{"nrhp_refnum":"83001949","name":"Herrington, John, House and Herrington Bethel Church","other_names":["Herrington Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4070 Arbor Rd. NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mechanicstown","county":"Carroll County","state":"OH","lat":40.64921652400005,"lon":-81.01258878199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead near Mechanicstown in Augusta Township, Carroll County, Ohio, with two sandstone buildings: the John Herrington house (1840) and the Herrington Bethel Church (1843), plus a bank barn and grain crib.","why_significant":"The house and church are significant examples of antebellum stone architecture built by early settlers and local craftsmen in east central Ohio. Together they represent the link between frontier Protestantism and rural settlement, embodied in John Herrington, a minister and farmer. They are nominated together because of their shared history, closeness and similar design and materials.","narrative":"Two sandstone buildings on a hillside farm near Mechanicstown, Ohio, make up the Herrington homestead. The house, built in 1840, is a two-story, five-bay Federal structure with a slate roof, a heavy entablature and brush-hammered stone quarried on the property. A bank barn and grain crib stand nearby, overlooking a pond and the Still Fork Creek valley. Five hundred feet northwest, on a hilltop, is the Herrington Bethel Church of 1843, built of coursed squared sandstone from the same quarry and surrounded by a cemetery holding the Herrington family. John Herrington, born in Pennsylvania in 1759, came to Ohio in 1816, bought the farm in 1819, and held Methodist meetings in his home before a log church was built in 1825. He burned that log building and replaced it with the stone church. The church stonework is said to be by a local Black mason, Frank Dunmore. The buildings reflect regional stone construction and pioneer religious life.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Frank Dunmore (Church)","architectural_style":"Federal (house)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site. The property is occupied and used as a private residence and a religious site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.692198-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83001949.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001949/55d2a3d1be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001949/55d2a3d1be-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Roseohioresident","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herrington_Bethel_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseohioresident</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herrington_Bethel_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987007","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herrington_House_and_Herrington_Bethel_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6239085"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/carroll-county/herrington-john-house-and-herrington-bethel-church-83001949/"}