{"nrhp_refnum":"87001522","name":"Long-Romspert House","other_names":["Oakwood Historical Society"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1947 Far Hills Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oakwood","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.71397832400004,"lon":-84.17224431499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A house at 1947 Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood, Ohio, built as a T-plan Italianate farmhouse in 1866 for Henry Long and altered in 1917-1923 into a stucco-clad two-unit suburban home, with surviving outbuildings.","why_significant":"It reflects Oakwood's shift from a rural farming area to a fashionable suburb of Dayton. The 1866 farmhouse and outbuildings are described as the best surviving example of the agricultural period, and a survey found no other properties from that era that kept their character. The Romspert addition, porch and stucco finish represent early 20th century suburban taste, and the interior is largely intact.","narrative":"Set on a knoll about 100 feet back from Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood, Ohio, this house preserves two distinct eras of local life. Henry Long, a farmer who bought the land in 1857, built the brick T-plan farmhouse with Italianate detailing in 1866. He also owned a sand and gravel pit whose gravel paved the Lebanon Turnpike. Between 1917 and 1923 his descendants, the Romsperts, added a second living unit and unified the building with a porch and stucco finish, creating two apartments with distinct interiors. Outbuildings include a summer kitchen, sheds, a springhouse-garden shed and early garages. The house was listed because it shows Oakwood's change from orchards and cornfields to an exclusive Dayton suburb after the 1913 flood. A survey of other mid-19th century houses in Oakwood found none that kept their historic character. The property passed to the Oakwood Historical Society, which operates it as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1917-1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; T-plan farmhouse with Italianate influence","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Bequeathed to the Oakwood Historical Society and now used as a local history museum; the interior is described as essentially intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.186511-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87001522.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001522/a0ba5b12e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001522/a0ba5b12e6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long-Romspert_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long-Romspert_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990595","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138638503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/long-romspert-house-87001522/"}