2816 North Main Findlay | Bigelow Home

CHARLES H BIGELOW HOUSE | 2816 N MAIN ST | FINDLAY OHIO

41°4′28″N 83°39′2″W | NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC PLACES | MARCH 29 2006 | (NRHP) 06000200

BUILT 1888 | $10,000 for build on Bigelow Hill | Architect Henry Oswald Wurmser

 

Queen Anne Stick/Eastlake | PAINTED LADY (polychrome Victorian Architecture) features many uncommon attributes however (READ: the square towers)

7,500-square-feet

Father was an early settler and community leader.

 Bigelow married May Vance, relative to former Ohio Governor Joseph Vance

Noted for its MANY GAS FIXTURES; originally 7 gas fire places, supplemented with many gas lamps *all have since been converted to wood-burning fireplaces and electric lamps.

 Of late, all clues point towards it becoming a BED & Breakfast.

1927 | Bigelow lived until his death with son Bernard (inherits)

1947 | sells for $16K Eden and Nellie Bricker (Cooper)

1989 | sells for $96,000 to Edward and Janice Sartore. Restoration

1993 | featured in “America’s Painted Ladies,” where it caught the eye of David Copperfield.

1995 | Under a false name and faked history, Copperfield features wrongly as Barclay House

2006 | National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 

2022 | per The Courier approved for 🛌 and 🥞 🍳

https://wfin.com/local-news/historic-findlay-house-to-become-bed-and-breakfast/

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Ohio Historic Preservation Office Archived January 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2009-03-17.

Sewell, Rhonda (2002). In all its Victorian splendor. The Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2009-04-13.

Lewis Publishing Company. Centennial Biographical History of Hancock County, Ohio. Retrieved 2009-03-17