Architecture, STAN HYWET HALL AND GARDENS, AKRON, OHIO
Stan Hywet, which means “stone quarry” in Anglo Saxon, is the largest private home ever built in the Buckeye State, and is one of America’s great architectural treasures. The 65-room Tudor Revival Mansion was built in 1915 for the family of Frank A. Seiberling, one of the founders of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron. The formal gardens surrounding the house were designed by famed landscape architects Warren Manning and Ellen Biddle Shipman. This photograph is one of more than 150 included in Ian’s book, Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, in collaboration with Cleveland architectural photographer Barney Taxel and Akron writer Steve Love (see Books page).
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