{"nrhp_refnum":"80003026","name":"Wright, Potter, House","other_names":["Charles Moore House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"174 E. New England Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worthington","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.08684430400007,"lon":-83.01253112599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-house at 174 E. New England Avenue in Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, dated in the original inventory to about 1835. It was moved in 1925 to avoid demolition and is used as a residence.","why_significant":"The inventory records it as the home of Potter Wright, an early manufacturer of machinery used in cloth production. Wright was sent from Providence, R.I. to oversee machinery for a cotton mill, then left the Worthington Manufacturing Company to build his own machinery shop behind his house. It is also listed as part of Worthington's multiple resource area of early community architecture.","narrative":"This two-story frame I-house on East New England Avenue in Worthington, Ohio, was dated in the original inventory to about 1835, though later documentation changed the construction date to 1818. It has a five-bay front, a gable roof with asphalt shingles, a rectangular plan and a concrete block foundation. The main entrance has sidelights and a six-panel door, and the center hall holds a cherry stairway. Door surrounds are beaded and carry Federal style ogee molding. Wide vertical boards run between the corner braces, with the original horizontal siding nailed to them. In 1925 the house was moved to prevent its demolition for the present Methodist church on High Street, and a single-bay stoop was added then. It is significant as the home of Potter Wright, an early maker of cloth-production machinery. Wright came from Providence, Rhode Island, to supervise cotton-mill machinery, worked for the Worthington Manufacturing Company, and then built a brick shop behind his house to make machinery of his own.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"I-House with Federal style woodwork details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; interior and exterior condition both listed as good. Moved in 1925 to avoid demolition for a Methodist church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.273883-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003026.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003026/c69ae32b79-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003026/c69ae32b79-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potter_Wright_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potter_Wright_House.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/71985320","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138339425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/wright-potter-house-80003026/"}