Charles F. Owsley, the son of the Charles H. Owsley who was responsible for many of Sharon’s most distinguished buildings of a generation earlier, designed this hybrid of English cottage and Tudor castle for Morris Bachman, who unexpectedly died in 1909 before the house was completed. (The word “unexpectedly” was probably unnecessary there.) For many decades now it has been an old-age home called Clepper Manor. From a photograph published in 1911, we can see that it was still under construction just after the Kranz house next door was completed.
