{"nrhp_refnum":"84000419","name":"East End Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by South, Mound, Pleasant, and Cherry Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lebanon","county":"Warren County","state":"OH","lat":39.43471150050007,"lon":-84.19984812660073,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 50 acres and 230 structures in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, just east of the commercial district, roughly bounded by South, Mound, Pleasant and Cherry streets. It is mostly residential, with churches, county buildings and an early twentieth-century factory.","why_significant":"The district is nominated for its concentration of the least-altered historic building styles in Lebanon, ranging from Federal to American foursquare. It holds important institutional buildings and most of the city's nineteenth-century churches. It also reflects continuous neighborhood development, including a building boom in the last decades of the 1800s.","narrative":"East End is a neighborhood of roughly 230 structures on about 50 acres immediately east of Lebanon's commercial center. Most buildings are modest middle-class homes, many with frame outbuildings, though several large houses were built by prosperous merchants and businessmen. The district also holds the Warren County Courthouse, with an 1835 core and an 1894 front addition, the Sheriff's Residence and Jail, most of the city's nineteenth-century churches, an I.O.O.F. Hall from 1887 and the 1909 Ghent shoe factory. Architectural styles run from Federal houses of about 1820 through Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and bungalow forms. Local builders such as Ezra Craver and Amos Bennett built many of the brick houses, and George Bundy made several iron porches. Earlier houses sit in the west, while Carpenter Gothic and Queen Anne homes cluster in the east, built during the 1880s building boom. The boundaries follow the area with the least alteration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Local builders Ezra Craver, Amos Bennett, and Monroe and Johnston; ironworker George Bundy (porches)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district's main National Normal University building was torn down in 1977; its site is now a park and courthouse parking lot.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.039177-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84000419.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986384","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/warren-county/east-end-historic-district-84000419/"}