Hower House - The University of Akron
Categories Arts & Culture Arts & Entertainment
60 Fir Hill Get Directions
Akron, OH 44325
330-972-6909
HOURS: Friday & Saturday, 12 - 3 pm
Closed Monday - Thursday
The Hower House was completed in 1871 and was built by John Henry Hower, a leading Akron industrialist who was active in the milling, reaping, and cereal industries. Hower and his wife, Susan Youngker Hower, moved from Doylestown, Ohio, to Akron in 1865. Hower, along with Jacob Snyder, a well-known Akron architect, designed this house in the Second Empire Italianate style. This 28-room mansion is capped with a distinctive mansard roof and soaring tower. The unusual floor plan was based on the” “Akron Plan,” developed by Jacob Snyder and widely used in church constructions as part of the “Sunday School movement” across the United States between 1870 and 1917. The mansion is filled with hundreds of treasures and furnishings the Hower family collected from around the world.
The first floor of the Museum, Carriage House, Gardens, and Grounds will be open to the public on Saturdays from 12p-3p. We will not be charging an admittance fee but will gladly accept donations! Please call or email 330-972-6909 or dmm47@uakron.edu.
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