Lot Hathaway House
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Lot Hathaway House | |
 Front of the house, seen from Old State Road | |
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| Location | 12236 Old State Rd., East Claridon, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°32′16.5″N 81°7′4″W / 41.537917°N 81.11778°W |
| Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1828 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Adam |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001504[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 16, 1974 |
The Lot Hathaway House is a historic residence near East Claridon in the Connecticut Western Reserve region of the U.S. state of Ohio. Constructed in the early nineteenth century for a transplanted New Englander, the house mixes two of the period's prominent architectural styles, and it has been named a historic site.
A native of Freetown, Massachusetts,[2]: 387 Lot Hathaway performed military service in the War of 1812[2]: 414 before settling north of East Claridon in 1816. Once a seaman, he had formerly sailed both on coasters and on European trading vessels. He was unmarried when he settled in Geauga County, but soon afterward married pioneer settler Orpha Bushnell. Hathaway was active in the temperance movement and in the causes of the Democratic Party.[2]: 387 The traditional date for the construction of his present house is 1828, although its architectural style suggests construction in the first half of the 1830s.[3] It succeeded an earlier residence, which had been destroyed by fire.[2]: 406
