{"nrhp_refnum":"80003161","name":"Staley Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Brandt at 7095 Staley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brandt","county":"Miami County","state":"OH","lat":39.96525843050006,"lon":-84.07598541410547,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 160-acre farm industrial complex near Brandt, north of New Carlisle in Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, with a grist mill (1818), sawmill (ca. 1831), distillery, brick house (1835) and bank barn (1857), developed by the Staley family from 1825.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is an unusually intact picture of Ohio's agriculturally based industry before the Civil War. Its grist mill and sawmill retain their original machinery, closely following Oliver Evans's mill designs, and the sawmill is described as the only known up-and-down saw still on its original site in Ohio. The house and barn are also called architecturally significant.","narrative":"Staley Farm is a 160-acre farm in Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, that grew into a small industrial complex along a mill race from Indian Creek. Elias Staley bought the tract in 1825. The grist mill dates to 1818 and was built, by family tradition, by the three Staley brothers, all skilled millwrights. A sawmill, distillery, brick house, fruit kiln and bank barn followed. The mills still hold machinery modeled on plates in Oliver Evans's mill-building guide, and the sawmill is described as the only known up-and-down saw left on its original site in Ohio. The distillery is less complete, with a bondhouse and malthouse surviving and the stillhouse in ruins. The grist mill and distillery stopped work in 1905 and the sawmill in 1915. The nomination values the farm as a remarkably intact record of Ohio's farm-based industry in the first half of the nineteenth century, occupied by one family since 1825.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Elias, Henry and David Staley (millwrights, per family tradition)","architectural_style":"Federal (brick house); Pennsylvania-style bank barn","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied by the Staley family; mills largely intact, distillery stillhouse in ruins, and the property is in excellent condition per the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.319803-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003161/cbcb14d4b1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003161/cbcb14d4b1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staley_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staley_Farm.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97000160","name":"Elizabeth Township Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/elizabeth-township-rural-historic-district-97000160/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990291","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138589242"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/miami-county/staley-farm-80003161/"}