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Originally Posted by Wildview

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it and it's actually in Middletown but I saw this while browsing real estate and I was very intrigued.

The Sorg Mansion was built by a German immigrant to Cincinnati named Paul Sorg. He got his start in the tobacco business, but eventually got into railroads, paper manufacture, and banking. It was not uncommon for industrialists of the time to charter their own banks...I guess it made it easier to get financing!

The house is 35 rooms, and at least according to this video, the Sorg family abandoned the house by the first decade of the 1900s. The video gives you a good look at what's inside this place...


Sorg Mansion in Middletown, Ohio - YouTube

[$honey]

There are several mansions(?) in Glendale. At least they are mansions in my eyes. One in particular is on Fountain between Rt. 4 and 747. It gives me goose bumps to look at it.

I remember a few years ago there was a TV show that had remodelers (DIYer's) compete for a house on the western side of the city and that it was an historic house. Four groups were given a room each to remodel and the team that did the best job won the house. (The house had been for sale, but no one wanted to buy it.) It seems to me that the remodels did not keep to historic preservation. Does anyone else remember this?

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Originally Posted by $honey

There are several mansions(?) in Glendale. At least they are mansions in my eyes. One in particular is on Fountain between Rt. 4 and 747. It gives me goose bumps to look at it.

I remember a few years ago there was a TV show that had remodelers (DIYer's) compete for a house on the western side of the city and that it was an historic house. Four groups were given a room each to remodel and the team that did the best job won the house. (The house had been for sale, but no one wanted to buy it.) It seems to me that the remodels did not keep to historic preservation. Does anyone else remember this?

Glendale is full of fabulous houses. It was a bucolic setting for wealthy Cincinnatians to live and escape the soot and grime of the city in the mid to late 19th century. Since it was situated on the rail line, it was a relatively easy commute from Glendale to downtown. There are several grand homes on E. Fountain that bear the names of prominent Cincinnati families like Grandin and Probasco.

If memory serves, there are three rather large homes on the section of W. Fountain that you are referring to. One is an impressive stone Gothic Revival that was built around 1860. About a year ago, it showed up on the internet as an REO property with an estimated price of $250,000. I'm not sure what ever happened with that.

The other significant house, a large, white structure with a tower, on W. Fountain I believe was built for one of the members of the Procter family. It's been for sale for years. I toured it several years ago and was kind of bummed out by what I found. The house has been the victim of numerous insensitive expansions over the years, and it has a bizarre, meandering floor plan. It's sort of difficult to even figure out what the original house looked like. Either way, the place needs a massive restoration.