{"nrhp_refnum":"82003602","name":"McCune's Villa","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"537 Jones Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.08534630300005,"lon":-82.49242066199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large estate known as Bryn Du Farm (McCune's Villa) at 537 Jones Road near Granville, Licking County, Ohio, centered on a 52-room sandstone mansion built in 1865 and remodeled in 1905-08, with seven other farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is an outstanding Georgian Revival example in the Granville area, skillfully remodeled from an Italian Villa by Ohio architect Frank Packard. It is also tied to John S. Jones, a railroad brakeman turned mine owner, bank director, founder of Naples, Florida, and important Granville citizen, who expanded the estate into a large dairy and cattle farm.","narrative":"Bryn Du Farm is a large estate near Granville, Ohio, built around a 52-room mansion of light buff sandstone quarried on the property. Henry Wright built the original Italian Villa in 1865, and it was sold within a year to Jonas McCune, giving rise to the name McCune's Villa. In 1905 John S. Jones bought the property. Between 1905 and 1908 he had architect Frank Packard remodel the house into a Georgian Revival mansion, keeping the three-story central bay and two-story wings, lengthening each wing by 20 feet, and adding a four-column portico. The estate includes a power house, garage, laundry, gardener's cottage, and large wood-frame dairy and horse barns. Jones rose from railroad brakeman to mine owner, bank director, and founder of Naples, Florida. He assembled a farm about a mile and a half wide and gave land for an 18-hole golf course. The complex is valued for its architecture and for its link to Jones.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Frank Packard (remodeling, 1905-08)","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (remodeled from Italian Villa)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied. Present uses are agriculture and private residence. The estate was sold at public sale in 1976 and the new owners are described as interested in preservation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.701113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003602.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003602/2c57d8a3d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003602/2c57d8a3d9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jimrickshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryn_Du_Mansion.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimrickshaw</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryn_Du_Mansion.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989678","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Du_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4980851"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/mccunes-villa-82003602/"}