Father Pitt in Sharon

Tag: Owsley & Boucherle

  • Elizabeth E. Haywood Mansion

    Elizabeth E. Haywood house

    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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  • F. H. Buhl Club

    F. H. Buhl Club

    Frank H. Buhl gave this club for the innocent recreation of the men of Sharon, so they would not have to spend their evenings in saloons drinking and getting into even worse trouble. As the Buhl Community Recreation Center, it is still going; it now admits women as well. The original building was put up in 1902; the architect was Buhl’s favorite, Charles H. Owsley of Owsley & Boucherle in Youngstown.1

    Entrance
    Inscription: F. H. Buhl Club
    Window over the entrance
    F. H. Buhl Club
    1. The SAH Archipedia article on the Buhl Club attributes it to Charles F. Owsley, son of Charles H., but that is almost certainly a mistake in the easily confused middle initial. Charles F. was only 22 years old in 1902, and he had not yet joined his father’s firm. ↩︎
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