{"nrhp_refnum":"74001593","name":"Mount Oval","other_names":["Tolbert House","Renick-Young House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off U.S. 23","address_restricted":false,"city":"Circleville","county":"Pickaway County","state":"OH","lat":39.52834192600005,"lon":-82.96617080299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Oval, also called the Renick-Young House or Tolbert House, is a one-story brick Palladian-style farmhouse built in 1832 on the east side of U.S. Route 23 south of Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was built by William Renick and has a brick smokehouse on the grounds.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unexpectedly strict Palladian design for 1830s Ohio and is very well preserved. It is also tied to the Renick family, who pioneered cattle droving from the Scioto Valley to eastern markets and cattle breeding. The site lies near several old Indian towns and other historic locations.","narrative":"Mount Oval is a one-story brick house near Circleville, Ohio, built in 1832 by William Renick, who married Jane Boggs. Its plan is a square built around a central ballroom twenty-five feet across, with small square corner rooms and Doric-columned porches between them. One corner room was used by the cattle drover. The nomination calls the strict Palladian design unexpected for nineteenth-century Ohio and suggests it may have come from pattern books or from Thomas Jefferson's work. The interior retains cherry and walnut woodwork and an Adam-style mantel, and an early brick smokehouse survives. The Renick family were among the first to drive cattle from the Scioto Valley to eastern markets, starting with 68 head to Baltimore in 1805, and later imported shorthorn cattle for breeding. The farm lies near the sites of several Indian towns. Elisabeth Ludwig restored the house in 1915 after decades of tenant occupancy.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1832)","architect_builder":"William Renick (builder)","architectural_style":"Palladian, with an Adam-style mantel","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; the house is occupied as a private residence, with agricultural use also checked.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.007431-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001593/4b33e14202-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001593/4b33e14202-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aesopposea","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MountOval.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Aesopposea</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MountOval.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990917","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Oval","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6922623"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/pickaway-county/mount-oval-74001593/"}