Tag: Italianate Architecture

  • I.O.O.F. Block

    107 East State Street

    A lavishly Italianate building on the upper two floors, but the ground floor, occupied by a bank, had a modernistic makeover in the middle twentieth century. The third floor is notably tall, suggesting a lodge hall, and indeed old Pa Pitt confirmed his suspicion by looking at the Sanborn map from 1908, which marks this building as the I.O.O.F (International Order of Odd Fellows) Block, with a bank on the ground floor and a lodge on the third. Later the Odd Fellows moved to a newer lodge on Walnut Street, now South Sharpsville Avenue.

  • James N. Willson Mansion

    Willson Mansion

    A splendid Italianate house built for the furniture maker James N. Willson in 1875. According to the Sharon Historical Society, the architect was A. Kanengeiser.

    Willson mansion
    Willson mansion

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