{"nrhp_refnum":"84003692","name":"Evans House","other_names":["Erb House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Coal Valley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vinton","county":"Gallia County","state":"OH","lat":38.96615340000005,"lon":-82.43378927899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay half-dovetail notch log farmhouse with a frame rear ell, on Coal Valley Road near Vinton in Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio. It dates to about the 1850s, builder unknown, and an inscribed log reads \"1815\".","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of a traditional log folk house form once common in southern Ohio's Appalachian region and now endangered by deterioration and alteration. It closely matches Henry Glassie's \"rectangular\" mountain cabin type, with a gable roof, an end chimney and a former two-room division. A cursory survey of nearby townships found about a dozen log structures, all abandoned, deteriorated or heavily altered.","narrative":"Set in an isolated wooded hollow near Vinton in Gallia County, this two-story log house began as the farmhouse of a small subsistence farm. The front section measures 17 by 25 feet and is built of half-dovetail notched logs, with a gable roof, a sandstone-based exterior chimney of hand-made brick, and a shed-roofed front porch. A board-and-batten frame ell sits at the rear. One log carries a faint \"1815\" inscription, but ownership can be verified only from 1854, when Welsh immigrant Evan Evans was recorded with 81 acres. The building appears to date from the mid-nineteenth century. Its significance rests on its form: it closely matches the rectangular mountain cabin described by folklorist Henry Glassie, with an end chimney, a gable roof and a former partition creating a larger fireplace room. Log houses of this kind are disappearing in the region, and nearby examples are mostly abandoned or heavily altered. Later outbuildings were excluded from the listing.","period_of_significance":"1850s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Log folk house (rectangular southern mountain cabin type)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; interior in good condition. It was rehabilitated in the late 1970s, when 1940s siding was removed to expose the logs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.784091-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84003692.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988640","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/gallia-county/evans-house-84003692/"}