Village Housing: 170 Woodland Street

Date

ca. 1900-2018

Location

170 Woodland Street

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Vernacular with Shingle Style elements

History

This house had many owners and residents before the College purchased it and offered it to students in its Village Housing program. The College demolished it in 2018. The Hosford family lived in this house from 1902 through 1940. Mrs. Mary E. Hosford lived here in 1902, and her daughter, Frances Juliette Hosford, lived here from 1908 through at least 1933, probably until her death in 1937. Frances graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 with a Bachelor's degree and earned a Master's degree in 1896. She was a professor of Latin at the College, taught at the Oberlin Academy, and also wrote books, including: A Living Stone: The Story of the First Church in Oberlin, published between 1918 and 1923, and Father Shipherd's Magna Charta: A Century of Coeducation in Oberlin College, 1937. Oberlin College English professors Jeffrey Pence and Anne Trubek, both of whom graduated from the College in 1988, lived in this house in the late 1990s.

Source

Ohio HIstoric Inventory by H. Petersen, M. Franck, D. Musson, and O.H.I.O. Interns, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, August 16, 2002. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, July 2, 1015.