Granville Historic District

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.