Nomination for Mount Oval

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) Rt. 1. Mount Oval AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) - In Process X Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Commercial FEB.+ 81974 OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: Mary R.

Tolbert (Miss) COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Phase I - Ohio Historic Survey DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local Circleville 1967 039 CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE Government Pickaway STATE Religious NATIONAL Site Renick-Young House Columbus Both District Educational Private Military REGISTER Entertainment Restricted Court Street Scientific Comments Museum Park STATUS OWNERSHIP Building Unoccupied Yes: CODE Public COMMON: Structure Circleville vicinity Industrial Ohio Being Considered LOCATION Public Acquisition: Pickaway County Courthouse Ohio Historical Society Private Residence Tolbert House 6th William H.

Harsha TO THE PUBLIC ENTRY DATE ENTRY NUMBER STREET AND NUMBER: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: CITY OR TOWN: 17th Avenue Object NAME LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION DATE CLASSIFICATION South ef Emerson Road DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site The house is of brick, one story high, except for an attic room over the the corners, the dimensions of the smaller rooms being ten feet to the the south side are of wood, and stone at the west side. This severe, simple design, strictly Palladian, is totally unexpected for nineteenth century Ohio, much less 1832.

As built, some modifications were To the east and north, respectively, of the corner rooms at the northwest To the east of the house, in line with the three consectutive rooms, A painting of the house, done in the 1830's, shows it with small hipped roofs doors and doorways, the stairs, all are wellexecuted, in cherry and walnut, FEB 2 8 1974 CONDITION smokehouse. REGISTE NATIONAL ten-to-eleven-foot wide framed opening. The walls of the central room continue outwards defining square rooms in Fair In l9l5 the passage between the kitchen and the house was enclosed. was the free-standing kitchen building.It is now connected to the main half bath being built in the old passage between the house and the kitchen.

house.About five feet from the house on the east side of the kitchen is a frame building.To the northeast of the kitchen is an extant early brick on the east side we find a room and a hall with the stairs leading to the (Check One) Good - Unexposed cattle drover. made to the basic concept, which remains true for the south and west half of the house, as well as the ballroom. Where the porch would have been The smokehouse is of brick, square in plan, with a hipped roof and symmet- DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

west (front) sides there are four porch columns at each porch; those at attic. On the north side, proceeding from the north west corner we find The woodwork within the house: the mantels, cupboards at their sides, the sulted in the southeast corner room being converted to a bathroom and a Ruins and are well-preserved.The mantel in the central room is delicately hipped roof.The original covering was shingles; presently it is metal. ballroom constitute porches with thin Doric columns.On the south and RECEIVED and southeast corner of the house, the width of the rooms is about fourteen The space between the square rooms and the side of the over the corner rooms;presently the house has one large double sloped

Statement of significance

Council House, Grenadier Squaw Town and Chief Cornstalk's Town were all Ludwig Young's niece, Miss Mary R. Tolbert, presently owns and lives through books such as those by Gibbs, or by way of Thomas Jefferson's excellent state of preservation, was noted by I. I. Frary, Frank Roos 2 8 1974 1832 work. Commerce Architecture Conservation losophy Engineering Communications Aboriginal and others. Theater Prehistoric Agriculture Religion/Phi Science in the house.

Literature itarian Pre-Columbian Music Landscape Political the blue-grass, originally from Europe, was brought across the Alleghenies Invention Social/Human- The Renicks are also credited with introducing the blue grass to Kentucky; Industry Military The drover's room shows the functional aspect of the house.The Renicks Sculpture continued to be important factors in the development of the cattle the road between Athens and Chillicothe in l8l2. Urban Planning The outstanding architechitecture of the house, as well as its Education The design of the house has a strong Palladian influence;evident in on the East coast,68head to Baltimore in 1805.Felix and Josiah Renick This house is located at the site of several old Indian towms- the industry.In 1834 Secretary of State Henry Clay wrote a letter to a Mr. Other Art bought the farm and in 1863 gave it to his son, Daniel.

