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This looks like 2851 Croft Road - it's a rather odd situation, but it's still a parceled property...!
Parcel number 2200300013000006 - perhaps https://pat.bhamaps.com/TabReport.asp... works?
The floorplan matches exactly, and its position in the film roll makes sense - https://clark-oh.bhamaps.com/sketch/g... - and the odd curved formation in the back matches the brush surrounding the "bay" or secondary spillway area, on the south side of the road, across from the [road elevation] italic 1078 mark:
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For comparison, in 1955 before it was built: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/...
That house was apparently constructed in 1959, and it appears on the pre-Reservoir USGS maps. While the survey record says it's on Croft Road, the USGS maps sometimes still call it Merritt Road; the modern remnant is Prosser Road in honor of the family that owned much of the surrounding land, which would become this western portion of the park. Depending on the map, this section of the road is called Overlook Drive, but the 2851 Croft address still is tied to this property, though it is only accessible through gated portions of the park. It should be east of where Buckhorn Trail crosses the paved road.
The house itself was demolished years ago; I recall passing the clearing and wondering what was there previously. It's not very far from the Crabill House, which itself was considered for demolition, but spared once its significance was realized. This house appears to have been kept around, but no
Similar case: on the opposite side of the park, a former ranger's house off 2953 Grant Road [straight across Yeazell Road, a section called the "Coyote Trail" or such] was constructed in 1957 and retained, despite numerous other houses and barns being demolished - in one case, a small hut off Grant was kept, while a large foursquare barely on the park property was razed in the late 1970s.
That 1957 house was later abandoned, then demolished within the last couple years - it outlasted the one shown here.
...and I just rediscovered the vintage overhead photo overlay, so this matches those as well! It appears to have been disused/demolished by 2006.