Village Housing: 29 N. Cedar Street

Date

ca. 1880-1980 (private); 1980-1985 (college); 1985-2003 (private); 2003-present (college)

Location

29 North Cedar Street

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Vernacular

History

Built sometime during the late 1870s, the first known occupant of this house w as Mrs. Mary J. Hall (1820-?), who resided in the house in 1883. Mrs. Hall was the widow of James Hall, and had two grown children at the time, one of whom (Sophronia) was an 1868 graduate of the College. From 1886-1891, Henry O. Snedeker, a Civil War veteran (Co . C, 1st Ohio L .A .) lived at the house with his wife Mary J., and his three children: Sadie, who attended the Oberlin Conservatory, Mattie E., and General Sherman, who attended the OC Preparatory Dept. The house changed hands many times. Mr. William I. Judson, Assistant Director of Athletics, and his family lived in this house from 1944 to 1980. The house was known as the Hall-Judson House until recently. Sometime after the end of Judson's residency, the College acquired the house, and then sold it in 1985 to Robert Stillwell, who was at one point the College photographer. Stillwell owned the house from 1985 to 2003, at which point he sold it back to the College. Today the house is one of many in the College's Village Housing program for students.

Source

Ohio Historic Inventory by Patricia Murphy, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, October 31, 2006. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 23, 2015.