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Title	Asahel Wright House
Subject	Architecture Geography and Natural Resources Business and Labor Stores & shops Houses
Place	Centerville (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	The Asahel Wright house, a two-story stack house made of rough-cut, buff-colored limestone, is located at 26 North Main Street in Centerville, Ohio. The house features solid trapezoidal stone lintels above the door and windows and a corner limestone fireplace. The chimney is brick. The double-hung 'sunshine windows' are wider on the inside to allow for more light to enter the home. The stones are more irregularly coursed (horizontally arranged on the sides and back than the front), which is typical of the time period. Flat mortar was used. The house is one of fourteen stone houses in the architectural preservation district in the old village area of Centerville. Built between 1800 and 1840, the houses reflect the area's abundance of limestone and the availability of laborers familiar with stonework. They range in size from 11' x 14' (3.35 m x 4.28 m) to 19' x 43' (5.8 m x 13.1 m), with 20' x 30' (6.1 m x 9.1 m) being typical. Over the years the building has served many purposes. It is believed that Aaron Nutt, an early settler of Centerville, built the structure for use as a home. With its central location in town, it later became the site of various retail stores. Asahel Wright, a great uncle of Orville and Wilbur Wright, owned the store from 1816 to 1826.
Creator	Nutt, Aaron
Date of Original	1805
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	Centerville-Washington Township Historical Society
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Page 1
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om841_1099332_001.tif
Image Height	1561
Image Width	2387
File Size	914.478 KB
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