{"nrhp_refnum":"82003624","name":"Brighton-Drydon Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Dryden Rd., Brighton Blvd., Lexington and Stanberry Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.92836257850004,"lon":-82.02272391711443,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 43-acre residential historic district in southwest Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, with about 170 large detached brick and wood frame houses built mainly between 1890 and the 1920s, plus a school and a church.","why_significant":"The district is nominated as an intact, cohesive late 19th and early 20th-century suburban neighborhood. Nearly a dozen of the city's master builders built homes for themselves there. Many of Zanesville's bankers, attorneys, ceramists and industrialists also lived there, and two ceramic industrial complexes grew on its edges in the 1890s.","narrative":"Brighton-Dryden is a streetcar-era residential neighborhood in southwest Zanesville, Ohio. A syndicate formed in 1891 bought the 110-acre Larzelere farm, graded it, laid out a street grid and extended the electric railway. The first lots sold at auction that September, and the first model house went up in 1892. About 170 large brick and wood frame houses now remain, mostly built between 1890 and the 1920s. Styles include Queen Anne, Eastlake, Colonial Revival and many vernacular designs. Brighton Boulevard and Lexington Avenue were laid out as boulevards, and Lexington's grassy center divider survives. The district matters for its cohesion and for its people. At least nine master builders, among them the Evans, Handschy, Vinsel, Dunzweiler and Denny families, lived here while building homes for others. Bankers, attorneys and ceramics industrialists settled here too. Architect H. C. Lindsay designed Garfield School and Brighton Presbyterian Church in 1896, and both still stand.","period_of_significance":"1892-ca 1930","architect_builder":"Numerous (including architect H. C. Lindsay and builders R. H. Evans, C. H. Denny, W. C. Handschy and C. O. Vinsel)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Eastlake, Stick Style, Colonial and Georgian Revival, Neo-Classical Revival, Gothic Revival, Prairie School influence, and vernacular forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good and fair, with some alteration. The area is occupied, mostly private residences, with educational and religious uses. Garfield School still serves the community.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.275697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003624.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990701","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/brighton-drydon-historic-district-82003624/"}