Showing posts with label Xenia. community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xenia. community. Show all posts

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Home Tour 3

We toured the downstairs of Eden Hall
Besides the gift shop
we saw the downstairs parlor
and the dining room

They owners were doing tours
 and because there were
so many ppl there 
wasn't any way to take photos




Fans of Greek Revival mansions
 built for $2000 in 1940 by Abraham Hivling 
as a wedding gift for his daughter,
 the house has been featured
 in the Haunted Ohio book series. 
The house has a myriad 
of tunnels that were dug in the basement 
as part of the Underground Railway 
and also connected with 2 other
 homes that were owned by the Hivilings. 
This house and the one next door were the
 inspiration for the main home in the book
 ...And the Ladies of the Club, Edith Mae’s Victorian 
Tea Room and Gift Shop are located in the first floor

This house is 3 stories
9340 sq ft
29 rooms
4 bedrooms
2 sitting rooms
5 full baths
1 half bath


There use to be an observatory 
on the top of the house
 but a fire destroyed it 
and the west side of the house
The west side was restored
When we moved to this town
 the house was a B & B 
How I wished 
we would've stayed there



The Altick Home, 
 will give fans of the Eastlake Victorian style
 something to talk about.
 Constructed around 1890,
 the house includes a pedimented portico
 with fishscale siding and a dentiled cornice line.

2900 sq ft
9 Rms
4 Bedrooms





The only thing my house
didn't have that I wanted
 was one of these







 I thought this hallway was interesting 




Off the main bedroom
 is a laundry/sitting room
how I would love this!








Monday, September 6, 2010

XKAR

On Saturday we helped with a
rocket launch event


A friend of ours Jason
(in the hat)
is the man behind 



Xenia Kids and Robots

XKAR is a science and technology club
for school aged children.
It was started in 2009
with the mission to empower,
 inspire and motivate kids
to their highest potential
in the areas of
Science, Technology,
Character and Community
                                             



We got involved when Jason 
needed money to have a 
community event to give kids
 free rockets and lunch



We put out a challenge 
on FB to friends and  the community 
 if 10 people gave $50
my hsb would wear a kilt



and another friend would dress up
in a costume

unfortunately the costume
 had not been returned to the costume shop!

Well they ended up with 
enough money that
he bought 25 rockets
and the food was donated
We ended up with  30 kids
 that were not in the club
setting off rockets

The kids built the rockets










and the adult stuffed the engines in 


and set them up



The kids got to push the button
to launch it and then 


run after it when it came down





It was such a great day   
this smile says it all 
                                                                                                                                       



I love when a community gets 
together to do positive
things for our youth!