{"nrhp_refnum":"78002180","name":"Grandview Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"240 S. Walnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chillicothe","county":"Ross County","state":"OH","lat":39.32435315700005,"lon":-82.98732206596623,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Grandview Cemetery is a roughly 90-acre hilltop cemetery at 240 South Walnut Street, southwest of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. Its first land was purchased in 1845, and the full acreage had been acquired by the 1890s.","why_significant":"The cemetery holds the graves of four Ohio governors, a Civil War general and pioneer founders of Ohio and Chillicothe. Its mausoleums, crypts and monuments are cited for superior workmanship and detailing in Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Romanesque and early twentieth-century classical revival influences. Reviewers also noted its landscape design and its mid-19th century setting with monuments from the 1850s to the early 20th century.","narrative":"Grandview Cemetery occupies about 90 acres of rolling hilltop southwest of Chillicothe, with views over the Scioto River Valley and toward Paint Creek. The first land was bought in 1845 at a public sale of estates, and the full acreage was assembled by the 1890s. Early deeds restricted structures, walls over four and one-half feet and monuments judged in poor taste. The grounds include a Civil War Union Veterans monument, a speaker's shelter, a cut-stone Gothic receiving vault, and mausoleums and crypts in Gothic, Greek, Romanesque and classical revival styles. The oldest part is the Renick Enclosure, walled in stone. Those buried here include Nathaniel Massie, founder of Chillicothe, and Ohio governors Edward Tiffin, Thomas Worthington, Duncan McArthur and William Allen. General Joshua Sill, archaeologist Edwin Davis, cartoonist Billy Ireland and paper scholar Dard Hunter are also interred. The property was listed for its associations with early Ohio leaders and for its monuments and landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Romanesque and early twentieth-century classical revival influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still an active cemetery with burials continuing; older sections appear limited to existing family plots. The Receiving Vault is now used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:13.015221-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002180.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002180/4763b4ebb7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002180/4763b4ebb7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renick_family_graves_in_Grandview_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renick_family_graves_in_Grandview_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001523","name":"Chillicothe's Old Residential District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/chillicothes-old-residential-district-73001523/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991199","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandview_Cemetery_(Chillicothe,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5595568"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ross-county/grandview-cemetery-78002180/"}