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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Hayes House
Ohio History
Spiegel Grove
Revived from the fresh air, we got back on the road all the way to the Hayes House in Fremont, Ohio. Rutherford Hayes’ uncle, Sardis Birchard, purchased this rambling, wooded estate in 1846. He named it Spiegel Grove for the rainwater pools under the trees that looked like mirrors (spiegel is German for mirror). Uncle Sardis built a house there in 1859 for his nephew’s family, and they lived there with him on and off. Mr. Hayes inherited the estate and moved there permanently after he left the White House. Twenty-five acres of Spiegel Grove is preserved today in the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
2 comments:
Beautiful house.
Must have taken a lot of brick.
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