Tour features 6 homes, library

KINSMAN — Six homes and the public library are featured in this year’s Kinsman Home Tour, which is set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Prominent among the featured homes are several structures built in the early 1800s: the Thomas Kinsman House at 8845 State Road, built in 1854 by a son of the town’s founder; “Heritage Hill,” the Linus Parker house built in 1830 at 8761 Youngstown-Conneaut Road; and the 1870-era Italianate home at 8685 State Road NE, built by Charles Burnham.

Another unique structure is the “Barn House,” built in 1853 as a barn then moved to 6655 Lakeview Drive and redesigned into a home in 1970.

Other homes on the tour are the Wean House at 6899 Kinsman-Nickerson Road, built in 1890, and the 1923-built home of Walter C. and Elizabeth Stanley Scott at 9998 Ridge Road NE.

The library at 6420 Church Street will be open only from noon to 4 p.m. because of funding restraints that no longer allow Saturday hours. On display there will be the John Kinsman Jr. clock on the main floor; portraits of Kinsman and his mother, as well as Frank Banning, driving force behind construction of the library; and the Kinsman Homestead parlor mantel. Artifacts related to the early three-township church and pioneer families are also housed here.

The semiannual home tour is a program of the Kinsman Historical Society. Tickets are $10, and tour maps are available at the 1830s-built Presbyterian Church, 6383 Church St., itself a historic structure, where lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.