An Italianate structure that was built in 1869,[1] it was the home of Ansel T. Walling, a state and federal legislator.

[2] A native of New York, Walling settled in northeastern Ohio in 1843, where he began to publish a local newspaper.

After serving as a clerk for the Ohio House of Representatives, he and his wife Sarah moved to Circleville in 1863; there they bought land and soon began to erect a house.

[2] Completed in 1869, its brick walls rest on a foundation of sandstone and are covered with an asphalt roof.

[3] Elements such as a bracketed cornice and a pitched roof with prominent eaves make the house distinctively Italianate; it is one of Circleville's best Italianate houses.