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.
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William Wallis House
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Charles A. Hart Mansion
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.
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Buhl Mansion
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.
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First Presbyterian Church
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.
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Alexander McDowell House
This Second Empire house, now a funeral home, has suffered a bit from the usual culprits: artificial siding, new windows, fake shutters. But the outlines of the house, and especially its distinctive mansard roof, are still obvious. It was built in about 1886 for Alexander McDowell, a banker who would later become a member of Congress.
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