Village Housing: 143 W. College Street

Date

ca. 1870-90-present

Location

143 West College St.

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Victorian: Queen Anne

History

There has been a building on this site since before 1870, but this house appears to have been built later. The historical names for the house reflect its various owners: Bonstel, Barnard, Burton-Shurtle, and Molyneaux. The earliest known owner, Mrs. A. D. Bonstel, operated it as a boarding house. According to the 1870 census, the boarders were students, and according to the city directory of 1873, one of the boarders, Miss J. Evans, was a dressmaker in town. In 1883 Rev. Matson II, the College librarian, lived here. Today this house is one of many offered to students in the College's Village Housing program.

Source

Ohio HIstoric Inventory by D.G. Henry, G. Baudoin, and M. Franck, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, January 18, 2002. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 25, 2015.