{"nrhp_refnum":"84002900","name":"Augspurger, Frederick, Farm","other_names":["But-302-4"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1856 Wayne-Madison Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trenton","county":"Butler County","state":"OH","lat":39.43828536400008,"lon":-84.47620409199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick farmhouse with a surviving bank barn, smoke house and summer kitchen on Wayne-Madison Road, Madison Township, near Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, built about 1865-70 for Frederick Augspurger.","why_significant":"The farm is part of a thematic group tied to the Amish and Mennonite settlement of Butler County begun by Christian Augspurger. Frederick Augspurger, Christian's son, built the house and held a large stake in the Beckett Paper Company. The reviewer judged it locally significant, with the barn, smoke house and summer kitchen adding to its importance.","narrative":"This brick farmhouse on Wayne-Madison Road in Madison Township, near Trenton, was built around 1865-70 by Frederick Augspurger, son of Christian Augspurger, a leader of the Amish and Mennonite settlement in Butler County. The two-story house has a squarish plan, a truncated hip roof, three bays across the front and a central doorway with transom and sidelights. A porch on the north side shelters two doorways and connects to a one-story kitchen. Brackets decorate the boxed cornice, and three internal chimneys rise above the roof. A bank barn, smoke house and summer kitchen remain on the farm. The land was bought by Christian Augspurger in 1847 and passed to Frederick in 1849. Frederick was a large stockholder in the Beckett Paper Company, founded in Woodsdale in 1867. The farm left Mennonite ownership by 1899. It was listed as part of a group of related Augspurger farms, with local significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frederick Augspurger (builder/owner)","architectural_style":"Amish, Mennonite house type","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Inventory lists house interior and exterior condition as poor; the land is noted as zoned for industry, and the property is marked endangered. Bank barn, smoke house and summer kitchen still stand.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.566657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84002900.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002900/bec2bcb3a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002900/bec2bcb3a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrederickAugspurgerFarm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrederickAugspurgerFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984479","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augspurger_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/butler-county/augspurger-frederick-farm-84002900/"}