{"nrhp_refnum":"82001361","name":"Hunting Lodge Farm","other_names":["The Gothic on Bonham Road","Glen Ellen"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Oxford at 5349 Bonham Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oxford","county":"Butler County","state":"OH","lat":39.52092931300007,"lon":-84.72202940899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hunting Lodge Farm (also called Glen Ellen, or The Gothic on Bonham Road) is a two-story brick house with English Gothic and Greek Revival elements, northeast of Oxford, Butler County, Ohio. The original hunting lodge was built in 1833 for Henry Orne and later enlarged.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its English Gothic Revival elements, which are atypical of southwestern Ohio. It is probably the only house in Oxford Township designed as a hunting lodge. It was also owned by several figures prominent in the Oxford community, including agricultural leader Lazarus Noble Bonham and his son Llewellyn, who patented a railroad traffic recorder.","narrative":"Northeast of Oxford, Ohio, a two-story brick house on a wooded hill began in 1833 as a hunting lodge. Henry Orne, an English-born attorney practicing in Cincinnati, bought the land in 1832 and used about 106 acres as a game preserve, mainly for wild-turkey hunting. Isaac Gere, a broadcloth manufacturer from Massachusetts, bought it in 1839 and converted it to a residence around 1840, adding a frame kitchen, bedroom, laundry room, gable ends, a porch and four pointed dormers. The house combines English Gothic and Greek Revival elements, including lancet windows with diamond-shaped panes and Tuscan-columned porches. The original lodge is now surrounded by later additions. Later owners included Lazarus Noble Bonham, a farmer, educator and agricultural journalist who renamed it Glen Ellen, and his son Llewellyn, who patented a traffic recorder for railroads. The architectural character, rare for southwestern Ohio, is the main basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by Henry Orne; later additions probably by Isaac Gere","architectural_style":"English Gothic Revival with Greek Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition given as good; a collapsed and deteriorating carriage house is the only outbuilding standing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.154308-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001361.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001361/4d3666dc9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001361/4d3666dc9d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunting_Lodge_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunting_Lodge_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986906","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Lodge_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5944924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/butler-county/hunting-lodge-farm-82001361/"}