{"nrhp_refnum":"87002147","name":"Earley-Hartzell House","other_names":["Hartzell,Mabel,Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"840 N. Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alliance","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.930239089000054,"lon":-81.10446075599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house at 840 North Park Avenue in Alliance, Stark County, Ohio, built in 1867 for Matthew Earley, a tanner. It now operates as the Mabel Hartzell Museum.","why_significant":"It is described as one of the most distinctive and intact examples of Italianate architecture in Alliance, with a porch arcade unique in the city and an intact original floor plan. It is also tied to Mabel Hartzell, a longtime teacher and school board member who was the first woman elected to the Alliance Board of Education and its first woman president.","narrative":"Built in 1867 for tanner Matthew Earley, this two-story red brick house on North Park Avenue in Alliance is a well-preserved example of Italianate residential design. Its low cross-hip roof has brackets and modillions, the windows have segmental arches, and a full-width front porch features wooden arches that create an arcade effect, a detail described as unique in the city. Inside, the original floor plan, woodwork, staircase and seven different marble fireplaces survive. The house is also associated with Mabel Hartzell, adopted by the Earleys as a child, who grew up there. She taught in Alliance for about thirty years and in 1911 became the first woman elected to the local Board of Education, later serving as its first woman president. She helped found the Alliance Historical Society in 1939 and willed the house to it. After her death in 1954 it became a museum.","period_of_significance":"1867","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum (the Mabel Hartzell Museum), operated by the Alliance Historical Society.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.846056-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87002147.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002147/c40ee22f2b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002147/c40ee22f2b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earley-Hartzell_House_(Alliance,_OH).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earley-Hartzell_House_(Alliance,_OH).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991404","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138679709"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/earley-hartzell-house-87002147/"}