OPEN HOUSE
55 Mentor Avenue, Painesville, Ohio
Sunday, May 22, 2011
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Presented by Christine Howlett, REALTOR
Howard Hanna Real Estate Service
440-812-4001
Gorgeous Greek Revival built ca. 1820. This home has all the charm of yesteryear, updated with many modern amenities. Over 2300 sq. ft. of wonderful history and located in one of Painesville's designated Historic Districts, just steps from Painesville's beautiful downtown park. If you love the charm of period architecture, you are sure to love this jewel. Designed by the famed Western Reserve architect Jonathan Goldsmith, this dwelling is just one of a few of his works still remaining. Four bedrooms * 2.5 bathrooms * Formal dining room * Double living rooms/parlors * First-floor mother-in-law suite or office with outside entrance * Updated kitchen * Large (17x44) updated basement * Deep fenced lot and lovely secluded patio * Wood burning fireplace * Sunroom/atrium with separate furnace and A/C & bamboo wall covering * Forced-air furnace and A/C * 2-car garage * Large entrance foyer with gorgeous period double doors * Hardwood floors * Extraordinary details throughout.
This home was designed by Jonathan Goldsmith. GOLDSMITH, JONATHAN (1783-1847), a master builder active in Lake County and Cleveland between 1819-43, was born in Milford, Conn. After a brief apprenticeship as a shoemaker, he apprenticed himself to a carpenter-joiner at age 17. Goldsmith's known buildings include 30 homes and commercial buildings in Painesville, another handful around Lake County, and 10 houses in Cleveland. The Cleveland residences, none of which are extant, were all built between 1830-37 on Euclid Ave. when it was a prime residential street. All were executed in the current late Federal and early Greek Revival styles. Some were mansions with colossal Ionic porticoes. Goldsmith is better-documented than most early 19th-century master builders, because many of his drawings, as well as account books, contracts, and letters, have survived and are in the WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. His drawings were included in the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition "The Greek Revival in the United States" in 1943.
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