{"nrhp_refnum":"82001359","name":"Frasier, Thomas T. and Wesley B. Houses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"898 and 920 National Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brookside","county":"Belmont County","state":"OH","lat":40.07093646200008,"lon":-80.75940355399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two similar late 19th-century brick houses along the old National Road (U.S. Route 40) in Brookside, Belmont County, Ohio: the Thomas T. Frasier House (1884) at 898 National Road and the Wesley B. Frasier House (about 1888) at 920 National Road.","why_significant":"The houses are nominated for their architectural significance to Brookside and as work of Thomas Townsend Frasier, a leading local master builder of the late nineteenth century. They are among the earliest residences along the National Road in the village and among its few surviving 19th-century homes, Italianate in character, in an area now dominated by commercial strip development.","narrative":"Two brick houses on the old National Road in Brookside, Belmont County, Ohio, record the work of a prominent local builder. Thomas Townsend Frasier built the first for himself in 1884, probably for his bride, and the second about 1888 for his brother Wesley. The Thomas Frasier House is an L-shaped, 2½-story residence with segmental-arched windows, original louvred shutters and an Eastlake porch. The Wesley Frasier House is a 2-story common-bond brick house with round-arched windows, a wrapping veranda, an art-glass transom and an ornamented cornice. Frasier, born in 1832, became one of the area's leading contractors, building mine tipples and homes that he sold to miners on easy terms. He also served on the school board and in church and bank leadership. Among the earliest houses along this stretch of road, they are now rare survivors in a corridor of shopping centers and service stations. They are the only known standing houses by Frasier and are best understood together.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Thomas Townsend Frasier, builder","architectural_style":"Italianate in character (Eastlake porch on the Thomas T. Frasier House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both houses are listed in excellent or good condition and occupied; the T.T. Frasier House was divided into apartments long ago and the W.B. Frasier House has a later garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.356647-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001359.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001359/1474b74e10-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001359/1474b74e10-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frasier_Houses_in_Bridgeport_Ohio.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:Frasier_Houses_in_Bridgeport_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986797","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_T._and_Wesley_B._Frasier_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794332"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/belmont-county/frasier-thomas-t-and-wesley-b-houses-82001359/"}