{"nrhp_refnum":"87001376","name":"Washington Avenue Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Garford, Arthur L., Residence"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Ohio, Columbus, Harrison, and Saint Clair Sts. between Washington Ave. and Glenwood St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elyria","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.35616759900006,"lon":-82.10377016248538,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the near north section of Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, made up of single-family houses built from about 1870 to about 1920 along Washington Avenue, Columbus, Harrison and Ohio streets.","why_significant":"The district holds the homes of many of Elyria's leading citizens and some of the city's largest and most elaborate houses, in styles such as Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Spanish Eclectic. It reflects the growth of Elyria's prestige residential neighborhood from the post-Civil War years to about 1920. It also includes the house of Edgar F. Allen, a noted humanitarian and founder of Elyria Memorial Hospital.","narrative":"Washington Avenue Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the near north side of Elyria, Ohio, where large single-family houses were built from about 1870 to about 1920. Its streets include Washington Avenue, Columbus, Harrison and Ohio, and the west-side lots border wooded Elywood Park along the Black River. The houses show Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival and Spanish Eclectic designs. Among them is the 1894 A.L. Garford House, a Shingle Style mansion designed by Arthur Oviatt and the largest house in Lorain County. The district was home to many of the town's leading citizens, including a bank president, an attorney, a coal company head and Edgar F. Allen, founder of Elyria Memorial Hospital and the International Crippled Children's Society. Of the 64 resources, 57 contribute to the district's character. Washington Avenue and Columbus Street remain strictly single-family, and the area still looks much as it did decades ago.","period_of_significance":"1870-1920","architect_builder":"Arthur Oviatt (architect of the A.L. Garford House, 1894)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Italianate, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most houses are in good condition and still used as single-family homes; some Harrison Street houses are deteriorated, have aluminum siding or have been converted to apartments. Seven of the 64 resources are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.169218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87001376.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985782","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49576957"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/washington-avenue-historic-district-87001376/"}