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    Mountain House is the historic home of Dard Hunter in Chillicothe, Ohio.

    Dec 21, 2021 3 minutes
    By Brian D. Coleman
    photos by John Neitzel

    ARD HUNTER III didn’t think it unusual to grow up in a historic house. Dard’s grandfather, Dard Hunter Sr., bought the house in 1919, after he retired as a graphic designer with the Roycrofters. A classic Gothic Revival house in brick, it was built in 1851 by German immigrant Oscar Janssen and his mother, Maria. Named Mountain House, it sat on a steep hillside overlooking Chillicothe. With grapevine terraces below, it was one of Ohio’s earliest wineries. Designed to resemble Maria’s favorite castle on the

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