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Photo by Warren Motts PNB also familiar on the only 21 when he came to Granville from Vermont in 1818, Elias Fassett quickly won high place with Avery, Mower, Munson and Prichard in the heirarchy of Granville commerce. Five years later he would pursue financial interests in Cleveland, then New York but — some observers feel — Fassett never really left Granville, so it was no surprise in 1856 when the president of the Central Ohio railroad took up residence in the mansion he'd built a few years earlier on Lancaster Road, 2/2 miles south of the village. Dubbed (for reasons now obscure) “Fassett's folly” the palatial home did boast a cupola — a “widow's walk’ (visible in inset) atop the structure and a magnificent ballroom on the third floor. Although Bryn Mawr has been, perhaps, most familiarly known as the Dunlevy house, the familiar landmark has been home to the Rutledges, Sykes, Cases, Lees, Hughes, Campbells, Crawfords and Hislops. But it was J. C. Campbell, grandfather of Mrs. Sterling Hill, who added the imposing columnar main entrance and balustraded porch, the latter now gone as is the widow's walk Fassett built so that he could see his trains go by on the railroad tracks immediately to the south. re Recently the property, used as convent, school and nursing home in later years, has been purchased by David S. Klauder and Charles F. Metzger. GRANVILLE BANK OFFICE THE PARK NATIONAL BANK the Omeost Cank for you prone y/
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Granville Sentinel
Granville, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 05, 1973
Page 10
Full Page
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