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The Frederick W. Schumacher mansion was a historic house on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. The mansion was built for Mary L. Frisbie, and was constructed from 1886 to 1889. Frisbie lived in the house for several years before selling it in 1901 to Frederick W. Schumacher, a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Schumacher lived there ...
Other important residents included Andrew Black, a dry-goods merchant who built Black's Opera House [5] (353 S. Fountain), William D. Bayley, owner of the William Bayley Co. [6] (521 S. Fountain), James Johnson Jr., [7] leading attorney and mayor in 1895 (563 S. Fountain), Hector Urquhart, [8] owner and president of the Springfield Baking Co ...
Historical marker ()The Snowden-Gray mansion is located on East Town Street in Downtown Columbus, close to Topiary Park. [1] The surrounding Town-Franklin neighborhood is considered the city's first suburb, first subdivided in the 1840s, with early fashionable residences constructed in the 1850s, and its lots filling in during the subsequent prosperous decades. [2]
The house has been occupied by Ohio's governors ever since, except for 1975–1983, the third and fourth terms of Governor James A. Rhodes. (He had lived in the house during his first two terms, from 1963 to 1971, but then acquired a Columbus residence of his own and remained there after his return to the governorship.)
The majority of the mansion was built around the mid-1850s for M.L. Neville, who purchased the property in an 1855 sheriff's sale for $5,310. In 1857, it was rented out to the state of Ohio, when it became the first home to the Ohio Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth (known today as the Columbus Developmental Center). [2]
The Charles F. Kettering House is located on Kettering's west side, on a hill overlooking the grounds of both Kettering College and Kettering Medical Center. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, originally designed by the Dayton firm of Schenck & Williams and built in 1914. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1995 and was rebuilt ...
The Karl A. Staley House was designed in 1950 [1] by Frank Lloyd Wright. Situated on the shores of Lake Erie in North Madison, Ohio , this home is constructed with stone, in an I-plan form. The home originally had two bedrooms (a master bedroom, and a guest bedroom), as well as a separate workspace and study.
Glendower, now known as Glendower Historic Mansion and Arboretum, is a historic Greek Revival style house located at 105 Cincinnati Avenue, U.S. Route 42, Cincinnati Avenue, in Lebanon, Ohio. It was built in 1836 by Amos Bennett for John Milton Williams , a Lebanon merchant, and named for Owain Glyndŵr (often anglicised as "Owen Glendower").