{"nrhp_refnum":"93000081","name":"Vaughn, Richard, Farm","other_names":["NPS Tract #106-02","List of Classified Structures HS-358-362"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9570 Riverview Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brecksville","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.301025872000025,"lon":-81.58272449999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead at 9570 Riverview Road in Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with an Upright-and-Wing farmhouse, a banked three-bay barn and three small outbuildings, built in the late 1870s on 1.5 acres within the Cuyahoga Valley.","why_significant":"The farm is associated with 19th-century dairy and grain agriculture in the Cuyahoga Valley and the era of railroads and scientific farming. Its house, barn, milk house and utilitarian outbuildings are good examples of building types tied to farming and to New England-derived vernacular traditions. The farmhouse is unusual for keeping a gable-end main entry in a house built after 1850.","narrative":"This farmstead on Riverview Road in Brecksville preserves a complete set of buildings from Cuyahoga Valley dairy farming. It includes an Upright-and-Wing farmhouse, a three-bay bank barn with a concrete slab bridge, a milk house, a workshed and a privy. Tax records suggest the house and barn were built between 1875 and 1880 on land owned by Richard Vaughn, though the Vaughn family appears to have lived in Middleburg, so the farm may not have been a typical family-run operation. The farmhouse is notable for its main entry in the gable section, a feature that had fallen out of use after 1850 and shows how long vernacular building traditions lasted in rural areas. The barn's stalls and the milk house reflect an emphasis on dairying, supported by rail access to urban markets. The property was listed for its agricultural and architectural significance. A modern garage and a rail fence do not contribute, and the fields once tied to the farm have grown over.","period_of_significance":"c.1870-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Upright-and-Wing","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed current use is vacant. The property was acquired by the federal government in 1978 for the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.693078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/93000081.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000081/9152588d37-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000081/9152588d37-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Vaughn_Farmhouse_NPS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Vaughn_Farmhouse_NPS.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984592","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100483191"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/vaughn-richard-farm-93000081/"}