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Seiberling Mansion |
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| Facility: | Seiberling Mansion |
| Description: | In 1887 Seiberling, who had manufactured everything from twine to plate glass during his residence in Akron, established the Kokomo Strawboard Company, which employed approximately seventy-five people to take ordinary straw and produce shoe boxes. Six months later, Seiberling sold his company (at a profit) to the American Strawboard Company. Despite the sale, Seiberling remained in business in Kokomo, opening the Diamond Plate Glass Company. Although the one-time Ohio industrialist's Kokomo factories were impressive, he is best remembered for a more personal project--his family's home, which became known as the Seiberling Mansion. The structure, a mixture of Neo-Jacobean and Romanesque Revival styles built at a cost of $50,000, is today occupied by the Howard County Historical Society, which has painstakingly restored the mansion for |
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| Address 1: | 1200 W. Sycamore St. |
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| City: | Kokomo |
| State/Province: | IN |
| Zip Code: | 46901 |
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| Hours: | Open Tue-Sun 1-4. Feb-Dec |
| Admission: | Adults: $4.00 Children 12 and under: $1.00 Members: FREE |
| Telephone: | (765) 452-4314 |
| Website: | http://www.howardcountymuseum.org/ |
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