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Bay Village undertakes Cahoon home restorationEntry/Object ID
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The Press SUBURBS
Jack Ballentine, Suburbs Editor Monday, Oct. 20, 1975 P.B10
Bay Village undertakes Cahoon home restoration
By Mary Swindell
Photograph at the top:
CURATORS - Making sure Bay Village residents don't forget the city's past are William Saddler (left) and Wayne Laverty. The back part of the Cahoon house is original, built in 1818, and the part in front...was added in 1840.
Photograph mid right:
SMOKEY - Lots of hams were cured in this old smokehouse at Bradley and Wolf Rds. It will be moved to the Cahoon Park as part of the farm restoration project. (Press photos by Bernie Noble ad Herman Seid)
Won't be long before the restoration of Rose Hill.
General background on the Cahoons included.
William Sadler is descended from ...David Saddler, a Hessian mercenary in the British Army under General Burgoyne, who after his capture by revolutionary forces, enlisted in Count Pulaski's army. The spelling of the name changed too, and his descendent became city service director and engineer...he is now retired.
Bay Village council has set aside part of Cahoon Park, the house and its environs as an historical area. Not only is the old house being restored, but the Entire Cahoon farm will be restored approximately to what it was in the 19th century, complete with gristmill, blacksmithy and smoke house.
Laverty is a member of the Cahoon Restoration Committee, a body created recently by Mayor Henry Reese to direct restoration efforts. Laverty is a landscape architect
...there is an old smokehouse at hand. It's in back of the Jaycees Lodge at Wolf and Bradley Rds. and it will be moved to the Cahoon farm and positioned presumably where the Cahoons had their smokehouse.
Daughters school teachers, when Ida died in 1917 she bequeathed the home and 114 acres of land to the city with the provision that there be no imbibing of alcoholic beverages or any Sunday activities in the park. The Cahoon were staunch Methodism.
House changes...built 1818, it was quite small and had only five rooms. Joel added a south wing in 1840 and his daughters a drawing room with a beautiful maple floor around 1900. That will be called the Victorian room when restoration is finished.
After Ida died, the Bay Village Trustees operated a library in the old house. It became part of the County Library System in the 1930's and in 1956 a museum.
The restoration of the house will cost $80,000, said Sadler. Professional advice is being provided by architect Bob Gaede, who was involved in Columbus's Germantown project. Bay Council has set aside $30,000 for the restoration and the Bay Village Women's Club donated $4,000 for the renovation of the Victorian Room.
"The house itself is solid, but inside the plaster was in disarray and some of the walls had been torn out when it was a library," said Sadler.
New walls have been put in and pine floors laid...searching for period furniture. They have found several pieces in the house, including a remarkable chair made of cattle horns which has been recovered in pony hide.
Sadler hopes the restoration of the house is finished by the end of the year. It may be several years before the entire farm is restored. Fortunately, said Laverty, in 1930 an engineer found the old county plans for the farm which yields the location of the old buildings...The smokehouse once belonged to A. Horace Wolf, a County Commissioner in the late 1920's after whom Wolf Rd. was named.
The restoration of the Cahoon farmhouse began two years ago. Sadler thinks it appropriate that its completion will mark the Bicentennial.Collection
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