{"nrhp_refnum":"75002058","name":"Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House","other_names":["Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"714 N. Portage Path","address_restricted":false,"city":"Akron","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.11962586000004,"lon":-81.55283718164424,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-01-17","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1981-12-21","areas_of_significance":["Industry","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is a Tudor-Jacobian style manor house estate at 714 North Portage Path in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, built between 1911 and 1915 for Frank A. Seiberling, with a gate lodge, carriage house, gardener's cottage and gardens.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the great mansion complexes built by leaders of Akron's rubber industry, and the only one still standing in original condition. It is also cited as an outstanding example of Tudor-Stuart Revival architecture, with fine woodcarving and about 90 percent of its original furnishings intact. It overlooks the historic Cuyahoga Valley.","narrative":"Stan Hywet Hall is a large English-style manor house and garden estate on North Portage Path in Akron, Ohio. Built between 1911 and 1915 for Frank A. Seiberling, a founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, it was designed by Charles S. Schneider of Cleveland after the Seiberlings and their architects toured English manors for ideas. The exterior uses made-to-order brick, sandstone quarried on the property, carved oak and Vermont slate, while the interiors recreate a manor evolving from about 1400 to 1750. Roughly 90 percent of the original furnishings survive. Warren H. Manning of Boston designed the gardens. The nomination argues that this was the finest of the mansions built during Akron's rubber boom and the only one left in its original condition. A foundation formed in 1956 preserves about 70 acres, and the estate overlooks the historic Cuyahoga Valley.","period_of_significance":"1911-1915","architect_builder":"Charles S. Schneider of Cleveland (architect of the buildings); interiors by H. F. Huber Company of New York; gardens by Warren H. Manning of Boston; built for Frank A. Seiberling","architectural_style":"Tudor-Stuart Revival / Tudor-Jacobian Manor House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by a foundation and open to the public as a museum; the structures are described as in good condition with gardens being restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.891011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75002058.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002058/88bf56da79-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002058/88bf56da79-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Brandon Bisel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stan_Hywet_Hall_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Bisel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stan_Hywet_Hall_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991587","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Hywet_Hall_and_Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7597699"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/stan-hywet-hall-frank-a-seiberling-house-75002058/"}