Cottage Hill Farm

Cottage Hill Farm is a 65-acre hilltop estate about two miles east of Ravenna, Ohio, built around a stone house of 1834. Merchant Edmund B. Bostwick had it built in the Jeffersonian style, and the architect remains unknown. The property later passed to the Rhodes family and then, in 1895, to Daniel Rhodes Hanna, a Cleveland coal and iron-ore executive and newspaper publisher. Between 1903 and 1913 the house was enlarged to 39 rooms with a stone wing and a large Jacobethan addition. Hanna also built a working model farm, and cattle, horse and bull barns, an ice house, granary, corncrib, kennel and an 80-foot water tower survive, along with rubble stone entrance walls and wrought-iron gates. The estate is recognized for its association with the Rhodes and Hanna families, who helped develop Cleveland's coal and iron-ore trade, and for the rare 1834 house and the largely intact early twentieth-century estate landscape.