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Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron and became a museum in 1957. At 64,500 square feet, the manor house is among the largest private residences in the country.
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...
Jim of Akron is stands with a 1910 World Series trophy and baseball card that belonged to his great grandfather Frank Atkins during a taping of the Antiques Roadshow show at Stan Hywet on Tuesday ...
Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling (October 6, 1859 – August 11, 1955), also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921.
December 9, 1981 (2363 NW Flanders Street: Charles Francis Adams (1862–1943) was a prominent Portland banker, art collector, and patron of the Portland Art Museum.This house was designed for him by the eminent firm of Whidden and Lewis, built in the Georgian Revival style in 1904, expanded in 1918, and extensively restored in 1979.
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(South Portland listings are included on the Southwest Portland list.) This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in South and Southwest Portland, Oregon , United States, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
This 1911 library, designed by Portland architect A.E. Doyle and built with funding from the Carnegie Foundation, became one of the earliest public library branches outside downtown Portland. It has since been converted to an office building. [14] 24: East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District: East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District