{"nrhp_refnum":"85000857","name":"Plainview Farm","other_names":["Darius W. Weddle Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"535-545 Weddle Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Casstown","county":"Miami County","state":"OH","lat":40.03648933550005,"lon":-84.08848642165546,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Plainview Farm (also called the Darius W. Weddle Farm) is a 234.5-acre farmstead on Weddle Road near Casstown in Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio. It has two brick houses (an 1868-69 tenant house and an 1893 Queen Anne residence), a summer kitchen, a smoke house, two bank barns and a 1920s garage.","why_significant":"The farm was the home of Darius W. Weddle, an early scientific and commercial farmer in eastern Miami County whose drainage, crop rotation, liming and experimental crops made his farm one of the most prosperous in the county. The 1893 brick house is also cited as an excellent example of Queen Anne style, chosen over the typical frame farmhouse. Together the house, older house and outbuildings reflect his agricultural career.","narrative":"Plainview Farm is a 234.5-acre working farmstead on Weddle Road near Casstown in Miami County, Ohio. It is unusual in having two farmhouses: a small brick house built by Isaac Studebaker in 1868-69 for tenants, and a large 1893 Queen Anne residence built by Darius Weddle, set back from the road on a knoll. Other buildings include an 1880 brick summer kitchen, a smoke house, two late nineteenth-century bank barns and a 1920s garage. The farm was listed because of Weddle, one of the area's first scientific and commercial farmers. He cleared glacial boulders, laid more than 33,000 feet of drainage tile to reclaim 60 acres of swamp, rotated crops, applied lime, and ran a substation for the Ohio State Experimental Station. His corn yields exceeded the county average. His brick Queen Anne house, with original woodwork, stained glass and fireplaces, reflects his standing as a progressive farmer.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1893)","architect_builder":"Builder/architect unknown; the 1893 house was built by Darius Weddle and the 1868-69 house by Isaac Studebaker","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both houses remain residences and are described as free from serious neglect; the form notes the porch of the 1893 house has deteriorated and uses a temporary support post.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.897011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85000857.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000857/8e418f9b5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000857/8e418f9b5f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plainview_Farm_in_Elizabeth_Township.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plainview_Farm_in_Elizabeth_Township.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97000160","name":"Elizabeth Township Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/elizabeth-township-rural-historic-district-97000160/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990281","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138589380"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/miami-county/plainview-farm-85000857/"}