Pictured is the McCloud House on 240 W. Fourth St. This house has been featured in a 2018 historic home tour by Team Marysville. The tour is intended to stir interest in homes and buildings in the city that will serve as samples of its history, heritage and architecture. The McCloud House was completed in 1893 for pharmacist Smith Newton McCloud and was predicted to “be the crack residence of Marysville.”
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The 2018 driving tour of historic Marysville homes report has been created.
Team Marysville has created a driving tour of interesting homes and buildings in Marysville that will serve as samples of some of the town’s history, heritage and architecture. This is the third year for the event.
Its purpose is to provide a snapshot of Marysville’s past, with the hope that it might help encourage an appreciation and preservation for the older local landmarks.
One of the interesting structures on the tour is the McCloud house located at 240 W. Fourth St. The home features some unusual architecture and was built for the family of Smith Newton McCloud.
According to information compiled for the tour, McCloud was a druggist and in 1871 opened a drug store in Marysville under the name of McCloud & Bro. McCloud was active in the Democratic party and was appointed as postmaster of Marysville by President Grover Cleveland in 1885 until 1890, and from 1894 to 1898. He also served on the Marysville Village Council.
In 1886, McCloud organized a company to drill for natural gas. No gas was found, but a vein of water was struck, and the company developed a medicinal spring and bathhouse located on North Main Street. McCloud also bottled the water and shipped it across the country.
He would later purchase the Davis Chair Factory and manufacture furniture. In 1891, McCloud helped form the Marysville Keeley Institute for treatment of alcoholics and drug addicts. He sold his interest in the Institute in February, 1892.
Shortly after, he began plans to build a new home to replace his old house on West Fourth Street. In July, 1892, the old residence was moved to Third Street, where the family would reside until the new home was completed.
George Emanuel Fox was awarded the contract for the stone and brick work on the home. Fleck & Chapman did the woodwork. The house was predicted to “be the crack residence of Marysville.”
The house was a large, three-story brick home that was 42-by-46 feet, had 10 rooms with hardwood and pine floors and woodwork and a slate roof. The third floor has a large ballroom. The house was completed in 1893. The finished home was called “the finest of any residence in the city.”
Other houses included in the 2018 housing tour list include:
-Thomas Brown House, 509 W. Fourth St.
-Presbyterian Parsonage, 206 N. Maple St.
-Judge John M. Brodrick House, 275 W. Fifth St.
-Charles S. Chapman House, 130 North Maple St.
-S.N. McCloud House, 240 W. Fourth St.
-Jacob Ashbaugh House, 241 W. Third St.
-Nicholas Brian House, 729 E. Sixth St.
-William W. Merchant House, 554 E. Fifth St.
-Abraham Morey’s First House, 238 South Maple St.
-William C. Moore House, 118 South Maple St.
-Southard Medical Office, 127 W. Sixth St.
-Henry E. Conkright House, 246 W. Fifth St.
-Almer Coe House “Woodlawn,” 500 W. Fourth St.
-Cyprian Lee House, 118 W. Sixth St.
-Marysville Cabinet Factory Addition, 204-206 E. Fourth St.
-Col. Aaron B. Robinson House, 300 W. Fifth St.
-John B. Adams House, 428 E. Fifth St.
-Enoch C. Ashbaugh House, 303 W. Sixth St.
-Charles Rathbun House, 207 South Ash St.
-Dr. Charles Mills House, 254 W. Sixth St.