Note
Status: Record Updated
Street Address: 9480 Hobart Road
City: Waite Hill
Current Owner: Marwood Ltd.
Original Owner: F.E. Presley
LCHS ID #: 389
Year Built: 1880 - 1910
Builder: Origianl Unknown - addition W. Baker King
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian
Description and Notes: Chain of ownership is Presley to Sherwin to Young to Ocepek to Marwood Ltd. (Margaret Ocepek, owner). The exact date of the original structure is unknown, although a structure is showing on the property in the Lake County Atlas, 1894. This house was one of the earliest houses built in Waite Hill.
The one and a half story house has a number of different portions to it, but is cross gabled and Folk Victorian in style.The first portion of the house has a front porch that spans almost all of the facade, it stops at the front gable projection. The porch roof is supported by spindlework columns and has other spindlework decoration. The front door is off center and bordered by side lites. There is a picture window on this story as well. The half story has a single dormer. The front gable projection of this part of the house has a bay with a large picture window. This portion has cornice returns and spindlework right below the gable. This portion of the house borders a car port.
There is also a part of the house that is recessed back which has similar decorative features, but is obscured by trees and cannot be described in detail.