Description: Oak Hill Cottage is Mansfield, Ohio's meticulously restored and preserved Gothic Revival style home - Oak Hill Cottage is a project of the Richland County Historical Society and is open to the public.
Oak Hill is a project of the Richland County Historical Society that is open to the public during regularly scheduled tour hours and by appointment for group tours.
The term cottage today means a small dwelling. But Oak Hill was built at a time when the term included large country cottage-villas, and many visitors today are surprised by its size.
It would be difficult to find a better documented mid-nineteenth century house than Oak Hill. It was featured with interior and exterior photos in an 1896 county atlas and was the focal point of Louis Bromfield’s first novel, The Green Bay Tree.