{"nrhp_refnum":"84003746","name":"Gregory House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New London","county":"Huron County","state":"OH","lat":41.08503018700003,"lon":-82.39803641399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story commercial and hotel building of soft red brick at 1 East Main Street in New London, Huron County, Ohio, built in 1873 and attributed to builder Albert A. Powers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative vernacular commercial structure of the type built in crossroads towns across 19th-century rural Ohio. Built of local materials by local people, it documents the commercial development of New London and the Firelands region. It was erected in the village's \"burned district\" after an 1872 fire and served as a hotel until 1900.","narrative":"Standing at the main crossroads of New London, Ohio, the Gregory House is a three-story, flat-roofed commercial building of soft red brick with sandstone keystones, lintels and coping. Built in 1873 in the village's \"burned district,\" where an 1872 fire destroyed an earlier block, it replaced a log and frame hotel on the same site. Charles Gregory, a local blacksmith, built the western two-thirds; lawyer Albert Porter built the eastern third. A. A. Powers, the town's first marshal, unified the facade with elaborate brickwork. Local stone, brick and labor were used throughout. The building served as a hotel until 1900, then held boarders' apartments upstairs and shops below, including a post office, grocery, restaurant and bowling alley. It was listed as a representative example of a vernacular commercial building that reflects the nineteenth-century character of New London and the Firelands region of Ohio's Western Reserve.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Albert A. Powers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The ground-floor storefronts have been reconstructed and the original cast iron columns restored; the form states that the owner plans a complete rehabilitation. Status is marked both unoccupied and commercial.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.034572-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84003746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003746/91f0d02dd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003746/91f0d02dd1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gregory_House_in_New_London.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gregory_House_in_New_London.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989423","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_House_(New_London,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5606972"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/huron-county/gregory-house-84003746/"}