{"nrhp_refnum":"80004522","name":"Home for the Aged Deaf","other_names":["Central College"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6971 Sunbury Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westerville","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.101236533000076,"lon":-82.88924695399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3-story brick building with a hipped slate roof on Sunbury Road in Westerville, Ohio, built in 1875 as part of Central College Academy and now known as the Home for the Aged Deaf (also called the Fairchild Building).","why_significant":"It is one of four buildings in the Central College group that together reflect the influence of religion and education on the development of the village. The nomination treats the buildings as well-preserved historic resources of a small community whose history centered on the Presbyterian church and Central College.","narrative":"Built in 1875 on Sunbury Road in Westerville, this three-story brick building was part of Central College Academy, an institution founded in 1842 after Squire Timothy Lee offered 100 acres to the Columbus Presbytery for a school of higher learning. It has a hipped slate roof, a three-by-three-bay plan, segmental arched openings with brick hoodmoulds, two-over-two double-hung windows, projecting bays on the north and south sides, a denticular cornice, and a square cupola with round-arched windows and corbelled brickwork. The style is basically Italian Villa, though the belvedere uses an arcaded corbel table typical of Romanesque Revival. The building was sold in 1895 to the 9th Ohio Deaf-Mute Reunion and later became part of a complex run by the Ohio School for the Deaf Alumni Association, where it serves as the Home for the Aged Deaf. Together with three other nearby buildings, it represents how religion and education shaped the village.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa, with an arcaded corbel table on the belvedere typical of Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory sheet lists interior and exterior condition as fair-poor and marks the property as possibly endangered; it is used as the Home for the Aged Deaf within a campus of old-age resident housing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:13.034292-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80004522.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004522/320abbe6cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004522/320abbe6cd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_for_the_Aged_Deaf.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:Home_for_the_Aged_Deaf.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985250","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138337685"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/home-for-the-aged-deaf-80004522/"}