{"nrhp_refnum":"93001392","name":"Kaiser, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Bellevue St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Washington County","state":"OH","lat":39.41555937800007,"lon":-81.46629911899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame Queen Anne house at 300 Bellevue Street in the Fairview Heights section of Marietta, Ohio. Begun in 1901 and completed in 1902 for John and Flora Kaiser, it was designed by local architect George T. Hovey.","why_significant":"The house is nominated under Criterion C as an excellent example of late free classic Queen Anne architecture, with minimal alterations in its 90-year history. It is a notable work of local architect George T. Hovey, with interior woodwork by Charles and Frederick Brickwede, who later founded a major Marietta furniture firm. It also reflects Marietta's oil and gas boom housing growth of the 1890s.","narrative":"Perched on a high ridge in Marietta's Fairview Heights, this two-and-a-half-story frame house at 300 Bellevue Street looks out over the meeting of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. Built between 1901 and 1902 for oil supply manager John Kaiser and his wife Flora, it was designed by local architect George T. Hovey and built under contract by C.J. Harris for $6,050. The house shows late free classic Queen Anne character: irregular massing, a three-story polygonal tower, a sweeping porch with nine fluted Corinthian columns, and a high slate roof. Inside are oak woodwork, pocket doors, gas fireplaces, and a third-floor ballroom. Charles and Frederick Brickwede, who later founded the Marietta Mantle Company and Brickwede Furniture Company, did the interior carpentry. The house reflects Marietta's oil and gas boom, when more houses went up between 1890 and 1900 than in any other decade. It has changed little since construction and was restored after 1988.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":"Hovey, George Theodore (architect); C.J. Harris (builder, per contract in Hovey's journal)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne (late free classic subtype)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single-family residence; the current owner restored the house after 1988, removing a partition that had divided it into two living quarters. A detached 1930s garage is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.865727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/93001392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001392/d837bb5295-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001392/d837bb5295-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Kaiser_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Kaiser_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991897","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138763914"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/washington-county/kaiser-john-house-93001392/"}