David Updegraff House - Mount Pleasant Historic District - Mount Pleasant, Ohio - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

By the late 1850s the Italianate style was becoming more popular and several Mt. Pleasant residences reflect this choice by prosperous families building houses during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. This is illustrated in the 1858 Updegraff House (388 Union St.). This five-bay brick building has a central entry with transom and sidelights, a bracketed cornice, and hipped roof accented by a bracketed lantern with three pointed arched windows. David Updegraff (1830-1894) was the third generation of this prominent Quaker family, his grandfather served as a delegate to the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention voting to enfranchise Negro males, and his parents, David and Rebecca Updegraff, served as delegates to the 1837 Ohio Anti-Slavery Convention at Mt. Pleasant and actively assisting fugitive slaves. David was a farmer and stock breeder who offered horses to the Union army although as a pacifist Quaker he refused to bear arms.

- Historic District Nomination

The house is in excellent condition and continues to serve as a private residence.