{"nrhp_refnum":"86000070","name":"Armstrong Farm","other_names":["Reber Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13706 OH 199","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upper Sandusky","county":"Wyandot County","state":"OH","lat":40.79787126550005,"lon":-83.27364435226227,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of about 537 acres on S.R. 199 south of Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio, centered on a brick farmhouse built in 1830 by Silas Armstrong, with a summer kitchen, barns, a tenant house, garages and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the farm is tied to the Wyandot occupation of the area and to the Armstrong and Reber families, and that it is an example of a profitable farming operation from the mid-nineteenth century onward. The 1830 brick farmhouse is described as a representative example of vernacular brick building and as the oldest brick house in the county. The land is largely the tract granted to Robert Armstrong by the 1817 Treaty of the Rapids.","narrative":"Armstrong Farm is a working farm of roughly 537 acres on S.R. 199 south of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Its core is a two-story painted brick farmhouse built in 1830 by Silas Armstrong, with Doric porch columns, a summer kitchen combining smokehouse and bake oven, four large barns, and a tenant house. The land was part of the Wyandot Reservation and was granted to Robert Armstrong, who had been captured by the Wyandots as a child, under the 1817 Treaty of the Rapids. Silas moved west with the Wyandot in 1843. Thomas V. Reber then bought the tract, and the Reber family expanded the holdings and farmed them for generations. The house was identified in a survey as the only extant brick house on the former reservation and the oldest brick house in the county. The farm was listed for its Wyandot connections, its farming history, and its vernacular architecture. The Keeper noted that the twentieth-century buildings were not shown to be significant.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Builder/architect unknown (main house built by Silas Armstrong in 1830)","architectural_style":"Vernacular (brick vernacular farmhouse with restrained classical details)","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Main farmhouse in excellent condition and occupied; the land is farmed by a tenant farmer.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.704143-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86000070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000070/15df1a0f67-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000070/15df1a0f67-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armstrong_Farm_barns.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armstrong_Farm_barns.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992064","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Farm_(Crane_Township,_Wyandot_County,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4793940"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wyandot-county/armstrong-farm-86000070/"}