page_title: Oak Hill Cottage
section_title: Current use
hierarchical_section_title: Oak Hill Cottage / Current use
caption_attribution_description: A view of the Oak Hill Cottage welcome sign in Mansfield, Ohio.
context_page_description: Oak Hill Cottage, built in 1847 by John Robinson, superintendent of the Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Railroad, is an historic Gothic Revival brick house with Carpenter Gothic ornamentation located at 310 Springmill Street in Mansfield, Ohio, in the United States. All of the furnishings and artifacts inside the house are original to about the 1870s and have come down to the present intact.
  Robinson purchased the land for his home in April 1844 from Edward Wilkinson. He named the plot White Oak Hill. His home was later called, “The one perfect Gothic House I’ve seen in the United States, ” by Ralph Adams Cram, architect of the New York Cathedral. The house was built near the railroad for the convenience of its owner, who wished to live near Mansfield's railroad and business district.
  After falling on hard times financially, Robinson returned the house to the Farmer's Bank, which held it until it was bought by Mr. Harvey Hall in 1861.
  It was acquired by its most prominent and famous owner, Dr. Johannes Jones in 1864 and was the home of his family for over a century. It was Dr.
context_section_description: The house was bought in 1965 by the Richland County Historical Society which has restored it and now maintains it as a museum open to the public.
caption: Welcome sign
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