{"nrhp_refnum":"84002902","name":"Deuscher, Henry P., House","other_names":["Mre. Geri Gorman House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2385 Woodsdale Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trenton","county":"Butler County","state":"OH","lat":39.45064003500005,"lon":-84.44647466731094,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick country house with outbuildings, built about 1870 on Woodsdale Road in Madison Township, near Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, by German immigrant Henry P. Deuscher.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an excellent example of High Victorian Italianate architecture. It also marks the presence of Henry P. Deuscher, a prominent farmer, merchant, manufacturer and industrialist in Trenton and Hamilton. It differs from the simpler brick houses built nearby by an Amish Mennonite community.","narrative":"Near Trenton in Butler County, Ohio, a two-story brick farmhouse built about 1870 shows High Victorian Italianate design in a landscape known for plainer Amish Mennonite brick houses. Henry P. Deuscher, born in Baden, Germany, came to the county in 1836 and worked as a butcher, storekeeper and farmer before buying land in Madison Township. He later founded a Hamilton company that began in malting, moved into agricultural implements, and by the 1890s also made heating and ventilating appliances. The house has a sandstone-framed entrance with a semicircular transom, a half-hexagonal bay with round-arched windows, and a bracketed, dentiled cornice beneath a hipped roof. Inside are heavy paneling, four downstairs fireplaces and an open scrolled staircase. A steep back stair leads to the hired hand's room. The nominated property also includes a freestanding brick bake oven, a frame barn, a frame shed and a modern garage.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date c. 1870)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form says the owners are carefully maintaining and restoring it, and the condition is checked as unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.283839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84002902.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002902/e0451e9702-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002902/e0451e9702-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_P._Deuscher_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_P._Deuscher_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986965","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_P._Deuscher_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5726592"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/butler-county/deuscher-henry-p-house-84002902/"}