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Asahel Wright Museum, Centerville, OH

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Asahel Wright Museum

A historic stone house in Centerville, Ohio, operated as a museum by Centerville-Washington History, with a one-room schoolhouse museum on the same site.

26 N. Main St., Centerville, OH 45459 · Centerville, OH

About Asahel Wright Museum

The Asahel Wright House is an 1806 two-story stone house in Centerville, Ohio, now run as a museum by Centerville-Washington History. The building has trapezoidal lintels, an off-center front door, and a fireplace placed in an unusual corner. A frame addition was built around 1860. The site opened as a museum in 1999 after the city restored the buildings. Asahel Wright, a great-uncle of Wilbur and Orville Wright, bought the property in 1816. Two exhibit rooms occupy the main floor, and the small frame building in front houses a one-room schoolhouse museum with school desks and photographs of nine historic local schools.

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  • #stone building
  • #Centerville
  • #Montgomery County
  • #Wright family

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