{"nrhp_refnum":"84002899","name":"Barnesville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Arch, Main, Gardner, Chestnut, Bond and Cherry Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Barnesville","county":"Belmont County","state":"OH","lat":40.00068020100005,"lon":-81.17587512171995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Transportation","Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of 198 structures (180 contributing, 18 non-contributing) in the town of Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, centered on Main, Chestnut, Walnut, Church and Arch Streets. It contains homes, commercial buildings and churches built mainly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district shows the town's growth and prosperity through the homes, businesses and churches of local industrialists and capitalists. Its architecture ranges from 1820s-30s vernacular and Greek Revival through Victorian styles to Neo-Classical and Colonial Revival. It includes works by architects such as Frank L. Packard and the large Bradfield Building.","narrative":"Barnesville is a small town in the rolling hills of southeastern Ohio, about 18 miles west of the Ohio River. Its historic district holds 198 structures, 180 of them contributing, along Main, Chestnut, Walnut, Church and Arch Streets. The town was platted by James Barnes in a grid of 128 quarter-acre lots, and later additions by Hager, Laws and the Hunts brought new homes, businesses and churches. Local industrialists and capitalists built large residences, including the Italianate, Queen Anne, French Second Empire and Georgian Revival houses that line North Chestnut and Walnut Streets. The commercial core, mostly masonry after a disastrous 1895 downtown fire, is anchored by the Richardsonian Romanesque Bradfield Building of 1888-1891. Churches include the sandstone Presbyterian Church of 1902, designed by Frank L. Packard, and the Romanesque Revival First Methodist Church. Together the buildings show changing tastes from the 1820s to the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various, including Frank L. Packard (Presbyterian Church), F.F. Farris (Watt and Lewis houses), S. R. Badgley (First Methodist Church), B.F. Patterson and Ben Patterson, and builder Keleon Hager","architectural_style":"Mixed: vernacular, Greek Revival, Italianate, Eastlake, Queen Anne, French Second Empire, Richardsonian Romanesque, Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rated excellent to good in condition, with some alterations; the district is occupied and has mixed commercial, residential, educational, religious and government uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.912916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84002899.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002899/669ea1b92e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002899/669ea1b92e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_view_east.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_view_east.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986801","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnesville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4861583"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/belmont-county/barnesville-historic-district-84002899/"}