Built in 1828, the Randolph Mitchell House is a five-bay, Federal-style I house with a facade featuring a doorway with an Adam-style fan and sidelights, and an interior with a grand stairway in the foyer and fine woodwork throughout. Randolph Mitchell, born in Rockingham County, Virginia, settled in New Reading with his mother Sarah in 1819 and married Lydia Witmer; they had four children. Mitchell was a merchant who kept an ample smokehouse and owned a tannery and real estate, and he served as a justice of the peace for Reading Township. After his death, his son-in-law, Dr. W.W. Arnold, maintained his practice in the home, where he and Caroline Mitchell Arnold lived, and their son William Arnold later acquired the house, which remained in the family until 1951. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Reading Township was organized in 1807 after Peter Obermeier migrated there from the Keystone State around 1802 and named it after Reading, Pennsylvania. Initially part of Fairfield County and laid out as six miles square under the Land Ordinance of 1785, the township was enlarged in 1818, when the General Assembly created Perry County from parts of Fairfield, Muskingum, and Washington counties and gave Reading Township its oblong six-by-eight-mile shape. Randolph Mitchell's house stood within the once-thriving village of New Reading, first called Overmyertown, which was initially populated by many families of German heritage, and Obermeier-Overmyer, Mitchell, and other settlers to the area are buried in the adjacent cemetery.