# Jacob Light House

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{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Jacob Light House
| nrhp_type    =
| image        = Jacob Light House.jpg
| caption      = Front and western side
| location     = 123 W. Circle Ave., [Washington Court House](/source/Washington_Court_House%2C_Ohio), [Ohio](/source/Ohio)
| coordinates  = {{coord|39|31|53|N|83|26|13|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = Ohio#USA
| built        = {{Start date|1875}}
| architecture = [Italianate](/source/Italianate_architecture)
| added        = January 13, 1989
| area         = {{convert|0.4|acre}}
| refnum       = 88003191<ref name=nris>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Jacob Light House''' is a historic residence in the city of [Washington Court House](/source/Washington_Court_House%2C_Ohio), [Ohio](/source/Ohio), [United States](/source/United_States).  Once home to a prominent local craftsman, it has been designated a [historic site](/source/historic_site) as a well-preserved example of the [Italianate style of architecture](/source/Italianate_architecture).

With the coming of multiple railroad lines, Washington Court House became an increasingly important center of commerce in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.  Among those attracted to the city was Jacob Light, a [tailor](/source/tailor) who had established himself as a regional merchant.  Light purchased from [Mills Gardner](/source/Mills_Gardner) a sizeable [lot](/source/land_lot) south of the city's downtown on 10 May 1875, and by the beginning of June, he had commenced the construction of the present house.<ref name=dohp>Owen, Lorrie K., ed.  ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''.  Vol. 1.  [St. Clair Shores](/source/St._Clair_Shores%2C_Michigan): Somerset, 1999, 410-411.</ref>  Built of brick on a stone [foundation](/source/foundation_(engineering)) and covered with a [slate](/source/slate) roof,<ref>{{OHC NRHP|88003191|Light, Jacob, House}}, [Ohio Historical Society](/source/Ohio_Historical_Society), 2007.  Accessed 2013-05-25.</ref> the L-shaped house is a distinctive example of the Italianate style.  Among its prominent architectural components are the shallow [hip roof](/source/hip_roof), the front porch and its handcarven support beams, the [shutters](/source/Window_shutter) and [pediment](/source/pediment)s of the windows, and the [brackets](/source/bracket_(architecture)) supporting the [cornice](/source/cornice).  Particularly significant are the porch supports, which demonstrate the extent to which local woodcarving had progressed during the nineteenth century.<ref name=dohp />

After sixty-one years of ownership, Jacob Light's family sold the house in 1936.  Later owners preserved the house with few changes; more than fifty years later, it remained a good example of the Italianate style, of which just twenty other houses remained in the city by the late 1980s.<ref name=dohp />  In early 1988, the house was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places), qualifying because of its historically significant architecture.<ref name=nris />

==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places}}

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Category:Houses completed in 1875
Category:Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Ohio
Category:Italianate architecture in Ohio
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Ohio
Category:Washington Court House, Ohio
Category:1875 establishments in Ohio

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