{"nrhp_refnum":"85001691","name":"Dilger Store","other_names":["West Rushville General Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7640 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Rushville","county":"Fairfield County","state":"OH","lat":39.76355567600007,"lon":-82.44750575499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame general store at 7640 Main Street in West Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio, built circa 1867-1873 on the only crossroad in the village. It is also known as the West Rushville General Store.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the store represents the early commercial history of a small town on Zane's Trace and the local tobacco trade. It also served as post office and Odd Fellows Lodge, making it a focal point of the town. Its largely unaltered late-19th-century commercial architecture is described as rare.","narrative":"Standing on the northwest corner of the only crossroad in West Rushville, this two-story frame store with a full basement and slate gable roof dates to about 1867-1873. It served the village as a general store, post office and Odd Fellows Lodge, and was run by the Dilger family from 1882 until 1982. The town sits on Zane's Trace between Lancaster and Zanesville, and the store acted as a main source of dry goods for the town and surrounding farms. It also served as a warehouse in the local tobacco trade, with wagon loads shipped east to Kentucky and Maryland. West Rushville never grew into a major commercial stop, which helps explain why the building survives so intact. Original doors, windows, trim, built-in shelving with drawers, store counters, gas fixtures and the lodge hall stage remain. These features make it a rare, modest and little-altered example of nineteenth-century small-town commercial architecture.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1867-1873","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in fair condition, unaltered and on its original site. The form says the building has remained relatively unaltered since construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.712426-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85001691.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988223","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/fairfield-county/dilger-store-85001691/"}