McIntire Terrace Historic District

McIntire Terrace is a residential district on the northwest side of Zanesville, Ohio, set on a natural terrace that once overlooked the city. The land came from the estate of John McIntire, and was platted in 1855 and sold in two-acre lots. Over the following half-century it became a prime neighborhood for well-to-do businessmen and their families. The roughly 223 buildings show a broad range of taste, including an 1861 Italian Villa, Italianate and Second Empire houses, Stick, Shingle and Queen Anne designs, Georgian Revival homes, and a row of Sears-Roebuck mail-order houses. Residents included a state militia general, a Grand Army of the Republic commander, foundry partners and a drug company founder, and Zane Grey was born on Convers Avenue. Interstate 70 and road widening removed some stately homes and left two main brick-paved areas. The district was listed as a well-preserved example of an upper-class nineteenth-century neighborhood.