{"nrhp_refnum":"80003235","name":"Hartville Hotel","other_names":["Pantry Restaurant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 N. Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartville","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.964223256000025,"lon":-81.33067076699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped, weatherboarded building at 101 North Prospect Street on the village square in Hartville, Stark County, Ohio. It began as a log tavern and lodging house built in 1829 by John Morehart and now houses the Pantry Restaurant.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the oldest in Hartville and the only pre-Civil War structure remaining. Its position at the main crossroads and its age mark its role in the village's ante-bellum heritage. It served as a tavern, lodging house, stagecoach stop, livery stable and reputedly an Underground Railroad station.","narrative":"Built in 1829 by John Morehart, who had settled in the Hartville and Congress Lake area in the early 1810s, this tavern and lodging house occupies the northwest corner of the village square at the town's main crossroads. It began as a two-story log cabin with a low stone foundation, gable roof, outside end chimney and board-and-batten door. Over the following decades it grew into a two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped, four-bay building with weatherboard walls, a gambrel roof, a second-story porch and box cornice eaves. The log construction is now covered and no longer visible. The building has served as a tavern, lodging house, stagecoach stop, livery stable and, reputedly, an Underground Railroad station. Today it houses the Pantry Restaurant, a civic meeting room and a residence. It is described as the oldest building in Hartville and the only pre-Civil War structure remaining in the community.","period_of_significance":"1829","architect_builder":"John Morehart","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"In use as the Pantry Restaurant on the first floor, with meeting space for civic groups on the second floor and a residence on the third floor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.416166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003235.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003235/68c15afd91-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003235/68c15afd91-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartville_Hotel_(Hartville,_OH).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</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:Hartville_Hotel_(Hartville,_OH).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991440","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138685270"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/hartville-hotel-80003235/"}