From 1882 to Coke in Norfolk, England, introducing the Renick brothers for the purpose FEB NATION restored the house.She later married Bernard W. Young.Mrs.Elisabeth Villa Capra and other buildings:it might have come to the Renicks Felix Renick laid out within a few hundred yards of Mount Oval.Logan's Elm, Camp Charlotte were the first to herd the cattle from the Scioto Valley to the markets married Jane Boggs and built Mount Oval in 1832.In 1860 Jacob Ludwig 19l5 tenant families lived in the house.In 19l5 Miss Elisabeth Ludwig AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) and Co., 1900. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES FEB 2 8 1974 The National Laszlo G. Koe-Krompecher, A.I.A. April 1973 CITY OR TOWN: 2.

STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GPO 931-894 039 1967. 1936. Degrees Local LATITUDE LONGITUDE COUNTY DATE ORGANIZATION Name Athens ATTEST: Title acres STATE Ohio CORNER REGISTER CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES State University. Ohio University National Register. STREET AND NUMBER: level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: Frary, I. Tolbert, Mary R. Renick, William. APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY POUYBARIES FORM PREPARED BY P.O. Box 111 Seconds Minutes 2. 28.74. 348 PHO TOS CONTROL REVIEW HISTOR IAN Sept. 3 JUL 2 5 1974 INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Federal Register entry National Register Write-up MAPS TECH REVIEW WORKING NUMBER BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Cole D8 ReF# PICKAWAY Co. 74001593 Vinton UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 2 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE L.G. Koe-Krompecher FEB 4.

IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. FEB 2 8 1974 GPO 932-009 Pickaway Renick-Young House Circleville vicinity COUNTY STATE TOWN DATE Ohio COMMON PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC NEGATIVE FILED AT View looking east, showing west (front) elevation. Mount Oval; Tolbert House East Side U.S. Route 23, South of Emerson Road PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER RECEIVED (6/72) (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC INUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 2 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE TNEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

FEB 2 8 1974 DATE Pickaway STATE Circleville Vicinity REGISTE COUNTY Ohio Historical Society Renick-Young House PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Summer 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES East Side U.S.Route 23, South of Emerson Road View looking south. Mount Oval; Tolbert House Larry A. Beers Ohio PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER GPO 932-009 COMMON NATIONAL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 2 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE Larry A. Beers 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. FEB 2 8 1974 GPO 932-009 TOWN COUNTY COMMON Pickaway View looking southeast.

NATIONAL PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Ohio Circleville vicinity Renick-Young House PHOTO CREDIT Ohio Historical Society STATE Summer 1973 AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (6/72) Mount Oval; Tolbert House PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM East Side U.S. Route 23,South of Emerson Road STREET AND NUMBER NEGATIVE FILED AT (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) REGISTE DATE RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

FEB 2 8 1974 GPO 932-009 Renick-Young House TOWN DATE Circleville vicinity COMMON STATE Ohio Pickaway COUNTY REGISTE Ohio Historical Society Smoke House NATIONAL PHOTO CREDIT Summer 1973 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (6/72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Mount Oval; Tolbert House Larry A. Beers STREET AND NUMBER PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER East Side U.S.Route 23, South of Emerson Road NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) RECEIVED Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 2 5 1974 LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE U.S.G.S.

7.5' Circleville 1: 24000 REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: FEB 2 8 1974 GPO 932-010 1961 Quadrangle DATE REGISTER STATE TOWN Pickaway Renick-Young House NATIONAL COUNTY COMMON Circleville vicinity SOURCE Ohio SCALE AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) East Side U.S. Route 23, South of Emerson Road PROPERTY MAP FORM Mount Oval; Tolbert House RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CIRCLEVILLE QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO STATE OF OHIO REGISTER ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEB 2 8 1974 STATE 0NTQ JUL 2 5 1974 Holmos County Courthouse and Jail Andrevs, Ebenezer, House Mx. Daniel R. Porter Hon. Charles A. Mosher The Ohio Historical Society Hon. J.

William Stanton Location Name MMott/row Pickaway County Cuyahoga County Lake County Date Entered Also Notified 7/29/74 Painesville ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Marion County Courthouse Hon. John M. Ashbrook Octagon louse Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Director Regional Director, Midwest Region Marion County State Historic Preservation Officer Circleville vicinity Hon.William E.Minshall Hon. Clarence J. Brom, Jr. Milan Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. Erie Coumty Miilersburg