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.
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James N. Willson Mansion
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First United Presbyterian Church
Now called Covenant Church, but still Presbyterian. As in most cities in western Pennsylvania, there were two First Presbyterians; the ones who built this church were the United Presbyterians, a Pittsburgh-based splinter group that reunited with the larger body of American Presbyterians in 1958, a century and two days after they had walked out. This church, built in 1908, was designed by Sharon’s own E. E. Clepper, who seems to have been the pull-out-all-the-stops type when it came to ornamenting a building.
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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
- 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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F. W. Koehler Mansion
An ostentatious Queen Anne house built in 1901; the architects were Miller & Ford of Youngstown with C. R. Dennison as associate architect. It has been restored with bits and pieces from another less fortunate mansion nearby.
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The Buhl Mansion on a Snowy Evening
The grandest house in Sharon, the Buhl mansion was built for Frank H. Buhl, owner of the Sharon Iron Works and de facto lord of Sharon. Buhl had his favorite architect, Charles H. Owsley, design the house. We’ll see much more of it, but here are a few moody pictures at twilight on a snowy evening.
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