{"nrhp_refnum":"93000077","name":"Cranz, Edward, Farm","other_names":["NPS Tract #120-33","List of Classified Structures HS-564-568"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2780 Oak Hill Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peninsula","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.19738424000005,"lon":-81.5917532974789,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 12-acre farmstead district at 2780 Oak Hill Drive in Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio, in the Cuyahoga Valley. Edward Cranz built the house in 1867 on land he bought in 1865, and the farm includes six contributing buildings and an agricultural field.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A as a prosperous upland dairy and sheep farm that survived the early 20th-century agricultural decline in the Cuyahoga Valley. Under Criterion C, its outbuildings and spatial layout reflect building practices tied to the valley's farming history. The farmhouse is considered historically significant but not architecturally significant because of later alterations.","narrative":"Set on a plateau along Oak Hill Road in Peninsula, Ohio, this 12-acre farmstead was established by Edward Cranz, a German-born former merchant who bought the land in 1865 and finished the house in 1867. The core is a New England one-and-a-half-story form with modest Greek Revival touches, enlarged in 1890 and again in the 1970s. Surviving outbuildings include a smokehouse, chicken coop, carriage house, toolshed and bull pen, arranged with the surrounding fields. In 1870 the farm kept twelve cows, 33 sheep and a few hogs, and produced butter, cheese, wool and grain. Cranz belonged to the county agricultural society, and his son expanded the outbuildings around 1900. The farm outlasted the decline of many valley farms by diversifying into gravel sales around 1930. It is listed for its agricultural record and for buildings that show valley farming practices.","period_of_significance":"1867-1930","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century; New England One-and-One-Half house type","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Federally owned since 1979; the house is still used as a single dwelling. The 1970s additions and a modern pole barn 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 02:53:14.35084-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/93000077.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000077/ac5ca1452b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000077/ac5ca1452b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Cranz_Farm_House_NPS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Cranz_Farm_House_NPS.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85001123","name":"Valley Railway Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/valley-railway-historic-district-85001123/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986218","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100423498"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/cranz-edward-farm-93000077/"}