{"nrhp_refnum":"96000115","name":"Coal Run Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Mason House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, along Main, Maple and Hill Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coal Run","county":"Washington County","state":"OH","lat":39.56714475900006,"lon":-81.58637956242897,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Transportation","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the unincorporated village of Coal Run along the Muskingum River in Washington County, Ohio, about 15 miles northwest of Marietta. It includes homes, stores, a church, schoolhouses and a cemetery along Main, Maple and Hill Streets, dating from 1802 through the early 20th century.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Coal Run as a surviving river and coal-mining village with mid-19th-century vernacular architecture, including miners' cottages, general stores and an 1858 Gothic Revival church. It also reflects the village's role in river, stagecoach, rail and interurban transportation. The district includes the Mason House, an earlier-listed saltbox house, and the 1839 Beach brick house.","narrative":"Coal Run is a linear river village on the Muskingum River in Washington County, Ohio, about 15 miles northwest of Marietta. The district takes in the whole village, with buildings along Main, Maple and Hill Streets. Most are modest one and one-and-a-half story frame cottages and I-houses from the mid-19th century, many with center chimneys and little ornament. Several cottages on Hill Street were homes for miners who worked the nearby coal mines. The district also contains the 1802 Mason House, a rare saltbox, and an 1839 brick farmhouse built for the Beach family, who founded the community. Other resources include general stores, one built in 1839, an 1870 store and residence now serving as the post office, an 1858 Gothic Revival Methodist chapel converted to a home, two schoolhouses and Mason Cemetery. Coal Run was served by stagecoach, steamboats, a free ferry and the interurban line, and the district records how a small coal and river community developed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic, Mid-19th Century, Late Victorian, and No Style (mostly vernacular)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most resources are houses still in residential use. The post office, a specialty store and a cemetery remain in use. A few buildings are vacant or in poor condition, and one cottage with its privy is noted as demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.258013-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/96000115.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000115/1529f62316-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000115/1529f62316-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_Run_Historic_District_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_Run_Historic_District_Ohio.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991953","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Run,_Ohio","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137782"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/washington-county/coal-run-historic-district-96000115/"}