NORTH CHAGRIN, OHIO
It was built in the 1890s by Feargus B. Squire for use as the gatekeeper's house for his future country estate, which was never built. Squire, an executive with the Standard Oil Company, bought the surrounding 525 acres of land but never completed the project. Squire sold the property in 1922 and the Cleveland Metroparks acquired it in 1925.
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In the 1890s wealthy oil executive Feargus B. Squire began to build an English style country estate on land that is now part of North Chagrin Reservation. The only building that was completed was a gatehouse. This gatehouse, however, was no little shack, but a good sized house complete with a library, trophy room, bedrooms and a great hall. Squire, the story goes, was drawn to the solitude of the country, but his wife, Rebecca, was strictly a city girl (cue the Green Acres theme) and what’s more was a nervous and fanciful woman. One night, unable to sleep, she was roaming the building, became frightened by an animal head trophy on the wall, fell down the stairs and broke her neck. The grief stricken Squire lost interest in the estate and sold the land, never to complete his country estate. But the ghost of his young wife has never left.