Building Doctor Clinic Coming to Mansfield

June 21-22 2012

The ‘doctors’ examine all kinds of older buildings. Open to all old-building owners in the area, the free seminar will feature guidelines for renovation projects and ways to solve some of the most common problems of old buildings.

Open to all old-building owners in the area, the free Building Doctor seminar will feature guidelines for renovation projects and ways to solve some of the most common problems of old buildings. Free on-site consultations are also offered to ten (10) registrants who live within five (5) miles of the city center. Some of the things that typically call for an on-site examination include persistent peeling paint or flaking plaster, a wet basement, deteriorating masonry and window problems.

The workshop will be held at 7pm. Thursday, June 21 at 19 W. Sixth St. (Urban Flats Complex at Sixth and N. Main).  Site visits will take place the following day.

The clinic is free, but pre-registration is required for the workshop or site visit to your building.  Register online at: http://www.ohpo.org/gis/bdregister.htm

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Oak Hill is a project of the Richland County Historical Society

Open to the public during regularly scheduled tours

 and by appointment for group tours.

Oak Hill Cottage was purchased by the Historical Society in 1965.  Included in the sale were the accumulated furniture and contents from the Victorian period of the 100+ years occupation by the Dr. Johannes Jones family.

It would be difficult to find a better documented house than Oak Hill, having been featured with interior and exterior photos in an 1896 county atlas and the focal point of Louis Bromfield's first novel, The Green Bay Tree. The question of saving the house had been on the minds of Mansfield preservationists for a long time, and its future uncertain, when purchase of the house initiated an 18 year struggle to fund and accomplish the restoration.

Recent expansion of the Oak Hill project has included the purchase and restoration of a carriage house originally part of the Oak Hill property, and the purchase of the turn of the century house across Oak Hill Place (a Sears catalog house) that also occupies a lot originally part of the grounds.

The Richland County Historical Society is a 501(c3) non-profit corporation, governed by a Board of Trustees.

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