{"nrhp_refnum":"83002054","name":"Fabing, Frederick, House","other_names":["Dr. John Gray Office-Residence"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 S. Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fremont","county":"Sandusky County","state":"OH","lat":41.345083583000076,"lon":-83.11714276899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Other","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick house in the French Second Empire style at 201 South Park Avenue, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, built in 1859 for Frederick Fabing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house embodies the distinctive characteristics of the French Second Empire style, which is rare in the Fremont area where most homes are more vernacular. It is also tied to Frederick Fabing, a local politician and a leading figure in establishing Fremont's gas and water utilities.","narrative":"Built in 1859, this three-story common bond brick house at 201 South Park Avenue in Fremont, Ohio, is a rare local example of French Second Empire design. It rests on a coursed stone foundation with a cutstone watertable and features a flat-sided mansard roof with ornamental metal curbs and dormers, shell-detailed hoodmolds, a projecting overdoor, a bracketed cornice, and a square tower. Inside, the front hall stairway has a birds-eye maple newel post, and a marble mantel and original woodwork survive. Frederick Fabing, who built the house, was a gas and steam fitter and plumber who came to Fremont from France as a boy. He served on city council, helped run the Fremont Gas Works for twenty-eight years, and was among the first trustees of the city's water works. The house was altered by an early addition, the loss of its cupola, and a conversion to office use around 1950, but its basic plan remains.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"French Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; the interior was converted to a combined office and residence around 1950, and parking was added next to the house for the office use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.112055-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002054/f229f18408-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002054/f229f18408-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Fabing_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Fabing_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991240","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Fabing_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497747"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/sandusky-county/fabing-frederick-house-83002054/"}