{"nrhp_refnum":"97000509","name":"Hill, James Delos, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montpelier","county":"Williams County","state":"OH","lat":41.58669860100008,"lon":-84.60554132999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 201 East Main Street in Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio, built around 1882 by local builder Oscar Finnegan and remodelled in 1907-08 after a fire.","why_significant":"The house is nominated under Criterion B for its association with James Delos Hill, a leading civic, political and business figure in Montpelier. Hill lived there from 1893 until his death in 1939. He was a Wabash Railway attorney, banker and three-time mayor, and is credited with bringing the railroad shops and division offices to town.","narrative":"Located at the corner of East Main and Pleasant streets in Montpelier, Ohio, this two-story frame house was built around 1882 by local builder Oscar Finnegan. It began as a high-style Italianate home, with a hipped roof, bracketed cornice and pedimented window lintels. After a 1906 fire, it was remodelled in 1907-08 with a two-story Neo-Classical Revival portico featuring Doric columns and a pedimented gable. The house is tied to James Delos Hill, who lived there from 1893 until his death in 1939. Hill was a Wabash Railway attorney, a banker and three-time mayor of Montpelier. He is credited with bringing the railroad shops and division offices to the town, and with supporting its light and water plant, sewers, paved streets and telephone company. As the property most closely associated with his productive life, the house was recognized for its link to his role in the town's growth from a crossroads settlement into a railroad center.","period_of_significance":"1893-1939","architect_builder":"Oscar Finnegan","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate; 20th Century Revival/Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the current owners have restored woodwork and exposed original features, and an addition east of the garage was under construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.684659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/97000509.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000509/b085d3abe4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000509/b085d3abe4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Delos_Hill_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Delos_Hill_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992005","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138766214"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/williams-county/hill-james-delos-house-97000509/"}