This classical building is marked “Sunshine Home” on a Sanborn map from 1920, and that is all old Pa Pitt knows about it. Perhaps a local historian can enlighten us. The second floor, with its tall windows, looks like an assembly room or lodge hall.
This was a very modern-looking house when it was built in the 1890s. The style is a large version of what old Pa Pitt calls the center-hall foursquare, with Renaissance details and a whiff of the Prairie Style wafting in from the west.
New windows and siding have not been kind to this Shingle-style house, but the picturesque composition of gables, dormer, and oversized turret comes through anyway. It was built in about 1891.
Charles H. Owsley designed the Buhl mansion, and he festooned it with every doodad in the Richardsonian Romanesque vocabulary. His festooning was done with taste, however, and the dormers, turrets, arches, and other outcroppings all make a harmonious composition.
A generously sized porte cochere always makes a good impression on visitors.
Nicklas and Rodrick of Cleveland, two architects who somehow both lost the central vowels in their names, designed this Perpendicular Gothic church, which was built in 1926–1927. It is one of the two most magnificent churches in Sharon, its only rival being St. Joseph, which is in an entirely different style.
The education wing is well matched to the main church.
