Village Housing: 270 N. Professor Street

Date

1905-present

Location

270 North Professor Street

Architects/Collaborators

Fred Glider (builder)

Style

Vernacular

History

This house was built in 1905 by Fred Glider, a carpenter. In 1907 carpenter Jacob Mason occupied this house. From 1908 through 1963 Fred and Louise Glider were listed in city directories as occupants. The Gliders passed the house to their daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Harold Papworth. This house is significant as a representative of builder-constructed, turn-of-the century homes in Oberlin. The house is unusual for its long history of ownership by the family of the original builder. The City of Oberlin listed the house as an Oberlin Historic Landmark in November 1997. It is now owned by Oberlin College and offered to students in its Village Housing Program.

Source

Ohio Historic Inventory by M. Fedelchak-Harley, J. Heaton, and L. Previl, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, January 20, 2000. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 26, 2015.