{"nrhp_refnum":"84000226","name":"Ensworth, Jeremiah, House","other_names":["3214 Prospect Avenue"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3214 Prospect Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50118449400003,"lon":-81.66373217699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house at 3214 Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built about 1870 as the home of Jeremiah Ensworth. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its architecture and for its association with Jeremiah Ensworth, a Union Army captain in the Civil War. It is a good example of Italianate style, with ornamental wooden drip moldings over the windows and brick construction at a time when frame houses were far more common in Cleveland. It is also one of the few surviving post-Civil War single-family houses on Cleveland's east side.","narrative":"Built about 1870 at 3214 Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, this two-story brick house was the home of Jeremiah Ensworth. Ensworth was a principal in the importing firm Fogg, Ensworth and Company before the Civil War. He was active in the Cleveland Grays and served as a captain in the Union Army. After the war he stayed with the Grays and worked as an insurance agent. The house is Italianate in style, with a hipped roof, a one-story bay window on the right side, stone window sills and ornamental wooden drip moldings above the windows. The porch was added later and reflects Queen Anne style. Brick construction sets the house apart, since frame buildings were much more common in Cleveland. It is one of the few single-family houses from the years after the Civil War still standing on the city's east side. The exterior is in good condition and the building is now used commercially.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is commercial; exterior condition is good and interior condition is unknown. The porch is a later addition in Queen Anne style.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.395319-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84000226.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000226/ee0e5cf579-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000226/ee0e5cf579-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Christopher L. Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremiah_Ensworth_House_%E2%80%94_Cleveland,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher L. Riley</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremiah_Ensworth_House_%E2%80%94_Cleveland,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006160","name":"Midtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/midtown-historic-district-100006160/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984630","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137704755"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/ensworth-jeremiah-house-84000226/"}