{"nrhp_refnum":"83002028","name":"Colonial, The","other_names":["283 Park Avenue West"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"283 Park Ave., W.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Richland County","state":"OH","lat":40.758671839000044,"lon":-82.52575293499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick apartment building at 283 Park Avenue West, on the southeast corner at Benton Street in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, built around 1900 in the Neo-Classical style.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Mansfield's finest example of turn-of-the-century apartment housing. Its colossal paired Ionic columns and curved baluster railings give it distinction, and its corner location makes it a visual landmark. It is one of very few apartment buildings of its era still standing in Mansfield.","narrative":"Standing at the southeast corner of Park Avenue West and Benton Street in Mansfield, Ohio, The Colonial is a three-story brick apartment building dating to about 1900. Its Neo-Classical design centers on a large two-story portico carried by four pairs of modified Ionic columns, with a balustraded second-floor porch and a small upper porch on stubby Tuscan columns. A Doric entablature crowns the flat-roofed structure, which rests on a sandstone foundation and has wood trim. The building matters as Mansfield's finest surviving example of turn-of-the-century apartment housing and as one of very few apartment buildings from that period still standing in the city. Early residents were young professionals and their families. Because most of the avenue was developed with single-family houses, the building's architectural distinction appears to have been an attempt to blend into that setting. It forms the end of the view from North Benton Street and has served as a mix of offices and apartments for many years.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good inside and out. It is used as offices and apartments, and some lower-level apartments have been converted to doctor's offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.247959-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002028.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002028/fb1f0f05a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002028/fb1f0f05a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:283_PAW_Colonial_Mansfield.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:283_PAW_Colonial_Mansfield.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986022","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138662142"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/richland-county/colonial-the-83002028/"}