Showing posts with label sightseeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sightseeing. 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!








Saturday, December 11, 2010

Home Tour 2


 The Sturgeon Home.,
 was built between 1924 and 1927.
Is furnished with many antiques,
 the house possesses what is believed 
to be Dutch Colonial Revival architecture. 

Do you see the stripes ont he walls?
I thought it was wallpaper


Nope ... its paint!
I just love this window seat


Dining room in to the foyer


Hallway to kitchen from dining room




From the kitchen
you can either go upstairs
or got arouind to the living room




Upstairs 
you;ll find the Hogwort's Rm


What boy wouldn't adore this room





in the little girls room
 there is a secret closet threw 
the french doors








 looking from dressing room


 The Hill Home, 
While the house has been remodeled
 to resemble a colonial home,
 the owners are currently trying
 to restore its early 1900s features. 
Visitors will get a chance to see 
the door where John McQuiggan
, son of prominent Xenia physician 
and former Hill Home resident 
Dr. Paul McQuiggan, carved his name.



The front Parlor





Back Parlor




Dining Room


One bedroom


Bath


Master Bedroom



Thursday, December 9, 2010

Gingerbread Competition

4th annual gingerbread competition
Celebrity judges fro Columbus came
in and awarded place prizes.

Best of Show will win a $500 cash prize

There were 4 catagories
Family, Child,Teen, Adult





Family
















1st Place Family












Kids












Adult






 Santa's A Buckeye Fan! 




1st Place Adult Grinch






2nd Place Adult


3rd Place Adult


Teen