{"nrhp_refnum":"80003136","name":"Carpenter, Wallace W., House","other_names":["The Castle"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"323 Summit Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.06990727700003,"lon":-82.51577123299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame residence known as \"The Castle\" at 323 Summit Street in Granville, Licking County, Ohio, built around 1850 by Wallace W. Carpenter in Carpenter Gothic style.","why_significant":"The inventory describes it as a Gothic \"whimsy\" of its builder, unique among small Gothic buildings. Its corner towers, battlements and label molds faintly recall Alexander Jackson Davis's 1832 \"Glen Ellen\". It is described as showing the wide range of imaginative Gothic interpretation, though the form says it is of no great historical significance beyond that.","narrative":"Known locally as \"The Castle,\" this small frame house at 323 Summit Street in Granville, Ohio, dates to about 1850. Wallace W. Carpenter, a popular house builder of the 1850s in the village, built it and designed a variety of Victorian house types. This one is a Carpenter Gothic design, one story tall on a stone foundation, with vertical battens covering the walls and a flat roof. A rectangular plan has three bays across the front and four along the side. Corner towers, battlements and label molds give it a castle-like look, faintly recalling Alexander Jackson Davis's 1832 \"Glen Ellen.\" Very high ceilings inside keep the interior in scale with the exterior. It sits on a spacious lot in a quiet residential part of the village, two blocks north of the business district. The inventory calls it a Gothic whimsy, unique among small Gothic buildings, and values it as an example of imaginative Gothic interpretation. It remains a residence in good condition.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850","architect_builder":"Wallace W. Carpenter","architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; 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 02:53:12.006122-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003136/13c966e896-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003136/13c966e896-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace_W._Carpenter_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</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:Wallace_W._Carpenter_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985652","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138459593"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/carpenter-wallace-w-house-80003136/"}