{"nrhp_refnum":"99000320","name":"Burchfield Homestead","other_names":["Charles Ephraim Burchfield House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"867 E. Forth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salem","county":"Columbiana County","state":"OH","lat":40.904784568000025,"lon":-80.84901842399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story gable-and-wing frame house at 867 East Fourth Street in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, built in the early 1890s and enlarged in 1910. It is the boyhood home of painter Charles Ephraim Burchfield.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion B for association with watercolorist Charles Ephraim Burchfield, who lived here from 1898 until 1922. The house and its views inspired many of his major paintings, and he is described as among the most important American artists from Ohio.","narrative":"Located at 867 East Fourth Street in Salem, Ohio, this gable-and-wing frame house with clapboard siding and modest Colonial Revival details began in the early 1890s as a small front-gabled dwelling. The Burchfield family expanded it in 1910, adding a wing and gutting the interior. Charles Ephraim Burchfield moved in at age five in 1898 with his mother and five siblings, and lived here until 1922. The family was always poor, and the older children worked to support it. Charles began painting young and later converted a second-floor bedroom into an art studio with a skylight. Caricature drawings made by the family in 1910 remain in the parlor. He became a nationally recognized watercolorist and landscape painter whose work often drew on Salem's buildings and landscapes. Later the house was divided into apartments, then restored, and it now serves as a museum. A modern garage on the lot is noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"1898-1922","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th century-no style; late 19th and early 20th century Colonial Revival","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Now used as a museum; restoration work was undertaken shortly before the nomination, including reopening original doorways, replacing moldings and replacing windows and the skylight. A garage on the property 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 02:52:07.096648-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/99000320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000320/04e30d15a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000320/04e30d15a1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burchfield_Homestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burchfield_Homestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987238","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchfield_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4998213"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/columbiana-county/burchfield-homestead-99000320/"}