{"nrhp_refnum":"79001908","name":"Mound House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Mound Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Duncan Falls","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.87974288700008,"lon":-81.91130548199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-section brick residence at 400 Mound Road, Duncan Falls, Muskingum County, Ohio, on a natural mound beside the Muskingum River. The older eastern section dates to the 1830s and the front addition to about 1850.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most outstanding early homes in Muskingum County and an important example of settlement architecture. The revised statement stresses its late Federal addition, unusual in a rural area where houses were mostly wooden and vernacular, and its link to James Taylor, who platted nearby river villages. Its winding staircase is also singled out.","narrative":"Mound House is a brick residence in Duncan Falls, Ohio, built on a natural mound overlooking the Muskingum River. It went up in two stages. The older eastern section, a 2½-story common-bond building, was constructed in the 1830s by \"Black\" Dan Lawrence for James Taylor, who also laid out the nearby town of Duncan Falls. About 1850 Shelton Sturges added a five-bay, Flemish-bond section that became the front and gave the house an ell shape. Its Federal and early Italianate details include sidelights, fanlights and a winding stair in the central hall. The nomination values the house because rural homes of the period were usually wooden and vernacular, while this one has a clearly Federal addition. Only four other Federal houses were noted in the county, all in Zanesville. In 1976 the southern bay of the addition collapsed, and the owners planned to rebuild it with the same brick.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"\"Black\" Dan Lawrence (original section); Shelton Sturges (addition)","architectural_style":"Federal with early Italianate detailing (addition); original section vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the southern bay of the addition collapsed in early spring 1976, and the owners were rebuilding and restoring the house at the time of the form. Occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.388177-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001908.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001908/76b13f18a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001908/76b13f18a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Tristan Blatt","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mound_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tristan Blatt</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mound_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990733","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895427"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/mound-house-79001908/"}