{"nrhp_refnum":"96000867","name":"Young, Benjamin and Mary, House","other_names":["Rhoda Corning Holmes House","Lak-95-3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7597 S. Center St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mentor","county":"Lake County","state":"OH","lat":41.664456839000025,"lon":-81.33975480599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Federal style frame house at 7597 South Center Street, Mentor, Lake County, Ohio, built about 1810 with a rear kitchen wing added about 1830. It was moved to its present lot in 1955.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare example of a one-story, hip-roofed Federal house in the Western Reserve. It also retains early framing, including bark-covered log joists and adzed oak members. Its recessed front porch with an elliptical arched opening has no known counterpart in northern Ohio.","narrative":"This one-story Federal style frame house on South Center Street in Mentor, Ohio, dates from about 1810 and has a rear kitchen wing from about 1830. Its defining feature is a centered recessed front porch with slender Doric pilasters and an elliptical arched opening, under a low hip roof with a wide frieze. Inside the structure, early construction survives: adzed oak beams, bark-covered log joists, split lath and very wide sheathing boards. The original location is unknown. The house was moved in the 1860s, when the wing was attached and Benjamin and Mary Young lived there, and again in 1955, to its present street. It was listed for architecture. The nomination calls it a rare surviving example of early Western Reserve frame building and a stylish one-story hip-roofed Federal house, a form few local examples match. It remains a single-family dwelling.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1810 -- ca. 1866","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; moved in 1955 and given a north addition for a bathroom and basement stairs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.552218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/96000867.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000867/7db64f9747-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000867/7db64f9747-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_and_Mary_Young_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</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:Benjamin_and_Mary_Young_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989547","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138448680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lake-county/young-benjamin-and-mary-house-96000867/"}