Village Housing: 190 W. College Street

Date

ca. 1870-present

Location

190 West College Street

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Vernacular

History

This modest brick house was built before 1873, and its earliest recorded resident was a Reverend W.O. Hart. It has been through a series of residents since then, perhaps boarders in the community. The house appears to have been a rental home from the years of 1894 to 1910. The principal resident of the home was Charles Bell, plasterer and mason, from 1916 through at least 1961. The historic names for this house are the Hart House and the Bell House. Today the house comprises two apartments for students in the College's Village Housing program.

Source

Ohio Historic Inventory by D.G. Henry, G. Baudoin, and M. Franck, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, January 18, 2002. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 25, 2015.