Elizabeth E. Haywood was a rich widow who hired Owsley & Boucherle to design this comfortable mansion for her, which was built in 1901. When she died in 1924, she left the house to be a home for retired Presbyterian ministers and their wives—an important charity in the days when ministers usually lived in manses provided by their churches, and had nowhere to go when they retired. The parts that were originally wood have been covered with cheap materials, but the general form of the house is still intact.
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