{"nrhp_refnum":"90000388","name":"Bartlett, Joseph and Rachel, House","other_names":["Cole,Sardis and Margaret,House","First United Methodist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"212 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fremont","county":"Sandusky County","state":"OH","lat":41.34505770800007,"lon":-83.09395516299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame house at 212 South Park Avenue in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, built about 1872-73 for Joseph R. and Rachel Bartlett. It combines Second Empire and Italianate styles and is now used as medical offices with an apartment.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C as a local example of Second Empire/Italianate residential architecture. Its wood siding and corner entrance tower are a distinct form in Fremont, where other rare Second Empire examples are brick. It also shows a high degree of architectural sophistication and retains fine interior woodwork and plaster finishes.","narrative":"Built about 1872-73 at 212 South Park Avenue in Fremont, Ohio, this two-story frame house is topped by a mansard roof with peaked dormers and fronted by an entry tower rising above the roofline. Italianate details include peaked window hoods, incised brackets, a classical cornice and carved porch ornament. Inside are walnut pocket doors, plaster ceiling medallions and a tiled vestibule. It was built for Joseph R. Bartlett, a lawyer and Civil War colonel who helped found the Sandusky County Bar Association, and his wife Rachel. Later owners included Sardis and Margaret Cole, from 1892, and the First Methodist Church, which used it as a parsonage from 1920 for fifty years. It returned to private ownership in 1970 and now holds medical offices and an apartment. Its significance rests on architecture: the wood-sided Second Empire and Italianate combination with a corner tower is unusual in Fremont, where comparable Second Empire houses are brick.","period_of_significance":"1872-73","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire; Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In use as medical offices on the first floor and an apartment, following restoration by recent owners; previously a church parsonage for about fifty years from 1920.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.205085-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/90000388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000388/a55ef0bb8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000388/a55ef0bb8d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_and_Rachel_Bartlett_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_and_Rachel_Bartlett_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991226","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_and_Rachel_Bartlett_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6288170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/sandusky-county/bartlett-joseph-and-rachel-house-90000388/"}