Southworth Mansion

3334 Prospect Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115
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Parking

25 Cars on site, 5 Indoor, Free Street Parking

Total Square Footage

12,500 sq. ft.

Listing

National Register of Historic Places

Unique Features

Built in 1879 in the Italianate Style for W.P. Southworth, a well known Cleveland industrialist.

Location

Midtown on Prospect Avenue, in Cleveland’s historic Prospect Neighborhood. Immediately accessible to I-90 and I-71. Minutes to central business district.

Historical Information

1879
Two-story Victorian Italianate mansion was built for W. P. and Louise Southworth as their private residence. W.P. Southworth was proprietor of a wholesale and retail grocery business located on Public Square. Louise Southworth was very active in the suffrage movement and headed the local effort to secure signatures for woman’s right to vote.

1910
Utilized by Baptist Home of Northern Ohio

1950’s – 1960’s
Building was known as Edelmar Building and occupied by commercial firms

Late 1960’s
Building was known as Accountants building

1973
Purchased by Pi Sigma Tau Alpha fraternity. Building was used as a fraternity house for CSU Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity

1984
Nominated for National Register of Historic Places

1996
Purchased by Michael E. Chesler

1997
Purchased by Horizon Health Services LLC

August 2005
Purchased in auction by The Chesler Group, Inc.

September 2005
Historic Restoration Process

2006
Sold

October 2007
Completion of Historic Restoration