{"nrhp_refnum":"83002049","name":"Sturges, Susan, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"317 Park Ave., W.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Richland County","state":"OH","lat":40.75866400800004,"lon":-82.52634509699999,"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, wood-frame Italianate house at 317 Park Avenue West in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, built around 1880 and used as a residence.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an extremely well-preserved and outstanding example of Italianate architecture on Park Avenue West and in the city, one that survived the area's early 20th-century redevelopment. It is also tied to Susan Sturges, a local philanthropist and community leader who funded construction of Mayflower Church.","narrative":"Built around 1880 on the south side of Park Avenue West in Mansfield, this two-story wood-frame house is an Italianate residence with clapboard siding, a hip roof of standing-seam metal and a cross-shaped plan. Its features include paired windows with elaborate hood moldings, wide overhanging eaves with paired brackets, a two-story projecting bay on the west side and large corbelled chimneys. The detailed two-story front porch appears to be a later addition, and a lower two-story section extends to the rear. When it was built, the house stood at the western edge of town on a street fast becoming the location of the best houses. It is regarded as one of the city's most outstanding Italianate buildings and survived the area's early twentieth-century redevelopment. Susan Sturges, a prominent local philanthropist and descendant of Massachusetts Pilgrim settlers, lived here and gave funds for Mayflower Church, which she named for her ancestry.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; exterior condition described as good, with a two-story front porch that appears to be a later addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.160864-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002049.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002049/fb827d7a78-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002049/fb827d7a78-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:317_PAW_S_Sturges_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:317_PAW_S_Sturges_Mansfield.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986050","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138663245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/richland-county/sturges-susan-house-83002049/"}