{"nrhp_refnum":"80003118","name":"Gilbert, Jane, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"189-195 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Lake County","state":"OH","lat":41.770968964000076,"lon":-81.05155380099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame building at 189-195 West Main Street in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, formed from two earlier houses moved together and joined in 1920. The west wing is said to date from 1839 and the east wing is said to be older.","why_significant":"The inventory form says the moving and alteration of the structure make up a large part of its significance. The two houses were joined in 1920 to create a boarding house for Mrs. Gilbert. The earlier houses were also associated with several doctors, a pharmacy and a coffin factory, and later with a judge, a newspaper editor and a builder.","narrative":"Two separate houses on West Main Street in Madison, Ohio, were moved together and joined into a single building in 1920. The result is a two-story, wood-frame structure with clapboard siding, a gable-and-deck roof with shingles, a stone foundation and an irregular rectangular plan. The west wing is said to date from 1839, and the east wing is said to be older. The conversion was made to create a boarding house for Mrs. Gilbert. Before that, the individual houses had served as homes for several doctors, a pharmacy and a coffin factory. Since 1920 the building has been the home of a judge, a newspaper editor and a builder. Inside, original random flooring survives, along with some log joist floors covered by later flooring and some original hardware. The frieze and porch keep nineteenth-century features. The building is now used as apartments. A garage stands at the rear of the lot, near a brook. Its listing rests largely on the unusual moving and joining of the two houses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as apartments; interior and exterior condition both listed as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.398735-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003118.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003118/d78b1178e0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003118/d78b1178e0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:189-195_W_Main_St.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:189-195_W_Main_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985644","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138447282"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lake-county/gilbert-jane-house-80003118/"}