{"nrhp_refnum":"82001382","name":"Cable, Frank, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"809 W. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandusky","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.45299367600006,"lon":-82.71683536199998,"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":"A three-story limestone Queen Anne style house at 809 W. Washington Street in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, built in 1895 as a dwelling and still used as one.","why_significant":"The house is noted for its limestone Queen Anne design and for its builder, Frank Cable, a merchant and real estate developer. Cable and his brother Edward developed Cable Park on former county fairground land, which became Sandusky's finest early 20th Century development.","narrative":"Built in 1895 at 809 W. Washington Street in Sandusky, this three-story limestone house is an example of Queen Anne architecture. It has rock-faced ashlar walls, a slate roof of intersecting gable and hip forms, and an irregular plan. A polygonal turret with a tent roof and finial is the most distinctive feature, ringed by two string courses. Other details include stone lintels and sills, a stone water table, shingled gable ends, a shed-roofed dormer, a banded stone chimney, and a porch with single, double and triple wooden posts. The house is also tied to Frank Cable, a merchant and real estate developer. With his brother Edward, he developed Cable Park on land used since 1874 as the Erie County Fair Grounds. Their father, Laurence Cable, bought the land from the county in 1899, and by 1913 the first house had been built in what became Sandusky's finest early 20th Century development. The house remains a dwelling in a mixed-use area.","period_of_significance":"1895","architect_builder":"Lawrence Sr. (listed as contractor or builder; the entry is partly illegible)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a dwelling; exterior condition is described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.122824-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001382.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001382/ea4487fcd9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001382/ea4487fcd9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Cable_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Cable_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984860","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137771513"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/cable-frank-house-82001382/"}