Note
Status: Record Updated
Street Address: 7474 Mentor Avenue
City: Mentor
Original Owner: Asa Webster
LCHS ID #: 20
Year Built: 1820
Architectural Style: Adam
Applicant Name: Robert S. Dadey
Description and Notes: The house was built approximately 1820 for Asa Webster. The frame of the house has hand-hewn oak beams. The house was purchased by John A. Sheetz, the family remodeled the house and ran "Puckerbrush School (a private country day school) out of two of the rooms of the house. The house was also purchased by Robert Dadey, who ran the Melbourne Funeral home out of it. He remodeled the house in order to do so. On May 17, 1989 an early morning fire gutted the house. The house has since been demolished and an Advanced Auto Parts store now resides on the same lot.
The two story, five bay Adam style house has a symmetrical facade and a side facing gable. The main door is central with a surround which includes sidelites. There are also two lamps, one on each side of the door. The windows are windows are paired together, with the exception of the central one of the second floor. Each window is six over six with shudders.
The house has a story and a half wing which is recessed from the main portion of the house. This also has the same windows as the main house. There are small rectangular windows in the half story with squat shudders.
There is another wing off of the story and a half wing, this one just being a single story with the same windows as the rest of the house.