{"nrhp_refnum":"83002041","name":"Old Carriage Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"337 Park Ave., W.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Richland County","state":"OH","lat":40.75859782400005,"lon":-82.52794290299994,"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 two-story brick carriage barn built about 1880 on the south side of Park Avenue West in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. It originally served the Bissman House and is now the only structure on its lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is Mansfield's best surviving example of a carriage barn, a type of residential outbuilding with few survivors in the city. It also has distinctive Italianate features such as stone hood moldings, arched windows and a cupola. It is further cited as an excellent case of creative adaptive re-use.","narrative":"Built around 1880, this two-story brick carriage barn sits on the south side of Park Avenue West in Mansfield, Ohio. It has an L-shaped plan, a slate gable roof, arched window openings, overhanging eaves and a cupola over the center of the roof. Stone hood moldings above the windows are a notable detail. The barn first served the Bissman House, a large wood-frame house that has since been moved across the street and converted to apartments. An early survey described the barn as unusually large but poorly maintained, with deteriorating wood surfaces and later garage doors cut into the walls. It was later rehabilitated into three apartments with federal preservation tax incentives, and original features such as the cupola, barn doors and open beams were worked into the interiors. It is listed as Mansfield's best example of a carriage barn, a building type that has few survivors in the city, and for its Italianate design and adaptive re-use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Originally surveyed as vacant and deteriorating, the barn was later rehabilitated into three apartments using federal preservation tax incentives, with the cupola, barn doors and open beams kept in the interiors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.837942-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002041.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002041/6fea5ba230-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002041/6fea5ba230-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:337_PAW_Carriage_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:337_PAW_Carriage_Mansfield.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986042","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138662950"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/richland-county/old-carriage-barn-83002041/"}