(From Top) Patton House and Hart Home If These Walls Could Talk...Part II
Patton House
The Patton House was built in 1902 by W.W. Patton and his wife, Harriet Beech, for their daughter Emma, an accomplished pianist who studied at both Boston and Oberlin conservatories of music. The grand piano, as well as many of the original furnishings, still remains in the house. When Miss Patton passed away at the age of 80, she left the home to the original Coterie, a small, exclusive Kent community group founded in 1896. From 1939 until 1942, the Kent Coterie rented the home to Kent State presidents Dr. James Engleman and Dr. Karl Leebrick.
The Victor Hart House
The Victor Hart home, built in 1880 in a Federal-style design, is located diagonally across the street from the Marvin Kent home. Like the Vanags residence, it had served as rental property for Kent State students for many years. In a recently published book about ghost stories of Kent, former student occupants of the house share their experiences of encountering a male ghost, believed to be the original owner, Francis Longcoy.
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