{"nrhp_refnum":"82003574","name":"McCreary-Burnworth House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"220 Highland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Guernsey County","state":"OH","lat":40.026299867000034,"lon":-81.58112070099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick residence at 220 Highland Avenue in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, built in 1886 by local master builder John Sankey. It is L-shaped with a sandstone foundation and a slate gable roof.","why_significant":"The house is nominated for its fine ornamental iron and wood porch, described as the only one of its kind in Cambridge. It is also a notable survival from the last quarter of the nineteenth century in a city where most surviving architecture dates from the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1886 at 220 Highland Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio, this two-story brick house is L-shaped, with a sandstone foundation and a slate gable roof. Its four-bay facade is somewhat asymmetrical, and the windows are two-over-two with segmental arches and header-brick lintels. The feature that sets it apart is the iron and wood porch, which has an intact iron balustrade, slender columns, fan-like iron brackets and a hip roof with stylized dentils and consoles. Local master builder John Sankey constructed the house for a Miss McCreary, an art instructor at nearby Muskingum College. Cambridge dates from the 1820s and was a National Road town, but most of its surviving buildings come from the early twentieth century, when the glass industry grew and oil, gas and coal were found. Against that background, the house is a rare survivor from the late nineteenth century, and its porch is considered unique in a city of about 15,000 people.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"John Sankey","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as fair and the site as original; a non-historic wood frame addition on the east side has been removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.767382-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003574.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003574/1e8f9feeb8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003574/1e8f9feeb8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCreary_Burnworth_House.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:McCreary_Burnworth_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988792","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138348952"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/guernsey-county/mccreary-burnworth-house-82003574/"}