Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Bellevue is a historic farmhouse located near the village of Kingston in southern Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Built of brick on a stone foundation, it was the home of leading early Ohio politician Renick Dunlap.”
Wikipedia article Bellevue (Kingston, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 20 National Register listings in Pickaway County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001508- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Pickaway township, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
the year 1806, two extraordinary men, twin brothers, of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. One of these was called Tecumseh, or " The Crouching Panther;" the other, OlHwacheca, or "The Prophet." Tecumseh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perseverance in any enterprise m which he might engage.
In 1891, the old brick structure was torn down by David S. Ludwig, the grandson of Daniel Ludwig. A frame dwelling was built which was considered one of the most beautiful homes in Pickaway County. It was built 2bout a quarter of a mile from the Kingston Turnpike in the center of what was called the "Garden Spot of Ohio."
The first cabin in the township was built in 1796 by Caleb Evans. The lob cabin was along Scippo Creek on present day Kingston Pike. It later burned and was replaced by a brick home and barns which still stand. A family cemetery was located on the high banks above Scippo Creek. It was one of the first graveyards in the county. The first log schoolhouse in the county was located on a hill east of the farm until 1938. Another early settler of the township was Capt. John Boggs from Pennsylvania. George Hitler and family, also from Pennsylvania, settled in the spring 0 1799. John Gay, father of Mrs. George Hitler, came with his family in 1799. Other settlers at the end of the 18" century were: Thomas and John pert, John see John Rush, and Matthew Ferguson. :
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bellevue between
2007 and 2007, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,061 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bellevue between 1845 and
1975: 967 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Andy White. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
1,897 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
windows in the front four rooms are recessed to the floor with paneling below the random widths. The center hall has a delicate stairway with a cherry banister. were originally connected by ceiling-high folding paneled doors. The doors opened onto the porches.The foundation is sandstone.
Bricks were fired on the property a small porch or stoop supported by massive square columns.This was replaced by an enclosed porch on the south side and an open porch on the north.Both the ell 9/9 pane windows on each floor.These are placed two toward the center and two 6/6 pane with plain stone 1intels and shutters.The center entrance originally had between the rooms.The small room on the upper floor directly over the center and"L"along the kitchen wing.The lower part is pariallly enclosed and screened LRUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
and was the home of one of Ohio's prominent politicians, Renick Dunlap. The Bellevue was built by Col.William Entrekin, son of John Entrekin an early married Jane Bell, a relative of George Renick, a famed cattle breeder and drover.
Bellevue and its farmland was purchased in 1899 by Nelson Dunlap, the grandfather in 1945, his daughter, Mary Dunlap Smith, and her husband returned to operate 1840 1600-1699 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART LAW SIGNIFICANCE XARCHITECTURE TRANSPORTATION PHILOSOPHY PERIOD PREHISTORIC MILITARY AGRICULTURE 1900- SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _COMMUNICATIONS X1800-1899 MUSIC XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT 1700-1799 _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Secretary Of Agriculture of the United States for eight years.After his death and Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Ohio.Later he was Assistant a log and frame house while Bellevue was begun in 1835.Col.William Entrekin _ENGINEERING home is well-proportioned and is well cared for and preserved.
Tavern which served travelers on the famed Zane's Trace.Entrekin first lived in - CONSERVATION INDUSTRY - ECONOMICS -RELIGION livesthere. -THEATER Bellevue is a very good example of an early country estate in central Ohio BUILDER/ARCHITECT Col. William Entrekin INVENTION political affairs.He served as a State Senator, State Secretary of Agriculture, settler of nearby Ross County The house is located near the McCutcheon
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001508, 19 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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