Note
Status: Record Updated
Street Address: 9275 Jackson Street
City: Mentor
Original Owner: Ashbel Munson White
LCHS ID #: 041
Architect: Dorrell Farm
Applicant Name: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Forbes
Description and Notes: The house was purchased in 1911 by Mrs. Forbes' father, Michael Horvath, one of America's leading Landscape architects who started and operated the Mentor Nurseries. He was very influential in establishing the Century Nurseries Men Association and was known as America's leading Rose Hybridizer, securing many US patents.
The house looks to have been modernized. The house is a story and a half with a side gable and wing, a long with portions that have likely been added. The front portion of the house is covered in stone. The gable portion of the house has two 4/1 windows on the first floor with the half story window being 6/6. The gable roof also has gable returns on the face. There is a shed dormer out of the right side of the roof. Also on this side is a small one story portion with a single window that appears to be an addition.
The wing portion is a single 5 bay story. The center bay is a door with a surround and a pediment. The four windows are 8/8. An additional one story portion of the e house may have been an addition with it's tree 6/1 windows.
There is another portion of the house, also a story and a half that rises above the single story wing. This has four sets of 4/1 windows that are paired together.