Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
From the record
“The Stevenson Peters House is a historic farm complex near the city of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Built in the mid-19th century, the complex has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Stevenson Peters House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Pickaway County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84003797- 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.
Then and now
1914 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The first permanent settlement made in this township was in 1797 or 1798. There were white people living here prior to this period, but they did not continue long as residents. Unfortunately, the early township records have been lost, so that it i$ impossible to state when the township was organized. It is a settled fact, however, that the township organization existed before the formation of the county. The township, as originally set off and surveyed, was six miles square. As it was considered that Walnut Creek would make the most satisfactory boundary line between this township and Harrison, it was finally arranged to detach the northwestern portion of Walnut township lying west of Walnut Creek and add it to the territory of Harrison township, while that portion of Harrison township south of Walnut Creek was set over to Walnut township. The boundary line w as a matter of considerable moment to the settler in the early days, when there were no bridges across Walnut Creek, which stream was difficult to cross at certain seasons of the year. The present boundaries of the township are as follows : Walnut Creek and Madison township on the north; Fairfield County on the east; Washington and Circleville townships on the south and Walnut Creek and the Scioto River on the west. The population of the township in 1900 was 1,455. The township officials for 1906 are as follows: Trustees - John H. Peters,
As stated previously. Walnut Creek forms nearly the whole western boundary of the township. Little Walnut Creek flows through the township from east to west and empties into Walnut Creek in section 18. Little Walnut has many tributaries, chief among which is Turkey Run. The surface of the township is generally undulating, being considerably more rolling in the eastern part than it is in the central and western sections. The highest point of the township. East Ringgold, is several hundred feet above Circleville. The early settlers found this section of the county covered | with various varieties of timber, which con- I sisted principally of walnut, butternut, hickory,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stevenson Peters House
in 2019, burning about 10 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
6
Smoking
1
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 1,987 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stevenson Peters House between 1876 and 1975: 1,793 Animalia, 142 Fungi, 49 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Acker, G. & Class 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Circleville, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 29 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 14 flood, 7 flash flood.
The reports record 7 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A tornado touched down west of Circleville, pulling a small shed off of its foundation and destroying a section of a construction building. after this, the tornado lifted and then touched down in a more developed area in town. It destroyed a building housing two businesses and ripped the roof off of a section of a strip mall, ejecting furniture from inside the structure. A large sign weighing several hundred pounds was ripped from its foundation and blown twenty feet away. A tractor trailer with a load of 18 to 19 tons was blown over and dragged ten feet away from where it landed. The tornado then proceeded to a housing development where several homes were destroyed, several roofs ripped off, and garages either destroyed or moved from their foundations. Trees were twisted and broken off at their bases and carports were also torn from nearby houses.
A tornado touched down along State Route 361, causing damage to three buildings at the Pickaway Machine and Fabricating Company. Portions of the aluminum roofing and insulation were removed from these three buildings, and deposited throughout the complex and in a cornfield across Route 361. Corn stalks at six to eight feet in height were knocked over in a 150 foot wide swath across this cornfield, extending for a mile to the northeast to Boggs Road. Across Boggs Road, minor tree and limb damage occurred, with part of an open air aluminum shed being blown into a nearby tree line.
A small tornado moved across the south side of Circleville producing minor structural and roof damage to a few buildings, and some damage to nine cars at a dealership. Numerous trees and power lines were also knocked down.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
The Stevenson Peters residence reflects the common midwest rural house type referred to as There is a l4 story summer kitchen to the west of the main house. It too is made of common Historic photographs of the house and complex (c.1875) show that the house originally had deteriorated windows.with shutters.An existing sandstone and frame springhouse now houses equipment for There is also a small hip roofed addition to the west.The original portion has vertical open porch on the east and a smaller room on the west.(See floor plan.) There are two end chimneys and one internal chimney on the "fair" NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 National Park Service Peters, Stevenson, Residence, Pickaway County, Ohio Page Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet received date entered exterior brick was sandblasted. National Register of Historic Places Other alteration to the house since built include a standing seam metal roof with projecting Item number the uniqueness of the plan of this house in the community makes it particularly significant.
United States Department of the Interior Although the integrity of the farm house is compromised by some of these later alterations, added to the east side of the wing with a patio filling in the "L"of the plan.The original Previously the house had been painted with a creme "nu-bricking"(c.194l?).In 1977 the For NPS use only shutters have been replaced with plastic ones and the roof is now covered in asphalt shingles.
(3-82) eaves and the existing 3 bay porch.(c.l9oo?).A shed roof aluminum-sided addition has been Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic .law - - agriculture _ literature - sculpture X architecture -art - music _ exploration/settlement _ - philosophy :communications - politics/government _ transportation that the variation was incorporated to take advantage of the hillside view and breezes.
(in one paragraph) and the existing inventory of structures in Pickaway and neighboring Fairfield Counties, 8. Significance 1900- section has one major room centered and then flanked by the porch on the east side and conjunction with its affiliation with the prominent Peters family makes it a noteworthy was among the first settlers in Pickaway County. structure.It is also significant as an early farm complex which remains active in the walnut woodwork and staircase are extant.
Specific dates 1852 184l map of the Township indicates Stevenson was holding land in the vicinity of the The residence was constructed in 1852.The lintel over the front door is inscribed;" same family today.Because of the prominent location of the house on a hillside and a smaller room to the west.In reviewing all of the architecture in Walnut Township a farmer, who was one of the largest landholders in the township and whose family Al9o6 history of Pickaway County exclaims that "the Peters family is one of good standing - - other(specify) - - science -community planning - landscape architecture _ religion rear section of the basic rectangular shape. Therefore, the floor plan becomes a five type, having two rooms in the front divided by a central hall and stairway.
The rear of the "4 over 4" rural house type and because of its affiliation with Stevenson Peters, relocated in Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio.when he was at an eatly age. An archeology-prehistoric no other structure with this double story open porch feature was identified.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84003797, 20 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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