corners. Inside, marble mantels and four-panel doors survive. A porch was added around 1900, and the original stone steps were pulled back to reach it. The house was the home of Horace Wright, whose family was prominent in cloth manufacturing. Wright also ran the Worthington sawmill on his property, which supplied building materials to the community. The Wright family lived here until 1940, when the township acquired the house as a war memorial. It still serves that purpose on a busy street, set on a lot of about an acre and a half. It is valued for its early Victorian architecture and its link to a local manufacturing family.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate / Classical Portico","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as the Sharon Township war memorial; interior and exterior condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.972304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003025.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003025/7cdd368347-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003025/7cdd368347-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horace_Wright_House_in_Worthington.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horace_Wright_House_in_Worthington.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000760","name":"Rush Creek Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/rush-creek-village-historic-district-03000760/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985149","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138339391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/wright-horace-house-80003025/"}