A Second Life For The Duncarrick Mansion

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 6th 2006 at 7:01PM

A beautiful old mansion in Dayton, Ohio may be getting a second life as a community center. Duncarrick is a 17.5 acre estate%uFFFD The home is an example of American provincial architecture with Tudor detail built in the late 1800s. The home is on the National Register and was once home to Katharine Kennedy Brown who served as Ohio’s Republican national Committeewoman from 1932 through 1968. The home has fallen on hard times in recent years. It has been unoccupied for a while. Now the Salvation Army may be able to turn the home into a community center if they can raise the money. According to the Dayton Daily News it would cost $3 million to restore this old beauty.

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