Demand-Gest House
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Demand-Gest House | |
 Front of the house | |
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| Location | 37 N. Main St., Mechanicsburg, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 40°4′22″N 83°33′26″W / 40.07278°N 83.55722°W |
| Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1900 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Mechanicsburg MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001881[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 29, 1985 |
The Demand-Gest House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Built for a physician, it was for many years the home of local business leaders, and it has been named a historic site. It is currently a private residence.
Dr. Charles E. Demand was a charter member of the Mechanicsburg Masonic lodge,[2]: 638 as well as of Mechanicsburg's lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star.[2]: 642 Besides his medical practice, he was a businessman, serving as president of the village's Mutual Loan and Savings Company in the 1910s.[3] He arranged for the construction of the current house in 1900,[1] making him one of several prosperous physicians to build homes in the first block of North Main Street in the period; his colleagues John H. Clark and Oram A. Nincehelser also lived in fine residences in the same block.[4]: 6 After Demand left the property, it became the home of Neil Gest; a farmer and longtime executive of the village's Ohio Grain Company, Gest lived in the house for many years.[5]
