Daily News | Historic house in Fairmount Park gets a makeover and a new occupant
The state had tons of native sandstone and lime hauled from 20 quarries to build Ohio House at Montgomery Drive and Belmont Avenue and topped the Victorian Gothic structure with a large corn stalk finial. It is the only remaining original Centennial house still in the park., whose nonprofit mission is to support Philadelphia’s parks.
The 650-acre East Fairmount Park on the other side of the river is home to Boathouse Row and Lemon Hill. After the fair, however, there was little use for the state houses that lined what became State’s Drive. The Ohio House opened only intermittently and was then shuttered for decades. It was placed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1963 and opened briefly in 1976 as an information office for the Bicentennial. In 2007, the Centennial Café began operating at the house, followed by the Hungry Bear Café, until the building was closed again in 2016.
All three porches, which had rotten floors, had to be fixed. The original brickwork on the chimneys had to be shored. And a 3-inch slab of concrete flooring installed for the cafe had to be removed without damaging the structure. The crew added removable partition walls., which issues grants for historic preservation work. Interior work required six months. The Ballard Spahr law firm also gave a donation in memory of Frederic J. Ballard.
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