Village Housing: 136 Woodland Street

Date

ca. 1890-2018

Location

136 Woodland

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Vernacular

History

This is a typical cross-gabled house built around 1890. The front porch is supported by pairs of Tuscan columns, and wraps around the façade back to the cross-gable on both sides. A very small porch covers the side door on the southwest corner of the house, and there is a one-story addition at the back of the house. Its first residents, from 1890 to 1891, were Mrs. Martha Lucretia Hale Lukens and her daughters Viola and Zephyr. Her husband, Samuel Lukens, may have lived here before his death. Between 1891 and 1897, other residents included Mrs. I.M. Plumb, Mrs. Ada Crowell, Mrs. Emma Eagleson, and Mrs. Mary Geyer. In 1897 Mrs. Lukens returned with her daughter Zephyr and remained in the house until 1908. The house was inhabited by many residents until 1942, when it was occupied by Daniel Chapin Kinsey, a physical education professor and one of the College’s most successful track and cross country coaches. He remained in the house until 1956, after which the house again became home to many different residents for short periods of time. It is was a part of the College's Village Housing Program until it was demolished in 2018.

Source

Ohio Historic Inventory by Petersen, T. Reeves, and M. Surovy, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, August 19, 2003. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 30, 2015.