Family Restoring 130 Year Old Norwalk Home
Mr and Mrs Paul Carpenter are restoring the Moses Kimball house at 54 W Main St Norwalk. The 130 year old home features heavy paint layers stripped from woodwork, restored folding blinds and a heating duct upgrade while preserving original architecture. The project, started nine months ago, combines antique craft with modern living needs.
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Norwalk
Paul Carpenter
Moses Kimball
W. Main St
Carpenter
Norwalk West Main Street Named Historic Architectural Gallery
Norwalk’s West Main Street is praised by the Ohio Historical Society as the state’s outstanding example of early architecture. Prominent homes from 1830s to 1840s showcase Greek revival, Victorian and prairie styles, with sites linked to the Firelands Museum, the Reflector newspaper era, and local restorations at 99 and 54 West Main.
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Norwalk
The
Ohio Historical Society
This Was Scene Of Many Parties In Norwalk
The 154 West Main Street mansion hosted grand gatherings in its heyday. Built in 1855 by Rev Edward Win trop who ran a girls school the Gardiner family later expanded it. A brick barn hosted dances and an attic party. It later housed the Norwood Christian Rest Home before its demolition for Garfield House Apartments.
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Reflector
Norwalk
Firelands Museum
West Main Street
A&p
Frederick Wickham
W. Main St
John Gardiner II
Edward Wintrop
Gardiners
Garfield House
Norwood Christian Rest Home
Age Of Mrs. Fulston's Home Remains Unknown
Local historians date the house at 99 W. Main St to before 1835 based on an 1835 tannery ad opposite Thaddeus Sturgis's home. The property passed to Jarius Kennan, uncle of explorer George Kennan, and later to Col. and Mrs. Fulston who expanded living space and removed a rear wing with modern heating and utilities.
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Phillip Fulston
Main St
Thaddeus Sturgis
The
Reflector
Sturgis
Jarius Kennan
George Kennan
Norwalk
Siberia
Col
Fulston
Col. Kennan
Gardiner Home Open House Tradition Through Century
The Gardiner home at 133 West Main Street, Norwalk, once the city’s leading banking family seat, hosted an open house every New Year’s Day from 1848. The central block, remodeled over time, features a fine Victorian library and extensive period furnishings purchased during early trips to New York and Europe. The annual event continued for generations until health issues led to its discontinuation.
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Gardiner
W. Main St
Norwalk
New York
Europe
John Gardiners
Charles Barnes Gardiner
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Kimball
Nathenial Wooster
New England
W. Main
James Overhuls
Presbyterians
Wooster and Boalt
Farly
Esther G. Powers
John Whyler
Benedict Avenue
South Pleasant Street
Whyler
Library of Congress
Janet Conway
the Wintrop-Gardiner
Phillip Fulstow
John Vredenburgh
William Gale Meade
99 W. Main
John Gardiner
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