This house was owned in the 80’s by Dr. Sandoval and his family. I bet it would cost a lot of money just to fix it up. But it is a beautiful house. So much history. I would buy it if money was no object and fix it up, make it my summer home when I would visit Lorain.
This house was built with stone, etc. from some of the remains from the “Mansion” that occupied the block across the street, where Whittier and Lowell school once stood. The owner of that huge estate was one the the founders of the steel plant. The building was .dissassembled and most of it was shipped back to its original lot in Scotland.
Hello Dennis! Thanks for stopping by Lorain 365 and sharing what you know about the stone house! I had found a website about the Moxham house [the “mansion” you mentioned] and it stated “Whittier [Middle School] was built on the foundation of the Moxham Castle. A. J. Moxham, who was planning to start a steel plant in Lorain, built the Moxham Castle in 1890. The thirty-roomed mansion, four-story building had a theater on the fourth floor, and a swimming pool in the basement.
In 1898, the castle was dismantled stone by stone and moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The castle in Sydney was a unique and familiar landmark until a fire destroyed it in 1966. ”
I wish I had known that about Whittier’s basement when they were demolishing the building. I would have checked it out more closely.
I don’t know how valid the information is on the website I found, but the only similar feature I found between the houses was the great arched [leaded glass?] window. Seems it would be a whole lot easier and cost-effective to get stone from a local quarry than to keep building and un-building and moving and re-building the same house.
Only the furnishings and interior woodwork was shipped via rail to Sydney, Nova Scotia from Lorain. The stone in the Sydney version of the home came from a Nova Scotia quarry and partly from the great French fortress Louisbourg near Sydney that at the time was not declared a National historic site. The only question I would have is where did the stone come from that made the Moxham’s Lorain home. Did it come from a local quarry? The stone from the house in the above picture should have clues as to its origins. Coming from Scotland make little financial sense.
The interior of the Moxham mansion across the street was not sent back to Scotland. The home never originated in Scotland. It was designed by Hamilton E. Ford who designed a number of buildings in Lorain. The furnishings and interior of the Moxham home was shipped via rail to Sydney, Nova Scotia where a mansion, was constructed in 1900 to house the interior. The mansion resembled a castle or fortified manor house. It burned to the ground in 1966. The home in Sydney was called “Kinsaak” a Mi’kmaq First Nation name meaning “cliff.” http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/VIEW-3381
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I want this house! I would buy it at once if I could. It looks like from a fairy tale. What a beautiful house!
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This house was owned in the 80’s by Dr. Sandoval and his family. I bet it would cost a lot of money just to fix it up. But it is a beautiful house. So much history. I would buy it if money was no object and fix it up, make it my summer home when I would visit Lorain.
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It has always been one of my favorite Lorain houses!
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This house was built with stone, etc. from some of the remains from the “Mansion” that occupied the block across the street, where Whittier and Lowell school once stood. The owner of that huge estate was one the the founders of the steel plant. The building was .dissassembled and most of it was shipped back to its original lot in Scotland.
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Hello Dennis! Thanks for stopping by Lorain 365 and sharing what you know about the stone house! I had found a website about the Moxham house [the “mansion” you mentioned] and it stated “Whittier [Middle School] was built on the foundation of the Moxham Castle. A. J. Moxham, who was planning to start a steel plant in Lorain, built the Moxham Castle in 1890. The thirty-roomed mansion, four-story building had a theater on the fourth floor, and a swimming pool in the basement.
In 1898, the castle was dismantled stone by stone and moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The castle in Sydney was a unique and familiar landmark until a fire destroyed it in 1966. ”
I wish I had known that about Whittier’s basement when they were demolishing the building. I would have checked it out more closely.
I don’t know how valid the information is on the website I found, but the only similar feature I found between the houses was the great arched [leaded glass?] window. Seems it would be a whole lot easier and cost-effective to get stone from a local quarry than to keep building and un-building and moving and re-building the same house.
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Only the furnishings and interior woodwork was shipped via rail to Sydney, Nova Scotia from Lorain. The stone in the Sydney version of the home came from a Nova Scotia quarry and partly from the great French fortress Louisbourg near Sydney that at the time was not declared a National historic site. The only question I would have is where did the stone come from that made the Moxham’s Lorain home. Did it come from a local quarry? The stone from the house in the above picture should have clues as to its origins. Coming from Scotland make little financial sense.
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The interior of the Moxham mansion across the street was not sent back to Scotland. The home never originated in Scotland. It was designed by Hamilton E. Ford who designed a number of buildings in Lorain. The furnishings and interior of the Moxham home was shipped via rail to Sydney, Nova Scotia where a mansion, was constructed in 1900 to house the interior. The mansion resembled a castle or fortified manor house. It burned to the ground in 1966. The home in Sydney was called “Kinsaak” a Mi’kmaq First Nation name meaning “cliff.”
http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/VIEW-3381
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The Moxham House
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