{"nrhp_refnum":"80003191","name":"Brendel, Charles, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"427 Wayne Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.933857654000064,"lon":-82.00260788399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story brick Gothic Revival cottage at 427 Wayne Avenue in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, built for local merchant Charles Brendel, with tax records indicating construction in 1867.","why_significant":"It is nominated as one of only three remaining Gothic Revival residences in Zanesville and the finest of the three. The style arrived late in the city and was never popular there, since Greek Revival gave way directly to Italianate-inspired modes. The house retains an essentially unaltered exterior and interior.","narrative":"Built in 1867 for Charles Brendel (1833-1911), a Zanesville merchant who ran a shoe store in the city for many years, this brick cottage at 427 Wayne Avenue is a small-scale example of Gothic Revival design. The L-shaped, 1½-story house rests on a sandstone foundation and has a slate roof with gable-end chimneys. Its east-facing facade has four bays, a trabeated doorway with transom and sidelights, and a center gable. The portico has chamfered posts framing quatrefoil ornaments and lightly sawn bargeboard, while porch benches repeat the multifoil motif. Lacy bargeboard survives around the whole house. Tax records for 1867 note \"$1500 added--brick house.\" The house is significant because only three Gothic Revival residences remain in Zanesville, where the style came late and never became widely popular. This one is regarded as the finest, with an essentially unaltered exterior and interior. A wood-frame board-and-batten garage is the only outbuilding.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, on its original site, and used as a private residence; the form says the exterior and interior are essentially unaltered apart from removed exterior shutters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.35676-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003191.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003191/e20e8dc39b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003191/e20e8dc39b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Brendel_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Brendel_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990666","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138645732"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/brendel-charles-house-80003191/"}