Claim: In 1899, Searles hired noted church architect Henry Vaughan (born in 1845 in Cheshire, England), who designed the concert hall for the organ with a brick exterior in an Anglo-Dutch style, an Italianate campanile, and a gable with baroque volutes.
Evidence: Henry Vaughan
1845
Cheshire, England In 1899, Searles hired noted church architect Henry Vaughan, an architect he frequently hired for various projects, to design a concert hall for the organ to be located on property he owned adjoining the Spicket River. The exterior is brick in an Anglo-Dutch style, with an Italianate campanile and a gable with baroque volutes.