Description: The Singletary House was located on the northwest corner of the public squre in Streetsboro, Ohio and was completed in 1828 for patriot and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel John Curtis Singletary, whose son became the second mayor of Akron. This frame house is the second oldest in Ohio’s Western Reserve and was the first frame house in Streetsboro. The building has also been a tavern and stagecoach stop for the Cleveland – Wellsville – Pittsburgh line, as well as the city's first post office and the housed the township's telephone operator. . In 1971, the home was purchased by Henry and Betty Defer, who had the house moved to their farm on State Route 14. In 2005, the Defer’s sold their 127 acre farm to the Woodmount Developers of Texas. The house was moved again in 2009, to make way for the Streetsboro Commons shopping mall, which is being developed by Woodmount and Wal-Mart, who donated $80,000 to help move the historic home to a nearby nature area where it will assume management by the newly formed Streetsboro Heritage Foundation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_017_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Singletary House was located on the northwest corner of the public squre in Streetsboro, Ohio and was completed in 1828 for patriot and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel John Curtis Singletary, whose son became the second mayor of Akron. This frame house is the second oldest in Ohio’s Western Reserve and was the first frame house in Streetsboro. The building has also been a tavern and stagecoach stop for the Cleveland – Wellsville – Pittsburgh line, as well as the city's first post office and the housed the township's telephone operator. . In 1971, the home was purchased by Henry and Betty Defer, who had the house moved to their farm on State Route 14. In 2005, the Defer’s sold their 127 acre farm to the Woodmount Developers of Texas. The house was moved again in 2009, to make way for the Streetsboro Commons shopping mall, which is being developed by Woodmount and Wal-Mart, who donated $80,000 to help move the historic home to a nearby nature area where it will assume management by the newly formed Streetsboro Heritage Foundation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F07_017_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Singletary House was located on the northwest corner of the public squre in Streetsboro, Ohio, and was completed in 1828 for patriot and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel John Curtis Singletary, whose son became the second mayor of Akron. This frame house is the second oldest in Ohio’s Western Reserve and was the first frame house in Streetsboro. The building has also been a tavern and stagecoach stop for the Cleveland – Wellsville – Pittsburgh line, along with housing the city's first post office and the township's telephone operator. In 1971, the home was purchased by Henry and Betty Defer, who had the house moved to their farm on State Route 14. In 2005, the Defers sold their 127-acre farm to the Woodmount Developers of Texas. The house was moved again in 2009, to make way for the Streetsboro Commons shopping mall, which is being developed by Woodmount and Wal-Mart, who donated $80,000 to help move the historic home to a nearby nature area where management will be assumed by the newly-formed Streetsboro Heritage Foundation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_018_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with horse-drawn self-binder, near Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. A self-binder reaps and binds bales of wheat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00399
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Rural life; Harvesting; Farming
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1940, this photograph shows the ruins of a home located between Hudson and Streetsboro in northeastern Ohio. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_4657B_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Domestic architecture; Houses;
Places: Summit County (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)