{"nrhp_refnum":"94000774","name":"Baxter, James, House","other_names":["Seybold,Harvey and Alverta,House","Fair Acres"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2930 Fair Acres Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amberley Village","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.192545547000066,"lon":-84.43234304599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private single-dwelling complex at 2930 Fair Acres Drive in Amberley Village, Hamilton County, Ohio. It centers on an early nineteenth century Federal style brick house with a c. 1834 east wing, a 1939 west wing, a 1939 caretaker house and a late 1950s garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C as an example of adding Colonial Revival wings to older nineteenth century houses in country-like suburban settings. The original section also holds one of the finest assemblages of original Federal interior elements in Hamilton County, which led to its documentation by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934. Those interior features and the floor plan have been carefully preserved despite the 1939 and 1958 additions.","narrative":"Set on a 2.6 acre parcel in Amberley Village, north of Cincinnati's Pleasant Ridge neighborhood, this brick house began as a two-and-a-half story Federal style dwelling built in the first decade of the nineteenth century on land James Baxter bought in 1797. A one-story wing was added around 1834. In 1939 the owner, Harvey Seybold, had retired architect Hubert H. Gott design a two-story Colonial Revival west wing and a caretaker house. The living room in that wing was patterned after a room at Carter's Grove in Virginia. Further additions followed in 1958. The complex looks unified because the later sections repeat the original brick construction, jack-arched lintels, gable roofs, multi-pane windows and louvered shutters. Inside the original section, walnut woodwork, mantels, cupboards and a Federal staircase survive unchanged, and these features were recorded in 1934 by the Historic American Buildings Survey. The house represents both early Federal craftsmanship and the twentieth century Colonial Revival.","period_of_significance":"1807-1939","architect_builder":"Gott, Hubert H.","architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as a private single dwelling, with the same current function as its historic one.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.403531-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/94000774.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000774/f6415a3187-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000774/f6415a3187-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Baxter_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Baxter_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988885","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6129491"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/baxter-james-house-94000774/"}