{"nrhp_refnum":"82003622","name":"McCully Log House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of New Concord on Wharton Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Concord","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":40.08912897600004,"lon":-81.74845946899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, single-pen hewn log house on Wharton Lane north of New Concord, near Bloomfield, Muskingum County, Ohio, built about 1840 by William McCully.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its architecture as a virtually intact, unaltered two-story log house. Log building was the most common folk architecture in southeastern Ohio, and coal-stripping is destroying many early structures in the area. The sandstone rear fireplace wall is described as a locally distinctive feature of Muskingum County log buildings.","narrative":"This two-story, single-pen log house stands on Wharton Lane north of New Concord in Monroe Township, Muskingum County. Built around 1840, it is made of hewn logs joined with steeple-notch corners and has a sandstone chimney and a large cooking fireplace in the north gable end. A steep enclosed stair beside the fireplace, closed off by a door, leads to a large upstairs room. A smokehouse stands behind the house, and a bank barn and drive-through shed sit across the lane. A frame addition on the east side is in poor repair, and later insul-brick siding was being removed during restoration. The house matters as a nearly unaltered survivor of the log building that dominated rural southeastern Ohio, where settlers cleared land and built with the timber at hand. Coal-stripping has erased many similar structures nearby. Little is known about the builder, William McCully, whose widow Jane appears in later census records. The cut sandstone rear fireplace wall is noted as a distinctive local trait.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"William McCully","architectural_style":"Log architecture (folk architecture; single-pen log house with steeple-notch corners)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in fair condition, with a restoration project underway and insul-brick siding being removed. The frame addition on the east side is in very poor repair. The property is listed as a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.736556-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003622.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990689","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/mccully-log-house-82003622/"}