{"nrhp_refnum":"80003138","name":"Granville Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Buxton Inn","St. Luke's Episcopal Church","Avery-Hunter"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"OH 37","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.06818945300003,"lon":-82.51942073765085,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the center of Granville, a village in Licking County, Ohio, founded in 1804 by settlers from Granville, Massachusetts and Granby, Connecticut. It includes Broadway, nearby residential streets and part of the Denison University campus, with mostly nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Granville as rich in architecture and history, with a large number of well-preserved buildings in Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Federal, Eastlake and other styles. The village has grown little in about 75 years and resembles a New England village. Its buildings are tied to Denison University, local builders, churches and the 1850s Water Cure.","narrative":"Granville is a small village in central Licking County, Ohio, set among Mt. Parnassus, Prospect Hill and Sugar Loaf Hill along Raccoon Creek. Settlers from Granville, Massachusetts and Granby, Connecticut founded it in 1804, and its appearance recalls a New England village. The historic district is centered on Broadway, which runs through a residential western section, a village center with three churches and an opera house at Main Street, and a commercial eastern section with the Granville and Buxton Inns. Surrounding streets and part of the Denison University campus complete the district. Representative buildings include the 1815 Bank of the Alexandrian Society, the 1824 brick Federal-style Lucius Mower house, Greek Revival and Gothic Revival homes of the 1840s and 1850s, the 1852 Water Cure buildings and the 1925 Granville Inn. Because the village has changed little in size since the 1860s, it preserves a broad record of nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture and local history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank Packard (Granville Inn); Arnold Brunner (Swasey Chapel); J. Milton Dyer (Swasey Observatory); Richards, McCarty and Bulford (Beth-Eden, Barney Science Hall, Doane Academy); Lucius Mower; Amos Montanya","architectural_style":"Mixed: Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Federal, Eastlake, Georgian Revival, Jacobethan Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition boxes are marked excellent and good, with the district both altered and unaltered. The Opera House is described as endangered, with a local preservation effort underway.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:11.990099-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003138.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985660","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/granville-historic-district-80003138/"}