Fourth Street Historic District

Fourth Street N.E. in Massillon, Ohio, is a broad street paved in buff, grey and black brick, lined with about thirty residential buildings, twenty-one of them considered significant. Some original wrought iron fencing, carriage steps and tethering posts survive. The houses were built over at least a century, beginning with the 1837 Hiram Wellman House, a brick Greek Revival mansion. Later examples include the Romanesque Revival Charles Steese House of 1884-5, the Italianate Nahum Russell House, Queen Anne and Eastlake houses of the 1880s, and 1920s Georgian and Greek Revival designs by architect Herman Albrecht. Cleveland architect Charles Schweinfurth designed the J. Walter McClymonds House and a remodeling of the Pocock House. Owners included leading merchants, paper makers and executives of the Russell and Company reaper and mower business. Because the street was a prestigious address from its start, the group documents both architectural fashion and the aspirations of Massillon's leading citizens, in a concentration unmatched elsewhere in Stark County.